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Input: What is how to fill in the missing words: The Mos Espa set from the 2nd prequel triology sitting in literally [words 1] Tozeur. Driving along a pancake flat salt depression complete with massive mirage, I came upon this. Tozeur- I made a hellacious trek across southern Tunisia in high summer for a Lucasfilm pilgrimage I have dreamed [words 2] decades. Both Star Wars: Episdoe IV A New Hope and Raiders of the Lost Ark were filmed in the stark and stunning oasis region of Toezur and nearby Nefta. The friendly guys [words 3] in Tozeur made this all possible, despite the hardship imposed by ramadan they made it happen for me. Fantastique! The first thing I figured out when trying to get the lay of the land for [words 4] both Star Wars and Raiders, is that they are spread almost evenly throughout the country. [words 5] are cut together in such a way that one would [words 6] region. With limited time and resources, [words 7] to pick and choose my battles. [words 8] some of the Raiders sites but many of them are less distinct. I am pretty [words 9] that the truck chase scene was filmed at the palmerie in Nefta that we drove by on the way to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's igloo. [words 10] strange. A crumbling movie set battered by the elements [words 11] Algerian border. ©2011 Derek Henry FloodNow I was trying to do my impression of Luke looking at the binary [words 12] el-Jerid but it was really hard because it was midday and I was somehow staring directly into the sun waiting to hear the shutter go off. It was a [words 13] deal. An overview of Star Wars/Raiders of the Lost Ark canyon a. This place was spectacular, [words 14] sea fossils. ©2011 Derek Henry FloodTrekking the Juntland Wastes in midsummer. Help me Obi Wan! This is where the first shot of the Nazi Ark procession was filmed in Raiders. ©2011 Derek Henry [words 15] seriousness and hired a taxi for the afternoon to find the island's [words 16] from the shoot back in 1976. I [words 17] west coast road heading south from Houmet Souk, the main town. [words 18] I found a mosque complex called Sidi Jibour that was being cleaned up and whitewashed [words 19] arrived. It is briefly used as a far away [words 20] Eisely spaceport in A New Hope but super fans will not it better at the setting for the deleted scene at Toshi/Tosche [words 21] on 0:15 in this Youtube video) where young Luke meets the pilot Biggs Darklighter-which should be included in the long awaited, upcoming Blu Ray complete saga release [words 22] September. Next up, a bit further down the Djerban coast was a tiny little structure know on Star Wars fan sites at Ben's Hermitage (Obi Wan Kenobi's house). It is in the movie very briefly as a Landspeeder zooms up out front. People here seem [words 23] what Star Wars is or was. When I arrived at this locale, a group [words 24] picnic on the front stoop when I come bounding out of the taxi talking about the importance of the place to Star Wars fans. When I finishing taking my pics, which they were sure to step out of, one [words 25] luck with your movie! ” I shouted a ramadan mubarak back and [words 26] cab. Not exactly a Landspeeder out front, but nonetheless it's [words 27] 1976. ©2011 Derek Henry FloodFollowing the 2nd [words 28] port of Ajim to scour for the exterior of the [words 29] and Ben rendezvous with Han. Of course I left [words 30] the French language title (it's La guerre des étoiles) and the driver and I were [words 31] men mostly, where the place was. Of [words 32] through the trip I realized the driver [words 33] seen the film himself so his frame of reference was nil. He was getting tired [words 34] little goose chase when I insisted we keep driving around a few back streets near the center of Ajim and voila! I [words 35] was it and jumped out asking a [words 36] the street if this was the place [words 37] it was. It can be seen at 2:07 in this Youtube video. — Fresno [words 38] says although the Bulldogs have had [words 39] with Hawai'i, he doesn't necessarily regard the Warriors as a rival. "Everybody wants to be our rival, it seems . Boise State, San Jose [words 40] . who else we got? ," Hill said. "Hawai'i is a great game, but I don't know (if) you can call it a rivalry. I don't know what the biggest rivalry is. I don't know if there are any rivalries in this conference yet. "Hill said, "I just think we have a very good, competitive series going (with Hawai'i). I've got a [words 41] a lot of respect for his players. They always play physical. Their fans are hard on us when we're over there and our crowd is hard [words 42] when they're over here. But a rivalry? I just think we've got good football programs. "Tougher the better: The Bulldogs' [words 43] toughest among 117 Division I-A schedules and the most formidable in the Western Athletic Conference, but Hill says he has no regrets playing such a schedule despite a 4-4 start to the season. Hill said, "We'll play as tough a competition as we can. If they won't come to Fresno, we'll just go there. We'll [words 44] long as I'm here. "Dining with mascot: UH boosters are flying in Warrior mascot Vili [words 45] the alumni-booster pre-game tailgate party on Fresno State's campus. Don Murphy of Na Koa, the football booster club, said it was unlikely Fehoko will perform on the field at the game, though. Murphy said Fehoko is scheduled to [words 46] Saturday. Montana-Western head coach Tommy Lee is the brother of UH receivers coach Ron Lee [words 47] St. Louis School athletic director Cal Lee. Praising Polynesians: Hill has several players of Samoan ancestry [words 48] Tu'ua and defensive tackle Fai Satele, and said he'd like to get [words 49] from Polynesian backgrounds. "We've got a few [words 50] get more," he said. "That would be great. I like their toughness; they're warriors. "Playing it cool: The weather forecast is for temperatures in the high 40s for tomorrow night's game with a slight possibility of showers. Presenting the car that is replacing the [words 51] famous new breed of bulls by Lamborghini, the Aventador. This new jet car is powered by a 6.5 liters V12 engine delivering 700hp and 690 Nm of torque. To put this power down on the road the Aventador is equipped with Lamborghini all wheel drive system: The Haldex generation IV which is an electronic AWD system that [words 52] different amount of torque to each wheel for a better traction. This commercial is very similar to the print [words 53] Carrera 4s stating: “In case you're wondering how [words 54] world in one night . it has to do with the power [words 55] commercial is simple and the execution is basic, just a nice and quick way for Lamborghini to wish [words 56] a Merry Chirstmas! Results of home visits [words 57] to elderly people with health issues: style of a randomised scientific demo during the Netherlands (ISRCTN92017183)A whole lot may be accomplished to improve the current method. One example is, if household or close friends were being to help within the care of family and friends, these services could [words 58] deducted from the Invoice. Medicaid addresses Nearly 50 percent of all nursing home prices. And, Federal Medicaid grants are escalating so quickly, they are going to before long surpass [words 59] investing. Be particular regarding the tasks that you need, and make certain that [words 60] about is relaxed with Individuals responsibilities. 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They also obtained [words 76] in communication abilities and working with assessment equipment. Just after implementing here the in- and exclusion requirements, 492 individuals had been qualified to take [words 77] examine. Having said that, we excluded 162 [words 78] following reasons: their GP did not wish to co-operate Along with the review (n = [words 79] respondents had a lot of lacking values [words 80] the purposeful position scale (n = eleven), the wellness insurance company was unidentified [words 81] uncertain whether the health insurance provider can be ready to co-operate (n = 11). The well being insurance coverage companies of ninety six% from the lastly picked contributors had presently given consent to offer us with [words 82] use. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement Possess a immediate influence on the daily bed charges of private-spend inhabitants. They are citizens who are paying [words 83] care. 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<|prompter|> What are the missing words: Former WBA light middleweight champion Saul [words 1] (42-1-1 30 KO's) said earlier today that he [words 2] in 2014 with all three fights [words 3] pay-per-view. Canelo will be fighting on on the following dates: March [words 4] 22nd. His promoter Richard Schaefer says he plans on seeing if he can arrange a [words 5] or Sergio Martinez. But if neither of those fights can be made, Schaefer will be looking at matching Canelo against IBF light middleweight champion Carlos Molina. Canelo said on his twitter, “After my meeting with GBP these are the dates that will fight in 2014: March 8, 26 in July and 22 November. My three dates will be on PPV and the [words 6] will be announced in the coming weeks! ”Besides Cotto, Martinez and Molina, there's also the winner of the Erislandy Lara vs. Austin Trout fight for Canelo. [words 7] would literally be the last resort for Canelo because [words 8] would be a real problem for Canelo, especially with him [words 9] of a loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. The blueprint [words 10] to because Canelo has now been created by Mayweather, and Trout or Lara would only have to follow it to beat Canelo as well. As it is, Trout almost beat Canelo last [words 11] Antonio, Texas. Canelo won the fight by fairly [words 12] but that fight was essentially a bout that could have gone either way. Mayweather himself saw it as a fight that incredibly close with the knockdown that Canelo recorded in the 7th being the deciding factor in him getting the victory. It's doubtful that Canelo would [words 13] or face the Mayweather-like southpaw Lara. [words 14] Canelo. Cotto would be the perfect opponent for Canelo because it would be a [words 15] both fighters guaranteed to make tons of money. Cotto isn't Mayweather, but he's popular [words 16] big PPV fight. The only question is whether Cotto would be ready [words 17] opponent like Canelo? Cotto has lost two out of his [words 18] getting his career back on the tracks with new [words 19] Roach. Cotto just had a confidence [words 20] his demolition of Delvin Rodriguez. It would be a big step for Cotto to [words 21] from Delvin Rodriguez to Canelo, but the fight [words 22] sense. Cotto needs to start facing quality opposition again. Tomorrow he'll [words 23] he doesn't have a lot of time [words 24] career. (San Diego) – In many ways boxing is a game of chance. Doesn't matter how much you prepare, some times events don't go as planned. That never showed [words 25] promoter Bobby D. Presents this past Friday when [words 26] planned fell out the week of the event. First, the opponent for [words 27] Quintana, Susana Uribe, went by the wayside when her trainer suffered a stroke on travel day. The [words 28] fighter who was to face off against the popular Adrian Vargas did not pass one of his [words 29] was ruled unable to participate. Despite the streak of bad luck [words 30] worst suffered in thirty years by California boxing hall of fame promoter Bobby DePhilippis, the show still must go on. It did with [words 31] kept the respectable crowd inside the Crowne Plaza Hotel in San Diego's Mission Valley on [words 32] of their seats for most of the night. In the six-round main event, [words 33] a razor thin split decision over the valiant “Smoking” Joe Perez (4-1-1, 3KO) of [words 34] suffered his first defeat. The bout was fought in the featherweight division. The all-out brawl was a rematch of their first [words 35] year in which they walked away with a draw. Previous boxing news: Kings of the Ring: A Conversation with Mike [words 36] and Larry Holmes at Turning StoneDonnie Nietes (41-1-4, [words 37] KOs) has officially announced that he's [words 38] make a full move to the super flyweight division. [words 39] minimumweight, junior flyweight and flyweight, picked up the IBF title back in February [words 40] of Juan Carlos Reveco at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Even though Nietes is was not a super flyweight, HBO decided to place him on the televised card [words 41] clear that he was planning to move up [words 42] near future and he wanted to fight the [words 43] guys. "Today, I have made my decision to move [words 44] vacate my IBF flyweight world title, this is the challenge [words 45] waiting for. to go up in weight is [words 46] dream to become a 4th division world champion [words 47] big names at super flyweight," Nietes [words 48] Promotions. "I would like to sincerely thank the IBF for giving me the opportunity to be a world [words 49] the WBO for putting me now as the #1 [words 50] the vacant WBO super flyweight title. "Finally, I would like to thank ALA promotions, my coaches and ABS-CBN for all the support they have given [words 51] never accomplished everything I have now without them. This is a new challenge for me [words 52] am very happy that ALA Promotions has supported me to pursue my dream of a 4th division world title. "Last but not the least, thank you [words 53] my family, the media and to my fans [words 54] me in the past and I hope you would still be there as I face the tougher challenge in a new weight division. God Bless you all! "(QUOTE=komandante;18660553)Go [words 55] championship for PH. The real pride, not the [words 56] pastor. :boxing:(/QUOTE) Pacquiao really destroyed you after Duterte kicked off the corrupt priest ass licking lunatics that are called Aquinos [words 57] . I have seen him on YouTube on TV and in person he is the most underrated champion of any of the major bodies he belongs in the top 10 p4p my only concern is he doesn't have the pop if . i [words 58] that could knock down or even hurt hagler badly. Could he even take punches of hard hitting HWs do you think, like [words 59] foreman or tyson and possibly go the distance? (still as a middlweight) or is the HW devision a different [words 60] go to 45 seconds and watch Hagler getting hurt and sqauring up then having to hold on. [words 61] wellWASHINGTON, D. – On Saturday night, October 4, 2014, light welterweight professional boxer, Mike “Yes Indeed” Reed [words 62] D. defeated Osnel Charles (Atlantic City, NJ) by unanimous decision. The three judges seated ringside at Bally's Hotel and Casino in [words 63] 59-53, 60-52, and 60-52. Reed dropped [words 64] later in the fight, the referee deducted a point from Charles [words 65] mouthpiece. Reed's record is now 11-0, with 6 KOs. [words 66] last minute opponent replacement, saw his record drop to 10-11-1, 1 KO. [words 67] year old prospect talked about his recent win. He said, [words 68] to get the win in Atlantic City and see [words 69] out to support me and my team. As far as my performance goes, I thought [words 70] well, but there's always room for improvement. [words 71] a crafty veteran, and he had [words 72] survive in the ring. I always learn from my fights, and I plan to build [words 73] things in my upcoming training camp. I showed Top Rank that they made the right decision to sign me. I have a good [words 74] show that I have the tools to [words 75] father, trainer, and manager (Dream Team Boxing Gym/Clinton, MD), agreed with his Reed's assessment. “Michael's conditioning [words 76] in the fight, but we will go back to the gym and keep working to [words 77] better. Overall, I thought Mike's Top Rank debut went well, and the representatives [words 78] his performance. Thank you to all the Team Reed [words 79] came up for the fight. All of you were loud at the fight, and that made us feel like we were [words 80] home.”During his October fight, Reed wore [words 81] honor victims and survivors of breast cancer. He said, “The outfit I wore in the ring was to raise breast cancer awareness, as a tribute to everyone who has dealt with breast cancer. [words 82] women in my life were diagnosed with it. Fortunately, they both survived, but there [words 83] who weren't as fortunate. I'll continue to [words 84] will find a cure for cancer. Thank [words 85] Performance Solutions (Machomai Boots), Nike Elite (Kay Yow socks), Ross Molovinsky and [words 86] helping put together my outfit for this fight.”Mike Reed [words 87] to the ring on Thanksgiving weekend, [words 88] eight-round bout at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Reed's fight will be featured on the HBO undercard of the WBO lightweight [words 89] Ray Beltran. Reed's opponent will be announced shortly. Reed said, “November 29 will be a big night for Team Reed. Terence [words 90] favorite boxer of mine, so it's a real honor to [words 91] his undercard. I'm told that the CenturyLink Center in Omaha is going to be packed with [words 92] so this is a great opportunity for me to expand my fan base on a terrific HBO undercard. Team Reed is [words 93] to Omaha. We plan to impress everyone in attendance and earn [words 94] time.”Tickets for Reed's fight November 29 in Omaha are on sale now and priced at $27, $52, $77, [words 95] $127. Purchase them at CenturyLink Center Omaha Box Office and all [words 96] outlets. Order tickets online at www. [words 97] charge by phone (800) 745 3000. TORONTO, ON—In a fight that more than lived up to its billing, [words 98] went to war for ten rounds at the Brampton Powerade Centre on Saturday night. Ultimately, [words 99] top with a majority decision, but Funeka showed he had plenty left to give at 39 years of age. Judges scored the bout 95-95, 98-92 and 97-93, but to most in attendance and watching live on FITE, it was a clear and decisive win for the hometown favorite. It was the type of fight befitting of a crossroads bout, with both fighters vying for another opportunity on the big stage. Vargas, having fought two of the best welterweights in the world on national television in Danny Garcia and Errol Spence Jr. proved that he had more left in the tank than Funeka, a former three time world title challenger. From the opening bell, Vargas assumed the role of the aggressor, bobbing and weaving his way to the inside to land punishing shots to the body. The Philadelphia influence of trainer Billy Briscoe was on full display, as the old school teacher implored him to the techniques of Joe Frazier and Dwight Muhammad Qawi, who was trained by Briscoe's mentor Wesley Mouzon. Funeka mounted a comeback in the later rounds, using his superior reach and experience to work behind his jab, but Vargas' investment in body work was ultimately too much. It's the career best win for Vargas, who retains the WBA-NABA welterweight championship, and looks to get back on network television in a big fight again in the near future. In undercard action, 2016 Olympian Christian M'Billi dominated and stopped Argentinian veteran Genaro Quiroga in four rounds. M'Billi used an impressive arsenal of inside fighting to wear down his taller opponent, causing him to remain on his stool. Welterweight prospect Kane Heron also picked up the biggest win of his career, and made it look easy in the process. Heron stopped Cesar “Dolar” Chavez in the second round after a pair of hard knockdowns stemming from hard hooks to the head and body. Mladen Miljas needed just over a minute to dispatch of Hector Aguilar in heavyweight action. No opponent has been able to take Miljas outside of two rounds in his career thus far. Vargas is actually on a decent little run. I could see him being chosen as an easy title defense by Thurman or Peterson while they await bigger fights(QUOTE=sammybee;17969243)Any credible boxer that defeats Ali Funeka at this time shouldn't be proud about it because he has passed his prime. (/QUOTE)Valero defeated himself by TKO. death stopped the fight. Any credible boxer that defeats Ali Funeka at this time shouldn't be proud about it because he has passed his prime. That's a ppv fight, let it marinate! (/QUOTE) I know you're joking, but the funniest part is they might actually sell a fight like that as a PPV in Canada. Samuel Vargas not only went the distance, he almost lost against Ali Funeka. A guy who Jeff Horn stopped inside of 6 rounds. At some point people need to acknowledge the Legend Killer that he is. (/QUOTE) You mentioned three . After 28 fights and nearly nine years as a professional, Sechew Powell had his world title shot. All he had to do was beat someone he had previously knocked out in 22 seconds, Cornelius Bundrage, in fight number 29. At the Family Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri last June, Bundrage evened the score with the Brooklynite, retaining his IBF junior middleweight title via unanimous decision. Powell, 32, now had to take a good, hard look in the mirror and figure out whether he wanted to take another stab at his dream, even though the first one took him almost a decade. “Deep down, as much as I knew it was a major setback, when I woke up the next morning, the passion was still there,” Powell told BoxingScene. “It was more of a thing like ‘Sechew, you just made this thing a whole lot harder for yourself. ' (Laughs) But again, this is a lifelong goal and dream I've had. I was a few miles away, and now the location just moved a couple hundred miles away, and I knew that. But I still wanted to go after it.”Little did he know that he would wind up back in Missouri just seven months later, facing former two-division champ Cory Spinks in an IBF title eliminator tomorrow night in Springfield. It's a dose of good fortune for a young man who always had plenty of talent, but not as much good luck. That's not to say that he didn't have his chances, but key losses at the wrong times to Kassim Ouma and Deandre Latimore put him in a position where he was often waiting more than fighting. After competing in three bouts in 2008, Powell only fought once each in 2009, 2010, and 2011, not the type of activity you want to see for a fighter in his physical prime. The Bundrage rematch had the potential to put all the what ifs to rest, and in the lead-up to the fight, Powell was amped up and apparently on track to win his first world title. And the way he saw it, even a 15 month layoff wasn't going to deter him on his way to victory. That wasn't exactly the case though. “I thought the layoff wouldn't be a problem because I had a year and two months layoff when I fought Latimore for the second time, and I had an awesome night and did whatever I needed to do,” said Powell. “So I didn't think it would be a factor at all, but it was to a certain extent, and it wasn't so much the physical part of it, but more the mental part of it, and being out of the ring for so long did play a small part. But that wasn't really the cause for me not being able to perform to the best of my ability that night. I made a few mistakes that a guy at my level should never make, and it cost me big.”The biggest was eating sushi after the weigh-in, and after a night spent getting sick and not rehydrating properly, Powell was spent before the first bell even rang. “It was Murphy's Law,” he said. “Everything that you thought could go bad after the weigh-ins actually did.”“Talk about a rookie mistake,” he laughs. “It was a horrible thing. But I also believe that everything happens for a reason. Maybe the man upstairs was giving me a sign that it's not now – there's something else I need to learn or something else I need to do.”Following the bout, Powell was back in the gym with trainer Angel Rivera, continuing to hone his craft and getting ready to make good on his potential whenever the phone rang. And once it did with the Spinks fight, he also decided on another course of action that he believes will pay dividends in the future. “I've gotten ahead of myself in many instances, feeling really good before a fight physically and mentally, and it caused me to be super confident, and when I talk to the media ‘oh, I'm gonna do this and do that,'” he said. “And when, in retrospect, it didn't happen, it made me out to look like a guy who just runs his mouth and doesn't produce. So I learned not to get ahead of myself. The job is not done until it's over, and that's the attitude I have today.”It's a surprising admission from Powell, as he's never been an over the top trash talker. Instead, he's always been one of the game's true gentlemen, and one you want to see succeed. But he's also a realist, and he knows the pitfalls of his sport and what kind of scars it can leave if you stick around too long. “I was explaining to a friend of mine that if I couldn't do this at the highest level, I wouldn't do it,” he said. “Fighting is dangerous and it's nothing to play around with. And it's not a good way to earn a check as well. There are better ways to earn money than to put your health on the line in fighting. It is direct brutality against you and the guy that you're facing. So if I couldn't do it at the highest level to where the world could see it and I could get that respect and acclaim as a champion, I wouldn't compete anymore. I watch guys that do it for a check and because it's the only thing that they know and I don't think I'll ever be that guy who does it because that's all I know. I would go and learn something else.”“Luckily enough,” he continues, “I haven't been in the kind of fight I call a car accident. In my opinion, a really rough, tough ass whuppin' in a fight is like a car accident, and you're never the same afterwards. Luckily for me, in all my years as a fighter, I haven't been in that kind of fight.”And it's unlikely to happen Saturday night against Cory Spinks, who at 33 or 23 has always been a technician and not a terminator. The question is, after losing three of his last five bouts, and only fighting once a year since 2007, does the pride of St. Louis have anything left to offer at the world-class level of the game? “He (Spinks) was a champion as recent as 2010, so in a sense, yes, this is a guy who is a three-time world champion in two divisions, and I feel like there are certain things, as a boxer, that you're never gonna lose,” said Powell. “Is he still that same formidable guy? Probably not, but I'm looking for the best Cory Spinks, the Cory Spinks who beat Ricardo Mayorga, even though somewhere in my mind I kinda know that he's not that guy anymore. But I've been training for the best Cory Spinks.”Even less than the best Spinks could give Powell trouble though, as the one Achilles heel the New Yorker has had is dealing with his fellow southpaws. In fact, two of Powell's three pro defeats (Ouma, Latimore) have come against lefties. “For me personally, because most fighters are orthodox fighters, you grow accustomed to fighting that kind of angle, and your training and your strategies and everything you learn is to combat fighting from the orthodox stance,” Powell explains. “Southpaws, because in the past there weren't so many of them, it was like looking at a whole different fight. But in recent times I've fought with some really good southpaws, and I think I learned a lot. I feel a lot more comfortable today than I ever did before with a southpaw. The biggest problem I had was getting away from the left hand and that's another thing I feel comfortable about today. So I don't think that's gonna be a problem this time around.”Another issue may be fighting in Spinks' home state of Missouri, where, whether deservedly so or not, there is always the specter of a close decision going to the local hero. “It is his backyard, it's his house, and I know going in that I'm the underdog and he's the premier guy in the state of Missouri,” said “The Iron Horse.” “And I understand that I'm gonna have to go after this guy and double whatever he does and that's the way I've been training. I'm training to outwork him, beat him up, and what I really want to do is get him out of there. I don't want to see 12 rounds, even though I'm prepared to go the distance.”It may be now or never for Sechew Powell, and you get the feeling that he knows it. It's not desperation in his voice though; what he has is a sense that he's been given another opportunity to make something happen in his career, and that when you reach a certain point, the chances to grab the gold ring become rarer and rarer. So he needs to succeed now. “Right now I find my back against the wall,” he said. “I was, at a certain point, a hot commodity in boxing. I was at least on people's ‘to do' list when it came to boxing and I kinda fell off that list. But I have a hunger to be there again and go even beyond that. I want to be a world champion. I've been boxing for a long time, I've accomplished a lot as an amateur, and it would just be the capstone of my career to become a world champion. It's something I just feel like I need for my legacy. I just need to be a world champion to prove to myself that I always had what it took to be that guy. As you get older, it gets harder. Combat in any form is a young man's sport. It's for the young, fit, and fast guys. But I still feel fit enough, and I'm way more experienced enough to get the job done. I just want to get this title to cap off my career and give me something to be proud of myself about. I just want to be recognized by all fight fans around the world, and I want all boxing fans to one day say ‘man, he's good, what a good champion. ' That's what drives me.”Powell had so much talent but "freezes" when the big chances are there. don't know how the Spinks fight goes as he's 1 that never impressed me but wins. past few years has really shown nothing. How or why the IBF continues to give Powell eliminators and shots at their champ is beyond my comprehension. In a division that is completely stacked, the IBF feels fit to let K9 fight 3rd and 4th rate junior middies . Back in Australia after defeating Felix Sturm in a unanimous points decision, hugs rather than jabs were the order of the day. More than 40 local supporters made the trip to Germany for his title fight, which he won after 12 rounds 117-111, 118-110, and 118-110. "He had no answer to the kind of punches I was throwing, which was surprising because he's had so many championship fights with that kind of pressure," he said. He's now on a mission to unify the middleweight belts, held by Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto and Kazakh Gennady Golovkin. "I had so many hours on the flight, I wrote up some of the best training drills and strategies for both Golovkin and Cotto," he said. Golovkin's imposing 29-0 record will first be tested by Tasmanian boxer Daniel Geale in New York next month. "I'll never not be an underdog. For my next fight, whether it's Cotto or Golovkin, both will be favourites," he said. "If I get to the point where injuries don't heal, my reflexes aren't what they used to be - maybe that love will diminish. (QUOTE=Clegg;14656314)Soliman seems like a likeable guy, travelling to Germany twice and finally getting a belt at this stage of his career and wanting to face the best instead of hold it hostage. But I'd much rather see Cotto and Golovkin . Soliman seems like a likeable guy, travelling to Germany twice and finally getting a belt at this stage of his career and wanting to face the best instead of hold it hostage. Sam Soliman vs Miguel Cotto could be very interesting and competitive to say the least. How would Cotto cope with that relentless style, I wouldn't exactly say Soliman is a huge puncher though. Sam would smother Cotto from round 1 . Soliman vs cotto is an intriguing fight. Cotto is the vastly better boxer obviously, but soliman would have a considerable size advantage and his awkward style combined with that could potentially spell a tough night for cotto. Solimon/GGG most likely next. 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Instruction: What are the missing spans: Author Information: Consortium for Health and Military [spans 1] PA. A systematic review of the association between physical fitness and musculoskeletal injury risk: part 2—muscular endurance and muscular strength. J Strength Cond Res 31(11): 3218–3234, 2017—This is a systematic review and evaluation of the current evidence on the association between both muscular endurance (ME) and muscular strength (MS) and musculoskeletal injury (MSK-I) risk in military and civilian populations. MEDLINE, EBSCO, EMBASE, and the Defense Technical Information Center were searched for original studies published from 1970 through 2015 which examined associations between physical fitness (ME and MS) and MSK-I in military or civilian populations. Methodological quality and strength of the evidence were determined following criteria adapted from previously published systematic reviews. Forty-five of 4,229 citations met our inclusion criteria. 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But until I was thirty years old, I didn't realize that there is a specific type of conversation for building relationships, and that some questions work much better in this conversation than others. My awakening to the concept of “conversation for building relationships” happened in the lobby of a hotel in San Francisco's Union Square. Kathy, a senior manager at Hewlett Packard, was coaching me on how to get a girlfriend. I had just moved across the country from Michigan and was trying to make [spans 4] changes. One was to find someone special. Kathy and I sat across a small round table, and I told her the tale of my dating life: what I was looking for, how I approached things, who I had been dating, and how things tended to turn out. The full story, which I had never told anyone before, took two hours. Kathy listened attentively the entire time. When I was finished, she gently asked, “So, Amiel, I can see how important a healthy partnership is to you, as well as all the effort you've put into dating. What do you think is getting in the way? ”In all my years [spans 5] question. I really don't know,” I replied. “Let me give you my take,” Kathy said, pulling out a pad of paper and pen. She drew a picture of three concentric circles—labeled, from the inside out, Relationship, Possibility, and Action. “There are three types of conversations,” she said. “Each one has a purpose and is important in dating and the rest of life. A conversation for relationship is about exploring interests and finding out what the other person likes and doesn't like, so you have a sense of whether this is someone you'd want to spend more time with. A conversation for possibility is about what if. You pick something that interests both of you and talk about what it would be like to do that—say, visiting the zoo, hiking in the forest, or going to [spans 6] concert. A conversation for action is where you actually invite her out onto a date—it's the first time you actually make a [spans 7] conversation. As a result, you're asking women out before you've gotten to know each other. Even when you think you're going deep by having them tell you their life story, you're actually not getting a sense of what they like to do or what's important to them today. You're skipping the conversation for relationship.”Although I hated to admit it, she had a point. Once I found a woman attractive, I tended to either draw her into an extended discussion of her past or plunge right in and ask her out. If I invited her for a date, one of two things happened: she said “no,” and I felt disappointed, or she said “yes,” and I ended up spending time with someone who was pretty, but not particularly interesting to be with. Walking out of the hotel that day, I made a commitment to myself to become more conscious of the type of conversation I was in—not just while dating, but throughout life. Was it a conversation for action, a conversation for possibility, or a conversation for relationship? If the latter, what was I doing that supported and detracted from the intent of this conversation, to learn about each other's interests? Up until now, I had not viewed conversations as the most essential part of building relationships. This was a new world for me. So I stumbled, bumbled, and generally mumbled my way through. Fortunately, instant excellence was not my goal. And once it became clear that skillful conversations were crucial to my professional success, friendships, and overall happiness, it made sense to practice them—a lot. ## Practicing conversations for building relationships meant speaking differently. It was time to break out of my old habit of asking all the questions. It was time to take the risk of revealing myself. Professionally, this meant sharing with clients and colleagues what kinds of projects and people I most enjoyed. Personally, this meant telling both women I dated and potential new friends that I liked to read books, talk politics, [spans 8] foot. Such self-disclosure drew people with similar interests to me and helped them see me as a sincere and open person. It also meant listening differently. In the past, while listening, my mind tended to race far into the future. In the first meeting with a potential consulting client, I'd quickly begin imagining what would happen two or three years down the road—typically either a raging success or a disaster. On a first date, I'd wonder whether this was someone I could marry. In both cases, the farther into the future my attention ran, the less present I was to the person in front of me and what they were revealing about themselves. Getting out of this habit meant building a new habit of listening for the other person's interests, immediate concerns, likes, and dislikes. What did the potential client want to get out of a consulting relationship? What were they looking for in [spans 9] appear. You had to listen for them. This led to the third and most important step in improving conversations for building relationships: expanding my repertoire of questions. The old bag of tricks would no longer suffice, because it failed to elicit others' interests, immediate concerns, likes, and dislikes. Accomplishing this called for a new set of questions. I didn't have a manual to guide me, so I learned the old-fashioned way: by trying things out and seeing what worked. This took not months, but years. In 2005, when my then-fiancée and I moved north to Portland, we had many conversations about where we would live and the type of house we would buy. When a parent or sibling proposed a vacation, I would try to steer discussion toward what mattered to people before we made a decision. When I took a sabbatical from my business for two years to head up performance improvement for a county agency, I asked these questions in the job interview and during the initial get-to-know-you chats with my new colleagues. Over time, a pattern emerged. I call it the Seven Questions for Building Relationships. It is actually seven categories of questions [spans 10] relationship. As you'll see, conversations for building relationships can be most valuable when held with the people closest to you. As you think about the best boss you've ever had, what [spans 11] reports). I'm glad to be in this new job and to have you as my boss. As you look out a year, what does success for my position look like? These questions are not for one-time use. They are meant to be practiced over and over again until you feel comfortable with them—indeed, until you make them your own. Experiment with asking them to different people and at different times. If at first, a phrase or question feels awkward to you, that is understandable. You are a beginner [spans 12] awkward. Asking such a question is an expression not of who you are today, but of who you aim to become tomorrow. Stick with it and be patient with yourself. You may discover that conversations for relationship [spans 13] you. Amiel Handelsman is a Portland-based executive coach and change consultant with two decades of experience developing leaders. He is the author of Practice Greatness: Escape Small Thinking, Listen Like A Master, And Lead With Your Best (JZ Leadership Press, 2014). Running a successful Instagram marketing campaign is a real art. It requires great concentration, as well as deep knowledge of the industry and skills. However, not having enough marketing experience, we quite frequently make mistakes. And there are some mistakes that our competitors can't but wait to see us make! Would you like to know particularly which fails can ruin your Instagram marketing campaign and make your rivals open a bottle of champagne? Let InstaBF disclose them for you. But before that, we'd like to remind that you can rely on InstaBF for Instagram and IGTV likes, comments and new followers. Using stock photography is a rude mistake for any Instagram influencer or business. This makes the profile look like that of an amateur and not professional. Real life, that's the core of a successful Instagram feed. It's better to take a photo, edit and glamorize it than use stock photography. The latter is possible only for print and website advertising. Instagram, just as any other social media requires originality, especially when it is possible to create grandiose unique photos just with your smartphone. The fact that Instagram [spans 14] captions. Particularly the latter gives the necessary tone and context to the image posted, as well as supports the brand voice. Accordingly, vapid and obvious captions can become the next major mistake of your Instagram marketing campaign. What can help [spans 15] use. And if you thought using the most popular hashtags would help to attract more followers, you are completely . wrong! If [spans 16] ones. Additionally, using the same tags won't be [spans 17] either. It will bring you the same audience from one side, and make Instagram algorithm think that you are spamming on the other. Consistency is the key to gaining the trust of your audience. 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<prompter> More of this please: The CSA published Staff Notice 33-318 last month. It reviews the sort of compensation and incentives that firms offer to motivate advisors, and the paper continues to arouse passions in the industry. PAFSA President and spokesman Flavio Vani has submitted a letter to Morisset, who is both CSA chairman and head of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), in which he argues there is an obvious link between proprietary products and potential conflicts of interest. Instead of banning embedded commissions for non-proprietary products, Vani recommends that securities regulators crack down on the sort of compensation paid by integrated companies that distribute exclusive products. The CSA define an integrated firm as one that runs not only an asset management or product manufacturing business, but also has a distribution network. PAFSA notes the CSA have clearly established that potential conflicts of interest result from the way integrated companies pay advisors who sell investments and mutual funds, "including integrated companies that distribute exclusive products," writes Vani. "As researcher Douglas Cumming demonstrated in the study cited by the CSA, integrated companies and proprietary funds represent the most serious problem in terms of performance for customers," adds Vani. He quotes the passage from the study which found that funds sold by affiliated distribution companies tend to have the worst performance. The president of PAFSA concludes that funds with embedded commissions are not the source of the conflict of interest problem. "Rather, it is the compensation arrangements and incentives offered by integrated distribution companies that should be targeted by regulatory authorities in order to stop business practices that go against the interests of customers," he says . ca, a sister publication of The Insurance and Investment Journal, obtained a copy of the letter which was sent simultaneously to 11,500 advisors. In his message, Vani emphasizes that the members of his organisation want healthy competition in a free enterprise market. He goes on to say that PAFSA will remain vigilant. The organisation wants to make sure that any regulatory responses that address conflicts of interest arising from compensation arrangements and incentives deal with the real causes identified in the CSA survey; they should not infringe on the public interest, which is best served when consumers have access to objective advice and non-proprietary products. That the option of abolishing embedded commissions in non-proprietary products be abandoned, since the CSA'S Notice 33-318 demonstrates that they are not a source of conflicts of interest. That the CSA should promote clear regulations in order to eliminate situations which give rise the potential conflicts of interest as identified in the CSA's compensation survey and in Notice 33-318. The CSA say they have identified both financial and non-financial incentives that promote the sale of proprietary products to the detriment of third party products. "Only integrated firms reported these practices," reads Notice 33-318. This was one of the 27 worrisome compensation practices identified in the Notice, which listed among other things incentives related to both sales volume and the size of a client's initial investment, as well as sales contests. Created by Master Lu Hung Bin Taught by Iva Lim Peck Tai Chi Sword ( Jian )is a weaponry form of Tai Chi practice, in which the sword is viewed as an extension of the body, not a separate part of Tai Chi practice. All Tai Chi weaponry forms preserve the same principles of Tai ( . Created by Richard A Peck Pei Style Tai Chi Chuan brings together moves from Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan, Lu Style Tai Chi Chuan, Pa Kua Chang, Hsing-Yi Chuan, Qi Gong and Chin Na. There is a major emphasis on the development of internal energy. This is accomplished through adhering to the basic principles common ( . Great game no one is talking about: Pittsburgh @ No.24 Virginia Tech, or, No.19 Northwestern @ Wisconsin. There are times when in hindsight you know that you should have trusted your instincts instead of trying to out-think the room (which, let us be honest, can never end well. Just ask the NFL when they decided to put the upcoming Super Bowl in frigid New Jersey). Case in point: last week, yours truly tried to out-think the room – against my own better judgement – in prediciting that this week's “offensive explosion” would be Ohio State @ Northwestern. Yes, it was a good game, worthy of a Musburger-Herbstreit broadcast tandem. And yes, the overall score was not exactly paltry at 40-30 (in favor of the Buckeyes, naturally). But then there was Baylor vs. West Virginia, whose score was so high, we needed our collective oxygen tank (final score: 73-42). What was my main reticence in following my instincts and selecting this game for a more accurate prognostication? The fact that West Virginia has been wildly inconsistent this year. One week they embarrass themselves against Maryland, the next week, they upset Oklahoma State. Right now, we the fans do not know what team we are getting week-to-week with the Mountaineers. Aside from the satisfying SEC slugfest between Georgia and Tennessee in the 3:30 time slot, and the 3-OT shootout between Rutgers and SMU, all the good games this past week were in the evening. Mississippi State (3 out of 4 quarters, at least), South Florida vs. Cincinnati (surprisingly), Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma, Kentucky vs. South Carolina (the Gamecocks allowed for it to be a good game, regrettably), Notre Dame vs. Arizona State, Ohio State vs. ## Northwestern, Washington vs. Stanford, even Louisiana Tech vs. UTEP (! ) all turned out to be competitive, engaging matchups. It was one of those nights where you wished you had four or five flatscreens, all right next to each other, so as to enjoy as much simultaneous action as possible. Oklahoma did it the right way. They played a highly respected TCU bunch in a close, hard-fought game, and triumphed in the end, 20-17. There is a school of thought, not one without merit, that states that this is the perfect approach before throwing down the following week with a bitter rival. To follow this line of logic, the Sooners are well-prepared for the Red River Shootout this upcoming week. On the other side of the coin is Texas, who thought that they could beat up on Big XII lightweight Iowa State as a tune-up. As things turned out, they needed not one, but two scandalous calls by the referees to get their behinds out of some seriously hot water (basically, two “gift” calls of not recognizing fumbles as actual fumbles). Let that sink in for a moment. After just two hours of deliberation, a Colorado jury found Rex Fowler guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of his former business partner Thomas Ciancio. The case was fairly strait forward and the trial lasted only a few days. There was no question that Fowler killed his business partner; the only question was whether the crime was first or second degree murder. The state claimed the killing was premeditated and intentional; Fowler asserted that Ciancio's death was not intended but, rather, a tragic accident. He maintained that Ciancio interrupted a botched suicide attempt and was killed in the ensuing melee. As a practical matter, the jury's verdict made little difference. His conviction of murder in the first-degree resulted in a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. Had the jury convicted him of second-degree murder, he was exposed to a maximum penalty of forty-eight years incarceration. At age fifty-nine, it is unlikely that his life expectancy would exceed the likely prison term. The victim, Thomas Ciancio, age 42, was a decent, hard-working and likable man. Married to his high school sweetheart and the father of four young children, he had been the Chief Operating Officer of Fowler Software Design in the Denver area for several years. He resigned in November 2009 after a dispute with the founder of the company, Rex Fowler. The parting of ways was not amicable and each claimed the other owed them money. Finally, Fowler agreed to pay Ciancio approximately $10,000 in severance pay. A meeting was arranged so that the final settlement papers could be signed. Ciancio, happy to put the matter behind him, met with Rex Fowler for the final time on December 30, 2009. When Ciancio arrived at the company, he was shown into a conference room adjoining Fowler's office. After the formalities concluded, Fowler drew a 9-millimeter Glock pistol and fired three shots any of which, would be fatal, into Ciancio's head. Fowler then turned the gun on himself and fired one shot. Fowler's aim on this occasion was not so good; the shot did not kill him and he stumbled into the street – alive but seriously wounded. While no one saw the shooting, several witnesses heard the shots and called the police. Initially, it was thought that Fowler was a victim and, believing the gunman to be alive and armed, the SWAT team was dispatched. A couple of hours later, they gained access to the business and discovered Ciancio's lifeless body. Ciancio's murder, and Fowler's arrest three weeks later, was local news and generally would not have attracted much attention outside the state of Colorado. Fowler's case, however, became international news when it was learned that he was a scientologist – not just a garden-variety run of the mill scientologist – but an Operating Thetan level number seven (OT 7) – one of the highest and costliest states of spiritual awareness available in the market of spiritual ideas. The glossy promotional pieces used in the church's direct mail campaign advertise that, by following their copyrighted practices – and at a substantial price – man can attain total spiritual freedom and truth. When one reaches the state of OT, they have the ability, according to the church's website, to “handle things without having to use a body of physical means” and “handle things without physical support or assistance.” When a man like Fowler – with powers and ... <assistant> The completion of this text could be: abilities far beyond those of mortal men – is involved in a murder/suicide attempt, that is something that will attract some media attention. The case was newsworthy, however, not because Fowler possessed some awesome spiritual power unavailable to the impecunious – rather, it drew attention because Fowler, despite having achieved this status, lacked the ability to conform his conduct to even the most basic and fundamental rules of civilized society. The church of scientology attracts more critics than a stray dog does fleas. Why would a religion that provides the keys to spiritual enlightenment of the magnitude advertised – albeit at a high financial cost -cause so much disconcert among so many people? The most obvious reason is that it does not deliver as advertised. When trying to impress new converts, they claim to be a precise science, while at the same time denying their critics the right to scientifically test their theories. The fact that Rex Fowler discharged a firearm four times and fail in his stated intent to end his own life is a sad testimonial the effectiveness of this religion and a tragic reminder of the injuries that conduct may have on any ‘bystanders'. Second, there is evidence to suggest that the processes used by the church may, in fact be dangerous. The most noteworthy proof of this claim is the tragic case of Lisa McPherson who died while in the care of the church. As a result of her death, adherents of the religion must now sign a release prior to receiving spiritual counseling from the church. A final reason for criticism is the church's ruthless treatment of its critics. The victims of this fraud, after spending years of their time and hundreds of thousands of their dollars, are not allowed to complain without invoking the wrath of church management. Unlike Christianity which preaches that one should “turn the other cheek”, the religious scriptures of scientology command them to “to find or manufacture enough threat against (their enemies) to cause them to sue for peace. Always attack.” Hubbard not only sanctioned, but urged the use of “black propaganda” to “destroy reputation or public belief in persons, companies or nations.” According to the church, this policy, called ‘fair game', was cancelled in 1968-a claim that is disproven by the large number of documented instances of harassment and black propaganda that follows in the wake of any criticism. It is a reasonable conclusion that the application of fair game tactics remains a cornerstone of scientology practices. In a decision widely quoted, judge Breckenridge of the Los Angeles Superior Court wrote “ . (scientology), under the pretext of ‘freeing humans' is nothing in reality but a vast enterprise to extract the maximum amount of money from its adepts . The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder (L. Ron Hubbard).” Many former adherents agree with this assessment. In recruiting new members, their practices work with scientific precision. They claim they are a religion when they are attempting to justify their tax exempt status, deny their staff members a living wage an avoid government regulation. To their membership, however, they are a business that must charge exorbitant prices for the services they render. When the critic community learned the facts surrounding Fowler's arrest, it added fuel to their belief in the corrupt nature of this sect. Ciancio had quit the firm because he was upset that Fowler had taken over $150,000 from the company and donated it to some arm of the church of scientology. This type of unauthorized expenditure – a prosecutor might call it embezzlement – along with the general economic downturn, caused the business to fail. Fowler was clearly despondent over his financial ruin and clearly suicidal. Critics believed that many of the abusive financial practices of the church would become evidence in the trial. This “art of hard sell” is incorporated into the sacred and copyrighted writings of the church. The critics were, however, disappointed; Judge Francis Wasserman, who presided over Fowler's trial, allowed very little evidence of Fowler's faith and no evidence of the abusive practices previously alleged – a decision that shortened the trial immeasurably and caused many critics to cry conspiracy. Judge Wasserman's decision was correct – this evidence, while interesting, had little relevance to the charge of murder. Fowler and his wife had been dedicated scientologists for several decades; both had attained the revered status of OT. While it is not known how much money the Fowlers donated to the church over this period, by most people's standards the amount would be staggering. The $150,000 dollar misappropriation apparently was just a drop in the bucket. Earlier in the year, they had sold their home for over a half million dollars. Like many committed scientologists, the Fowlers had financed the ‘Bridge to Total Freedom' with credit cards, personal loans and mortgages. With the economic downturn in 2008, credit sources dried up and business turned sour. Fowler was not the only scientologist to be stung by the credit crunch and recession. In May, 2009, Stephen Brackett, a successful contractor, was despondent over his financial troubles and jumped several hundred feet to his death in Monterey, CA. He was also an OT and had contributed over one million dollars to the church. There are a number of other instances of suicides or attempted suicides among OTs; some resulting from the despondency of financial ruin, and others from the psychosis attributed to the harmful practices of the religion. Most, however, do not commit suicide but are left financially ruined by the ‘donations' made under the constant demands by the church for ‘MORE MONEY'. By the time of trial, Fowler was indigent and represented by the public defender's office. It is the Colorado taxpayers that should be outraged by this fact. When stolen money is ‘donated' to a church by a defendant, it is difficult to comprehend why the church does not have an ethical or legal obligation to return this money. While he sits in prison, Rex Fowler should reflect on the sad fact that he is just one of many scientologists that can add ‘convicted of a felony' to what would otherwise be an impressive resume. He follows in the footsteps of the church founder, L. Ron Hubbard, who was convicted, in absentia, of fraud by a French court in 1978. Hubbard was also an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Snow White case an spent the last years of his life in seclusion hiding from the authorities. Operation Snow White has been described as the largest infiltration of the United States government in history. It involved the use of 5000 covert agents who engaged in the illegal wiretapping and theft of government documents. In August 1978, eleven high-ranking scientologists, including Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue, were convicted of obstructing justice, burglary, and theft of government property. In September 2003, Reed Slatkin, another OT 7 was sentenced to 14 years for fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice for his part in a Ponzi scheme that netted him millions of dollars – much of that money ending up in the coffers of the church of scientology. In October 2009, two branches of the church's operations and several of its leaders were convicted of fraud in a French court. Additionally, there are dozens of other cases involving scientologists – convicted of a wide array of criminal behavior that would serve as a useful primer to students of criminal law. In November 2009, Nick Xenephon, a member of the Australian Senate, labeled the church of scientology a criminal organization alleging that it engaged in blackmail, torture, violence, labor camps, forced imprisonment, and coerced abortion. He was instrumental in spearheading legislation forming a charities commission charged with ensuring that churches and other charitable organizations are held accountable and satisfy a public benefit test before being afforded charitable status. Such action is long overdue in the United States. After the Supreme Court's decision in Hernandez v.680 (1989) denying the church tax exempt status, the IRS inexplicably did an about face and entered into a number closing agreements with the church in 1993. The details of those closing agreements remained a secret for several years but, at the time, were lauded by church officials as the holy grail – giving them, in the form of tax-exempt status, the legitimization they had long sought after. 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The playoffs are pipe dream, but the Wolves are still trying to win now – no one's calling in the tanks yet. A deal before Thursday's trade deadline does not [spans 2] imminent. But you never put it past Wolves POBO David Kahn to find a way to move pieces. (We floated this on Twitter earlier today for fun, and it provoked some, errrm, “strong” reactions (here, here, here. What does this mean for tonight's game? We're not looking at a Battle of the Titans, but we are looking at a couple of relatively evenly-matched teams. Both teams have stuff to prove. It's a winnable game. “We need to get some type of roll going here and, like I said, you do it by winning on the road.” Much of Rick Adelman's post game presser (televised on FSN North) focused on the Wolves getting on a roll. Clearly impressed by a dominant win over a solid Philadelphia 76ers team, Coach is smelling blood on this East Coast back-to-back and it's coming from Boston. Tomorrow night, the Wolves take on Kevin Garnett and the Celtics. If you watched the game tonight, you can't really blame him for looking ahead like a guy playing with house money. This was the best his team has looked all season. Which is strange, when you consider that Kevin Love, continuing the search for his shooting [spans 3] shooting. (Before I forget though, Love was a beast on the defensive [spans 4] action. He shared the ball tonight. It's doubly strange when you consider that Nikola Pekovic had an inefficient 6 points, and 5 rebounds in 27 minutes of action. Pek never found a groove all night. The Timberwolves' two best healthy players struggled, yet they won by 17 points on the road against a team that played in Game 7 of last year's Eastern Conference Semi-Finals. Tonight's matchup with Philly turned into [spans 5] contest. It was interesting because a near-capacity crowd showed up on a Sunday night even though the Sixers don't have a “superstar” talent that typically draws big attendance. It was interesting because it was very close for nearly the entire game. It was interesting because Jrue Holiday and Ricky Rubio are each fascinating players in different ways. And it was interesting because the Wolves won by a single point, in somewhat bizarre fashion. Tagged as Corey Brewer, Jrue Holiday, kevin love, Nikola Pekovic, Rick Adelman, ricky rubio, Wes JohnsonKyrie Irving is a 6'3”, 191 pound point guard who left college after his freshman season at Duke to declare for the NBA Draft. Having played only eleven college games, and without any of the special physical gifts [spans 6] Project. Irving's rookie season and NBA career are off to a wonderful start. The Cavs are noticeably improved (6-7 at this point), and he's averaging an efficient 18 points and 5 assists per contest. Only he's no lock for Rookie of the Year, even if he can continue this pace. That's because Ricky Rubio happened. Rubio is the buzz of the basketball world due to his style and incredible ability to impact [spans 7] general. Last year, Rubio couldn't get anything right in Spain. Now he flourishes night in and night out against the best players in the world. A month or two before David Stern (or was it Adam Silver–I've tried to permanently erase all memories of these suits since the LOCKOUT) called Irving's name in New York, Derrick Rose–another 6'3” guard barely old enough to get into Chicago bars–won the league MVP for leading the Bulls' revival from his spot at the point. The Bulls won 62 games last year, in large part due to his offensive dominance. Irving, Rubio, and Rose are not alone in succeeding to improbable levels at point guard in the NBA. John Wall, drafted first overall a season before Irving, had a dynamite rookie season for the Wizards and has the look of a future All-Star. Philadelphia (10-4) is a dark horse title contender, starting 21-year old Jrue Holiday at the point. The 11-4 Atlanta Hawks are starting a 23-year old, Jeff Teague, who was barely drafted in the first round. Do a quick scan of every team in the league and ask yourself if any DOES NOT have a good point guard. Sacramento? Maybe, but only if Tyreke doesn't qualify for the position. The Lakers and Heat? Perhaps, but they're so stacked at the wing that having a point who dribbles a lot would be more of a hurt than a help. So, all of these great point guards . does it reflect something nation or worldwide about basketball interest, and an influx of newly-20-somethings that have been dedicated to hoops? Dwight Howard is the only center in the NBA who can fairly be categorized as a “superstar.” And he isn't a star for his offense. Last season, his seventh as a pro, Howard averaged a career-high 22.9 points per game. The only other centers who played in the All-Star Game (Tim Duncan and Al Horford, each of whom started his career in the league as a power forward) each averaged under 16 points per game. What happened to the 1990s, when centers ruled the league? (Well, other than games that Michael Jordan was playing in. In different seasons, Ewing, Robinson, Olajuwon, and O'Neal averaged between 27 and 30 points per game. Today, that simply doesn't happen with back-to-the-basket players. Shaq, Hakeem, and Robinson won championships; Ewing came preciously close. Yet Dwight Howard remains ringless. Instead of “illegal defense” (guard your man or double-team the ball, essentially) defenders would only be restricted to a “three-seconds” rule for situations were they weren't defending an individual player. In other words, zone defense was now legal–with limitations–and perimeter players could now hedge down on the post without having to commit a full double team that left their own player wide open for a jump shot. Why the change? No need to speculate, there. NBA Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations explained for us back in 2002:The illegal defense guidelines needed to be eliminated because they have become problematic. They are problematic for our fans, who don't understand the rule. They are problematic for the officials, who admittedly have had difficulty administering the rule. And finally, our teams have used the guidelines in a way that produces isolation basketball. Teams identify areas on the floor that they can use to their advantage in a given offensive matchup [spans 8] teams. With isolation basketball, a lot of our teams began standing around. ## [spans 9] opportunities. These developments began with the misuse of the illegal defense guidelines and therefore they needed to be eliminated. By eliminating them, our desired result is to get a game that once again is based on passing, cutting, [spans 10] movement. A game that hopefully produces fastbreak opportunities because that is the way our game should be played. Those admirable goals were, in large part, met with the rule change. But along with the changes were some unintended casualties: namely, most of the superstar centers who used to dominate games with their backs to the basket. Sure, Shaq won MVP's and titles with the Lakers, but he was a unique case of overwhelming size and skill that has never been seen before, or since. Tim Duncan was almost as dominant as Prime [spans 11] Love. After the announcement of the rule change, Shaq was asked for his opinion. All he would say was, “Stinks.” In the same Sports Illustrated piece, P. Brown added, “I don't think it's good at all. Zones will bring the games to a grind.” What he wasn't taking into consideration were the ever-tightening restrictions on hand-checking that would help make point guard the easiest offensive position in the league. In other words, the game would only come to a “grind” for posts now facing more defenders from the same island, eight or more feet from the basket. How many NBA [spans 12] team. The help-down defense on the strong side, combined with allowing free roaming of the other three defenders, is a strong deterrent to the post moves once relied upon by the best in the game. Given that the point guard-to-center exchange rate seems to be approaching 50:1, and there isn't a single center as offensively-gifted as Patrick Ewing was in an average year, shouldn't something to be done to remedy the situation and clear the way for some talented bigs (DeMarcus Cousins, Al Jefferson, Roy Hibbert, Greg Monroe) to challenge the sort of impact that Rose and his ilk are making? Here's a basic idea that is more-conventional than many rule changes that the most-conservative NBA has made over the years:In 1951, the NBA widened the lane from six to twelve feet. This change, by no coincidence, occurred during George Mikan's reign as the best player in the league and a flurry of (MINNEAPOLIS) Laker titles. In 1964, a different Laker-to-be was dominating the league too much on the interior. With Wilt dropping 100 on a hot night, the league felt the need to expand the lane even beyond twelve [spans 13] sixteen. Note that zone defense was outlawed back in 1946. So the compromise was reached. This equilibrium lasted for almost 40 years, until Pat Riley's Knicks started playing clutch-and-grab, hack-a-anybody defense that damn-near carried them to a championship not seen in New York since the seventies. But while New York is a big market, and the Spike-Reggie Rivalry was high entertainment, the brand of basketball was lacking. Scoring was way down, players were being rewarded for thuggery under the hoop, and fan interest was deflating fast after the (second of three) retirements of His Airness. But with zone defense principles allowed for the first time in over fifty years, the league should have reciprocated to the tall folks of the hoops world by narrowing the lane. Wilt and Mikan (and Shaq, had these changes not happened before him) needed a bigger lane because only one player was allowed to guard them. In today's game, posts are faced with defense from all directions. This isn't entirely center-specific (can you even imagine Charles Barkley trying to back his man down for 12 seconds with today's rules? ) but the seven-footers of the world are affected the most for two reasons:If the league narrowed the lane back to 12 feet (same as high school and college) two things would undeniably happen:* Centers would score more points. They'd be allowed to establish position closer to the hoop and traditional back-to-the-basket moves, like drop steps, up-and-unders, and jump hooks would all be executed from a reasonable distance. Rather than having to square up and essentially dribble penetrate from the extended elbow, posts could be posts again. In the 90's, Ewing and Hakeem could spend as much time as needed backing down [spans 14] position. In today's NBA, there are [spans 15] frequency. Shot Blockers would matter more than they do now. If Darren Collison and Eric Maynor and Jeff Teague and D. Augustine can be solid NBA players, why can't Hasheem Thabeet? Why shouldn't a 7'4″ freak who can bat your weakass shit into the fifteenth row be able to make a living despite weaknesses, the same [spans 16] defense. Shot blocking would be more relevant than it is now. A narrow lane would not make centers unstoppable. The best post scorers like Jefferson, Howard, and Bynum, would simply attract more defense and [spans 17] counter. It's still the team game and free-flowing concepts sought by Stu Jackson in 2002, just with a fair fight between the less-coordinated-but-mammoth centers and the lead guards that will soon need their own league to employ all capable job candidates. The NBA has made radical changes to its rules over its history. Think about the three-point shot. How crazy would it seem to us young adults (who weren't around when that change happened) if a four-point shot was instituted for 30-footers? Is narrowing the lane to a width used at an earlier point in history so crazy? Do fans simply not enjoy great bigs? Did somebody forget to consult Bill Walton? If the league had to widen the lane when centers become too dominant, shouldn't it narrow the lane when the position is nearly extinct? It is ironic that northerners, who aren't contributing anything to the national purse, are the ones issuing an ultimatum. It is extremely dangerous posturing that is certain to have serious repercussions. The northern leeches have started a war they can't finish. The south contribute immensely to the development of this country. And yet they want to [spans 18] ignorant. Have you ever heard of GDP? . gross domestic product . The agricultural produce from the north is what makes us rich . Foreign export is not the only thing used in judging the wealth of nation. Stop deceiving yourself,I produce cucumba in my house now. Come to Owerri and I will show you. Abakalike and Enugu states are our rice production base which can also give us whatever the stupid northern Nigeria produces! We igbos really would have nothing to lose if we breakup. If the whole Nigeria can depend on our oil for years,imaging what an eldorado only about ten states forming the new xtian state of Biafra would be into. I hope you will be up North when it all starts, not by your phone crying out for human rights. I also said, who eats ant infested faggot must be prepared for the visit of the Lizards. You called entire ethnicities bastards, fools, animals in the Zoo. You wanted out, now they call your bluff and you wonder why. Igbo own the north that is the truth. How then could you ask us to leave? We own the schools, we build the houses, the electricians, the block moulder, the farmers, engineers, road workers, etc! Do you think that to own a place is to be born there? That is not true! You own the world, so disrespectful, boisterous and presumptuous. Same way you claim to own the ND and even Lagos. Do we care? You push us 1 step backward, we surge 10 meters onward! Lagos is no-man's land, we say all the time! Those who claim ownership of lagos today are returnee slaves. Does [spans 19] all. We are Jews, the first people God created! And if you don't like us then you can jump into the sea. You people want to make us slaves in our own country. We are the only people who has the confidence to establish ourselves no matter where we live. kanu called his followers Slaves needing liberation. I am not IPOB, and therefore no slave nor slave master. Hope you get your acts sorted out before the war you fan blows up. The world watches, even as they watch Syria, Ivory Coast, Sudan and other war torn zones and beyond selling arms, do little. If your plan is to activate human rights bodies, remember it will be over people dead and lives destroyed. You people take the IPOB as the Whole or voice of the Igbo but that is a huge mistake because Igbo have so many of such groups. But what happened on 30th May was unique because the date touched all Biafrans. We have Ohaneze Ndigbo, the Council of elders [spans 20] IPOB. What we want is restructuring of the nation but no-one seems to listen. That is why even peace makers, those who do [spans 21] rapidly. If pushed to the wall, then war becomes inevitable. I hope that no part of Nigeria does want that! You may not be surprised, but the fact is many in Nigeria desire restructuring. I wrote a position paper on Fiscal federalism which I sent to the Confab. Politicians, who draw their sustenance and relevance from the warped federal system we run, are the real enemies. These are not significantly distinguishable on the basis of tribe or religion, but by greed. Empowering of the greedy, looters, sycophants, good for nothing, divisiveness, wastefulness, ethnic domination, etc, is what Biafra is fighting against today. Biafra has gone beyond what it was in 1967. But those who are benefiting from the chaos ravaging Nigeria will never listen. Which country in the world that produces crude oil the amount we do, is living the way Nigerians are? Restructure Nigeria, devolve power, decentralise and see if that is not the end of Biafra. Why is it that all the head offices of ministries, department and agencies are located in Abuja? Why are you ready for them? JUst leave their territory! And don't forget to leave my Yorubaland also! How can the land you have already sold to my people be called Yo-Rubber-Stamp land? You people are not even ashamed of your status in the country called Nigeria. You lick Hausa-Fulani butt! And for political advantage, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was dignifying the bluffs the empty threat of the so called Coalition of Northern Groups – a misnomer at best. Why is this Arewa Youth Council Forum of the Hausa/Fulani core North co-opting the Northern minorities who are at the receiving end of their brutality and barbarity into their ill-advised threat? They should know that there is nothing like one north one destiny any more. These core North Youth should learn to carry their cross alone. 🤓🤔😬😠😡Where were you? Igbo Biafra mad men daily insult we Yorubas calling VP Osinbajo a slave of Fulani Jihadist Christian fake RCCG pastor since 2015 ? 😈👹😈If tribalism in Igbo blood that made Azikiwe plot my grandfather Awolowo to prison 1966 does not stop 2017, we Yoruba youths will join Hausa Fulani youths push Igbos back to landlock in South East enclave. Enough is enough❗If Atiku is sincere he will not be tweeting. He will raise his voice to his people & denouce them publicly. How many of the almajaris, who will [spans 22] tweets. Go to your mosque & the different youth organisations and talk to them not by tweeting. ❓❔❓Why did Atiku's counterpart ex VP, Ndigbo ex-vice president Alex Ekwueme NOT raise his voice publicly & denounce IPOB Nnamdi Kanu Biafra threats in churches & markets of Igbo land? The igbos did not threaten any body. They said they their people should sit at home for one day. How is that a threat. 🔴 It is a threat because law says nobody can shut down territory, who is a fool to go out when police & IPOB disagree on sit at home? Why dont you send your little children to school & your wife to market so that stray bullet can decorate their heads in case IPOB vs Police riot is repeated like 2015 & 2016 ? 🔴 I put hungry lions on the road & tell people to feel free to go out, who wan die? Igbos broke the law, Fulani retaliate, do me I do you, God no go vex. Next time Igbos will know they dont have monopoly of flexing muscle, [spans 23] bandits. They do not represent anyone, but their criminal interest. For Igbo to take over SE & SS. ## Midwest creation was negotiated through parliament. Scottish independence campaign is lead by SNP in parliament, not by miscreants. Fool nobody need your south south. Oil [spans 24] yrs. keep on fooling yourself with the idea of oil wealth when wiser folks are talking of green technology and investing in that field. The police should round up biafra & arewa miscreants into sambisa forest to join your boko haram cousins. That the rest of us could leave in peace in NigeriaSo do we Edo with our Urhobo, Isoko & Itsekiri cousins. So that we could build our gelegele port ETC.300 Nigerians on death role in Asia for drug pushing & 400 in jail in South Africa for drug pushing & prostitution are Igbo. Tell me why any sane tribe will join Igbo dominated Country. The Midwest creation was orchestrated by Nnamdi Azikiwe because he hated the Yoruba! That's why in our new Yorubaland as a country, the Bini and the rest of the Edo people are on their own. We're definitely not going to absorb any of them into our new country. Gara niyen! NCNC, which Zik lead was a junior coalition partner in Balewa's government. Please stop over rating Zik who had no vote in Balewa's lead Parliament or Cabinet. My point is that campaign for Midwest was lead in Parliament, by our representatives, not on the street like biafra miscreants & criminals disturbing [spans 25] peace. Nnamdi Mazi Kanu, can you see what you cannot finish you you are about to be started. Use parliarmentary power and power of reasoning to archive Biafra republic you are desperate to have without weighing the cost. Imagine what will happen if Biafra is archived violently – this is shadow of what will happen. 🅰🅱🅰 🆚 🆖Yes 100% IPOB Kanu forced all 370 Nigerian tribes to sit at home May 30, when police said it was inconstitutional order infringing on legal rights of non-Igbo Nigerians freedom of movement in South East🆘 🗣🔪You want 370 other tribes [spans 26] here. JUst take a look at the nonsense you penned here. Fucking Yibo lunatic bearing a fake Yoruba name! North now says enough is enough there is limit of human endurance of tenant insulting landlord.7 million Igbos feed fat on Northern lands everyday. Let Igbos pay for their treason of Biafra threats against we other 370 tribes forced to sit at home against Nigerian law in Igbo land on May 30, 2017 Biafra new rebellion dayI see a nation where her children wake up and start insulting one another. In a world where [spans 27] names. To those insulting themselves have you sat down to think [spans 28] problems. When they sit are divide the nation wealth, nobody hears anything and suddenly they begin to cry foul play only when the loot is not working distributing among them. If breaking up the nation would make them wake up let it be, but not with threat. Remember in this modern day with technology at our disposal any part of the constituting region of the nation called Nigeria should be careful with what they say or do as that could be damaging when all desires are achieved. Atiku, the same offer the CIA gave you they gave to many people . stop being so gullible. The CIA [spans 29] Haram. Keeping your couch clean might have always be a struggle, especially when you have messy toddlers, distracted teenagers, a less-than-neat roommate or an untidy spouse. However, it doesn't have to be difficult to clean it, whether at home or in the office. The following simple steps, as stated on cnet.com, can help you take your sofa from its grubby state to beautiful in just an afternoon or perhaps in the weekend. The first step is to remove the cushion covers – if your couch has removable cushions. Simply unzip each cushion cover and pull it off, making sure not to pull any stuffing along with it. Most pillows are made with a sheet of white fluff called batting over a square of foam padding. Do not remove the sheet of batting. If it looks a little dirty, dab the soiled areas with a damp cloth. The dirt should come right up. If your couch doesn't have removable covers, your focus will be on spot cleaning. Just skip to the rest of the tips below. Next, turn all of the cushion covers inside out and throw them in the washing machine. Use enough detergent for a small load and skip the fabric softener. If your pillow covers have special washing instructions on their labels, be sure to follow them. If you can't find any washing instructions, set your washer to gentle cycle with a slow spin speed and warm water. Your cushion covers are somewhat delicate, so these settings are important. Otherwise, you may end up with a tear or a detached zipper when the load is done. When your cushion covers are [spans 30] dryer. It is a little too tough on the seams of the covers. Instead, let them hang somewhere to air-dry. Be sure each cover is completely dry before you put them back on the cushions to avoid the growth of mildew or mould. While the covers are washing, vacuum your couch using an upholstery attachment on your vacuum's hose. Your vacuum may have so many attachments that you're not sure which one is for upholstery. That's okay! The upholstery attachment is the one with the bush around the suction area. The brush prevents fabrics on the sofa from getting sucked into the hose. If you don't have slipcovers or you find stains on the arms and back of your couch, you'll need to spot-clean. Here are some options for spot-cleaning:For general scuffs and stains: Dampen a dishcloth and warm water. Then, dab each spot firmly, but don't rub. This will remove dust and dirt from the fibres without damaging them. For oil stains: Mix two drops of dish soap with 16 ounces of warm water. Then, spray the dingy area with the mixture, [spans 31] cloth. Before you spot-clean, test the solution you plan to use on a hidden area, such as where the fabric folds around the bottom of the frame. It's best to test an area and wait 24 hours before determining if a solution is safe, since results can take time to appear. 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<prompter> Fill in spans: Review too long to read Well just read this summary where I provide Starve Mode an overall score. My purpose has been to use stats to create a totally unbiased review that can help to provide a clear idea of whether or not you should get this product. I looked at the sales figures, the refund rate and the authority of the product's website to set up an overall idea of reliability. So, the final score is 67.43/100 – a great score! . Thanks for visiting another great review at thebloggr. The site is focused on making it possible to make a superb choice when buying something. I make sure that each and every product I review carries a 60 day refund guarantee and I also review objectively by sticking to the stats. [spans 1] forgot. I offer freebies for people who purchase via my link. You can read about all of that here. To discover how the site is funded you can click the link – my top priority is my followers and I want everything to be transparent. Now that you've done that, we can commence. To begin with, a confession. I tend to be affected by the reputation of products. If I see everyone is buying something I often go along for the ride. My reasoning? Well, if everybody wants it, it should be good, right? Of course, that's not often true but product sales could be a good proof of quality. Luckily for you, I actually have some sales information for Starve Mode. First, I have something called Gravity which comes directly from the payment processor. It provides us a rough hint of sales volume. Starve Mode has a gravity of 2.81, which is Acceptable however I'd still be cautious, you should definitely do all your research prior to buying. Now, this gravity figure probably won't mean much to you. Therefore, dear readers, I've evaluated the gravities of every product on this web site and produced a sales rank! A rank of 100 indicates it's the best selling product here . So how about Starve Mode? Basically, it receives a sales rank of 82.67, which puts it on top of the class – a thing I'd feel safe suggesting to my loyal readers at Game Tester. Starve Mode scores 3 /5 which is the average score and indicates we either don't have any refund data or the refund amount is at an acceptable level – should be OK to proceed here. All right, what else can I say to you? Well, why don't we have a look at the site that this product is sold from (starvemode.com)? There are a few stats available that will provide us witha better idea about how efficient the product is. Firstly, we know the website has 34 pages – the idea is that the more pages it has, the older and more reliable it is. So, in this case, 34 is definitely not that plenty and could mean this site is new. But, obviously, you couldn't just judge a site by the number of pages it has. They could all be useless! Instead, let's take a leaf out of Google's book and have a look at the amount of other websites that are linking in to this one. Lots of links from quality sites indicates that this one is sure to be quality too. So starvemode.com has 3 backlinks with an authority score of 23.42/100, which means it's got some links coming in, but it's still substandard (tread carefully). We're approaching the end of this review now, but I still believe there's some more data to be found. I've hunted high and low and made a list of all the other products this vendor [spans 2] now. So, it seems Starve Mode has 5 special product(s) on sale. If the late sage and legal luminary, Chief Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi, had been alive, he would have been celebrating his 80th birthday. Of course, he would have been at the forefront of battling the scourge of government failure that has plagued Nigeria for decades. The man, who came to be known simply as Gani was born on April 22, 1938 at his family home in Okedasa Street, Ondo Town. He was the only male child out of six children of his mother. His parentage was of absolute royalty as his father, late Chief Saheed Tugbobo Fawehinmi, a successful Timber merchant,Philanthropist, Seriki Musulumi of Ondo, was one of the famous sons of Late High Chief Lisa Alujannu Fawehinmi of Ondo Kingdom. His mother, Alhaja Muniratu Fawehinmi, on the other hand, was the Iya Olori Egbe Adinni of Ondo Central Mosque, [spans 3] Akinnibosun. An author, publisher, legal icon, human rights and social critics of repute, Gani was the acclaimed Senior Advocate of the Masses [spans 4] philanthropist. He started his early education in 1947 at the Ansar-ud-deen Primary School, Yemoja in Ondo, and obtained his first certificate in 1953. He proceeded to Victory College, Ikare-Ekiti in 1954 and graduated in 1958 before attending the Holborn College of Law, University of London from 1961 to 1964 as an external student. While a college student, Gani developed passionate interest in national, legal and political matters, prompting his mates to nickname him “Nation”. He was also an avid reader of books and journals, was known to love readingDaily Times and the then West African Pilot, which were the most popular newspapers in Nigeria at the time. He then worked briefly as a law clerk in the High Court of Lagos until 1961. A dark era occurred in [spans 5] university. Though he encountered a bit of financial difficulty, he managed to complete his course. He was involved in various menial jobs in London, and there developed the spirit of resilience and survival. He even took up a full time job as a toilet cleaner at Russell Square Hotel in Southampton Row, London. Gani's radical approach to life came to the fore while he was in London. It was there that he got acquainted with books of revolutionary or radical figures such as Fidel Castro, Winston Churchill, David Ben-Gurion, Gandhi, Mao Tse Tsung and Karl Marx and the likes. In 1964, he returned to Nigeria and was called to the [spans 6] (1965). He started his career with a stint at his brother, Hon Justice Rasheed Fawehinmi's law firm, before establishing his own Law Practice, Gani Fawenmi & Co in Lagos. Gani Fawehinmi became a holder of the highest national legal title in September 2001 as Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Always standing [spans 7] wife. He stood for Abashe on pro bono (free), refusing all entreaties to drop the case, and at the end of the day, the legal process forced Obeya to resign. However, Fawehinmi was detained for nine months. The publicity of the case catapulted him to the level of total exposure and prominence. Gani continued to grow in leaps and bounds in the legal profession, and by 1971, he was made the National Publicity Secretary of the Nigeria Bar Association. His rising profile was not without a backlog – in 1981, he was queried by a disciplinary committee and told to explain himself within fourteen days why he was touting himself through advertisements in a weekly publication contrary to the ethics of the bar. In the case, Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) v. The judgment led to an amendment of the Legal Practitioners' Act 1975. Though he won that one, he was soon to run afoul of an NBA directive in 1984, when the NBA under the presidency of Bola Ajibola directed its members not to represent any client in a military tribunal. Fawehinmi flouted the directive because he believed the accused should be always have a right to fair hearing. As a result, his name was placed in NBA's dishonour roll. He saw as this as a price he had to pay to keep his dreams alive. He was not only dishing out lip service for the downtrodden, he followed it up with the institution of a scholarships and welfare activities. In 1971, he established Scholarships Award and awarded scholarships from then till his death on Saturday September 5, 2009. It is no wonder therefore that he was awarded the Senior Advocate of Masses Obafemi Awolowo University in 1988. Among other of his awards are [spans 8] 1996. As a result of his human and civil right crusade, Gani was at various times arrested – 40 times in all, detained, had his passport seized by security agencies on seven different occasions and had his books confiscated. He was also on several occasions charged to court from between 1969 and 1996 under the then Federal Military Government Regimes. He was deported from Port-Harcourt, Rivers State to Lagos State within the Federal Republic of Nigeria soil by the then Abacha's Regime on August [spans 9] kind. He was a scourge of oppressive governments and hard zero tolerance for human rights abuse. In the course of the many persecutions he suffered, his library at Surulere was set ablaze. His law Chambers at Anthony Village, was invaded by persons suspected to be agents of [spans 10] aftermath. He was also called in many quarters the people's presidentIt is said that when good men keep quiet, the evil men are enthroned, and evil thrives. Consequently, Gani found it absolutely necessary to [spans 11] governments. In 2002, with some other notable Nigerians, he formed the National Conscience Party of Nigeria (NCP) which is still in existence today, and contested the presidential election in 2003 under its umbrella. Until his death, he was the Seriki Musulumi of Ondo Kingdom, married and blessed with two wives and 14 children. Gani, who has the most voluminous biography of over 4,300 pages, reportedly dedicated his whole life to the defence of human rights and condemnation of all ill-fated government policies. He also fought the military junta to a standstill. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in September 2001 after years of denial. One of the most interesting aspect if Gani was his no holds barred attitude when it comes to speaking the truth. In sympathizing with former President Obasanjo on the death of his wife and Bellview plane crash both in 2005, he turned around and lambasted the President for his government of ineptitude, especially as it relates to Nigeria's health system. A part of his condolence message read:“The events of Saturday and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd October, 2005 which have thrown the country into mourning should never be allowed to repeat themselves. We do not want another plane crash and if you bring in another wife before you constitutionally quit office on 29th May 2007, please do not allow her to go for a cosmetic surgery for beautification again. We cannot afford another death of the President's wife in Aso Rock.”“The disappearance of Charles Taylor from Nigerian soil is a humiliating disgrace to Nigeria. Obasanjo must explain why this happened.” “There is nothing new in the speech. It is the same old wine in new bottles. It's a disappointing statement. In fact it is a disastrous speech.” “I'm not surprised at this result, I'm saddened, not surprised. This government will do anything to keep its power by deceiving the people.” “This is incredible. This gives us hope that something good will begin to happen soon.” In 2008, against all expectation, Gani rejected the Order of the Federal Republic honours; the highest national honour that could be bestowed on a private citizen, in protest of years of misrule. Chinua Achebe was another Nigerian who rejected national honours. He died in the early hours of September 5, 2009 after a prolonged battle with lung cancer at the age of [spans 12] Ondo. It will not be out of place to say that Gani Fawehinmi died a disappointed man, because the dream country he constantly clamoured and fought for was never achieved at the time of his death. I know, I know, it is the practically the middle of the month and I am finally getting back on the job! [spans 13] Thinking. Thinking about where I want to take my business and my blog. Thinking about how to make both better! Thinking about how I can help you make your world look beautiful in a concise, informative and fun way. Thank you again for your continued support – tell all your friends: 2011 is going to be a BIG year! ! ! ! Growing up on the outskirts of town in the heart of North Dakota, there are things that bring on the sweet pang of nostalgia for me that might [spans 14] some. Hank Williams voice calls up memories of learning how to waltz with my dad. The drawl of an auctioneer sounds like home. So this week, with the looming fear of graduation and the “real world” feeling particularly strong, I figured I would write a review about one of the albums that has been serving as a sort of musical security blanket. The SteelDrivers are a hybrid of bluegrass and soul, combining all of the crowd-pleasing qualities of dirty bluegrass (quick tempos, rollicking fiddle, and twangy vocals) whilst [spans 15] genre. I had the pleasure of seeing The SteelDrivers perform at the Winnipeg Folk Festival and was impressed at their flawless harmonies, technical capability, and truly humble stage presence. Hammer Down, their junior release, truly shows off their affinity for heart-wrenching harmonies, lyrical intensity, and thumping instrumentals that would inspire anyone to kick up their heels. The album starts off with “Shallow Grave,” a catchy tune with hard-hitting violin and a story of a love lost. The tracks continue to progress in their theme of what one might call “dysfunctional” relationships. The theme culminates in the darkest song on the album, “I'll Be There.” The piece is an exploration into a sound that is unquestionably different from the rest of their work and shows their capability to add depth, to evolve. This melancholy tune showcases Gary Nichols' soulful voice as he croons, “I'll be the words stuck in your head, over and over the last ones you've said.” It is the vengeful and foreboding story of a lover that promises to haunt, to never be forgotten. Tammy Rogers' violin line works in tandem with the lyrics, taking on the presence of the lingering lover, as she plays what sounds like a devil's dance. It should come as no surprise that John Paul White, part of the duo “The Civil Wars,” was a co-writer on this piece. Although this album could be characterized as considerably heavy, with heartbreak and revenge as its main themes, it isn't all doom and gloom for Hammer Down. The SteelDrivers drive home upbeat tunes like “Wearin' A Hole” that could put any good old boy into a wistful mood as Nichols and Rogers sing, “I'm wearin' a hole in a honky tonk floor, I like the feel of my heels sliding over the boards.” “Hell on Wheels” is a quick-paced, feverish song that could have anyone doing a Texas two-step as they hear the story of [spans 16] wild. The album overall is controlled, technically sound, [spans 17] evocative. What's more is that it is honest and pure, a quality that I crave more than anything in the [spans 18] to. Ongama Mtimka chairs the board of Isidima Development Council which seeks to advance socioeconomic transformation in the Eastern Cape. South Africa's deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed his availability to contest the presidency of the governing ANC at its 54th national conference later this year. He has already secured the endorsement of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Cosatu). He failed in his bid to lead the party once before. Twenty years ago his comrades Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma were chosen ahead of him for the top two jobs at the party's 1997 Mafikeng Conference. If his dream is going to be realised this time he is going to have to take on a major task of convincing ANC branches of his suitability. Ramaphosa will need a restoration and renewal narrative to convince them. He'll need to show he has a plan to rebuild the party, and inspire its cadres sitting on the side-lines to join in his renewal efforts. If successful, he will need to switch immediately to election campaigning mode. The country goes to the polls in 2019 and he will have to do [spans 19] support. For South Africans at large, he will need to show how the ANC as a brand can reclaim its sentimental and inspirational traits to warrant their trust. These tasks seem insurmountable when one considers the extent of damage done to the party since Zuma's rise to power was solidified at the ANC's bitterly divisive Polokwane conference in 2007. But Ramaphosa has faced seemingly insurmountable tasks of building organisations in challenging times before. He has also served in various international organisations and has been a member of teams appointed to help countries in transition. Born on November 17 1952, Ramaphosa is from a generation I regard as the agitators in the struggle for South Africa's liberation. Inspired by Steve Biko, among others, this generation – born in the early 40s to late 60s – injected greater momentum to the fight against apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s. As a young person Ramaphosa was an active member of the erstwhile Student Christian Movement (SCM) at Sekano-Ntoane High School in Soweto. His evangelical experience cannot be understated in the task that confronts him now. Much like the biblical character Nehemiah, his task is to inspire a dejected and hopeless people [spans 20] vision. That will not be a new experience for Ramaphosa. As historian Anthony Butler writes, while pursuing standard nine and ten at Mphaphuli High School in his parents' village of Sibasa in Venda, he built a stronger SCM within a short time. This was after he was elected to its leadership in the first year of his arrival. The same happened when he went to study at the then University of the North (now University of Limpopo). The SCM was weak and seen by some as [spans 21] domination. Rhamaphosa worked tirelessly with Frank Chikane and others to turn it into a vibrant organisation. [spans 22] banned. Ramaphosa's claim to fame, however, is the work he did in founding the National [spans 23] 1980s. The NUM operated under the auspices of the Council of Unions of South Africa. Until then, attempts to unite mineworkers and fight for their representation in the mines had failed. The fact that Ramaphosa was able to build a union in a mining industry fraught with ethnic politics, worker fragmentation and a history of state-sanctioned exploitation attests to his organisation building capabilities. This is especially so considering that he had never worked on the mines himself. Ramaphosa's colourful leadership continued over the next three decades across various settings. He became the ANC's chief negotiator during the country's transition from apartheid to democracy, beating ANC president Oliver Tambo's protégé, Thabo Mbeki, to the position. Ramaphosa became the secretary general of the ANC at its 1991 National Conference in Durban after out-campaigning Zuma. He was [spans 24] NUM. As the chief negotiator of the ANC he managed the negotiating committee. He showed great leadership, alongside the National Party's counterpart Roelf Meyer when the talks broke down. Cyril Ramaphosa holds the newly signed South African Constitution as President Nelson Mandela looks on. ReutersRamaphosa became a member of parliament in 1994 and headed the constitutional assembly which drew up the final constitution of the republic. This was finally approved – to international acclaim – in 1996. But after his crushing defeat by Mbeki to the post of deputy president in 1997 Ramaphosa went into business but maintained some involvement in politics. He was to make a sterling return 15 years later when he was elected ANC deputy president in 2012 at the 53rd National Conference in Mangaung. Ramaphosa was among the first beneficiaries of the first wave of equity-based black economic empowerment deals in 1997. In partnership with medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist Nthato Motlana he joined New African Investment Limited. From those early beginnings he was to form Shanduka Group, an unlisted entity with interests in resources, energy, real estate, banking, insurance and telecommunications. He also chaired a number of South Africa's largest companies, such as Bidvest Group and MTN and held non-executive board positions of others such as Standard Bank and SABMiller. His most controversial role was as a non-executive member of the mining group Lonmin's board. Shanduka was a minority shareholder in Lonmin, which owned the mine in Marikana where 34 miners were shot by police in 2012. Ramaphosa has the leadership experience to salvage the ANC and become a great president with a wide range of skills. He has the potential to restore hope at the top of the ANC following a period of mediocrity and scandal. However, while he has a chance in convincing ANC members of his potential, the broader South African public will be even harder to convince. Firstly, as a key player at Lonmin, Ramaphosa is seen as having failed to improve the working conditions of the mineworkers he fought for in the 1980s. Secondly, his relationship with Zuma, whom he has served as deputy president, has led to some awkward questions. Until last year he appeared to be complacent – or actively defended – Zuma even as the president became more deeply embroiled in alleged corruption scandals. This silence was evident even when Zuma [spans 25] creating. It may be that Ramaphosa has the restoration and renewal narrative – as well as the organisational building skills and tenacity – to turn his own fate and that of the ANC around, but it's going to be a ‘long walk' as he put it. 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This article is based on my professional experience working with new parents in the communities which I lovingly serve (San Antonio, Texas USA and its surrounding rural areas). ​ It's possible that other parts of the US or other countries have different models of healthcare than the relationships represented in this article (pediatricians, midwives, general practice doctors and lactation consultants). ​The thoughts shared below are based on my experiences with the referral of mothers and babies to their healthcare professionals when clinical scenarios present to me during lactation consultations. In order to prevent bias toward any genre of providers, no [spans 4] business. ​My hope is that the following thoughts are insightful to parents seeking to build life-long relationships with providers who support them and their babies. One of the most important things that expectant parents can do is choose their baby's doctor well before their sweet baby arrives. Many parents don't realize that they don't have to wait until their insurance company or hospital provides them with a list of pediatricians (a list not usually given to parents until after baby is born). In fact, by doing their homework about doctors [spans 5] them. Your pregnancy (or your baby's gestation, if you are adopting) has given you a few [spans 6] health. If you haven't already talked to your partner or other support person [spans 7] time. Educating yourself about health topics and defining your health values will prove very important to choosing your baby's doctor. Your health values are those things [spans 8] family. For example, when it comes to babies some families will discuss vaccinations, circumcision, the family's diet, a [spans 9] discipline/behavior. Once you and your partner or support person have talked about what is most important, it will be easier to ask your friends and community for referrals to providers who will support you (much more about about how to do this in just a bit). Choose your baby's providers based on their ability to support all of your family's health goals, not just one or two of your health goals. AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT: All too often parents are disappointed upon discovering suddenly that their pediatrician isn't as like-minded as they believed (and this disappointment can go both ways since providers also want patients who are like-minded), and usually that is because the pediatrician was chosen based on only one or a few shared health values, or was chosen last-minute. For example, the pediatrician who is unconditionally supportive of one health value may not support or be knowledgable about another one. Getting to know your baby's doctor prenatally gives both you and your baby's doctor the opportunity to see if you are a good fit for each other. LAURA'S NOTE: Doctors care just as much as parents do about whether or not a family is a fit with their practice values. It's important to know that doctors are able to ask that parents with differing views on health values seek care from other providers if a family's health values request that a doctor practice outside of their practice protocols. TALK ABOUT IT: Know also that just because a doctor may not share your exact health values doesn't mean that they may not be a good overall fit with your family. It's important to choose a doctor who is easy to talk to and can make you feel like a partner in your baby's care in cases where more conversations are needed about a particular health topic or value. THINK AHEAD: It's important to choose [spans 10] adolescence. Ideally, because breastfeeding is still relatively new to our chapter in humanity and wellness practices, in addition to the health topics discussed [spans 11] skills. If your doctor or midwife is not also an International Board Certified [spans 12] guidance. IBCLCs are breastfeeding experts who help troubleshoot and improve breastfeeding and will provide information about your baby's feeds which is helpful to doctors. Remember, you doctor or midwife doesn't have to be a breastfeeding expert, but knowing who to refer you to when a breastfeeding expert is needed is an important aspect to consider when choosing a provider for your baby. In the same way that parents who deliver with a midwife prepare a Plan B for birth (in case of a hospital transfer) there is wisdom, too, in asking your midwife for referrals in selecting a doctor just in case your baby needs one during the early days. Midwives can be an excellent referral source for families seeking like-minded physicians. In fact, there are two points when families who see midwives [spans 13] doctor. Remember that selecting a doctor for your baby "just in case" won't mean that your baby won't continue seeing your midwife for their healthy and normal newborn care. It simply means is that you will be prepared when your midwife is ready to transfer your baby's healthcare to a doctor. • Emergency Rooms: Not being registered with a doctor's practice can cause parents to be routed to a hospital emergency room for their [spans 14] treatment. Being registered with a doctor (yes, this could involve taking baby in at least once to the doctor's office so that there is an established patient-provider relationship) would allow parents to be able to call their doctor in cases or non-emergencies, instead of being seen at an emergency room for non-emergencies. ​ Most doctors who have not yet seen baby at least once will not offer medical advice over the phone, and will refer families to emergency rooms. ​ • Other Providers: Other healthcare providers often require families to be on-record with a physician in case clinical situations arise during their care for which a report or a referral is necessary. For example, speech pathologists and lactation consultants are examples of healthcare professionals who work with babies who may require that a baby have a doctor. ASK AROUND: One of the best ways to choose a provider who is supportive of your wellness and breastfeeding goals is to ask friends and family members who they have been supported by. MAKE A "SHORT LIST": Now that you have asked around and [spans 15] about. Calling the office to schedule a prenatal consult can give you an idea of how welcoming or helpful their office staff is, which is an important point to ponder. ​VISIT THEM: Many providers are very willing to meet with expectant parents (this is often free or covered by health insurance or public health coverage). These meetings serve as a "Question & Answer" session for both parents and providers. ASK [spans 16] breastfeeding. ​Below are are some questions (mostly about breastfeeding, but can be insightful for all parents) to ask your baby's doctor. Remember, the only "right" answers to these questions are the answers that most closely match your family's health values. Do you have a board -certified lactation consultant who you regularly refer to when families need expert breastfeeding support? ​​LAURA'S NOTE: I have met exceptional general practioners andfamily medicine doctors, HOWEVER, in San Antonio, where I live, these providers don't usually see newborns or babies (although a few do see them regularly). Because of this, it's always a good idea to ask how many babies the general practice or family practice provider sees regularly. This is an important question to ask, especially in urban areas where general practitioners and family medicine doctors see mostly older children and adults. Not all doctors see their own patients during hospital admissions. Many private doctors use the hospitals' doctors (called "hospitalists") to assess their patients and send them reports. Is it important for you to be seen by the same provider at every visit? Many practices have multiple providers which can be attractive to some parents, yet overwhelm others. What services does your provider offer (do they do urgent care/same-day apps. do they have a lab on-site, etc)? Remember that you will be seeing your baby's doctor during your baby's first days, first months, throughout their first year-and of course, every single time you have a medical question or concern about your baby. Needless to say, your baby's doctor will be a very big part of your baby's life (and of yours) so taking the time to choose them wisely will be one of the most important choices you will make for your baby's future health! Sharing is caring! Please share or print this article for educational purposes, but please do not copy/paste or take any parts of it as your own. Medieval Cardiff Castle may have been built by the Normans and last invaded in the 1640s but Britain's security services have had to reinforce it for the NATO summit amidst concerns Islamic fundamentalists may attempt an attack. 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<human>: More words: What exactly is the problem that Roger Olson has with Molinism? Answer: it collapses into determinism. But it isn't clear what he means by “determinism.” His concept is ambiguous, and he seems to acknowledge this when he says, “if middle knowledge does not imply determinism, it does convey that (our) lives are predetermined.” So there seems to be two senses of what he means for something to be (pre)determined: one is with respect to being causally necessitated to act; the second is with respect to being fated to act according to some preordained plan. In Olson's mind, the distinction makes no difference, because both senses are sufficient for what he finds problematic with middle knowledge: God is able to use it to render our actions certain. Once God does that, he says, “then determinism is at the door if not in the living room and that is inconsistent with Arminianism's basic impulses.”How should Molinists reply? First, they should deny that middle knowledge entails both causal determinism and theological fatalism. Second, they should argue that the property of being rendered certain is not problematic if the objects of God's knowledge, that is, the propositions about what free creatures would do in various worlds, are grounded ... what free creatures would do. Third, they should maintain that God's use of middle knowledge is benevolent, because God is benevolent. Let us turn to the first matter. Contrary to what notable theologians like Bruce Ware believe, it is not the case that middle knowledge is consistent with the standard view of freedom assumed by ... compatibilism. Compatibilism is the idea that human freedom is compatible with determinism. That is to say, one's actions can be free even if they are the outcome of a causal process that began before one was born. That is just what Calvinists mean by their ... all things. And this is not compatible with middle knowledge. Why not? The answer lies in what “middle knowledge” is about, what sort of knowledge it is “in the middle” of: God's natural knowledge and ... free knowledge. God's free knowledge consists of his knowledge of all truths about what will happen, and ... God has it comes “after” he decides to create the world. God's ... is, all the truths about what could happen, and the logical “moment” when God has it comes “before” he decides to create. Middle knowledge lies between God's natural and free knowledge: it is knowledge of all the truths about what would happen if God were to create the world Therefore, it is posterior to natural knowledge, but prior to free knowledge. That's why it's called “middle ... this is what it is about: God's knowledge of what people would freely do if God were to create a world that is feasible for him to create. We say “feasible” because there ... possible worlds that God cannot actualize such as the ones where the Adam doesn't fall or Peter doesn't deny Christ; these ... be sure, but given the facts of the matter, Adam and Peter choose otherwise and so determine what sorts of worlds are available for creation. Bill Craig (2011) illustrates how it all looks this way:The main point to remember is that the kind of freedom people have in this view is libertarian freedom—it is not compatibilistic. Truths about what people could do with compatibilistic freedom are part of God's natural knowledge, because it is about what is possible within the constraints of God's decree and the laws of nature he ordains. Middle knowledge presupposes contingent truths about what people would do with libertarian freedom; therefore, there is no middle knowledge if compatibilism is true. Theologians like Ware who argue otherwise are just confused about what middle knowledge entails. But doesn't middle knowledge entail theological fatalism? No. Fatalism is true only if one cannot do otherwise, but there is nothing in middle knowledge that implies that we cannot. I have written about the fatalistic argument elsewhere, but it will suffice to say that any argument for the incompatibility of God's foreknowledge and libertarian freedom is such that, if one of them is true, then Arminianism is false. ## Interestingly enough, both Calvinists and Open Theists agree that God's foreknowledge and libertarian freedom are incompatible. Since, this is contrary to the assumptions of Arminianism, Olson should agree that this line of attack is unjustified. But didn't God render ... certain by the use of his middle knowledge? If we mean by “rendering ... establish the fact that some event will be the case (though not necessarily the case), and by “using middle knowledge to do so” we mean appealing to foreknowledge about which contingent events ... were create our world, then the answer is ‘yes. ' What is supposed to follow from this? Olson makes his main point:That use of middle knowledge, providentially to render the fall ... of God that makes the fall not only part of God's consequent will but also part of his antecedent will. And, as everyone knows and agrees, the distinction between God's consequent will and God's antecedent will is crucial to Arminianism's argument that God is not the author of sin and evil. God uses middle knowledge to render the Fall certain only if God has a plan that makes the Fall a part of his antecedent will (premise). If God has a plan that makes the Fall a part of his antecedent will, then God is the author of evil (premise). Of course (5) is an unacceptable result contrary to the assumptions of Arminianism. What to make of this argument? Certainly, it ... but are all of its premises true? I think not. There is no good reason to believe premise (1) is true, and one good reason to believe it is false. That is to say, there is no reason why a Molinist could not affirm that God's antecedent will is for unbroken fellowship with us, but that he consequently wills our obedience to be a condition of that fellowship. Why couldn't then God ordain a world where everyone obeys? Well, it is possible that there is no such ... create, that is, human beings go wrong in every world where God desires a meaningful relationship with them. This is the heart of Alvin Plantinga's famous Free-Will Defense, and even if we reject the particulars of Plantinga's famous argument (the possibility of transworld depravity), it does not necessarily follow that the worlds in which God seeks to accomplish his goals, like building lasting relationships with his creatures, are all without sin. Therefore, Olson's ... fails. A concern: what grounds the fact of the matter concerning Adam and Eve's decision to disobey? This was forcefully brought up by one of Olson's readers who noted that the truth value of counterfactuals of creaturely freedoms must be explanatorily posterior to the creature's free choices. As he remarks “this is a huge problem for Molinism because the providential usefulness of middle knowledge is predicated on its being explanatorily *prior* to actual creaturely choices.” What this means is that God knows a libertarian free choice of a creature only if the choice is determined by the creature; it cannot be the case that God knows it ... in an a priori fashion. Thus Molinism is internally inconsistent, and Olson couldn't agree more. I think this worry is unfounded. Molinists like Alfred Freddoso and Tom Flint have developed a response that preserves the a posteriority of God's knowledge concerning the choices of free creatures that do not exist. From (1) we can deduce that there was a time when God knew what Adam and Eve would do, and if God knows our days before we exist (Psalm 139:16), ... and Eve would do before they exist. Both Molinists and most anti-Molinists agree (save Open Theists). Now call the world we inhabit Alpha:2. From (2) we can deduce that God knows what Adam and Eve would do if he were to create Alpha (the world in which we now inhabit). But Molinists and anti-Molinists like Olson disagree! Why? If it is because knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom must be explanatorily posterior to actual creaturely free choices, then there is nothing in (2) that denies this. If Adam and Eve's existence is required for their choices to be known, then how is it that from ... can deduce that there was a time when God knew what Adam and Eve would do before they were made? I suspect that we can't, and that would help explain why Olson's reader wrote what he wrote—he is an Open Theist afterall. ... and Arminians like Olson aren't, so it seems that this critique from our Open Theist friend proves too much; if it is true, it undermines Arminianism altogether. How, then, does God use middle knowledge for providential advantage? Take for example the case of the atonement. Let us cite Acts 2:23 and 4:27-28 ... explained:This man was handed over to you by God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. Indeed ... together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against (Y)our holy servant Jesus, whom (Y)ou anointed. They did what (Y)our power and will had decided beforehand should happen. The standard Calvinist interpretation of these passages is to explain away the “tension” between human freedom and God's sovereignty with an appeal to compatibilism. On Molinism, it is by virtue of their middle knowledge that each member of Godhead knew what we would do if the Father sent the ... the Father sent him anyway so as to make it possible for us to share in the love and fellowship of the triune God. The “tension” between God's sovereignty and our responsibility disappears in a way that it doesn't on Calvinism, because on Calvinism it is utterly mysterious how we remain responsible (or even obstinate (Acts 7:29)), for our sins even though they are determined by events long before we were even born (for an extended argument along these lines, see McCall, 2012). The way God uses middle knowledge for his providential advantage, then, is that in light of what he knows about what would happen with specific people in specific circumstances, God decides to create just those people and just those circumstances to freely carry out what God intends (for more see Craig's essay in Jowers et al. This makes Olson worried. But why? He tells a story that is supposed to represent the problem:Suppose I know one of my students so well that I know (beyond any possibility of being wrong) that if I suggest he read a certain book he will misunderstand the subject of our ... to fail it. Without the book, he would pass the course. I suggest he read the book. Why? Well, perhaps because I need someone to fail the course. I don't grade on a curve and the dean is worried that I am not upholding academic standards. All my students pass with flying colors. My career is in jeopardy as is the academic credibility of the school. So I use my middle knowledge of the student's dispositions and inclinations to bring it about infallibly that he fails the course. Nothing I did took away his free will. ... the book voluntarily (no external coercion was used, only inducement). In the form of a rhetorical question, Olson says that it is obvious who is responsible for the student failing the course. What to make of this? The worry here is that God could ... his middle knowledge. But there is an obvious response to this: God is not so cruel to be manipulative for malevolent ends, nor is he so foolish to rob us of our moral responsibility by making himself an object of moral blame. Yes, it's true: if God abused his middle knowledge like this, he would not be good. But God is good, and the bare possibility of abuse (if that is possible for God! ) does not negate the use. To conclude, I think Olson's objections against the compatibility of middle knowledge and ... fail. But whatever we might think of his objections, we should embrace and take comfort in God's providence over all things. While God's omnipotence may be a cause for ... a comfort to be found in a love so ... fear (1 John 4:18). It does not matter if God's providence is “meticulous” (an ambiguous term to say the least); it matters whether his providence is loving. I suspect there is an aversion to “meticulous” providence because today's Calvinists so readily underemphasize God's universal love for all people; the idea that God might use it to give everyone “optimal grace” is foreign to the modern Christian (see Blanchette and Walls, 2013). Molinism can help subvert that. But there may be more to it than a tired debate between Calvinists and Arminians; we may not like the idea of God being in charge at all. In that case, it is worth echoing the Reformed philosopher Jamie Smith when he says, “How tragic that Christians are so captive to the spirit of the age that proclamation of God's sovereignty is no ... <bot>: words 1: by words 2: most Calvinists: words 3: appeal to God's “absolute sovereignty” over words 4: his words 5: the logical “moment” when words 6: natural knowledge consists of all possibilities, that words 7: knowledge,” and words 8: are words 9: are possible worlds, to words 10: the Fall words 11: something certain” to words 12: would occur if God words 13: certain, necessarily implies a plan in the mind words 14: is deductively valid, words 15: world feasible for God to words 16: argument words 17: without the creature's existence words 18: then God knows what Adam words 19: (1) we words 20: But Arminius wasn't words 21: (NIV) as the data of Scripture to be words 22: Herod and Pontius Pilate met words 23: Son, and yet words 24: course and go on words 25: He read words 26: do bad things with words 27: Arminianism words 28: fear, there is words 29: perfect that it drives out words 30: longer heard as comfort” (from Twitter)

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Founder's Day led the week off with workshops from founders & investors sharing their knowledge about what it takes to build successful IoT businesses. Topics discussed ranged from Becoming a Global Business to Going Public vs. Being Acquired, to foundational business practices like When to Pivot and Raising Capital. Last year's Innovation of Things Award winner, Reality AI, shared their insights on the changing landscape of artificial intelligence (A. and how their business has grown over since last year's conference. All valuable lessons for those who attended. Over the remaining two days of the conference, more than 25 global startups choose to pitch in front of investors who represented five different [spans 2] categories. The competition brought light to which verticals of IoT are [spans 3] disrupt. Each group was allowed one winner selected by the investor judges, who would go on to compete for a spot on the final stage. The winners for the hard-fought semifinals included:Following much discussion from the judges, only three were named as finalists who then headed to the main stage for their last pitch-off. With only one round of pitches to go, the finalists gave their last presentation of the week with the winner named shortly after. mbientLabs, who builds a wireless sensing platform for R&D primarily used in sports rehab, therapy, clinical trials, and [spans 4] research. The platform includes motion, environment, and biosensors that are seamlessly integrated into garments. VINChain, who has created a worldwide decentralized database of vehicle information that is 100% transparent, reliable and accessible by everyone. This database is blockchain based, which guarantees that information on it has not been faked, changed or deleted. The blockchain guarantees full transparency and builds trust in the system. The 2018 IoT World Conference & Project Kairos were exciting shows yet again, and I'm looking forward to what innovations come because of it. See everyone next year! It was a depressing foggy winter's evening as I glanced at my watch, wondering why my husband was so late home from work. Some time later I discovered to my dismay that his train had been delayed because of a fatality on the railway line and it appeared that this was no accident. Unfortunately this has not been an isolated incident over the years and now, as the festive season comes to an end and we enter a new year, I have been reflecting on the statistics which will be released [spans 5] 2011. A recent report has found that men under the age of 35 accounted for 40% of all suicides, 527 people died by suicide in the Republic of Ireland in 2010 and Northern Irish suicides have risen by a staggering 64% in the last decade. But, horrific [spans 6] act. I have also been thinking on Biblical examples of the Lord's servants who went though low times in their lives. David clearly reveals this in many of his psalms and Job is a prime example of someone who has gone through so much that he feels despair for a time – but praise God for His goodness to these two men and His love for all mankind today! Ultimately David and Job triumphed over their respective situations, because their hope was in the Holy One of Israel. In the words of Job: “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh [spans 7] lifetime. While most of his ‘comforters' became his accusers, God loved Job; he was victorious in the end – and today is rejoicing eternally with his Saviour. Yes, God loved Job, He loved David and He loves you and I – whatever giant despair threatens to overwhelm us. Surely love is the answer? Bereavement, loss, being diagnosed with a serious illness and many other issues can all contribute to an individual's depressive feelings but when we know that we are truly loved and cared for, it can change our whole perspective on life. Today, [spans 8] . God loves you! Although you may feel that no one on this earth loves you – you [spans 9] you. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, [spans 10] you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (1John 14v27)These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ to all who have repented of their sins and who have put their trust in Him. Yes, it may be good to talk to a professional counsellor when one is feeling low, but surely the best Counsellor of all is He who loved you enough to give His very life for you? At this moment, if you do not know Him as Saviour, I would urge you to trust in Him for salvation. Your prayer can be a simple one, in your own words . “Dear Heavenly Father, forgive me for all sins I have ever committed. Please come into my life and take over my problems – I entrust them all into your care.”If, however, you do know Jesus as Saviour today and like Job, you are facing some deep waters – ask the Lord to turn this testing time into something positive and wonderful. Whatever happens, be assured of this . “For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.” (Hebrews 13v14) Remember too, if you are a Christian to reach out prayerfully in His love to souls around you, for who knows what turmoil your neighbour or that fellow traveller who stands beside you daily on the railway platform is going through . It is hard to believe that seven years have now passed since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake which occurred on Sunday, December 26, 2004. ‘Tsunami', a Japanese word, originally meant ‘a large wave in a harbour', but is now used to describe the most destructive of all waves. Unlike other waves, it is caused by neither the influence of moon or sun – but by a giant disturbance under the sea, which may [spans 11] case). As coincidence would have it, my reading was in Revelation when this disaster struck. Earthquakes are mentioned more in this final book of the Bible, than in any other, and are very much associated with the end times. Jesus tells us in Matthew 24v7&8: “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. And these are the beginning of sorrows.”As the months and years of our ageing universe pass, we know from God's Word that there will be more and more earthquakes in ‘diverse places. ' In the latter times, our earth will suffer the most violent tremors ever experienced in the history of mankind. Those of [spans 12] . every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.”As the terrible story of the Tsunami unfolded, so too did many stories of heroism and fortitude. I read a newspaper report of one young girl, a tourist in the region, who saw and recognised the signs of the Tsunami before it struck. Being a student of [spans 13] catastrophe. The result was that she raised the alarm within the little area where she happened to be at the time, and was able to save the lives of at least one hundred people. Surely, we too, as Christians, need to be well read in God's Word? His will for us is that we should know the warning signs that accompany the times we live in, and be prepared to warn those souls around us to “flee from the wrath to come. I am sure that it took courage for this young girl to shout the warnings to the formidable adults around her. It takes much courage for us also, to visit our neighbours, and warn them of the things that we have gleaned from God's Word. But proclaim it we must, going in His strength, for Jesus tells us: “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, [spans 14] heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. And in Mark 8v38 we learn that . “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh [spans 15] knows. “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would have not have suffered his house to be broken up. The Tsunami ‘came as a thief. ' [spans 16] them. Those masses of people who checked in at airports during the pre-Christmas rush would have made excellent preparation for their holidays. Perhaps weeks, even [spans 17] lives. How much more should we anticipate and be prepared for “the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord! ” (Mal. “Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. Some day that curse upon our earth shall be removed, and terrible events like Tsunamis shall be no more, for we read: “And there shall be no more curse; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them [spans 18] ever. And so, this life is but for a season, but the years of eternity are indeed “for ever and ever.” Without the Lord, those ages of eternity are too awful to contemplate, for we read: “And whosoever was not found in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. To those who know Him, He says: “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. So long as we are followers of Jesus, and “Walk in the Spirit,” (Gal.5v16) this day and all our tomorrows belong to Him. To those who do not know Him, He says: “Behold I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.3v20). “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. “He which testifieth of these things saith, ‘Surely I come quickly,' Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus. May God bless His precious words to the hearts of [spans 19] recently. After a week of speculation on Ireland's budget/austerity measures; the initial reluctance of some banks to pass on lowered interest rates to mortgage holders – and a weakening Euro, it is so easy to become pre-occupied with how all of this could affect us as individuals. Then I turned to the simple and very beautiful words of Jesus in Matthew 6v28 . “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”I also think of His words earlier in the chapter: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6v19-21)Recently I learned from an elderly friend that many of her acquaintances were worried about the whole financial situation here in Ireland- so much so that they had taken their entire life-savings out of the banks and hidden it below the floorboards of their homes! I can only imagine all of the things that could happen to those bank notes; mice love to gnaw on paper for one thing and as for thieves – almost every house in my own neighbourhood has been broken into at some time or other. My [spans 20] gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.” (1Tim.6v6-8) Yes, there is much to be learned from the lilies of the field and the birds of the air! At the same time Christians, if they are asked for an opinion, must declare their opposition to the corruption that exists in their countries. I think again on those words which made Nehemiah angry . “We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.” (Nehemiah 5v3) How I admire the faith and determination of Nehemiah who looked to his Lord for provision and for guidance in all that he undertook; in the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls, and how marvellous that this practice of usury was reformed, under the Lord's direction! Yes, those who love the Lord currently live in an uncertain and corrupt world where honesty and [spans 21] brightly. In the words of Paul to the Philippians: “That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in [spans 22] remain. In the words of Jesus: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.” (Matthew 6v24)My prayer is that souls in our spiritually dark world would be touched and turn to the Lord because of the riches of love, joy, peace and uprightness that they witness in the lives of those who are His followers. Rent 4-room apartment in Moscow for $5,400 (m. Prechistenka, 40 - 2) - id 21479 (with photo)Spacious quality apartment with 3 bedrooms, fire place, AC system.1 parking lot in the underground. The Money Moves contest on REAL 96.1 is back! Your chance to win $1,000 starts every weekday at 7AM on REAL 96.1!. <bot>: spans 1: and company spotlight at that 2019 IoT World spans 2: IoT spans 3: being challenged by startups looking to spans 4: medical spans 5: for spans 6: statistics aside, I feel dismay at the thought of the mental anguish that each individual soul must be suffering to commit such an spans 7: shall I see God:” (Job 19v25&26)Job faced more tragedy in a short space of time than most people could physically face over a spans 8: whoever you are, wherever you are and whatever your problems are, you can be certain of this one fact spans 9: can be sure of God's love for spans 10: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3v16)Jesus said: “Peace I leave with you, my peace give I unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto spans 11: be either a volcanic eruption or an earthquake (as in this spans 12: us in western Europe, to date, have had very little experience of earthquakes, and yet, some day every nation of the world will be affected by that great earthquake mentioned in Rev.16v18: “And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.” In Verse 20 of this chapter we learn that: “ spans 13: geography, she was well read in this particular phenomenon, and knew the tell-tale signs of approaching spans 14: him will I confess also before my Father which is in spans 15: in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”Just as God told Noah to be prepared for the coming flood, we are exhorted to be prepared for “that day and hour” which no man spans 16: People were not expecting this sudden dreadful devastation which overtook spans 17: months of meticulous planning and anticipation filled their spans 18: light: and they shall reign for ever and spans 19: all who read, and may “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.22v21)As coincidence would have it, I came across the term ‘mortgaged' (Nehemiah 5v3) in my daily reading this morning – something which I found to be so relevant after listening to angry bank customers here in Ireland spans 20: thoughts then turned to Paul's words to Timothy in 1Timothy 6v17-19: “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”How uncertain are riches indeed – and how deceitful! (Matthew 13v22) We live in an era when global greed and dishonesty continues to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people but if we know Jesus as Lord and Saviour, we should understand the depths of these words: “But godliness with contentment is great spans 21: integrity are rare; yet in this awful darkness we must let our lights shine out spans 22: the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights of the world;” (Philippians 2v15)Some day (perhaps sooner than we think) our material possessions will fade away and only those unseen attributes of the fruits of the Spirit (Gal.5v22&23) which the Lord bestows upon those who trust Him will

Human: Complete this text: WHAT KIND OF HOLY MAGIC IS THIS LINE UP? ! I already had my entire festival season mapped out and then the geniuses over at Goldenvoice decided to collywhomp me with yet another festival that I truthfully don't know how I will make it happen, but I tell you right now . Anyone who follows me, literally ANYONE, knows how much I love Isaiah Rashad. There has been a connection between me and his music ever since Cilvia Demo came out, but when The Sun's Tirade came out in 2016, it basically saved my life. I can't properly describe what it is that his music does to me, but it is almost as instantaneous as hitting a blunt — the minute I hear ‘4r Da Squaw' come on, it's over. I am content and at peace. So my eyes IMMEDIATELY bee-lined to his name. For the last five or six months, Isaiah and I have gone back and forth on IG about an interview, but we both insist on doing it in person, and THIS is my chance. Ya'll don't understand what it means to me. Here's the thing though, the rest of this line up? HAVE YOU SEEN IT? Imma put the flyer here one more again, just in case you somehow scrolled past it. Lord I was not ready. I literally stopped what I was doing at work just so I could write this article out. That is how enamored I am with this lineup. It is basically taking a mixture of artists on the rise in the neo-soul and hip hop genres (personal favorites being Kamaiyah, Xavier Omar and Brockhampton), and combining them with a few seasoned artists (Sza, Migos, Anderson. Paak) to create a line up so well curated it makes me wanna slap your mama. Because I sure the fuck am not slapping mine — there is nothing more terrifying than a small, angry Latinx woman with a chancla. Oh, and THIS SHIT IS IN OAKLAND. <3 One of my favorite places on earth, because I get to make my traditional stop at Souley Vegan to stuff my face with the most amazing food on earth. Now I have an excuse to eat some of the best food Oakland has to offer, while Oakland gives me the best that music has to offer. How do you possibly say no to that? You can't. So don't delay! The tickets (Which are HELLA reasonably priced) are going on sale on Friday HERE. Posted by Dorian de Wind, Military Affairs Columnist on Jul 19, 2009 in Economy, Health, Politics, Society | 29 commentsAlthough it is very difficult to remain unemotional when the health and welfare of our most precious individuals—children—are involved, I'll give it a try. It's about how some states have been reluctant to repair the safety net, improve health insurance, for their most vulnerable ones, and how other states, 13 of them, “despite budgets ravaged by the recession . have invested millions of dollars this year to cover 250,000 more children with subsidized government health insurance.”The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a program enacted in 1997, administered by the U.government, that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children with incomes that are low, but too high to qualify for Medicaid. States have flexibility in how they design and implement their S(tate)CHIP; they set their own eligibility levels and some have received waivers to also cover some parents of SCHIP eligible children. When Congress attempted to reauthorize and expand funding for CHIP, towards the end of the Bush administration, Bush fought such tooth and nail, including vetoing the legislation twice. ## Congressional Democrats kept the program alive through temporary extensions. In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009 that extends the program through 2013, provides $32.8 billion in new financing over that period, and thereby expands the program to cover an additional 4 million children and pregnant women. Five months after President Obama signed the legislation and encouraged states to increase enrollment in the program, at least 13 states have done exactly that, “despite budgets ravaged by the recession.”Alabama, where “Democratic legislators overrode the veto of Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, to extend coverage to 14,000 children at an additional cost to the state of $8 million.” Democratic State Senator Roger H. Bedford said, “Our economy is tough here, but our decision was to fund the health care needs of our children because a healthy child learns better and they don't show up at the emergency room needing acute care.”Kansas, where, “in one of her final acts as governor of Kansas in April, Ms. Sebelius, a Democrat, signed a two-year expansion worth $4.4 million that had been approved by her overwhelmingly Republican Legislature.”Colorado, where Democratic Governor Bill Ritter Jr. said, “In a downturn, the number of people who need the safety net increases”Washington, where the broadening of eligibility has now made 8-year-old Sarah, “who endured lung surgery at 3 and heart surgery at 6 and now has asthma,” and who had been uninsured for a year, eligible for the program. According to the Times, Sarah's mother, Ms. McIntyre, 41, who works part time in a store to supplement her husband's income as a welder, said: “We were into credit card debt and payday loans . Her medicine at one point was $880 a month, and we had to pay cash, so we were struggling. It is such a relief now that I can just take her to the doctor if I need to and get her medicine.”The other states expanding eligibility are Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, and West Virginia. Ohio's expanded eligibility has been approved by the Legislature, but its implementation depends on the results of a pending court case. The states' willingness to spend, even under excruciating budget pressures, is a measure of the support for expanding health care coverage to the uninsured as Congress and the administration intensify their negotiations over a new federal health care bill. And, while 48 states faced budget shortfalls this year, “in those that have managed to expand eligibility, governors and legislators said they viewed CHIP as a cost-effective investment.”Several states have either decided not to enact previously authorized expansions or failed to pass legislation to expand eligibility or lower premiums. (We remember well how Gov. Rick Perry rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money to help deal with Texas' rising unemployment because the stimulus money had “strings attached.” Now, the great state of Texas is asking the federal government for a $170 million loan so that the state can continue paying unemployment benefits. And, according to the Times, “in California, the Legislature beat back Mr. Schwarzenegger's proposal to eliminate CHIP altogether but seems to have accepted the enrollment freeze.”CHIP, which served about 7.4 million people in 2008, is credited with helping reduce the number of uninsured children by 2.5 million over its first decade. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the revitalized program would eventually reduce the number of uninsured youths by an additional 4. I hope that I have not gotten emotional about this issue, but in my honest opinion, blocking viable, affordable health insurance for America's adults is one thing. In America, failing to provide vital health care for our children, is another thing—a shameful thing. I'm Mathias Kaden, I'm from the East part of Germany, I live very close to Leipzig and I've started in 1995, quite early when I was young because in my area the house and techno scene started very early so I got in touch with music very early. Then I started ... Assistant: The completion of this text could be: to try to DJ, I've tried to buy my first turntables, I tried to mix and everything. I had my first gigs when I was 17 – 18 in Germany and around Germany and then it evolved step by step. Now, 17 years later I'm still into music, traveling around the world. We also have our own label "Freude am Tanzen" it started in 1998 and I have my other label called "Vakant" where I released my first album in 2009. Three months ago I released my second album on "Freude am Tanzen". I'm not the most active producer, but I'm DJing a lot, and now with the new album I'm doing a live tour. I got a little bit tired of playing music from other people, so basically I'm just using my new album and a few remixes. The thing I love the most about doing live acts is that I can split my live sets and I can change my own sets. When I'm playing the tracks as they are, maybe I get bored. I can mix my own tracks, I can take the bassline and the voice from one track another and the high end and the rhythm from the other track, so I never get bored. When doing a live set you can handle every sound, every second and such. Also, when you're DJing, you have to trust the producer who did the track, but I want to trust only myself now. All I need is some drum machines, one small synthesizer and for sure my computer for the MIDI connection. It's really nice, it's really a new way and I love this new way. Talking about new way, Pioneer and Traktor are also going toward live remixing like the new CDJs DJM's and the Traktor S8 all have lots of live remixing functions. Do you think live remixing and live productions could be the future of DJing? Sync, reverb and a big drop, it's a very boring levelIt will be the future of DJing but it's not my future. The fact is that real DJing is quite gone. I hope some young kids will come back to real DJing. Even it's harder, but I think to play the Traktor and beat-matching and all that stuff. Why are you a DJ? Everybody can do that. Everybody can download the Beatport Top 10 charts and you know. The promoters around the world should take care to book real DJs, who are really into it, who really know how to build up a set to bring a crowd to dance. I think it's just too easy now. There are some well-known guys like Ritchie Hawtin. For them it is okay to use technology because they are using it on a higher level. In the same time, lots of people use new technology on a very basic level. Sync, reverb and a big drop, it's a very boring level and I seriously hope that some people still act like real DJs. Today electronic music is the main thing, unlike in the 70s, 80s and 90s when live music was dominant and now there's almost only electronic music, so it got really-really big. What do you think about this huge rise in popularity when people are becoming DJ's not because they care counting to four but because they love the girls and fame and stuff like that? What do you think about this phenomenon? Haaah. Surely you've seen it that electronic music got so famous in the last 5-6 years, even like David Guetta, he plays crazy music, but he also play kind of electronic music and he brings lots of people to our scene. Now lots of people think "Ohh, I like techno" but they don't know what techno really is. They might think that David Guetta is a techno or a house guru. He played a lot of good music in the past, David Guetta is a really good DJ for house music. He did a lot of venues and he played for many-many years in Paris and around Europe, for sure now he's famous. I think that people who want to be DJs for the fame and girls, I hope that they won't have success. The electronic scene is going through a big change and it is not easy now, but I'm curious for the future to see how it will go. I saw already some DJs who put a complete DJ set on a stick or a CD and they just moved the effects. They don't mix, they don't do nothing. And this is a shitty future for DJing. In the meantime, just like you've mentioned that David Guetta has lots of gigs, if you have like three gigs in a week and you're on a plane constantly fighting jetlag, how are you still able to do your digging and to exercise for your sets? How do you cope with being in the move constantly? I think I'm used to it and I think I'm made for this because I'm so happy that all my things went so well with music that I actually don't care if I have three of four gigs in a week. For sure it's hard and you travel and you have a jetlag, but still we're doing our thing, we're doing our music and we often get respect from the audience for our music and it's really nice. Even if some DJ's are complaining "Oh my God, tomorrow London" and so on, they should remember that it's really a big bless that we can do our music, that we can play as a DJ and we can live from the money that we get. Even if there are 5-6-7 flights and jetlag, I'm still super happy about this. ## When I'm playing music I'm only focusing on it and my world is freeWhen I'm playing music I'm only focusing on it and my world is free. Every other problem that every human has. When I play my sets, even if its one hour until ten hours I'm only there for the music I'm only there for me, it's my free time actually and I really enjoy it. Music gives me power, music makes me stay alive and music keeps us young. There are some DJs like Sven Vath and Carl Cox, if you see them, they're like over fifty, if I see some other guys in their fifties the comparison speaks for itself. Music is keeping us fresh. I had an interesting project in the last two years, we had a band called "Karussel" where I performed on the stage with five other people and we had a pianist, we had a saxophone, a singer, a percussionist and I made the beats together with my friend Marcel. It was like a house and jazz band. We also did an album on "Freude am Tanzen" it is called "Plated". I'm also playing the orchestra for my city, it's a philharmonic orchestra and in October we will start practicing for next year and I'm planning to play my new album live with orchestra. I'm always doing these projects to learn more. I'm not a music God or something like this, I'm just a normal guy, a DJ, but I like to constantly evolve my production. I want to know more about sounds and music production because I can produce a normal tech-house track for the dancefloor, but I want to go higher. I would like to do wiser things, but still for the dancefloor. All these projects are really like a school for me and it is also brings lots of fun. Human: For this above text, what type of writing is this? Assistant: Most likley NSFW.

Human: Find the missing words: 83 of the ^zhurnal (that's Russian for "journal") — see ZhurnalyWiki for a Wiki edition of individual [words 1] Zhurnal and Zhurnaly for quick clues as to what this is all about; see Random for a random page. RSSA week ago Kate Abbott and I push the edges of our envelopes and get more than halfway [words 2] mile race before withdrawing after almost 17.5 hours on the trail. [words 3] our goals, a sub-20 minute/mile average pace over some [words 4] terrain. We don't finish, and that's OK. It's a painful, joyous experience. [words 5] Trails 2010 for Kate's report on the journey. Herewith a few [words 6] back, focusing on some of the wonderful people we met [words 7] way. Kudos meanwhile to all the race organizers, volunteers, families, friends, and fellow runners involved in MMT 2010. It's Caren's fault! After I melt down during the Chocolate Bunny training run I'm perched on a ledge about to jump—or rather, drop my name from the MMT waiting list. Night running is too hard. Massanutten is too rocky. I'm too weak, too slow. Comrade Kate is correct [words 8] chances of finishing MMT together: slim to nil. I just think you [words 9] a shot. There is no shame in [words 10] DNF. That is one tough course. Plus I think you're [words 11] for. And you're tough too. Cheerful thoughts! So thanks to Caren I stay on the MMT waiting list, and a few days before the deadline enough other registrants drop so I [words 12] in. Kate remains in the race likewise, though she [words 13] best only 1 chance in 10 of finishing. [words 14] Mr. Pollyanna, aka me, gives us 1:5 odds. I point out that Kate did well at the JFK and BRR 50 milers. She finished 52.5 miles in 11 hours at another event a week later. So why not roll the dice for a 100? In response, Kate mercilessly reminds me that when we initially signed up I [words 15] ranked the toughest 100 miler east [words 16] Rockies, among the 10 hardest in the US. But as Barkley Marathons veteran Ed Furtaw observes, it's good to seek one's limits, measure oneself against the impossible. And in fact, MMT this year turns out much like the Catoctin 50k 2008 race that Caren and I DNF'd together. We are better than we think [words 17] are. Thank you, Caren! "I want Kate's escalator shoes—I've only got stair shoes! " groans veteran trail runner Carolyn Gernand at mile 41 as we climb the steep slope toward Veach Gap. Kate is [words 18] of us, arms pumping, hips swinging. All day Carolyn has [words 19] me along the trail. She catches us and passes on level and downhill segments. We catch and pass [words 20] climbs. Like Kate and me, Carolyn is slower than most runners doing MMT today. Unlike Kate and me, Carolyn has finished The Ring [words 21] runs. See 2009-09-05 - One Third of The Ring for Kate's and my attempted Ring last year; Carolyn passed [words 22] we dropped at mile 25. Carolyn has huge stamina and a huger sense of humor. She also has a [words 23] the trails. Today, Carolyn gives us [words 24] places along MMT course. She identifies squaw root, mountain laurel, flowering milkweed, flat green mosses with sprout-like blooms, and a host of other plants. We marvel at butterflies together, [words 25] and stinging insects. Carolyn also provides background on notable features such as the dramatic overlook and hang-glider launching [words 26] mile 19. A few miles after Powells Fort the MMT route leaves the orange-blazed Massanutten Trail and follows the blue-blazed Tuscarora Trail [words 27] a steep ridge. Kate blasts ahead and as we approach the crest I leave Carolyn behind [words 28] up. When I get to the [words 29] plunge onward without looking about. I think I'm following the trail, but strangely enough [words 30] blazes. I'm lost! After some minutes of blundering along the rocks I get scared, give up, and backtrack. As I [words 31] over the hilltop in front of me. I scamper along [words 32] that if I had only turned my head I would have seen the yellow ribbons marking [words 33] course. Carolyn and I speed-hike down the trail, but Kate is still nowhere [words 34] seen. After a mile or so Carolyn tells me that a [words 35] ahead and half a mile later spy Kate. At the Elizabeth Furnace aid station, mile [words 36] in as Kate and I prepare to leave. The last time we see Carolyn during the race is near mile 47, [words 37] Massanutten Trail to zigzag down the steep Indian Grave Trail. The sun is setting behind the mountain range. [words 38] ahead of us, dancing down the rocks. On Sunday morning Kate and I are driving down Crisman Hollow Rd at 7am [words 39] drop bags from the Visitor Center aid station (mile 77. As we approach the Gap Creek aid station who's walking up [words 40] road toward us? A tired but [words 41] 5:25am cutoff and can't find a [words 42] area. So after running through the night and [words 43] 68.7 she decides to walk another five miles to Caroline Furnace. [words 44] back of the MINI Cooper is full of Kate's and [words 45] out and gives up her seat. As I drive back to the [words 46] Kate visits with volunteers at the aid station. She applauds [words 47] return to the finish. Meanwhile Carolyn calls us "angels" and answers my questions [words 48] and how the race went for her. [words 49] run trails with me in the future. What a lady! "Stan! Stan! " I shout [words 50] figure on Friday evening. It's almost 9pm, and Kate and I have just arrived at the Caroline Furnace Lutheran Camp, the [words 51] area. Unlike many race participants, we work today and hit the highway as rush-hour traffic begins to recede. A major thunderstorm en route further slows our progress. Stan Duobinis [words 52] director, and even though it's late [words 53] packets with t-shirt, water bottle, and numbered bib. His wife, Margie Schlundt, has reserved our quarters: [words 54] bed in a cabin for Kate near the starting line, and for cheapskate me a cot in a sukkah, a screened hut half a mile up the road. Both Stan and Margie are ultra-helpful. Stan entertains us with his commentary on the history of the race—he's one of the few to have been at all 16 years of it. Stan [words 55] choosing the new starting area, the tough hot-humid weather last year, Margie's post-retirement career in medical student training, and the true story of how he became MMT [words 56] director. That last anecdote involves a beer party [words 57] founder Anstr Davidson's home and an offer that the prior race director claims not to remember [words 58] sober. I retire to my sukkah to try to catch a few hours of sleep. There's nobody else in the building, so I get my pick among the dozen cots. Half an hour later Bill [words 59] inadvertently wakes me. We met at the 2008-01-01 - [words 60] 50k, of which he was the founding father. I quote what I think is his rule for finishing a 100 miler, "You just have to not quit", but he disavows responsibility for the aphorism. (It turns out I was mistaken; another Red Eye [words 61] Lou Jones, told me that. Bill and I fall asleep, but half an hour later I wake again as Anstr Davidson arrives at the sukkah. He apologizes and after a brief chat I close my eyes. Revenge [words 62] when at 3am Saturday morning my alarms go off. Bill and Anstr roll over. I gather up sleeping bag and pillow, then hike back down the half mile to leave the gear in my car parked by Kate's cabin. Indefatigable RD Stan is already [words 63] setting out pre-race munchies. I help where I can, chug a Dr. Pepper, and nibble donut holes [words 64] tales. Margie appears and after another half hour other runners materialize, first in [words 65] flood. Kate and I find each other and get ready [words 66] rumble. About 11:30pm that evening Kate and I are back, thanks to a ride from helpful volunteers who pick us up at the Habron Gap aid station. Stan is waiting at the finish line. Nobody has come through yet, but he's patient. Kate takes a long hot shower and retires to her cabin. I shower, chat some [words 67] in my car. At 1:25am the winner crosses the line. Last year in a fit of Massanutten [words 68] Madness Kate and I meet Caroline Williams at mile 48 of the 2009 MMT. Between 7:30pm and [words 69] miles with Caroline, through a violent thunderstorm, down flooded [words 70] up precipitous mountain sides. Alas, Caroline [words 71] cutoff at mile 65 so I don't get a chance to pace her for the rest [words 72] night. But I fearlessly predict that Caroline [words 73] in her MMT quest another year. [words 74] comes true: in an incredible feat of toughness (and with incredibly tough feet) Caroline crosses the finish line with less than 2 minutes to spare before the ultimate cutoff. Total time: 35:58:39. How does she do [words 75] the movie Fight Club, "I ran. I ran [words 76] my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. "Caroline gives us hugs before the race starts [words 77] 5am. She goes out fast and by the time Kate and I drop at Habron Gap she's almost 90 minutes in front of us. As we drive down Crisman Hollow Rd toward the Visitor Center, [words 78] Carolyn Gernand a ride back to the start from Gap Creek, we spy a pair of [words 79] along the road ahead where the course joins our route. It's Caroline and her pacer! Kate [words 80] the windows to shriek cheers of encouragement. We drive on [words 81] aid station to tell her crew, inestimable ex-husband [words 82] her. At 8:05am she's there. Odds seem long against [words 83] hope. "MMT Live" updates during the afternoon first indicate that she drops [words 84] later. Kate and I are sad—until the final report corrects the mistake and tells the tale of her last-minute finish. Brava! [words 85] Kate has Caroline over to a family dinner. I'm invited to eat out about once every decade, but by [words 86] another friend's that very same night. So I make abject apologies, leave the other party early, get lost in Arlington, [words 87] freeway, speed through the rain, and fortunately see Caroline at Kate's lovely home late Saturday evening. I admire her MMT finisher's buckle, praise the scars on her legs, interrogate [words 88] experience, and extract her promise to run with me again soon. Amazingly Caroline is almost recovered already. She ran 17 miles earlier that day. [words 89] how delighted she was to see us drive by her during [words 90] race. Her most vivid memory of that moment: Kate's beautiful skin, glowing radiant like [words 91] 20-year-old's. "Of course, you looked good [words 92] me. "At MMT, if you think you're not going fast enough, slow down! [words 93] mile of the race. She learns the rule [words 94] the Hampton 24 hour run last month. Carl [words 95] and I saw at several points during our attempt at The Ring last year. That day Carl is coincidentally crewing for both Caroline Williams and Carolyn Gernand. At [words 96] Roosevelt, mile 25, he commiserates with us when we drop. Caroline is through that location 45 minutes [words 97] later. When we fail to rise to her challenge to continue, she treks onward. Carl then kindly gives Kate and me a ride back to our starting point at Elizabeth Furnace. During MMT [words 98] start of the race. But he [words 99] the heat of the day and has to start spending more time in aid stations recovering, so by Veach Gap (mile 40.7) we're within 10 minutes of him. On the ridge a few miles later Kate and I catch up with Carl, just before a majorly scary "billy goat" part of the the Massanutten Trail. (It's the section described in 2009-01-04 - Massanutten Mountain Mayhem that Caren and I did in the opposite direction. At this point my lower back is starting to ache, perhaps due to the weight of my hydration backpack, perhaps due to my leaning away from the cliff edge from frantic fear of falling. Carl has drunk all his water but refuses to take any from Kate or me. "You might need it! " he says, and trudges along making cheery small talk. We come upon a couple of suffering runners who are complaining loudly about their ordeals. I'm reminded of the lines in the movie Kelly's Heroes by Donald Sutherland's ur-hippie character Oddball: "Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? " We hasten out of earshot. Carl and Kate trot on ahead of me. Soon Carolyn catches up and passes too. Besides a backache and a tendency to list to the right, I'm starting to feel dizziness, intermittent weakness in the left leg, and an increasing number of blisters. Hopes of making it the whole distance, always a long shot, begin to crumble. Now the focus is on staying upright, catching Kate, and making it safely to the next aid station. I scramble down the rocks, having to actually sit at one point to lower myself in a steep spot. Kate materializes in the gloom and I learn that Carl and Carolyn have rushed down the hillside. We don't see them again—they're 10 minutes gone by the time we reach the next aid station. Later we learn that Carl makes it to Camp Roosevelt (mile 63.1) but becomes increasingly ill, misses the cutoff, and has to drop at 3:20am. Powerful Mark McKenett's story has a happier conclusion. He's already finished one 100 miler, Grindstone, and is attacking MMT with confidence. We greet him at the start and admire his hair, which has been shaved into the letters MMT 100. Marks blasts out, and at Habron Gap is almost 3 hours in front of us. He survives the night, presses onward through the next day, and finishes in under 35. Mark has a Grindstone 100 tattoo on one calf. He tells me that he's not planning to get a separate MMT tat, but perhaps will add a silhouette of the VHTRC mascot bear, "Furbutt", below the Grindstone emblem. I see Mark at the MCRRC Thursday evening run and he looks strong and happy. We discuss future ultra plans. Bravo, Sir! There's no way I can thank Kate enough for her constant and cheerful companionship, even in the toughest of circumstances. So instead, I must scold her! During MMT Kate fails to tell me how close to her edge that she's going, how much she's suffering, and how little she enjoys the final miles of our journey. Bad Kate! Next time, please let me know sooner, eh? Pushing the envelope is fine, but trail buddies have to share everything, good and bad, up and down. Otherwise, we might make a Very Bad Decision and get into Real Trouble. But in fairness, Kate tells me that she doesn't fully realize how rough things are getting until the next day when, she says, "Everything hurts except my hair. " OK, I'll forgive you—this time. "I've just gotten my 17th wind! " Kate tells Carl Camp and me as we stumble along the trail near mile 45. At MMT Kate experiences more bad patches than in any prior ultra. Fortunately the bad patches are short, 5-10 minutes each. ## In between she's relentlessly joyful, relentlessly brisk in zipping through the aid stations, and relentlessly determined in attacking the hills. I salute her, relentlessly. For my part of the social contract, I try not to contribute too much to Kate's woes. When she declines my offer at the start of the race to lecture on quantum mechanics I bite my tongue. When she threatens to pull out her MP3 player and crank up the volume to block out my blatering, I smile at her. When we're hiking along the road to the final aid station and I stop every quarter mile to gape upward at the stars, I accept the snub as Kate trudges on. Kate does in turn listen to my explanation of the Earthshine we observe on the setting Moon's dark side. Know-It-All personality emerges as the sun sets! ) But when we see the glow of the roadsigns in our flashlight beams, Kate for unknown reasons spurns my offer to explain the optics of retroreflection. She also inexplicably asks me not to sing "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" whenever I see a plastic yellow trail marker hanging down from a branch along our course. And seriously, I apologize for not realizing the extent of Kate's blisters and other race-related stresses. I don't know that she thinks she sees a bear as she leads our twilight scramble down Indian Grave Trail. And I take full blame for snookering her into the final 3.9 mile deathmarch down the dirt road from the penultimate aid station to Habron Gap. Yes, it does get us to 52.7% of the way to the finish line. Yes, it does lower the cost of the race to under $3 per mile. Yes, it does move us up 7 notches in the DNF list. And honestly, I thought it would be easier to get a ride back to Caroline Furnace from there. Sorry that we have to wait for 90 minutes, wrapped in blankets, shivering as mosquitoes feast on my bald pate. But it's noble of us to stick together and not take advantage of the cars that have room for only one rider. "Leave no one behind! " remains our mantra. The next day at McDonald's in New Market I'm struck by how similar Kate's and my blister patterns are, in size and location, as Kate takes off her sandals to exhibit yesterday's handiwork. I'm sure the other people eating breakfast don't mind. Future plans for Team Alpha-Omega? Hard to say right now. Kate firmly disavows all desire to revisit the Massanutten Trail, whether for some hypothetical Ring or MMT or other adventure. But I must confess that somebody has lured me into registering for the Cheat Mountain Moonshine Madness 50 mile night run this coming August. Wonder who did that? Based on unofficial times that I recorded during the MMT 2010 race, this table lists the distance between aid stations, cumulative race distance, cutoff times, Kate's and my pace on that segment, and our overall average pace to that point. See (1) for a course map and elevation profile. Another reason to take public transportation: on Friday afternoon, as I sit on the subway working on The Onion crossword puzzle, a young gentleman sits down beside me and tentatively asks if I'm a trail runner. Apparently he remembers my ugly mug from a zhurnaly.com photo several years ago, and that (plus my VHTRC backpack that features the Bull Run Run) gives him courage. multi-use trails around the DC area, including the newly-minted Metropolitan Branch Trail (cf. William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (and his newer works), Vernor Vinge's True Names, etc. the importance of continuous mindful awareness, during trail running and urban bicycling, to avoid injury. plus a host of other fun topics. Fortunately for me our train arrives at the Forest Glen station and I have to bolt for the door before the shallowness of my knowledge becomes too apparent. Tnx, Noah! Cloud banks piled high like mountains of meringue block the rising sun. I leave home at 0510 in hopes of beating ever-early Caren Jew to the parking lot on Rt 28. She says we'll meet at 0600, but when I arrive ~0545 she's already there—as expected! We start running south at 0550. Brush grows thick alongside the Seneca Creek Greenway Trail. It's chilly, temps in the 40s, so we both don windbreakers. After a mile we're warmed up enough to take the jackets off. We walk the hills, and I tread carefully over roots to avoid a fall. At the 2 mile point by my GPS, just after a half-mile marker post, we turn back. Happy Mother's Day, Caren! Beard Token: When Tsar Peter the Great (1682-1725) decided to modernize Russia he ordered men to remove their beards or pay an annual tax of 50 rubles. Those who chose not to shave but to pay were given "beard tokens" as receipts. I've seen one in the Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection. Nice examples sell for a few thousand dollars. (image courtesy Smithsonian Institution)Monocle: Since I'm nearsighted in only one eye, it seems a waste to wear glasses. Most monocles for sale are costume-jewelry, but it would be fun to wear a functional one with a lens that would properly correct my vision. Occasionally monocles show up at thrift stores, presumably when somebody dies and their estate is donated. (image courtesy Wikipedia)In Chapter 30 ("Barkley Philosophy") of Tales from Out There author "Frozen" Ed Furtaw describes what the Barkley means to him:Since most runners finish most ultramarathons they start, they are using a measuring stick that is smaller than they are. But the Barkley is the biggest measuring stick known to running. To me that's intriguing, knowing I can't possibly finish those particularly hard 100 miles in 60 hours. But, I do know I can go there and run until I can't run anymore. Run myself out before I run out of race. To know I can attempt a challenge I can't conquer. Not everybody likes confronting their own limits and failing. Some people hate the Barkley because of that. But some people, like me, go back again and again. The Massanutten Mountain Trails is a Big Stick too. By many standards MMT is among the 10 toughest races in the US. It's likely the hardest 100 mile run east of the Rockies (excluding the Barkley). A few days ago comrade Kate Abbott and I measured ourselves on it. We enjoyed 17.5 hours of Massanutten before DNF'ing at mile 53.6, Habron Gap. At times along the way it wasn't much fun. But it was good to do, and we're happy we did it. Kudos to the race organizers and props to all the participants! (race report to follow)A handy word that I've just learned: valorize, meaning to give something a value, the opposite of denigrating it. Stephen Batchelor uses it in Chapter 4 of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, in a fascinating and important comment:As soon as you split the world in two parts—one physical and one spiritual—you will most likely privilege mind over matter. Since mind—even an impermanent Buddhist mind—survives bodily death and is the agent of moral choice, then it is not only more enduring and "real" than mere matter but also the arbiter of one's destiny. The more you valorize mind and spirit, the more you will be prone to denigrate matter. Before long, mind starts to become Mind with a capital M, while matter becomes the illusory sludge of the world. The next thing you know, Mind starts to play the role of God: it becomes the ground and origin of all things, the cosmic intelligence that animates all forms of life. The chorus of David Bowie's song "Let's Dance" includes one of my favorite lyrics of all times, a sort of silly syllogism:Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip Tetlock is extraordinarily important. I hesitate to call a book "essential reading" for a thoughtful person, but Tetlock qualifies if anything does. After a rigorous multi-year study of hundreds of experts and a detailed analysis of their responses to diverse questions about future political and economic developments, the Big Conclusion is that expert judgment is quite bad, only slightly better than random chance and significantly worse than formal models. People, even those who should know better, have unconscious bias. ## They're inconsistent and illogical. They explain away or forget their failures and they exaggerate their successes. Experts are no exception. What experts think matters far less than how they think. If we want realistic odds on what will happen next, coupled to a willingness to admit mistakes, we are better off turning to experts who embody the intellectual traits of Isaiah Berlin's prototypical fox—those who "know many little things," draw from an eclectic array of traditions, and accept ambiguity and contradiction as inevitable features of life—than we are turning to Berlin's hedgehogs—those who "know one big thing," toil devotedly within one tradition, and reach for fomulaic solutions to ill-defined problems. Expert Political Judgment is full of statistical analyses. Those who don't enjoy conditional (Bayesian) probabilities and correlation coefficients may wish to read it like a novel, skip the equations, and focus on the graphs and associated discussion. Throughout Tetlock is scrupulously fair: he bends over backwards to understand, allow for, and explain potential flaws in his research. An entire chapter—"The Hedgehogs Strike Back"—is devoted to making the opposition's case. His study of scenarios highlights the rarely-recognized risks of using them. And throughout the book, Tetlock's dry humor sparkles. My optimistic assumption (following Aristotle) that people are rational animals turns out to be only half right . Tales from Out There: the Barkley Marathons, the World's Toughest Trail Race is a delightful surprise of a self-published book—well-written, meticulously detailed, technically accurate, with useful maps plus several black-and-white photos. "Frozen" Ed Furtaw has done a fine job of recording the history of the Barkley, a 100+ mile trek across the rugged terrain of central Tennessee's Frozen Head Environmental Education Area. Chapter 16 (covering 1997) of Out There offers "Famous Inspirational Quotes" from Barkley runners, including:In the HAT Run 2006 I ran briefly with Keith Dunn, who had done a partial Barkley lap the prior year and who planned to go back. "You don't have to be fast to run Barkley," he told me, "just stupid! "The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book, a lecture by Stephen Berlin Johnson, talks about search-engine results as something like a "commonplace book": a collection of quotations assembled with common themes sorted together into "common places", as in a concordance. That metaphor leads Johnson to talk about intellectual property in the Internet age, an important topic. But equally fascinating is the historical aspect of commonplace books. A wide range of thinkers kept them, including John Milton, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. Locke designed a clever system of cross-indexing the entries in his book based on the first letter and following vowel—a primitive hash table algorithm. And the commonplace book concept is essentially a pre-computer era personal wiki—an idea-scrapbook. Rather like large parts of this ^zhurnal, eh? ! This Saturday on the Catoctin Trail should be called Bugsday, as swarms of gnats and other little flying critters buzz Gayatri Datta and me for much of the morning. Lovely black butterflies, on the other hand, flit away as we approach. So do black flies that cover little piles of animal poop that dot the rocks. Woodpeckers hammer away unseen on distant trees. Gayatri picks me up at home and we cruise north past Frederick to park on Hamburg Rd, the only car there when we start running at 0630. The day dawns warm and humid, but fortunately the Cat Trail is well-shaded. I wear sunscreen and Gayatri puts on bug repellant. My cap makes my head hot. I dip it in the water at a stream crossing and wear it wet to enjoy a few moments of cooling. The Catoctin Trail takes a major detour between Delauter Rd and Fishing Creek Rd to avoid a badly eroded segment—but the new course includes a truly ugly gully and a truly lovely pine-forested hill. It adds half a mile or more of distance to the trail and several hundred feet of climb. At the pond just before we reach Gambrill Park Rd I take off my hydration backpack to get something out of the compartment on the back and don't notice that I knock off my velcro-strap watch. A minute later I discover that it's missing, trot back, and spot it in the grass by the trailAt the halfway point we spend a few minutes studying Little Hunting Creek and trying to discern a way to reach the Cunningham Falls State Park's Manor Area without getting wet feet—then we give up and wade across, water up to mid-calf. We see nobody at all until the Manor Area turnaround, at which point there's a parked car and a few people walking around nearby. In the Manor Area the restrooms are locked, but Gayatri spies a water faucet near the picnic pavilion across a ravine, so we scamper over there. She refills her bottles and I drink but foolishly think I have enough water left in my backpack bladder. Instead, I run out of water during the return trip with a few miles to go. I survive but really should learn a lesson. On the way back we meet a dozen mountain bikers and one other runner, a young lady who says she's doing 30 miles today. I give her a ginger candy. We also see two backpackers, a young couple who look tired and say that they plan to do the entire Catoctin Trail over two days, camping overnight at the Manor Area. We drive past the Tea Room where I show Gayatri the first bit of the Catoctin 50k course. There appears to be a wedding reception or some other party underway. On the way home several cars are stopped by police along I-270, including one which has two bottles of whiskey sitting on the roof, one bottle half-empty. "Be with myself and center," goes the Fergie song lyric. ## Nowadays everyone's into centering, cultivating a focused present-moment awareness, a form of meditation. But how about sintering — heating a powder below its melting point until the particles stick together? It's what happens when ceramic pottery is fired. The technique is also used to make complex ultra-high-purity objects. And sintering is just like what goes on when a person goes into a stressful situation and comes out stronger. Fragmented thoughts and emotions get sorted out and combine. Weak bits fuse into a coherent whole. I've been a bit coy recently about my upcoming race plans, but might as well admit it now: I made it through the entry process into the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 miler this year. The random number assignment back in December 2009 put my ultrarunning friend Kate Abbott and me only a short distance apart, and my analysis (cf. Lottery Correlation Calculation) said that there was a 95% chance that we'd either both be selected, or neither would be. Alas, when the stock market closed on 8 December the DJIA fell into that unlucky 1 in 20 zone. Kate was among the 180 runners selected. I was number 87 on the waiting list. I started to taunt her in earnest about Running Alone through the Woods at Night. We even developed an acronym for that: RAWN. But many of those ahead of me decided not to enter, and by January 2010 I was #47. Then the trickle of dropouts slowed. Early February saw me at #44, early March #37, early April #28. As the deadline to withdraw and get money back loomed, however, those who were injured or otherwise couldn't train enough started to leave. By 25 April I had bubbled up to #1 on the waiting list, and the next day my luck ran out: I was in. So on 15-16 May comrade Kate and I plan to attempt MMT together and see how far we get. Alphabetically she's first and has been assigned bib #1. I'm DFL among all entrants, bib #180. Appropriate, eh? ! My right knee still hurts intermittently, as it has since January. I've never run more than (a little over) 50 miles before, never run through the night, never done more than a few dozen miles on the über-rocky Massanutten Trail. But I think there's a finite nonzero chance that Kate and I can finish within the 36 hour cutoff. Four couples attend a party. Some of them shake hands when they meet. Afterwards I ask everyone else how many hands they shook. I get a different number from each person. How many hands did my wife shake? It's amazing because there seems to be far too little information to solve it, yet there's a unique answer. And there's no "trick" either: no one shakes their own hand or their spouse's hand; the seven people I ask each answer my question with a different integer (0-6). In the Postscript of The Road to Home, Vartan Gregorian talks about the job he took on in 1997 as the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In comparing himself and his background to Andrew Carnegie's he notes:We had something else in common, too: we both loved books and libraries. Wen I assumed the presidency of the New York Public Library, I came to appreciate the historical impact of Andrew Carnegie who, in launching public libraries, not only in New York but all over the United States and abroad, must have taken great pride in building libraries and providing books—hence, knowledge—to ordinary citizens eager to read and learn. I certainly was proud and felt triumphant that the boy from Tabriz who was too poor to own his own volumes and was even unable to borrow and rent books ended up lending millions of books to the people of New York, including the multitudes of newcomers who continue to flock here, to the city near the Statue of Liberty. To this day, the walls of my office are lined with books; people send me books and talk to me about books and I still delight in the weight of a book in my hand. A book, to me, is still one of the most extraordinary creations of man, because it is a gift of knowledge: someone wrote it because he had something he felt was worth sharing with others, including you; someone gave it to you or recommended it to you or your found it by yourself on a shelf in your favorite bookstore. However it came into your possession, a book is a treasure troe that you can carry with you and learn from wherever and whenever you choose. A library, a place where books can be lent freely to those seeking knowledge, is a testament to men and women's concern and caring for each other and for each other's children—for everyone's children: to construct and cherish a library is to invest not only in ourselves but in future generations. A library is a legacy. A library is a mirror to the past and a window to the future. Because of the role that books and libraries have played in my life, I am gratified that at Carnegie Corporation, I have been able to help direct one aspect of our focus on international development toward African libraries and librarians, in order to help them create the gateways to tomorrow that will best serve the people of Africa. As someone who has had the opportunity to lie in different countries and different cultures, I know how extensive the cultural divide between different peoples can seem, how exotic differing beliefs and customs can appear to be, so it seems to me that knowledge about the world, both its tangible qualities and ephemeral mysteries, and about each other—about our glories and our follies—is the only way to narrow the great gulfs that divide us. The place where we can all find that knowledge is in books and in libraries as well as in the new technologies that enhance our ability to share the precious "knowledge and understanding" that Andrew Carnegie believed in so deeply and sincerely. The dissemination of knowledge and understanding is, in fact, the mandate he gave the institution I now serve, and I am pleased to be one of those entrusted with the task of carrying out his vision. I know, I shouldn't care—but when a major newspaper and a professional journalist get goofy about something scientific, I feel an obligation to respond. The latest, from a source that I won't deign to name: a column about the marvelous potential of generating electricity from human motions, specifically pedestrian traffic and similar activity. Hello? Has anybody heard of conservation of energy? Maybe it's not taught to reporters, but maybe it should be. If any device is producing electricity from people, then it's really producing electricity from the food that those people have eaten—minus all the inefficiency that humans have in digestion, muscular motion, etc. Look at the numbers: a person ingests a few thousand food-calories per day, which converts into ~10,000,000 Joules/day. Sounds like a lot! But in electrical units that's only ~3 kilowatt-hours, roughly ~30¢ worth of juice. And that assumes 100% efficiency in converting food to useful work. In reality one might hope for a few percent of that, at best. Plus which, do folks want to feel like they're walking uphill or through molasses all the time? To maximize energy capture, that's what they'll have to do. And how much energy is it going to require to manufacture these devices, and how long will they last before they break? Far be it from me to deprecate the value of exercise, for health and enjoyment. But journalists who rhapsodize about the potential to capture "free" energy from human activity should realize that it's a gimmick, not a game-changer. They've fallen victim to techno-promoters. And it's not even a new notion: does anybody remember self-winding wrist watches? They had a pendulum inside, a weight on a pivot that, via a ratchet mechanism, quietly wound the mainspring as the owner turned his wrist throughout the day. It's silly to think about generating significant amounts of electricity via people-power. But realistically, motions by the wearer could be used to energize ultra-low-power "smart" garments, like motion-canceling active mechanical structures. Hmmm—perhaps a Brainy Jogbra™ needn't use batteries after all! ? "You have great calf definition! " I compliment one of my fellow runners. Maybe it's genetic; I certainly don't get that kind of muscle visibility. At 2:45pm I pick up Gayatri at her home and we zip down Democracy Blvd to park at the nature center on Cabin John Trail. We're 5 minutes early and, as expected, Caren appears within seconds. We gear up and trot north on the CJSVT. Caren sets an aggressive pace, with Gayatri and I trailing behind her. At Tuckerman Lane I tag the street. Our loop back via the parking lot is uneventful. Stephen Batchelor in Chapter 14 of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist nicely summarizes the problem with mystical beliefs:What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? I suppose some of it has to with fear of death, the terror that you and your loved ones will disappear and become nothing. But I suspect that for such people, the world as presented to their senses and reason appears intrinsically inadequate, incapable of fulfilling their deepest longings for meaning, truth, justice, or goodness. Whether one believes in God or karma and rebirth, in both cases one can place one's trust in a higher power or law that appears capable of explaining this fraught and brief life on earth. One assumes the existence of hidden forces that lie deep beneath the surface of the contingent and untrustworthy world of day-to-day experience. Many Buddhists would argue that to jettison belief in the law of karma—a scheme of moral bookkeeping mysteriously inhering within the structure of reality itself—would be tantamount to removing the foundations of ethics. Good acts would not be rewarded and evil deeds not punished. Theists have said exactly the same about the consequences of abandoning belief in God and divine judgment. "This is beautful, but it's tough! " Gayatri Datta says, halfway through our trek on the southern end of the Catoctin Trail. She's doing hillwork in preparation for her October stage race in the Himalayas (1). Our wrist GPS units estimate that today we've done 7700 feet of total climb (and an equal descent). My 200-300 feet/mile GPS noise correction factor suggests that the actual elevation change is 3000-4000 feet. We start early: Gayatri picks me up at my home a bit after 5am and refuses to let me pay for her gas or buy her breakfast. From the Gambrill State Park lot we start running at 0630 as the sun rises through the trees. Woodpeckers drum and water splashes down the streams as we progress through the first several miles. There are at least half a dozen creek crossings. As we tiptoe across on rocks we both think of friend Caren Jew, who has family duties this morning and can't join us on her favorite trail. (She would have run through the water! )We chat about upcoming races. Gayatri names three out of the four mountains visible from northern India where she has signed up to do 100 miles in five days: Everest, Lhotse, and Makalu. (She misses Kanchenjunga. Today's terrain is probably rockier than the dirt and gravel roads in their foothills, but of course we're far below 10,000 feet elevation. We take our time on the climbs and walk a lot. My right knee is twingy but tolerable. I wear a black neoprene brace that Mary Ewell has lent me, and perhaps it helps a bit. At Hamburg Rd, about 5.5 miles out, we begin to see other people: mountain bikers park their cars there and mostly go north, the way we're proceeding. We get confused when blue Catoctin Trail blazes are scarce and backtrack a quarter mile or so at one point along a wide rutted downhill segment. But there's no place else for the trail to go, and after casting about near a pond in the Frederick Municipal Watershed we try the same way again and eventually discover where the blazes recommence. After roughly three hours we turn around on a hillside and head back. Now a few more people are out, and a couple walking a big black labrador dog greets us. A noisy goose scolds them as they pass its domain. About 11:30am a light rain starts, drops pattering on the brown leaves that cover the forest floor. We have ~3 miles still to go. I set a record today for pausing to leave the trail and water the bushes. Perhaps I'm drinking enough water, but am low on salt? We stay on course for the final climb back to Gayatri's car and give advice to a couple of lost mountain bikers who should have turned earlier in the maze of yellow, green, black, and blue blazes. On 28 April I venture into the office gym, where normally I only go to change clothes before heading outside to run. The mission: a "Fitness Profile" set of tests. It's an entertaining experience, but although I love numbers I'm quite skeptical about many of these, particularly ones reported with excessive false precision. But for the record, my blood pressure is rather too high, 150/91 at a pulse rate of 68. The machine suggests that I could stand to lose half a dozen pounds or so; no argument from me on that. And I'm probably a bit dehydrated this early in the morning, which may cause errors in the machine's analysis. Then I do a set of "Microfit" measurements, using machinery for testing endurance, strength, and flexibility. The results there:The Aerobic Fitness measurement is done on a stationary bicycle with increasing resistance, and cuts off when the heart monitor says I'm up to ~147 beats/min, before I really start sweating much. That V02 Max number claims to be in the "Fit" range, but I think I can do much better. Also supposedly "Fit" are Biceps Strength and Back Flexibility; perhaps the standards are low for old men? My hand grip strength number, in contrast, falls in the "Needs Work" (aka "Pitifully Weak") category. ## Overall verdict? Moderately interesting, but not terribly scientific. Perhaps I'll try again in six months and see if there's any improvement, though I strongly suspect a huge amount of noise is in with the data. Controlled experiments would be fun, but I've got better things to do—such as get outside and run! Nassim Nicholas Taleb's bestselling 2007 book The Black Swan is a thoroughly annoying example of fuzzy thinking. It's a chatty mix of shallow truisms and fallacies, overstatements and misunderstandings. There are a few good ideas, the biggest one being: don't ignore low-probability high-impact events. But it doesn't take 300 pages to say that. And Taleb's references are a mess, not tied in any auditable way to his claims in the text. The bibliography is almost worthless, a 28-page fine-print laundry list of 800+ books, many irrelevant. The index is incomplete. ## The author fails to explain, and apparently doesn't understand, the mathematics of probability and statistics. But he's pretty good at ad hominem attacks on his enemies, and shines at self-promotion. Earlier this month Tom Slee, a Canadian essayist and software engineer, posted a thoughtful critique of a semi-famous technophilic author's most recent bit of fluff. Slee's memorandum proposes tongue-in-cheek "Four Rules of Big Ideas":That's a perfect description of The Black Swan. Beach reading? Maybe. Useful to learn from? Not very. ## And no, the book doesn't make any falsifiable predictions, and certainly doesn't anticipate the recent financial crisis. Roger Zelazny in his sf novel Lord of Light conveys the distinction between fantasy and science during a comic dialog in Chapter One:"Yes—and no," said Yama. "If by 'demon' you mean a malefic, supernatural creature, possessed of great powers, life span, and the ability to temporarily assume virtually any shape—then the answer is no. This is the generally accepted definition, but it is untrue in one respect. ""Then I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not—so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will. ""Ah, but it makes a great deal of difference, you see. It is the difference between the unknown and the unknowable, between science and fantasy—it is a matter of essence. The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either. "The problems of the newspaper industry have a simple root cause: most people most of the time don't want news—they want to spend a few minutes of quiet time looking at interesting semi-random "stuff". I just got through doing that this morning online, then walked outside to pick up the papers at the street. The front pages have some nice things on them which would ordinarily be highly entertaining: politics, disasters, accusations, striking photographs, funny surprises. But since I've already had my fix of "stuff" their appeal is considerably reduced. Every once in a while, Congress awakens from its lobbyist-induced torpor, realizes that the masses are cranky and sets out to appease them. So scathingly begins Gretchen Morgenson's column in yesterday's New York Times. As long as money dominates politics, alas, this will continue. There is a solution, a simple (but not an easy) one: (most) voters need to ignore (most) political advertising. When will we ever learn? Stephen Batchelor, former monk and author of Buddhism Without Beliefs and The Faith to Doubt, has a new fascinatingly chaotic book: Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. I was befuddled by the mix of autobiography and theology until Chapter 18, when Batchelor clued me in while describing another book of his, Living with the Devil:After Buddhism Without Beliefs, I contracted with my publisher to write a book that would further develop my ideas about an agnostic approach to Buddhism. As usual I started writing notes, collating ideas, gathering quotes, reading relevant books and articles, designing chapter plans, toying with titles, and generally letting my mind wander as it would around the theme. Then I began to write. Within a week, I abandoned everything I had planned. The act of writing, following its own inscrutable logic, had guided me to the topic of the book: . That says a lot about the style of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. It's both insightful and frustrating as it random-walks through Batchelor's life story and his exploration of the roots of Buddhist philosophy. There are too many thoughts in it to encapsulate in a single review; I'll post some bits that resonated with me here in weeks to come. Meanwhile, one key notion that appears in Chapter 12:Rather than dismiss the self as a fiction, Gotama presented it as a project to be realized. By "self" he referred not to the transcendent Self of the brahmins, which, by definition, cannot be anything other than what it eternally Is, but the functional, moral self that breathes and acts in this world. He compared this self to a field: a potentially fertile ground that, when irrigated and tended, enables plants to flourish. He compared it to an arrow: a wooden shaft, metal head, and feather fletching, which, when assembled, can be projected on an unerring course to its target. And he compared the self to a block of wood, something one can fashion and shape into a utensil or roof beam. In each case, simple things are worked and transformed to achieve human ends. Instead of training oneself to achieve a serene detachment from the turbulent events of this life, (such a model of self) encourages one to grapple with these events in order to imbue them with meaning and purpose. ## The emphasis is on action rather than inaction, on engagement rather than disengagement. This brings to mind a remark by Ken Knisley in his No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed TV show: ". you're an ongoing project. How should one ongoing project, like me or like you, think of and deeply regard this panoply of other ongoing projects, peculiar living creatures that they are? . " Caren Jew has recovered from ankle injuries and survived income tax season, so it's time to celebrate by returning to her favorite haunt, the tough Catoctin Trail north of Frederick MD. After extensive negotiations Ken Swab concedes to a 0515 start for the ride with Gayatri Datta and me. Various of us have family duties that make the early start preferable. Bad news: when we reach the Manor Area of Cunningham Falls State Park we discover that Ken has forgotten his running shoes. Good news: he doesn't need them! We cross Little Hunting Creek—Caren & I wading through, Ken & Gayatri leaping between rocks—and proceed up the steep slope. My GPS says that we go from ~550 feet elevation to ~1500 feet at the highest, which roughly agrees with the PATC map's contour lines. On the way up Caren takes a scary fall on some tree roots, but escapes injury. It's Caren: her cellphone has spontaneously called mine—oops! At the scenic overlook we catch our breath and survey the valley below. Caren spots a scattering of ice on the ground; I dismiss it as broken glass until I check and confirm her observation. Somebody has emptied a cooler recently and there are beer bottle caps scattered nearby. Ken points out a blue tarp/tent halfway down the cliffside. In the Frederick Municipal Watershed after the second pond or so between Gambrill Park Rd and Fishing Creek Rd we turn back. A pickup truck of hunters in camo outfit cruises by slowly, and reminds Caren and me of our run here (2008-05-18) when we saw some sketchy-scary-looking guys on the trail. (cue music from Deliverance) Back in the Manor Area we ford the stream. Caren goes home while Ken & Gayatri & I do a bonus mile on the trail in the other direction. After graduating and serving as a teacher and leader at several major universities, Vartan Gregorian from 1981-1988 was president of the New York Public Library. In Chapter Twelve ("A Rendezvous with the New York Public Library") of his autobiography The Road to Home he quotes a speech he gave at the White House in 2002 about which he says, "I poured all my thoughts, speaking from my heart about my passion for libraries and for books":Let us now turn to real libraries, which are as old as civilization—the objects of pride, envy, and sometimes senseless destruction. Let us now turn to real libraries, which have always occupied a central role in our culture. They are the diaries of the human race. They contain humanity's collective memory. They are not repositories of human endeavor alone. They are instruments of civilization. They provide tools for learning, understanding, and progress. ## They are a source of information, a source of knowledge, a source of wisdom; hence they are a source of action. They are a laboratory of human endeavor. They are a window to the future. They are a source of hope. They are a course of self-renewal. They represent the link between the solitary individual and mankind, which is our community. The library is the university of universities, for it contains the source and the unity of knowledge. The library is the only true and free university. Above all else, libraries represent and embody the spirit of humanity, a spirit that has been extolled throughout history by countless writers, artists, scholars, philosophers, theologians, scientists, teachers, and ordinary men and women in a myriad of tongues and dialects. The library, in my opinion, is the only tolerant historical institution, for it is the mirror of our society, the record of mankind. It is an institution in which the left and the right, the Devil and God, human achievements, human endeavors, and human failures all are retained and classified in order to teach mankind what not to repeat and what to emulate. The library also marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. The library contains a society's collective but discriminating memory. It is an act of honor to the past, a witness to the future, hence a visible judgment on both. Indeed, the library is a central part of our society. It is a critical component in the free exchange of information, which is at the heart of our democracy. In both an actual and symbolic sense, the library is the guardian of freedom of thought and freedom of choice; hence it constitutes the best symbol of the First Amendment to our Constitution. For what will be the result of a political system when a majority of the people are ignorant of their past, their legacy, and the ideals, traditions, and purposes of our democracy? "A nation that expects to be ignorant and free," wrote Thomas Jefferson, "expects what never was and never will be. That is why the library was dubbed the "People's University" by Emerson and the "True University" or the "House of Intellect" by Carlyle. Libraries are not ossified institutions or historical relics. Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture. Cemeteries do not provide earthly immortality to men and women; libraries, museums, universities, and schools do. It's been a long time since I wrote any code, but yesterday the old dog dusted off the Perl manual and managed a few simple tricks. The Garmin GPS unit that I have produces a *. tcx file which is a succession of XML-tagged data points. With every outing the file grows a megabyte or so in length, depending on the duration of the run. In order to produce maps and elevation profiles I've been using a text editor to strip out a single day's trek from the mass. But as the file gets larger, that's more and more inconvenient. Hence, the following tiny Perl script to pull a run's trackfile out of an arbitrarily-large Garmin *. tcx file:The morning is humid and though our pace is slow I'm soon dripping sweat. Clair is getting back into running and I'm recovering from mysterious shin twinges so we walk the hills of the paved forest path and enjoy the morning break from the office grind. It's a happy chatty trek: we talk about personal stuff, share secrets, gossip, and marvel at the day. ## Our quantitative personalities similarly enjoy doing quantitative experiments on our respective selves. No deer or rabbits seen—maybe the sun is too bright? An odd phrase that I've seen in certain bureaucratic memoranda: From our optic, meaning "based on our point of view" or "in our perspective". Hmmm—wonder if there could analogs for other senses? From our nasal = "that has a whiff of" or "we sense that" . From our tongue = "that smacks of" . Last month I took an online personality assessment, a few hundred true-false questions. According to the write-up I received from the psychologist, the Hogan Personality Inventory ". measures the 'bright side' of personality—those behaviors others see on a day-to-day basis. " The Hogan Development Survey, on the other hand, highlights "dark side" traits that appear under high-stress conditions, when placed in a leadership position, etc. My HDS results, sorted from "high" to low":Cautious - worried about being criticized, reluctant to try new things (true, I fret over my mistakes . "Ouch! " I exclaim after reaching back to get my water bottle. "I just tore my thumbnail on my shirt. That's it—I'm dropping out now! ""Yep, your race is over. " Kate Abbott agrees. We're trekking through the woods, a few dozen miles into the Bull Run Run 50 miler. It's a lovely day for my fourth BRR, Kate's second. Temperatures rise from the 40s into the 60s. We improve on last year's result by almost 18 minutes, finishing in 11:22:06. But there is one snag at the finish line: the race officials ask me if I've seen Kate? "Yes, she's been beside me all day," I reply. We discover that her number is pinned on upside down and reads "98" instead of "86". Oops! Course marshalls think she got lost somewhere along the stream. We soon set them right. And Race Director Anstr Davidson tells us afterwards that he wasn't worried—he knows that Kate knows the trail and that we're running together. Buddy Ken Swab fears for much of the race that he's recapping his performance at BRR last year when he crashed during the final half dozen miles. He says he's the chief pilot of "Fly and Die Airlines", and complains of a rough spell around mile 35, but soon recovers. At mile ~45 he feels great and leaves Kate and me behind. He runs ahead to finish a powerful six minutes ahead of us and more than an hour and a half better than last year. Congrats, Ken! Friend Caroline Williams starts strong but is suffering when Kate and I catch up with her at mile ~40, Wolf Run Shoals. But as always she's super-cheerful and perseveres, to finish in a personal record of about 11:45. Comrade Kate is cruising along and doing well until mile ~37.5 as we near the Fountainhead aid station. There, to my horror, she stumbles and takes a nasty fall on the sticks and roots. Her left middle finger is crooked and swollen; we fear that it's broken. Her left knee and shin are badly banged up. Ow! The next half dozen miles are Not Fun for Kate. Her legs ache, especially on the downhills. I encourage her to walk rather than run, and perhaps take some ibuprofen and electrolytes. We're still far ahead of schedule and can in fact make the cutoffs by hiking the remaining distance. But thankfully, after half a dozen miles Kate suddenly feels better. "No bad spell lasts forever. "My bronchitis causes occasional coughing fits, which I treat by sucking on hard-candy atomic fireballs and root beer barrels. My right knee aches, as it has for the past few months, but after ~40 miles it gives up arguing. The left metatarsals offer only minor complaints, much less than at the Chocolate Bunny last Saturday. My legs start to get tired during the final third of the race. I pop two S! caps every hour and soon they feel stronger. Although I stumble several times I avoid any falls. No ibuprofen this year. After the race, however, I develop bleeding from an unmentionable area, perhaps due to chafing. Trail runners may wish to read John Dodds's MMT 2002 report for clues. Non-trail runners are strongly advised not to open that page. A crescent moon hangs low in the east as I arrive at Kate Abbott's home ca. Zena, the family dog, greets me. Kate cooks grilled cheese sandwiches and we each have one. I drive us to the starting area, Hemlock Overlook Regional Park. Our walk in the gloom to the packet pickup area is tricky on the hills and at a water crossing. We get our shirts and race numbers, greet friends, and prepare for the race. Where the heck are we and what the heck are we about to do? Bull Run is a famous stream that flows to the Occoquan Reservoir and thence into the Potomac River. The area was the site of several major Civil War battles. As the Virginia Happy Trails Running Club web site notes, "The Bull Run Run is a beautiful, tough run on the Bull Run Trail in Northern Virginia. The VHTRC was formed in 1992 to sponsor the first Bull Run Run in April 1993. " The 18th annual BRR takes place on 10 April 2010. Here's a map of our path, thanks to Google Maps, GPS Visualizer, and the Garmin GPS that I wear on my wrist. As we line up for the 6:30am start I tweet the news and Ken Swab texts a friend. Then we're off, taking our time and cruising near the back of the crowd. Caroline Williams is nearby; she was with me last weekend at the Chocolate Bunny night run. So is John Godinet, whom I also met there. Ken and I banter as usual during the mile loop before we head down the steep single-track trail to join the BRT. Kate leads our little group, as usual setting a perfect pace, aggressive but not irrational. We follow the course upstream, walking the uphills, running where feasible. Caroline blasts ahead; Ken follows her, though we see him briefly at the first aid station, mile 7.2, Centreville Rd. Bluebells bloom, painting cerulean fields beside the trail. Tiny white flowers accompany them. I ask a photographer what they're called, and she tells me "spring beauties". After the northern turnaround Kate and I catch up with Ken; he sticks with us for the next ~35 miles. We grab-and-go briskly through aid stations. I snag the usual cookies, chocolate candies, and salty potato chips. I also take Succeed! electrolyte capsules at almost every opportunity and nibble Clif shot blocks from my stash. Back at the start/finish area, mile 16.6, Kate ditches her outer layer, since the day has begun to warm. She continues in her orange "Cody's Crew" singlet, in honor of a friend's son who died too young. I'm in red garb today and have already rolled up my sleeves. I post our location to Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz. We're 3:38 into the race, the same as last year. As we head downstream the firing range across Bull Run is noisy and leads to some jokes about shooting laggard runners. We note the memorial shrine near the Marina as we pass by. Typical trail humor surfaces sporadically, not to be repeated here. Muddy bogs and water crossings are small and narrow. The Wolf Run Shoals aid station is a delight, with ice cream sandwiches for hot runners and silly costumes for volunteers. During the White Loop trail segment we encounter a fast runner heading the wrong direction. We try to get him turned around, but he ignores us and adds a couple of miles to his day. Rob Dolan, recovering from bronchitis, greets us from his chair at the Do Loop. Gary Knipling, 66 years old and on his way to a sub-10 hour finish, is all smiles as usual. So is Mark McKennett and Ken's cousin Peter Kozlowski. We arrive at the finish line at 5:52pm. Kate's husband Victor and her sons Sebastian, Joaquin, and Jacian appear a few minutes later. Kate and Ken express doubts about running ultramarathons in the future. Of course, Kate is scheduled to do a 24 hour endurance run next weekend, and Ken has signed up for the Miwok 100k on 1 May. I laugh about how one's sense of "reasonable" gets recalibrated after an ultramarathon. Trail running friend Caren Jew taught me another new useful acronym the other day: GSD. Formerly to me those letters meant "Ground Sample Distance", the spacing between pixels on a remote-sensing image, a measure of resolution. That didn't make much sense when Caren wrote that GSD was her Mantra for the Day. Nor did another primary definition, "German Shepherd Dog", seem likely. But then I discovered that in context GSD can also stand for the noble and important goal of "Getting Stuff Done". Yesterday for the little group at the office I created a new quick-start FAQ web page of instructions on how to order books, how to sign up for computer services, etc. The original Apple Macintosh (like most other early computers) ran all the time in "supervisor mode". The processor could do whatever it wanted to—or rather, whatever the machine-language instructions told it to do—and so any program could run amok, overwrite another program's data, and crash the entire computer if a programmer made a single fatal mistake. Modern operating systems, in contrast, run ordinary programs in "user mode". The processor is limited in what it can do, crashes are much less frequent, and when a program fails it can't take down other programs. Supervisor mode is reserved for the operating system, the master controller. It monitors what's going on, and can if necessary force individual programs to take turns and play nicely with one another. In extreme circumstances it can interrupt and shut down a user-mode program that goes astray. Speculation: perhaps higher-level self-awareness—such as that cultivated by mindfulness meditation—sets up something like a modern computer operating system? A part of the mind stands apart and quietly watches the rest. It need not judge or interfere; it just observes. ## Maybe that's enlightenment? Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) wrote some excellent, unconventional science fiction and fantasy stories. During the past few years I've been scanning the shelves at the used-book sale for one in particular: Lord of Light. I read it as a teenager when it came out in 1967. Last month I found a copy. The verdict, upon re-reading after 4 decades? Lord of Light holds up fairly well. It's no literary masterpiece, major plot improbabilities distract, and of-its-time sexism occasinally creeps in. And it suffers from a weakness that is shared by J. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and other novels that reach high: if powerful god-like beings exist, why bother with human-scale battles? That's like mustering an army of kittens to fight before launching the thermonuclear missiles. The scales of destruction are too disparate. But setting all that aside, Zelazny's prose includes many fine bits, some of which still echo in my memory—arch humor and poetic passages that go beyond pretty. For instance, in Chapter Two's painting of a daybreak:He seated himself upon a crate at the foot of a pier. The dawn came to lift the darkness from the world; and he watched the ships stirring with the tide, empty of sail, webbed with cables, prows carved with monster or maiden. His every visit to Mahartha brought him again to the harbor for a little while. Morning's pink parasol opened above the tangled hair of the clouds, and cool breezes crossed the docks. Scavenger birds uttered hoarse cries as they darted about loop-windowed towers, then swooped across the waters of the bay. He watched a ship put out to sea, tentlike vanes of canvas growing to high peaks and swelling in the salt air. Aboard other ships, secure in their anchorage, there was movement now, as crews made ready to load or unload cargoes of incense, coral, oil and all kinds of fabrics, as well as metals, cattle, hardwoods and spices. He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, those being theology and anatomy. It is probably as old as the world itself; and if it is not, it should be, because it looks as if it were. It begins with a doorway. There is a huge, burnished metal door, erected by the First, that is heavy as sin, three times the height of a man and half that distance in width. It is a full cubit thick and bears a head-sized ring of brass, a complicated pressure-plate lock and an inscription that reads, roughly, "Go away. This is not a place to be. If you do try to enter here, you will fail and also be cursed. If somehow you succeed, then do not complain that you entered unwarned, nor bother us with your deathbed prayers. "It is set near the peak of a very high mountain named Channa, in the midst of a region of very high mountains called the Ratnagaris. In that place there is always snow upon the ground, and rainbows ride like fur on the backs of icicles, which sprout about the frozen caps of cliffs. The air is as sharp as a sword. The sky is bright as the eye of a cat. Every so often, when running through the real woods, stumbling on real rocks, and becoming really tired, a classic Scott Adams "Dilbert" comic strip comes to mind. I saw it again in a collection last month. Dilbert and his not-quite-girlfriend are sitting under a tree, each holding a book:"So . you're reading a book . of an activity that's almost a sport . "That's about as close as you can get to being a non-organic lifeform. "Not a fair criticism of real golf, of course — but there is certainly a difference between simulation and reality, and folks who settle for the fake are shortchanging themselves. Who's going to look back years later and be proud of their high score in long-obsolete whatever-it was? David Chadwick's biography Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki, is a flip-book of glimpses of a monk who, like a snowflake triggering an avalanche, brought one form of Buddhism to thousands of Americans when he came to the United States in 1959. And also like an avalanche, the cascade that Suzuki created spread and slowed and eventually settled the landscape into a new stability. Crooked Cucumber follows Suzuki from his birth in Japan (1904) to his death by cancer in California (1971). The book is is full of anecdotes and encounters, many funny, many tragic. Suzuki stops by the highway to relieve himself and drops his false teeth down the embankment. He orders a double-meat hamburger at a fast-food joint and then trades it for a grilled cheese sandwich that his vegetarian companion has started eating. "There is no question," a student said, "because there is no answer. Whatever you say will not always be so. "I've dipped into Cucumber and read chunks; some day perhaps I'll plow linearly through it. Then again, maybe not. Suzuki himself rarely talked much about his life. When a student asked permission to print biographic material, Shunryu Suzuki said, "I'm not interested. I have no accurate record of my life, and I don't want any. "Vartan Gregorian's The Road to Home is a charmingly written autobiography by an amazing Armenian-American. Gregorian, born in 1935 in Tabriz Iran, grew up in tough circumstances but managed to become "a person of learning and consequence" thanks to hard work, a brilliant mind, and the help of family, friends, and strangers. Libraries were important throughout his life. In Chapter Two ("Childhood") he observes:From age eleven on, I was a part-time page at the library, which proved to be a great oasis of privacy, peace, and occasional solitude. I loved to read and I read everything. I understood some of what I read, was bewildered by much, but over time the library introduced me to Armenia's history and literature, and Russian, English, German, and Polish novels in translation. The library opened a new world. At age fourteen, with two friends, I edited a newspaper named Ararat for the library's bulletin board. I wrote an editorial titled "Our Voice" and the first obituary about the late, beloved prelate of our Church, Archbishop Nerses Melik-Tanguian. At the same time, I started to write articles for the respected Armenian daily Alik in Tehran, beginning with obituaries and reporting on cultural events in Tabriz. I wrote under a pseudonym in order to be taken seriously by the readers. Neither the library nor the newspaper paid, but I benefited immensely from both. I was poor, but I was not alone. In 1956, after attending school in Beirut Lebanon, Gregorian came to the United States to go to college. In Chapter Six ("Stanford University: A New World") he notes:My courses were great. But I found myself in the position of a thirsty person who wants to drink water from a fountain and is given a hydrant. This was the case with my courses as well as with the Stanford library. The library was a mecca for me. I spent long days there in awe of the collection of books, like a little kid jumping from one toy to another. An interesting item led me to another and on and on. Even at the end of the day, I still felt intoxicated. At long last I had a personal library, open, accessible, and always there. (from Charlotte Joko Beck's book Nothing Special, "Struggle: The Cocoon of Pain"; cf. Cave of Pain (2009-12-18), . Thank you! (Copyright © 1999-2011 by Mark Zimmermann. Assistant: words 1: items; see words 2: through the 2010 MMT hundred words 3: We achieve one of words 4: incredibly tough-lovely words 5: No regrets! 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<user>: Finish this: The difference: Discrimination is more obvious and overt, where you target a group because they are different from you. However, racism/other -isms are now socially unacceptable (at least in the UK). So people resort to Exclusion, which is more subtle and hidden, but nevertheless shows that you dislike a certain group. g: being unfriendly to another race, trying to get as far away as possible from 'that brown dude', etc. And one of the reasons why we discriminate and exclude is stereotyping. We generalise people and put judgments on them, even before we meet them. During the time of the Prophet, the Quraisy used to spread all kinds of propaganda to prevent people from listening to the call of Rasulullah. There was a man called At-Tufail ibn 'Amr. The Quraisy used to tell him all sorts of propaganda, until he stuffed his ears with cotton to block out the message of the Prophet. But Allah guides whom He wills. One day, at-Tufail happened to meet the Prophet, cottons still in his ears. But you know, with cottons stuffed in your ear, you still hear something. And what at-Tufail heard was the most beautiful thing. And experiencing the truth first hand, the propaganda of the Quraisy melted away, and at-Tufail became a guided Believer. "D&T people? I heard they're very closed-minded, have messy beards and have serious faces all the time. If i were you, i wouldn't get too close to them"There sure are a lot of stereotypes, and im sure you've heard some of them. Not only negative stereotypes, but positive stereotypes as well. In fact, people sometimes expect D&T-ists to be perfect. And they say: "Why does this Messenger eat food, and walk about in the markets (like ourselves). Why is not an angel sent down to him to be a warner with him? (Al Furqan:7)DISCLAIMER: I am not asking you to stay just the way you are. Indeed, a believer should improve himself every day. This is a reminder to all of us to hold on to the truth, wherever it may come from. So pull that cotton wool out of your ear and go find some good ol' soul-nourishing and some good company. These past few days, the Intelligence Bureau at Reflective Perspectives (with only one staff member -. has been picking up almost similar snapshots of the public mood. yes, this intelligence source is none other than Facebook:At the beginning of the 20th century, old empires started to crumble and lose their power. These were vast empires with control over huge territory, like the Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Prussian Empire. Another important characteristic of these empires was that they ruled over a multi-ethnic society. For example, the Ottoman Empire didn't just consist of Turks. There were Arabs, Greeks, Kurds, Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, and so on. For the empires of Islam, what binded all of inhabitants together was islamic brotherhood, eventhough there was sometimes fighting amongst the rulers. This was what enabled to Ibn Battuta to travel far and wide throughout Dar-ul-Islam, the Muslim Lands. But towards the end, islam and islamic principles no longer took centre stage in people's hearts. So people began to have a feeling that you're only my brother if you have my skin colour and speak my language. Add that to a whole lot of other reasons, and the empires began to crumble into small nation states. So now there was Syria for Syrians, Turkey for Turks, and so on. ## And there was Malaysia for Malaysians and Indonesia for Indonesians. There was a lot of nationalist sentiment all around. That things could degrade to such a level is a shame. Take the malay archipelago, for example. When Malacca was invaded by the Portuguese, the islamic Sultanate of Aceh and the Sultanate of Demak in Java tried to repel the invaders. Aceh and Java are in present-day Indonesia. "We were a humiliated people, and Allah gave us honour through islam. If we tried to seek honour through other ways, Allah would humiliate us again. ""The believers are nothing else than brothers (in Islâmic religion). So make reconciliation between your brothers, and fear Allâh, that you may receive mercy. " (Al Hujurat:10)The history i present to you today is simplified, to know more there are lots of good books to read. But the main thing is,Accountants can choose different methods for accounting. So they say 'Method A' is good or 'Method B' is good, and come up with reasons. But sometimes they may say this method is good for the public interest, when actually they have underlying private interests. "Prawn behind the rock". A company lobbies the government for lower tax. They give the reason that lower taxes encourage businesses and is good for the economy (public interest). But actually they want lower taxes to have more profits in the income statement, and the manager gets a fat bonus (private interest). And as always in Reflective Perspectives, we do it the other way round. accounting class/daily life is just an excuse to talk about the big things:There is a HUGE market for excuses nowadays. People give noble excuses for doing err, not-so-noble things:"Eh, its my freedom lah, to wear hijab or not. La ikraha fi al-din you know (no compulsion in religion). We should be careful about the market for excuses, because it afflicts nearly everyone. Ever had that feeling that you really really want to do something, but its not really proper? And then to make it 'legal' you try and find ayat from the Qur'an, from hadeeth, anything that would support your wishes. If someone 'religious' says,Well im not saying we can't do anything. Just be careful not to let God's commands follow your desires. Let your desires follow God's commands. " And if you were to follow their (Jews and Christians) desires after what you have received of Knowledge, then you would have against Allâh neither any Walî (protector or guardian) nor any helper. " (Al Baqarah:120)So be true to ourselves. Are we doing things for our own pleasure, or to gain the pleasure of Allah, Most High. We can give any amount of excuses, but Allah knows what is in every heart. There's this one scene in Malcolm X, where another inmate says to Malcolm while they were in prison:"what can my enemies to do me? My paradise is in my heart and it goes with me wherever I go. If they imprison me, it is private devotion with my Lord. If they kill me, it is dying for the sake of my Lord. If they drive me out of my land, it is making hijra for the sake of my Lord. "I do not know who you are while you are reading this. I do not know where you were born, who your family is, what your inner beliefs are. But i do know that to be have problems is to be human. You might be stressed preparing for exams. You may have received a call saying "im sorry, he's. gone" You may be feeling inferior, all this while you're the top scorer, now you feel like you've achieved nothing. On a loftier scale, you might be feeling really worried about the state of the ummah, and stressed because of your lack of efforts in helping. You might be suffering under oppressive regimes. You might be worried because you just read Harian Metro this morning and thought "things are getting worse. what if this happened to my family? ""Who has created death and life, that He may test you which of you is best in deed. And He is the All-Mighty, the Oft-Forgiving" (Al Mulk:2)This life is just a test, to see which of us are the best in deed. Be patient enduring this prison. Because paradise is in our hearts, we are just waiting for the Day when Allah says(It will be said to the pious): "O (you) the one in (complete) rest and satisfaction! Come back to your Lord, Well-pleased (yourself) and well-pleasing unto Him! Enter you, then, among My honoured slaves, And enter you My Paradise! ""There is not a child except he is born on fitrah (the natural state, i. e being submissive to Allah). Therefore his parents will make him a Christian, a Jew or a Magian (Majusi)" (HR Bukhari)Every human being is born in a natural state, the fitrah. It is natural for humans to want good things. For example, take a robber. What if he were robbed? Another one of our fitrah is to recognise a Supreme Being who created the world, is all-powerful and has power over all our daily affairs. You could see this in Youtube. Malaysian artists, eventhough they may not follow the commands of God completely (like wearing hijab), what will they say if they receive an award? "Say, (O Muhammad), To whom belongs the earth and whoever is in it, if you should know? They will say, To Allah . Say, Then will you not remember? " (Al Mu'minuun: 84-85)A friend of mine illustrated this beautifully. No matter what religion you are, you will always go to places like thisto get some peace of mind. Because these places are the creation of the Supreme Being, its all natural and magnificent, unlike our man-made structures. Let's say that someone shows you the shirt that you wore when you were in kindergarten. A Kikilala tshirt, for example. "But this is yours, see? Even has your name on it. See this spot ... <bot>: Completed pargraph(s): over here. That's when you played in the rain and fell down in a muddy pool. See this little hole. You were riding on your bike but fell down, you came to us crying, but we made you some Milo and then you were alright. In the process of 'growing up', we might have forgotten about it, we might think that we're 'too big, too mature' for it, we might have 'moved on'. Yesterday a friend of mine posted this status on facebook. Nowadays, after Syaikh Google, The Kitab of Facebook is where people get their wisdom. Umar al Khattab was a feared and brutal man before he changed, but after changing, he could cry just from listening to verses of the Qur'an. How did the author change? Ever heard "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach? " It started with physical nourishment, it changed to mental spiritual nourishment. "Did you hear about this guy? After he flew to the UK/egypt/america/etc, he became really alim. "Could we do nothing to change the situation we're in? are we so hopeless that we just surrender without trying and say 'i've done my best? '". Verily! Allâh will not change the condition of a people as long as they do not change their state themselves. " (Ar Ra'd: 11)If we drink water, our thirst will be gone. Imagine there's a water in the table in front of you. If you just scream out, "water! water! " The water will not magically fly to you, and you will become thirstier from screaming. You have to get up and take the glass of water. If you just shout out "oh Allah help us! help us! " and just sit there doing nothing, nothing's going to happen either. Every day, babies get thrown away, children go hungry, families fall apart, drugs wreck people's lives, while we sit in inaction, with our comfortable homes, comfortable lives. From the author, his nuclear family, his extended family, his family-in-faith and everyone who celebrates eid in the spirit of sacrifice. If you're an amateur like me, it lands far from the hole, in the rough. in malay we call that 'ke laut' (to the sea). Either you land in the rough, on the fairway or on the tee, it doesn't matter. The ball's still not in the hole. "O you who believe! Enter perfectly in Islâm and follow not the footsteps of Shaitân (Satan). Verily! He is to you a plain enemy. " (Al Baqarah: 208)Some people say "i know i do these things, but at least i pray and fast. Not like THAT GUY, he's even worse. "Rough, fairway or tee, doesn't matter. If you're still on the outside, find someone to whack you in. "Come, let us have iman for a moment. Verily the heart changes faster than the contents of a boiling kettle"Now that is awesome. They talk to each other about the things that are important. "How is your iman (belief)", "did you do good deeds today", "please remind me of Allah". And the stories we hear about the Sahabah are not stories about their professions, what businesses they did, how they made money etc. Instead we hear about their legendary deeds, like the 3 people who were dying on the battlefield, and one of them was given water to quench his thirst. He declined and said"The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning. " (An-Nazi'aat : 46)Do you know that Joseph Martin Kraus is called “the Swedish Mozart”? Well, as a matter of fact, it is primarily due to the fact that the two composers were born the same year (1756) and died a year apart from each other, Mozart in 1791 and Kraus in 1792: actually, besides the journeys that both of them did when they were young, they were really far away from each other; Mozart lived mostly in Vienna, Kraus spent the whole life in Sweden. But did they ever meet? Did they know each other? The musicologist Bertil Van Boer, who is the author of the complete catalog of Kraus's works, investigated this aspect to find out if really a metting occurred. In his essay “The case of the circumstantial meetings – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Martin Kraus in Vienna” he explains that “one of the joys of compiling a thematic catalogue is that a number of small mysteries crop up as one evaluates biographical and source material for the composer concerned. The journey often requires delving into the private life and works in intimate detail, and brings to light important information that in turn raises questions about the various influences or connections affecting the composer or style. But when this information is lacunar or based primarily upon circumstantial evidence, it provides only plausible suppositions that, while not entirely provable as incontrovertible fact, nonetheless dare the scholar to prove otherwise. Such is the circumstantial case for the meeting of two of the more remarkable composers of the second half of the eighteenth century, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Martin Kraus, who share nearly identical life spans and dates.”Indeed, Mozart and Kraus do had something in common, besides the dates. According to Bertil Van Boer “first, there is their development as composers. Both showed considerable talent in musical composition during childhood, with substantial works being written during their teenage years. Both were adept at writing in the various styles of the period, and both were well travelled internationally.” Besides he differences in education (Mozart was essentially home—educated and achieved a professional career early on in his life, while Kraus was university— educated in philosophy and law and became Kapellmeister at the Swedish court only after considerable difficulty “they have much in common in terms of their creative process. Both were well known for the ability to craft new works of some substance quickly and without a laborious compositional process, and both achieved some reputation for innovative orchestration. Both have been seen as being a qualitative step above their contemporaries and this comparison was first proposed by a well known contemporary, Joseph Haydn, who said ‘Kraus was the first great composer of genius that I ever knew; . pity about him and Mozart, both were so young when they died'! ”The question whether the two composers knew or knew about each other is still open, because there is no biographical documentation on this subject, at least as regards Mozart: we can find some evidence on Kraus's part, in the form of both correspondence and music. “From November 1782 until December 1786 Kraus embarked upon a grand tour of Europe at the expense of Swedish King Gustav III in order to further his own education, observe the latest trends in music and theatre, and meet with as many leading figures in the eighteenth-century musical world as possible. As a result, the route of his journey allowed him to come into contact with most leading composers of the day, including Gluck, Haydn, Salieri and numerous others. While Mozart's name is clearly missing from this list of notables, it is not necessarily an indication that no meeting took place.”This doesn't mean that Kraus and Mozart never met each other, even if we have no evidence: for example, we know for sure that Kraus “was familiar with his colleague and his music”: he wrote about Mozart's works in letters to his familiars and composed an adaptation of a movement from the opera Idomeneo, and “had inside information on the latter's latest operatic efforts of Mozart”. Considering the admiration that Kraus had for Mozart “to have avoided him entirely would seem contradictory to the very purpose of Kraus's goals for his journey.” If they met, it should have happened in 1783: “Kraus arrived in Vienna on 1 April 1783 and departed in October of that same year. Mozart, newly married and enjoying the first success of Entfflhrung, was in residence until July, when he took his new bride back to Salzburg to meet his family. Thus there was a span of about four months where, if nothing else, both were in the same city at the same time.” Vienna was a capital, but even a small city, and the two of them had to have acquaintance in common! However, the mistery remains: maybe we'll never know if the two met. We just know that there is a special link between the two composers. In modern times, Kraus is not so known as Mozart, of course, neither so performed: especially for this reason we are particularly proud to have his music repertoire. Besides the fact, of course, that it is wonderful music! Bertil Van Boer is an active musicologist, having published articles in the International Brass Society Journal, Journal of Musicology, Journal of Musicological Research, Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, and a host of Festschriften and symposium reports. He has regularly contributed to the Grove Dictionary of Opera and Grove Dictionary of Music. He is also the author of several books and numerous musical editions. His specialty is music of the 18th century, particularly in Scandinavia, with focus on the composer Joseph Martin Kraus. He serves as a musical consultant for Naxos Records, and has been involved with the Royal Opera and Royal Swedish Academy of Music on various projects. He has also been conductor with Opera Kansas and performed professionally in Austria, Nicaragua, Sweden, and the United States. The book was published by Indiana University Press.

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User: More words: According to an article in the Sunday Star-Times, couples are saying "I don't" to civil unions. In ... 362 couples have celebrated civil unions compared with over 15,000 marriages. Conservatives will no doubt see this as a failure, and complain about the cost of establishing a parallel system to pander to a minority. And on the latter point, I agree entirely. What I disagree on is the identity of that minority. Bluntly, the reason we have a parallel system with all its resulting bureaucratic ... because of a small minority of religious bigots who felt that they had exclusive ownership of marriage, which they believed would somehow be "debased" if they had to share it with others. We should not have such a system. Instead, we should have allowed gays to use the perfectly good system we already had: that of the Marriage Act. Being one of the pairs of 62 heterosexual couples, ... CU system to work, but that is partly due to a desire to avoid marriage in that form espoused by said religious individuals who wish to keep it "pure" and "a bastion of modern civilisation". ... wants a marriage should be able to get a marriage and anyone who wants a civil union should be able to get one, both ... heterosexual. Or better yet, get the legally recognised bit to be just the CU component, with people able to do whatever they wanted after for a marriage ceremony or whatever. There is no reason other than historical for ... conotations whatsoever. But I suspect that is somewhat unlikely. It's amazing who you meet on the net. Being another one of the 62 heterosexual couples (well, half a one anyway) I couldn't agree with Jenny more. We had a number of reasons for making the decision we made, but one was that I don't want to be part of ... insitution. What I want is for everyone to have the same choice I had, straight gay ... bi. There's nothing wrong or inferior about civil unions, the problem is ... choices. As someone who is socially conservative I don't think the CU's are a failure. As people have said, it provides an alternative for people who aren't interested in the traditional concept of marriage. ... shows that something was forced upon everyone to accept, when it was only desired by around 600 people. We are in the middle of the wedding season. Apart from those people who chose to act on the new law straight away, most were more likely to get hitched in summer (especially seeing as secular unions are more likely to be outside than in churches). I know for a fact that Births, Deaths, and Marriages has told the press that they can't provide reliable statistics until a ... passed. Well, I do, for a start. When it ... rights, like the right to have your relationship recognised in ... to some and then refuse to do anything about it on the basis that its too few people to be concerned about. Even one person being denied such rights is one too many. I'd also take precisely the opposite message from the small numbers. If 600 people is too few to matter, then it wouldn't have mattered if we'd gone the whole hog and amended the Marriage Act. Dave: Oh come off it. The reason Labour opted for the halway house of civil unions rather than simply amending the Marriage Act was because they believed the political cost of doing so was too high (or at least, more than ... pay; a fact which BTW you acknowledge ... post). And why did they think that? Because of a bunch of religious bigots who felt that they had exclusive ownership of "marriage" and didn't want to share it. Tim was asked by the PM to go away and investigate a variety of options in terms of recognising gay relationships. A taskforce group was set up. And they came up with what they thought was the best relationship model. Labour implemented what this group (the group weren't Labour members apart from Tim) suggested. I ... Labour supporter think Civil Union is a preferable relationship model than marriage. Only 2 submiters on the Civil Union Bill argued for Gay Marriage rater ... Union. I sat through the hours of oral submissions, and it was quite clear and consistent that Civil Unions was preferred by most people in the gay/lesbian community over gay marriage (and preferable to the hetersexual couples supporting it also). I'm not opposed to gay marriage, but its not ... going to go out and campaign for it. And I'm not aware of any strong desire in the queer ... it. I think it will happen one day because it is a logical next step. But that doesn't mean that Labour settled for a half-way house. And as someone who is engaged to have a Civil Union and has many friends that have had them, I feel quite offended that you have called Civil Unions a half way house. If Civil Unions were just for gay couples only (which was one option the taskforce looked at) then indeed that would have been a half way house. But because Civil Unions are open to gay and strait couples, I think it is a better option. "When it comes to fundamental rights, like the right to have your relationship recognised in law. "Here is one place where we differ. I don't believe that this right exists for all relationships, which by the way neither ... get their relationships recognised. And if it does, then you can also not logically exclude polygamy or any other flavour of poly. You and I have totally different ideas of marriage, because for me marriage is the public institution that generally provides for a ... children. For you it's about the personal relationship between the partners. It's not about "sharing" marriage, it's about how we define marriage. It ... men or two women to be "married". ... biological (or natural law if you will) impossibility. Actually, Muerk, ... on us, then we should be going polygamous - talk about anatomy, sexual responce, ... so on, and it appears that humans evolved with a mildly chimpanzee type tendency towards competitive, promiscous polygamy, not quite as promiscuous as the bonobos, but much more so than the gorillas. And of course, if we want to go on about 'natural law' then, well, seeing as the bonobos (genetically closest to us) are known to indulge almost every sexual coupling type you can think of, then we should just adopt marriage laws based on a comparison ... sexuality, eh? WV: your analysis is all very well, except we are not chimpanzes, we are human. The difference genetically is slight, but still important. Hence I haven't met any chimps that have a conception of morality, or abstract form of entertainment, say piano concertos, or aesthetics. Sure, you can bonobo away, ie. have sex for pleasure and socialisation, but humans can also decide to be celebite for religious reasons, say Buddhist monks, now your bobobo is _never_ going to be able to understand or practice such thought or behavior. ... up the 'natural law' strawman in the first place, so you don't need to be surprised if I make my own corn dollie to wave back ... dollie. Genetically and taxonomically, we _are_ chimpanzees - there's good argument for either including us in with Pan or including the chimps in with Homo. You should try hanging out with some chimps sometime, its fun. The point is - there is no "natural law" dictating monogamous marriage. It doesn't exist in our closest relatives, the chimps, and the range of human social behaviour goes right across the spectrum - monogamy is the average, but polygamy is very common, and fidelity is rare, and there are some odd forms of tribal group marriage that are rather kinky, and homosexual pairings are found in all cultures (chimps included). Human sexual behaviour is most similar to bonobos, less similar to pan troglodytes and markedly less so to the gorillas, not surprising as that's the order ... difference. Morality and abstract thought has fuck all to do with sex when they get horny, and you ... behaviour in any group of humans about town. Like it or lump it, we're a secular society, albeit often incoherently so, and it's a damned good thing to get the state and ... out of the bedroom and the marriage business as much as possible. This is great, as it means that I don't have to pay any attention whatsoever to your beliefs in imaginary friends with unsual sexual obsessions (Especially celibacy - that's just downright perverted. I'm sure all those loving gay married couples in countries where gay marriage is legal will be fascinated to hear they're a biological impossibility. I'm using natural law in a Catholic sense, in that procreation is a good humans are inclined towards. So I'm using it in relation to reproductive anatomy as opposed to social structures of primate behavior. I think most animals display same sex behavior, especially adolescent male mammals. But that does not mean there is a "natural law" reason for same sex marriage. God's revealed creation has men with a penis and women with a vagina, these two things "fit" together with the good of procreation coming from that act. The male and female coupling is our Divinely orchestrated nature. Marriage is the Sacrament that joins the complementary male and female into one flesh and bears a child - the natural good that humans are inclined too. Same sex people can not marry because their genitals don't "fit" together, they can not reproduce together, our physical nature makes that impossible. They can never hope to attain the good of children in a one flesh (sexual) union. Polygamy works with the natural law, certainly the Patriarchs practiced it, but same sex unions do not. De ... works with natural law, because these unions have (or ... bear children together. The Church didn't invent the biological reality of human genitals, but it regards these (and their reproductive function) as the indicator of the natural law of marriage which can be rationalised from the Creation. Thus also no anal/oral ejaculations, masterbation, contraception other than recourse to a woman's biologically infertile times or in vitro fertilization treatments, or sperm and egg donation. It's not about stopping gay people. ... erotic love never remove reproduction from the sexual act. You do realise, Muerk, that as soon as you say 'in a Catholic sense', and follow it with that chunk of dogma, I read: 'unprovable assertions of priesthood of imaginary friends in the sky', and write it off completely - it's just outside the bounds of what observation tells me is sensible. No masturbation or oral ejaculation, eh? You poor buggers. Well even the stupidest atheist could make the jump from penis goes into vagina -> makes babies -> man + woman = marriage. Um, muerk, I'm not disputing sex. Oh, and if it's all penis-vagina, tell me how Hyenas do it? (Female spotted hyenas have a penis. It's quite an intriguing bit of your creation, especially the bit where they can even invert the penis for fertilisation, then split it for birth. Now, you said that:"God's revealed creation has men with a penis and women with a vagina, these two things "fit" together with the good of procreation coming from that act. "What I want to know here is: How is the above part of creation, and all the other varieties ... and social sexual pairings, both human and animal, not part of it? - either your God created/evolved these propensities for sexual promiscuity, ... and if he didn't, who did? Us? Satan? Isn't that giving the prince of lies a little bit much power to coopt sexuality ... Why, apart from sadistic kinkyness, give us the ability, the propensity, etc, for all the variety we do, then tell us off for it? What about the hermaphrodites born with both organs functioning, or neither functioning - where do they fit? I'm disputing that a bunch of celibate old men in Rome with an imaginary friend have any right to pressure the rest of us as to what sorts of sex are right or wrong, and what laws we make to recognise who's made a commitment to each other. Actually, putting some ballpark numbers on this, what, NZ population is around 4 and a bit million. Estimates of sexuality are that anywhere between 1 and 10% of the population may be gay, so lets take a middle estimate and say 200000 gay people at 5% of 4 million.15000 ... straight population (approx 3.8 million), and 300 civil unions is around 0.15% of the gay population. So percentage wise, the gay civil union rate is a bit under half of the straight marriage rate. (although if the gay population is only say, 2%, of the straight population, then the gay civil union rate is 0.38% of the gay population, on a par with the straight marriage rate). So really, the ... in proportion to the numbers when you break it down per capita. Muerk, wouldn't it make more sense to call it "Catholic law" rather than "natural law", since there's nothing natural about it? Personally I think procreation is a bad idea, at least at the rates currently practised by humanity. And when are you going to start a campaign to ban infertile people from getting married, and annul marriages in which one party becomes infertile before a child is conceived? "Oh, and if it's all penis-vagina, tell me how Hyenas do it? (Female spotted hyenas have a penis. "Argh! Don't be dense in purpose. ## What is right for humans and what is right for ... different. Snails are mostly hemaphrodites, but for us it's an abnormality. I'm not wanting to argue with you about who is right or wrong, I'm just trying to explain the "traditionalist" position ... definitions of marriage differ between social groups. I define marriage as being about reproduction/care of children/continuation of the generations and unitive love. Thus, same sex marriage is _FOR ME_ a logical impossibility. ... and I'm allowed to voice what I believe too. It's not just you atheists that get a voice you know. Sterility between married couples does not void a ... honestly, I can't be arsed licking your boots to explain myself. So here's the Catechism, if you actually want to know more, why then Google it. Muerk, I'll make it easier this time and leave out any sarcastic bits (that's what the hyenas were about. and re-state the bits of my last comment you sidestepped by deciding I was being dense (you used to do this a lot on the kaos list, too. :Okay, fair question. I didn't ... honestly I don't know the "official" Catholic theology of this, so I can't fairly answer this as definitive for Catholicism. That's why I ... the Kaos list too. "either your God created/evolved these propensities for sexual promiscuity, or knew they'd evolve, or not, and if he didn't, who did? Us? Satan? "Now, Genesis is not literal history or science, but it is "true" ... sense. (You might want to have your Old Testament handy here)Ok, Gen 1:26 onwards, the text ... for mankind) in his own image - we have something about us that is specificaly a "God-trait", now it can ... that our cells etc, DNA are just like the animal world, so it must be something else. Our mind? Well we do have the frontal lobes of doom, but still, not enough. What about our abilities? We can reason, but then so can apes, what distinguishes us? ... on. Why would God create a tree that mankind shouldn't eat from? Shrug. I have no clue, but the curious note is that it is the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If prior to Gen 3:7, mankind had no conception of good and evil, we were morally incapable, just as a chicken can't act "evil". We were still in God's image, but morally unaware - innocent. Now God created us to receive his love, we are made to love and to ... loved. (This is the bit that came from his image) We walked in the Garden with him - Gen 3:8. Weird, if you think of Jewish ... deity. Therefore, there was some very special intimacy with the divine prior to the apple. So Eve and Adam eat, we rebel against our most intimate parent and we gain the ability to discern ethical behavior. At this point we know we are naked, we feel our first shame. We learn the ability for evil. Our bodies are ordered for certain activities, eating, ... etc. We have biological drives. But we also have the knowledge around these drives to regulate our "animal" behavior. Eating the apple brought sin (decay) into the cosmos. An animal can not, by definition, be perverse, can not sin. He can't choose to rebel against God or God's law. But nor can he love God. Our propensities for lust, greed, sloth, etc. are all physical stimulus/response for certain behaviors. Sex, eating and sleep feel good. But their ... is to make sure that we reproduce, have energy to survive etc. If you make the desire ... the meaning of the act. people who eat because they like food rather than being hungry are gluttons, the means becomes the end. It's a distortion of the purpose of eating. Hence, gluttony has traditionaly been a sin. The pleasure of sexuality is ordered towards ... fruitfulness. To pare away any of the wholeness of the act is to make ... end, not the means. We ate the apple, so we can knowledgably _choose_ to do that, but see Gen 2:17, the wages of sin are death. Reject him and he won't make you love him. ... the rubbish fires of the theological cosmos are awaiting. I don't know why the tree ... temptation in the first place? And I don't know what happened in any historical sense either - although at some point we stopped being big apes and became Homo sapiens. At some point, our species discovered "gods", a metaphysical experiencial reality, at this point we could know, love ... God. At some point we gained the ability to discern ethics. At some point we began to carefully bury our dead, use fire, make complex tools, ... ourselves with carefully crafted objects. Why does our DNA code us to be able ... that? Genesis, is somehow a clue as to how we gained our humanity. No doubt you have a million more questions from what I've said, but I'll try to do better at answering the hard complex questions, although I feel bad posting such a huge comment here in Idiot's blog. But did you really want to all this? Was it genuine interest or just point scoring ... fool? "physical sterility is not an absolute evil. Spouses who still suffer from infertility after exhausting legitimate medical procedures. can give expression to their generosity by adopting abandoned children or performing demanding services for others. "Should research aimed at allowing same sex couples to be fertile be encouraged? It is theoretically possible to create a viable human by mixing the DNA of two people of the same sex. And failing that, same sex couples are certainly capable of performing demanding services for others. Even adopting children is merely an option for infertile couples, not a requirement, so the rights ... not relevant to this issue. Either "because they can not reproduce together" is a reason why two people can't get married, or it's not. They can't even attempt to fufil a fruitful sexual union. If you really want to delve into the sacramental meaning of marriage then I recommend John Paul II's "Gospel of the Body" and Christopher West's "Theology of the Body Explained". Penises fit other ... things you can do with a vagina other than put a penis it in. Men who have lost parts ... impotent also cannot even attempt to fulfil a fruitful sexual union. Should they be denied marriage? And to say that inserting a penis in to a vagina is an attempt to create a child when both parties are fully aware that there is no possibility of conception whatsoever is quite a stretch. Hoping for a miracle doesn't justify it - God is perfectly ... of arranging a miraculous pregnancy without any need for intercourse. I'm not interested in delving in to the sacramental meaning of marriage; I am interested in anyone who publicly states that I can't marry my partner giving a consistent, logical justification. 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Such children may remain in the same low grade for several years with no apparent improvement in their scholarship, and are seldom promoted. The cause is rarely due to an impaired mentality. The fact that all of those observed have been benefited or cured by eye-mind education, is convincing evidence that retardation is functional. Imperfect sight is usually associated with retardation, which is very prevalent. When these cases improve, their vision always improves. One principal reported that all the school children in the rapid advancement classes under her jurisdiction had normal sight without glasses. In all the other classes the percentage of retardation was very high, and in some classes all the pupils were suffering with retardation. It was customary to separate the children whose retardation was extreme and put them all in one class under the control of one teacher. The teacher told me that after she had improved their vision, their scholarship advanced and they were transferred to the usual grades. For many years, retardation has been studied by competent men; all torts of causes have been ascribed to this condition, and remedial measures have been practiced which have heretofore not been of the slightest benefit. The method which I suggested was very simple. A Snellen test card was placed in the classroom in a place where it could be seen by all the children from their seats. Sometimes two or more cards were placed upon the wall. Every day for a short time under the supervision of the teacher, all the children read the card, first with one eye and then with the other, while one eye was covered with the palm of the hand in such a way as not to, press upon the eyelids. The teacher told me that the use of the cards in this way after a few weeks or months was followed by an improvement in the sight, when the retardation became less. One benefit of this practice was that it relieved or prevented headaches and other discomforts. The ability of the children to study was stimulated. The memory, imagination, judgment and other phenomena of the mind were very much benefited. It was also encouraging to note that, with the improvement in their retardation, a larger number of children continued in school than ever before. In the beginning, many of these children were so unhappy and so uncomfortable in school that they were usually anxious to stop school and go to work. After their retardation was improved and their vision benefited, they said that they could look at the writing on the blackboard and read it without discomfort. They also said that they could study without getting headaches. Furthermore, they seemed to become able to remember and understand what they read or what they studied. Truancy was very common among the children who were suffering from retardation. After the retardation was relieved or cured, truancy became very much less and the children volunteered the information that after they became able to read or study without discomfort, they could understand better the lessons that were assigned to them. Children who were very restless and mischievous, so-called bad boys or bad girls, became model pupils and very easy to handle. The evils of retardation were numerous. The cause was always a stare, a strain, or an effort to see. The cure was accomplished by teaching the children how to use their eyes without staring or straining. While reading the Snellen test card in the way just described was a great benefit, there were other methods practiced by some children which were an added benefit. One teacher from the northern part of the State of New York was exceptionally good and was able to keep order in her classroom when other teachers failed. She wrote me that she always began the day by having the children palm, or cover both closed eyes with the palms of the hands in such a way as to exclude all light. This the children did for fifteen minutes and then they started in with their work, feeling rested and comfortable. When she noticed them becoming fatigued, she had them practice swinging, and the result was that they continued their work without becoming restless. Another teacher, living in Chicago, found it an advantage to teach the children how to remember. This was accomplished in some cases by having the children remember their own signatures at first, as well as they could. They improved their memory by alternately looking at their signature and then closing their eyes while remembering it. The children were able to demonstrate that it was easier for them to remember one word of their signature than three or more words. They also found that they could remember one letter of their signature better than the whole word. By practice, they became able to remember a part of a letter better than the whole letter, and the smaller the part remembered, the more perfectly was it accomplished. Many of them became able to remember a small period perfectly black, as well with their eyes open, as they could with their eyes closed. This teacher also improved the imagination of her pupils. Some one would read a story. Then all the children would palm and remember the story as well as they could. After opening their eyes, they would try to illustrate the story in various ways. The teacher sent me about forty illustrations, and I found them very interesting. They were unusual, but the teacher claimed that doing these unusual things was a great benefit to a large number of children who were suffering from retardation. ## Coincident with the improvement in the memory and the imagination, was a corresponding improvement in the sight. There were other benefits just as important in value. Adults also suffer from attacks of retardation. For example, a portrait painter may do good work for a longer or shorter period, but at intervals his work becomes decidedly poor, unsatisfactory, and a failure. Writers, financiers, inventors, teachers and professional people of all kinds, have attacks of retardation, when their mental efficiency is lost or impaired, usually suddenly, for longer or shorter periods of time. It is an interesting fact that people who drive motor cars suffer greatly from eyestrain. Taxi drivers are under more or less of a nervous strain. I am very fond of talking to these people about their work, because, being very observant, they teach me a lot. Many of them have told me that when they had an accident, it was difficult for them to believe that it was their fault. At one time a taxi-driver ran into another, broadside on. There was quite a smash-up and a number of people were injured. The taxi-driver was not detained very long, and later he came to see me about his eyes. Among other things he said: "Doctor, I never saw the automobile that I ran into. I never knew it was there until after the smash. Do you think there is anything wrong with my sight? "I tested him very carefully and found that his vision was 20/20 with each eye. I examined his eyes very carefully with the ophthalmoscope and finally 1 said to him: "You have perfect eyes, but you don't always see with them. ""I mean this,—that while your sight is perfectly good usually, there are times when you become totally blind. Everybody with perfect sight does not have perfect sight all the time. "After talking to him for a while and explaining what I meant by the stare, the strain, or trying to see, and how one always stared when one had imperfect sight, I told him that the remedy was to use his eyes in such a way that he did not stare. Riding all day long in a moving car, he should notice that the road in front of him comes toward him, while objects on either side of him, move in the opposite direction. In this way he would not stare so much and the attacks of imperfect sight would be eliminated. A sea captain called on me one day with a history of imperfect sight at irregular intervals. When his sight was tested with the Snellen test card at twenty feet, his vision was normal. I told him that he had perfect sight. I examined him with the ophthalmoscope and told him that he had perfect eyes. "Well," he asked, "why do I have those attacks of blindness when I cannot even see a big lighthouse, when I cannot see a large vessel coming, towards me sufficiently clearly to avoid a collision? " I talked to him the same way I had to the taxi-driver and he, very grateful, left the office. ABOUT seven years ago, a girl aged sixteen, was treated for a severe inflammatory trouble with her eyes. She was brought to me by her father. Her eyes were paining her continuously and her vision was very poor. To protect her eyes from the light, she was wearing glasses which were so thick that her vision was lowered to a great extent by them. The suffering of the girl was pitiable. It was impossible for her to do any reading whatever, and she had ... Bot: Sure, let me know if you need anything else: been compelled to stop school two years previously. The first thing we did for her, was to give her the sun treatment with the aid of the sun-glass. Before she was placed in the sun, she was instructed to close her eyes and keep them closed until she was told to open them. She was then placed in a chair where the sun shone directly on her closed lids, while she moved her head continuously, a short distance from side to side. After ten minutes, her eyes had become somewhat accustomed to the sunlight. With a little encouragement, she succeeded in opening her eyes while looking far down. The upper lid of each eye was gently raised sufficiently to expose the white of the eye to the direct rays of the sun. Her eyes rapidly became more and more accustomed to the strong light, until she was able to stand the light focused in flashes on the white part of the eye with the sun glass. Her vision at times was 20/200. Best of all, she was able to open her eyes without discomfort. It seemed like a miracle. For the first time in two years, she was free from pain. Both she and her father were very happy. Whereas, at the beginning, her father had led her in the room, she led him laughingly out, without the thick dark glasses on. Being of a nervous temperament she would, at times become hysterical as her vision improved, but after she was entirely cured, she seemed like a different person. Her nervousness disappeared and her manner was calm. As she became more accustomed to the strong light, her vision gradually improved to the normal. Palming helped her very much. Imagining stationary objects to be moving whenever she moved her head and eyes, relieved or prevented the stare or trying to see. The memory or imagination of perfect sight enabled her, at the same time, to read the Snellen test card with normal vision, at first in flashes and later more continuously. The greatest benefit she obtained from the eye treatment, was that her mind became able to do things with much greater efficiency and her memory was decidedly improved. She became able to remember a small black object, or a small black period, as well with her eyes open, as she could with her eyes closed. Formally, when she read a page of history, she had to reread it half a dozen times before she could understand any page that she read. In three months time, her trouble had entirely disappeared; she returned to school and her friends and teachers were amazed at the great change in her. After her eyes were cured, she read the pages in her history book only once, and not only grasped the meaning but also was able to remember it for six months or longer without having to read it again just before examination time. At one examination, the questions were written on the blackboard and, after she read them, she was shocked to find that she could not answer a single question. Fortunately, she remembered her eye treatment and the little black period. With the help of palming, swinging, and the memory of perfect sight, she remembered the answers to all the questions. This experience that she had, is very valuable because she was cured of an attack of retardation by simple methods which could be employed in all schools, colleges or elsewhere in the business world. The principal of this school visited Dr. Bates to learn more about our method of treatment and also placed herself under his care until she was cured without glasses. She had been wearing them for presbyopia. Some years ago I wrote about a group of children who were suffering from retardation. Their teachers could not understand so many failures. After it was discovered that they had imperfect sight, the school nurse sent them to the optician to be fitted for glasses. Later, it was noticed that even though they were wearing glasses, the retardation still continued. A little girl from the same school, who wore glasses, came to our clinic and was cured without them. She encouraged other children to come to us. Part of this large group of children who came were the "Wild Indians," I wrote about in my book, "Stories from the Clinic. " (link) The little girl who encouraged them to come, was a very good assistant for she knew, exactly how to start each one with the treatment. With her help, all of them were cured without their glasses. This happened in the Spring when the thought of being promoted was uppermost in their minds. Through one of their teachers, who was cured of her myopia by Dr. Bates, I learned that all were promoted with the exception of one little boy. Not one mother of any of those dear children was any happier than I, when they brought the joyful news to me. I was proud of my work and proud to tell it, too. During that vacation, two public school graduates, who were under treatment for their imperfect sight during the previous Spring and had obtained normal vision, told me how they had successfully passed all their tests. One of them said, "If it had not been for the memory of a little swinging black period which I never forgot, I am sure that I would have failed. " The other graduate said, "I did not need to remember anything in particular when the tests were easy, but you bet I never forgot the movement of a small black period when the test was difficult. "I believe retardation will no longer exist when imperfect sight is avoided and eye-glasses are a thing of the past. IT has been found by educational experts that certain norms for the Age-Grade location of pupils should exist. Classes, schools and school systems are considered in good condition when the number of over-age pupils does not exceed the number of under-age pupils. It is considered by administration experts that this standard test of a school system affords the best single test of the value of the school work done. The normal ages are determined by expert educational authority to be used as follows:2. Parents change places of residence and pupils change schools. These pupils are not promoted at the end of the term, as are pupils who have spent the entire year in one school. Ill health of a pupil or in a family, irregular attendance, prevents the receiving of the usual amount of instruction. At the present time this condition does not exist commonly, if indeed it does anywhere. It is probably a most conservative statement to say that in the average city there are at least ten times as many children making slow progress as there are making rapid progress. To change this condition is the great school problem. For that sort of record-keeping that shall enable the school to keep track of each individual child from the time he enters school until he leaves and to tell when he fails and why he fails and guide in preventing him from failure. For changing our courses of study or our methods of grading and promotions so that the children who make rapid progress through the grade, shall be at least equal in number to those who make slow progress. "One of the important remedial measures in solving this great problem is not emphasized, namely: better and more efficient methods of teaching, this is what North Bergen has relied on to produce its progressive betterments in age-grade conditions. Because "Retardation" means a below normal standard of attainment for pupils, and a higher standard of cost for communities, North Bergen, N. has, since 1907, given this problem special attention. The factors used in reducing this educational waste of time and money, and waste in community progress, are:According to Dr. Ayres, the founder of the age-grade method of measuring school progress, the table A, above, indicates a high standard of school attainment. Under-ageness of 19% in 1913 was gradually increased until in 1921 the table shows a 30% distribution. Retardation of 27% shown in 1913, is gradually further reduced and shows only 13% in 1918. The excellence of these conditions is also seen from a comparison of North Bergen with other systems. Nine cities are ranked in the order of highest efficiency as shown by the combined number of under-age and normal pupils (column 3). Their schools contained 50% of retardation but this was not revealed until statistics leaked out after the war. After working ten years upon the solution of the problem of Retardation, I found that we had about reached its maximum reduction for several reasons:In the midst of these perplexities, salaries were raised and Eye-Mind Education was practiced for the purpose of maintaining the high standards we had attained. After careful analysis, observation, and personal tests, I became convinced of its great educational values. After seven years' experience with Eye-Mind Education, I class it as one of the marvelous discoveries of the present age, second only to that of radio waves and their control. The Bates' method of Educating the Eye-Mind, to prevent and remove eye and mental strains, to prevent and lessen Retardation in schools, is soundly established. Its contributions to the happiness of mankind is unspeakable. Not only does eye-mind education place no additional burden upon the teachers, but by improving the eyesight, health, disposition and mentality of their pupils, it surely lightens their labors and furnishes an additional means of preventing retardation. In 1924, out of 129 pupils wearing glasses, 18 were found with normal vision and 111 with vision below 20/20. Out of 4,026 pupils without glasses 1,133, or 28.1% had below-normal vision. The total below-normal vision was 1,244 out of 4,155 pupils or 29. In this year out of 118 below-normal pupils wearing glasses, 89 or 75.4% improved and of 1,072 pupils not wearing glasses but having below-normal vision, 693 have improved, or 64. Out of a total of 1,190 pupils with below 20/20 vision, 782 improved, or 65,8%. Of those who improved 342 even attained normal vision, or 43. This is indicative of what may be attained by this educative process under more systematic and persistent procedure. Carhart says in the Medical Times: "Not all retarded children are so retarded from eye strain, but the effects of eye strain are one of the main causes of such retardation. The vision tests of 1925 showed that 17% of pupils with glasses had normal vision and 64% without glasses had normal vision. The year's work produced wonderful effects in Eye-Mind Education. The writer had 24 years' personal experience in wearing glasses, most of the time with bifocals. After this 24 years' knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of glasses, they were laid aside on August 15, 1924, and have not been worn since. Owing to attained age and 24 years of Eye and Mind strains being physically recorded, Eye-Mind improvement was slow but marvelous and my visual difficulties are now confined to poor print, poor type and poor light. I have attained wonderful improvement in this one and a half years of Eye-Mind practice. On many occasions truly miraculous conditions prevailed. They were periods of reflective, very free thinking, when thought flowed, was created as fast as pen could write. There was ease, relaxation of eye and mind. A noted experience of this occurred on the morning of November 3, 1925, after I had read some article upon school work. I was seeing thoughts with my mind's eye. Near and distant vision was wonderfully free and clear. These experiences and phenomena have occurred many times during the past six months. The thrill of ecstasy, and feeling of freedom during these periods, arising from a complete emancipation from the thraldom of wearing glasses and their effects, are indescribable. They indicate an intimacy of relationship between the mind and matter never fathomed, and they also indicate that man is still a free agent to search out truth and happiness, and if he wills to use and uses his intelligence and available scientific data, he may carve out a new birth of freedom and progress for the human race. Man creates his own destiny. Eye Education as an ally of mind development, of eye and physical health conditions and of human efficiency and happiness, should be practiced in every American school. Excepting radio, it is the miraculous wonder of the great age in which we live. Question—At intervals, sometimes months apart, I find my eyes twitching but it is hardly noticeable to an observer. What is the cause and how can I overcome it? Answer—This is caused by mental tension which has a direct effect on the eye. Practice relaxation methods, palming and swinging. Answer—Because the nerves of the eye are in direct relationship with the roof of the mouth, and the sudden chill makes the nerves sensitive. Question—If I am worried at night and lie awake, my eyes burn and pain, and I have a feeling that a magnet is drawing my eyes through my head. What causes this and what is the. cure? Answer—This is caused by the tension of the mind. Just before retiring and the first thing in the morning, practice the long swing. Question—If I am sitting in the sun reading, I can see the print perfectly and my eyes do not trouble me, but if I raise my eyes and look at any other object, everything seems blurred and there are colored spots before my eyes. Is this caused by the sun or the manner in which I read? Answer—The sun is beneficial to the eyes but the glare of light on the white page produces a tension of the nerves. The sun treatment should help you to become accustomed to the strong light. Sit in the sun with the eyes closed, allowing the sun's rays to shine directly upon the closed eyelids as you slowly move your head a short distance from side to side. Practice this daily for half an hour or longer.

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We were digging through old catalogs the other day, doing background research... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> for a January feature on powder skis when we came across this. “Brain Floss” is the late, great Shane McConkey's musings on what makes a great powder ski. It was released in December of 2002, when the first few models of his innovative Machete Spatula were rolling out of the Volant factory in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Obviously, a ski as radical as the Spatula—reverse sidecut, reverse camber, and just plain huge, at 125 mm in the waist—needed to be explained. Reading “Brain Floss” today, it seems remarkably prescient, given the subsequent revolution in powder-ski design. It's also quite well written and entertaining. Here's the original text in its entirety. These 185 Spatulas are recommended for people weighing 180lbs and less. The performance and benefits of the progressive shape... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> of these skis will decrease as the skiers weight rises above 180. CONGRATULATIONS! You have just purchased the most progressive invention in the history of powder skiing since the original fat skis were invented. These skis will change the way you thought you were supposed to ski powder, minimize the effort you put into your skiing, and greatly improve your powder skiing experience. As... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> you well know your new Spatulas have a very unique almost bizarre shape. It is important for you to understand the adjustments to your... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> skiing technique you will need to make in order to ski them... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> well. Don't worry! Its easy. Many people may get intimidated by the progressive shape of the Spatula and think that it takes an expert... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> to know how to manage them. These skis will make powder skiing much easier for even the least experienced beginners. Actually the opposite concepts explained here will be much easier for a... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> beginner to grasp than an expert conditioned to use their skis the way they always have. The expert will have to open their mind and be prepared for some very different concepts. Or simply, they must floss their brain! Put your weight a bit more on two feet throughout the turn instead of mostly on your downhill ski. This will help you stay afloat... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> and facilitate sliding when you need to. You will also be able to load up your downhill ski as you normally would in most soft snow situations but knowing how and when to use both feet will greatly increase your abilities with the Spatulas. Sun crust and wind affect are prime examples of when to use both feet. In these conditions the Spatulas will blow your mind. 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In a ski world where everyone is constantly thinking power,... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> pressure and carving it may seem like a crazy concept to accept... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> almost the opposite theory. Then again soft snow is pretty much the opposite as hard snow. Retraining your mind that sliding not carving is actually a good thing is a very hard concept for many people to swallow. “The Pool Cover”- Your weight is directly on top of the narrowest part of the ski. This type of weight distribution immediately puts you in a... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> sinking into the snow situation similar to what happens to the pool cover when you try to run across it. This causes your tips... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> and tails to float but the center of your skis where all your weight is sinks, bogs down and then you must plow through... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> the snow. You will be forced to carve every turn and expend a lot of energy bouncing in and out of the snow. “The Unstable Hooker”- Skis become very unstable and much more difficult to control. In sun crust or wind affect you may have noticed the occasional Unstable Hooker. This is when you start a turn and your downhill ski hooks fast and... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> hard up and across your uphill ski. You cross your tips, step on your downhill ski with your uphill and then stuff your face into mountain. Or at high speeds you may have noticed your skis trying to swim around a bit making it hard to control as you try to keep your tips up and out of the snow. The solution to this in the past has always been to maintain a wider stance in powder and to slow it down a bit. “The Sunken Plow” – Tips and tails are constantly trying to dive down into the snow. No matter how much you load up the skis with pressure or how soft the skis are the tips still always want to dive lower than the waist... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> of your skis. This causes excessive unweighting or bouncing and leaning back onto your tails. It puts you in an unbalanced position. The point is to get up out of the snow not down in it. “Franz” - Skis will only ever turn by carving. Skis will not in any way be made to slide. Tips and tails during unweighting are always lower than... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> the center of the skis prohibiting any attempt at a slide. Throwing... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> the skis sideways in anyway will end in a caught outside edge followed by a quick whiplash onto your side. Having the option to... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> eliminate the Franz carve from your powder skiing will open up a whole new world for you. Try sliding a bit sideways as you... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> finish your turn. Remember to stand on both feet. Try doinga long slide instead of doing a turn at all. Skiers constantly link one turn to the next in powder because in the past we lacked the ability and technology to slide. It also has traditionally been considered proper style to make identical, consecutive linked turns down a powder slope. Now you have the... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> option to carve, slide, crab sideways, hockey stop (If your really good) and basically use the slope in many creative ways instead of such a limited, traditional style. Back in 1996 the ski industry was just beginning to go through two revolutionary discoveries. The invention of “shaped” skis and the popularization of fat skis for soft snow. As we all know now fat skis... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> have totally changed the way we ski powder and shaped skis have totally changed skiing on harder snow. As manufacturers began to experiment with massive side cuts for carving the groomer and the race course it was only natural for people to want to test out these new shaped skis. At the same time skiers were also just beginning to realize the benefits of fat skis in powder. Back then I had also recently made the switch from skiing on traditional skis to the very fat (at the time) Volant Chubb. I was spending my time marveling over the benefits of fat skis in most sow conditions. Then I decided to try out the new shaped skis in the soft snow. Since the qualities of fat skis were... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> so fresh on my mind all the time I was immediately able to recognize how horrible side cut is for soft snow. If I... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> had been skiing on traditional skis all year like most everyone else this revelation may not even have happened. Over the course of the next two years I would talk to people... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> about how cool it would be to have skis with decamber and reverse side cut specifically for powder. Almost everyone I mentioned the idea to would either laugh or politely smile. All... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> except for Scott and JT Holmes and a few others. I never really pushed the idea to Volant very hard because I assumed that no one would listen. Nobody buys powder only skis. The industry already lost on that bet. The skis that sell are the all mountain carver that are so versatile right? Right. No one wants to buy more than one pair... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> of skis. So why even attempt to make something that a ski... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> shop can't even sell? So nothing happened for 2 years. Finally after stewing over it for too long I began talking to the design engineers at Volant about just gong for it and jury rigging a pair or two together in the shop in their spare time. If it wasn't for the hard work and extra after hours put in by Ryan Carroll and Peter Turner in the Volant factory the first and only four pairs would never have been made in the summer of 2001. The first prototype arrived at my doorstep in August. Soon afterwards I packed up my beautiful, shimmering, new, steel Spatulas and flew down to New Zealand to work on a film project. As I am a very spoiled professional skier we were... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> heli skiing the whole time and I got to test them out. They immediately blew my mind! Everything was so easy! No more leaning back to prevent tip diving. No more excessive... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> body movements to force the skis around. No more big GS turns or body smears to slow down. I couldn't believe it! I ran straight to the phone and called Volant over... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> seas and spewed my guts raving for 45 minutes about how great they are. Where there's a mullet or a neon jacket, where there are snow blades or pulls of Jack Daniels to be had, memories of Shane McConkey's Saucer Boy will be there.

Instruction: Fill in the missing spans: This chapter, in many ways, is the last chapter of the book. It is presented here to give a broad-based understanding of the ... . now, as you begin this journey. A second reading, after completing the remainder of the book, will ... ones. The accent here is on the nature of the Option dialogue, the series of questions and the probe into our system of beliefs. The form is simple and direct, a contemporary Socratic exploration. Each question is born from the content of the last statement made. Stripped of direction and judgments, we proceed naturally from ourselves. But why begin with questions? To ask ourselves, to make an inquiry does not mean we are ignorant or that we do ... understand. It's just a way of bringing knowledge and awareness to life. On these following pages are notations on a layout, a design, a dialogue motif. It is a bare skeleton brought to life by each of us as we use it, as we live it. More than just an initiation, it is also the final service area in the journey through this book, which is, in reality, a journey through ourselves. From the Attitude, “to love is to be happy with,” comes the Method for helping myself to become happier in every way. In approaching myself, in accepting the model, I am accepting myself. There is no directed or designed piece of behavior. The unraveling and the discovery as well as the opportunity to change comes from opening myself to my beliefs. In viewing them as they operate, I can decide whether I want to continue to believe them or not. Herein lies the crystallization of choosing or re-choosing, accepting or discarding. The only mysteries are the ones I make. References to emotional disturbance or mental illness are not applicable. Those are the judgments of others. An unhappy person is a person reacting to his beliefs of unhappiness. It's much more a question of ... knowing. Unhappiness germinates when I see myself or events as being bad for me. The Option dialogue technique is for those of us who might want to live more happily and, thus, more effectively (without self-defeating results and painful by-products). Great, it feels like I really want to do it, become happier and maybe even shoot for the sky-perfect happiness. I can certainly envision the benefits of ridding myself of unhappiness in my job, my love relationship, my sexual involvements . in almost everything. The ramifications are just incredible – moving comfortably, being in harmony with my body, expanding new horizons. But wait! What about the big, big immovable horrors . war, famine, poverty, disease? Shouldn't they still make me unhappy? Aren't they still things to be legitimately depressed about? Okay . let's talk about these realities. The focus of our attention has always been on you and me. Why? Because your unhappiness lives within you as my unhappiness lives within me. So what are we saying when we are angry and upset with the world's great problems? Aren't we saying that we really want them solved, the violence to cease, the poor to eat, the sick to be cured? That's what we want! But why are we unhappy about it? Because, as with other more limited personal dilemmas, we use the unhappiness (anger, frustration, fear) to help us stay ... . to motivate and reinforce ourselves. We're afraid that if we were not unhappy, we wouldn't try to do anything about “the great tragedies.” Some of us might also be believing that if we didn't get upset, we would somehow be callous and “inhuman.”Initially, I use unhappiness to move myself to do something (join a protest march, volunteer for ... charity). I feel so much better after doing something. The initial unhappiness also reconfirms that I care . that I am a sensitive and involved human being. “Yes, but I really do feel sad ... sad. No one is here to argue with such feelings and reactions. But can't ... helps. I could understand caring without being unhappy. Although I couldn't be happy about world conditions, maybe I could be neutral and attend to my other good feelings. Yet, another mountain suddenly appears. What about the big one . what about death? How could I help but be unhappy about dying? Those fears, like many others, come from my beliefs. If I were brought ... living. No fear at all, just an embrace. My anxiety about death and dying would have to come from my beliefs that it is bad for me. I might also have many additional supportive beliefs about losing time to ... etc. In this culture, most of us have acquired many fears (beliefs and superstitions) about our mortality. ... unfounded. If we believe them, they are real – for us. So the question that could be asked is: is the exact nature of my individual fears of death and why do I believe them? Although death seems inevitable, we each have our specific fears and anxieties. If it disturbs me, then perhaps I can include it as part of my exploration. “Would that mean if I didn't fear it, I would want it? ” Of course not . couldn't we not fear dying and still want to live? Isn't fearing dying really wanting to live? Hear this as it is said . we can look at what we want; the only thing we have to lose is our unhappiness. I'm almost ready to go on . but, ah, just a minor case of the last-minute jitters. An old belief returns. I understand that the concept “if I were happy all the time, I'd be an idiot” is just not so. What stays with me is the concern that if I allow myself to be happy ... move. If I'm happy any place, it wouldn't make a difference where I was. Okay, let's look at that . the more we allow ourselves to deal with the questions, the more possibilities for becoming happier. When the happy skier stops on a ridge, does he stop moving (he's happy on the ridge) or does he continue going down the mountainside as he wants? When a musician is happily playing, does he get stuck endlessly on one piece or does he too move as his inclinations guide him? If I am happy swimming, won't I still stop when I am tired? If I am enjoying hiking, won't I still interrupt my walk in order to eat? And doing something out of happiness does not cause lethargy. On the contrary, it usually increases our mobility and effectiveness because instead of fighting our fears and running from pain, we more clearly see our wants and move with ... want). In dismantling the beliefs of unhappiness, we free ourselves to allow our wanting and the undiluted energy flows within us. As we have seen, a fearful or anxious person often blocks data and has difficulty processing information since he is diverting his energies to deal with his discomforts. The happy person would simply allow intake and digest, knowing that what he sees and understands can only make him better equipped and more effective. But ... . it is neither an end goal nor an intermediate goal. ## Other disciplines herald “self-awareness,” “adaptation,” & “effectiveness” or “normalcy” as goals. And if you ask them why, they would probably say these goals are attained in order to be happy. Option cuts through it . we can be happy now . now while we are trying to change ourselves. Happiness is not a reward unless we withhold it from ourselves until we reach a desired goal. And would we withhold it if we knew we were going toward our goal anyway? Stripped of all surface manipulation, there is only our wanting to be happier and our journey toward happier-ness. It does not matter how we define it or how we describe it or whether we agree upon what it is . we know when we are happy and feeling good when we are there, we have no questions. In using the Method, we become a “therapon” for ourselves, a second voice, a comrade in a common struggle. We could also be a facilitator for others and let them be one for us. For some of us, there is the Option teacher who can ask the questions, although each student still retains absolute control. But there is the alternate possibility of acting as our own “therapon,” serving ourselves by lifting the debris and allowing a more natural flow helping ourselves to be happier. Since the Option Process begins with the attitude, which is a way of life, a style of being and a perspective of seeing, let's review its nature. “To love is to be happy with.” No judgments. Allowing myself and others the freedom to be whoever they are, to do what they do or don't do. To be accepting without giving up my own wants or giving up trying to get what I want. Permitting my desires to be a function of wanting and not needing. A willingness to put aside my pretending because I am aware I do not need that protection from myself. Accepting responsibility for who I am, without indictment or recrimination. The “shoulds” ... aside. If I know that nothing is wrong with me, then anything I come to uncover could only enrich me and help me in getting more of what I want. Being aware that others are also doing the best they can, the best they know how, based on their current beliefs . they're wanting to be happier, wanting to be more loving. In crystallizing my awareness and viewing the beliefs behind my unhappiness, I go with myself in no preset direction. Permitting myself to begin and end as I choose, with no accomplishment necessary in order to allow myself to feel good. To trust myself, knowing that I always take care of myself. In exploring our behavior and feelings as it relates to our happiness and unhappiness, we begin the Option Process. Most of us believe that we have to be unhappy now so that we can be happy later. In using unhappiness as a motivator, reinforcer and gauge (to measure our caring), we create a continual cycle of discomfort. In the present, we are unhappy or uncomfortable in anticipation of ... future. And since there's always an uncertain future, in the present we are then always ... unhappiness. We break the cycle by helping ourselves to be happier by living in the non-anticipating now. In turning that corner, we ... others. Our increasing good feelings and acceptance is a loving and embracing way in which we come to allow ... freedoms. Unhappiness is based on a logical system of beliefs. Thus, we look within our own belief system since all the reasons are connected and activated there. Our perception and thoughts all filter through our belief system (resulting in our behaviors and feelings). Portions of this system form the apparatus to dissect and, perhaps, disconnect (as we want). Our endeavor is more akin to philosophy than psychology. It is a question of what- we learned (and now believe) and what we want to do about what we learned (and still believe). In ... questions. The design, mood and meaning of the exploration comes from you. If it doesn't, then it merely articulates the beliefs of another. And isn't that in part how we got here in the first place, when we began to ignore our own voice and put aside what we know. If another's goal or interpretations supersede mine, then I am the recipient of an additional bombardment of beliefs, none of which helps me to uncover ... choose. To know me and my wants is for me to do. “But how do I know if I'll tell myself the truth? ” Just ask and then answer. There is only one professional in my case and that's me . only one professional in your case and that's you. The Option Method, coming from the Attitude, breaks down into three basic questions with one alternate question. Although each question has a diverse variety of forms and subquestions in order to clarify answers, the model is incredibly simple. What? That's impossible, you're thinking. It can't be any good; it's too simple and I'm so complex. Yes, it is beautifully simple in terms of questions, but no, not in terms of its capacity to unravel and help us focus. Like happiness itself, the route to it is simple and uplifting. ## The complexity is the journey through the unhappiness, through the maze of interrelating beliefs and short circuits. For some there is no method; they just decide to be happy. Super-simple, yet attainable by a few. For the majority of us, our discomforts and fears are still strong enough and prevalent enough to short-circuit our flow and allowing. When we consider the content of many of the following chapters: children, love relations, sex, health, guilt, money, the psychic experience and trusting ourselves . we will discover an “apparent” collage of conflicting ideas and beliefs. Some of it might appear perplexingly complex. Yet still, the discoveries are born out of only three elemental questions. There are no other tools required, except an awareness of wanting to be happier. Let's begin with the first question, then explore variations as well as the subquestions. What are you unhappy about? Or What about that makes you unhappy? If you just lost a loved one or were demoted in your job, incurred a huge debt . if ... . the question at first might seem outrageous and ridiculous. How could anyone, for example, ask a person why they are unhappy about their lover dying? More than offensive, it's absurd. But is it? It might seem silly because we each conjure up an immediate and emphatic answer that we are sure everyone has. Yet, the answers are not always what we expect nor are they beyond comprehension. Often, therapists, professionals and teachers believe they know the answer in advance (that's how they make diagnoses and predictions) . but only you can know the answer. Back to the question. What is it about your lover dying that makes you unhappy? No one is saying that we “should not” feel unhappy or, if we get unhappy, we should suppress it or not vent it . the probe is to identify the underlying belief. You'd probably be surprised bow incredibly varied and different the answers are: “I am unhappy that she suffered so much.” “I am unhappy about missing her.” “I am unhappy about being left alone.” “I am guilty because I didn't treat her right.” “I am unhappy because I am so difficult to love, and will end up lonely without her.” Each answer, following from our concept of no direction, leads us into different areas. “How will I know which one is my answer? ” Ask yourself. A trail that begins in one place can move in many directions. We cannot assume there is an obvious answer or underlying fear, because there isn't. There is only my answer for me, your answer for you. We each have our own reasons for being unhappy. And since each of us is different, ... yourself. The first question also has many variations. Often, we will say “I am not unhappy, I'm angry.” So we deal with our own vocabulary and symbols. The subquestion is for further clarification: what do you mean by that? Or again, what about that makes you unhappy? If I say I am unhappy about not having someone to take care of me . what does that mean? Physically, emotionally, sexually or materially? Each answer of what makes us unhappy can usually be refined by asking a clarifying question to further identify and pinpoint the unhappiness. So we begin the cycle. What are you unhappy about? I am miserable that my lover died. What about that makes you miserable? I'll miss her. What do you mean? Well, there will be no one to share my life with; ... care. So being cared for or the possibility of being unloved now becomes the continuing focus of the questions and answers. Still at this point, we have not gone beyond the first question. Even when we ask the second question, often, we return to the first. There is no rigidity or predetermined logic, all of it comes from the last answer. ... . it is not pushing and pulling in directions, but all owing of our natural propensities. The second question: Why are you unhappy about that? Again, there might be some of us who could react with annoyance and shout “What do you mean by why? ” “Anyone ... judged. The question is not an indictment or criticism, only a search for the reasons why. Often, when others have asked us why, their questions have had many overtones, such as the implicit statement that you should be doing it differently. This time the question is not loaded . there are no unstated judgments. It is just a vehicle to help us understand. So if we had ... me. Why would that make you unhappy? Because I want to be loved. The alternate question might be introduced at this juncture: are you afraid would happen if you weren't unhappy about being alone? I would stay alone. I might not try to find someone else. Then what is being said is: “If I am not unhappy about it, I won't do anything to improve it.” Here we see the exposure of a significant belief. In it, we can also see how, even with unhappiness, we are always taking care of ourselves, doing the best we believe possible for ourselves. Now, the last question might be asked: Why do you believe that? Sometimes, we cannot find any reasons. In that case, we have the opportunity to review the dynamic and discard it if we want. “If I don't have a reason, ... answer. For example, I believe it because it's always been that way. The question that might take shape is: If it always has been that way in the past, does it mean it will always be that way in the future? That would be a clarification question. The answer might be: Well, I guess it doesn't have to be that way because it was in the past . but with my luck it will happen again. Okay, if it happens again, what would you be unhappy about? And here we are now ... question. Since each belief is supported by other beliefs, the movement usually follows relevant lines. The why do you believe that question could be asked at any point, provided I am dealing with a statement about beliefs (I'm not talented, I'm unlovable, something is wrong with me, etc. Underlying all the dialogues are usually some basic or global beliefs. When those are changed in an individual, entire spheres of behavior and feeling can change. Suppose, after investigation by the Method, I became aware that I had ... me. I choose now to discard that belief (as I come to know I am what I want and can always change as I wish). This would affect every concept of living and every area of my activity. The possibilities are endless when each question flows from the previous answer. On some occasions, we might give ourselves ... responses. I loathe it because it bothers me because it makes me unhappy. ## Or I am unhappy because I am sad because I am depressed because I am uncomfortable. The substitution here is merely one ... another. A clarification question might be asked: is it about being sad or depressed that particularly bothers you? There is no reason to refute or debate yourself. It is not “bad” to feel the way you do. Go with it, you'll do the best you can. Another helpful note: Verbalize out loud, if possible. Why? So that you can hear it; you can give it solidity and more visibility. Your words make your ideas more reachable. We say it to know it better. Fears and beliefs alike are easier to grasp once articulated. It's also exciting to hear yourself say something you didn't know you believed. There are three basic questions, each with a subquestion for purposes of identifying or clarifying unhappiness. Often the trail to the last question is some distance ... begin. Many times, when we are asked why we believe the beliefs we just uncovered, we have no answer. Often, we have accepted them without question. Nevertheless, that gives them no less power, but it does afford us an opportunity to decide whether or not we want to retain them. There is one additional, highly useful question that we can incorporate as part of the Method or just use at random as an effective focusing device: do you want? Often, we are so busy negotiating with our distress or confusion that ... wanting. Just pausing and addressing ourselves with that question at any time can be a productive technique for centering ourselves. In the office, at home, on vacation, while eating, loving or running . if we find ourselves confused or doubting, we can stop momentarily and pose the question: do I want? Frequently, you will have an immediate answer which will help you clarify your current actions and feelings as well as direct you more vividly toward your wants. Perhaps, in review, we might gather together the most frequently ... supported. For some of us, their exposure as a dynamic on the pages of this book might have been just enough to dislodge them. If so, beautiful! If not, we can always assess what we feel about these beliefs and ask ourselves (if it applies) why do I believe it or what about it makes me uncomfortable or unhappy? They look pretty wild strung out in a column. Although they just represent a tiny sampling of beliefs of unhappiness, they provide a well-integrated foundation for misery and despair. Maybe, before we move on to a dialogue of the method, we can pause. Take each of the stated beliefs on the list above and, one by one, ask yourself the question: Do you believe it? If your answer is no, then you just had the opportunity to reaffirm what you know. If you answer yes, then you might want to ask: Why? Whatever your ultimate conclusion, the questions are a way for each of us to help bring our own awareness to life. The following dialogue, and all those presented throughout the book, are compressed versions of explorations using the Method. Since they are focused on individual people and their answers, the function here is not to convince or convert. Nor are their conclusions necessarily capable of being generalized. Their revelations are theirs. They are presented merely as a more graphic representation of the questions as a technique and a style of inquiry. As onlookers, we can only imagine the impact or meaning of self-discovery for another. It is only through ourselves that it becomes our experience. Your becoming happier is for you to do. In exposing and exploring beliefs, in discarding old ones and choosing new ones there is only one relevant subject area and that's you. I don't know whether I can make a simple statement about just what I'm unhappy about now because it seems to be many things. But, it all surrounds one particular event, which I hope, will come to pass. I decided I wanted to go back to work. I'm twenty-nine years old. I have two great little kids; Jackie is seven and Robby is four. My husband, Daniel, works for a pharmaceutical company. We have everything, at least it seems that way. All the material trappings . a nice apartment in the Murray Hill area, nice friends and ... style. Yet, despite all of it, I'm bored. Well, it has nothing to do with my husband or my children. Before I had Jackie, I was an art director. Women were becoming a significant force in the industry and all avenues were opening to me. When I became pregnant, I had decided to become Mrs. that was really what I wanted then. It was so new and exciting for several years. Then, Robby was born. Somehow, with two children, my life style dwindled down to a very big hustle . ## from cleaning, to chauffeuring, to schools, to doctors' appointments, to shopping. In the evening or on weekends, when I'm all set to go out, Dan is perfectly happy to stay home . but that's where I've been all week. And besides, when we visit people, I have nothing to say. Dan has his stories and the others have their stories. But me, I feel as dull as my life. I have a Master's degree in fine arts. I want to be involved in much more than just cleaning and doing chores. I love playing with the children, but day after day I want stimulation appropriate to my intellect. So I made a decision: I don't want to stay home and just pass the time. I want to feel useful and enjoy the challenges I used to have at work. So I ... do. He had many questions and comments. Since this was not the first time I'd brought the subject up, I knew he wasn't taking me seriously. Within two weeks, I had my first job offer. It was fantastic, but when I told Dan that I'd really got a job . He accused me of being selfish, inconsiderate, and a rotten mother for not wanting to be with the kids. Then, we got into a whole argument about our way of life. He felt I had every opportunity to do anything I wanted, every challenge . the museum, movies, plays, books. That's great, but that's not what I was talking about. We shouted at each other all night. I couldn't believe his reaction. I felt like I was talking to a person from the dark ages. All the bull I've heard from him about how women should have the same right as men to choose, etc. Boy, bring it home and he plays a different tune. Because it raises all sorts of questions for me. Is this the man I thought I married? Does he really love me? Wouldn't he want me to be happy? The questions drive me crazy. I guess I'm afraid that I might come to the conclusion that our marriage is a dream I don't want any part of and my charming husband is really a bigoted ass. Because I really love my husband and my children; because I'm not wanting to create some gigantic problem . I just want to go back to work. Nothing, except the repercussions. Suppose he absolutely says no, that he won't permit it? A. Well, who the hell is he to permit or not to permit? It's absurd; why do I have to ask him in the first place? He never asked me whether he could take the job he has. When he decided he liked it, he said yes. I should be able to do the same thing, damn him. I feel like I'm trapped. As soon as I want to do something for myself, I'm accused of being selfish and a terrible person. If I stay home like a good housewife, I'll continue to be bored and moderately unhappy, which I've certainly had enough of. Now, as soon as I actually make the decision to go to work, all hell breaks loose. My husband freaks, my mother-in-law calls me a witch, my sister accuses me of wanting to wear pants. All ... me. Because I have the right to do anything I damn please (crying). It's not like I'm becoming a junkie or a prostitute; I just want to go back to work. Because they're going to decide I'm bad. My mother-in-law, for example, is thrilled to be a housewife, cook, and bottle-washer. She's happy and that's wonderful for her. But now she's going to take her values and lay them on me. Would you believe that even my sister, who is four years younger than me, ... Q. They would each have their reasons: your husband, your mother-in-law, your sister. Maybe the question we can deal with is: If they decided you were “bad,” why would that make you so unhappy? A. Sometimes, once in a great while, I think maybe they're right. The entire affair is for my benefit, I really considered me FIRST . and let me tell you, that doesn't happen often in my house. I was always told that being selfish was bad. You're supposed to be considerate of others. In my ... others. “You can't think of yourself,” was my father's battle cry. After all, take the kids . I'd be a better mother seeing them when I'm happy rather than feeling chained to them. It's not the time that counts, but the quality of that time. I know that when I'm happy, the way I am with the children is much better than when I'm upset or bored. In fact, I already investigated special day schools for Robby and found a magnificent one. Since Jackie is in school all day and plays with friends in the afternoon, he's taken care of. I really somehow know that what would be best for me would be best for them. I want to say I don't. It feels like I don't, because whether I was unhappy or not about their understanding me, I'd still love them. But they wouldn't know that. Because I want them to understand, to know that I care and love them . this entire affair has nothing to do with them specifically, except of course, they have to adjust to a working wife and mother. But I've taken care of all the potential problems. I really think they believe my choosing to work means something about them. That in some way it shows that I don't care as much. No matter how much effort I put into explaining, it's like beating a dead horse. And if you did everything you could to help them understand, yet, they still didn't . What would you be unhappy about? A. At that point, I guess I might not. I can't live my life for everyone to the exclusion of me. I feel really straight on going back to work. If they judge me, I can't help that. Actually, I'm beginning to allow myself to be excited. Before I suppressed it under my anger. I'm feeling much better now. But somehow this still doesn't solve my problem with my husband. Because I know I wouldn't listen. If I ... him. I don't want to be forced into a living situation I don't want. So I guess I'm concerned he might get so upset maybe he'll want a divorce or something. I know this will sound like an outrageous question, but try to answer it if you want. Why would that make you unhappy? A. I really don't want to hurt my marriage, although I obviously do want some changes. I think they'll be better for everyone. Yet, sometimes I say to myself: if he really loved me, he would want this for me. If he was not so damn angry, furious and feeling sorry for himself, he would know that it's best for me and in loving me, he would want it too. And since he is angry and furious, you're saying he's not knowing what is best. If that's so, as you surmise, what would his not wanting you to work prove? A. Forget what I said before, I know he really loves me. It's just so infuriating to try to deal with a very unhappy and accusing individual. If he doesn't, he doesn't. Output: spans 1: method spans 2: unfold a new richness and depth as well as reconfirming many insights and revealing new spans 3: not spans 4: learning and teaching myself with an open awareness of my own power, dignity and spans 5: in touch with what we want spans 6: a benefit, send money to a spans 7: about those problems.” Sure, if I believed that I would be a “bad” person if I didn't, then I would feel spans 8: we still want to improve world conditions without being melancholy and anxious? Can't we find the motivation to help others from our loving and caring, rather than our outrage and anger? Good, that really spans 9: up in another culture, I might welcome death as the most beautiful part of spans 10: enjoy loved ones, being deprived of opportunities, spans 11: No one is suggesting they are silly or spans 12: under all circumstances, how can I be sure I'll spans 13: ease toward them (or move simultaneously as we spans 14: this occurs concurrent to happiness spans 15: and “should nots,” the “have tos” and “musts” can be laid spans 16: the uncertain spans 17: living with some spans 18: also indirectly help spans 19: others their own space and spans 20: that process, each of us is our own expert, regardless of who asks the spans 21: my own beliefs and accept or discard them as I spans 22: you are having problems with sex or money spans 23: only you can answer for spans 24: no one left to spans 25: The Option Method is a way of being with ourselves spans 26: would be unhappy if they lost a loved one.” Sure, but your unhappiness is not being spans 27: answered that we were unhappy about losing a loved one because we are then left alone, the next question would be: Why are you unhappy about being alone? Because I'll have no one to love spans 28: then why am I still believing that? ” On other occasions, we might have an spans 29: back to the first spans 30: always believed that something was wrong with spans 31: circular spans 32: descriptive word for spans 33: from the first, yet everything is always relevant to the place where we spans 34: we lose sight of our spans 35: encountered beliefs in our culture from which unhappiness often blossoms and is further spans 36: a really comfortable living spans 37: approached Dan and explained to him what I wanted to spans 38: of which has nothing to do with spans 39: asked me if I had a problem with my womanhood? Who are they to pass judgment on me? spans 40: family, when I was a child, the great heroes were those who laid down their lives for spans 41: stayed home to please him, I'd just come to resent and maybe even hate Instruction: Fill in the missing spans: I guess that would be okay. I can just do so much. I can't crawl into his head and change the signs – only he can do that. To go back to work, to be happy, to love my husband, my children and me . It's funny how when I really explore what I feel and why I feel that way in regard to work, I really understand that doing it for me is really okay. And not only good for me, but for everyone. A happy person is a much more contributing and loving member of a family than one who is bored and unhappy. I really feel good about my decision now. I'll do the best I can with my husband. If he reacts from his anger, I'll just keep trying. I can't help what he thinks, but maybe I can just kind of allow him to think what he wants. We discussed this once before about being happy with someone. It's like I wanted him to say “wonderful, great, do whatever you want.” Well, if I want him to allow me my choice, I certainly can allow him his reaction. #Earnings BTC $SHOP Nov 3rd 100 puts for . Strangles sold for 3.30 on Monday. 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Human: Find the missing spans: I know I haven't been very frequent here these past couple of months, but I have legit reasons for that. We are relocating to NYC for good! ! ! We have been really busy packing, moving, house hunting, and gawking Pinterest for home decor ideas. Naturally, I was too excited, happy, and overwhelmed; and with half my stuff still in transit to New York, my kitchen suffered some unintentional neglect. But something good came out of it. While we were packing we got a chance to reevaluate our possessions. We discovered several items that ... used. I thought that our recent discoveries could help some of you first time travelers to USA pack and plan your trip more efficiently. If you are reading this post then it probably means that you got accepted into a graduate program in the US. Well, congratulations! Your life is about to change forever! How exciting? ! 1. You will realize that your mom (or whoever cooks for you on a daily basis) is the best cook in the world! Not only because s/he cooks well, but because s/he cooks at all. You will realize that simple tasks like laundry, or dishwashing, or a quick run to the grocery ... home. You are going to learn what financial responsibility means. All those hours of parents' lectures on irresponsible spending ... sense. In other words, your experience as an international student is going to make you a better person. So, there's nothing to be scared of, and you should totally look forward to this new life. It's always a good idea to scope out your university town ... etc. I would also highly recommend y'all (been in Texas for too long) to visit their websites and browse the products you would have to buy. This will help you plan your budget better. BTW, everything can be bought online here. Even if there's no reliable transport in your area, you can have things delivered to your doorstep (literally) in 2-5 business days. Amazon offers 50% discount to students on their ... membership. Most other places ship things for free on orders over $25 or $50. Invest in a good suitcase or two. I recently bought an It Luggage 31″spinner suitcase and it weighs 5 lbs lighter than the ... lot. When buying a suitcase you want to look for durability, light weight, and spinner wheels. The same applies to carry on baggages. You are allowed two checked in bags of 23 Kgs each (check your tickets to make sure), so pack wisely. Read this for rules on locked luggage. Packing for international travel can be challenging, especially when you don't know what to expect. What you pack will depend a lot on where you are traveling to. For example, if you are going to the northern states then you will need to carry a few winter garments, unless you have a lot of dough, in which case my apologies. But you should always buy your winter jackets, boots, gloves, and hats in the US (much better quality and cheaper). You might want to bring some thermal underwear from India, though. Tips for girls: Bring lots of junk jewelries, bindis, dupattas (that can be worn as scarves), long skirts, a few sarees and blouses, kurtas, and other ... months. If you wear a small shoe size then you might also want ... section. Unless you prefer specific products from specific Indian companies that you absolutely cannot do without, I recommend buying all items of personal care in the US (cheaper here). You might want to bring a travel kit for the first week, however. The things that I personally bring from India are: Dabur Vatika hair oil (can't do without it, and not available easily here), sandal wood powder, facial message creams (facial messages are a $50 or more here), multani mitti, neem leaves powder, heena, and other such items of skin and hair care. You can totally bring your existing phone and get a prepaid connection here. But if you are planning to invest in a good phone then you should probably buy it here. All electronics items are significantly cheaper in the US. You can check out some deals at AT&T, Verizon, t-mobile, and Sprint. I would recommend buying laptops in the US (ideally during black Friday sale). But if you are bringing a laptop or other electronic ... plug. Drugs are inexplicably expensive in the US. You should definitely bring your prescription medications, and regular over the counter drugs like asprin, paracetamol, pain killers, silver sulfadiazine, Neosporin ointment, topical pain reliefs, antacids etc. Also, feminine products are pretty reasonably priced in the US with greater variety and better quality. There are US customs and border protection restrictions on drugs, however. Read here for more details. Unless you have an insurance ... here. Probably a good idea to come prepared. Books, even though extremely expensive in the US, are heavy and difficult to carry. I wouldn't recommend bringing any more than the most essential books (Limit to 4-5). All US universities have great libraries with amazing inter-library loaning services. Carry all documents safely in your carry-on luggage. You will need your university issued graduation certificate for registration here (in addition to marks sheets etc), so ... it. Carry photo copies of all documents in a separate bag, just in case ... misplaced. Carry all travelers checks, credit cards, and cash safely. I like to carry a credit card on person, one in my checked in luggage and ... misplaced. The Indian groceries here are very well stocked and you will find everything there starting from spices to dosa batters, from biriyani masalas to Indian sweets (limited variety). However, I do recommend bringing whole spices like cardamom, bay leaves, dried red chilies, cloves, mace, nutmeg, asafetida, etc, (seeds are not allowed) because they are comparatively more expensive here. I ... home. Oh, and garam masala. Definitely garam masala. If you are a tea person, I highly recommend bringing your preferred tea blend. Darjeeling tea is super expensive here and difficult to find. Refer to this list to learn what you can and ... US. Everyone recommends bringing pressure cookers from India. But they are huge, heavy and inconvenient to pack. I would recommend you check on Amazon to see how the prices compare and then decide whether you want to bring it from India or buy it here. Unless you prefer to cook in kadai, pots and pans are pretty reasonable here. This will give you an idea. If you bring a kadai then you may also want to bring desi tongs. Rolling pins are easily available here but you may want to bring a rolling board. That is only if you like to make your own rotis. Ready made tortillas (Spanish rotis) are easily available here. I urge my fellow Indian graduate ... list. Please also feel free to ask any questions that you may have. Filed Under: Articles, Uncategorized Tagged With: list of things to carry while traveling to the us from indiaWhat a wonderful read. could totally relate to this 🙂 🙂 Most of who are coming for the first time here think that there will be no need for sarees/kurtis. but they are in for a surprise . all we need is an excuse to flaunt them! For the first time (in the last 12 years and several times flying in) I was asked during immigration if I was carrying any spices from India. Of course I ... file. The ovens here are either gas flame, like the ones we have in India, or electric coil. You can use whatever you normally use in India. You can carry cumin and mustard seeds, but they are available here. I came to know that seeds are not allowed? is it? do they allow cardamom, mustard seeds, cloves, cinnamon? Hi! Just wanted to jump in and say that I was asked specifically about rice and cumin seeds at Los Angeles airport this year and told that those are not allowed. for-personal-useHi, your post is very helpful. shifting to US so wanted to check the following: if all spices has to be in commercially packed packages? ; if I can carry khus khus? if i can carry home made ghee in a tin container? if i can carry jaggery (date ones khejur gur)? Yes, you can carry spices, and they don't need to be in commercial packages. Posto is also allowed, but don't bring a whole lot of it because it's easily available in Indian stores here and the price difference isn't much. Dairy products are usually restricted. I am not sure about ghee, but perhaps a Google search would take you to the customs website. And you don't need to declare these. The people at the customs will ask you if you are carrying prohibited ... no. Hi Dhrubba, we are moving to California soon and was looking for such information. What a great article! its so usefull ! I just want to ask you that if I can carry the below items in my checked in baggage : ( do I need to declare them )Also you mentioned that one can carry all the dry spice powder (haldi, dhania powder, laal mirch) have a one or two sealed packets of each. My parents are travelling to US and they want to carry mangoes with them. Can they carry it in pulp form? Hi everyone, i just want to ask that ,my mom brought Coriander and cumin seeds and now she wants to grind that and put that back in those packets as it will be lot easier for me to have that in USA. So i wanna know that will get any trouble at US immigration? Going to LA and ... bags. Hi, will home packed spices and pulses be good to carry? Or we should buy packed spices which clearly shows the ingredients like MDH or Everest? It was hard to believe that we were about to depart San Sebastian for our Atlantic crossing. We had been poised and ready in the starting blocks for over a month with adrenaline and anticipation increasing daily. Finally, the opened relief valve of our departure resulted in an explosion of excitement that would need to sit still, literally, for two to three weeks. It will take us a few days to settle into our Atlantic marathon. We were given a boisterous send off by cruisers still in port with horns and whistles and waving arms (Dec 23). Bouncing seas caused by two sets of ocean swells greeted us as we exited the marina and passed the island. The engines were on as we motored to find wind. Initially, we tried to ignore the movement of the sea. We made overly ambitious dinners served on pottery plates. roasted chicken burritos followed the next night by meatloaf with mashed potatoes and veg. However, the elegance of the evening ritual was spoiled as we ate "prison style;" one hand held a utensil while the other hand firmly gripped the table. all the while ignoring the plate as it bounced from the confused seas. But a hot meal is always comforting and fortified us to enter the night watch schedule. The sun set, night fell and bbrrrrrr was it chilly. The third day out was Christmas and a bit of a break through for us. The Kiwi sea sickness pills, stugeron, banished Erin's nausea (thanks Becky) and we took a more realistic approach to dinner. simple canned chili heated with a block of cream cheese ... chips. Yum! It was a wonderfully festive day with gifts exchanged as we ate freshly made hot, sticky gingerbread. Ooops, ... gingerbread. The day ended with holiday greetings exchanged over the SSB with Kimberly and Mark (s/v Swanya). Rich and Black and Sticky Gingerbread (Out of the Ordinary Cookbook by Hingham ... pan. Heat until butter melts and mixture is smooth, stirring constantly.4) Remove from the heat. Stir in the flour mixture. Stir in a mixture of the warm milk and baking soda. Add the eggs and mix well.5) Pour into a prepared baking pan. Bake at 325 degrees F ... cool. Our passage routine was slowly taking shape. Morning coffee as the sun rose was our relaxing start to the day. Daily SSB check-ins on the Rum Runner's Net at 1000 UTC on 8131 kept us informed about the location of friends as well as real-time weather conditions. Looks like dueling sea swells will remain firmly in our future for the duration of the passage. Later in the morning we send our daily position report to our website and download any waiting emails (also on the SSB radio). The rest of the day is dictated by sail changes. in between which we read, nap, work on small projects and toss around ideas for dinner. Pretty soon it's four o'clock and time for an informal chat with s/v Swanya and s/v Wings. Then it is time for the day's main event. Will it be chicken, pork or beef? Noodles or rice? Any veggies left? How much prep of chopping and mixing can be done in the current sea state? Once decided and consumed the evening ritual ends with a Twix candy bar. and one evening cocktail to help Chris sleep on shift no.1 at 7pm. The twelve hours of night are our most structured hours. They are divided into four shifts of three hours each. The rotation follows an age old sailor's strategy of "hot bunking. " Erin is on watch, Chris sleeps. Chris is on watch and Erin sleeps. The term hot bunking comes from the fact that the bed is always hot because it has, quite literally, just been vacated. Drowsy shift recaps are made as we pass in the night. It is actually pretty lonely at night. until the sun rises and we again share a cup of coffee together. Day 4 and we were feeling warmer southern temperatures. encouraging us to swap our head-to-toe fleece for shorts and t-shirts (Dec 27). Equally positive was a more mellow sea state that had both of us rushing to the shower. yes, the first since leaving La Gomera. Our afternoon chat was especially exciting as a friend of Kimberly and Mark said "hello" on the SSB from an airliner flying overhead. Wow, that was really neat! And transmission was clear as a bell. Day 5 included a couple of milestones; we moved our clocks back one hour (we ... 28). Yippee! Caribbean or bust! The turn required the spinnaker to be moved from starboard to port. All good and our kite continues to be our main source of propulsion. We ... dinner. Ah, we are making way across the Atlantic. Now that we are so far offshore (between Africa and South America) there is no ambient light which allows the moon and stars to beam brightly in all their glory. However, the darkness between sunset and moon rise is. black as a bat's ass. There is absolutely no visible horizon line. The positive of all this blackness is that the rare passing ship is a snap to spot (okay, radar helps too). Chris had his heart racing one night when a commercial tanker failed to respond to his calls on the VHF. The tanker was aimed right for Barefeet who had limited maneuverability due to the flying spinnaker. Eventually, communication was achieved with 1.5 miles to spare as the response came back, "Hey, I didn't see you on AIS. " Fair enough because ... AIS. Looks like AIS is now more the rule than the exception. leaving radar displays to collect dust. But back to the magical nights. The stars are not small twinkling specks of light that vaguely outline mythological heroes and symbols. Rather, the stars are individual spot lights clearly delineating the immortal society of gods and goddesses in the heavens. The majesty of the stars dim as the moon rises. However, the reduced ... Barefeet. Greenish-yellow dots of light look like water bound fire flies. Wow - spectacular! The days marched by with squadrons of flying fish zipping along the surface of the sea. The flying fish jump from Barefeet's path just like grasshoppers jump from hiking trails in the woods. Additionally, tunes dispel the vastness of the Atlantic (we love our Bose Sound Dock). The spinnaker steadily moves us forward at 5, 7. Fantastic! Hey, it's ... Eve. We celebrated with caesar pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes and Spanish Cava (champagne). It was a fun evening and it has been a wonderful 2010. Day 9 and we were into 2011 (Jan 1). Clocks were moved back for a second time and we were at our half way point.1410 miles to go (Jan 2). Wildlife has been pretty shy; however, Chris spotted the slow arching back of a whale 50 feet ahead of Barefeet. Stunning! Erin ran up on deck as fast as she could but missed the visit. Ah well, another time. Dinners of chicken tikka masala, apricot chicken and make-your-own quesadillas have slotted in nicely as the spinnaker continues to fly. Day 11 arrived with modified ... 3). We turned the engine on to continue making progress; however, this makes us a bit anxious because we can only play this game so many times before we will run out of diesel. But ... methods. Further soothing nerves was Chris' freshly made bread spread with butter. Later, the morning Rum Runner's Net had landfall announcements for several cruisers arriving into Barbados. should be quite a party. But not yet for us as we continue plodding along. Hey, we were joined for hours today by a small yellow fin tuna. He kept right beside the boat with jumps and sprints through the surface of the water. Quite the energetic little fella. Day 13 was a taxing day (Jan 5). Grey rain clouds covered the sky and a squall settled right over us. We ... changes. Thankfully, by about 4pm blue sky was nudging out the grey, winds became a consistent 15 knots and the sea state mellowed into a steady roll. Phew, and with another time change it was an extra long day. We are feeling the length of the passage at this point and eagerly celebrate. Today we dipped below 1000 miles ... go. Hooray! Temperatures continue to climb which now has us in bikinis and trunks working on our base tans. hoping to reduce lobster red skin once in the Caribbean. Boredom is the big enemy at the moment with not much keeping us distracted. The spinnaker has finally been replaced by duel head sails as we go wing on wing. keeping us chugging in a straighter line. Eeek, a flying fish jumped aboard and flopped along the deck and past ... seat. Definitely an initial shock but a gentle shove had him back into the sea (Jan 6). Oh, and Chris spotted a large brown turtle swimming. in the middle of the Atlantic (Jan 7)? ! We both watched as he non-chalantly eased further away from Barefeet. What does he find to eat our here? ! An increasingly common daytime activity is trading off lying in ... bed. This is not so much about napping as it is about relaxing our clenched muscles. It is a real relief not to be bracing with every movement. The sea state remains sloppy and makes us weary. Did we mention that the blush is off the rose? ! Especially as winds are lighter and arrival seems to be dangling further in front of us. As forecast the winds picked up to 15 knots on Day 16 which had us back zipping at 7+ knots (Jan 8). Oh man, Poseidon is tempting/taunting us with an arrival three days from now. Blow winds blow! The ocean is a big place but we just crossed paths with fellow cruiser s/v Connect 4 heading to St Martin. Winds held into Day 18 (Jan 10). The chart plotter shows us getting closer to Antigua but our scenery is unchanged.18 days of sea and sky. It can be tranquil but monotony also sneaks in. So much sitting has our butts flattening out and developing right angles as ... seats. dubbed freezer chicken ass in honor of Bahamian frozen chickens. Ouch! You see, Bahamian market freezers thaw and refreeze, thaw and refreeze so many times that the once round fryers become square blocks as they settle into the corners of the freezer. Holy cow, if we can maintain 6.5 knots we will arrive tomorrow. It is sheer will power not to remain glued to the speed indicator. Oh heck, on went the port engine at low revs. we have enough diesel and there is no need to chance an arrival postponed 12 hours by the setting sun. Strong winds and continued washing machine seas carried us into Falmouth Harbour in Antigua (Jan 11). Two turtles were our welcoming committee and a pelican flew overhead. Wow, 4.01pm and we were anchored in the Caribbean. Our 2810 mile Atlantic crossing was a 19 day passage with a total of 48 hours of motoring. Now it is time to relax and enjoy our accomplishment. We cleaned up with showers and toasted our arrival with Deb and Terry (s/v Wings). first swig to Poseidon as our grateful offering. The completion of the crossed Atlantic has not sunk in but sleeping together in clean sheets was heaven. First order of business ashore after officialdom and clearing in will be to find an internet source followed closely by a burger and fries. with a celebratory cocktail! We will spend the next few months ... Antigua. At least that's the rough plan at the moment. After leaving the Caribbean we will make our way to the Chesapeake in the Spring and New England for the summer. The loop is closing on our circumnavigation but there is still plenty to see. But for now we will savor our passage arrival. 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And organic ground turmeric – one bottle at Wholefoods is so bloody expensive! do u need induction based utensils or flat bottom utensils are fine? Also can i carry cumin and mustard seeds from India? Any issue at immigration? 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We have read others' opinions of your musical performance style, but what do *you* consider your musical lineage with regards to vocals, instruments and arrangements? Max: Musical lineage – wow, let me think about this a second. That's a pretty big question straight off the bat, but here goes:OK, so I guess the whole vocal journey took place when I had just turned 10 years old. I went to audition for a choristership that would potentially pay my school fees, and it turned out that I had a timbre to my voice that the choir master really wanted to add to the blend of singers already there . so I found myself in a choir, having hours of vocal training per week picking out harmonies and learning to sight read. I developed my choral soprano singing on Decani. But it wasn't until my voice broke that I landed on a tenor range, and found myself singing along to English folk artists like Nick Drake and John Martyn, developing a folk/singer-songwriter side. More recently, I have been working on getting my hair metal range in check. It's going ok so far, but it has taken a long time to really extend my range in full voice. In terms of instrumentation, my guitar playing has always focused on creating a technically-sound, rhythmical part. We have never had a full-time drummer we can write with, so we tend to write songs that communicate rhythm on the acoustic guitar. And if the song doesn't stand up to us as just a guitar and a vocal, or a piano and a vocal, then it often needs more work. So, at least in our last few releases, the guitar is the engine that drives the song forward. We then add a grounding bass that compliments the rhythm section – which is fairly typical. There may be additional electric guitar flourishes or string decoration, but when I'm putting together the song arrangements, I try and make sure that everything fits together nice and snug. It's a bit like making your own jigsaw puzzle, as you hear parts in your head, you try things and think, “Hmm, how can I get that to all move together, to not only support the melodies and communicate the essence of the lyrics and the sentiment, but also carve a channel so that each and every element can shine through? ”I'm still trying to work out how to create a subtle arrangement that reinforces the message but stays out of the way. It is a craft and takes a lot of honing. Country music arrangements are often my go-to as a sort of rough guide. They also use a broad range of instruments that we like to use, with a major emphasis on the acoustic nature of the music. We don't yet use synth sounds or manufactured beats, I've tried to keep everything live, so that all the different elements can be performed and retain their own unique identity – and hopefully mesh together to help make the record. Esmay: I started singing solo and training my voice 5 and a half years ago – when I started writing songs with Max. I had also grown up singing in choirs but had never focused on the shape of my voice, apart from blending it with a chorus of other singers, both in terms of tone and timbre. In hindsight, this background came in handy when we wrote our first song, ‘Bricks'. And it definitely influenced our ‘sound' – people always comment on the sibling blend of our voices. We also grew up listening to The Cranberries and Fleetwood Mac, so when I started focusing on my vocal tone, I wanted to develop the same mix of power and vulnerability, purity and edge that I heard in Dolores and Stevie. I always admired the honey-like timbres of Alison Krauss and Eva Cassidy too. They have had a major impact on my singing. Instrumentally, Max and I were always drawn to guitar-based music. Joni Mitchell, Garth Brooks, Simon and Garfunkel – they were always playing somewhere in the house or the car. And then we went through a bit of a pop punk phase in the 90s, so it seemed natural to write and perform on a guitar. Our ‘duo' live sound largely came out of a desire (and need) to travel with our music and as Max said, we've never had a band. So we would write songs that had to stand up on a rhythm guitar and vocal melody alone – because that's all we had – and we could travel and perform our music and covers to earn some money performing residencies abroad. I eventually picked up a bass guitar, Max found a Porchboard stomp and a foot tambourine and we realized we could build out the live sound a little more. Now and then we get to play with a drummer and second guitarist, both of whom bring so much to the music. And we have also started building arrangements for the recordings with electric guitars, drums and piano – Max will develop parts for these instruments over the song to create the flow and drive. We also had the pleasure of working with a great composer and arranger called Jonathan Sadoff. He added the string arrangements for ‘Holding On' and ‘Vertigo' which lifted them to a different level. Max always says he learnt a lot from seeing how Jon crafted those parts. What triggers your creativity as far as composing new songs? Are you relating your own experiences or are you channeling culture in general? Max: I find it's often a mood, a state of mind that I'll fall in to that will trigger the start of a new song. Maybe I've woken up and the sun is shining and I'll brew some coffee, sit down at the piano, or pick up a guitar, and start playing. I might write a riff, or a progression with part of a melody. And Esmay will say, “Hey, you know that's vibey . makes me think of that story so and so was telling us .” and we'll chat about the idea and/or the theme behind the song. It always comes down to a theme, though. Because everyone always has a story to tell, something they are going through. And the more people we get to speak to, the more we understand that so many of us are going through the same kind of things – wondering about who we are, what we want and where we stand in this big world. At the moment, I feel like we are bombarded with so many messages every day, telling us we should be like this, we ought to do this, buy this, achieve this. Esmay and I often get overwhelmed by it all, we feel lost in the noise, unsettled by the news. And we want to write songs that others can relate to, that can reassure them they are not alone, that there are other people in the world feeling the same things, trying to wrap their heads around their emotions and life in 2017. We are trying to give people some escape but also hope. Esmay: Yes, and the themes we write about are always things that have had a major effect on us. Writing is a very cathartic process for me and it gives me a chance to get perspective on things. And part of being a songwriter is the hope that other people will also be able to hear the music and get some headspace. In terms of what triggers composing ... Assistant: Completed pargraph(s): for me . well, so many things! Lyrically I am always writing – I don't have a huge amount of control over when ideas, themes, phrases or full poems will pop into my head, so I keep a notes app on my phone. Chatting to my friends and trying to understand my emotions definitely inspires a lot of themes . but so do films and works of art. For example, a sculpture by Lynn Chadwick called ‘High Wind' has inspired a song I'm writing right now called ‘Woman in the Wind'. And Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings inspired our song ‘Muscles and Bones' (as did something I said to a friend in the aftermath of a break up! ) Musically, melodies usually come into my head just before I fall asleep or when I'm driving and I'll think, “What's that song I'm singing? ” And I will suddenly realize it is a new song and that I best make a quick voice note. Playing guitar also brings out melodies . as does listening to other people's music – for example the next song we are releasing called ‘Rise and Shine' came about after I sat down to learn Pink Floyd's ‘Comfortably Numb' on the guitar. I went off on a tangent playing about with chord progressions, got up to make a cup of tea and there was a Kanye West song on the radio. It made me focus on what beat I wanted to run through the song and how I wanted the melodies to dance around it; about 5 minutes later I had the chords and melodies down. I mean, ‘Rise and Shine' doesn't sound like a Kanye-Floyd anthem, but I know it wouldn't have come about without hearing them. Moving from London to Los Angeles, working with new production people, expectations for future tours – is there a metamorphosis that must occur in order to succeed here in the States? OR . how are you going about preserving your identity and presentation so audiences here experience what makes you unique? Max: Metamorphosis. I think we were both lucky to travel with our music a little before we came over here. We had seen the shows on television, heard about Hollywood and met some Americans back home, but nothing can prepare you for being on the ground in a new place 5,000 miles from home. I guess I learnt how important it is to go with the flow, to make the effort to fit in, but also enjoy wherever you are. Each place has its own identity, its pros and cons. We love the Californian weather, the food, the outlook on life, the beauty of the landscape. I love how easy it is to find a hiking trail somewhere and explore. And the mentality here is much more ‘can-do' than back home. We found opportunities here that we just didn't have at the time in England. But we both remember who we are, where we are from. We will always be Londoners, with our British accents, English humour, my love of ale . and we are Londoners on a journey, with a unique set of experiences that have helped us understand a little more about the world, the more we see. Esmay: I don't know if it's something you have to do to succeed in the US, or whether it's more universal, but we have really developed a sense of adventure and seizing every opportunity that comes along. We have met and worked with a lot of different people, played a lot of different shows and we just had to say, “Ok, let's give it whack.” We also feel truly blessed to work with our producer, Paul Broucek (in Los Angeles), who has always said he wants to develop our sound whilst retaining the ‘essence' of who we are and what he heard in our music when we met in London 3 years ago. But the word ‘metamorphosis' is very poignant for us – when we came over to the US, we had been a band for just over 2 years – and that was from scratch; I had never written a song before, never sung a solo . I hadn't played music for 10 years and had never learnt a chord-based instrument. We didn't grow up in bands (although Max did have one called the Harmaniax) and it wasn't until we were in our twenties that it dawned upon us that being a professional musician was a possibility and thus it became an ambition, a dream. So we had a lot of catching up to do; learning our instruments, honing our writing and exploring who we wanted to be as artists. The last 2 to 3 years have been mega-productive for us and I think we are communicating who we are in our music, now more than ever. Long way left to go, but it feels like a good start! How did you both get started along this journey? What are the hurdles to becoming known and reaching your level in performance? Max: We both left corporate jobs to pursue music. We had never written or sung together, and being musicians – or a band – or duo had never been a ‘dream' growing up as Esmay mentioned. She was also really shy about her voice and never sang in public, let alone to me. But we always shared a similar taste in music and it bonded us in our teens. When it came to writing our first song, ‘Bricks' together – which was totally by accident – it was sort of like, “Oh yeh, nice one.” We were in New York in the East Village back in May 2011, and we were writing a song for me, actually – I was a solo artist at the time and was staying in an apartment I had found on Craigslist. My flat mate, who was a super-talented creative studying at NYU came out of his room and said “Woah, I don't know what you guys are working on but I just got goosebumps through the wall.” I think we knew there and then that we had something worth pursuing. Esmay: It came out of the blue for me. As Max said, he had become a solo artist and would send me songs for feedback. I remember sitting at my desk in lunch breaks at work, listening and making lyric and structure suggestions. Then it turned into melody suggestions and full-on songwriting with ‘Bricks'. I had been frustrated in my job up until that point and was seeking something more creative career-wise, having shied away from going to art school when I was 18. ‘Bricks' brought me back to the same fork in the road and I didn't want to live to regret not ‘going for it'. Max really helped me with this – he booked us in to a studio on Avenue B to record the song, found a wonderful vocal trainer named Sonia Jones in London to help me get over the fear of singing in front of people, and helped me find the courage to get up on stage at his best friend's wedding for my first performance. Max: Yes it certainly wasn't planned – it just popped up at a time when we were both going through a seismic shift in our lives. We both realized we had followed paths which didn't make us particularly happy or fulfilled and we both said, “Yes, alright then, let's give it a shot.” So it went from there, albeit slowly. Sometimes even a step or two backwards, but then a few forwards. We had to go and learn how to play our instruments, sing and hone our writing. And we needed to make money. We both worked part-time jobs but we also applied to play residencies in European ski resorts. It was almost impossible to make any money in the UK at the time as an unknown act. We managed to land a residency at a beautiful place in Zermatt, Switzerland called ‘The Cervo', and the deal was they would pay us, give us food and somewhere to sleep and we would play music for a 3-4 hours in the afternoon in the snow. After a few of those we picked up other gigs, one of which was on a ship that sailed around the world. It paid enough for us to afford a trip to California – we had been told by so many people that our music would go down well over there and we finally made the trip overseas. Esmay: And then some things fell into place – we had an incredibly generous offer of somewhere we could stay rent-free, we won a songwriting competition that helped us secure artist's visas and we found a great place to street perform – Pier 39 in San Francisco. So we came out here, played as much as we could, worked on our performance, sound, writing and tried to get our music to as many people as possible. More recently we have started doing that on Twitch too. Max: But there are hurdles everywhere. The number of times we have almost just thrown it all in and said we can't deal with the uncertainty, the lack of salary, the unknown, all the time. We never know where we are going to be more than a couple of weeks out. It makes commitment to anything apart from music very tough. We left family, friends, everything in London, and here we have both found it rough in terms of relationships because we are always on the move. But I think commitment to music, focus, determination – those are what you have to reach for inside in order to give yourself a chance to succeed. Esmay: You can find our recorded music on Spotify and Apple Music as well as our website www. We also perform live on Twitch five times a week – come say hi! You can find our streams and schedule here: www. tv/theluckmusicMax: The reason we love Twitch is that we can chat with our followers whilst we perform. It's sort of like street performing, but you can watch in the comfort of your own home!.

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Human: Finish this: Art Exhibition Bazeos Tower – Naxos June 3rd – September 28th, 2017 Daily: 10:00-17:00 Phantoms may disappear with the light of day but that ... Assistant: Completed pargraph(s): is not the case with the phantasmagoric world of art created by five artists of . Continue reading →Happy New Year! We hope you... Human: Continue. Assistant: all enjoyed the holiday season and are enjoying a fabulous start to the New Year. Since our area is under an uncharacteristic deep freeze, we thought it fitting to bring you this... Human: Next. Assistant: warming stew recipe to enjoy during these colder months. We also have some fun planned for a future post, so make sure to keep reading to find out how you can play along! Now this particular recipe is also for our dear friend Sally at Bewitching Kitchen who mentioned she loves chickpeas. Sally has followed our blog for nearly three years now and was our first non-family/friend commenter. So since she holds a special place in our hearts, I'm going to do a little bragging on her behalf. Check out this post to get a glimpse into why we love Sally and why her blog is on our list of faves. Congrats Sally! Now, this recipe for Amazon Bean and Squash Stew (adapted from Eating Well) is also... Human: More. Assistant: one of our faves because it's very filling, flavorful and it's vegan. I haven't shared this on the blog yet, but last September, Mike... Human: Next. Assistant: and I undertook a three-week vegan cleanse. The results were fabulous – we slept better, felt better and found a ton of ways to get creative with beans, lentils, nuts, spices and all sorts of foods that were relatively new to us. As a result, we've completely altered our eating habits and lifestyle (in fact Mike has lost 45 pounds and is the healthiest... Human: Continue. Assistant: he's been since I've known him! ). While we're not vegan 100% of the time, we do eat vegan more often than not. Now that's not to say we would turn down a fabulous seafood dinner, bacon jam, a good piece of meat, or a delicious dessert, but on an average day we're choosing plants. In other words, there's no hardcore rules and the... Human: More. Assistant: blog will still feature a mixture of international recipes of all types, but this particular stew is one we can enjoy any day of... Human: Next. Assistant: the week. So the stew starts out simple enough – roast the squash with a bit of olive oil and sea salt. We've used an assortment of winter squash including buttercup and... Human: Continue. Assistant: acorn, and they've all worked well. We also typically roast the squash on the weekend, store it and whip the stew up on a weeknight. When you're ready to make the stew,... Human: More. Assistant: heat the olive oil, drop in some garlic (Sally – you can omit the garlic), carrots and diced onion, and saute until the veggies are tender. Next we add a bit of veggie stock and water, the roasted squash, a tomato and a boat load of seasonings including salt, pepper, red pepper, turmeric, oregano and cumin. We bring the stew to a boil, then... Human: More. Assistant: reduce to a simmer and cook for about 20 minutes. Next we transfer batches of the stew to the blender to puree and then return it to the pot. Finally we add... Human: More. Assistant: cooked wild rice, fresh spinach and chickpeas to the pot, mix it together and cook it for another 10 minutes, or until the spinach wilts and the beans are heated through. We serve the stew with tortilla chips and lime wedges. It makes enough for dinner for four with leftovers (or two servings each if like Mr. The stew is hearty and flavorful. It's a 4 spoon dish for Mr. N and I, 3 spoons for Mike and 2 spoons for Miss A. It isn't her favorite dish in the world, but she will eat her share – especially if the chips are involved. In fact, we'll all eat our share and have on several occasions now. Okay, now for a little fun. This month is our three-year... Human: More. Assistant: blogging anniversary. While we don't post as often as we did in year one or two, we're still making many new international dishes and exploring different cultures. It's an adventure we all love for the food we get to try, the time together in the kitchen and for all the friends we've made. So, like last year, we're going to have our annual Chopped... Human: Continue. Assistant: Challenge to celebrate. For those of you that aren't familiar with our Chopped Challenge, you can find year one here and two here. We've... Human: Next. Assistant: had several successful recipes – some have even stuck around. You can see all the results on our recipes page. So how does this... Human: More. Assistant: work? Well, we ask for mystery basket ingredients from twelve readers which are then put up to vote in a blog poll. Our readers vote on a basket for three categories – appetizer, main course and dessert. The baskets with the most votes in each category will be our mystery ingredients. Then on Super Bowl Sunday (February 2, 2014), Mike and I go head-to-head... Human: Next. Assistant: in an all day cooking challenge. The kids serve as both sous chefs and judges, a task they take very seriously. This year we've asked our top six commenters and five new commenters to provide us with basket ingredients. Now,that leaves one opening and we'd like to make this open by special invitation. We know there are many silent blog readers and occasional commenters... Human: Next. Assistant: out there, and we want to make sure you're included as well. So, if you would like to name ingredients for an appetizer basket we'd love to include your choices in the... Human: More. Assistant: poll. Just shoot us an email at eatplayloveblog@gmail.com or leave a comment with four ingredients to include in our appetizer basket poll. They can be as wild or as traditional as you... Human: Continue. Assistant: want to be, as long as they can be relatively easy to source. All ingredients received by 1/15/14 will be put into a draw and one participant will be selected. We look forward to your submissions and are excited for a new challenge. Albeit not so excited about the mess that always results. 😉Happy New Year all! Stay tuned for the upcoming interactive blogging... Human: Next. Assistant: fun. We'll put our ingredient baskets up to vote sometime after the 17th of this month, after which our challenge lies in your hands! Until then, enjoy the stew and stay warm. Cheers! Happy New Year and congratulations on three years of blogging. And congratulations to Mike on losing 45 pounds. And your stew looks lovely and like it's full of flavour. I can imagine you would be enjoying this very much with the freezing temperatures outside xxThis is a beautiful hearty stew. I am looking forward to seeing the ingredient baskets-very cool. You know how much I love your Chopped challenges. Since I came up with a really good one last time, I have to think about this challenge and see what I can think of. Now... Human: Continue. Assistant: I'm excited 🙂I just love img_0058 . and the dish isn't even finished yet! Beautiful, warming, hearty, filling stew Kristy! You know, I received a notification of a trackback to my anisgrisar... Human: Continue. Assistant: post but couldn't figure out where it was from! Now I realise where . hyperlinks aren't showing up as underlined for me anymore, weirdly – I'm sure they used to! Thanks for the mention in any case! 🙂I think eating vegan would drive me up the wall, but “sometimes”, for sure. I seem to be in the vast minority amongst people I know that... Human: More. Assistant: don't hold the belief that if you don't consume meat every single day you'll wither away and die from some nutrition-related illness. Indeed, I can happily go days at a time without touching any meat, fish, or poultry, and sure – we'll occasionally load up with pulses, nuts, seeds and the like but I do love me some cheese, butter, oh . and eggs, my God, eggs! It's fantastic that you're both – especially Mike – is doing so well after some lifestyle changes. That's really impressive and I can totally see how it's worth it. Sometimes I think it must be great to give up my various “vices” like coffee, but then I wonder if it's worth the caffeine-withdrawal-induced headaches! I already get killer headaches by 10am... Human: More. Assistant: if I haven't had my first few cups of joe of the day! :pThanks Charles! It is a hearty stew. I'm with you on... Human: Next. Assistant: the vegan thing. It certainly can drive me up a wall. Mike... Human: Continue. Assistant: is much better at it than I am. He isn't against any food really (especially not sausage). He just knows that eating vegan most of the time makes him feel better and... Human: Continue. Assistant: helped him lose the weight he's struggled with for years. I on the other hand, while I feel better too, can't give up cheese, eggs and butter entirely; and I would go crazy without sushi or pizza! I'd say I'm vegan typically five out of seven days of the week. Mike generally goes in three week chunks with maybe eating non-vegan two or three... Human: Continue. Assistant: times. He's planning to reintroduce things gradually at some point (to a certain degree), but he doesn't think he's ready yet. I don't think I could give up caffeine either. I did... Human: Continue. Assistant: give up diet coke for tea though. 🙂 I have you and Kelly to thank for that! I never knew tea could be so... Human: Continue. Assistant: good. I've been missing out for far too long. Hehe, I must admit my tea drinking has slipped a bit now (yeah, I'm letting... Human: Next. Assistant: the British side down! ). Now I'm installed in Sweden I seem to have the adopted the Swedish coffee fetish.12 – 14 cups a day these days . not sure if that's entirely the “best” thing ever, but I gotta stay awake somehow on these long dark winter days 😀LOL! That is a lot of coffee! I'd never sleep if I had that much... Human: Next. Assistant: If I have two cups I have the jitters. 🙂 But I can't say I blame you. It would be so weird to have... Human: More. Assistant: it dark for so much of the day. I'd be wanting to... Human: Next. Assistant: go to bed way too early. Haha, you build up a strong tolerance. It's 23:45 here right now and I just finished my last... Human: Next. Assistant: cup of the day 😀Congratulations on the 3rd blog anniversary! I truly look forward to this chopped challenge and I can't wait to read... Human: More. Assistant: the posts! It's fun to see your whole family is involved in this event and it's actually one of my most favorite posts you share. I hardly can wait! Thank you Nami! It's hard to believe it's been three years already. We're looking forward to Chopped too! Well, those 45 pounds are inspiring me. I think vegan is a doable goal, especially if you... Human: Next. Assistant: leave room for some meat dishes. I'm hoping to move towards more of those veggie meals and this recipe looks wonderful! I look forward to your Chopped Challenge. I'm always surprised at how creative and completely different your two sets of dishes turn out! Happy New Year to you! ! xxI have to leave some room for sure Smidge. I couldn't do it otherwise. We're looking forward to Chopped too. Happy New Year to you as well! Well I must say that I'm rather intrigued by the idea of the ‘silent blog readers' . who knew? Your stew looks warming and delicious — packed with good stuff and I love the colour of it too, earthy and beautiful. I'm very much looking forward to the 2014 Chopped Challenge... Human: More. Assistant: — that Kitchen Chaos photo has become a classic! A perfect storm... Human: Next. Assistant: 🙂LOL – it's always a perfect storm around here so to speak. 😉 I think you would really enjoy this stew Kelly. We're looking forward to Chopped as well and will make sure to take another picture of our kitchen disaster. I wonder what the chopped challenge this year would bring. Hope you get some wonderful exotic ingredients. Happy New Year Kristy! Wow, the... Human: More. Assistant: results of your vegan cleanse are truly amazing and inspiring. It is quite an accomplishment for Mike and I'm sure the health benefits make it all worthwhile. It wouldn't hurt for me... Human: More. Assistant: to reduce our beef intake, but I'm afraid I fall into the rut of cooking to avoid complaints and don't experiment enough with legumes and other vegetables. Looking forward to following along... Human: Continue. Assistant: your chopped challenge again this year. Have fun and there's no doubt that the creative juices will be flowing. Talk to you soon! I... Human: More. Assistant: know exactly what you mean about the cooking rut. The kids aren't... Human: Continue. Assistant: vegan, so they often get a separate meal. N is enjoying a... Human: Continue. Assistant: lot of the vegan dishes. Miss A still needs her meat and cheese though. 🙂 Happy New Year to you as well! the stew looks great – I am also veggi/vegan most days of the week but also would never say no to some tasty meat! ! Oh it's a wild ride Joanna! I can't tell you how many things have changed and how... Human: More. Assistant: much we've learned through blogging in the last three years. It's certainly been a lot of fun. I wish the same for you! Thank you for submitting the box ideas! We're looking forward to seeing what we end up with. 🙂A few more pumpkin recipes may be found on my blog . just type pumpkin into the search bar there . and enjoy! Made... Human: Continue. Assistant: a quinoa/pumpkin soup this week too. 😉I enjoy your yearly competition and will look forward to voting on the ingredients! And this recipe looks like a wonderful dish. I subscribe to Eating Well but don't remember seeing this one, so thank you! Congratulations on three years. With the age of your children and such active family life, you are really to be commended for... Human: Continue. Assistant: sticking with it! It's not easy for anyone, but I have to believe it is much more difficult when you're a mom to two... Human: More. Assistant: school-aged children. But it's always so good when we do hear from you, my friend! can;;t believe its been three years! Can't believe 45 piunds? WOW! and cant believe never had this soup before. I love the sound and look of it. the beans and the squash together make a perfect combo and I always love your cooking challenges! Here is to a wonderful... Human: More. Assistant: new year! Mike has been very dedicated to getting healthy. 🙂 And... Human: Continue. Assistant: we can't believe it's been three years either! Time just flies by. Happy New Year Jessica! Me again, sorry . had to say I love this recipe, and intend to make it... Human: Next. Assistant: (yeah, minus the garlic, in the name of marital peace. 🙂45 pounds lost, that blows my mind, I did not think he would HAVE 45 pounds to lose, the pictures already show... Human: Continue. Assistant: a very fit guy . oh, well – healthy is good, and I am in awe that you can change your nutrition like that . you guys are amazing! Mike has been... Human: More. Assistant: very committed to getting healthy for the past several months. He's tried different diets over the years but ended up with the yo-yo thing... Human: More. Assistant: He finally found a lifestyle that he can adapt to and that works for him. It's been way better than a “diet.” I'm so proud of him. I know it's hard work... Human: Continue. Assistant: And I'm glad you like the recipe! I thought you might. 🙂Major... Human: Next. Assistant: congrats on THREE YEARS! Awesome, and I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to count myself as one of the “most ancient” followers! Wow! I almost had a cardiac arrest when... Human: Next. Assistant: I saw the link to that article – I haven't quite recovered from finding the article myself early today, and now I am sure there is a net conspiracy out there to kill me from excessive happiness 😉Hi guys, I must say I fall into the category of ‘silent followers' of your blog. I am pretty new to the blogging scene and only recently... Human: More. Assistant: discovered your blog. But I love the work that you guys do and of course the proof is in the pudding. happy 3rd anniversary. I would love to present my appetizer mystery box which contains – haloumi, tomato, pineapple, garam masala. Hi Vanyadhanya! I have good news – you're basket will be a part of our Challenge! I actually sent you an email earlier... Human: Continue. Assistant: today asking if you would participate and thanking you for the Liebster Award. Let me know if you didn't get it and I will resend. We were hoping you would contribute for a main course basket. If you want to amend your ingredients to be a main course, let us know. Otherwise, we'll go with the four you named here. 🙂 Thank you so much! And thank you for following along. Cheers! always love visiting – I'm coming up on 3 too and can't believe it! I the stew is SO up my alley – simply delicious, healthy and I could just live on it! What a great post, Kristy, Happy new year to you too! Wow! 45lb is incredible, good for Mike! That stew looks and sounds... Human: More. Assistant: fantastic — JT and I are doing a juice cleanse and we're juicing breakfast and dinner but not lunch. I'm not quite as satisfied as I hoped I would be, and I... Human: Next. Assistant: adore veggies! Reading this post at 6pm is making my tummy grumble! Happy anniversary to your blog, three years is an amazing benchmark, congratulations. I LOVE your chopped challenge and I look... Human: Next. Assistant: forward to seeing the posts this year (to be honest, it's the only thing I look forward to on Superbowl Sunday (shhhhh! ). You should tweet as well, give us up to the minute play by play! Woohoo! Now I'm going to wish January away, no wait, the cold has already made me do that! It's what I look forward to on Super Bowl... Human: Next. Assistant: Sunday too. 😉 Thanks Eva! Looking forward to your basket selections too. Good luck on your juice cleanse. I was just considering one of those myself. Are you any particular one? Hi Kristy, we're loosely following Reboot with Joe http://www. JT bought me a Nutri Bullet for Xmas because I was spending over an hour juicing with my 25 year old juicer from my MIL. It has a lot more fibre than just juicing but the down side is that you actually get less vegetables. I think both have their up and down sides. I like the nutri-bullet because it did not break the bank and I have juice on the table in about 10 minutes. Neither JT nor I mind pulp (fibre) but if you do, you... Human: Continue. Assistant: may wish to strain the mush through a fine sieve, otherwise it's... Human: Next. Assistant: like a smoothie the longer you blend. I'm hoping to drop a few pounds I put on from being at home, Christmas and recipe testing! I have heard good things about the... Human: More. Assistant: nutri-bullet. I may have to look into it. Juice in 10 minutes sounds perfect. 🙂Love my nutribullet! I've had it for a while and we keep on doing our blends every single day! Enjoy! I really like that it keeps all of the fibre from the vegetables which most of the affordable juicers do not. Congratulations on your 3rd. A big bowl of your... Human: Continue. Assistant: stew would be very comforting right this moment. The temp is below zero. Thank you Norma! We've finally gone above zero . windchills still below though. We've gotten a nice few days... Human: Continue. Assistant: off though as a result! Miss America Outstanding Teen 2013, Rachel Wyatt is having the time of her life ever since winning her crown... Human: Next. Assistant: The youngster made a live appearance on Good Morning America's new segment, GMA Live, hosted by Josh Elliott, Lara Spencer and Sam Champion. After... Human: More. Assistant: her brief interview with Miss America, Mallory Hagan, Rachel was also seen at the Empire State building in New York City – where she even decided to snap some pictures – before making hr way over to the Brooklyn Bridge and do some sight-seeing. 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User: What could be the completion of this text: I attended my second Adobe Summit in Las Vegas last week. The event brought together more than 10,000 digital professionals from across the world to learn about “experience”—what Adobe is calling the third wave of enterprise disruption. The first wave of disruption impacted back-office systems and helped revolutionize how enterprise businesses managed their production lines. Suddenly supply chain management became a differentiator, until everyone had the same technology. The second wave hit the front-end of the office. This disruption birthed customer relationship management systems (CRMs) and helped salespeople do their jobs smarter and more efficiently. Suddenly businesses could scale sales and optimize revenue generation. Today, CRMs are table stakes. The third wave of disruption is less about people doing their jobs better, and more about creating memorable experiences throughout the customer lifecycle. Whether a person interacts with a company during the research phase with a sales executive, when making a purchase in-store, or post-sale on social media, those enterprise organizations that deliver consistent, continuous, and compelling experiences have the upper hand. As content marketers, you know experience matters. Stories have the power to captivate and evoke action; your digital publication's user experience must pull viewers in, educate them, entertain them, and make them fall in love. As a group, enterprise digital teams can all rally behind this goal. Unfortunately there's a big problem with the third wave of enterprise disruption. People still don't know what their colleagues are doing. They're so stuck in their own responsibilities and tasks that experiences are mismanaged and disjointed. The third wave of enterprise disruption is fueled by content and data, but those activities are still siloed within larger organizations. At Adobe Summit, I had the pleasure of working Skyword's sponsor booth in-between breakout sessions. Attendees would wander down the vendor aisles, blankly staring at booths that read “manage your data HERE! ” and “LEARN HOW we integrate with AEM now! ! ”All of these solutions are powerful tools that help teams better understand their audience. In fact, when used correctly, almost every platform or solution at Adobe Summit could supply an enterprise team with the insight to tell powerful stories and create consistent experiences. The problem wasn't the vendors; it was the separation between individuals employed by the same business. One attendee walked up to the Skyword booth to learn about our technology and services. She wanted to know how we integrate with Adobe's AEM technology (which we do), but couldn't wrap her head around what we did, exactly. She's not a marketer—she spends her time working with data, architecting marketing stacks but never actually getting into the creative production weeds. She opted to not take any supplementary information from our booth, but said that she'd send her colleague over. When her colleague did visit our booth, she knew a little about content marketing and cared a lot about our story, what we were trying to change, and how we thought about experiences through storytelling. But she wasn't as confident with her understanding of technology, integrations, or how she could leverage customer insight for compelling stories. Together, these two attendees made a perfect team, combining the data mindset with the creative prowess. Yet they both seemed so misaligned. What's more, they were disinterested in filling their own knowledge gaps—it was the other person's job. We're all focused on creating memorable experiences for our customers, but we're only paying attention to the parts we're directly responsible for. We talk about ... Assistant: Completed pargraph(s): digital transformation—the alignment of technology, process, and people—but we're not seeing that taking place in market. According to speaker, author, analyst, anthropologist, etc. Brian Solis, “An experience is something that you feel and sense, but it only counts when it's whole, when it's one thing.”And as a business in the digital age, you're not just competing with those in your industry when it comes to experience—you're competing with everyone. Solis cites Uber as an example, recalling how many times he's heard an entrepreneur or media outlet call an up-and-coming organization “the Uber for X.” I've personally heard this same comparison of our friends at HourlyNerd just down the street here in Boston. (The Uber for Consulting. Solis explains that because Uber came to market with a revolutionary way of servicing both riders and drivers, expectation changed forever. The bar is now set higher. Airbnb, the Uber of the hospitality industry (or maybe it's Uber, the Airbnb of transportation), faced this experience challenge head on. The company found that both its guests and hosts weren't having the level of experience they had hoped and that was advertised by the brand. Because a host is essentially the tangible side of Airbnb, the company discovered that the guests overall memory and experience with the brand depended on the host's abilities to make the guest's stay comfortable, safe, and enjoyable. To unify the experience users had with Airbnb, the company turned to Pixar and storytelling to help align expectations. Enterprises struggle with consistent experiences across the board. In the Airbnb case, lack of a continuous experience meant that guests weren't enjoying their vacations as much and next time they might opt for a hotel instead. For toy manufacturing company, Mattel, experience became a burden that for many years could not be overcome. Mattel's President and COO, Richard Dickson, keynoted day two at Adobe Summit (honestly, dude is an amazing speaker! ) and he told the story of how Mattel lost its way before regaining what made it unique in the first place. Dickson explained that Mattel had innovated and sat atop the industry for decades without having to change its processes or offerings. However, this mentality meant that the company wasn't moving forward or staying ahead of trends. Instead, the entire organization was going through its routines and completely missing out on big cultural movements and changes in human behavior. Dickson led the reinvention of Mattel by bringing it back to the basics. Toys were meant to be an extension of reality for young children, and if the products being produced didn't represent the totality of the world around them, kids and their parents weren't as drawn in by their appeal. Barbie, for example, had become an icon for insensitivity to diversity in race, body type, and how a girl should perceive herself. It wasn't so much the toy (or tool) that needed to change—girls and boys still love dolls and action figures. But the mindset around what the toy represented needed a wildly updated approach. It needed to reflect and respect the differences in the people buying the dolls. Dickson understood this, he made sure his team understood this, and he has since reinvented the entire company's product line to reflect modern-day expectations. And when expectations are met at such a high level, experiences become realities, and all the much more meaningful. “Finding the way forward begins with understanding what made you special in the first place,” Dickson said. User: What could be the completion of this text: Mattel had devolved into a packaged goods company that made toys, and it had to find its story again as a creations company—design-led before ... Assistant: Completed pargraph(s): anything else as a way to delight children. Attendees likely left Adobe Summit with their own, unique experiences, and that's OK. Adobe did a... User: More. Assistant: wonderful job of curating exceptional session and keynote content. For me, the biggest lesson learned is in how fragmented enterprise teams still are today. Experience is the new differentiator, and it looks to be for years to come as organizations continue to struggle with aligning teams around a core story. 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<human>: More spans: Ok, so this is a collection of thoughts as to how it all links in, but it came from an "epiphany" after having the fact that Deathwing is given his new power from the Old Gods. It [spans 1] Titans. The villains are first a troll God (does he have links with the Old Gods? ) followed by 2 old Gods (Raggy and C'thun) before a deranged Deathwing and then finally Naxx. We see potentially 3 Old Gods trying their luck and then a character who has powers from the Titans causing the trouble (let's not forget, Kel'Thuzad's power comes from Arthas, who's power comes from [spans 2] Titan. The Legion (as said, Titan-powered), along with the Infinite Dragonflight (again Titan-powered, regardless of which Aspect is in charge), Illidan et al (power from the Legion AND the Eye of Sargeras, [spans 3] stuff). All starts with the Scourge, so all power from the Legion you'd think. Then we also have Yogg Saron, who's a Old God. However, the repeated comment by [spans 4] legion. This is where my epiphany came. I reckon that the Lich King is the first "champion" of the Old Gods to have been unleashed. I reckon that his long "sleep" has left him affect and empowered by the Old Gods and that's why he's been able to do all that he has done. But he wasn't the only one. We see Deathwing bursting back onto the scene and he has been empowered by the Old Gods. I think he's [spans 5] Azeroth. And it's because of this that I see a light at the end of the tunnel for the Lich King to be defeated in the Icecrown Citadel dungeons and still be brought back at a later date by the Old Gods. I think Gurfang is thinking more longer term than Cataclysm and he said could make sense, assuming of course (and this is a big IF) if Blizzard themselves think this far ahead. From the lore-writers point of view, they have to be looking that far ahead otherwise they make their job a hell of a lot harder when it comes to creating stuff. Sure, they probably only have vague ideas, but there still has to be an end plan set to be worked towards. Part of me wouldn't be surprised if Medivh's son with Garona becomes a part of it and gets corrupted by the Old Gods too, leading to him fighting Thrall for the control of Azeroth. But with the thoughts I've had of late, I don't think it matters if he is brought into the WoW lore as the creation of champions like Deathwing and Arthas would mean that Azeroth would need a champion and Thrall would be as good a choice as any. For the love of Naaru, why does he ever have to fight Thrall, or anyone else? ! Why can't he become the Guardian after Thrall? And why do you think he's even aiming for becoming one? As for the Titans vs Old Gods thingy, there will be no epic showdown. If the Old Gods ever become a considerable nuisance, they will simply be destroyed along with the whole Azeroth — yeah, the Titans are just that powerful. I think he's considered being somewhere at the level of an aspect now, nothing special. [spans 6] balls. So what if I keep suggesting him as a possible villain for the future? ! Because you don't like them I should stop? The thread is a collection of thoughts, MY thoughts. Don't like them? Don't read them! But to constantly whine about them? So they're not a nuisance now? [spans 7] powerful. They are classified as demi-gods, which puts them on a par with Cenarius, Gruul and Ragnaros. I notice Blizzard are killing/shoving to the side their WC3 creations in place of Knaaks abominations creationsAlright, alright, whatever. Let Med'an be a 40 man raid boss, i don't really care. Forcing the idea wherever possible doesn't make it better though. Of course that's not a problem. Have you seen many titans on Azeroth? Nope? Thought so. That's because they have more important stuff to do than to fix one particular world. On the other hand, if Sargeras has taken interest in it, they might one day return and check how things are going. And yes, they are exactly THAT powerful. If you really consider them being on par with Gruul, then. Sure, there are different levels of power, but they still have limits. I remember reading somewhere that part of the reason they haven't done anything about the state of Azeroth is because they have moved on across the cosmos to fiddle with other worlds and either haven't heard about what's going on or are so far away that it will take a very long time (remember that they left 64000 years before the First War) for them to get back. That plus we don't know how much of the mess that the Legion has wreaked across the stars they have had to deal with. All we know about is that they haven't come to deal with the mess that the world they created into something akin to Eden has become. Afunakwa leaned on her cane and turned her head towards the sky. Her vision wasn't what it used to be, but she thought she could make out a small spec drifting above, rising and falling with currents. For a moment she paused and remembered what it was like to ride the wind as a bird, free from the ground. Looking back up, the crow was closer now, circling down to the wind swept mesa of Thunder Bluff. She pulled her cloak tighter and walked back inside her tent to wait for him. "Welcome back little one. " the old tauren addressed the tauren male how entered the tent. The figure could not help but smile at the name even as he towered above her. "It is much as we heard, mother. There is much fighting still, but it seems the Lich King is defeated. A time for great rejoicing. The land, although still terribly wounded, feels as if a great evil has begun to lift from it. I had not thought to see this day in my life. ## A [spans 8] time. "The old tauren nodded and closed her eyes a moment, deep in thought. The younger male did not interupt her reverie. "But this is only the beginning of the task before our tribe. I feel a great change coming upon us. Tonight you must travel beyond the veil and hear the wisdom of our ancestors. I have made the preparations for the vision quest. But first come, the others will want to welcome you home. "The vision had come strongly to him. Unlike other occassions, where he had spent months trying to fathom meaning from what he had seen, this time he was certain. He had been a tree, rooted to the ground in a barren wasteland. But even as the land looked to be dying, the sun shone upon it and him, and he felt stronger. He felt his roots grow and the land seemed to change around him, it's lifelessness replaced slowly by a natural splendor. He saw shapes move amongst the land. first animals then eventually humanoids. Tauren, orcs, troll, even the humans, dwarves and others. The vision continued for some time. Eventually Sulthar began to notice not all the humans seemed well. As he looked at [spans 9] Forsaken. They crouched and crawled in agony, some were vomiting, others shrieking in pain. Even worse others tore blindly at the ground around them, faces contorted in rage. In a moment of clarity he understood. Their curse was not lifted, damnation was still their fate. They would not recover like the land. The next day Afunakwa returned to Sulthar's tent, where she had left him to undertake the ritual. As she slowly studied his face in the dim glow of [spans 10] before. A determination, a sense of purpose. Nothing was said for sometime. Eventually Sulthar rose. "There is work to be done. We travel beyond Mulgore and help heal the land. " He paused a moment. "And [spans 11] Forsaken. "Four out of five pirates for you. Sounds good, if you intend to write more down please share since I would like to follow this. Clearly anyone [spans 12] around. Perhaps more extreme measures may be called for in certain cases. I hope to make the search for a "cure" and healing the land central stories for the Stormsingers. Assuming the title says Stormsinger Tribe you wouldn't be the only one trying to find a cure for the zombies of warcraft? Or you plan gather followers on your journey? The Forsaken see themselves as superior to the living and to the Scourge. They don´t need, nor do they want a cure for their current state. But it may result into good cross-guild rp. Feel free to poke me in-game. Or any Housie for that matter. I remember the old House of Praetoria, the arch enemy of House of Sylvanas, I think they would've wanted a cure. Before you start, you will need to acquire (note, you can do this quite cheaply if you shop around and aren't afraid to get 2nd hand stuff):A plastic bucket with a lid (depending on the amount of mead you want to make at any one time, you can use anything with a [spans 13] litres). Runny honey (ideally not australian honey as most of this is made from eucalyptus pollen which apparently gives the mead a slightly odd taste). Several empty bottles (wine or beer bottles that you have empited yourself are fine for this. just remember to keep the caps! ). So, once you have all the equipment and ingredients, you're ready to begin. The following makes about 1 gallon (roughly 4.5 litres) of mead. Step 1: following the instructions on the packaging, carefully sterilise the plastic bucket and lid - you really [spans 14] fermentation). When the sugar is dissolved, and making sure the water is only just warm to your hand, add about half a teaspoon of your wine yeast. Step 3: while your yeast starts to react with the sugar, boil 4 litres of water and pour about 3 and a half litres into your clean bucket. Pour 4 [spans 15] total. Using the remaining 0.5litre of water (which should have cooled a bit by now) rinse out the jars to get out as much of the honey as you can, then stir with a clean wooden or plastic spoon (not metal! ) until the honey is dissolved. Step 4: Add the juice from 4 oranges (you can squeeze them by hand if you don't have a juicer. or if, like me, you just find it more fun ). Step 5: add a teaspoon of yeast nutrient and your yeast starter (which should now have a nice fluffly layer of yeast floating in the water ) to the mixture and stir well. Press the lid on and move to a warm place and leave for 2 weeks, stirring occaisionally with your -very- clean spoon. Step 6: by this time, you should be getting the smell of fermentation and the liquid in your bucket should be quite frothy. Pour the liquid from the bucket, into the 1st demi john through the sterilised funnel (if you only have one demi-john, you can simply leave it in the bucket for another few weeks, just remeber to keep lifting the lid or the pressure from the gasses released during fermentation will pop it off! ) then place the empty air-lock securely in the neck of th bottle and [spans 16] months. Step 7: After 2 months, fermentation should be slowing down and a [spans 17] john. Place the full demi john on a sideboard/ table and the empty one below it on, for example, a chair. Using your sterilised tubing (or siphon), suck through the liquid. At this point (and this is why i prefer to do it this way) you should get a small taste of the raw [spans 18] out. Now you place your thumb over the end of the tube in your mouth (or turn the tap if you have one), then release it into the 2nd demi john. Gravity [spans 19] . Once you've transferred over as much of thre liquid as you can get, place the airlock in the top of this demi john, only this time, partially fill it with water. You should see the pressure from the fermantation gasses start to bubble slowly through. You can now return your mead to the warm dark place for upto 6 months or until you no longer see any sign of fermentation. Note: if you decided to leave the mead fermenting in the [spans 20] funnel. Step 8: once you're happy your mead is ready, sterilise enough bottles to hold the mead you've made, then siphon the liquid over as we did in step 7 (this time you get a taste of your finished product - yummy ) and this is where having a tap on the emd of your tubing makes this a little less messy Once you're done, cap and label your bottles and your mead will be ready to drink when you are. Note: many people leave aside a couple of [spans 21] ). Also, please drink responsibly and do [spans 22] honey. I guess you had some bad experience with that? Mead is quite tasty, actually. My brother does it quite alot, so I could probably aquire a swedish text for this as well. Probably not exactly the same, since my brother does it in a slightly diffrent way, and quite alot more of it as well. But if you can try it, do try and make it. [spans 23] it. Actually, i haven't tried, i was just strongly adivsed against using it myself. apparently the majority of honey bees in austrailia get their pollen from eucalyptus which supposedly give the honey an antiseptic kinda taste which seems [spans 24] it. Ofc, the more local your honey the better, not only does it support youe country's bee-keepers, but it saves food milesAnd Deomora is right, there's loads of variations on how to make mead, and people tend to come up with new things all the time that work for them. I was quite lucky as my 1st batch was fairly decent and i've since moved on to adding some of my home-grown fruit to the brew at the right time of year. edit: also, the reason i don't tend to make too much [spans 25] Australia. But yes, I can imagine that the local honeybees pick the most common flower they can find, and that is eucalyptus. And I can imagine that it tastes exactly like the medicine containing eucalyptus. heh, well we are clearly spoilt here in the UK. Even in the smaller supermarkets you can easily find australian, mexican, spanish, hungarian, british and european blended honey on the shelf togetherIndeed. I already heard complaints about the poor selection in Hungarian supermarkets from a visitor from Sweden. we are not spoiled with imported products. If yall like the writing of Handsome Brand New Mitsubishi Owners Day Near Me, please remember to help this blog to give it to your relatives on Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter. 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You can find detailed informations about: wind speed, wind direction, pressure, temperature, humidity and visibility at Laudium. <bot>: spans 1: is my belief that Blizz are going for the final end boss/bosses to be part of a clash between the Old Gods and the spans 2: (or certainly did at the time) the Legion, whose power came from Sargeras, a spans 3: all Titan spans 4: people about the Lich King is that he has continued to grow in power to the point where he was able to remove himself from the control of the spans 5: the next step in the Old Gods creating champions who have both the powers of the Old Gods and Titanic powers in the hope that when the Titans finally come back, as I'm sure they will, they will meet the toughest possible test in trying to regain control of spans 6: Fine, and all your ideas because I don't like them suck spans 7: Old gods causing problems north, south and now helping Deathwing to ravage the whole planet? No, clearly not a problem! 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In the UK, you can make as much undstilled alcohol (ie: anything not classed as a spirit! ) as you like as long as you don't sell it! (giving it away is perfectly acceptable as far as i am aware spans 22: not encourage those not permitted by your country's laws to drink! I find it funny that you emphasised that it must not be, of all, australian spans 23: The first try is rarely tasty, since you need to experiment abit to get the best out of spans 24: to come out quite strongly when you make mead from spans 25: at a time is that i'd soon run out of space to store itI mainly found it amusing because at least in Hungary it is highly unlikely that the honey you find in the store is imported from

Input: What could be the completion of this text: hey andrew were trying to get some work done in the studio- doesnt look like livestream will be over there- if possible could you ... Output: request that any decisions regarding the re-couping of personal belongings be tabled until tomorrows larger afternoon meeting? thanks! Subject: Re: Re: (september17discuss) Lessons from... Input: Next. Output: Europe on how to keep the movement moving forwardI do think that a 2/3 vote (in the case of a block) was much more reasonable and that the whole, "you can only block if you are willing to leave the movement" thing is a bit extreme. Why can't you block if you think it is a really bad idea, and then we move to... Input: More. Output: a vote if necessary? The current process did manage to strengthen and then pass the spokes-council proposal though, so I don't think it is unworkable. Again I am hoping the spokes-council will... Input: More. Output: address some of these problems as those that are more concerned with day to day operations can concentrate on the and those that are more big picture oriented can concentrate on that... Input: More. Output: Thanks Dough, that was a timely piece of self-reflection to bring in. We are here to confront and resolve problems. The uplifting images of overseas mobilizations have been inspiring and broadly publicized, but the subsequent decline in enthusiasm continues to be hidden under the rug. We have moved from discontent and frustration to hope and self-empowerment, great! , but the canalization towards lasting change lacks its mechanism. I consider consensus a great mechanisms for inclusion and creative discussion, but it is also a great neutralizer of substantial definition and decision making. Consensus provides extraordinary legitimacy, but once consensus is impossible, a majority rule should be implemented and its consequence carefully considered by those in the majority position. It would be of minor importance for OWS if its goal... Input: Next. Output: is to remain as a very inclusive and transient forum of ideas that will trigger more significant events in the future, but a majority rule suits better deeply transformative goals and specific strategies to achieve them. Majority rule will be needed for those interested in justice beyond the purely economic realm who need to distance themselves from those just trying to achieve some extra... Input: Continue. Output: comforts. I think that a 2/3 majority rule would empower the mobilization of a larger number of people compromised with true solidarity and democracy. No, we are not the political 99%. Lack of true recruitment may be also slowing growth. We are social animals, and the uplifting feelings of solidarity that many are rediscovering at Liberty Plaza have roots in long forgotten cooperation strategies... Input: More. Output: of our ancestors. The limitation is that once we are satisfied with our circle of trusted friends, we are not prone to expand the circle, we become satisfied and lazy. This is perhaps the reason why some working groups remain understaffed, and why some people who visits Liberty Plaza but finds no "occupation" ends up leaving for good. This is a very interesting article. Some of it applies to OWS and some of it doesn't, but lots of food for thought here. I have yet to see my nearest large occupation, Boston, or the precursor of all U. occupations, Wall Street. Instead, I have been on the road for the past six weeks in Thesselonika and Athens Greece; Istanbul and Diyarbikar Turkey; Lexington, Kentucky; London, England; Dublin, Ireland;... Input: Continue. Output: and in Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia Spain. In all these places, I talked with diverse individuals at many meetings and popular assemblies. I met people involved in occupations, as well as audiences assembled by my hosts to hear about participatory economics. Beyond addressing assigned topics, my own priority was to learn about local movements. I repeatedly asked what folks struggling for many months wished... Input: Continue. Output: to say to other folks first embarking on similar paths. In Greece and Spain, a single message predominated. It had nothing to do with... Input: Next. Output: analyses of capitalism or other analytic focuses. Yet I heard, time after time, that nothing had diminished regarding the population's rejection of unfolding injustices... Input: Continue. Output: The people remain fed up in huge numbers and still turn out massively for demonstrations, marches, and strikes. So why were most people who were rallying and marching no longer assembling? The reply I heard at every stop was that the decline of the assemblies wasn't due to repression, or to people being co-opted, or to people being tricked or saddened by media distortion... Input: Next. Output: or dismissal. In fact, the assemblies shrinking wasn't due to anything anyone else did to the assemblies, or said about them, or didn't do... Input: More. Output: to them, or didn't say about them, activists repeatedly reported. Instead, they told me, the problem emanated from within. For example, Greek and Spanish activists said that at assemblies initially people spoke... Input: Next. Output: with incredible passion of their plights and desires. Their voices often broke. Each time someone rose to speak, something real, passionate, and persistent happened. It was enchanting and exciting. People were learning... Input: Continue. Output: not only new facts and interpretations - and, indeed, that kind of learning was relatively modest - they were also learning new confidence and... Input: Continue. Output: new modes of engaging with others. But after days and then weeks, the flavor of the talks shifted. From being new folks speaking passionately and recounting their reasons for being present and... Input: More. Output: their hopes for their future by delivering deeply felt and quite unique... Input: Continue. Output: stories, the speakers shifted toward being more seasoned or habituated folks, who lectured attendees with prepackaged views. The lines of speakers became overwhelmingly male. ## Their deliveries became overwhelmingly rehearsed. ## Listening to robotic repetition and frequent predictable and almost text-like ranting got boring and alienating. Sometimes it was even demeaning. At the same time, new people, who were still far more prevalent, didn't... Input: More. Output: know what to do while they were occupying. We could assemble, they reported. We could talk and engage with each other. We could listen... Input: Continue. Output: to others and sometimes debate a bit - the Greek and Spanish... Input: Next. Output: Assemblers reported - but, how long could we do that and feel it was worth the time we had to spend away from our families, friends, and jobs, not to mention from rooms with a roof? As they first formed, the assemblies were invigorating and uplifting. We were creating a new community, I was told. We were making new friends. We were hearing from... Input: Next. Output: new people. We were enjoying an environment where dissent was the norm. But as days passed, and then weeks, it got too familiar. And it wasn't obvious to folks what more they... Input: More. Output: could do. There weren't tasks to undertake. We weren't being born anymore, we were dying. For many it was impossible to keep learning and keep contributing. There was a will, but there was not a way. Folks didn't have meaningful things to do that made them feel part of a worthy project. We felt, in time, only part of a mass of people. After a time, many asked, why should I stay and listen to boring talks? Why should I be hugely uncomfortable and cut off from family and work, if I have nothing to do that is constructive, nothing that is empowering, nothing that furthers worthy aims? And so people started to attend less, and then to leave. Another factor that was initially exciting but later became... Input: Next. Output: tedious, was seeking consensus. At first it was novel. It implied trust, which felt good. It implied shared intentions, which felt inspiring. But after awhile, seeking consensus became tortured, a time waster, and its reason for being the only decision making approach became steadily less compelling. Why can't we arrive at decisions which some people do not like and don't even want to participate... Input: Next. Output: in? Why can't we arrive at decisions, and have a strong minority that dissents, and then respect that minority, and even have it pursue... Input: More. Output: other possibilities to see their worth? Why do we allow some small group to cause discussions to continue without end, turning off many from relating when the small group has no legitimate claim to greater influence than anyone else - save that our mode of decision making gives them a veto? Folks recounted all these dynamics very graphically and movingly. No one said that... Input: Next. Output: people stopped participating in assemblies because of fear or the cops or depression over the newspapers. No one said people left because they had developed doubts about protest or resistance, much less... Input: Next. Output: about the condition of society. Instead, everyone I spoke with, and it was a lot of very committed people, told me participants left due... Input: Continue. Output: to lacking good reasons to stay. The bottom line was that the assemblies got tedious and, ironically, even disempowering. Folks wondered, why must I be here every day and every night? The... Input: Next. Output: thought nagged. It led to legions moving on. Occupy but better yet, self manage, I was told. The former option is basically passive - the latter is active and yields tasks and opportunities to contribute. Grow in numbers and awareness, but those who become well learned must stay in touch with new people, and always remember that new people's involvement matters most. Otherwise old timers are getting more knowledgeable but also more aloof, and new people will not stay. ## Why not have classes for learning? Why not have activities for creating? Why not have actions for winning changes? Always speak to the new people. ## Always speak from experience, from events, not from preconceived lines. Always involve yourself and new people in tangible and worthy activity. Make... Input: Continue. Output: the options evident and easy to become involved with. Of course some things can't be solved at occupations themselves. Sleeping out is a young person's passion - but not an option for everyone. In Dublin, this was particularly evident. So, while sleeping in an occupied space makes sense for some young or homeless folks, why not proactively take for granted that many other folks,... Input: Next. Output: particularly with families, will not and cannot sleep under the stars? Why not have a program of activities that returns people to their home locales for organizing purposes each night, or even... Input: Continue. Output: for all but the explicit time of assembly meetings, perhaps? Ideas that resonated in the many discussions, and that activists involved felt needed preponderant support, included: once an occupation has a lot of people, have subgroups initiate other occupations in more places, all federated together and providing one another mutual aid. In the most local, neighborhood occupations, visit every home. Talk with every resident... Input: More. Output: Involve as many neighbors as possible. Determine real felt needs. If what is most upsetting neighbors is housing concerns, daycare issues, traffic patterns, mutual... Input: Continue. Output: aid, loneliness, whatever, try to act to address the problems. ## Have occupations self manage and create innovations artistically, socially, and politically. Have occupations occupy indoors, not just outside. It is a leap, perhaps, but not much of one. In Barcelona and Madrid - some have tentatively begun occupying abandoned apartments and other buildings, preparatory, I believe, to inviting the homeless to dwell in them, as well as to using them for meetings and the like. In Valencia I was at a very fledgling university occupation, begun, indeed, after a talk. But to occupy buildings, especially institutions like universities or media, isn't just a matter of call it, or tweet it, and they will come. It is a matter of go get them, inform them, inspire them, enlist... Input: More. Output: them, empower them, and they will come. In Greece and Spain, and to an extent the other venues I visited too, violence was another... Input: Next. Output: focus. All who I talked with agreed it was a suicidal approach on two counts. First, violence is the state's main strength. Shifting the terms of conflict toward violence shifts it precisely where the state and elites want it - toward their strength. Second, violence distorts the project. It makes it inaccessible for many. It makes bystanders critical. It diminishes outreach, and outreach is... Input: More. Output: the basis of all gains. I have been to Greece a number of times, and in earlier trips this view was quite weak among young Greeks, who were more typically ready and... Input: More. Output: eager to rumble. But now the non violence stance has growing traction in Greece. In Spain, from the start, it was predominant and Spanish activists have successfully avoided giving the state an excuse for violence, thus causing every act of violence by the state to reverberate to its disadvantage. Forget about violence and rioting, develop campaigns emanating from occupations, which means, said activists in Spain, developing demands to fight for. Indeed, over and over activists involved asked about demands that could unite constituencies and which could be fought for in creative and participatory ways so that victories were possible which would really matter to people's lives and enthusiasm and spur further struggle. They felt that while the open ended character of dissent worked fantastically initially, and was warranted... Input: More. Output: while waiting for enough outreach so demands would represent a real constituency's views, not just those of a few leaders, over time, one needs focus. Some suggestions for demands that arose were... Input: Next. Output: welcome. For example, everyone liked demanding big cuts in military spending and reinstatement and enlargement of funds for social programs. But what folks really... Input: Continue. Output: liked was when that demand was explored and enlarged to include transforming the purposes of military bases that would otherwise be shrunk or closed due to budget cutting to instead stay open and do worthy public works such as building low income housing, first for base residents who would need and appreciate it, and then for the homeless. And regarding the homeless, a demand... Input: More. Output: that hit home was freezing foreclosures, returning homes, distributing vacant homes, housing the homeless - including the idea of enacting occupations to undertake these... Input: Next. Output: results directly, a process that has begun in Barcelona and Madrid which also have robust movements to block foreclosures. Another approach that seemed to... Input: Continue. Output: gather considerable support was to demand full employment. Recognizing the lack of current demand for produced goods people realized a sensible full employment demand... Input: More. Output: would require also reducing the work week by 10 - 25 percent, depending on the country's unemployment rate. Of course if most people saw their incomes decline by a corresponding amount, they... Input: Continue. Output: would face catastrophe, and thus the reduced hours demand has to be combined with a demand that most people would incur no loss of income. (Living wage policies and redistributionist progressive taxation... Input: Next. Output: would also be part of the mix. Full employment additionally strengthens working people because when they all have jobs, the threat of being fired declines to near irrelevance. Winning this demand also means workers enjoy more leisure and higher hourly wages for those in need. Additional costs would have to be born by owners, and if they don't agree, that's fine - workers might... Input: Continue. Output: want to occupy those factories, and then move to self manage them. Another popular notion was going after media. One option that resonated as... Input: More. Output: a possible campaign goal, even while obviously falling short of total transformation, (though certainly on the way toward it), was demanding one or more... Input: Next. Output: new sections of mainstream newspapers, or shows, or whatever which would be devoted to, for example, labor dissent, or feminism, or peace, or ecology, and so on. Crucially, these would not be managed in the usual corporate fashion, but, instead, via self management of their participants under the umbrella of major labor, women's, peace, or ecology organizations, for example. They envisioned these campaigns unifying... Input: Next. Output: protest into resistance and then unifying resistance into creative self management, even as each occupation also related to its own local concerns. Occupations - or what might come to be known, in... Input: Next. Output: time, as self managements - would occur in local neighborhoods and federate up to cities and beyond, but also at the entrances to, and perhaps even inside, mainstream media, and at military... Input: More. Output: recruiting stations and bases, at government ministries and branches, and finally, one... Input: Continue. Output: can envision, even at factories and other workplaces. And in such endeavors not everyone would have to sleep outdoors but everyone would have to give some of their time, resources, insight, and energy to aid one or another campaign of the overall project. The revolution, so to speak, is not immediately at hand. In my youth we bellowed - “We want the world and we want it now! ” It was fine as a rousing chant. But we need to also understand that it takes time, it takes sustained effort, traversing not weeks or months, but years. Indeed, even with the incredible speed and ingenuity of current outbreaks of activism, there are undeniably pessimistic scenarios in which occupations wind down and then demos happen for a time but... Input: Continue. Output: manage to win only minor if any gains until movement morbidity sets in. This is what the Greeks and Spaniards are trying to avoid. It is why they are beginning new kinds... Input: More. Output: of occupations aimed at media, housing, universities, and at the transformation of budgets, and soon, perhaps at hiring and firing. Projects that are designed to enhance and widen participation in ways leading... Input: More. Output: to massive involvement of masses of people - all knowing what they want and how they can contribute to attaining it. There are, however,... Input: More. Output: also optimistic scenarios in which occupations diversify and morph into self managing... Input: More. Output: projects radiating out campaigns for change while also welcoming into sustained participation countless actors of all ages and orientations. In this picture, daily marches to support other campaigns in a city - like in New York currently - with growth in numbers and confidence, leads to empty buildings becoming residences and meeting places, to mainstream media businesses becoming targets for occupation, and likewise for... Input: Continue. Output: universities, and other workplaces of all kinds. Envisioning all this and much more, once people's ambition is unleashed from the shackles of daily pessimism, was not hard for folks I talked with. The optimistic path is a scenario involving planting the seeds of the future in the present. It is a scenario that marshals energy and insights to building alternatives, but also winning gains now all fought for and implemented in ways that build desires and organization aimed at winning still more gains in the future. We need a sense of proportion and pacing. The occupations now underway still involve only a small fraction, indeed a tiny fraction, of the people in pain and angry about it. To grow, the occupations need to very explicitly conceive themselves in... Input: Continue. Output: ways that address immediate needs, are aimed at viable and worthy long term goals, and develop modes of participation that cause normal folks, enduring... Input: Next. Output: normal harsh conditions, to feel that giving their time makes good sense... Input: More. Output: because it can eventually lead to a new social system with vastly better outcomes than those presently endured. Occupations that began in response to... Input: Continue. Output: economic insanity need, as well, to broaden and adopt a more encompassing focus taking into account not only the economy, but also, and equally, matters of race, gender, age, ability, ecology, and... Input: Next. Output: war and peace. This is what makes a movement a threatening project able to induce capitulation from authorities afraid to make it grow even larger. It is what makes a movement worthy of winning, as well. We need not only patience in the face of a long struggle, but also a sense of optimism and desire. The occupations are a start, a veritable firestorm of initiation, and they already have vastly wider support than their direct participation evidences. There is a possibility lurking in these events that is awesome in its potential implications. We should all be patient and keep our heads, yet we should all also realize that this may be a very special time, especially for young people, during which it is possible to make an... Input: Continue. Output: indelible, enduring, and incredibly desirable mark on history.

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This means that you can build snowmen and snow forts between your snow tubing runs! The Snow Play area is fun for all ages, so even if you are not participating in tubing you can still play around in the slow! There is a second level in the building that is perfect for friends and family who want to watch their loved ones have a blast while tubing... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> This level includes plenty of great areas to relax, or you can get some food and drinks from the snack bar! While most people can participate in snow tubing at Pigeon Forge Snow, note that you must be at least 38 inches and 3 years old. However, everyone can participate in the Snow Play area regardless of age or height. You can wear any types of shoes that you like, but you should avoid wearing flip-flops due to the nature of the activity. Since the temperature inside of the building is moderate, a long sleeve shirt or light jacket is ideal. Check out our Pigeon Forge Snow coupon today to save money on this amazing indoor attraction in the Smoky Mountains! Also, be sure to browse our other... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> amazing coupons to save BIG throughout Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge! I am thankful to work in a building full of amazing teachers who teach their students to LOVE to read! There is nothing that warms my heart more than seeing and hearing kids read! It gives me chills! I got to see so much reading this week! Thank you for instilling a love of... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> reading in your students! No silent library at Sem! ! Mrs. Price... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> encourages students to share their excitement about books with others! At Math for America, we do everything we can to make teaching a viable, rewarding, and respected career choice for the best minds in science and mathematics. Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a seven-step process. You must first have note cards that have questions on one side and answers on the other side. Give each student one... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> of these cards. Have students stand-up, put their hands-up and then pair-up with someone else who has their hand up. Don't forget about the... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> student learning hub. There are many parent resources to share from what they can do to help at home to videos explaining the different math strategies. <|prompter|> Complete this text: Use the link below or go to the parent link on the FISD website and click on the student learning hub. From there, click on Student and Parent Resources, math, Elementary, then scroll down to find your grade level. Thank you for another great week at SEM! Hope you get to rest next week and count your blessings outside of school! Enjoy a well deserved break! **Attention Parents- Due to end of year school activities, the last day for parent lunch visits for the school year was Thursday, May 12th. Menu for Field Day will be sack lunches and the choice of turkey and cheese sandwich or PB&J; each will include milk, veggie pack and fruit. Students will order lunch as they normally do. If there is a rain delay, Tuesday and Wednesday lunches will be switched. Please make sure your child has money in their lunch account. Students with a negative balance will receive a debit lunch (PB&J). Negative balances must be paid by May 26th. All 4th grade families are invited to attend HPE's annual Fourth Grade Recognition Program. We will recognize all of the hard work, achievements and accomplishments of this year's class. Thursday, May 26th, 9:15 am - 10:30 am, HPE Gymnasium. Please enter through the gym doors (HPE door #3) and have a seat in the bleachers. Any library books that have not been returned to the HPE library are now overdue! Please remind your child to return their library books. Your cooperation is appreciated! We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting enrollments for new students online. If you have a child that will be in kindergarten next year, or attending HSE schools in another grade level you may begin filling out the enrollment forms online. Please use the following link for more enrollment information: http://www. us/ADM/enrollment/Should you have any questions regarding enrollment, please don't hesitate to contact your child's future school. The state cut-off for Kindergarten enrollment is August 1st. HSE Schools have an early entrance period for Kindergarten from August 1st to September 1st. We are unable to accept any early Kindergarten enrollments after September 1st. If your child will be absent from school, please call the HPE Attendance Line by 9:00 a. If you know in advance that your child will be absent, you may call the attendance line's voicemail anytime and leave a message. If you know your student will be absent for more than two school days for any reason other than illness, we ask that you complete a Prearranged Absence Form (available in the HPE office) at leas one week prior to the absence. Student attendance at HPE is vitally important. Please make every attempt possible to plan appointments and vacations outside of school hours. Regular attendance improves student performance and is expected as an integral part of our state mandated School Improvement Plan. As a reminder, the sign in procedure at Harrison Parkway includes signing your child in or out using a computer. If you are signing your child out of school, please have your driver's license with you, as you will need it to complete the sign-out process. Students are to be dropped off and picked up at the front of the drive by the school's front doors. Please have your child exit from the passenger side of all vehicles. Students should stay in their seatbelts/safety seats until your vehicle has come to a complete stop and your child is ready to get out of the car. Please only dismiss and receive your child at the front of the school. Do not release students from the back of the line so they mush walk past other cars releasing children. It is imperative that cars remain in a single line along the curb. Please do not attempt to pass cars releasing students as this creates an unsafe situation for our children. Please use extreme caution in our parking lot and drive in the morning and afternoon, as both are high-traffic times. Thank you for your part in keeping our children safe. Please be sure to check the Lost & Found located outside of the Music Room for any lost items. At the end of the school year, we will be donating any leftover items to charities that serve people in need. Thank you! It's hard to believe that the end of school is right around the corner! May is such a busy month at HSE schools, but it is also the perfect time to recognize a special teacher or staff member that has made a difference for your child. If you are interested in nominating a teacher, counselor, nurse, bus driver, or other staff member for their district wide "Thank an Educator" Honor Roll, please visit www. Attention 4th Grade Families - Sand Creek Intermediate is seeking to fill two board positions for the 2016-2017 school year. We are looking for a Treasurer and a Vice President. There are also several committees in need of chairs or co-chairs including Fall Fundraiser, Spirit Wear, Spring Fest, Sixth Grade Blast, Movie Nights, Spirit Night, Concessions, and Restaurant Nights. Please help us make the next chapter in your student's academic journey as awesome as elementary! If you are interested in getting involved with the SCI PTO or would like more information, please contact Amy Riebe at amy. riebe5@yahoo.com or Carrie Duer at ceduer@yahoo. Please see the sections below for more information about activities in our school district and community. Permitted use of school newsletters by the Equal Access Act is not an endorsement of this group or this group's beliefs by Hamilton Southeastern Schools or the Board of School Trustees. This nationally-recognized instructional program is medically accurate, hands-on, and teaches boys and girls how to handle emergencies such as injury management and choking rescue while caring for children. Learn the basics of childcare through games, activities and role play. Course includes infant CPR as well as a kit with a manual, bag, etc. Please bring a sack lunch! Let's face it, finding a gift for the world's best dad, or father figure, can be really difficult! Instead of buying another neck tie, consider creating a gift he'll cherish for years to come. Join Fishers Parks & Recreation for Father's Day Pottery on Saturday, June 11 from 1 to 2 p. During this program, your child ages 2 through 10 can turn their hand into a paint brush as they create the perfect hand-print coffee mug! All supplies are provided during this program and finished mugs will be available a week after the program, just in time to be wrapped and delivered. After children have the opportunity to create their mug, the entire group will enjoy reading, “Daddy's Are For Catching Fireflies. Movies take place weekly and begin at dusk. This season, Fishers Parks & Recreation has secured an awesome movie line-up ... <|assistant|> Sure, let me know if you need anything else: that features:Movies are free to attend and families are encouraged to pack a sweatshirt, roll out a blanket and stop by concessions to purchase a few movies snacks. The City of Fishers G. Committee will work concessions, weekly to ensure you have something sweet and salty to enjoy during the show. Each movie is presented in closed captioning, and movies have different ratings. Parents, we encourage you to check out the movie beforehand to ensure it's appropriate for your family. for football, cheerleading, soccer, girls volleyball, fall baseball, cross country and boys and girls winter basketball will begin on May 1 and continue through May 31 (basketball registration remains open through August 31). Registration forms will be available on the S. office, at all HSE schools and the Fishers Library. Parents may also register online and can pay online with a credit card or can print the registration form and submit it to the S. office with cash or check payment. registration is taking place during the month of May. Late registration will be available beginning June 1 with a $10 late fee for a limited time. Due to the discontinuation of the current uniform, every cheerleader must attend one of the offered uniform fittings. There is one final fitting on Tuesday, June 7 in the Community Room at Billericay Park from 6:00-8:00 p. HSE-Fishers Youth Girls Lacrosse is seeking members for their newly established youth board. ## Please email Shannon Murray, skmurray98@yahoo. If you are interested in running for a position or have questions. Interested individuals are invited to attend the next board meeting scheduled for May 11. Youth parents are asked to become involved and help shape the future of the growing youth girls lacrosse league! Southeastern Rugby - With 94 kids registered for the 2016 season, Southeastern Youth Rugby is now the fourth-largest youth rugby club in America. Come out and cheer for the kids when Cyntheanne Park hosts semi-state and state on May 28 and May 30. For more information, go to http://rugby. Sign up Now for June Lessons. Registration for Summer One June swim lesson session is now available. Registration for Summer One will be available until Sunday June 12th. To register log into Fasttigers.com and click on the swim lesson tab on the left side of the page. Summer One begins Monday, June 13th and Tuesday, June 14th. Summer Two lessons will begin July 11th. Registration for July lessons begins June 15th. Welcome to the FAST Tigers Progressive Swim program. Lessons are for thirty minutes twice a week for three weeks Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday. Swim level determination and payment must be completed at the time of registration. To register go to www. fasttigers.com and click on the swim lesson tab. Registration is easy and all completed online. You must enroll separately for each session you want to attend. Each session will meet for six classes unless otherwise indicated at the time of registration. E-mail questions to swimmingtigers2013@gmail.comThe Fishers Area Swimming Tigers (FAST) is a competitive swim program that practices at Fishers High School. Studies show that participation in the sport of swimming battles childhood obesity and positively effects the students academic achievement. For an evaluation, call Head Coach Jay Chambers at 317-691-2695, or email coachchambers@fasttigers. More information can be found on our website: www.com5K, 10K, or Half Marathon! Join us for Fishers' largest community event and Indiana's largest school walking/running fitness program - Saturday, May 21st, 2016. Over $366,000 thus far has been raised by the race since its inception to promote health and wellness in Geist area schools. Parents are encouraged to walk/run with your children to show support of their school program. To register, click on the link below:From June 1 through July 31, the popular Summer Reading Program will return to the Hamilton East Public Library. Each year, thousands of readers - infants, youth, teens and adults - participate in this special program. Prizes are awarded to participants who complete the requirements for their specific age category and may include coupons to area restaurants or attractions, gift cards, books and more. Beginning May 1, readers of all ages can register online at hepl. us or by visiting the Noblesville Library or Fishers Library! Then on June 1, it's time to start logging the number of pages you've read! Highlighting this year's Summer under the Stars – Celebrating 200 Summers in Indiana theme, the library has planned numerous programs and adventures. Start exploring the rich history of your community through a countywide passport program developed by the five library systems across the county and Hamilton Tourism. Learn something new and collect a stamp for each location you visit. At both the Fishers Library and Noblesville Libraries, the entire family can enjoy a wide variety of programs, many highlighting all the things that make Indiana special – the state fair, monarch butterflies, birds, gardens, camp outs, and more! Professor Steve will amuse and delight on June 9 at the Noblesville Library as he presents the Science of Basketball. Learn more about Hoosier critters as Animali's Indiana Animals brings a red-tailed hawk, opossum, raccoon, skunk and map turtle for you to experience at the Fishers Library on June 9 and then the Noblesville Library on July 28. On July 29, you won't want to miss Summer Reading Program finale events at both library buildings. For a full listing and specific details about the library's programs, visit their calendar of events at hepl. With temperatures finally on the rise, thoughts are turning to the great outdoors and exploring all that Indiana has to offer. In honor of the state's bicentennial, the Indiana State Library has now provided each library with a state park pass for loan to library cardholders. When you are ready to hit the trail, simply stop by the Adult Services desk at either the Fishers or Noblesville Library and check for availability. Due to high demand, the passes will be available on a first come, first served basis, with no holds or renewals available. Passes can be checked out for up to 7 days. Like other library materials, if passes are returned after the due date, late fees will apply. If passes are lost, a full replacement cost will be assessed. For further information, check out the library's website at www. The Red Cross has helped 34 million people recover from natural disasters including tornado, earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons you name it. The worst was easily the genocide of Rwanda. We were given 20 Rwandan orphans. We are doing everything we can to help these orphans find new families and homes. Students will need to bring their complete practice test in from their spring break off, because we will be reviewing it this coming week! ! Please allow and encourage students to attend tutoring every day. It is vital to their success! ! Thank you in advance!.

Human: Complete this text: The anticipated challenge got the foreplay it deserved when it was paired with that other Drag Race classic for the mini challenge, The Reading Challenge. Snippets from the shade-throwing summit included such bon mots as Miz Cracker quipping of Aquaria, “People don't appreciate how much money you have to spend on makeup when you are covering two faces.”Eureka, who concluded with a self-deprecating, “I ... Bot: The completion of this text could be: can't wait to hear your reads about me being fat,” was proclaimed the challenge winner, triggering an eye-roll from The Vixen. After the queens, guided by special guest Bianca Del Rio, had made their Snatch Game selects, the final lineup was:Asia and The Vixen had established a sort-of impromptu alliance, agreeing to banter as Beyonce and Blue in advance. The results: Beyonce coming for... Human: Next. Bot: Blue like she was about to haul her off to the shed from Room. The awkward results were best summarized by Monet: “I didn't know Beyonce was that kind of mother. Somebody... Human: More. Bot: gotta call CPS for her girl cuz that is not cute! ”Seated behind a Michelle Obama placard, Aquaria triggered the giggles as Melania Trump from the moment she presented Ru with a powder blue box containing a hand-scrawled note that read, “HELP ME! ”Category in the runway challenge was Bette Midler-inspired mermaids, chauffeured on wheelchairs by the Pit Crew. Already a darling for her... Human: Continue. Bot: Melania, Aquaria served a second helping of fish as a post-BP-oil-spill mermaid, dripping in black, complete with shreds of latex hanging from her bodice. She was the challenge winner. The two fish... Human: More. Bot: under consideration to be tossed back into the ocean were The Vixen, who'd created a bratty Blue Ivy, and Monique Heart, who had let... Human: Continue. Bot: down three-time Sport's Illustrated swimsuit cover girl Kate Upton by not doing justice to U. representative for California Maxine “reclaiming my time” Waters. In a Lipsync For Your Life to Carly Rae Jepsen's 14th best song of all time, “Cut To The Feeling,” The Vixen cracked out some moves that we cannot name but know are actual real things, because we have seen them... Human: More. Bot: in figure skating. Not to mention whatever this was:In the face of such dazzling lipsync-ronicity, Ru gently bid Monique Heart adieu. But there were... Human: Next. Bot: other bottoms, and tops! , that caught our eyes this week. But enough about us — there were also these highlights from the show:In... Human: Next. Bot: that classic reality TV show ice-breaker, “Who deserves to go home tonight? ”, four out of six queens chose The Vixen. The Vixen visibly recoiled every time like she was Melissa McCarthy... Human: Continue. Bot: getting zinged by Sandra Bullock. But, in those queens' defence, they made that call before they saw her Carly Rae Jepsen lipsync, and after all of The Vixen's psychological torture. So it... Human: Next. Bot: was a very specific window. After RuPaul's appearance on Jeopardy last month,... Human: Next. Bot: Alex Trebek returned the favour, posing a question in the Snatch Game, quoting the immortal Latrice Royale's “funky yet chunky” during the judging, and even offering up an “Amen” at the close of the show. Next time Trebek needs to show up in person and check out the queens' true daily doubles. Half the time on this show, Aquaria looks like she's trying to get off-book in a play instead of, you know, speaking words that become sentences expressing her thoughts, also known as human communication. “I don't get my words right, I don't form sentences very well, so I'm trying to play that up with Melania,” he told Ru. And yet, when it came time to banter, she beat out such great wits of our time as... Human: Next. Bot: Miz Cracker. As Asia O'Hara's Beyonce scribbled her answer, Aquaria noted, “This... Human: Next. Bot: is the first time Beyonce's ever written for herself.”Not that Asia's proposed impersonation of Whitney Houston, one liberally sprinkled with “powdered sugar,” was the... Human: More. Bot: most original idea, but it was still a shock to have Ru swoop in and cancel it, thus giving birth to the third, and hopefully final, terrible Beyonce impersonation in Drag Race herstory. When it came to Asia's polarizing mermaid mask, which she described as “lion fish meets mermaid meets a cucumber,” we tend to side with the surprisingly insightful Kate Upton, who said... Human: More. Bot: it changed the way she thought about mermaids. It also changed the way we thought about Asia's face. How does she still kind of look like her Buttrface App character while her... Human: Next. Bot: face is entirely encased in plastic? Next week, on RuPaul's Drag Race? : Only the most famously gay gays are worthy guest judges as... Human: Continue. Bot: the queens pay tribute to the mother of all drag queens: Cher. Billy Eichner and Andrew Ranells are on deck for what Miz Cracker... Human: Continue. Bot: cryptically calls “American Horror Story: Cher Edition.”Will Cher grace us with an appearance, even though she has probably found drag tributes exhausting since the... Human: Continue. Bot: late '80s? Will The Vixen channel her hurt from this week into the most evil Cher of all time, aerobics video Cher? Is “Believe”... Human: Next. Bot: ready for an ironic revival? Are we already living in an ironic “Believe” revival? There is a belief in the sailing world that one should never set sail on a Friday. “”That won't apply to us.” we said to ourselves. We believed that since we were camping that the rule didn't apply. In early morning coffee retrospection we decided that yes indeedy it did apply even in the camping world. Think about it: yesterday we hit a terrible, blinding thunder storm with torrential rain near Jacksonville. It was all Jim could do to keep going. He said it was very difficult to see. I'm very proud of him, as he handled it way better than I ever would have. Note: new tires or at least good tires are... Human: Next. Bot: a must and nerves of steel. Then when we stopped at a Walmart for the night I fell going into the camper. I hit... Human: More. Bot: the settee pretty hard, but I'm tough and am better today. Lesson-... Human: Next. Bot: use the flashlight that resides in your purse. Jim bought me a... Human: More. Bot: new key ring today that has a mini flashlight on it and an extra camper and truck key. Why an extra key you ask; because when you lock your truck keys in the truck at 10 o'clock at night you decide an extra might be a great idea. Lesson: have a spare and thank God for AAA. Lignum Vitae: a barge (okay no big... Human: More. Bot: deal you say( this barge had a full grown tree in the middle of it. It totally blew us away. As soon as we can transfer pictures I will paste one here. it is truly a must see. in the meantime it can be seen on our flucker site. One of the things I discovered on our trip is that Lesa gets anxious when... Human: Continue. Bot: we are anchored in one location for more than 2-3 days. With a beverage or two I can be content to sit at anchor, taking in the sights for a while, but Lesa .2 days and she's ready to move. With that in mind we raised anchor after 3 days in Marco Island and headed up the inside route towards Naples. Actually Naples is... Human: Continue. Bot: out of the way and we ended up in Port Royal Florida. The anchorage is set in a canal chain bordered by homes that sell for (hold on to your butts) 10-20... Human: More. Bot: MILLION! There we were in our c26, consuming beverages, cooking in the cockpit, and taking cockpit showers in the back yard of some excessivily wealthy people. Although the holding was very good on a mud bottom, Lesa was uncomfortable staying there. The place has a unique beauty all of its own but no amount of money can create the kind of beauty we've seen... Human: Continue. Bot: in the Marquesas, the Dry Tortugas or even on the gulf crossing. After the long trip across the gulf we really enjoyed marco Island... Human: Continue. Bot: and the residents. I have mever been to such a happy and welcoming community in my life. The afternoon after we arrived I needed to eat, alot. As things would have it, the dinghy motor would not start. No sooner than 10 pulls did the sailor next to us yell over that he had some starting fluid if I needed it. When we went to Rose marina, Bruce and the staff were great: anything we needed (our electric cord was to short, no problem, 5 minutes later he had another one for us). I would highly recomend any passing cruiser to stop in and relax. (As a side note: this was our first night at a dock for the trip. regressing to truly nice people; there we were... Human: More. Bot: at the Publix with a grocery cart full of groceries trying to... Human: Next. Bot: call a cab when this nice woman offers to drive us to the marina instead of the cab! We had had lunch and were walking to Walgreens using Lesa‘s phone as a... Human: Continue. Bot: guide when another lady, who was walking by, overhears our conversation and... Human: Next. Bot: gives us directions. Everyone we interacted with in Marco was very pleasant and helpful. Thank You Marco Island residents. This weeks movie is Field of Dreams starring the lovely Kevin Costner. Have... Human: Continue. Bot: you seen it? If you haven't then I suggest that you do! Field of Dreams is about a a family who lives on a farm in Iowa with his wife Annie and daughter Karin. He's out in the cornfield when all of a sudden he hears, “If you build it, he will come.”As intriguing as the above is, I was extremely skeptical about this movie. At first I thought it was about religion or aliens, which reminded me of Signs, a movie that I did not want to re-watch in the least, even in the loosest sense. Thank goodness it turned out being about baseball. When that was made obvious, I was way more open to the movie. Ray Kinsella, whom Kevin Costner plays, interprets this voice to... Human: Continue. Bot: mean that he has to build a baseball diamond on his farm. If he does, a baseball player will show up. As the movie... Human: Continue. Bot: develops the clues are barely enough to predict how events will unfold, but around every corner is a pleasant surprise. James Earl Jones is... Human: Next. Bot: one of those pleasant surprises. How his character connects to and is involved is very comical and moving, his deep voice amplifying that. The end of the movie will bring you to tears, so have some tissues ready. Kevin Costner has been in a lot of baseball movies, all of which I have not seen, but this one by far takes the cake for... Human: Continue. Bot: being mysterious but with a purpose. I give this movie an 8/10 star rating. Waitress is actually a pretty good movie, despite my early reservations about it. Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion... Human: Next. Bot: have great chemistry together, enhancing the comedy. The movie takes surprising turns that lead you with your mouth hanging open and face scrunched up. Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Shelly play her friends, and their witty and quirky jokes are leg-slapping funny! As funny as the movie was though the ending was a let down. On Rotten Tomatoes Waitress has a 7.3/10 rating by critics... Human: Continue. Bot: and a 3.4/5 rating from its audience. I agree with the audience and would also give Waitress a 3.4/5 rating. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes witty comedy with unsuspecting turns. This show is great! I have been eagerly waiting for the third season of The Peaky Blinders to be on Netflix since I binged watched the first two. This historical fiction is filled with tons of violence, blackmail, and whiskey. Tommy Shelby, a WWI veteran and second eldest brother, struggles to keep and expand the family business and also keep his family and himself alive. The Shelby family is close, yet volatile and suspicious of one another, their interactions entertaining as you watch their relationships develop. The Shelby men have arrived . but is it... Human: More. Bot: for business or pleasure? #PeakyBlinders https://t. co/LRpNm66UmyThere is so much wrong with... Human: Next. Bot: this “X-Men” billboard https://t. co/m4PUerCfrp pic.com/jUDpb0WVcjI just finished watching Game Of Thrones S6| E5, the most recent episode of GOTs. By far it is their most intriguing episode yet. All the main... Human: Next. Bot: players are back in the game and making moves. No one current dies in this episode, so whoo! However, beware the last 20 minutes or so because they amp up your emotions and reveal something that will have you reaching for tissues. ## In "Book Of The Stranger," #GameOfThrones finally addresses the dragon in the room https://t. co/Nw1xDtLB8Y pic.com/UmgqvMfaFSA @GameOfThrones character made a dramatic... Human: More. Bot: re-entry to the series — and fans are upset https://t.

Human: Fill in spans: As I said was going to happen, Halloween is the number one movie in North America! The new film, which isn't a reboot or a remake, but a straight up sequel to John Carpenter's original classic, opened to a series high of $77. That's higher than any of the lifetime grosses of the previous films in the series. After a stunning Friday debut of $33.2 million, it looked like Michael Meyers might beat the October record set just a few weeks ago by Venom. Sadly, that was not to be, but I don't think anyone at Blumhouse or Universal is upset. With a budget of only $10 million, Halloween is already in the black. Claiming the number two spot, which its held since its debut, is A Star is Born. As predicted, the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga starrer has crossed the $100 million mark. In its third weekend in release Star grossed $19.3 million, and is now at $126.3 million domestic, with more to come. After holding the top spot for two weeks, Sony's Venom fell two spots to number three with $18. Its now at a hefty $171.1 million domestic. Goosebumps 2: The Haunted Halloween held steady at number four [spans 1] $9. It only fell 38.5% from [spans 2] bad. I don't see it coming close to the $80 million the first Goosebumps made. It may be time to rethink the franchise and try something new. I saw this one last week, and while it wasn't bad, it didn't quite have the sense of fun and the polish the first film had. Goosebumps 2 felt like it should have just went straight to Netflix, or another streaming platform. First Man tumbled 46.5% from last week to finish its second weekend at number five with $8.5million. Its now at $29.9 million domestic. Unless Johnny English Strikes Again surprises everyone and opens huge, its pretty safe to assume Halloween will repeat at number one next week. Did you see Michael Meyers latest reign of terror? If so, let us know what you think in the comments below. Electronic Filing Option. Alabama's Paperless Filing and Payment System (ACH Debit Method) is no longer available. Effective July 1, 2013, taxpayers are required to remit electronic payments. Learn MoreAlabama Tax Tribunal. Act Number 2014-146 adds Chapter 2B to Title 40 of the Code [spans 3] 40-2A-9. ## Rehabilitation, Preservation, and Development of Historic Structures Credit. Act Number 2013-241 is available to corporations. The credit is equal to 25% of the qualified rehabilitation expenditures for certified historic structures. The act also provides a tax credit equal to 10% of the qualified rehabilitation expenditures for qualified pre-1936 nonhistoric structures. The entire credit may [spans 4] service. This credit is not refundable, but any unused portion of the credit may be carried forward for up to 10 additional tax years. Act Number 2013-241 was amended by Act Number 2014-452 below. Act Number 2014-452 amends Act 2013-241, effective retroactively to May 15, 2013. The amended act allows for the credit to be transferred one time. In addition, the law was amended to allow pass through entities to claim the credit. The credit only applies to tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2014. Public Law 86-272 Check the Box Option, Taxpayers claiming exemption from state income tax under Public Law 86-272, should check the box, located on Form 20C, page 1. Corporations on a calendar year and a fiscal year, other than June 30, the original due date is the 15th day of the 4th month after the end of the tax year. Corporations with a fiscal year ending on June 30, the original due date is the 15th day of the 3rd month following the end of its tax year. If an extension has been granted for federal purposes, the extension is also granted for Alabama purposes; the Federal Form 7004 must be submitted with the Form 20C. Organizations referred to in 26 U. § 501(a), as well as several others organizations referenced in 40-18-32 will not be required to file corporation income tax returns with the Alabama Department of Revenue for as long as they retain their exempt status under applicable Federal and State laws. If they have unrelated business income as determined in accordance with 26 U. § 512, the organization should file Form 20C with a copy of Federal Form 990T. Generally refer to Public Law 86-272, Bright Line Test, to determine if you have nexus in Alabama. However, there are instances where a taxpayer would normally fall under Public Law 86-272 but may be required to file a corporate return. To determine the nexus position and tax responsibility of a corporation in Alabama, complete the nexus questionnaire online at nexus. Alabama Act 2015-505 established a factor presence standard for business activity in the state determine nexus for business income tax, business privilege tax and financial institution excise tax. A corporation is deemed to have “substantial nexus” for any tax period in which they exceed any of the following thresholds:The legislation stipulates [spans 5] Index. What are the filing requirements for a corporation operating in Alabama as a partner in a partnership? The corporation should file an Alabama income tax return just as any other corporation. If the income is business income, then the corporation's pro rata share of the partnerships property, payroll, and sales should be included in the apportionment factor. If the income is nonbusiness, then the income should be allocated to Alabama and/or the appropriate states. ## See Alabama Rule 810-27-1-4-.02 Application of Apportionment and Allocation. Is the corporation required to file a corporation income tax return after it qualifies to do business through the Alabama Secretary of State when the business is either inactive or never began? Yes, if the company has registered or qualified to do business in the state, a Form 20C is required to report no activity and/or business activity as provided by Sections 40-18-2 and 40-18-31, Code of Alabama 1975. Rules 810-3-28-.07, 810-3-28-.08, 810-3-39-.12 and 810-3-39-.13, were approved by [spans 6] 2010. These new rules contain a provision making E-File mandatory for returns prepared by certain tax practitioners. The mandate requirements for tax preparers will be “phased” in over a 2 year period starting January 01, 2009. The economic necessity of this new individual income tax E-File mandate will reduce tax return processing costs for the state. The following list of questions and answers may be helpful to you regarding the mandatory E-File rules. March 4th, 2010 and applies to acceptable corporate/partnership income tax returns required to be filed for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2009. How does a preparer know if he or she is required to electronically file a corporate/partnership return next year? For a Tax Year 2009 Corporation with assets of $5 million or more, or partnerships with 50 or more partners are mandated to e-file Tax Year 2010 Alabama corporate/partnership income tax returns, and all subsequent tax years. In situations where our clients do not e-File the federal return, will the state allow the Alabama return to be paper filed? For tax periods beginning before January 1, 1999 – No. Alabama's income tax laws and rules specifically required each corporation to file a separate return with the department (§40-18-39(a) and Rules 810-3-39-. For tax period beginning after December 31, 1998 – Yes. Alabama's Tax Conformity Act [spans 7] year. An “Alabama affiliated group” means a group of corporations that constitute an affiliated group as defined in 26 U. §1504, one or more members of [spans 8] §40-18-31. For tax periods beginning after December 31, 2001 – Yes. Act 2001-1089(HB4) revised the Consolidated filing requirements in Alabama Code Section 40-18-39 for tax periods beginning after December 31, 2001. Each corporation included in the Alabama consolidated return must compute their Alabama taxable income on a separate company basis. Then, the taxable income of the Alabama group is combined to determine the tax due. The filing fee has also been increased from [spans 9] maximum. This election is binding for 120 consecutive months (10 years). For tax years beginning January 1, 2001, the tax rate is 6. For tax years prior to 2001, the tax rate was 5%. If your tax liability is $500 or more you are required to make estimated tax payments. Please refer to Alabama Code Section 40-18-80.1 for details on the specific requirements. Does Alabama allow calculations to determine interest and penalty due to underpayments of estimated tax? Yes, the taxpayer must submit Form 2220AL and the Federal Form 2220 with the return (Form 20C) when filed to compute the required payment and penalty. The taxpayer also has the option to compute their required quarterly installments using an approved federal method (annualized or seasonal). The Form 2220AL will not be accepted after the return (Form 20C) has been submitted. Yes, Alabama's net operating loss carry forward provision began with net operating losses incurred during a tax year beginning on or after January 1, 1984. Prior to this period Alabama did not have a net operating loss provision. A net operating loss incurred during a tax year beginning on or after January 1, 1984 and before January 1, 1985 can be carried forward 5 years. A loss from a tax year beginning on or after January 1, 1985 can be carried forward 15 years. For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1985 and before January 1, 1990, the net operating loss deduction was limited to $600,000 per year. NOTE: For all tax periods beginning during calendar year 2001, Section 40-18-35.1 (Act 2001-1088 (HB2)) suspends net operating losses. Yes, Federal income tax may be deducted for the taxable year in which paid or accrued, according to the method of accounting used in computing taxable income. The federal income tax allowable as a deduction is the net tax liability as accrued and subsequently paid, that is, the amount after subtracting all deductible and/or refundable credits. The federal income tax deduction for any taxable year for members of an affiliated group filing a consolidated federal income tax return, shall be determined in accordance with the method elected under 26 U. §1552 (without regard to any election under 26 U. §1502) for its consolidated federal return. Corporations which do business in Alabama are allowed to deduct federal income taxes attributable to their Alabama income [spans 10] 810-3-35-.01(1)(b). Yes, charitable contributions are deductible to the extent deductible for federal income tax purposes under 26 U. The Alabama Department of Revenue now requires the use of Schedule BC, Business Credits, when claiming business tax credits. The new schedule allows the taxpayer to compute the total amount of tax credits allowable. The amounts [spans 11] 16f. This schedule must be submitted with the return to receive credit(s). ## See instructions for Schedule BC for additional information. View information on the Small Business Health Premiums Deduction (Act 2008-559, amended by Act 2011-155). View Form 4020- Small Business Health Insurance Deduction Information. The Alabama Legislature passed Act Number 2013-64 during the 2013 Regular Session. The act authorizes a tax credit for contributions to organizations that provide educational scholarships to qualifying schools. For more information, [spans 12] period. If the audit results in additional tax due, the department can assess the additional tax within one year after the Department has been notified. Yes, Alabama has adopted the provisions of the Multistate Tax Compact which provides for the allocation and apportionment of income of taxpayers doing business in more than one state (Code of Alabama, 1975, 40-27-1, and Rule 810-27-1-4). If your tax liability is $750.00 or more you must remit your tax payment by electronic funds transfer (EFT). Call the EFT unit at 1-877-256-2447 or (334) 353-7659. For more information on EFT, please go to ADOR's Make A Payment Page. New taxpayers, who have recently registered with the Alabama Secretary of State, will receive an Online Filing Information letter. The Online Filing Information letter is for “information purposes” and provides the taxpayer with a Sign On ID and Access Code which permits access to My Alabama Taxes (MAT) via Internet. ACH Debit – Taxpayers making e-payments via ACH Debit must have a Sign On ID and Access Code to login to My Alabama Taxes (MAT) . Pre-registration is not necessary to make a payment on an invoice or assessment. ACH Credit – [spans 13] ADOR. To register, complete and submit Form EFT: EFT Authorization Agreement Form . ## Alabama Interactive – The Department will accept e-payments for estimated and automatic extension payments through Alabama Interactive. Visit Tax Estimation or Tax Extension . ## [spans 14] Corporation. ## Visit Official Payments Corporation . There is a convenience fee for credit card payments. The fee is based on the amount of the tax payment and is paid directly to Official Payments Corporation. ## Value Payment Systems – The Department will accept credit card payments through Value Payment Systems. You may choose to use your Discover/Novus, MasterCard or Visa card. Value Payment Systems does not accept the American Express card but has a program called BillMeLater. There is a convenience fee for this service. The fee is based on the amount of the tax payment and is paid directly to Value Payment Systems. A decade ago Lisa Hammond and Rachel Spence – Lisa is disabled and uses a wheel chair although she can walk – created a show called No Idea based on what the public thought was the sort of show they should do. They have returned for another look at what has happened since then at how people regard the disabled, at the opportunities available to them in the theatre and elsewhere on television and the world of entertainment. The result is funny, bold, provocative and very entertaining. Things have improved, but there is a long way to go still. As Lisa, the one with the cheeky face, eplains it is one thing to join a show but quite another to get a story – her encounters with the TV producer thrilled at being so enlightened as to employ a disabled person are hilarious and saddening. You get to be there, to sit on the side lines, to operate a [spans 15] own. There is a lovely sequence about a policeman and some drugs which takes off into a world all its own. They are also backed by the voices of some of the “cripperati” – other disabled performers – who tell it like it is for them and others. It is better in so far as they are being used to “pepper the facade” but when it comes to showing the human condition it is not happening yet. Having successful, high achieving disabled people , whether actors or athletes or whatever, being really visible in the media actually makes it easier to let “ordinary” disabled people die. Lisa is quirky and cheeky, Rachel, the mother of three, the perfect foil in this heart warming double act. So you are looking for a LingoBlaster Review, right? , well I have great news to you, we actually have the most honest LingoBlaster Review. We will only post here what we feel about the product, the features, the main problem it solves, pros and cons, the benefits and finally will let you know if we recommend or not to buy LingoBlaster ,this way you will have a better idea of what is the product, how it works and if is really for you. 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Human: Finish this: About 500 homes in the northern Brisbane suburb of Aspley will be connected to the optic fire cable, with about 1700 to follow in the coming weeks. Aspley falls on the border ... Bot: of Treasurer Wayne Swan's Brisbane seat of Lilley, which he holds by a 3.2 per cent margin. And other parts of of the suburb fall within the neighbouring marginal seat of Petrie,... Human: Next. Bot: which Labor holds by 2.51 per cent. “It is driven by sound engineering reasons – not least where usable Telstra equipment such as exchanges and their underground pipes are located,'' Andrew Sholl said in a statement. ‘‘The NBN is being rolled out to every corner of Australia and electoral borders do not factor in where gets switched on. ''NBN cables are currently being laid in the surrounding suburbs of Carseldine and Bridgeman Downs as well as Ascot, Banyo, Collingwood Park, Eagle Farm, Goodna, Hamilton, Hendra, Northgate, Nudgee, Redbank Plains and Virginia. About 100,000 homes, firms, businesses and schools will be connected across Brisbane over the next three years. Brisbane is Queensland's third city to get the NBN after Townsville in north Queensland and Toowoomba west of Brisbane. Last... Human: Continue. Bot: September, three children and their parents were mysteriously found dead in their home in Springville, Utah. They had no apparent signs of struggle or trauma. Authorities originally looked into the home's carbon monoxide levels as a possible cause of death, however this week it was ruled that the deaths were actually a murder-suicide, organized by parents Benjamin and Kristi Strack. According to NY Daily... Human: Next. Bot: News, extended family members told police that Benjamin and Kristi talked about all the "evils in the world," and wanting to escape the "looming apocalypse" and "impending doom. " Relatives believed that... Human: Continue. Bot: they had undiagnosed mental illnesses. The two youngest children, 11-year-old Zion and 12-year-old Emery, were killed by toxic levels of diphenhydramine and methadone. "The deaths of both the younger children were classified as homicide," said authorities. The third child, Benson, 14, died from the same drugs, but authorities could not decipher if his death was a homicide, or if he voluntary took his life with his parents. "Because of his age, it is difficult to determine if he was capable to make a decision to commit suicide or to consent to join with his parents in committing suicide," a Springville police press release says". The other two children were obviously too young to consent to any sort of agreement to commit suicide. "The father overdosed on heroine, while... Human: Next. Bot: the mother used a combination of methadone, dextrorphan, diphenhydramine and doxylamine. The only type of note left behind was a letter written by Benson, addressed to one of his friends, indicating that... Human: More. Bot: he was "aware he might die," and bequeathing some of his possessions. The five bodies were found in the home's master bedroom by the Strack's oldest son, 18-year-old, Janson, who was with... Human: Continue. Bot: his grandmother at the time of the suicide. His parents and siblings all had a cup of red fluid next to them. Four of the family members were under the bed covers and Benjamin was on top of the covers, which may mean he died last. While police searched the home they also found marijuana, empty bottles of cold and flu medicine, and a... Human: Continue. Bot: bucket with an unidentified orange liquid in it.90Fight for MS Sufferers - We're no where near a cure, we don't even know why we have it! Unisex T-ShirtIm starting a career mode... Human: Continue. Bot: save under the name NEO (Newton Exploration Organization) and I want a cool flag to go with it, Im thinking of a white flag... Human: More. Bot: with a blue star in the center with NEO somewhere on it. Im not talented enough in photoshop to make it myself so im asking if i can have someone else make... Human: Continue. Bot: it for me? Just got a Wacom Intuous tablet and this was the very first thing I created today, its not much but I dig the gradient and the odd shape. It's... Human: Next. Bot: been nearly a thousand years since the Night King fell and this very banner first flew over King's Landing. Now it's destiny is to fly among the stars. My Form 4 was approved on 7/22 and still no stamp. I've been told and read 1-2 weeks is normal and I'm at 2 weeks now. When should I start being concerned or should I just... Human: Next. Bot: not and wait? Update: Stamp arrived today! According to nfatracker.com it looks like Form4s approved on 7/22 are taking a while to come in for everyone, or they're not updating their info... Human: More. Bot: when it does. It can take a couple (read several) weeks for the ATF to send approved forms and stamps out, plus a couple of days to get to your dealer plus... Human: Next. Bot: a day or two (maybe more) for your dealer to contact you to come pick up your stuff. Some dealers will do a transfer the day your stamp shows up others want a couple of days. It all depends on the dealer, how busy they are and what they have going on. Plus, the ATF does everything on their own schedule. Just because something should be done or is normally done in a week or two doesn't mean that's when they will actually do it. I've seen guys have the original approved form in hand a couple of days after its approved and I've seen it take a month or so. Your almost there, unfortunately you are in the worst part of the wait (in my opinion). My... Human: Continue. Bot: first stamps took about 9 months and it flew by until I called and was told they had been approved. The time from that... Human: Continue. Bot: call to picking up my cans took forever. I have an approved form that's two months old and still no paperwork. I keep forgetting to call them. :(Yeah, it's my first can... Human: Continue. Bot: and first NFA item, so it's been a long 2 weeks so far. The past 5 months weren't bad, but once I heard it's approved all I can think is, "it doesn't... Human: More. Bot: take long to mail a letter does it? "Sounds normal. My most recent stamp just got in from 3/14 and was approved on 7/27. Which is in my experience normal. At this point we don't talk about my stamps from 11/29 last year. One was approved but "lost" by USPS and the other disapproved because the FFL screwed up in May. So I have neither and can't get an answer on my replacement stamp or refund for the disapproved stamp from either ATF or the dealer. Lesson here, use the other dealer an hour away instead of the range five minutes from my house. At least they manage to do the paperwork right. Yeah, at least my LGS got the paperwork correct, but they haven't been great lately... Human: More. Bot: on informing me when things come in. I've had other issues lately with them receiving special order items for me and not calling. I know I'm just excited and being antsy. I'm... Human: More. Bot: just hoping it shows up before the weekend so I can go shoot. To get your replacement stamp, all the dealer has to do is send in a request. I've had several... Human: Continue. Bot: stamps not show up. The ATF requires you to wait 30 days after approval before submitting a request. It's no big dealIs the shop... Human: More. Bot: sure about that? The ATF sends the second copy via certified mail. They should have a tracking number for youYeah. This particular shop has all the organization skill of a concussed puppy. I guess it's time for me to go make a trip out there because they also never call back when they promise a callback. The NFA branch is fairly easy to deal... Human: Next. Bot: with. They are direct and to the point on the phone. In my experience most problems with the forms can be handled via email. Ive been reading/hearing that they are right on about 7-10 days from approval to being in your dealers hands. The ATF will tell you 30 days. You can't apply for a replacement form and what not for 30 days, as... Human: Continue. Bot: I have been told. too much waiting as is. plus the premiums they make off holding a muffler.10 days is about right but any... Human: Next. Bot: more and I am searching for a new shop. I also love when you're going for the aerial deflection on someone's pass and the pass is coming in slighty slower than you... Human: Continue. Bot: anticipated, so you end up launching the ball into the corner instead of anywhere near the goal. From what I saw, his on screen persona is pretty much Tracy Morgan in real life. The man is hilarious. Ik everyone is doing this , but I'm a very anxious person so I'm just wondering what you guys think of this schedulePower up Warren Mall, take... Human: Continue. Bot: the bike path until you hit Mandeville, then follow the road up to York for a little more speed. Make it up the York hill and you're home free. Hardest part is going to be that York hill, since it's reasonably crowded AND steep. If you're crazy fast and don't want to risk cops on Library Walk you can probably go along the Sixth... Human: More. Bot: Apartments road to the Vis Arts building, and follow the road/Gilman until you get to York. I've never gone that way and I think... Human: Next. Bot: it's a little bit further, but there's much less pedestrian traffic that you have to deal with. This summer I've gone from APM to the mailing center and back in about 10 mins without going an unsafe speed in pedestrian areas, but I also take uphills really fast. Riding a bike will always get you from class to class. There were only one or two situations where I couldn't easily walk from class to class in 10 minutes, and it wasn't a big deal to leave a minute early or arrive a minute late. I liked them, because it gives you time to review/get started on homework for the previous class while you make your way to the next. Find a place to study somewhere on the way... Human: Continue. Bot: between two classrooms, and you're all set. Even if there's nothing to study, the dorms are often cramped and you might be better off outside anyway. Then I got a job and... Human: Continue. Bot: needed to cram classes in either the morning or afternoon to make sure I had room for work shifts. If you find the big... Human: Next. Bot: gaps to be annoying, you could get a bike and the 10 min gaps shouldn't be a problem as long as the buildings aren't... Human: Continue. Bot: too far from each other like GH (Galbraith Hall) to WLH (Warren Lecture Hall). if you don't want to do that gh->wlh->gh (literally a... Human: More. Bot: mile each way) in 10 mins use those gaps to study and review your notes from other classes. there's a study area right next to gh and PC is near wlhYeah that's... Human: Next. Bot: what I was planning on doing , like studying and doing the work off the previous class or study for the next within the gapsIt's probably going to be one of your easiest quarters, which is good because you'll have more time to explore! I hope you're living on campus though, otherwise you're gonna have to find a couple cozy spots to lounge around in between classes. BILD 1: Never took it, but I've heard it's basically just a review of high school biology, going over cells and stuff. Lots of memorization but I believe in you. CHEM 6A: This is a secret killer for freshman IMO. Mistakenly took the class for like two weeks, and I saw a bunch of confident faces die off really quickly after... Human: More. Bot: the first quiz. Some people still breeze through it, just depends on your background. PSYCH 1: Basically same as BILD 1 — never took it, but I heard it was relatively easy, especially if you took psyc in high school. More memorization, but I still believe in you. MATH 10A: I think math more than any other subject is one that surprises freshman with its difficulty. Definitely take the time to ask questions or do some extra practice if you don't understand a problem, but if you keep on top of it you should be fine. OVERALL: Frankly speaking, you're looking at a pretty easy straight B quarter. If you put in the work, definitely an easy/doable straight A quarter. By in large, freshman (myself included) both underestimate... Human: More. Bot: and overestimate how hard college is. Tbh I'm not sure if you'll get this far so I'ma eat dinner, PM me if you have any more questionsUnfortunately I'm not living on campus... Human: More. Bot: , so that kinda sucks however ; I really appreciate the input thank you so much :)If you're not living on campus, I would... Human: More. Bot: suggest you had back to back classes. Going from center hall to Galbraith is roughly a 7 minute walk at a moderate pace. If you have an hour in between classes, you'll probably have nothing to do and end up wasting your time. You can try studying in between classes, but I would suggest to just get classes over with. In my personal opinion, you should try playing around with your classes. Just keep in mind that going from Warren to Revelle/Muir - and viceversa - will not be a 10 minute walk. However, you can still bike there. For a commuter, anything is better than having really spaced out classes. Firaxis probably borrowed the Valve Time "soon". I think Gamespot might have something to do with it,... Human: More. Bot: they've been doing the latest enemy reveals (ie. the lids) so they might still be editing the footage. Maybe they are using the Narnia... Human: Next. Bot: 'soon'. "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.”looks like the ol' "we should put tobasco in our used condoms to stop sperm burglars" meme may have... Human: Continue. Bot: reached real life. : againstmensrightslooks like the ol' "we should put tobasco in our used condoms to stop sperm burglars" meme may have reached... Human: Next. Bot: real life. This seems like a good idea until the feminists start giving birth to miniature feminists that shoot hot sauce out of their eyes. That's one of the craziest things I've read. The only thing I've heard tabasco being used for medically is to clear nasal passages. This guy sounds fucking crazy, I wouldn't mess with crazy. He might do some psychotic shit in retaliation. I suspect this is a troll - it's too much like a direct response to the classic "I busted my gf spermjackin' me" MR troll from a few years ago - but it's an awesome one. Maybe a few red pillers will fall for it, realize how ridiculous they look, and grow the fuck up. Atheism is to me the way I... Human: Next. Bot: was intended to exist and think. Its simple and quite easy, but is often over stated as anti theism. I must strike home the fact that I don't spend my time as an atheist pursuing ways to make fun or poke holes through religion. While others do this with great style and often to my amusement, it is not who I am or most... Human: Next. Bot: atheists. I am the man who sees the world as it is. Uncaring and beautiful, naked as we came into it. I see no... Human: Next. Bot: need for supernatural explanations when I am quite alright with the unknown. I look at it with great intent and due respect. I know not what lies in the darkness outside our collective knowledge, I dare not shine a light on it with no batteries to power it. We peel back the darkness with research and thought whilst others say they have found the... Human: Next. Bot: light switch and will only tell you once you convince yourself there is one to be found. I am fine with the unknown, much like a wolf in the distance. I do not fear it, I marvel at it. It may be scary to some, however it is nature. Its reality, you can't escape it. If you dislike the unknown then go somewhere else... Human: Continue. Bot: It's been almost two years since I adopted Zeus. This was the day he came home from the shelter. Human: style of text is the above text? Bot: It appears to be a NSFW style.

<user>: More words: Mainstream was an album that almost never was. Quiet Sun was originally formed in 1970, while our protagonists ... Dulwich College. The band had a repertoire ... their two-year existence, only to cease when ... – seeing most notably Manzanera joining ... and MacCormick Matching Mole. Fast-forward three years; after recording four successful albums with Roxy, Manzanera begins work ... Head, which includes a number of songs ... Sun. As the original lineup were all participating ... Head sessions, the band decided to put the ... tape. Recorded at Island Studios during the early morning hours of January and February of 1975, Mainstream was feverishly put to ... hours of twelve booked for the Diamond Head recordings. As one ... with the time constraints, the album was somewhat rushed, although not to ... music. With many pieces recorded in one take, the immediacy presented is a big part ... album. Soaring guitar leads rip over a landscape peppered with ... powered by thunderous bass and propulsive percussion that is the opening of “Sol Caliente”. Jarrett's minimalist and almost mathematical playing ... the Velvet Underground. Manzanera unleashes ferocious leads with abandon, while the ... deftly handles breakneck, calculated rhythms. And ... a group effort, belaying a wealth of influences and styles, congealing into a sublime bastardization of Canterbury and Krautrock where subtle jazzy ... face with ferocious rhythmic jamming that Can would be proud of. The psychedelic influences cover both the fuzzed out British end as well as the cosmic German one. “R.” encompasses both the otherworldly meditative qualities of Popol ... of Hatfield ballad. And who could ignore the Dadaist humour of titles like: “Trumpets With Motherhood” and “Mummy Was an ... Non-stick Kitchen Utensil” that are uniquely Canterbury. What at first can seem like meandering jams slowly reveals itself to be ... constructions evolving over time. While shying away from the pop song structures of ... felt never the less, as the songs are far from devoid of catchy riffs ... passages. The ubiquitous Eno also makes a guest appearance, contributing synth ... oddball effects and treatments to the production. A pop ... head, with Heywayrd's quirky delivery obtusely intersecting ... “Rongwrong”. Jarrett's piano phrasing also lends a unique charm to this wistful song, ... to the album. - Mike Prete (October 2002) linkTim Hollier was one of the most unfairly neglected ... artists to come out of late-'60s England, his ... deserving an infinitely wider hearing than it got - not that he ultimately did badly in music, but ... deserved better earlier. Born in Brighton in 1947, Hollier was ... at age 13 formed his first group, the ... from school. He attended art college ... folk duo called the Sovereigns in the mid-'60s. He later moved ... graphic design, and got involved in the folk scene there, seeing ... an opening act for such well-known figures as blues songstress Jo Ann Kelly and visiting American Paul Simon. An introduction to Simon ... remembered today as the man who inherited the ... - got Hollier to the next phase of his career, a ... contract. Napier-Bell got Hollier signed with United Artists Records' U. division, a much more adventurous outfit than its American parent company. Where the latter was still relying on ... Americans, the U. United Artists outfit was downright experimental, cutting psychedelic sides by Del Shannon; it wouldn't be long before they'd sign up Brinsley Schwarz and the Flamin' Groovies. It was at UA ... to a Harlequin, in mid-1968; released in October of that ... it was a tremendous showcase for Hollier's excellent voice and challenging, ... produced and reminiscent in many ways of the first two albums by Duncan Browne. (answers)i decided to create ... german bands (not only krautrock bands) will be posted. So i moved all German albums i posted here to my new blog ... that i'm not continuing with this blog. However, no German bands will appear here anymore. Furthermore, ... you for your nice and very kind :) comments. Was really glad to read em. I am also very grateful for your support, as goes for Pat or my friend Jero but also for the ... you. Concluding i want to give you the address of a new brother, check out their blog (two bloggers) as soon as possible. They're not sure ... but posted some very interesting music already. Here's the address: ourpsychblog.comThe first tracks on this album were recorded by Dark in 71, ... LP as the band entered its peak period. Tracks 6-11 ... line-up in 69 & 70, when they were still at school. Quality of these early ... release. The band's history dates back to 1963 when the students Clodagh Simonds and Alison O'Donnell founded the group The Gatecrashers at their school in Dublin. Later they changed the name to Mellow Candle. The band ... called "Feeling High" and the latter "Tea With The Sun". However, those two didn't catch on. In 1970 Alison ... got to know David Williams, a South African guitarist, who would later become her ... had been studying in Ireland when both got to know each other. Some time later bass player Pat Morris followed. In 1971 the band ... clubs and on festivals. A talent scout of Decca discovered Mellow Candle and invited them to ... London. The demo was successful and in April 1971 they signed a record contract. ... for their first - and only one which would become clear later - started, it came to two changes on the line-up of the group. Pat Morris was replaced by Frank Boylan and William Murray, hailing from from Glasgow, joined as their drummer and was also a new member. ... been good reviews neither single "Silver Song/Dan The Wing" nor their album "Swaddling Songs" ... seen from a commercial point of view. A few gigs followed ... Candle already disbanded. Their LP and both singles belong ... FOLK ROCK genre today. However, there have been several reissues on CD or LP. The couple Alison and David Williams later emigrated to South Africa later. In 1978 they released the LP "Whistling Jigs To ... "Flibbertigibbet". Translated by myself from German into English (slightly abridged, source: ... lyrics included! , group photos and cover included, Irish Folk with Rock elements, 60 mbThis ... top 10 dark folk albums and shouldn't be ... moving tunes, outstanding vocals which just perfectly match the ... throughout. Wonderful ballads and lyrics, a true precious. ... managed to record a very impressive album by using few instruments. They deserve ... listening to this album (they're on the back cover which is also included). What you can ... is the reissue of the Kissing ... Label. The original cover was in plain white! 10 wonderfully crafted folk songs are tracked on this album. The mood is desperate ... you know Changes which I'm gonna post soon you might know what i mean. Personally i do like this gem a lot. Very appropiate for pensive or sad moments. Get it! It's definitely worth a spin! Should i mention that some ... album. ;)Two weeks ago somebody requested this. This is underground acid ... released by the Kissing Spell Label. Mostly acoustic is ... here and i would compare it to some Roky Erickson solo stuff. The vocals are somewhat too normal; ... a few songs do sound great imo ("19. Galactic Ramble"), albeit not overwhelming or outstanding. I think this is going to ... folk lovers rather than psych heads. To me it does partly sound like some velvet underground beat which is probably because all songs are played in a sort of jam style. It's a nice find, check it out brothers and sisters! Mindblowing ... fave obscure albums! David Vorhaus produced one of the most influential ... times. This is nothing for people with bad nerves. one of the most amazing synth were used here ... well as freaky tunes and whispering or sobbing vocals along with merry-go-round sounds or ... ("The Visitations"). Utterly amazing! You can easily imagine things when listening to this album. This is an extraordinary mix of weird reverbarating vocals, ... as well as trippy synth handlings. Highly recommended! ! ! To me this ... mix of dreamy bubblepop and eastern-influenced music("when ... season"). I think you could well compare them with the Beatles. Well, that might ... too far fetched but Free Design's style ... female vocals are used on Kites Are Fun. The tunes are very melodic and dreamy. ... trip throughout; the female vocals would fit perfectly folk imo. I'm pretty sure this album will appeal to Aerovons lovers. Mark this one down in the you've got to be kidding ... category. Thomas Nelson has announced that they are rebranding Book Review Bloggers as BookSneeze. I know Mike Hyatt is a fan of Seth ... all of that, but this takes ... cake. The name doesn't fit the image I have of Thomas Nelson. When I think of Thomas ... company. What I don't think of is snot coming out of my nose—until now. I joined Book Review Bloggers and review a few ... program. I have one book that I haven't had time ... review. I was thinking of rushing through it and writing a review, but with the name change, I might just forget it. (Thomas Nelson, you can have the book back, if you want it. I would just as soon never say that ... book through the BookSneeze program. Novelists aren't writing a screenplay. Perhaps ... overlooked some of the subtleties of that statement. I've read a few books on writing screenplays and the storyboard is king. I've tried storyboarding a novel and while it works to some extent, I have found it easier to ... software to generate an outline. However, ... a screenplay, I could see myself going the ... way. I might use the mind ... I might then want to move it over to a storyboard. While a ... is a story is a story, we must conclude that there are some differences in novel writing ... screenplays. We talk about scenes in novels, but I think this may be the heart ... between a novel and a screenplay. In a screenplay, you have to have a scene. The scene defines who the players will be, the shooting location, the lighting requirements and a number of other things. There are some tricks in filmmaking that may require more than one location for a scene, but as writers, we tend to think of it in terms of one location with a limited cast of characters. If we don't, the producer is likely to complain and we'll be rewriting it to reduce cost. What it amounts to, is that that card on the storyboard is the smallest unit we can break our story into. In novel writing, we don't really have scenes. Conceptually, we aren't thinking in terms of where the camera will have to be and the cost of trucking equipment around. We can tell the reader about an object hidden in a character's pocket and the camera doesn't have to see it. In like manner, we can jump to a single paragraph flashback that reveals information important to the story and we don't have to write it as a separate scene. The true difference is in how we are able to think about the story. In novel writing, the whole world is open to us. A character can get out of bed, we can follow him as he eats breakfast, he can leave the house and walk down the street, he can arrive at work, spend the whole day going from meeting to meeting, return home and go to bed without us ever needing to insert a firm scene break. So while we may talk in terms of scenes, what we really want to accomplish is to wrap our reader in the world of our novel. The only firm breaks we should ever be concerned with are those when we must change jump to a different storyline or skip over some amount of time. Otherwise, it is fine to do a smooth transition from one location to the next or from one set of characters to the next, if that's what we want to do. Leadership is a favorite topic of people these days. I suppose we all want to think of ourselves as leaders and to feel in control. I follow a number of blogs, including that of Michael Hyatt. He often writes about leadership and I've noticed that some of the people who follow his blog write about leadership. There's a lot to be said about leadership, but today I want to cover a topic on leadership that I don't expect I'll see on Michael Hyatt's blog or that of most of the people who talk about leadership. To state it in the most simple terms, Leaders have no business drinking alcohol. I'm sure you recall that Paul gave the qualifications pastors and deacons in I Timothy 3 and Titus 1. Of the pastors he said “not given to wine” and of deacons he said, “not given to much wine.” And you may be thinking, “I know what it says, but I don't really think that means pastors aren't supposed to drink at all and it certainly doesn't mean that other leaders shouldn't drink.” You wouldn't be alone in thinking that. Peterson, in his paraphrase The Message, writes it as “not be overfond of wine.”As Paul so often did, the qualifications he gives for pastors is grounded in the principles of the Word of God. Look at Proverbs 31:4, 5: “It is not for kings, O Lemuel—it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink, lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.” It doesn't get any clearer than that. Though most people in leadership positions don't think of themselves as kings and princes today, the principle that Paul applied to pastors remains true for all those in leadership. If you are in a position of leadership, decisions you make and guidance you give impacts the lives of other people. It is not for you to drink alcohol because your ability to make decisions will become impaired. You may forget what God would have you do and lead people in the wrong direction. I'm sure that some will argue that it's okay to drink as long as you aren't drinking when you are performing your leadership work. I read about a Southern Baptist college that had problems with some of their students because the students are required to agree to abstain from alcohol, but some wanted to say that that didn't apply while they were off campus, arguing that they weren't really students then. Here's the problem with that: no leader is able to completely separate his leadership from other areas of his life. He may be a leader at work and he doesn't want alcohol to impair his decisions concerning his employees, so he doesn't drink on the job, but he goes home at night and has a couple of beers. While he is sitting there in a haze, he starts thinking about which employee he should promote. There's that guy who is a hard worker, but he isn't all that much fun to be around. That's the guy that ought to be promoted, but Mr. Leader starts thinking about that young woman with the short skirt. She's a lot more fun. When the time comes to put someone's name on the list, Mr. Leader remembers that he intended to promote her, though he may not remember how he came to that decision. The Bible calls leaders to a higher standard. People often want to think that they are able to drink and not allow alcohol to influence their ability to lead. God doesn't agree with them. If he did, he wouldn't have spoken so strongly against leaders drinking. Do let me ask you this: do you want to be a leader? Do you want to lead people the way God wants you to lead people? If you do, lay off the alcohol. Don't touch the stuff. Keep it away from you so that when you are called upon to make a decision there is no possibility that you are making that decision based on unclear thinking. A new year, a new story. Last year, I wrote two books, and published three, but none were novels. This year, I intend to write at least one novel. I found a story in the Bible that I would like to retell in a modern setting. It's a great story, but I've been having trouble figuring out where to begin. The basic outline is there, but I've been having trouble figuring out where the main character is coming from. I know what has to happen, but why? The Bible account is a little vague on that point. It states the facts of the situation, but it doesn't tell us anything about what is going through people's heads at the time. Besides that, the Bible account takes up only two chapters, with the second chapter saying much of the same thing the first chapter did. Essentially, I have to take three pages of information and expand them into 300 pages. But after struggling with how to begin, I decided not to begin. Instead, I wrote the final chapter first. I began with the final event and detailed what happened. 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<human>: Complete this text: Unbound was designed with speed as a priority. Everything from the initial app launch to scrolling through your thumbs is incredibly responsive. Access photos whenever you want without having to wait. It ... <bot>: The completion of this text could be: doesn't create a separate photo library like other photo apps. Instead, Unbound uses your existing file structure to create its albums. This means that there is no duplication of your photos, and... <human>: More. <bot>: that they're easy to access and edit with any application you choose. The US has dismissed a Syrian plan to hold a presidential election on 3 June as a “parody of democracy”... <human>: Continue. <bot>: UN chief Ban Ki-moon also condemned the plan, saying it could torpedo efforts to broker a deal to end the three-year civil war, which has killed 150,000. Government forces have made gains recently, but rebels still control vast territories. It is unlikely that voting would be held in those areas. President Bashar al-Assad is expected to seek a third seven-year term. The government recently... <human>: Continue. <bot>: framed an election law that stipulated all candidates must have lived in... <human>: Next. <bot>: Syria for the past 10 years. Most opposition leaders have fled the country, so are in effect barred from standing. Opposition activist Ahmad Alqusair accused Mr Assad of “holding elections over the blood of Syrians” and said only the president's supporters would vote. “If we are being blockaded from even eating bread, how can I vote,” he told the Associated Press. One government MP said there would be no voting in rebel-held areas, but no official announcement has yet been made. The US, EU and UN were united in condemning the planned vote. “Calling for a de-facto referendum rings especially hollow now as the regime continues to massacre the very electorate it purports to represent,” said state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Mr Ban warned that it would “damage... <human>: Next. <bot>: the political process and hamper the prospects for a political solution”. And both the EU and the US labelled it a “parody of democracy”... <human>: Continue. <bot>: French journalists released from captivity in Syria have been speaking about their ordeal at the hands of suspected Islamist rebels. Didier Francois said the four men were chained to each other and... <human>: More. <bot>: kept in basements without natural light. His colleague Nicolas Henin added that they were “not always well treated”. Mr Henin and Mr Francois, along with Edouard Elias and Pierre Torres, were greeted by their families and President Francois Hollande on arrival in France. They had been found by Turkish soldiers on the Syrian border late on Friday. The jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq... <human>: Continue. <bot>: and the Levant (ISIS) has been accused of kidnapping them. Television footage... <human>: Continue. <bot>: after their reappearance in Turkey showed the men looking unkempt, with beards and long hair, but in good health. They had shaved by the time they arrived at Villacoublay military airport, outside Paris. Mr Francois, 53, told reporters it was “a great joy and an immense relief, obviously to be free. Under the sky, which we haven't seen for a long time, to breathe the fresh air, walk freely”. Four French journalists held captive in Syria for almost a year have been freed and are on their way home. French President Francois Hollande said he had “learned with great relief this morning of the liberation of the four French journalists”. Edouard Elias, Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres were “in good health,” he added. The four men... <human>: More. <bot>: had been held hostage in Syria since June 2013. Mr Francois said he was “very happy to be free” as the group spoke briefly to press at a police station in the Turkish town of Akcakale near the Syrian border. “We thank the Turkish authorities because they really helped us. And it's very nice to see the sky, to be able to walk, to... <human>: Continue. <bot>: be able to speak freely. I'm really happy,” Mr Francois added. They were reported to have been found blindfolded with their hands bound by... <human>: Next. <bot>: Turkish soldiers patrolling Sanliurfa province's border with Syria. The men left Turkey on board a French Air Force plane on Sunday evening, Turkey's Anadolu agency reported. The four went missing in two... <human>: More. <bot>: separate incidents in June. The jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) were accused of kidnapping them. Syrian soldiers backed by Hezbollah fighters have driven rebels from the ancient... <human>: Next. <bot>: Christian town of Maaloula, state media and activists say. Army units had “restored security and stability” after eliminating a number of “terrorists”, a military source told the state-run Sana news agency. The nearby village of Sarkha had also been retaken, the source added. Islamist rebels, some of them from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, took over part of Maaloula in December. Twelve nuns from the... <human>: Continue. <bot>: monastery of Deir Mar Takla were taken hostage during the initial fighting. They were only released last month as part of a prisoner exchange deal brokered by Lebanon and Qatar as the... <human>: Next. <bot>: Syrian army prepared to recapture the nearby town of Yabroud, where they were being held. Sana reported that army units had to dismantle explosive... <human>: More. <bot>: devices planted in Maaloula by the rebels after recapturing areas they had occupied. Other units were now advancing on Jabaadin, to the south-west, it added. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a... <human>: Continue. <bot>: UK-based activist group, confirmed Maaloula and Sarkha had fallen to government forces... <human>: Next. <bot>: It comes a day after they captured the nearby town of Rankous. Maaloula has changed hands at least four times since December as government forces and rebels have launched attacks and counter-attacks,... <human>: More. <bot>: according to the Reuters news agency. The town has several churches and important monasteries, including Deir Mar Takla, which is visited by many Christians and Muslim pilgrims. In recent months, soldiers backed by fighters from Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, have retaken several rebel-held areas in the surrounding Qalamoun Mountains. The Syrian regime is on the verge of winning back the city of Homs – known as the capital of the revolution for its role in the three-year-old uprising. The Syrian army began a large scale military campaign on Monday to retake the last four neighbourhoods in opposition hands. Those inside face a stark choice between surrender to the regime or fighting till death. “Life is disastrous in every meaning of the word,” says one activist inside... <human>: Next. <bot>: the Old City. Following a siege of almost two years, there are... <human>: Continue. <bot>: less than a thousand people remaining in the area. The majority are fighters, but there are several families and two dozen Christians who refused to leave during a UN orchestrated evacuation in February. Mortars, shelling and aerial bombardments currently pound the remaining residents. There is little to stay for; the buildings are burned out carcasses and there is no food or drinking water. “My last meal was 48 hours ago, and it consisted of grass unfit for cattle to eat” said Hasan Abu Zain, an activist. The cattle has long been eaten, as have locusts, pet turtles and cats. Drinking water is found in stagnant old wells or contaminated with sewage. Morale is low, even before renewed offensive people were pondering whether to leave the enclave. Tunnels, previously... <human>: More. <bot>: used to smuggle food, are no longer possible as they have been sealed off. The only way out is to surrender. Activists in Syria have published what they say is evidence of... <human>: More. <bot>: a chlorine gas attack by government forces. Footage posted online, which cannot be verified, shows medics trying to revive four young men suffering what... <human>: Continue. <bot>: appear to be symptoms of poisoning. A voice off-screen says the location is Harasta, just outside the capital Damascus. Use of chlorine as a weapon of war is banned and Syria committed to declaring and giving up its stocks last year. The face of one of the men in the video appeared to be covered in vomit, as he shook and moaned while doctors treated him. It is the fourth chemical weapons attack the opposition has alleged this month. Four days ago, activists said the Syrian government carried out another alleged chlorine attack north of the city of Hama. ## The Syrian government blamed the opposition. Opposition activists have also posted online unverified photographs and video of what they said was an improvised chlorine “barrel” bomb dropped from... <human>: More. <bot>: helicopters on the the rebel-held village of Kfar Zeita during attacks on Friday and Saturday last week. RIYADH – Saudi Arabia on Tuesday urged “stern” action by the international community against Syria after the regime's decision to hold presidential elections and its alleged use of toxic gas against civilians. Saudi Arabia is one of the main backers of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which has escalated into a civil war increasingly seen as a proxy battle between Riyadh and its regional rival Iran. “The announcement by the Syrian regime to hold elections is an escalation and undermines Arab and international efforts to peacefully resolve the crisis based on the (outcomes of) the Geneva I conference,” said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. The 2012 peace conference... <human>: More. <bot>: called for a transitional government ahead of free and fair elections, with no mention of Assad's role in the transition. Syrian daily Al-Watan reported... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Tuesday that parliament speaker Mohamed Jihad Lahham will next week announce the... <human>: More. <bot>: date of the country's presidential election, expected to be held around June despite the ongoing conflict. The international community, including UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, have criticised Syria's plan to go ahead with the vote, which would likely see the embattled Assad win another seven-year mandate. This decision, “as well as dangerous information on the regime's recent use of toxic gases against civilians in... <human>: Continue. <bot>: the town of Kafr Zita,” in the central Hama province, represent “clear defiance” of the UN Security Council, Faisal told reporters in Riyadh. UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U. Security Council fell silent Tuesday after ambassadors viewed a series of ghastly photographs of dead Syrian civil war victims, France's ambassador said. The pictures showed people who were emaciated, with their bones protruding, and some... <human>: Next. <bot>: bearing the marks of strangulation and repeated beatings, and eyes having been gouged out. French Ambassador Gerard Araud said the pall of silence lingered, and then questions slowly began about the credibility of the slides of the dead, who offer mute testimony to the savagery of a Syrian civil war in which more than 150,000 have died. The council members were shown more than... <human>: More. <bot>: the 10 photos publicly released in January as part of a forensic investigation funded by the government of Qatar – a major backer of... <human>: Next. <bot>: the opposition and one of the nations most deeply involved in the Syrian conflict. France, which hosted the presentation at the Security Council and a showing of the images afterward at a news conference, said they are evidence of war crimes by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The veracity of the photos could not be independently confirmed. Among the new photos was an image of at least a dozen bodies laid out on the floor of a warehouse, being wrapping in plastic sheets with men in military garb standing among them. It has stood for centuries above the ancient settlement at Maaloula, one of a handful of villages in the mountains northeast of Damascus where Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ, is still spoken. But on... <human>: Next. <bot>: Tuesday, as Syrian army officers showed off their latest conquest in the long back-and-forth war with the country's rebels, the monastery of St Sergius was a sorry sight. The same shellfire that had helped to drive the rebels out had breached its massive limestone walls and, inside what had long been seen as a symbol of Syria's religious freedom, broken icons lay on the... <human>: Continue. <bot>: ground alongside crosses, catechisms, and images of the Virgin Mary – though it was not possible to ascertain the cause. The recapture of Maaloula,... <human>: Continue. <bot>: 40 miles from the Syrian capital, on Monday is being hailed by the country's government as a vital strategic success: army officers said it... <human>: Continue. <bot>: marked the end of a long campaign to regain dominance over the... <human>: Next. <bot>: Qalamun mountain range that runs along the country's border with Lebanon. The task was evidently not quite complete as a group of journalists was... <human>: Next. <bot>: escorted to the site on Tuesday afternoon: the cliffs that surround the city echoed to the sound of machine-gun fire and explosions, and from outside the monastery smoke was visible, rising from the houses below. Two radical Muslim clerics have been identified as influential online cheerleaders for fighters seeking to topple the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, in a pioneering academic study published on Wednesday... <human>: Next. <bot>: Researchers based at King's College London reveal how social media is being harnessed by a network of radical preachers to inspire and guide British and other western Muslims waging jihad in Syria. By examining tweets and Facebook postings used by certain rebels, people who follow the conflict from abroad and the two clerics, the academics say they have been able to provide a “unique... <human>: More. <bot>: and unfiltered window into the minds” of western and European foreign fighters in Syria. The information allowed the analysts to identify a “set of... <human>: More. <bot>: new spiritual authorities” who have the largest followings. The report says they are the American-based cleric Ahmad Musa Jibril and the Australian preacher Musa Cerantonio. Both speak English and are based in the west. Although there is no evidence to suggest these individuals are physically involved in facilitating the flow of foreign fighters to Syria, or that they are co-ordinating their activity with jihadist... <human>: Next. <bot>: organisations, they are playing the role of cheerleaders. “It is clear that they are important figures whose political, moral and spiritual messages are considered attractive to a number of foreign fighters,” the... <human>: More. <bot>: researchers conclude. “Syria may be the first conflict in which a large... <human>: More. <bot>: number of western fighters have been documenting their involvement in conflict in real-time, and where – in turn – social media represents an essential... <human>: Next. <bot>: source of information and inspiration to them,” the report, a product of a year-long study, concludes. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has claimed the upper hand in what he called a “turning point” in the three-year long civil war. President Assad made the comments in an address at Damascus University, His forces have been steadily recapturing rebel-held towns near the Lebanese border for several months. More than 150,000 people have been killed in the conflict, with millions forced to flee their homes. “This is a turning point in the crisis,” President Assad said. He added that his army was winning what he called “the war against terror”. Government forces have secured the main north-south highway in Syria in recent months, and have cut off vital supply routes for rebel... <human>: Next. <bot>: forces. President Assad is expected to announce that he will stand for a third term as leader. The BBC's Lyse Doucet says the comments make clear that he is not willing to stand down despite repeated calls for him to go by armed opposition groups and their Western and Arab backers. Meanwhile, the Syrian air force carried out bombing raids on areas near Damascus on Sunday, rights groups said. Activists said 20 people were killed in government air attacks in the Douma suburb. Syria's official news agency reported that a man was killed and twenty injured in a mortar attack in central Damascus. On Friday, the government and opposition forces accused each other of using poison gas in the village of Kafr Zita. The attack killed two people... <human>: More. <bot>: and left dozens injured. In August last year, a chemical attack near the capital killed hundreds of people. The US's Secretary of State John... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Kerry and its UN ambassador, Samantha Power have been pushing for more assistance to be given to the Syrian rebels. This is despite strong evidence that the Syrian armed opposition are, more than ever, dominated by jihadi fighters similar in their beliefs and methods to al-Qa'ida. The recent attack by rebel forces around Latakia, northern Syria, which initially had a measure of success, was... <human>: Continue. <bot>: led by Chechen and Moroccan jihadis. America has done its best to keep secret its role in supplying the Syrian armed opposition, operating through proxies and front companies. It is this which makes Seymour Hersh's article “The Red Line and The Rat Line: Obama, Erdogan and the Syrian rebels” published last week in the London Review of Books, so interesting. Attention has focussed on... <human>: Next. <bot>: whether the Syrian jihadi group, Jabhat al-Nusra, aided by Turkish intelligence, could have been behind the sarin gas attacks in Damascus last 21 August,... <human>: Continue. <bot>: in an attempt to provoke the US into full-scale military intervention to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. “We now know it was a covert action planned by (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip) Erdogan's... <human>: More. <bot>: people to push Obama over the red line,” a former senior US intelligence officer is quoted as saying. It is election season in Syria and, to listen to government officials, the tumult of revolution and war will soon be replaced by the certainty of democracy. Since the coup that led Hafez al-Assad to power more than 40 years ago, presidential elections in Syria have... <human>: Continue. <bot>: never been a contest of wills. And so it will be when the dictator's son Bashar al-Assad goes to the polls within months, the sole meaningful candiatate to run a country ravaged... <human>: Continue. <bot>: by a crisis that shows little sign of slowing. When on 17... <human>: More. <bot>: March parliament approved plans for a poll, by way of a new electoral law welcoming multiple candidates, Syrian officials claimed that people power had... <human>: Continue. <bot>: ushered in the type of reforms demanded during the first stirrings of insurrection three years ago. Section 30 of the same law, though, is... <human>: Continue. <bot>: evidence that nothing has changed. It says anyone who wants to stand must have the support of at least 35 members of the parliament and have been resident in the country for the past 10 years. Both of the candidates' parents must also be Syrian. That rules out any of Assad's real opponents, who are in exile outside the country. Other restrictions mean they,... <human>: More. <bot>: and those who support them, will not be able to vote either. Electors must also hold a new identification document, which can only be issued by regime authorities. Those who fled Syria... <human>: More. <bot>: as war spread to all corners of the country will not be able to vote unless they left via an official border point. BEIRUT... <human>: Continue. <bot>: – A regime air strike in Hama province of central Syria caused... <human>: More. <bot>: “suffocation and poisoning”, an NGO said Saturday, while state media accused rebels... <human>: More. <bot>: of releasing chlorine gas. Elsewhere, fighting raged all day in Aleppo near an air force intelligence base, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights... <human>: Continue. <bot>: labelling it “the most violent since the beginning of the battle” in the northern city in mid-2012. And a bomb blast and shelling in areas of Damascus killed four people, the official... <human>: Next. <bot>: news agency SANA reported. In the rebel-held town of Kafr Zita in Hama province, residents choking from poisoning were hospitalised after raids with barrel bombs on Friday, the Observatory quoted medics as... <human>: More. <bot>: saying. “Regime planes bombed Kafr Zita with explosive barrels that produced thick smoke and odours and led to cases of suffocation and poisoning,” the... <human>: Continue. <bot>: monitoring group's head Rami Abdel Rahman said. Anti-government activists in the area posted on Facebook that “the regime bombarded Kafr Zinta with toxic products, (with) ‘chlorine gas', causing more than 100 cases of suffocation”. But state television said that Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, a key force in Syria's three-year armed revolt, had released chlorine in a deadly attack on the town. “There is information that the terrorist Al-Nusra Front released toxic chorine . leading to the death of two people and causing more than 100 people to suffer from suffocation,” it said. “There is information that Al-Nusra Front is preparing to hit Wadi Deif in Idlib province and Morek in Hama province with toxic chlorine or sarin,” the state broadcaster added. Videos circulated by opposition activists on YouTube... <human>: Continue. <bot>: showed men and children in a field hospital coughing and showing symptoms of suffocation, while three young men are wearing oxygen masks. BRITISH jihadists returning from fighting in Syria are as much of a threat to UK security as al-Qaeda terrorists, it has been reported. There are fears that men who have been radicalised in the Syrian civil war are being encouraged to return... <human>: Continue. <bot>: to Britain and carry out attacks after receiving bomb and weapons training. The British government has chosen not to intervene in the conflict. Up to 500 British jihadists are thought to have travelled to Syria to join the fighting, and security services are thought to be monitoring around half of that number who have returned. A senior Whitehall source told The Telegraph: “We are... <human>: Next. <bot>: seeing a growing threat to the UK from terrorist groups in Syria. “The threat to the UK comes from a range of countries and groups but Syria is perhaps the biggest challenge... <human>: Next. <bot>: right now.” A government report on the threat from foreign fighters has also been published on the Security Service's website. It reads: “Over the... <human>: More. <bot>: last two years, we have seen Syria become an attractive destination for UK extremists wishing to engage in violent jihad. “The nature of the conflict in Syria and the emergence of the... <human>: More. <bot>: Al Nusrah Front, which has declared its allegiance to Al Qaeda leader... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Ayman al-Zawahiri, is leading to the country becoming an increasingly significant potential source of future threats to the UK and UK interests overseas.”The rebel... <human>: Continue. <bot>: leader touted as the West's last hope to stem the tide of extreme jihadist groups in Syria has said he will not fight against al-Qa'ida, and openly admits to battling alongside them... <human>: Next. <bot>: Speaking from a safe house on the outskirts of the Turkish town of Antakya, Jamal Maarouf, the leader of the Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) told The Independent that the fight against al-Qa'ida was “not our problem” and admitted his fighters conduct joint operations with Jabhat al-Nusra – the official al-Qa'ida branch in Syria. The admission could have significant implications for Western involvement in the... <human>: Next. <bot>: Syrian conflict. While the US and UK have been vocal in their support for rebels fighting to remove President Bashar al-Assad, they have been reluctant to follow through with material support – such as heavy weaponry – over fears it would fall into the hands of extremist groups who might target the West. Maarouf and his brigades are viewed as relative moderates in a... <human>: Continue. <bot>: loosely affiliated rebel army that is increasingly dominated by radical groups, and the SRF and similar groups are presented as the West's best bet... <human>: Next. <bot>: to fight both the Assad regime and extremists. His willingness to work with rebel groups the West deems unpalatable is a symptom of a... <human>: Next. <bot>: war in which allegiances frequently change and all actors within it have been forced to compromise in order to survive. Western support for Maarouf and other moderate rebel groups reached a high point earlier this year, when the SRF was the recipient of significant aid from the US and its allies in order to fight the ultra-extremist and one-time al-Qa'ida affiliate Islamic State of... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Iraq and the Levant (Isis). UNITED NATIONS — Syria is charging in a letter to the United Nations that opposition groups are planning a... <human>: Continue. <bot>: toxic gas attack in a rebel-held area near Damascus so they can... <human>: Next. <bot>: then blame it on government security forces. In a letter dated March 25 and circulated by the U. this week, Syria's U. envoy, Bashar Ja'afari, said his government had intercepted communications between “terrorists” that showed a man named Abu Nadir was secretly distributing gas masks in the rebel-held Jobar area. “The authorities also intercepted another communication between two other terrorists, one of whom is... <human>: Continue. <bot>: named Abu Jihad,” Ja'afari said. “In that communication, Abu Jihad indicates that toxic gas will be used and asked those who are working with him to supply protective masks.” Ja'afari said in the letter addressed to U. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the U. “The UN Security Council should discuss the situation in Kessab and give it a principled evaluation,” it stated. “We condemn extremists' actions in Syria. We believe that the Syrian government and the opposition should join efforts to eradicate terrorism on the Syrian land.”On March 21, jihadists reportedly crossed into Syria from Turkey and seized the town in Latakia province, home to over 2,000 ethnic Armenians. The attack caused hundreds of local families, mainly Armenian, to flee their homes and seek shelter in the city of... <human>: Next. <bot>: Latakia. Russia's Foreign Ministry noted that there were no military objects on the attacked territory and added that the only fault of the families, who were forced to flee, was their loyalty to Syria's government. Syria's permanent representative to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, told RT Arabic that Syria is hoping the UN will help resolve the situation in Kessab. In the past week, Syria... <human>: Next. <bot>: sent five letters to the UN Security Council and the General Secretary. “These letters contain detailed information about Turkish direct involvement in the crisis... <human>: More. <bot>: by providing protection to terrorist groups that are operating in the Kessab area,” Jaafari said. He further added that military groups managed to get to Kessab under the cover of Turkish artillery strikes, Turkish aviation, and tanks, which were all used as a distraction. Syria's information minister has lashed out at Turkey, accusing Ankara of sending foreign fighters across the border to fight Syrian government troops in President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland in Latakia province. Omran al-Zoubi says neighboring Turkey is facilitating the entry of “groups of foreigners, armed to their teeth” into Latakia, where fighting is raging between Syrian government forces and rebels trying to oust Assad. Al-Zoubi spoke to Syrian state TV late on Sunday. Turkey is a NATO member that once had good ties with... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Syria. But the two countries had a falling out over Ankara's support... <human>: More. <bot>: for the Syrian opposition in the 3-year-old conflict. Hostilities have flared along the border on several occasions and last week, Turkey shot down a... <human>: More. <bot>: Syrian fighter jet, saying it violated its airspace. Two Spanish journalists taken hostage in Syria have returned to Madrid after six months in captivity... <human>: More. <bot>: El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova were earlier freed and handed over to the Turkish military. The pair arrived at Torrejon de Ardoz airbase, where they were welcomed by overjoyed friends and family. Scores of journalists are believed to have been kidnapped or killed by rebel fighters in Syria. Mr Espinosa, 49, and Mr Vilanova, 42, were seized by... <human>: Next. <bot>: al-Qaeda-linked militants The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), near the Turkish border in September. El Mundo said that the two journalists had at the time been trying to leave Syria at the end of a two-week reporting mission. Four members of the Free Syrian Army – the main Western-backed rebel group – who were protecting them were also captured but later... <human>: Next. <bot>: released. WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday formally notified the Syrian government that it must suspend operations at its embassy here and at its two consulates in Michigan and Texas, the... <human>: Next. <bot>: State Department said. The move stops short of a formal break of relations, but it bars Syria envoys here from carrying out diplomatic and consular duties. “Syrian diplomats at the embassy and Syrian honorary consulates are no longer permitted to perform diplomatic or consular functions and those who are not U. citizens or lawful permanent residents must depart the United States,” said a statement by Daniel Rubinstein, who was named on Monday as the new American envoy for Syria. The move comes on the third anniversary of the conflict in Syria that has killed an estimated 140,000 people. Rubinstein said in his statement that the United States would maintain diplomatic relations with Syria. GENEVA, March 18 (Reuters) – U. investigators said on Tuesday they had expanded their list... <human>: Next. <bot>: of suspected war criminals from both sides in Syria's civil war and the evidence was solid enough to prepare any indictment. inquiry has identified individuals, military units and security agencies as well... <human>: More. <bot>: as insurgent groups suspected of committing abuses such as torture and bombing civilian areas, it said in its report to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Some 20 investigators have carried out... <human>: Continue. <bot>: 2,700 interviews with victims, witnesses and defectors in the region and by Skype in Syria, but have never been allowed to enter the country now in its fourth year of an increasingly sectarian conflict. However, despite the accumulation of evidence, diplomats say it is unlikely Syria would be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) that tries war crimes suspects in The Hague any... <human>: More. <bot>: time soon. As Syria has not signed the Rome statutes setting up the ICC, the U. Security Council would need to make the referral... <human>: More. <bot>: Russia, supported by China, has shielded its ally Syria throughout the war, vetoing three U. resolutions that would have condemned President Bashar al-Assad's government and threatened it with possible sanctions. “We do not lack information on crimes or even on perpetrators. What we lack is a means by which to achieve justice and accountability but this is not in our powers,” Paulo Pinheiro, the... <human>: Continue. <bot>: chairman of the U.commission of inquiry on Syria, told a news conference. The commission said the period of Jan.20 to March 10 was characterised... <human>: More. <bot>: by escalating hostilities between insurgent groups throughout northern and northeastern provinces as Islamist rebel strongholds came under attack. Government forces have dropped barrel bombs on Aleppo and other cities, causing extensive civilian... <human>: Next. <bot>: casualties in areas with no clear military target, and severely tortured detainees. The mostly Sunni Muslim Insurgents seeking to topple Assad, whose minority Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, have used car and suicide bombs targeting civilian areas – also violations of international law, the commission said. GENEVA – The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out “mass... <human>: More. <bot>: executions” in Syria in January, the United Nations said Tuesday, adding that it was investigating allegations of mass graves. The group “conducted mass executions of detainees, thereby perpetrating war crimes,” the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in an update on the human rights situation in the country. ISIL is a group of radical jihadists who have fought Syria's regime but who since... <human>: More. <bot>: the beginning of the year have also been battling a coalition of moderate and Islamist rebels angered by their abuses of rival fighters and civilians. The group is accused of kidnapping scores of people, among them rival rebels, activists, foreign journalists and humanitarian workers. In northern and northeastern governorates, ISIL fighters “are imposing their radical ideologies on the civilian population,” Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, head... <human>: More. <bot>: of the commission, told the UN Human Rights Council. Syrian troops have advanced west of the fallen rebel stronghold of Yabrud, entering a new village in the Qalamoun region near the Lebanese... <human>: Continue. <bot>: border, state news agency SANA said Tuesday. “The Syrian army is progressing in the village of Ras al-Ain, southwest of Yabrud, killing a large number of terrorists,” said SANA, using the regime's term for rebels. Earlier, a security source told AFP the army had taken control of several hills overlooking the village. The army, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and pro-regime militiamen, seized the strategic town of Yabrud Sunday after a month of shelling and air strikes, as it moves to sever rebel supply routes across the border. The army and Hezbollah have now set their sights on the villages of Rankus, south of Yabrud, and Flita and Ras al-Maara, to its northwest. Elsewhere, regime planes bombed the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least four people, including... <human>: Next. <bot>: two children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that relies on activists and other witnesses inside Syria. The violence in Aleppo came as a prominent female activist... <human>: More. <bot>: detained there a day earlier by rebels for refusing to wear the Islamic headscarf was released. Syria's government on Tuesday decided to establish a... <human>: Continue. <bot>: “space agency” to conduct scientific research despite the civil war that has torn the country apart and devastated its economy. State news agency SANA... <human>: Continue. <bot>: said the cabinet had approved a project to create the so-called Syrian Space Agency, “with the goal of using space technology for exploration and observing the earth.” SANA said the government hopes... <human>: Continue. <bot>: to employ such technology “in the service of development.” The three-year civil war has destroyed the economy and seen Western sanctions slapped on Damascus, raising questions about how Syria would fund the... <human>: More. <bot>: new research initiative. Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi had earlier estimated that the country had suffered $31 billion in damage from the war, a figure... <human>: Continue. <bot>: nearly equivalent to its GDP. After three years of war in Syria, one of the things we have learnt is that al-Qaeda's followers don't... <human>: Continue. <bot>: really want to live in the seventh century. Their favoured social medium... <human>: Next. <bot>: is Twitter, and they often use the modern vernacular when they tweet. Here is what one jihadist wrote recently as a caption to a photograph of some blindfolded captives: “Got these criminals today. Insha'Allah will be killed tomorrow. Cant wait for that feeling when U just killed some1.” It really is that psychopathic. Last week, Save the Children released a fund-raising video for Syria... <human>: Next. <bot>: which “went viral”, showing a nine-year-old at a birthday party followed by a flash of images in which her everyday life was shredded by bombs, exile, and refugee camps. It brought tears to the eyes and in a moment of self-importance, I observed that the campaign was OK so long as people realised the reality was much, much worse. The videos you have not... <human>: More. <bot>: seen show little girls like the one in the picture torn literally in two by the regime's aerial bombardments, their entrails hanging out; or lying piled in the corner of a shattered building, throats sliced by one of the shabiha, or militia, who wreak their terror on the fringes of military assaults; or bloated and yellow as their gassed corpses await burial. You do... <human>: More. <bot>: not see the full horror of this war, I can assure you. Our editors could show you the reality, more than ever before, such is the technology available to them, but they... <human>: More. <bot>: preserve a conventional sense of decency. A year ago, the world became indignant at the sight of Abu Sakkar, a rebel sub-commander pretending to eat the heart and liver of a slain opponent. In the months since, we have learnt that this was but a comedic sideshow to the greater tragedy, as the officially recorded death toll passed the 100,000 mark and climbed inexorably upwards – the real figure now is likely to be much higher, 200,000 perhaps, or even more. On one day, August 21 last year, about 1,400 people died in a chemical weapons attack. Even as I write, the great and glorious city of Aleppo, one of the oldest beacons of human civilisation, is being destroyed. Its Great Umayyad Mosque is already in ruins, its... <human>: Continue. <bot>: suburbs flattened daily by a new weapon that is, by virtue of its extraordinary mixture of primitive simplicity and sophisticated delivery, a form of psychopathy all unto itself: the barrel bomb. We have no idea why the regime uses it – perhaps it is running short of Russian missiles, or perhaps it does not want to waste them on civilians. All we know is that at one point in January, 30 of these crude devices, barrels stuffed with TNT and shrapnel, were raining down on civilian areas of the city each day. Thousands of people have been killed. Any doubt that this is a deliberate attempt to instil terror can be set aside: in one suburb, they were accompanied by leaflets saying that all residents should leave. Eleven... <human>: Continue. <bot>: people have been killed in three days of clashes in the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli linked to the conflict in Syria, security sources and the Lebanese army said on Sunday. Overnight, the army announced the death of a soldier when a military patrol in the city was hit by an anti-tank grenade. The latest death brought the toll in clashes that began on Thursday to 11, a security source said. The clashes, which have also injured 50 people, pit the Alawite district of Jabal Mohsen against the neighbouring Sunni quarter of Bab al-Tebbaneh. The latest fighting broke out on Thursday after a Sunni man was killed by unknown gunmen on a motorbike in central Tripoli. But tensions between the districts have run high for decades, only increasing... <human>: Continue. <bot>: with the outbreak of the conflict in Syria, where Alawite President Bashar al-Assad faces a Sunni-dominated uprising. The Lebanese army has deployed in the city, arresting several people overnight and responding to... <human>: More. <bot>: sources of fire. The war in Syria has deepened existing sectarian and... <human>: More. <bot>: political tensions in Lebanon, particularly between supporters of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, an Assad ally, and Sunni backers of former prime minister Saad Hariri who support the uprising. The artillery casings the... <human>: Next. <bot>: nine-year-old is cradling in his grimy hands come from guns that have... <human>: Next. <bot>: helped to turned Aleppo into a dead zone. However, the spent ammunition offers Aladdin a sliver of hope. Only by selling it for scrap metal will he find enough money to buy... <human>: Next. <bot>: food. As the civil war enters its third year, a report published by Unicef this week highlights the plight of Aladdin and ­millions of children like him in a country where destruction... <human>: More. <bot>: and appalling ­atrocities have become the norm and the young are now regarded as ­“legitimate” war ­targets – or recruited as soldiers, spies or... <human>: Continue. <bot>: arms smugglers. Unicef says the number of ­children affected by the war... <human>: Next. <bot>: has more than doubled over the past year from 2.3 million to more than 5. Since last March the number of displaced children still inside Syria has ­tripled from 920,000 to three million and child refugees have quadrupled from 260,000 to 1.2 million, with 425,000 of them under the age of five. For too many children, each day is a battle to survive incessant... <human>: Next. <bot>: bombardments and snipers' bullets and the threat of malnutrition and ­disease. More than 10,000 children have died since the fighting began. The report, Under Siege: The Devastating Impact On Children Of Three Years of Conflict, uses the words of children and their parents to paint a harrowing picture of lives damaged and childhoods lost. Ghina Khalil was 14 months old when a bomb exploded... <human>: Next. <bot>: near her home in Aleppo, leaving her legs trapped in the rubble of her bedroom. Her father told Unicef: “The day our house was bombed I arrived home to find people digging in the rubble with their bare hands because they heard sounds coming from underneath. “They found Ghina's hands first and removed the dirt from her. She started to move and rub her eyes. Apparently she had been unconscious. She was under one and half metres of debris. Now she is recovered but sometimes at night she bursts into tears for no reason.”Visit the Source for more on this storySOURCE = The ExpressSyria claims its military has seized a key town on the Lebanese border that was the target of a months-long offensive. Activists said fighting was... <human>: Next. <bot>: continuing but the government was in control of much of Yabroud. Yabroud was an key supply line for rebels into neighbouring Lebanon and overlooked an important cross-country highway. Its fall, coming as the Syrian conflict enters fourth year, would be a significant blow to rebels since the initiative passed to the government in the spring of 2013. It is the last major rebel-held town... <human>: More. <bot>: in the mountainous Qalamoun region, where President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been waging an offensive for months to try to cut rebel supply lines across the porous border into eastern Lebanon. Its... <human>: Next. <bot>: fall would come a week after the Syrian army seized the village of Zara, which also served as a conduit for rebels from northern Lebanon into central Syria. Syria's state news agency... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Sana reported that military forces seized Yabroud early on Sunday and were combing the city to remove booby-traps and bombs and hunt down rebel holdouts. Kasem Alzein, a Syrian pro-rebel doctor who lives in the nearby border town of Arsal, said military forces entered the eastern part of Yabroud and that rebels fled to the nearby town of Flita. He said a small hardcore... <human>: Next. <bot>: group of fighters said they would fight to the death in the city. “They don't want to surrender,” he said, adding that supplies were... <human>: Continue. <bot>: cut off and weapons promised to rebels never arrived. “Qusair will repeat itself,” Alzein said, referring to the strategic rebel-held town on the Syrian... <human>: Next. <bot>: border that fell to pro-Assad forces last summer. As in the Qalamoun offensive, Lebanese Hezbollah militants played a key role backing government troops. DAMASCUS,... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Syria — Syria said its military seized a key town that served as a rebel supply hub on the Lebanese border on Sunday after a months-long army offensive. Activists said fighting was still ongoing but the government was in effective control of much of Yabroud. The fall of Yabroud, coming as the Syrian conflict enters fourth year, would be the latest blow to rebels since the initiative passed to the government in the spring of 2013. Support from fighters of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah appears to have tipped the balance in the border area. Hezbollah's alignment with President Bashar Assad has caused the conflict to bleed into eastern and northern parts of Lebanon, where 13 people were killed in Syria-related violence in recent days, 12 in... <human>: Continue. <bot>: urban fighting and one in a rocket attack. Yabroud was an important supply line for rebels into Lebanon, and overlooks an important cross-country highway. It the last major rebel-held town in the... <human>: Continue. <bot>: mountainous Qalamoun region, where Assad's forces have been waging an offensive for months to try to sever routes across the porous border. Its fall... <human>: More. <bot>: would come just a week after the Syrian army seized the village of Zara, another conduit for rebels from mountainous northern Lebanon into central... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Syria. Syria's state television reported that military forces seized Yabroud early Sunday and were now combing the city, removing booby-traps and bombs and hunting... <human>: More. <bot>: down rebel hold-outs. “Our armed forces are now chasing the remnants of the terrorist gangs in the area,” said a uniformed soldier reading from... <human>: More. <bot>: a military statement on Syrian television. West Virginia may not be a popular spot for hiphop, but Dreadhead Ced is trying to blow it up with features from Sy Ari Da Kid & Swag Hollywood! This record is called “I Had To” produced by KayohCookItUp & Myles T this record is a banger for the club, car, vibing, gym, or whatever else your doing!.

Human: Complete this text: It was a cracker day for the last of our holiday. A slight frost, steam rising from the hillsides as the sun warmed the paddocks, not a breath of wind – Joni Mitchell on the playlist, the road to ourselves. Life is good we tell each other. We stopped for an early lunch at Mangakino. The town is slightly off the highway, we wanted to check out the hydro lake. Fog lay over the place like a damp blanket. It took the edge off things a bit. So instead of heading straight to the lake we stopped for an early lunch at The Hui Hut – brilliant name for a café. And I'm happy to report that the rolls were ultra fresh, the coffee good, the decor appealing. There was a Dr Seuss poster on display: “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” Perfect for a blogger who worries sometimes about the consequences of putting things out there. For any creative types reading this there's an interesting article here about this very issue. In the cafe the large flat screen TV was tuned to Waka Huia. We didn't budge from our seats. Those of you who saw the programme will know that the episode was the third of four commemorating the Land Wars. This episode told the story of the battle of Orakau, in the Waikato, not that far from where we've spent a good portion of the last week. The Maori warriors were out manned and out gunned, but they fought to the end, firing peach pits and pieces of wood when the bullets were gone. It was a stark reminder that it hasn't always been peaceful here, that colonisation is violent and unjust. That where-ever they occur wars are about power, greed, and fear. It's difficult to put my finger on how I felt watching it. And ripped off – there were a lot of false promises made to the early settlers to get them to come here and, once here, for most of them there was no way back. It's all very complicated. I do agree with the commentator who put the case for a national day to commemorate the Land Wars. By the time the programme ended the fog had gone. Down at the lake, the sun was out and we could only be grateful that, for us, our times are relatively peaceful. A wander along the shore, a chat on the telephone to son Number One, and it was time to head towards home. I've got a lot to learn about Google Maps and how to create custom maps. There must be a way to get more control over the content. Can you hear me laughing? Control over Google? That'd be an exercise in futility! Pioneers and colonizers certainly have a lot to answer for but I guess in a way, as you say, they were also misled. And once here they had no options but to survive as best they could. I've enjoyed the trip with you and hubby Jill. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us. Thanks Pommepal! I'm glad you enjoyed it. the It was a fun learning experience to try blogging as we went along. It made me realise how limited the cellphone and wifi coverage is outside the main centres in NZ. There's an interesting article on Wikipedia about the New Zealand Company. As I understand it they actively misled early settlers. Basically, I think they preyed on simple folk, who were caught by the industrial revolution and who hoped for a better life for their children. They thought they were coming to an England without the class system. That's my take on it anyway; albeit overly simplified. Interesting article Jill. I have come across that view before in both novels and documentary articles. Especially appealing back then to get away from the class system and own your own landI can really relate to what you have said about colonizing and what it did to indigenous people. Look what happened to the Native Americans. It makes me ashamed to think I had ancestors that may have been involved as it seems my ancestors came to America fairly early in settling the country. So many broken promises. I pray that someday we stop all of this insanity. Your trip has been so beautiful. In 1975 while I was at High School in Minnesota I read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Maybe from looking back we can figure out how to move forward – in a way I think that was the message of the TV programme. To move forward you cannot stay stuck on the past and that happens too much. Too many people keep looking back instead of looking forward. We need to know the past so we can learn from it and then move on and try to be better, to try and not make the same mistakes again. NEWSLETTERS with every book release. SITE NEWS with everything — news and all new content. SUBSCRIBEThis is Book 7 in the Heartbreaker Bay Series. Get started with Book 1, read a series overview and get extra series info, or link to a complete series reading order. Sadie Lane walked through the day spa, closing up for the night, alone as usual. Her coworkers had left, but even if they hadn't, they'd just be milling around with their ridiculously expensive teas, complaining about how hard this job was. They had no idea how ridiculous that was to her, but as the lowest person on the ladder, she'd managed to keep her opinions to herself. She was sure it'd only be a matter of time before her mouth overtook her good sense. Moving around shutting down the computers and dimming the lights, she fantasized about going home and stripping out of her daytime yoga pants and replacing them with her nighttime yoga pants. Unfortunately, even after eight hours on her feet, that wasn't in the cards for her. “You always forget to call me back. I've been trying to discuss your sister's wedding details with you for weeks now, and .”Sadie listened with half her brain, the other half wandering off. Did she have time to grab an order of sliders and crispy fries from O'Riley's, the pub across the courtyard, before heading to her other job? Lunch had been eons ago . Being full-named always got her back up. It wasn't that she had anything against her name—okay, so she sort of did because who named a kid after the car where that kid had been conceived? —but more than anything, she had a whole lot against her mother's tone. “Of course I'm listening.”She wasn't. She was thinking about dessert after the sliders. Maybe cookies, maybe a brownie. “Honey,” her mom said, her voice going tentative. “You're not feeling . sad again, are you? ” She whispered sad as if was a bad word. And to be fair, for most of Sadie's teenage years it had been a bad word, along with angry, misunderstood, sullen, and unhappy. To say that she and her mom had a complicated relationship was pretty much the understatement of the year. “Nope,” Sadie said.” This was an automated response because she didn't want to deal with the all you have to do to get over the blues is think positively speech again, well-meaning as it was. But her mom was winding up for the big finish, so Sadie braced herself because in three, two, one—“Remember what Dr. Evans always told you. To get over the blues, all you have to do is think positively.”Resisting the urge to smack her phone into her own forehead, Sadie drew a deep breath and sank into the cushy chair in her station, where her clients sat while she applied permanent makeup. This was her bread-and-butter job, seeing as the love-of-her-heart job—working as a tattoo artist in the Canvas Shop right next door—didn't pay enough yet. And call it silly and frivolous, but she'd grown fond of eating. The problem was, all the time on her feet working way too many hours a day left her exhausted. And maybe the teeniest bit cranky. But not, it should be noted, sad. At least not at the moment. “Mom, you know it's not that easy, right? ”Sadie closed her eyes and caught a few z's while her mom went on about Clara, whom Sadie loved and adored even if she was annoyingly perfect—“Hmm? ” She sat upright, opening her eyes. She'd missed a question, but pretending she knew what was going on at all times was her MO. If she couldn't blow her family away with her brilliance, plan B was always to baffle them with her bullshit. “Whatever you guys decide.”Hoping she hadn't just agreed to wear a frothy Little Bo-Peep bridesmaid dress, Sadie let her gaze shift to the window. Over a hundred years ago, the Pacific Pier Building had been built around a beautiful cobblestoned courtyard that each of the ground floor shops and businesses opened onto, making it convenient for people watching. Seeing as it was February in San Francisco, specifically the Cow Hollow District, a thick icy fog had descended over the dark evening with the promise of rain. She loved a good storm, the darker the better, and figured that love came from her own dark, stormy heart. The lights had all come on, strung from potted tree to potted tree and along the wrought-iron benches around the water fountain. The area was usually a hub ... Bot: The completion of this text could be: of activity. But tonight only the faint glow of the lights was visible behind the wall of fog, and there was no one in sight. A form appeared out of the fog. A tall, leanly muscled form, his overcoat billowing out behind him like he was some sort of superhero. He had a real name, she knew. But she'd never said it out loud, preferring her nickname for him, since with the exception of the few times she'd run into him at a gym on the other side of Cow Hollow near the marina, she'd never seen him in anything but a suit. And though she herself wasn't a suit kind of girl, she could admit there was something about watching him move in gorgeous clothes that had probably cost more than her entire year's rent.” She searched her brain for the conversation she'd just missed. “Don't worry, I'll be on time for Clara's wedding dress fitting appointment.”“It's a wedding,” her mom said firmly. And anyway, you're past due to find your Prince Charming. Way past due.”“Mom, I don't need a Prince Charming. Forest animals who clean, yes, but it's a hard pass for me on Prince Charming.”“Actually, they were very romantic. Christian Grey's a bazillionaire who falls in love with a regular girl. It's like a Cinderella story.”Sadie sighed. “Fifty Shades of Grey is only romantic because the guy's a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer, it'd be a Criminal Minds episode.”“I don't have anything against it.” Sadie hoped her nose wasn't growing at the lie. “I just don't need it right now.” Or ever.”An attorney, Wes had been sure of himself. Sadie was long past being hurt over what had happened between them, but she still wasn't feeling the need to let someone new in, mostly because she simply hadn't been attracted to anyone. What about Suits? a voice inside her head whispered as she made her way from one window to the next in order to keep him in her sights. It was misting now and his dark hair shimmered with droplets every time he passed beneath a lamppost. Like Wes had been, he too was sure of himself. Suddenly, he abruptly stopped between the day spa and the Canvas Shop. Crouching low in the now pouring rain, he stared at something she couldn't see. I'll call you back.”“Uh-huh,” Sadie said dryly. “Tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter bunny .” And at her mother's gasp, she gently disconnected, squelching a wince because she'd most definitely pay for that later. Her mom had a lot of talents, and one of them was being able to hold a grudge for a hundred years. Sadie had a few talents herself, such as not sleeping at night and enjoying chocolate just a little too much. And okay, so she also was talented at drinking tequila, preferably in the form of a frosty lime margarita. Slipping her phone into her back pocket, she went back to window-gazing to see what Suits was up to. He was still balanced on the balls of his feet, the wind and now rain pummeling his back, seemingly unnoticed. She knew a few things about him. Such as the fact that he had lean muscles everywhere you might want a man to have lean muscles, and that women tended to fall over themselves when he smiled. His eyes were a beautiful caramel, with flecks of gold that sparkled when he laughed. He was some sort of tech genius and used to work at a government think tank. He'd invented a bunch of stuff including a series of apps that he and his business partner had sold to Google. More recently the two of them had created a way of getting meds and medical care into remote developing nations via unmanned drones. He was innovative and inventive on a large scale, smart, charismatic . Oh, and there was one more thing—he and Sadie rubbed each other the wrong way by just breathing. She wasn't even sure how it'd started, but there was an energy between the two of them she didn't understand. At best it made her squirm. At worst, it sometimes kept her up at night. Sadie's best friend, Ivy, who ran The Taco Truck parked outside the building, had decided that she and Caleb Parker shared an unrequited animalistic lust and nothing could convince her she was wrong. But it wasn't lust, because Sadie no longer gave in to lust, animalistic or otherwise. Yes, he was fun, flirty, and charming, but she was highly suspicious of all those things. Her idea of fun, flirty, and charming meant being as sarcastic as possible. It'd done the trick too, scaring men off for years. But oddly, Suits seemed to be able to handle her sarcasm without so much as blinking an eye. Driven by curiosity and the inability she had of letting anything go, she unlocked and opened the front door of the day spa and stuck her head out.”Staring at the brick wall, he didn't turn her way or even glance over. He didn't do anything except to say “shh.”Oh, no. No, he did not, and she stepped outside to tell him what she thought of him and his “shh” and where he could put it. But with his gaze still on whatever was in front of him, he held up a hand, silently ordering her to stop where she was. But then he was reaching out to the wall, and she realized over the noise of the storm that he was talking quietly to something. The growling got a little louder, but Suits didn't back away, he just held eye contact with what sounded like a huge dog that Sadie still couldn't see in the dark shadows. And damn her insatiable curiosity because she stepped out from beneath the spa's overhang and immediately got wind and rain in her face for her efforts. Pulling out her cell phone, she accessed her flashlight app and aimed it at the wall. “Don't,” he said, wrapping his hand around her wrist, bringing the phone down to her side. “You'll scare it.”“Better that than getting eaten.” She shrugged off his warm hand but went still when the growling upped a notch. Sadie bet that voice worked for him in the bedroom, but no way would it work here. the matted, drenched shadow scooted away from the wall, not nearly as large as she'd thought. Not a young puppy but not a grown dog either. Its tan-colored body was way too skinny, and black eyes stared out from a black face. “Aw, looks like a young oversize pug,” she murmured. A skin-and-bones bullmastiff with only three legs, Sadie realized as it shifted closer, and her entire heart melted.” Moving toward it now without hesitation, she got only a few steps before the dog scrambled to escape her approach like a cat on linoleum, heading right at Suits. With a surprised grunt, he fell to his ass on the wet cobblestones. “Okay,” he said, hands up, backing up on those fine butt cheeks as if suddenly terrified of the dog trying to get into his lap. “Okay, see? You're safe now, right? Stay. Stay and sit.”The dog didn't stay. Or sit, for that matter. Instead, it leaned on Suits's bent legs, leaving dirty beige fur sticking to his pants. Undeterred by this news, the dog continued to huddle close to his new human, even as that human shifted back, trying to avoid further contact. Fascinated by this unexpected show of weakness in the man who'd always come off as invincible, she shook her head. “I think it thinks you're its mama.”“I know you must mean you and the mouse in your pocket because we”—Sadie gestured with a finger between him and herself—“are most definitely not a we.”Ignoring that, he got to his feet, lifting his hands at the dog, giving the universal gesture for stay. But the minute Suits raised his hands, the dog squeaked in terror and leapt back as if he'd been shoved. Off-balance with only three legs, it fell to its back, exposing its underbelly and the fact that it was a she. Sadie didn't easily attach. But right then and there, she fell in love with her. Not partially, but all the way in love, because neglected and mistreated meant they were soul mates. “I'm going to kill her owner.”“Not if I get to them first.” Suits's eyes flashed absolute fury, though his voice remained calm as he once again squatted low, trying to get his six-foot-plus frame as nonthreateningly small as he could. “It's okay, baby,” he crooned softly. “We're together now, for better or worse, even if you're going to kill me.”Proving that, the dog slowly once again scooted toward Suits, head down, her hind end a little wiggly as she crawled close, trying to get into his lap. With a sigh, Suits wrapped his arms around the dog and hugged her close. In response, the cutie-pie set her oversize head on his broad chest. Suits said this so nonchalantly that she blinked. “Is that some sort of a euphemism for ‘I hate dogs'? ”She paused, staring at his face. She saw no sign that he was teasing—very unusual for the charming, easygoing guy she knew him to be. He met her gaze, his own more serious than she'd ever seen him. “If I don't make it, promise me you'll at least make up something really good for my funeral, okay? Like, I died heroically saving your sexy ass, and not because a sweet dog like this one hugged me.

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Adam Stone [spans 1] topics. His work has appeared in USA Today, American City Business Journals, Digital Healthcare and Productivity, SoftwareCEO, Internet Security, Hotel F&B, Senior Living Executive and many consumer and trade publications. Follow Adam on Twitter: @adamstonewriter View all posts by Adam Stone 6. If you wish to upload the generated files to a website root folder, leave the directory settings as is. Otherwise, click Browse to choose another directory. Return to the ASPRunnerPro/PHPRunner and type yourdomain.com as a host name, replacing yourdomain.com with your domain name. Enter User name and Password for [spans 2] InspiRunner. Then click Browse and choose the httpdocs site folder. "Lauren is a gifted bodyworker for both humans and horses alike. She combines a refined sensitivity to her clients' needs with a wealth of ingrained techniques and approaches. She has a way of unwrapping the restrictions in both people and equines in such a gentle, perceptive and comprehensive fashion that they melt into the experience. ""The changes that I have experienced through working with Lauren have been profound! I feel like I live in a whole new body that is integrated and dynamic, thanks to the amazing skills that Lauren possesses. ""Many years ago I met a Rolfer and when the technique was described, it sounded harsh and painful. Then I attended a clinic few months ago and met Lauren, a Certified Advanced Rolfer, and after sharing my previous experience, she did a sample of her work on my arm. Oh my gosh! So different. Her touch is gentle, purposeful and healing. Not much later, I won the bid on her services at a fundraiser. She came [spans 3] Dillon. She was always on Dillon's time. to meet him, letting him get comfortable with her, and working on him. No requirement to tie him up - so he was loose in the round pen. Yea! When he needed a break to process what she was helping him release or to come over to check on me, she was okay with it. He walked over to her when he was ready for more releasing. She's really good at intuitively reading the horse and makes the healing that much more beneficial. I'd describe her work as a combination of intuitive connection & communication plus technique plus energy healing. Dillon is used to that [spans 4] immensely. Lauren helped release his chest, back, rib area, jaw, head - well everything. When I saw Dillon a few days later, he continued walking feely with more flexibility than in the past. He seemed like he was grounded in his body and had brighter eyes. I learned from Lauren to give Dillon lots and lots of time to process. I can't wait until she has classes to add her technique to my toolbag of healing. ""At the end of Dillon's session, Lauren gave me a mini-session to help me with my balance after my accident. I followed her guidance, and when she focused on certain parts of my body - I involuntarily moved in ways I wasn't familiar with. Like she was helping put my nervous and physical systems back in place. I continue to use her techniques when I'm feeling ungrounded or wobbly. Which isn't much anymore. "About a year or so ago I came to Lauren after spending almost a year going form doctor to doctor to figure out what was going on with an injury from a horse falling over backwards, saddle and all on me. The shoulder of the saddle went into my inner thigh when she fell leaving me rather sore. I had no pain for months then all of a sudden I had sharp shooting pains in my leg and was not able to touch it, putting pants on was incredibly painful. All the doctors just performed test after test, some much more painful than others. Then a doctor finally suggested deep tissue massage therapy. Well I knew having someone pushing on this particularly painful area was NOT going to happen! So while I was trying to search for someone who was not going to under estimate the amount of pain I was in. One of the offices I called recommended to talk to Lauren at Body in Harmony, so of course I looked on line first to see what this was all about. I called Lauren up she got me in pretty quick, at the first appointment I was bit nervous from all the poking and prodding I had been through. After my first appointment I was still sore but left feeling more comfortable. By my second and third appointment my pain was much more bearable, by the fourth appointment I was nearly pain free! ! ! Through all of my appointments Lauren always checked with me throughout to see how I was doing and if the pressure was okay. I have not been back to see Lauren in about a year and when I start to feel a little uncomfortable I use the breathing methods she had me go through in my appointments and within minutes I'm feeling much better! ! I have recommended to others to try to go see her for other things. I would like to have her see a couple of my animals in the future as well! Lauren is an amazing rolfer! Our session left me feeling lighter and there is a very noticeable difference in how I'm carrying myself. I cant wait to work with her again! It's hard to put into words who Lauren is and how she works, [spans 5] heals. I can't tell if the energy is coming through her or if she is creating it. I just know that an altered space is created just by being in her presence. She helped me when I was [spans 6] skills. I always felt calmer and more centered when Lauren worked on me. She is a brilliant and sensitive body worker with animals and humans. horses, dogs and people. She works from her heart and sees and senses things most people wouldn't. Lauren is love and love heals. I have seen the results of her work on horses and it is amazing! It's like she opened up the envelope of one young scrawny horse that I worked with as a yearling and gave him space to grow into a stunning big gelding. I'm not quite sure where she gets her messages but I know it is divine. [spans 7] schedule. it's on my bucket list! Lauren has done [spans 8] Sitka. Sitka is an 11 year old malamute who had to have surgery done on a torn cruciate ligament about 5 years ago. She's getting stiff and arthritic in her knees and other areas of her body she has been using for compensation. Lauren's work has helped her find more ease and comfort in her body and she absolutely adores Lauren. Lauren has helped me work with old patterns of tension and discomfort in my body. I've found a great deal of relief from her sessions that really helps me in my yoga practice and my riding. Lauren certainly has a special touch with all beings, and I've personally been witness to how much she helps horses, dogs, cats, and people. Whether it is helping to heal the aftermath of an injury or just to treat yourself to something that will make you or your animal friends feel great, I highly recommend Lauren's practice! [spans 9] Lauren. I am a dressage rider and trainer and wish [spans 10] ride. I had the pleasure of having her work on my very sensitive mare for the last two + years and we both love Lauren [spans 11] approach. A lot of the standard touches/ strokes were a bit too much for Prada to process initially and it always takes her a while to trust new people. Lauren was very patient with Prada's comfort level and by the end of the two years Prada enjoyed her sessions with Lauren so much, I couldn't believe it! My horse has had a lot of health and body issues, of which we have finally figured out the underlying causes, but in the meantime Lauren was always very helpful in helping me identify areas of her body that were out of balance or tense and approaches to help her be best. She always took the time to listen to me describe what I was feeling under saddle and helped me understand where that tension was coming from in her body or where she might be compensating. She told me after a session once that she thought a lot of her issues were coming from her hind gut and after another month of pain, I started treating [spans 12] amazing. Anyway, I could go on and on about how wonderful Lauren is. I'm sad I have left Colorado and she can't work with us anymore! Lauren is amazing! I was very sceptical of how rolfing works after the first session my horse was a much happier horse. He is much more willing partner. After 3 sessions it was clearly visible in his movement how much help Lauren provided. Lauren has helped the horses I've ridden and has helped me immensely. I'm a middle-aged adult amateur dressage rider who has had a couple car accidents, a couple surgeries on my spine, and have a fair amount of titanium holding me together. The horses, too, had some pre-existing conditions that made regular work more challenging. Through Lauren's Rolfing sessions, both horses made great improvements in their way of going. Both geldings obviously received great benefits from her sessions and were far easier to introduce challenging exercises to. As for me, Lauren has been able to help me use my body in far more effective, correct ways-in and out of the saddle. In March of this year I had a disc replaced (on top of two 3 level fusions done in 2001), plus I had a 3 level lumbar stem cell treatment. Thanks to Lauren I was literally back in the saddle 6 weeks post-op and -procedure! I am firmly "sold" on the benefits of Lauren's Rolfing-for me and for my precious equine dance partners. I was one of those not so knowledgeable persons about rolfing - just what is rolfing anyway? It's not chiropractic and it's not massage. It is a skilled approach aimed at releasing muscular tension right down to the core, so it's quite deep in the area of need. Lauren is passionate about what she does, that's why she does it so well. She is extremely knowledgeable about the body and how it works which results in consistency in [spans 13] approach. Even I don't understand it all, but what most do understand is pain vs. Keep up the good work Lauren and soon everyone will know the benefits of rolfing and recognize Body in Harmony as an industry leader. I've been working with Lauren for almost a year now an she has helped restore movement where I didn't have [spans 14] time. I had old injuries since childhood and I'm slowly restoring movement to the areas I thought were lost. It's amazing how you adapt to moving certain ways from old injuries, I had no idea that you could get movement back. I also had Lauren on one my my mares, who had surgery several years ago, and she made a difference in her confidence on the ground and under saddle. I came to Lauren with a very crooked body, which after the years was wreaking havoc in my life, causing foot & leg muscle pain, I carried tension & pain in my upper back due partially to a physically demanding job (I am a metal chaser) and most importantly, the overall stiffness in my body was stifling my dressage horseback riding ability. I had experienced Lauren's outstanding work on my faithful steed, Domingo – observing the tremendous changes in his body, which had been present for years due to improper pressured riding with his previous owner, causing old injuries he was coping with. With gentleness & soft energy Lauren freed Domingo's body to a much younger self. The same has been true for me, as my body is longer (I have lost weight also through this process) with a waist that is balanced & free moving hips & pelvis. Lauren also works with my breath to release tension & stress throughout my body & I use these techniques both at work, to keep my upper back loose, & while riding, to deep breathe throughout my lungs which keeps the energy flowing through my body so I do not block the movement of my horse. Friends who have not seen me for several months are amazed! And I am amazed when I look in the mirror too – can't believe this is my body! [spans 15] outstanding. All of this with a gentle touch as Lauren teaches me to allow my body to be balanced & free. I just took the Equine Structural Integration for Horse Owners class yesterday with Lauren. She is a gifted instructor, who really packed the one day class full of information, technique and hands on practice. She is passionate about what she does and obviously loves helping people and animals to feel and be their best selves. I cannot wait to have her out to work on my horses! Lauren is one of the finest bodyworkers I know. Humans and horses alike should feel honored to have her hands on them! She regularly inspires meI cannot say enough times how much progress my body has made since I started to see Lauren last year. Lauren's ability to connect with her clients through her work is truly a gift. Thank you! I brought my daughter to Lauren after she hurt her knee playing basketball. We wanted to improve the mobility and strength of the knee as well as reducing the swelling. Lauren worked with her to be able to have fluidity to the movement of the knee and the swelling was significantly reduced. My daughter returned to the basketball court with confidence due to the work and "homework" [spans 16] her. I would highly recommend Lauren to anyone, she is truly gifted! I *HIGHLY RECOMMEND* Lauren's one-day workshop on Structural Integration for Horses! It is HANDS DOWN the best one day equine class I've ever taken! Not only will you learn effective techniques to help your horses, you'll learn ones to help yourself too! I use what I learned in this class every day on my own herd of 6 horses with chronic pain issues. They love it! I even used it to help my husband when he fell off one of our horses. And one of her techniques helped my own elbow pain immediately. This is GREAT, effective stuff! I combine her techniques with self-taught Masterson Method and NOW I feel like I FINALLY have an effective toolbox of techniques to truly make a difference for my herd who all have different chronic pain issues. Now I am EMPOWERED to help my herd in between sessions of paid bodywork/chiro/accupuncture. Gift yourself and your herd with this class, it's the gift that keeps on making a real difference! Until Lauren had told me about Rolfing I had never heard of it and was definitely curious to check it out! I am so glad that I did and booked a session with Lauren! I have always had a really tight upper back and chest area and after one Rolfing session with Lauren I felt so much freer and like my muscles took a much needed sigh of relief! I definitely recommend [spans 17] problems. I was a bit skeptical at first, but after each visit I saw a marked improvement in the horse's ability to move and coordinate himself. By the 5th session he was so free moving that some folks asked me whose horse it was. I decided to try Lauren on my own horse that had an 8 year old healed shoulder injury as well as some old ligament restrictions in his lower LF extremity. There were also some compensation issues that he was dealing with regularly that were being treated with acupuncture and chiropractic treatments. [spans 18] plan. Have to say I've never seen this horse move so loose and free. He now can extend his shoulder and his compensation issues are neither as frequent nor severe. He's a performance horse showing in Versatility Ranch Horse and finished out 2nd overall in our division and he did sound and happy. She has since worked on other horses at our barn with very old scar tissue and it's amazing what is happening to these guys. I've recommend Lauren of several other people and hope to see how these horses progress. I think it's important to mention that [spans 19] pasterns. Thanks for all you do for our equine friends! Lauren has helped me and my horse so much. She has an ability to sense human and equine imbalance and has always been the first to notice an issue that need to be addressed. My mate loves her and that's five stars in my book 🙂"I love to watch Lauren work on my own horse Jack, and the other horses in our barn. You can tell how much they enjoy a session with her through their body language. She is thorough, knowledgeable, a pleasure to work with, and truly adores horses. Jack loves when Lauren comes and is much happier after an appointment. Sessions for Jack with Lauren have become a part of our routine in the most successful show season we have had together yet. I am truly grateful to Lauren for sharing her knowledge, skill, and passion with me and Jack. "Body in Harmony does amazing things for horses. A horse of mine that couldn't be ridden due to body issues is now working quietly under saddle and I plan to ride him within a couple weeks. "I want to thank Lauren Harmon for the work she did on me with the Rolfing® Ten Series. She is amazing, very intuitive. Without me having to say a word she found the problem areas on my body and proceeded to "put" them back into alignment. I feel my posture has improved, painful areas [spans 20] well-being. "I am so thankful for the referral to Lauren. She has done an amazing job on our horse Dallas. She has treated him twice and his movement and attitude have changed unbelievably. I am all about treating the source of the problem with our horse and Lauren shares that passion. Weather you have a problem area or your horse just needs a little TLC, Lauren does amazing work! I would recommend her treatments to anyone! Lauren is a very talented bodyworker! I came to Lauren with a strange shoulder (intermittently sore) and a very tight hip. I thoroughly enjoyed the ten series. Lauren doesn't just work on you, she also takes the time to educate you about proper and efficient movement which is knowledge you take with you. The shoulder and hip problems are now just a memory, and I look forward to future sessions for a “tune up”, because I always come away from a rolfing session with Lauren feeling great, more graceful, and taller, and this feeling lasts for a long time! The ten series has [spans 21] sitting. Since I started my rolfing sessions with Lauren last year, I have felt significant improvement to my posture and basic balance overall. ## I feel like I stand taller and straighter, and I feel like I walk smoother and lighter. Lauren understood any issues I had and made huge improvements to my [spans 22] mobility. Thanks, Lauren! You're the best! ! ! Lauren has a natural, intuitive talent for welding with the body. She's a talented Rolfer who understands the subtleties of the human body. I'm finally on the road to full recovery after 2 pregnancies and a horse accident 8 yrs old! I began seeing Lauren Harmon for Rolfing at the end of the year 2011. We spent several months working on transitioning my body into a state where I would be ready for the full Rolfing 10 series. These several initial months working with Lauren were extremely helpful in reconnecting my body with my mind, and preparing me for the full effect of the 10 series. Having just completed the ten series in August of 2012, I can say that the effects of the work that Lauren has completed on my body are still being realized. I have had scoliosis and kyphosis (curvature of the spine from front to rear) since the age of 10 when I was in a car accident that injured my back. After years of unsuccessful or incomplete chiropractic work and physical therapy, I can say positively that the structural integration of my body through the Rolfing 10 series provided by Lauren has been extremely rewarding and successful. The results speak for themselves, as I have been able [spans 23] Lauren. This inch of height was there all along, but my body was unable to utilize it, as my body had been so misaligned and unable to self correct before working with Lauren. Lauren has helped with the alignment, and with my ability to recognize misalignment and poor posture. My body has been able to self correct itself much better from my work with Lauren. The tracking and active movement [spans 24] technique. The overall connectedness, proprioception and awareness of my body that have come from working with Lauren are truly astounding. Issues with my [spans 25] Lauren. I plan to continue to see her for regular maintenance and hope to continue seeing wonderful improvements in my ability to live life in full movement with her help and the lasting [spans 26] series. I've been working with Lauren Harmon now for about a year. I was new to the Rolfing idea and after the first session I was hooked! I got better results and longer lasting results than I had with massage or a chiropractor. I am a professional horseback rider and had experienced bad hip pain for about 5 years. That's when I met Lauren and she offered to help me. I was amazed at how she could change the structure of my body and the way that I could walk and sit in a saddle. Unfortunately I had a condition which required surgical correction. After working with Lauren for a couple of months I saw a doctor and was diagnosed with Hip Dysplasia and Femoral Acetabular Impingement. She was able to help [spans 27] surgery. It has now been 2 surgeries later and I have been working with Lauren on helping my body adjust to its new structure. I believe that the Rolfing has shortened my recovery time dramatically. Because of Lauren's professionalism and patience, I have become much more aware of my body and how it's supposed to move. I was able to see what things would feel like before my surgery and am excited to continue working with Lauren now for lifelong results! I can't thank Lauren Harmon enough for the positive changes I have experienced with the Ten Series. I was new to Rolfing in the beginning and didn't really understand the benefits. However, I trusted Lauren and went through each therapy session knowing that she would find those problem areas and make them better with each visit. As a result, I feel better physically, my [spans 28] harmony. I appreciate that she also offers suggestions on how to maintain the structure and continue to make [spans 29] visits. Her therapy sessions have definitely made a positive impact in my life and overall wellness. As an avid trail runner, cyclist, and professional Equestrian; my body endures a lot [spans 30] stress. Although slightly skeptical of Rolfing, I began to see Lauren for sessions and loved the results! I've discovered this to be the only body work that keeps me balanced, aligned, and pain free. Lauren does a wonderful job of explaining what she's doing and why, which helps me really understand how my body works in all my activities. I would recommend any athlete to see [spans 31] up. Lauren takes all the time that's necessary to do her sessions right and have them be informative. Lauren Harmon saved me! Rolfing ROCKS! Your work has helped my back, neck and shoulders feel so [spans 32] comfort. Thank you Lauren! I look forward to my next session! Lauren has a unique and powerful way of [spans 33] horses. Her gentle way creates a safe and transformative place for the horse. When she works with my horse the difference in movement and demeanor is really amazing to see. And, the changes last. I highly recommend Lauren. My horse Merlin and I were lucky enough to be a demo horse for Lauren at the RM Horse Expo in March. He really seemed to like the treatment and it helped his L shoulder a great deal. The next day after the demo, however, I got a call from a friend that he was acting very zoned out in his stall at the National Western. A call to Lauren and she went to see him before I could get there. he was just processing things and grooving on feeling good! ! ! She came out to J Bar 4 Ranch to continue the Rolfing treatments on Merlin and it has made a tremendous difference in his ability to use his body. I am also using the balance rig 1-2 times per week, but he just got seen by our beloved wonder-vet, Diane Wagner, VMD, and she said his back was the best ever! ! ! She is so knowledgeable and skilled at her trade that I can confidently recommend her to anyone who's horse has some musculoskeletal issues (and what horse or human doesn't! )"Lauren has done amazing things to help my horse Merlin with his physical (and emotional) issues! ! THANK YOU! ! ! "Working with Lauren has been such a blessing - I always feel lighter, more grounded [spans 34] session. And because Lauren takes the time to explain [spans 35] wellness. Everyone should try this. Lauren is amazing! ! For what I have to do on a daily basis, she is always able keep my body working and moving so easily and pain free! She is full of so much knowledge that also enables to me help my clients with their movement in classes as well! Thanks Lauren!. 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<|prompter|> Can you tell me how to fill in the missing spans: Senator WEBSTER (Victoria) - It is possible to pressurise the waterfront for action and it is possible to pressurise bulldozers in a roads Bill, but it is impossible to make the cow move quickly. I am afraid that my [spans 1] time. There are few industries in this country which are of more importance than the dairy industry. Indeed it can be generally recognised that this is the one industry in the background of Australia's history which has given the opportunity for persons wishing to have a rural aspect of life to commence where a cash cheque is available on a regular basis for their produce. The industry produces the basic food commodities used in this and most other similar societies. In the commercial sense some dairy farmers have good reason to be proud of the achievements of their life's work. Australia is rightly proud of the great contribution this industry has made. Its products have been distributed throughout [spans 2] markets. Where managment is sound the Australian dairy farmer can look forward with quiet confidence in the knowledge that his product will be in demand now and at the end of this century. Assistance to marginal dairy farms was originated by the former Liberal-Country Party Government and the Labor Party, at that stage, supported the proposals. Indeed, all political [spans 3] industry. That original scheme is now being endorsed by the Labor Party. In several ways, following discussion in the future with the various States and the Federal authority, there is to be a broadening of the provisions of the former law. The Opposition supports this Bill and wishes the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) well in his initial reversal of a policy of taking away every aspect of assistance previously provided for the well-being of rural aspects of Australian life. This Bill carries with it a stamp that it provides $28m. This Bill actually conveys $18m with a re-usage of $ 10m not formerly taken up. The Bill continues and broadens the existing scheme. It provides interest free loans and extends terms of repayment to [spans 4] producers. There is also provision for assistance to factories although it is apparently intended to introduce other legislation which will affect the manufacturing end of this industry in the future. There are a number of variations to the existing marginal dairy farms reconstruction scheme. I would like to list and discuss each one of those variations, but I realise that time does not permit me to do that. The inclusion of whole milk suppliers in the scheme is a very welcome provision. There is provision for direct conveyancing to a purchaser who is combining in the marginal dairy farm reconstruction scheme without the necessity for the vendor first to transfer the property to the State authority. This will be a very helpful provision. There are many other such helpful provisions, but one in particular which is of great benefit to my State of Victoria is that of interest free loans to help suppliers to change to refrigerated milk supply. Suppliers who change to refrigerated bulk milk supply after 23 July 1973, which was the date that the Commonwealth Government announced the cessation of the dairy bounty scheme, will also be eligible to have any loan obtained for that purpose taken over by the Government. I believe- I ask the Minister to note this-that it is most likely that my State of Victoria will avail itself of this provision more than any other State. But the problem that my State and probably many other States will have will be to interpret the scheme and to know the limitations of such a marginal scheme. I ask the Minister whether he can give some assurance that with the broadening of this scheme into the general dairy industry this matter will be discussed at a meeting of the Agricultural Council or, more particularly, be made the subject of an address by the Minister. The fact is that the dairy industry today is in reasonably good health. But there is the necessity for this marginal scheme. Take the position in my State of Victoria. As at 1 July 1974 there were [spans 5] State. During 1 973-74 approximately 1,000 farms converted to refrigerated bulk milk vats. The average cost for the vat and modifications was in the vicinity of $5,000.1 suggest to the Minister that it would suit my purposes if he would give some assurance that the confinement of assistance to a marginal farm may be looked at by him in the near future. The actions [spans 6] creditable. But as I mentioned earlier, this Bill represents [spans 7] Government. I think it is time for the Labor Party to show that it is changing its attitude towards rural people. We must realise that the economic strife in Australia at present must be due to the actions of the Australian Government. Whilst Ministers may protest and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) may find a scapegoat in the economy, it is [spans 8] economy. The Treasurer, Mr Crean, has said that the change to a socialist dominated society will not be calm. It is all very well to introduce a scheme such as that which is contained in this Bill and to speak of assistance that will be given to rural producers, particularly those engaged in [spans 9] industry. But we have seen the damage that has been done by creating higher interest rates and by the elimination of tax deductibility in respect of certain items of expenditure. For example, annual expenditure on dams, silos, internal fencing and water drilling could be written off against taxation. We know of the very expensive communications costs which this Government has landed on the rural community. Again, electoral recognition has not been given to the disparity suffered by rural industries. All costs to the dairy industry have increased as they have in all areas of [spans 10] Australia. The consumer must eventually pay. That is what this Labor Government does not realise. I plead with the Government to undertake some reversal of the actions they have taken in past years, even if it is only in the interests of the metropolitan consumer. One matter of immense importance which I wish to mention is the recent [spans 11] step. I believe this action was taken without due thought being given to the effects. Why did the Minister come to this decision to phase out quotas? Why did the Labor Caucus take this step? I noted that the other day in the Senate we overlooked the words of an honourable senator who said: 'For whom does the Minister act? ' or 'For whom does the senator act? ' I think [spans 12] instance. The Minister has before him [spans 13] Australia. Certainly the recommendations in that Paper in relation to this industry have not been followed. The Minister has never told us why that action was taken. The Minister assured the Senate that only 300 tons of margarine would be produced in the Australian Capital Territory. He gave that assurance to the Australian Agricultural Council. The Minister knows [spans 14] Territory. The Minister is not concerned about this. I [spans 15] reason. What encouragement was given? The benefits that will follow from the lifting of margarine quotas will certainly not be for the consumer. ## The demand for margarine has been satisfied except for the occasional artificially created shortages. Certainly the benefits which will follow from lifting the quotas will not go to the Australian-owned companies that manufacture margarine and which are currently meeting consumers' needs. Certainly the dairy farmers will not benefit. What is prompting the Labor Party and the Minister to phase out the quota arrangement? The Green Paper advocates that certain steps should be taken. But I put it to the Senate that the only beneficiary- I imagine the Minister will be aware of this through his advisers- will be one of the huge multi-national corporations in Australia. I have great regard for the multi-national corporations. I think that in [spans 16] community. Again I ask the Minister to explain why the Labor Party took this decision. The large Unilever company has a small share of the polyunsaturated market but the sudden lifting of the table margarine quotas will open the way for [spans 17] this. I ask him to comment on it when he replies. Who will get the benefit from the lifting of the margarine quotas? I hope that the Minister's smile is not an indication of what is behind this. During the last couple of days there was mention in this place of the use of advertising by companies to capture a market. Does the Minister know that in fact a cooking margarine company has been able to capture the market for this product which is not controlled by quotas? Does it impress the Minister at all that 9 years ago in 1 964-65 [spans 18] prices. I understand that Unilever products are, on the average, 3c a pound dearer than similar products. Honourable senators would be aware that Unilever is one of the great trading organisations in the world today. Its strength is indicated by its world-wide sales of $7,020m and its profits are approximately $525m. The Labor Party has expressed a wish to see Australian organisations sustained, lt is very difficult to believe that Australian companies can compete with an organisation such as Unilever. The Minister for Agriculture apparently happily runs along with the wishes of the Labor Party concerning advertising that margarine will do your health some good. Somebody has to pay for the advertising which is being arranged by unions. What a great scheme it is for unions to spend their members' money on advertisements advocating that margarine quotas be abolished! I [spans 19] from. This is a difficult problem. I believe that [spans 20] policy. I think that Sir John Crawford indicated that he certainly had no view on the matter. He indicated that there ought [spans 21] inquiry. I believe a six year phase-out of the margarine quotas, or even a larger period, if there is a decision to phase out quotas would give dairy farmers time to adjust and fit in with the expanded rural production of oil seeds which, incidentally, are [spans 22] time. There was an import of a particularly large volume of oil seeds in the 1 1 months to May 1 974. There were 65,000 tonnes of oil seeds and 39,000 tons of oil imported into Australia. The Australian oil seeds [spans 23] fact. An adjustment would give dairy farmers an expanded rural production so that oil seed production could expand at a similar rate. It is a most important matter if, in a scheme such as this, we see the Federal Government taking a particular step in relation to a small section of the industry. Overall, the industry needs to be stabilised. If Labor, in its wisdom, in [spans 24] Zealand. I do not know whether the Minister knows that whilst polyunsaturated margarine sells at a price much in excess of that of butter in New Zealand today, it is still eroding at the rate of about 10,000 tons a year the butter market of New Zealand. The marginal dairy farm reconstruction scheme is really too narrow a base on which to form an Australian dairy adjustment program. But I believe that it is a generous program of assistance. It is designed to improve the quality assurance of all dairy products and the granting of credit facilities to meet the special circumstances which will arise in the years ahead both in respect of marketing and other aspects of production of dairy products. <|assistant|> spans 1: comments in relation to the Marginal Dairy Farms Agreements Bill must take some spans 2: the States and have proved to be viable on world spans 3: parties were interested to support the great Australian dairy spans 4: allow improvement to certain milk spans 5: some 1,900 water cooled bulk tanks, all situated in the southern districts of that spans 6: of the Australian Government in this Bill are very spans 7: a reversal of some of the bad schemes that have been undertaken by this Federal Labor spans 8: the Federal Government which is the responsible party to handle the Australian spans 9: the dairy spans 10: rural production in spans 11: decision by the Minister for Agriculture to phase out margarine quotas by 1976.1 question the Minister's motive in taking that spans 12: that question is very appropriate in this spans 13: a Green Paper on rural policy in spans 14: as well as I do, and his advisers know, that over 1,000 tons of margarine have been produced in the Australian Capital spans 15: would like to know the spans 16: some instances they perform a good service in this spans 17: Unilever to use its great advertising funds at the expense of the housewife to grab the lion's share of the market, and I believe that the Minister knows spans 18: Unilever held 1 5 per cent of the cooking margarine market? In 1973-74 it holds 54 per cent of that market but the benefit is not passed on to consumers in lower spans 19: wonder if the Minister can suggest to us where those funds have come spans 20: the phasing out of margarine quotas should be as is stated in the Government's rural spans 21: to be a full discussion of the principle involved in this matter by those people who wished to give evidence one way or another to a dairy industry spans 22: not at all harmed by the dairy production market at the present spans 23: man does not need to be pushing this particular spans 24: 1 8 months of office has considered the factors I have mentioned and has now announced that it will within 2 years eliminate margarine quotas altogether, it will find that we will be in a position such as exists in New

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Human: Finish this: “Well obviously they were very young, but they have re-counted things that happened prior to May 2007, which has kind of thrown me a little bit.”The interview in Stockholm has perhaps provided us with the most polished and proficient performance by the McCann couple to date, polished in both their appearance and almost off pat delivery of their tale of abduction. A McCann ‘outing' would never be complete though, without a dash of damage-limitation always included for good measure, not solely to serve the purpose of diminishing their part in whatever became of Madeleine - though that too, but rather another desperate attempt, an exercise in painting a pretty picture portraying themselves as not only the injured party but of being whiter than white. Sad faced Kate -I'm damned if I smile, damned if I don't- McCann, a keen dramatist, coupled with the discomfiting smirk of Gerry -where is the child- McCann never fail their audience, their self-centred conduct always makes for cringe worthy viewing. An interview with the McCann's coupled without the main ingredient - the now customary sprinkle of ‘put downs' directed at the Portuguese Police and anyone else in fact, who may disagree with their abduction theory – is something too that we have come to expect. The upside is perhaps that each time Kate McCann makes an appearance, deliberately or otherwise there are disclosures. The McCann twins, Kate tells us, understand the reason behind their parents visit to Sweden – And no, it's not “All about the Money” it is to ask the good people of Sweden for their help in finding their missing daughter. She tells us too, that the twins are able to re-collect events prior to May 2007 which she states has “thrown her”. In what way one might wonder? Does Kate McCann hope that they may recall the night of 3rd May 2007 and be able to throw some light as to who removed Madeleine from Apt 5A? Does it worry her that they might remember something crucial, or, was she simply thwarting an unwelcome question by the interviewer when he made the point that the twins may be too young to actually remember Madeleine? When asked what her thoughts, now almost five years on, as to what happened to Madeleine, Kate McCann replies:“Well my view hasn't changed you know since 4th May really, and that is, that a man took Madeleine. And that man was the person who our friend Jane Tanner saw carrying a child away from the area of the apartment. And sadly I don't really know anything else since.”No prizes for spotting the deliberate mistake. But what possible reason could Kate McCann have for stating 4th May and not 3rd? Another red herring, she is rather fond of fish! Time will no doubt tell, but one thing we can be sure of - this was not a faux pas. She does not “really know anything else since” she declares. Extraordinary that she should say this, as since the sighting by her good friend Jane Tanner there was another sighting by the Smith family, which sadly from Kate's statement, seems to have escaped her memory. The question of the patio door being left open/closed by Kate after entering 5A on her check is as always a puzzle! In the interview with Oprah Winfrey, Kate states she looked behind her to see if she had left it open. She said she had not. In ‘Madeleine Was Here' the McCann documentary, the ‘episode' as to whether she closed the door behind her on entry, is not included at all in their portrayal of events. One wonders why – two different versions? Kate McCann said in this interview in Stockholm, that when the children's bedroom door slammed shut, she checked the door behind her (patio door) to see if on entry to 5A she had left it open? She stated she had not. She, therefore based on this, knew that the bedroom door slamming shut was not caused by airflow from patio entrance. Yet, surprisingly, she did not then investigate what had caused the bedroom door to slam closed, where this gust had come from? To most, the obvious answer the bedroom window, but Kate does not check this out, she continued to close over the bedroom door in preparation of leaving 5A without investigating further. then she notices Madeleine is missing. Not dissimilar to Gerry McCann. Looking in on his children, the open bedroom door once again being the ‘alert' that something was not right. Yet on discovering his children were asleep had not been out of bed, he too fails to investigate further, he returns to the Tapas. Quite extraordinary behaviour from both parents each stating the door caused them, if not concern, made them curious, yet each not bothering to discover why the door was open. In a televised interview a few months back the McCann couple stated that Madeleine could not have exited 5a through unlocked patio door as Kate said “It's just not possible” as Madeleine would not have:If the child could not get past the first obstacle, the curtains, then stands to reason she would not have needed to attempt the other obstacles (the shutters). What it tells us though, is that when the McCann couple left the apartment by whichever door – the curtains framing the patio door were drawn closed, meeting in the centre. If the McCann's left by the patio door, and depending on whether the patio door from the inside opened right to left or vice versa, did they on leaving draw back the curtains at the central point where both curtains met so as to exit, in so doing, disturbing them, then returning them to original position? Or did they slip through the curtains at whichever side the door opening would be? If they were able to do so, slip through without opening the curtains there is no reason to suggest that a child, just days shy of her 4th birthday would not be able to do likewise, that she could not slip behind curtains, and with much greater ease than her parents and their friends. Also it appears that the patio door not only had heavier style curtains but also net curtains, of a flimsier material. So, two sets of curtains for the parents, those checking to deal with? Which then begs the question, when Kate McCann entered 5A did she draw open these curtains to one side to gain entry, or did she simply flap around until she found an opening to get through? What did Matt Oldfield do on his check? Did he return curtains to original position on leaving? And Gerry McCann, how about him? He claims to have left by this route also? If Kate did not open the curtains on entry, when she then “looked behind her” to check if she had left the patio door open, her view would have been obscured. How could she have been sure it was closed without going over to the door and taking a closer look? We therefore have to assume the curtains were open at that point, whether opened by Kate on entry, or that they were never closed at any time that night. In which case, Madeleine would not have had any “problem” with curtains as suggested in their interview. Not one of them has ever mentioned curtains, having to negotiate them on entry/exiting by the patio door! In police photos the curtains are open. Would that be how they were found to be on their arrival? Did the McCann couple/their friends draw them open and pin them back before police arrived? Kate McCann always said, “if they had had to think about their decision to leave the children it would not have happened.” They have said many times that they, due to Madeleine telling them she was awake and crying the ... Bot: previous night, that they talked it over and decided to make more regular checks than on previous nights. Clearly, then if they were making more regular checks on the 3rd then they did not check as often as half hourly on the other nights. Kate said, interestingly that it felt like a really “natural” thing to do, to go eat at the tapas restaurant on the complex. Not a mention, that it felt unnatural to leave three babies under 4 years of age alone while they did so. It is the most bizarre of statements, yet no one but no one questions them on this, not in any robust way? We have Gerry declaring how overprotective Kate was with the children. This is absolutely not demonstrated by their actions on any night during that holiday- their “collective mistake.” But how could the collective mistake have been allowed to continue when on the morning of 3rd Madeleine alerted them to their mistake. There it should have ended. On the night of 3rd there should not have been a repeat of this “collective mistake.” Some may consider, accept that it was a mistake up until that point, but most definitely not thereafter can it be described as such. It then became, without question, child neglect. They knew the risks, they knew their children had been awake and crying, they knew by leaving them they were placing them in a vulnerable position, a state of fear. They made a conscious decision to do so. Gerry describes the alleged abductor as having taken a risky opportunity, Gerry and Kate McCann simply took avoidable risks with their children's lives. More important might be that all of the above contradicts the rogatory statement given by Fiona Payne, when she declared that Kate McCann told her she left the patio door unlocked for Madeleine to be able to exit the apartment in her parent's absence. And I must point out also, in the McCann documentary, ‘Madeleine Was Here' the film footage depicts the children's bedroom as having net curtain, it is seen blowing in the breeze. (I do appreciate this was filmed in Rothley) Did the children's bedroom window at 5A have netting? If so, another obstacle for any intruder - again two sets of curtains – that's troublesome! Gerry's little dig that their children will read the horrible material on the internet which is written about them. It cannot be denied there is some nasty material out there. But more than this, they should be worried that the children read the police files, watch the interviews given by their parents, the ducking and diving, the money making which could easily be described as “scams”. But who knows, before that happens perhaps the culprits, those responsible for the crimes committed against Madeleine, will be behind bars. Reply “She did, she brought it up and that she, I mean, this is awful in retrospect as well, she asked what my opinion was on, erm, tut, on whether they were okay leaving the, the doors unlocked, because she was saying ‘Is it better that if Madeleine wakes up she can get out and find us or', erm, ‘or locking it and, you know, finding that we're not there and the door's locked if she woke up', because Madeleine had woken up, what I thought was the night before. Erm, tut, and it was in that context really, just asking, you know, what I thought. So it was obviously something that was on her mind a bit, huh”. Reply “No, that was the point, I think they said they'd left it, well she'd said she'd left it unlocked”. Reply “And she felt a bit nervous about it but Gerry, Gerry had sort of said ‘Oh it will be fine', you know. But she was obviously, because it wasn't something she was quite easy with, that's the way it came across, you know, but, but Gerry said, you know, ‘It'll be fine. Host: It's been almost five years eh since, since eh Madeleine disappeared and now you Kate are reliving the whole thing by writing a book about what happened. Why are you doing that? Kate: Well I actually started to keep a diary back in May 2007 I was advised to do it actually, and at the time I felt it would be important for Madeleine really, so that when we found her we'd be able to fill in the gaps in her life, and then I also thought it would be good for Sean and Amelie as well, so that they would have an account of the truth of everything that happened. Host: If we could start by going back eh to May 3rd 2007, what's your strongest memories of Madeleine from that day? Gerry: I think the strongest memory I have is, of really, the photograph it was the last photograph we have of her and eh ye know, we'd had a lovely holiday. Madeleine was having a great time and just after lunch we went over to the pool area and eh she was sitting there paddling in the pool and I was sitting next to her and she turned round and she's just beaming. And then the last time I saw her which was probably minutes before she was taken when she was lying asleep. It's terrible, I've said this a few times but I had one of those poignant moments as a parent where I went into the room the door was open, I just paused for a second and I looked and she was sound asleep, and I thought how beautiful she was. The twins were asleep in the. their cots and I thought how lucky we were. And within ye know, minutes that was shattered! Host: Yes, and as you sat there in this restaurant you went back and forth on shift to check on the children is that right? And what happened when the last time you went to check? Kate: Well it was 10 o'clock when I went to check on Madeleine and em I walked into the sitting room of the apartment and I noticed that the children's bedroom door was open further than we'd left it. close it quite far over but just enough so some light gets in and it was quite open. And it was our friend Matt who had checked on the children at half past nine when he was checking on his daughter next door, and I thought to myself well maybe, maybe Matt‘s left the door open when he checked on them. So, I walked over the bedroom door and I was about to close it to again, and as I did that, it kind of slammed shut, and I thought oh there must be a draught and I checked the door behind me and I hadn't left that open. And then I opened the door again of the children's bedroom just to leave it open a little bit and that's when I really looked in. And I couldn't quite make out Madeleine in her bed and I just looked and looked and erm it was obviously quite dark, it must be a parental thing when you don't switch a light on in case you're worried about waking them but then I realised she wasn't actually there and then I thought she must have wandered through to our bedroom and maybe that would have explained why door was open. So I went into our bedroom and she wasn't there and that was the first time really that the panic hit and I just ran back into her bedroom, and literally at that point the curtains which were closed just kind of flew open and that's when I noticed that the window was open as far as it could go and the shutters outside had been raised all the way up. Human: Finish this: And I just knew straight away that someone had taken her. Host: This decision of not eating in the apartment it has been lot of discussion about that not staying in the apartment, to go to eat with the other parents as you did every night. Gerry: We felt incredibly safe and we were in a very quiet holiday resort. We were with a group of friends we hardly saw anyone of an evening and it was so close that it didn't feel very different to eating outside in your garden, with the kids upstairs in the bedroom, and literally we were only going back erm to check that no one had woken up and of course at the time someone stealing your child was the furthest thing from our minds. Kate: I think if we'd had to think about it or, even say to each other ‘do you think that's okay? ' it wouldn't have happened. But it just felt like a really natural thing that we'll eat at the restaurant on the complex. Gerry: I think the hardest thing with this is, ye know with hindsight we made a mistake erm it was a collective mistake but unfortunately we can't change that, and erm whatever anyone may think about our decision making that night Madeleine's completely innocent and you know she's been taken and erm it's hard for us because ye know no one could feel more guilty than we did to. to, think that your behaviour gave someone an opportunity, a risky opportunity , but one that they took, and ye know we persecuted ourselves for that, but you've got to look forward you can't go back we can't change that unfortunately, and erm what we've tried to do is, is always to look forward. Gerry: I'll answer that! I would say - I wasn't but Kate was! I would have said that Kate was a bit over protective. Whereas I grew up in a big family the youngest of five and you feel, oh you know, indestructible but Kate was much as an only child maybe I don't know, but definitely much more protective of the children than me. Gerry: We were expecting a Metropolitan type response and I remember saying to the officers “where's the helicopters? I want helicopters with heat seeking equipment.” And ye know the officer kind of laughed at us and said “you know this isn't you know we don't have a Royal Navy” and this thing. and I'm sure every single parent can understand this because everyone has lost a child momentarily and the terror and how frightening it is, be it in a supermarket or a playground or a park, and you just want everything done and you want. you want the world to stop, and, and scream, and the response ye know was slow. And that's been one of the hardest things for us, because ye know, Madeleine could have been moved very easily and the Spanish border is only about 90 minutes away and obviously you are on the Mediterranean, and one of the aspects of why we are campaigning internationally is because she could have been taken anywhere. Host: What happened was that as time went by, you didn't really trust the Portuguese police and they didn't trust you? Gerry: We were there for three/ three and a half months we felt we had been completely eliminated from the enquiry we'd been interviewed. the circumstances, ye know em and then ye know for whatever reason, and possibly pressure, and a desire for this case to go away, it was portrayed in media that there was very strong evidence that Madeleine was dead people have said DNA and other things, and that we were responsible for hiding her body. Gerry: And we want to be absolutely clear about these things there are two aspects- We didn't hire that car for 3 and half weeks until after Madeleine was taken, and the second aspect is there is no DNA match. Eh you know when you see the files there's a mixed sample of DNA that comes from 5 people and obviously some of it matched Madeleine's. But of course, all, of our DNA matches Madeleine's. To be fair, ye know it was incredibly frustrating from the time we were arguido, through to the file being closed the following July but the Prosecutors final report was very clear, actually unequivocal, there was no evidence Madeleine was dead. And there was no evidence that we were involved but certain people have chosen to ignore that information. Kate: I mean there were loads, but I guess the worst thing is if they say she is dead, and there is no evidence because if she is dead there is no search. Gerry: I think the other thing just to go back to that Frederik is that - We had an interview with the police which Kate details in her book, an unofficial interview, and basically two of the senior officers were saying to us em “Tell us what happened, we know what happened.” And I was in tears, saying “Do you have evidence that Madeleine is dead because if you do, as her parents we need to know.” And they were saying “it's coming, it's coming”. And that ye know, the pressure that was put on us to confess to a crime of hiding your own daughter's body and to say that you were going to pursue us for murder. And it's not unique to Portugal, this happens with police the world over, it's happened to many different people it's happened to other parents in similar situations to us. Host: How is your daily life, it's been five years, how is your daily life affected by this. or do you have a daily life? Kate: Yeah we've reached a new normality I guess. You know our life will never be what it was ye know it's never gonna be truly normal again after what's happened but we've got to a place where we are obviously functioning and Gerry works full time. I haven't returned to medical practice but I've worked on the campaign and investigation. Six months of my life was spent going through the Portuguese police files, nine months was spent writing a book, and of course we've got two other children. We've got Sean and Amelie, and it's ye know, it's actually quite a luxury, but a nice luxury to be able to take them to school and be there for them when they come home, so. The Process archival written by two Portuguese Public Ministry prosecutors, called by Gerry McCann mistakenly as the 'final report', actually states something different. Gerry: It's probably important to emphasise ye know, we do spend obviously a lot of our spare time focused on it. The last year we've slept a lot better knowing the review is taking place. But if you had a casual observer looking at us as a family they would see a family of four. They'd see a happy family of four, and they wouldn't really see they wouldn't suspect that we've been erm ye know suffered a great trauma. em but for Kate and I. Sean and Amelie are as happy as any 7 year olds that we know and for Kate and I, we get enjoyment from life and we do, we do, do that, but until Madeleine is back with us there's always going to be a void and there's a limit, whereas before you could be, you could have unbridled joy, anything now, there is always a tinge its often the family things because Madeleine is not there with us. Kate: Well we're very lucky in that our relationship was very good very strong before this happened and I'm not sure we'd have survived if that wasn't the case I mean I don't think there could be anything more traumatic than what's happened to us plus all the additional stuff on top of that. Kate: We did take advice from a child psychologist and he said to be as honest and as open with them but let them take the lead so if they ask you a question you respond as fully as you can and that's exactly what we've done. So we've got to the point now where they understand that a man has taken Madeleine. They, they view it like burglary, that she's been stolen and you shouldn't take something that doesn't belong to you but they understand ye know that there are lots of people helping us. They, they, understand why we are in Sweden today, the purpose of that is to ask for more help really. Kate: Well obviously they were very young, but they have re-counted things that happened prior to May 2007, which has kind of thrown me a little bit. Obviously they have been surrounded by Madeleine ever since. There's pictures all around the house and Madeleine's bedroom is still there, they've obviously seen things on the television and they know that my job really has changed from being a doctor to looking for Madeleine. Gerry: And I think it's important to say that they still see Madeleine as a big part of their life, and as parents that's incredibly comforting and they'll say things like “We're going to go on a an aeroplane and we're going to look for that man, and when we find him we're going to.”and I'll say we'll give him to police, but they even talk about that. But I think if we don't find Madeleine in the next. period we will face more difficult times as they get older and they are on internet and they start seeing some of the vile material which is there. Kate: Well someone's always got an opinion and I think we've learned how judgemental people can be and I mean I think its maybe part of human nature, we are all quick to judge from a position of ignorance. Kate: Well exactly, I mean how should a mother or father grieve when their child is abducted and. Gerry: I think the other thing people probably don't understand is that when we've done media and in particular in the early days you had to really psyche yourself up to go on there and deliver the message, you know we set objectives. I mean the very initial things we weren't, but when we did the first sort of direct appeal to the abductor, em Kate. and I was told that Kate should speak as the mother, female voice and that she should not show any emotion in case that gave the abductor some sort of kick so that ... Bot: particular appeal, but I think as much as anything ye know Kate had probably cried 16 hours a day for 4 days, by time we did that, and we were just drained, you cannot physically cry 24 hours a day, I mean it's impossible. Kate: The day we did the appeal to the abductor which was on the Monday and I spoke to Alan the councillor and I said, I feel really numb and I felt really bad that I felt numb I just. and he said “Kate you can't cry for 24 hours a day, you know this is, this is natural” but. (lets out sigh) it's hard I mean if you laugh people will say how can they laugh when their child has been abducted if you don't laugh you'll either get called cold or you're on the edge of a nervous breakdown or, it's just hard, you've just got to be who you are. Kate: No I don't think there is any day when Madeleine is not on my mind you know she is always there but. For 18 months/2 years I never thought I'd enjoy myself again I never thought I'd allow myself to enjoy anything again, and with time you adapt and I realised that actually it is okay to do that and it is important to do that, you need to get rest you need to enjoy life, and you have to be well and happy ye know for each other, for Madeleine when she gets home, for Sean and Amelie, and thankfully ye know, we are in a position now where we get a lot of enjoyment out of things, Sean and Amelie in particular. Kate: Well my view hasn't changed you know since 4th May really, and that is, that a man took Madeleine. Kate: As long as it takes. I don't think any parent would ever be able to give up on their child and even the weeks where we are absolutely shattered erm or there's another injustice that comes your way, you get up the next morning and think ‘right let's go again' because Madeleine is part of our family we all need her back and she needs to be with us. just need to keep going. Gerry: I mean There are times when you just think - I cannot do this, any more, em its too much - and particularly the attention that's comes through the media, but as Kate says that bond with us, and with Madeleine and for Sean and Amelie, and even if you wanted to I don't think we could stop. Host: Please know that our thoughts are with you thank you so much for coming here to Stockholm and telling us, reminding us about Madeleine is still missing. I wonder if Kate and Gerry have started coaching the twins to "remember" certain things that NEVER happened. It is unlikely that the twins would remember anything from that age especially since, according to the Tapas Seven, the twins never woke up that night even when the apartment was full of people running in and and out searching for Maddie. Yes there are NET curtains on the 5A window, these are described by Kate as going "whoosh" (Cutting Edge Doco)The PATIO doors also have SHUTTERS to negotiate, which the Oldfields(I think), used, regarding their apartment, 5b, (see statements). Here they go again,same old,same old,do they really think people will think them innocent by trotting the same old sh** out. How much longer are they going to get away with this. I say get someone to interveiw kate or gerry on their own. lying scumbags,yer no like on the spur of the moment chat instead of this rehersed a thousand times rubbish. Is it true that the Mccanns always get prepared for all the questions before they will be on TV? They have to know all the questions and prepare all answers long before they will be on the TV? ? ? I think the Host Skalvan was too afraid to ask the right questions, or ist it really that the Mccanns only answers some questions? Thanks @2, so basically it's "Please, Please buy my book", then Gerry actually distorts everything when he says that since Madeleine's disappearance the number of abductions have been incredibly low in Portugal, as if they weren't already before Madeleine's tragic demise. Then a bit of more bashing on the Judiciary Police work and on the the Portuguese. And obviously, any bets the next sighting is to come from Sweden? Folie à deux comes to mind. Did they open the door fully considering it's probably 8 or 10' wide, so one door would be 4 or 5' wide, part the curtains centrally, enter then on exit close the curtains then close the door - that would have been an almighty draught! ! and clunking & fiddlingDid they merely open the door sufficient to squeeze in, lifting & pulling the curtains aside, which would have required some light into the room from one source or another, to get round the television set, placed in that corner by the opening. It was NEVER (if ever) the entry point for the abductorNeither was the window, irrespective of the cleaners being of the habit of leaving the windows unlocked, being able if possible (see articles by Pat Brown) to open the shutters, what luck to find also a conveniently unlocked window! Then we come to the front (main door) highlighted yesterday on the mccann files. The magic of the front door lock, was it deadlocked or not? Are we now to believe it was also possible to enter if not deadlocked? More confused now, than there ever wasThe KEYS - the apartment keys, at last turn up on the kitchen top (saw that a few weeks back in one of the articles about Dr Amaral)So apart from everyone coming & going by the patio door (except the abductor since we don't know) who mentions in their statement how they manage fight with the curtains on entry and exit, ever tried closing a patio from outside when you have curtains on the inside! ! Wherever Kate McCann searched that night, did she go to the front, look around the car park, since she claims it was obvious by the open window and shutter that Madeleine had been spirited away that way, did she actually look ! OR couldn't see get out, since she didn't know where the keys were and the door didn't open? And as, I've so frequently mentioned the patio doors in the past, they do not have an handle on the outside. HOW DO YOU OPEN THEM? > to open these doors would have (IMHO) required a person to use the flat of their hand, as a sort of suction pad on the glass to get them open (normally doubled glazed in the UK so heavy)so would have been covered in hand, palm and finger prints! Yes if you look for some of the forensics photos, I think the one with the measure you will see a corner just showing through and certainly on this one:That new part on the helicopters was a bit hilarious. How ridiculous this Gerald McCann really is! Revolting! These public relations exercises have obviously something to do with the ongoing investigations and the court case against GA. As suspects, they should be barred from contacting the media or from expressing their opinions about the case, IMO. Did you notice that they don't talk about Swedish people searching for Madeleine, "direcly or indirectly", the Host didn't show the book (which wasn't even on the table), neither did the McCanns, no close up on the pictures of the suspects,no appeal to the public to buy the book, and the Host didn't receive them separately, like they are used to be received? He didn't show Kate's book which wasn't even on the table. People were not even informed about the name of the book. I have the impression the McCanns pushed themselves in that show and I suspect the host dóes not believe them. @9/10 What do you mean? Your comments were both published exactly as you sent them. Kate looks old, very old, compared to Gerry and I think, that was intentional, created by an heavy make-up and a face-emotion trainning. if I take into accounts that just few days before that interview she was in shape and able to run side by side with her husband in one more Fundraising, her image degraded just before the interview. She looks more in pain on that interview, then in 2007. A contrasense with what she said when she admits their life over the time got some normalitty and they become able to enjoy their lives again. Then this hypothetical pain was Theatre once again. Gerry, who stills jumping on Kate answers, every time she picks a hot question, affraid that she couldn't make it (a good answer)is now away from Kate. No more seating side by side, no more holding hands, which appears to me also intentional. Probably an answer to the heavy criticism of people who found it odd the way they tried to fool with a lovely story when other cases have shown the public that a missing child normally cause the couple to split and divorce. But in one thing, Gerry didn't change- The way he reacts when the question is disturbing and he is forced to lie. HE HEAVELY BLINK THE EYES AND SHOW HOW UNCOMFORTABLE IS ON HIS CHAIR, moving much more then when the question is inoffensive. Wonder why he feels obliged to defend Kate with such story of being much more overprotective( to the childs) then him. An exercise to exorcise her part on what happen to their daughter? The way he criticise the searches done by Portugal is clearly offensive to Portugal and to the swedish public who had seen it on TVs and papers. As usual, his arrogance show up, trying to classify Portugal as a third country when compared to UK and the swedish public as people living so far from the rest of Europe that they were poor informed or not informed at all. He simple goes over other interviews they gave, where they appear thanking the portuguese police and the portuguese public for all huge effort they have done to search Madeleine and support them. He can't have it both ways- brilliant when interviewed in Portugal, close to the events, and very bad 5 years later- Obviously, he lies on that interview, AGAIN. Sophisticated boats and helicopters were used, some with night equipment, used by Portuguese and spannish police to control the coast against human and drugs traffic. Human: Finish this: He, again certifying the public with a stupid degree, didn't know or pretends to, that the portuguese and the spannish coast borders are the most controlled in Europe due to his extension and do to his natural condition of being the way to Africa ( one of the new routes for drugs traffic). ContThe question that should assault every brain, is why after a so extense and so sophisticated search, the abductor or the girl was not found? perhaps, because there was no abductor and because the girl was concealed in a house, out of the possible targets for the police. The police could openly search fields, streets, all outside environments. Per contrary, to search a house, they need permission from a prosecutor and to have that permission tey need to show strong evidences ( a dennounce for ex) to support that search. They searched the flats and the houses close to the Resort, due to their natural condition of being close to the crime scene, but if a car was used on May 3 to take the girl to a house more far, only a quite and methodical investigation will lead the police to reach that house. That is what the Mccann's strongly prevented with their campaign to frame the police and bring a lot of entropy to the investigation. For the first time, I love the body language of the journalist/interviewer. Could not be only atributed to his country being part of the cold north of Europe. I think, he didn't buy Mccann's stories, lies. Even, while following a pre-agreement (no Mccann's interviews without agreements), his face while asking the most embarassing questions, such the ones related with twins, was telling much more then his words. GM: and obviously you are on the Mediterranean, and one of the aspects of why we are campaigning internationallyIt was not a make up. Kate got really very old, specially when she laughs or smiles. In London, when she was running, there was no strong lamp projecting on her face like now in Stokholm. Gerry is looking well, dreaming of the moment that he will get rid of her. Probably they know that at least one of Tapas 7 will come forward and tell the truth. Because it would be very stupid if they keep protecting the McCanns whilsh they have nothing to do with Maddie's death. I wonder if Kate's parents accepted already the truth. It must be a terrible thing for them, who believed that their daughter was victim of police lies. Most parents don't know their children well or even not at all. The refuse to believe they are cruel or bad. They are prepared to believe every excuse they hear from them. It must have been tough at the moment they realised the police were telling the truth. ## Losing a grand daughter and losing a daughter. They should have realised it much earlier, when they showed themselves surprised of the fact the McCanns had left the children all alone, every night, something that they did not expect at all. If Kate, leaving the children all alone every night, is considered as overprotecting by Gerry, I wonder how Gerry himself is. I bet that Cameron is sooo fed up with the McCanns! GOOD! I hope they annoy him so much that he'll do evrything in his power to get them out of his hair! I would love to see Dr Amaral do an interview on the same show and set the record straight. I feel sure they would invite him, much to the fury of the McCanns. For too long they have had it their way with these interviews and been allowed to tell a load of tripe. Kate McCann looks like she has aged considerably, but Gerry is looking perky and not aged at all, but yet I think he sounds so full of disdain and arrogance. It is a brave interviewer who would contradict him because I get the impression of anger not far below the surface. Could Gerry control himself in a witness box if cross examined closely? He did an angry walk out of an interview with that one question an interviewer asked about sedation earlier on when Madeleine first went missing. What was all that about, when he could have just said no? Will we ever get to find out if he could keep his cool, or will they do everything possible to avoid answering questions they can't approve first. Their refusal to answer questions may not go down well in a court of law, though it is their right not to answer. Now Gerry is bringing the rest of the Tapas friends into the equation of allotting a share of blame for what happened to Madeleine with that 'collective decision' to leave the kids. Bloody nerve of the man, when Madeleine was THEIR CHILD. Can't they make a decision for themselves, and take responsibility for it then? Always having to blame somebody else, even their pals who have been loyal so far. Or have they, or will they remain so? Can the McCanns be really sure of that? They are even blaming Dr Amaral and the PJ for doing their jobs of investigating. They have blamed so many people, who have they not blamed so far, except those dancing to their tune? Constant bleating, begging, blaming, and always aware that so many people still don't believe them no matter how they tell it. Joana, is there a problem with the maddie case files please? I've been unable to access it for 2 days and can't find any mention of it being down for any reason on any of the other forums. It may possibly be my computer to blame but I have no problem accessing any of the others. Can you give me any information please? Hi Kerry, the forum is up and running, please use this how to wiki http://www.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache or this one http://kb. html to clear your browser's cache and cookies, if you still don't have access after taking those two steps email me, okay? Joana - This question doesn`t relate specifically to this post, but do you know if Alipio Ribeiro gave Goncalo a reason for transferring him off the McCann case? So, the twins have developed a false memory. Kate with her ' feel sorry for me face ' but looked perky doing her ' run '. @ 18 chap i work with his dad had to see gerry at glenfield ,he discribed him as" very arrogant " ,and hes not the 1st 1 that ive heard discribe him soWhat curtains went woosh woosh I am confused, what are these 2 taking about, I watched the interview on the swedish programme. Its the same thing over and over again, she looks dreadful, mind you she must, have had recent surgery to separate, her hand from his. The Jane Tanner man was mentioned the man who took Maddie was mentioned the only men not mentioned in this whole saga, are superman or batmen they are yet to come. @22 Though the competence of that removal should belong strictly to the Directorate of the Judiciary Police, in this case to the National PJ Director Dr. Alípio Ribeiro or to the Superior Council of the Police, ultimately, the decision was a political one supported by the at the time Justice Minister, Alberto Costa.25/29 A contingent fee (in the United States) or conditional fee (in England and Wales) is any fee for services provided where the fee is payable only if there is a favourable result. In the law, it is defined as a "fee charged for a lawyer's services only if the lawsuit is successful or is favourably settled out of court. Contingent fees are usually calculated as a percentage of the client's net recovery. "(1)In the English legal system, it is generally referred as no win no fee. A conditional fee agreement between a law firm and a client. The usual form of this agreement is that the solicitor will take a law case on the understanding that if lost, no payment is made. However, if the case is won, the lawyer will be entitled to the normal fee based on hourly billing, plus a success fee. The success fee in England must be as a percentage no greater than 100% of the normal fee. This contrasts with the contingency fee in the US, which gives the successful attorney a percentage of the damages awarded in favour of his client. Nice Boden dress, by the way. I wonder if Kate is thinking that the audience will be thinking she should buy her clothes at Primark and put the extra pennies into the Madeleine Fund, like she said she thought people would be surprised seeing her buy Marks & Spencer strawberries when she could buy Aldi ones much cheaper. Maybe she should know that some of us think that the Fund is just an extra personal cash cow for them anyway, nothing to do with searching for poor dead Maddie. How obviously political when GA had a valid point - that`s awful. We wouldn`t be in this position 5 years later if they`d listened to him in the first place. I know GA said it was political in his book, but I wanted to know the details - thank you. Mmm? Trying to negate my disgust with this couple's willingness to abuse their other children by forcing memories to suit their 'story'. my experience over 30 years is that it has been proven that we hold all our memories within us. And even if too young to express them verbally, children will show it in their behaviour as they develop and mature. Children know the 'truth' on an unconscious level and they will 'act it out' in many ways including overt displays of mistrust of their parents and other authority figures. At least they were sitting apart,no chance of her holding his hand and rubbing his finger,and if the twins remember things from that time even though they were only 18months old,just think how much Madeleine will remember(after all according to them there's no evidence she's dead)she'll even know who she really is,and what happened in her short life prior to that holiday. Kate did the usual downcast doe eyed look i see,please someone, anyone in authority put an end to this disgusting charade. I guess the english ran out of money and the fund needed to be fed, so they went and explored other markets. I can't wait for the day they will bow their head in shame. Does anyone have news about Mr Amaral's book? That book needs to come out in England and all over Europe again to stir things up the right way. I don't understand why they insist she couldn't leave an unlocked apartment. As the Guest author has written a child of four could slide around the curtains and slide open the door. They would have no trouble doing the same to close it over and what child of nearly four couldn't climb over a safety gate if they wanted too. She still hasn't explained how Madeleine was supposed to come and find them if she couldn't do any of this either. Kate over acts so badly, her silly puppy dog eyes, sighing, frowning, same old same old. and him, christ what an idiot the way he looks down at whoever is interviewing him, with disgust,silly silly man not a lot of intelligence there to say he is he looks at the heart scans (NO he isn't a heart surgeon or cardiologist), also I believe this sitting apart is too much too late-. THEY ARE FINISHED! ! ! Has anyone been daring enough to ask them who washed the curtains and why? I'm sure that one can't be explained away as a 'tea stain'. and even if it were a 'tea stain' then that's the job of blooming Housekeeping, isn't it? ? @37 Exactly my thoughts. One of the greatest missed questions in the years of interviewing was Jenni Murray on Woman's Hour, after 'Was she asleep when you left? '. The follow-up should have been a gentle: 'Did you tell Madeleine what to do if she woke up and found you not there? 'Joana could you please clarify 'collective mistake' collective for Gerry and Kate or tapas 9. If it is tapas 9 he seems to be prepared to drag them with him@41 I didn't write the article, but the "collective mistake" means the Tapas 9 group "mistake", if you call leaving children alone a mistake, that is. Very intersting that Gerry's 'strongest memory' is this same picture, it could have been something like I remember Madeleine running and laughing having fun with her brother, sister and friends. I remember when I wasn't yet one year old and I could not walk yet. I remember my brother's birth when I was not yet 2 years and one month old and I remember it very well and the comments about the new baby.39, washed the courtains? Of the living room? I never heard of washed courtains, excepted for in Holland. Who said that? Thank you for your clarification, I thought it was incredible that Gerry mentioned the 'collective mistake' it seems to me that 'their pact of silence' is threatened by a member of tapas 7, is he trying to intimidate his good friends? Bravo Miller! Brilliant intro. so, now we know the patio's sliding doors were open (the attempt to create an alibi, gives it away) AND the curtains too, because common sense dictates so. With so much wino running through their veins "positive thinking" took over and the motto became: "Que Sera, Sera" (. Which brings me to a theory I read here sometime ago about the possibility of the McCanns' (one or the other) having an "unconscious death wish" to get rid of her elder daughter - now they had "designer twins" and Madeleine had become a surplus nuisance. I found it all a bit farfectching (the unconscious death wish that is) but in retrospect Sigmund Freud might have not. The commentator certainly didn't. I cannot find the posting now but "unconscious death wish" and "thought-materialization" is all that I remember. Naturally for a parent to have, much less admit, a "death wish" towards his/her own child is tantamount to swallow (literally) a Ronaldo's hat-trick which is the reason why (the commentator argued) the Unconscious is often referred to as the "Shadow" or "Inner Demon". "Unconscious death wish" or not, I always felt more inclined to the hypothesis that Madeleine had wandered into the night (through those sliding doors IF not a main door "accidentally" left opened) and met her nemesis outside - some piece of cake of some description. At one stage, I even believed Jane Tanner's human chameleon! The problem with my pet hypothesis was ONLY an accidental death at home made sense, in terms of the forensic evidence in general and Eddie's nose in particular. Now, when PhotoPinto (in the previous posting) suggests the parents would have called an ambulance instead, if there had been an accident, I am not so sure they would have done that if the child was dead by the time they found her. BECAUSE the McCanns' (and their friends) were painfully aware they had left very young children alone and unattended and they might have to stand trial for that in a country they perceived as belonging to the "Third World" (racism kicks in). So as smart, educated and "problem solving" medical specialists with a future ahead and two tots to bring up, they would rather hide the inconvenient truth. Obviously! I think what is happening here is VIPs (e. David Cameron) who identify and sympathize with the McCanns' dilemma, if nothing else because they too sit up high up in their culture's ideology, are well aware the parents are likely to involved. They have to - by the very same reasons Amaral arrives at the same conclusion. The difference is the VIPs feel a lot of compassion for the couple and Amaral (after all that has happened to him) does not. Personally, if that was in my power, I would let the McCanns' get on with their lives IF only they stopped their "image dry-cleaning" gagging anyone left, right and centre who disagrees with their stupid, "official version of events" AND worst, looking for scapegoats and attempting to destroy individuals and families like Gonçalo Amaral's - to quote but one (Robert Murat would be another). The McCanns' attitude is ugly not to say cynical and sinister. My advice to them is to "repent and you will be forgiven" by us people, if not by the Galactic Spirit or whoever is sitting in Mission Control, somewhere deep in hyperspace watching their every thought, noting every lie, each "reputation management" stratagem. @46 The alleged "death wish" was something that Kate McCann said on an interview with a Chilean TV back in 2007. The program is called 'Informe Especial' (Special Report) with Mirna Schindler, broadcast by CTN, August 2007. «Kate said, "It really isn't easy," coping. "Some days are better than others. There's days when you think, 'I can't do this anymore,' and you just want to press a button, and we're all gone, and it's all finished, and we're all together and gone. But you can't, you know. Just occasionally you'll have a - if you're having a really bad day, which we do. And you can't help but think that. shtmlI know from personal experience with the "no win-no fee" system in the UK that you get all the compensation you are awarded (if you get it) minus a "success" fee (variable percentage - 5% in my case). We simply don't know the deal the McCanns entourage struck with Carter-Ruck or Isabel Duarte/Rogerio Alves. Incidentally, Marinho Pinto's "witness fee" will be dealt with by ID and/or RA on behalf of the McCanns'. So with Carter-Ruck at least when the McCanns' loose (e. could happen with Tony Bennett) they won't have to pay Carter-Ruck (provided they followed their advice throughout). I am not sure about the compensation plus expenses they will have to pay Amaral in Portugal since that is no win-no fee for sure! The figure will be astronomical but again they could have been insured for that eventuality. There are insurance companies (usually off-shore companies) that do that. In the UK under such agreement, you get ALL the compensation you are entitled to (minus a small percentage)IF you win. You lawyers fees and other costs are paid by the loosing part. If you loose the case you don't have to pay a cent to your lawyers provided you followed their advice throughout. My solicitors made that clear to me from the on-set. Likewise, any compensation due to the winning part (assuming you are the looser) will be handled by an insurance company. ... Bot: Now, I understand from your comment that such a system (no win-no fee) does not exist in Portugal which means the McCanns' will have to foot the lawyers bill as well as the compensation bill which could be astronomical - no wonder Kate is writing books and giving interviews to cover for that eventality. I mean even if Amaral gets only £2 million in compensation and Isabel Duarte & Rogerio Alves charge £500,000 each in fees (and Marinho Pinto gets £250,000, say) the revenue of the book "Madeleine" alone will cover that. The McCanns would still have had a good shot at dry-cleaning their image and no doubt the show will go on and the money will keep pouring in. Kate has a 100% hysterical personality: she acts, she suffers, she believes in her role. It is a psychopath with no feelings, imo. It could have been him with his "we can not change it". "we can not change it". (let us make the best of it? )During the first years she was looking wonderfully on the interviews. That was before the Met got involved in the case. Thanks for the links. What she said on record does seem to provide some psychoanalytical evidence of the presence of a "death wish" in her. The argument of the commentator however, if I remember correctly, was that unconscious thoughts often materialize as "accidents" as if on cue. These are usually of the kind in which the victim or perpetrator says "You can't blame "me"! (for what "I" did or happen) mostly because someone else does it and the person did NOT consciously wished so. Say X feels her child might have an accident but this does not necessarily mean X will cause it to happen. It WILL happen by means of another agent, Y say or the child herself. It is as if thought itself has an executive power of its own even if the body in which it happened is not involved in the outcome. Again this points to an Holographic Universe where all minds are connected at some level. You cannot possibly be charged for a "crime" of this type for it transcends our present concept of Reality, our understanding of ourselves and individual free-will. Free-will may be nothing but "white noise". This was my understanding of the commentator as I recall it. I must admit it struck a deep chord in me. I hope he/she is reading. Besides her fear for the Met, Kate must feel guilty and I believe she misses Madeleine. At the beginning, after she went back to England, she started to look better and better. On the Breakfast video of the BBC, 2008, she looked perfect. Even last year when she launched her book she was not looking bad, wearing her expensive ring. It is unbelievable how she could get so old in such a short time. The pressure on both must be umberable. They can get the Met at their door at any moment, this will happen, for sure. No Clarence to support them, too expensive. The last time I saw him near the McCanns was on May the 12th, before Cameron's torpedo was announced. Now they have to economize, as much as they can, because they will need more lawyers in the future. Will Isabelita defend them in Faro or Portimao? They can choose Alves, who can convince better. I don't like him but I must admit he is competent. No leaks from the Yard and I regret it. Next Thursday or Friday we will hear if Isabelita brought the books back and, yes or no, I hope we will get a new interview with Amaral, with leaks. Not only we but the McCanns want to hear more too. KM: "my view hasn't changed you know since 4th May really, and that is, that a man took Madeleine. And that man was the person who our friend Jane Tanner saw carrying a child away from the area of the apartment"Firstly to 46: This is all about accountability and responsibility. And a good dose of RATIONALISATION both for the inner psyche and the conscious conscience! What if Madeleine had exited the apartment, either via the front door (see JT's Roggie statement that they left their's was DEADLOCKED, so their eldest daughter could NOT get out) and met her demise. The whole issue of accountability and responsibility changes, ball back in the McCanns court. Since it was their neglect even within the bounds of responsible parenting that Madeleine sufficiently old enough to exit. Before people take a leap into the higher realms of British Society that accept the McCanns style of parenting, i. Cameron, Rebekah Brooks etc, just think of the path they have trod before, Blair, Brown, Branson, Beckham, Kennedy(Everest) etcBut who stands alongside them on any platform that they chose to speak from? Where is the line up? Where are the seven who shared their holiday and ''collective'' decision making? Where are their family, friends and colleagues? Fast now approaching the fifth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance and of course the children's Spring break, only a few opportunities for the hype, then the respectful silencePS: I don't think children remember very much about anything, particularly before they can actually talk. What most of us remember when we are young, that happened when we were younger, that is say you are eight and remember something when you are two; this usually is reinforcement by family, with photos or if you are fortunate video. Notice how you really only remember important events that are reinforced. And of course you can only ever remember & subsequently recall that you experienced in the first place, unless reinforced. If the twins were asleep when Madeleine disappeared, THEY HAVE NOTHING TO REMEMBER. In subsequent years their recall will only be the traumatic events of what happened around them over the passing of timeIMHO the only information that twins might have held would have by now been told to the parents, through play and casual conversation. Everything else they now experience is what they have learnt since they were older; exactly what do 7 year olds make of a sister's bedroom that is a ‘time capsule'As for the MET & the future, sorry it's still down to the LUCKY BREAK. Too much water under the bridgeAs I said I did not believe her stating the 4th May, to be a mistake - not in an interview where generally, in case of McCann couple the questions are pre-prepared, their responses rehearsed. It had to have been introduced with a specific purpose in mind. The reason though eluded me. They are very much at the moment (ahead of the libel trial) going 'all out' to promote, not only their innocence, by way of introducing the Prosecutors Final Report, making damning statements against the Portuguese Police, but highlighting Tanner's sighting, proferring as absolute proof of an abduction. "The Prosecutors final report was very clear, actually unequivocal, there was no evidence Madeleine was dead. ""My view hasn't changed you know since 4th May really, and that is, that a man took Madeleine. On 4th May 2007 her 'view' then and to-date, is - that her daughter Madeleine was abducted by the man/person seen by her friend Jane Tanner. It would seem then, this statement was carefully crafted, the purpose of introducing the '4th' to the mix was no more than a ploy to promote the Tanner sighting. And, in so doing she/they completely dismiss that of the Smith family! Spooked perhaps by the SY Review, the upcoming libel trial? Or, do this couple, for whom it seems, ‘money is their master' simply have another book to sell, and any publicity, any tactic will do to further their aim? Whatever drives this couple to behave in the manner which they do it is clear to me at least it has not a thing to do with finding this child. One would have imagined they could not sink lower. but it seems their descent is still in progress new depths yet to be reached.48@ as far as I know, books bring very few profits to the writer. It is between 8% and 10% and the rest is for the editor, stores, costs of material, transport. Nobody becomes rich by publishing anything unless he is Rowling himself. Check on internet, please. That's why Kate will publish her Errata. She will make more money if she becomes a milk woman or a baker. If it happens like you describe above, I don't understand how could they burn such a lot of money (2 and a half million) in such a short time. Probably 48% of income taxes of the fund but still they burned a lot of money. Gerry staying in the most expensive hotel of Portugal, which he did, is not enough to empt the fund. Except Jane Tanner might have told her straight away. If she didn't, then it may mean they planned it afterwards - as the draft plans on Madeleine's exercise booklet suggest. You may be right about the 4th in one respect. The plan was drafted after things quite down on the early hours (4th) when the "Reputation Management Team" first got together to plan events ahead. OK, anything is possible except you sound as if you have been influenced by the McCanns "Official version of events". You must try and remain lucid at all times least you end up being brain-washed like the rest. Rogerio Alves you mean? Competent? All factors remaining constant, he would take quite a beating from Santos de Oliveira. Fingers crossed, for we know there are political strings being pulled via David Cameron-Passos Coelho-Cavaco e Silva-Marinho e Pinto. I think Cameron started his morning felling sick and vomitting, although I believe he is not pregnant. Again a signature of Kate and Gerry's, something that will not impress him at all. He has seen it so often! This all means Kate and Gerry know they will lose a lot in the future and they need their money for the trial. If this new law is accepted in England, I hope the British media will tell more about what they know. Sorry, I have to disagree! The Tanner "sighting" was included in the "written timetables", the ones that were written down on the cover of Madeleine's sticker activity book (which they ripped apart to do so), and were given to the police when they arrived. Those lists, which accounted for all the movements of each member of the group from 8.45pm to 10pm of the 3rd May, were "concocted" by the group BEFORE even calling the police, and I strongly believe it was a collective work, ALL members of the group(Tapas9) participated in their creation, Kate included! Gerry certainly was one of the "creators", would he keep Kate out of it? I think not. so, she must have known about Tanner's "male abductor" even before the police arrived. And also, a correction:- "timetable 1" also mention's Tanner seeing a stranger carrying a child, but it is in #2 that her "sighting" is stressed as something important, Gerry outlined it in a "box". @58 Marinho e Pinto political colour is right on the other side of those three you've mentioned. Remember he actually defended Socrates regarding the Freeport case in a OA (Lawyers Order) bulletin - which I find extraordinary since the Freeport case is now on trial, and at the time of said bulletin was under investigation by DIAP. Oh, by the way, in that bulletim Marinho e Pinto accused the PJ, yes the PJ, of "framing" Socrates, of fabricating the Freeport case. aspx? content_id=1182705&page=-1 For those who missed it, it was said at the time, in 2007 (post-arguido escape from Portugal), by some that Gordon Brown and José Socrates tit-for-tat exchange involved the McCann affair for the Freeport case. English investigation of Sócrates coincided with the height of the McCann case and the negotiations of the Lisbon TreatyThe 3rd or 4th, well yep it's all written on those book covers. Was MRS McCann specifically informed that her assumption of abduction was confirmed by the sighting of JT before MIDNIGHT, who knows? My goodness, I was convinced that the UK government had gotten rid of the McCanns and that all their politicians would work in peace, after the Yard got involved in the investigation. It is obvious that it is not the case. The McCanns wrote again Cameron or, at least, they signed that letter. I woulod advise the McCanns to get divorced, like they demanded Amaral and his wife to do, and to safe 50% of their fortune for Gerry, who is not responsible for the death. Kate can go living with her parents in Liverpool, like Amaral is now living with his father, what about this idea? And Gerry could hire a room at the Payne's, till this mess is over and he and Kate would get two rooms for years and years in a prison in Portugal. Joana - thanks for reminding us of the post from 2009 " English investigation of Sócrates coincided with the height of the McCann case and the negotiations of the Lisbon Treaty". It`s good to look back and see things from a new perspective after much water has flowed under the bridge. Well spotted in the mire of McCann claptrap - you guys don't miss a trick. 'collective mistake' - heavily-loaded words and chosen very deliberately by the squirming doctors. Five years after the event, these are not the words one would expect from the father of an abducted child, IMO. The words definitely have the sinister ring of a not-so-subtle threat about them. Rupert Murdoch used it to sublime effect in the Leveson enquiry. "Dear David Cameron: Full text of the open letter on legal aid bill The Guardian") appears to have seven signatories:Related to the above opinion article read as well 'Epilogue' and the previous article, 'Another Story' by Dr Martin Roberts at the McCannFilesSome marriages, are made in heaven, this one was made in hell, this pair are matched in every evil way possible. She I would say is the most mentally unstable of the pair, he may crack under pressure, she never will. She really believes this fairy story of the big bad man taking her child really happened. She from day 1 has played the victim its a role she loves attention at all costs. She is the worst of the pair, she has no feeling Maddie, it over and she thinks done with now. She has forgotten the wolves are waiting and are very hungry. Just crossed my mind that Mr Ellis, mentioned here Good Riddance Mr. Ellis and here WikiLeaks cables: UK police 'developed' evidence against McCanns as well a few other English diplomats (McCann Case: Freedom of Information Act on John Buck former Ambassador) commissioned to Portugal in the period of 2007 to 2010 should be, if not questioned, at least talked 'nicely' with as to their action in May 2007, by those who are performing a full case review of the Maddie case. "Those lists, which accounted for all the movements of each member of the group from 8. "I was not aware the "master plan" they drafted on Madeleine's booklet was handed to the police on the 3td thus my wrong inferences (#57 on 27/03/2012 12:14). I saw the interview as I live in Sweden. What I reacted strongly to is when Gerry at the end says: "I mean There are times when you just think - I cannot do this, any more, em its too much - and particularly the attention that's comes through the media, but as Kate says that bond with us, and with Madeleine and for Sean and Amelie, and even if you wanted to I don't think we could stop"I think that means that he is tired of this circus, but can not stop the carousel. And you can see a little smile, that he can not keep from laughing. The first two Tapas 9 time-lines, that appear on Madeleine's ripped book cover pages in the process files, were written by Russell James O'Brien, according to his rogatory interview. “As a significant witness to assist the Portuguese Authorities in their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine MCCANN in Portugal on the third of May, two thousand and seven. I would now like to move on to some time lines and we have, these are copies of written documents or time lines written on the back of, looks like a kiddies book or something”. Reply “Erm as we discussed the other day, I'd forgotten these over the year but I think this is an attempt, this is a draft attempt, they're both in my handwriting, this is a draft attempt, err and then I think I'm transcribing in a slightly more a neater writing, hoping that it's more legible for other people to read as well, so I think this one came first”. Reply “Erm this was drafted er around the time that the initial pair of Officers from the PJ came to 5A (inaudible) early in the morning of the fourth of May, two thousand and seven so erm I can certainly recall writing some of this, I think perhaps the neat, maybe the neater version erm sat down at the table in Gerry's flat with Gerry erm Dave PAYNE and at least at some stage of it, the two Officers from the, from the PJ”. Reply “Er that I'm not too sure, I think what, what essentially I'm doing, is I'm, I've written something here fairly quickly for myself and then I've looked at it and thought it's, it's not actually gonna be useful to hand to anyone to read other than me, so I think they're probably not that far, I've written that and then I've sat down, perhaps I was writing this with that being on my knee or something and never sat down, but I don't, I don't recall the time difference but, but we're looking at from what I describe about my activities in the run up to this, to these being within you know, a short space of time, half an hour, maybe even less, I don't think I wrote this, had it in my pocket for a night, the other thing that makes me think that is, is probably the front of the back cover of a book”. Reply “So I've probably, I've probably written it, thought that's rubbish, even I can barely read it, let's start again, I don't think there's much time difference”. The Mccann couple i find very creepy and scary, an unfeeling cold as ice pair who are bound together in their web of lies and deceite,hopefully the day will come when the other decide's to come clean and tell all, until then we will have to put up with their bollox and begging bowl.

User: Fill in the missing words: I believe that after reviewing everything they will write a report to the Home Office and it will take a long time. And then the Home Office will agree with the opening of the process. [words 1] and Madeleine's drugged hair will be enough to open it, I guess. Not that she died of medicines but why was she using them and was the need of using them the cause of her [words 2] tiring during the night? For four years? Isabel, remember Kate's words to the twins "you should not take things that don't not belong to you"Having watched the video of the Stockholm interview and Kate describes how far away from the Tapas they were - I kept wanting to say "but you couldn't even see the window of [words 3] your children were sleeping" so I am pleased you included a map showing just exactly where and how far away so it is obvious to readers. Why do they (Kate and Gerry) continually repeat these lies and why are they accepted, no matter how obvious they are? I suppose the answer is because they can. @1 Totally agree - the poor children will have been brainwashed - it would be foolish to believe otherwise.83@ The UK Home Office can't open anything, the process is out of their jurisdiction, Portugal is not a colony of England - even though certain Portuguese lawyers, [words 4] current) and a hand full of PR's bow [words 5] interests. Only the Portuguese Public Ministry can reopen the process, and then only the Portuguese Judiciary Police has the status to make a criminal investigation to the Maddie case. Scotland yard have [words 6] the case using hard earned British tax payers money for absolutely nothing positive regarding what really happened to Madeleine . It's a scam [words 7] . So what? That's what you do when you are a celebrity prone to media gossip. The fact is Gerry has just won a contract to promote "Brylcreem". Because you're worth it! Anon 77 "I was not aware the "master plan" they drafted on Madeleine's booklet was handed to the police on the 3td thus my wrong inferences (#57 [words 8] I stand for what I wrote afterall. I am "#57 on 27/03/2012 12:14" [words 9] reading the following (PJ Files quote by Joana Morais above). I was right! Joana, kindly keep [words 10] on the outcome. Best of luck (and Justice) for Dr. Gonçalo Amaral! If Jane Tanner hadn't been so handy to provide that supposed sighting of the 'abductor', then her husband might have have been looked at much closer, being as he [words 11] was away from the table for some time tending his sick child just before Madeleine was declared missing. Tanner and [words 12] also quick to jump on the bandwagon of pointing a finger at Murat saying he was around that night, which subsequently turned out not to have been true. Did they ever apologise for what they put him through? If Tanner's supposed 'abductor' sighting is discredited, what chance suspicion would then focus on her husband? Can he prove he was tending his sick child and washing sheets that night by providing 'independent' confirmation of this? It does not appear so from the statements, except by those of their pals, but would they count as 'independent'. Although not apparent on the face of it, of all the members of the Tapas friends, the two who had been closest for some time were Jane's husband O'Brien and David Payne, as these two had lived together. Jane and her husband Russell knew Fiona and David Payne better than they knew the McCanns. Jane Tanner certainly managed to steer suspicion from all her Tapas pals, including Gerry, by that sighting on hers, and there was David Payne sitting it out completely, and no checking at all of the children done by him that night, as [words 13] night. A fair bit of short bouts of sickness amongst the group too, children included, though they all looked fit and active. Given they [words 14] amongst them, where was the common sense in leaving children alone when it would not have taken long for a child to [words 15] been sick and choked to death. Also, why the emphasis by Gerry McCann from [words 16] go of a paedophile taking Madeleine. If the body of Madeleine had been found would it have shown signs of this to back up what he was saying? Why be so insistent on this? Then [words 17] something about 'a moment of madness, an accident'. Surely it can't have been both! I`m not sure we [words 18] officially because I believe the report SY make to the Home Office won`t be released into the public domain. So maybe it will only be the people that requested the review that will see the report, i. Home Secretary,David Cameron and the McCanns. I may be wrong but the [words 19] we are going to hear anything is via the press and leakages. I well understand about what you mean when [words 20] Portugal can agree to 're-open the process'. But I'm pretty sure also that the case file of a missing child, in both the UK and Portugal, is NEVER CLOSED. It isn't really closed now in Portugal. It's only a shorthand when we all ask for a 're-opening of the process'. The case is merely shelved. which surely just means that the police and the judiciary are currently [words 21] any more work on it. The reasons being that the process of investigation was brought to a halt. because of the lack of co-operation by most of the main protagonists. refusal to answer questions, refusal to take part in a 'reconstruction'. a swift high-tailing it back [words 22] on. 'There is no new evidence' say the Portuguese police, and that is almost certainly true, especially if the lack of co-operation prevented any more new evidence coming to light. a reconsideration of the loads of evidence already collected, especially a re-consideration of whether certain elements of it previously excluded because of 'intrusiveness' into privacy (! ) or [words 23] into the process, might mean both sets [words 24] to further delve into what really happened when Madeleine disappeared. Am I over-simplifying the position? The whole thing seems a mad waste of time and money for both police services if they are simply not allowed to [words 25] obvious. @70,perhaps gerry thinks Sandra Felgueiras will be watching as i am sure he has the hots for her,lol86, Joana, if that is the case, I hope the Yard will talk privetely with the PJ, on the name of British authorities, requesting the PJ to reopen the case. Or requesting the public prosecuter. Maybe the British Ambassador [words 26] request the public prosecuter. As you can see, the British government still did not get rid of the McCanns, they again signed (wrote)a [words 27] something. I believe the English government are 1000% behind a future trial, supporting it, otherwise they would not have made that much money available for the review. It is not a whitewash because they were clean since 2008, no stains anymore on them put by authorities, no official [words 28] a bird in the sky. A [words 29] not necessary. That Cameron's sentence "That you are so corageous, over such a long time, and don't give up, speaks volumes. " (translation: you will continue being a pain in our anus, for eternity, if we don't find a way to eliminate you out of our lives). That is what he said. And we don't know what Theresa May wrote them. I'm convinced that it was not a [words 30] the McCanns would have publicised it. On the same way Brown pressured Portugal to liberate the McCanns, Cameron could now put pressure again, asking for a trial.86@Joana, a couple of hours ago I commented your reply to me (thank You) I miss it here. At the end of my comment I advise all of the public prosecuters to read Kate's book. Chances are Murat has entered a deal with "The Fund" and settled out of court. No doubt the [words 31] it. otherwise, how would you explain Murat signing the very same letter the McCanns' recently sent to David Cameron? Tribal loyalties pure and simply? Hmmm. Whatever [words 32] say about Clarence Mitchell's Tony Blair/Gordon Brown's "weapons of mass destruction" and all that Jazz, his global "reputation management" consortium (Burson-Marsteller/Lift Consulting) has successfully managed to transform two lucky, very lucky VIP suspects AND proven child-neglecters (Moita Flores) into a multi-millionaire couple with considerable political leverage and global appeal. outcome of Gonçalo Amaral versus Aragao-Correia - the McCanns', the visionary lawyer paid by Metodo3/McCanns to try and assassinate the character of Goncalo Amaral which he did - with a little "Photoshop" help from the President of the Portuguese Lawyers Association (Marinho [words 33] Pinto). I wonder who paid him for that? Any ideas? Aragão-Correia will be defended tomorrow by one of the very expensive Portuguese "designer lawyers" working for the McCanns - Isabel Duarte (. Oh! And by the way these are not "no win-no fee" lawyers. It is all very well for the McCanns' to write to David Cameron to defend "no win-no fee" agreements and then prevent others such as Gonçalo Amaral from [words 34] is convenient for them (. Joana, I expect you to stand up very early tomorrow morning and to put your head out of your window and to watch if you see Isabel Duarte and Rogerio Alves passing by with the books.92, of course we will hear some few things. It is of public interest and besides there is the international dimension. Five years in science is a lot of time. Who knows those two British dogs have already learned to speak and they are about to tell what they found out four and a half years ago. The [words 35] DNA traces in the car. It's not so much DNA as cadaverine in the car and the multitude of other locations, objects and clothes that cadaverine traces are alerted by British Police Dogs. This is what [words 36] asked. McCann Case: Russell James O'Brien Rogatory Interview Part III-A - as quoted by JM above. Thanks! Now we know for sure :dThe defamation trial of Marcos Aragão Correia and António Pedro de Andrade Dores was postponed to 18th AprilJoana, did you put your head out of the window this morning and did you see Isabel Duarte walking by? Progress made in more possibilities in forensic tests can be a reason to reopen a process. It seems there is a lot of progress since five years ago. Let us hope it will be reopened. The charge against Tanner of 'calumny' is a criminal offence, not a civil offence, and I would think there is therefore no chance of settling that [words 37] to see what the Portuguese have to say about that. If a crime occurs in Portugal, and the accused and the victim are both UK citizens, would the trial take place in Portugal under the portuguese justice system, or in the UK under the UK justice system? It's interesting that a crime [words 38] dealt with at Nottingham Crown Court under UK laws.107 Marcos Aragão Correia and António Sousa Dores delayed the [words 39] arguidos accused of defamation, for the second time. My guess is that they're trying to force that trial to take place at the same time [words 40] against Gonçalo Amaral to create havoc and simultaneously to prevent Gonçalo Amaral's only lawyer to perform his job effectively. Even though there isn't a date set yet that action - the McCanns one - could take place from late April forwards, April inclusively, June, July, September, still this year, even if, in my opinion, the McCanns have lost all basis for said 'civil action' when they lost the injunction that banned Gonçalo Amaral's back in October 2010. April 18 is apparently the new date for the trial [words 41] ASD. gd/l7loUu@110 That was merely the extradition proceeding, the trial will take place at the country where the crime was committed - Homicídio na forma tentada, that is, Attempted Homicide. Correction to my comment at 111 * when they lost the injunction that banned Gonçalo Amaral's book back in October 2010.107, often postpone can happen everywhere. I know a case that happened in Massachussets that was postpone for several reasons, during a couple of years. Remember Gunnar Dorries the german citizen who killed his lover and daughter in Algarve nearly two years ago? Gerry McCann reinforced the 'last photo' as being genuine by saying this was his last memory of Madeleine. Being as many don't believe the photo to have been taken on the 3rd May when she was declared missing, perhaps Gerry was telling the truth about that, because if she had died earlier in the week, then that may have really been the last photo and his last memory of her. Now, there is a trial totally British, of [words 42] a british guy in Algarve due to a case involving drugs. The guy was kept prisoner for 13 days, they chop one of his ears and some fingers. A story of horror to trow on Marinho Pinto faces when he says that a couple of British didn't went to Algarve to murder their daughter. Nobody said, they went to do that, but in fact, an evil behavior is transversal to societies and the British are not an [words 43] society. @Joana and @121 Crime location albufeira, uk [words 44] court proceedings and sentencing were in uk, maybe its because the crime was first reported to uk police rather than to portuguese police, but it shows it is possible. ## uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-17548443I honestly think that after nearly 5 years, that they actually now believe their lies. Maybe it's the only way that they can cope with the awful truth of what happened during that holiday? Having listened to this pair for near on 5 yrs,i wonder what thier neighbours and the people at the twins school really think of them, having neglectfull or worse parents in their vicinity. Assistant: words 1: The blanket words 2: death? 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Input: Fill in the missing words: Over the next several weeks our designers and crafty friends will be joining us to share their winter and holiday creations featuring our two newest collections Peaceful Winter and Be Merry. So who will be decking the halls with us this week? When learning about SEO, the number-one priority is always to have a clean, efficient, attractive website or blog to traffic. If not, then it becomes difficult to attract visitors to your site. Everything comes back to the design. People like to visit attractive, functioning, seamless websites. By using these ideas, you can offer what they seek. Graphics are important, but too many can yuck things up. Having the right [words 1] your site all around. Keep a simple front page. People scanning websites glance quickly at each site they see, so of you front page is simple enough and shows them what [words 2] they are likely to stay. 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The [words 24] response from the viewer that he or she now has to perform complex problem solving just to view a simple webpage. Unless visitors are already addicted to your site, they will probably leave your site in search of simpler pastures. When creating a website, there are many places to look for creative inspiration. There are great sources of inspiration on TV, [words 25] the local mall. You should stay vigilant and [words 26] the day because you never know what might spark your next great idea. When using FileZilla as your file server, make sure that you program the quick menu settings with your domain, your username, and the correct port. This way, when you log back on to the server, all you need to do is select your personalized settings from the menu. This can be a real time-saver. Create error pages that are informative. When a person clicks on a broken or moved link, they will be taken to an error page. Your error pages should tell visitors exactly what went wrong and provide your homepage link so they can stay on your site. When you are making a number of pages that require the same template, the simplest way to do this is to use copy/paste. Rather than making a fresh [words 27] simply copy the most important part of the code, change it in certain places, [words 28] a new file name. You will be able to use this master copy over and over again. It can be helpful to become a CSS (cascading style sheet) expert. Though HTML is important, CSS really adds consistency to a site's design. CCS contains style sheets that serve as a reference guide format to give a website a certain design and flow. This can make changing your site simple, too. If you want to change your font color to red on every page, all you need to do is alter one line of code! If you are designing websites, you must be artistic. By this, we mean that you should always be ready to let inspiration strike you. When a great idea pops into your head during a meal out, scribble your thoughts [words 29] napkin. Look at domain name auction sites to see if the one you want is for sale. These sites are clearinghouses for outstanding domain names that are now unused or have been sold which you can now pick up for comparatively little money. Make it simple for your readers to share your content on social network sites by providing the appropriate links. You will find your users or customers, [words 30] traffic as they share interesting offerings from your site. Try focusing time every day on your site. Putting in a few minutes here and [words 31] less effective than devoting larger amounts of time. Working hard creates focus, which means that you will create a better site and therefore improve your profit margin. Check your pages for broken links. Dreamweaver is easy to use and it can be quite helpful. Uploading site pages without checking link functionality can really irritate users who can't navigate your site. Now that you read the above article, you should understand how important it is to create a good looking website that is easy to navigate. Make sure that your site looks its best by implementing the tips found here. When looking for a company to design your website, look for one that has a few years of experience under their belt. New companies may not have a lot of experience building websites and that can cause problems. So, be safe and [words 32] experience. It can seem like a very tough [words 33] build a successful website. It doesn't matter if you're a seasoned pro or have zero experience, it's still extremely intimidating. There are so many different aspects to consider, such as layout and color scheme. Also, the information that you need constantly evolves. Use the information in the following article and it can help you design a successful site. Always be open to new ideas that may appear on forums that can provide you with additional information with regard to web design. You can also do a quick search online to find any information you seek on the web, and it is free. Never underestimate the value of a site that is simple for visitors to navigate. Ensure that links are easy discovered and displayed in a prominent location. Menus are another way to make site navigation easier on your site. Make sure that links to your main pages are on each page in your site so people can find their way no matter where they are. Minimize the use of JavaScript. While Java opens many doors towards [words 34] lot of Internet surfers are going to have difficulty with it. Browsers upgrade to newer versions regularly. Your goal is to have as many website visitors as possible. Also, people sometimes don't have JavaScript enabled in their browsers. These both could keep users from getting to your website. ## Maintain normal-sized pages. Every Internet user does not have [words 35] speeds. If your site takes too long to load, you may lose visitors. You don't want to leave your [words 36] likely just leave, never to return. Keep your content interesting and entertaining. The design of your website is important, and the content is too. Visitors are likely to return to your website if they find the content informative and it fulfills their needs. Design your page so that previously [words 37] information is saved and automatically used to fill in informational boxes. When visitors may be filling out multiple forms or information pieces, have the data fields retain their information, and auto-fill subsequent forms that are filled out. With this “sticky” information, you create a simpler, easier experience for your users, which will prompt them to stay on-site longer. Where your links are will determine if visitors can get around your site. You need a neat navigation structure that is consistent and easy to use for viewers to better use and enjoy your site. Use shortcuts as often as you can. Many things have shortcuts when it comes to website design, and by taking the time to learn them, you will find faster ways of doing many different tasks. 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Output: File types have a lot to do with the speed at which your website loads. In general, JPEGs and GIFs are best for graphics... Input: Continue. Output: While PNG and BMP files create crisper graphics, these types of files can take up significant disk space. To be sure visitors have a... Input: Next. Output: positive experience, graphics should be converted to file types that are better-sized. Try the common “newsletter” technique to keep your readers reminded of your services. You can keep your visitors informed about important events, updates, and changes when they sign up for a newsletter, and the flow of information will often tempt them to revisit your site. Your website's sidebar is an ideal location... Input: More. Output: for the signup form, and you should make certain to stay on top of who has registered. Make sure you only send off the newsletter to people that want it, or you're... Input: More. Output: sure to find yourself in some trouble. One of the biggest mistakes people make is not reserving domain names immediately when they are considering... Input: More. Output: owning several sites. Choose something creative, but reserve it as soon as you can so it is available to you whenever you decide to start creating your website. It is not uncommon for many people to have similar ideas. Many creative people think alike. Development platforms build the code for you, however, they really are not as dependable as a regular text editor. With... Input: Continue. Output: a platform, you design the page and then use the platform's generated code. If you hope to gain a real understanding of coding, though, then a text editor is a good learning tool. Good website design is often the result of good research. Research your niche, so you can set your sights on your target audience. Think about how best to design your site... Input: Continue. Output: to reach your target market. Your design work will thus be much more efficient. Keep in mind that it is very important to have your website design tested on many different web browsers. Different browsers will read and display a site in different ways, which can have some unintended results for site visitors. There are a number of resources that you can use to... Input: Continue. Output: determine what popular web browsers should be tested. If you end up with designer's block, look around the internet. There are millions of websites available to gain inspiration from. Find an interesting site and borrow features that will work on your site. Just grabbing the ideas of others is not always enough to guarantee success for your own website. You have to make yours... Input: Next. Output: better. Figure out who you think your audience will be as you design your website. This will aid you in your design as you... Input: Continue. Output: incorporate multiple features on the site. Look into Adobe Dreamweaver. Even new designers can use this program. There are lots of features and many layouts and templates for you to use. You can preview your site before finalizing it. Captchas are wonderful when used for registration, though they should not be used for anything else. Most people are likely to leave your page and go elsewhere. Implement site searching abilities into your home and sub pages. You make your site much easier to use and more accessible all in one shot with this search offering. This search option is surprisingly easy to add, and will greatly improve navigation throughout your site. Keep the levels of literacy in mind when you are writing your content. If you wish to... Input: Next. Output: expand your audience, you must first produce content that they can comprehend. Always consider the literacy levels of your audience when creating new content for your website. If you want to appeal... Input: Next. Output: to everyone, write so that everyone can understand you. Have someone test... Input: More. Output: your website out for functionality every step along the way. Whenever you add something new, you should have a person come by and give you constructive feedback. What may look fine to you, may be of major concern to someone else. Avoid wasting time by programming your domain and user name into your file server. By doing this, you will be able to quickly select your settings from the main menu every time you log in. You will find this to be a time saver. Tap into your creative side during your website design. Inspiration can strike at any time, so be ready for it! If you have an epiphany while you're out and about, write it down on any scrap of paper you can find. Or, if... Input: More. Output: you think of something at work, call home and leave yourself a message to remind you. It is important to know that white (unused) space, on your site is a great idea and should not be cluttered. Eliminating clutter will let your customers have an easier experience in navigating your website, and will let them relax and enjoy the experience. Implement a site map. There are two things that a sitemap does. One, it makes the site understandable. They're able to find what they're searching for and see what your site offers just by using the map. It is also great for SEO. The search engines will much better be able to locate your site and begin crawling. Keep accessibility in mind when you design your page. You... Input: More. Output: may even want to have someone from another country check out the site for you. Because technology is advancing so rapidly, it is critical that you stay ahead of the game when it comes to web design. Since websites are the go to place for most businesses, it is important for the future that you have a creative looking site. For that reason alone, being able to build a website can become extremely lucrative for those that know how. This accomplishes two purposes. First, it helps your site be easier to understand. They help people find what they need and learn more about what you are offering. Site maps are helpful for SEO. They make it easier for web crawlers to navigate and index your site. Your website... Input: Continue. Output: should have a favicon. This is a very small graphic, but it will make it easier for your guests to bookmark your website. When they are looking at the bookmarks they have... Input: Next. Output: created, your little favicon will make an impression. When designing a favicon, ensure it's consistent with the logo and theme of your site. Inspiration can come in a variety of formats. Ideas... Input: Next. Output: can come from all kinds of places, such as kid's projects and... Input: More. Output: television. There are a lot of new ideas just waiting for you, and these can lead to a unique website that will have potential customers clamoring for your services. It is important to become proficient at cascading style sheets. HTML is okay, but most of the design work happens in CSS. These style sheets serve as a reference guide for your site to make... Input: Next. Output: sure each page has a consistent look. It also makes it easy to change some things on your web site. For example, if you decide to switch your font to blue, all... Input: Continue. Output: it takes is making a quick change to the code. Lots of factors have to be taken into account when it comes to web design. For beginners, creating a website seems like... Input: More. Output: an extremely difficult and complicated endeavor, but it certainly doesn't have to be. Take the tips you have learned from this article and apply... Input: Next. Output: them, so you too can be designing a rewarding and nice looking website. Background colors should be neutral. Backgrounds that are textured can overwhelm... Input: More. Output: visitor's vision and, when not used correctly, can even make your site look amateurish. Use a neutral or even white background. Studies have proved... Input: Next. Output: that using neutral colors can make your site a lot easier to read.

<|prompter|> What could be the completion of this text: Charles: I know this kind of communication has been recorded for hundred of years but are we now at a time when it will be commonly used? Humankind will have to be aware of trickery! Abraham: Correct, your own integrity and wisdom shall assist you to discern. You see it has been said - the time for physical (note: appearance) has passed. You may observe this in many areas of humankind's existence in your time. Communication through your air-waves has increased too. You space communication from nation to nation is fast. Many, many years before, one nation was unaware of another simply because there was not this communication. Your planet is more united in it's people through this communication you have. The communication we have with you shall serve humankind to become aware of the other worlds, the other Beings who inhabit your Universe. Charles: One of my concerns is that with this amount of teaching through minds such as Rubys, distortion could take place. Each receiver will naturally express thoughts in a different way. Are teachers such as you also teaching in a differing way to each other? Because I am confused at times and this could lead to agitation and arguments as you know. Seth's teachings would be a good example for us. Abraham: You may find twelve teachers of English, all having the basic content to deliver but each imparts something of him or herself in the manner in which they teach this subject, English. In turn each student receives the information in an individual manner, differing each to each. So, if each student of these twelve teachers were to discuss their lessons they may all vary but still contain the same basic principles of the subject. In this manner teachings such as this appear to differ and, given the method of communication, variation must of natural occur, although the basic subject matter remains the same. Charles: Seth was on teacher speaking through Jane Roberts. Abraham speaking through Ruby. The Urantia Papers it seems, although coming to one unnamed person had various teachers, yet with the same style and content can you explain this to me? Abraham: Correct. Each group of teachers, and there are many, who delivered these papers had a message to deliver and did so. From the Melchizedeks you received one subject matter for example. From The Evening Star Corps you received a different subject. Throughout you can find a thread of sameness but the content is different. The thread of sameness is Truth and the person who received this information. Charles: Ruby has had three teachers: Bertha, Abraham and Melchizedek. Evolving and that certain sameness yet with different content. Abraham: If I were to give you a "paper" word for word verbatim, paper 194 as example. You already have this, why give again. There is much that has been received before times it does not need repetition. The only constant is the Truth of God. Humankind vary so much in their understanding of communications such as this, that it must grow with the understanding of the experience. Charles: We have more correspondence from America to read to you, I shall not read the whole letter only the questions. The letter is from B. His first question concerns the correcting time which I think has bee well covered. The second is "What admonitions are give to the vanguard? "Machiventa: Ah, yes. To understand the correcting time, to understand each part each has in this. Is not the "vanguard" the fore runner? From this information is passed on. "Greetings to my Elder Brother Machiventa Melchizedek and Abraham, Please accept my profound gratitude for answering my questions and most especially for the Divine Wisdom that I deem a life would be well spent in applying and sharing, and particularly on Jesus Birthday which you too, must celebrate. Sir, for the sake of clarity and wholeheartedness, would you please confirm the validity of or release me from the error of the Angelic Liaison Project? Please use me in any manner you see fit, regardless of any lack of courage on my part. Nevertheless, Our Father's Will be done. With Love, your fellow servant. "Machiventa: Thank you, your wishes are received. You wish release from the Angelic Liaison, if this is your desire you have the power within yourself to accomplish such release. My instructions to your fried are in your own words, The Father's Will be done. Thank you for your kindness in your correspondence. The thin line of communication which you have thrown is spreading to others you are not aware of. The response in number is less than the number who received, but no matter those who have fore-thought and vision are being found by this line of communication. Thanks for sending me your responses from Abraham and Melchizedek. Gee golly, if I'd know that I was to have a personal audience, I may have written something more lofty, noble, or intelligent. But then again, maybe not. If you can't be yourself in this big creation, then what's the point? I have to say, I was most impressed with the calligraphy of Benjamin. Really outstanding style. Since my own writing is awful, I'm appreciative of anyone who can make a legible handwritten document. I wish I could say the same for Melchizedek and Abraham. I don't mean to be irreverent, but I found their responses lacking. (I know their reply: "I find Matt (from Florida) lacking. " Laughter in the background. When you read the sections in the Urantia Book, written by a Melchizedek, you come away impressed at the sentence syntax, the flowing style, the extraordinary synthesis of ideas. It rings true, renewing your soul for higher spiritual strivings. The following passage, for example, fostered enough courage in me to leave an authoritarian religion:Faith has falsified its trust when it presumes to deny realities and to confer upon its devotees assumed knowledge. Faith is a traitor when it fosters betrayal of intellectual integrity and belittles loyalty to supreme values an divine ideals. Faith never shuns the problem-solving duty of mortal living. Living faith does not foster bigotry, persecution, or intolerance. Faith does not shackle the creative imagination, neither does it maintain an unreasoning prejudice toward the discoveries of scientific investigation. Faith vitalizes religion and constrains the religionist heroically to live the golden rule. The zeal of faith is according to knowledge, and its strivings are the preludes to sublime peace. (Urantia Book Page 1113-5 Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon). My answer to your friend is this . ## Obviously planetary management is diverse, is large. Certainly part of my "management" must before Urantia and its peoples, therefore "time" is allotted for this. Surely this is understandable? Why New Zealand? It is young, it is fresh. Persons are young and are fresh. Persons are willing and able to assist in this management ministry. We enjoy the humorous also. You see it is natural for persons to doubt, to query. You see the man Jesus also was queried, and would be again, yes. So as we have said before-times, preparation must be good, has been good. Can you see the difference in quality, if not in content? I mean, "person are young and fresh. " And that poem? It would have been better:And by the way, Abraham, you are a ghost! You happen to be a deceased ancestor of mine. I descend from you loins, so to speak. I even named my son Isaac. Four generations ago, my ancestors converted from the Jewish to the Christian faith. By definition, that is what a ghost is: a deceased ancestor that returns to communicate with the living. And calling me a jester, Abraham? I could say a few things about your conduct in the flesh, but the "golden rule" restrains me. I could go on, but there is one last thing I would like to say. I was wrong, ghosts can come back and communicate with the living. It even says so in the big blue book. They have to wait for the closure of a dispensation, through. That makes you eligible to return, Abraham. And God didn't have to bend the rules, as Melchizedek suggested. (I am a little disappointed that neither of you knew that. I mean, it must have come up in the past with all those students wanting to come back and study our primitive culture. So, is the correcting time here? Yes. Is Machiventa Melchizedek present now? Maybe. Why not? Do you have a direct channel to him? Not from the correspondence that you sent me. Do I still have to go to work every morning, pay taxes, and brush my teeth? Yes. Machiventa: I accept your comments. It would be foolish to enter in an argument, discussion justifying the manner in which this communication is being delivered as opposed to the method of communication delivering the Urantia Book. This statement does not imply that I am unwilling to enter into such discussions, simply that it is foolish and serves no purpose. Of course closure of a dispensation equals God changing rules, "Bending" / changing? Closure of a dispensation causes change to occur. But as I have said I do not intend to enter into a discussion on semantics. The Urantia Book and the Papers contained therein are full and complete in themselves. There is no need to repeat these Papers, they are their entirety. This communication is to expand, if you will, using the Urantia Book as a base of such further expansion. Have I made myself clear? Is my sentence syntax to your liking? If there are further comments you wish to discuss I am happy to do this. I enjoy intelligent discussion. There is a time and a place for jesting, for tongue in cheek comment. I would prefer facetiousness to be put aside in serious discussion. Nonetheless I am happy to have received word from you. ## Abraham: Intellectual, academic teaching and learning are important, but also the feeling, spiritual teaching and learning are equal in importance. There must be a joining of both to achieve a whole understanding. In one letter it has been mentioned "The Father's Will Be Done": The answer given was also "To do the Father's Will" I ask you What is the Father's Will? The Father's Will is infinite. To allow yourself to expand your thought to the Universe Father and to recognize the God dwelling within yourself and to be guided in all your thought, feeling and action by this God part, so that your Will becomes the Father's Will. You still have freedom of Will within this. Then, Greetings to our friend Matt: - My Friend, Teacher's answer was somewhat stern. It is intended for you to search your thought and your feeling behind the action of your communication. Your natural sceptisism is appreciated. Blind Faith is not a Living Faith. Blind Faith is not expected. Living Faith leads to Revelation. Revelation is Life-giving and this in turn reinforces Living Faith. Because your communication was somewhat disguised in "humor" your intention is not clear. Do you require proof? But of course! In which manner this proof may be give for you is not simple. What is proof for you is not necessarily proof for others. Each individual must arrive at his/her own Living Faith. I refer you to Paper 194, perhaps this shall assist your acceptance. Perhaps we shall have the pleasure of further discussion? Be guide by your Inner voice in all things you contemplate, in all things which require thought, feeling, action, understanding. But be ever allowing yourself room for expansion of your won path of thought, feeling, action, understanding. Hello Everyone, I just finished reading the material that you sent me and I am quite excited about what I've read - although it is somewhat sparse. I was hoping to receive some of the information that you have been receiving since 1984. Perhaps you are needing to put it in a booklet form in order to accommodate all the inquiries you've had sent to you. Could you let me know the status of this? I hardly know where to begin with this letter. So much of it is in line with the information I've gotten over the past 6 years. Sometimes these phenomenon seems like such a lonely path yet with patience substantiation does come forth, from some unusual places, yes? I would like to share a number of things with you that will probably end up as questions at the end of this letter. First of all the matter of those humans who have left the planet being able to contact us. It is my understanding, from studying with a small but powerful group last year, that after a dispensation this is possible to do. As we all know there was a dispensation when Jesus left the planet. Abraham would fit into this category of people living before this time. So if this theory is correct then his contacting us is possible. Secondly, I am quite interested in the topic of free will choice. I have been working quite hard to explain to people that as a Group Consciousness we as a planet have the ability to choose, to request celestial intervention and help. If enough people are making this request then it appears to me that the Supreme moves towards (us away from) a planet. This then appears to trigger all manner of Celestial response and help. They in their work, along with human beings towards the spiritual upliftment of that planet. I find it amusing at times that some Urantia Book readers refuse to open up to ... <|assistant|> Rest of text: this possibility. It is such a natural possibility it seems to me, and those who read this Book have such a gift in understanding who these Beings might be! I also feel that if enough work of this nature is being done that a Machiventa or Abraham type personality would be summoned to assist in the next phase of spiritual upliftment. I have said before times we are unable to intervene in the affairs of humankind until or unless the majority request such assistance and intervention, and this is occurring in your time, this is the correcting time. Regarding the idea of coming Planetary upheaval, I have maintained, almost from the first time I heard about the doom and gloom forecasts for our planet that something was terribly amiss. I made it a point never to buy into any of these ideas because I knew that if I gave my attention to these os called prophesies that they could indeed happen. In fact, I sometimes wonder if Caligastia might have his hand in spreading this fear, after all what better way to disrupt the growth of the new spiritual energies than through undermining love with fear. I shall answer, not so much Caligastia himself but rather there are many person who have they believe a Puritan mind concept of Life, morality. Some of these person become over burdened with the puritanical and become tyrannical in their puritanism and so go forth into the world proclaiming that any such person not of a puritan mind, morality shall forever be cast into sin and hell. Therefore what could be a good value, for example, Puritan, can become quite the opposite. You see there is always two sides. Continue with the letter. Again I feel that if enough people went into their anxieties that we could create these very catastrophes. At some point I came to understand that this shift is in consciousness - that is when the upheavals are occurring. The upheavals mean to me that many of us are being forced to let go of old, non working ways of being to clear ourselves for the new energies that are hitting the planet. Not much fun but necessary. We are workers with much to do. Sometimes the letting go is quite painful. What keeps many of us holding on is that we know we have to do this, or that somewhere, somehow we've chosen to do this. I've just re-read this letter and I hope you don't mind my going on like this - but it so wonderful to be able to share this information in detail. There's so much that's happening and has happened in my life. If your contacts are real it's going to be opening a whole new scope to many of our lives. It will give so much confirmation to the fact that trusting God's outworkings has been worth all the confusion, struggling (humor) and un-certainties that have bewildered so many of us. I never seem to understand what is happening at the moment - but in retrospect it always makes sense. Abraham: Yes and so much is in this manner. You see the time is past for a "physical appearance. " In these times it is all Higher Consciousness. Yes and a great trust in yourself, in God, must be built upon. Yes, for all humankind. It is difficult and we are understanding this difficulty, but it is also of simplicity, yes it is of difficulty for humankind to be of simplicity. continue with letter. I too, got a sense that the circuits were slowly being turned back or that to just turn on all circuits would be a total shock to our systems. Crystals started coming into my life about 3 years ago and I feel certain that they are playing a major role in this happening. I received some messages about this at the time and while I don't pretend to understand the total ramifications of these circuits being activated - I would certainly love to know more. Abraham: Crystals are a great method for transmission. Do not worship the crystal power out of proportion. Crystal is a transmitter and is used in transmitting and receiving, an extension of all there is. Humankind physically are dense. Crystal are the opposite. The crystal allows the transmission of energy to be passed on from the Universe. This is clear for you? And, you see, Higher Consciousness is of such fragility of wavelength, it is not always possible to be received through the denseness of the physical body. This is the reason why you are encouraged to the "stillness" (note: meditation) to relieve some of the denseness of the physical for you to receive Higher Consciousness wavelength. Crystals may be used as an extra transmitter/receiver. You are understanding? They are not a power force as such on their own but they are of great value in lightening the physical atmosphere surrounding Urantia and it's peoples, yes. Each crystal has it's own value of transmission. Each person my require differing crystal from each other. You see each person operates on a slightly differing wavelength from another person. This is your individual sound, color, wavelength, yes. Each crystal is capable of transmitting and receiving many wavelengths but you (humankind) must find one that you are comfortable with for yourself. Finally, I have the sense that some people may be turned off by the idea of "chosen" people. An idea about this concept came to me a few years ago. It's not so much that God has specifically chosen us, rather that we have chosen God. I believe the Bible passage that "many are called - few are chosen" should read "many are called - few have chosen. If have said many times "few have chosen. " When it becomes the majority Then shall Heaven be on Earth. And these persons who are communicating Helen, have chosen. Abraham: It must be (note: wistfully! ) yes. And you see Helenn these person Ruby, Charles, Martin and Benjamin have chose to be together at this particular journey of life, to undertake this particular mission, yes. Just as I have chosen to do what I am doing. To set the record straight. The Urantia Book mentions that after a dispensation we can be contacted by former planetary mortals (page 1230 - last sentence). Why didn't Machiventa mention this? It would seem to offer a rather plausible explanation, more so than saying that Abraham is on a special assignment from God. Not to be flip, but his explanation is used by many people claiming all manner of distorted information coming through - supposedly because of their special assignments from God. Abraham: Yes, Yes, Yes. My Friend/Teacher referred to "God changed the Rules" as explanation for my present assignment, and this is correct. There have been many claims by different personages that they are on special assignment etcetera, etcetera. But when you look into the use of the English language there are many words, but there are not very many choices to describe such an "assignment. " I have been assigned a particular task, which I have requested and have been given permission to carry out this task. So I am on assignment. I would have thought this a fairly reasonable manner in which to describe my return. I understand your concern regarding the others who have claimed special assignments from God. This has occurred throughout history. There were others at the time Jesus walked the Earth. Your own integrity and wisdom you must rely on to discern which Truth and which is not. I am unable to make you believe. I find the idea of the Supreme fascinating. Is the Supreme moving closer to our planet because enough people through their Free will choice have asked for Celestial intervention and help? and does this movement then trigger or activate a whole host of Celestial Beings mustered into service to help us with spiritual upliftment? Is this why so many people seem to be channeling these days? Is the channeling activity from outside sources, peoples own higher selves or both? And how can we test whether we are receiving authentic information or not? Please give succinct information on this. Abraham: The Correcting Time which is now beginning, correction which is now begun, may last for many years, perhaps a thousand, perhaps more, maybe less in your terms of measurement. This length of the Correcting time is dependent on humankind's capacity to understand and accept God and be willing for change to occur for Light, Truth and Beauty to reign Supreme on Urantia. At this particular time as the correcting time has begun there are Celestial Beings gathering. they have been gathering, watching, caring for you all for many, many centuries. They wait patient, watchful, careful. There are many persons such as Ruby receiving Higher Consciousness, channeling as you say. It is all part of the correcting time. You must understand the length of time in you years, it could take until the return of the Son of God, Michael. It is unknown to us when this shall occur. It is entirely dependent on humankind. Some persons, to use your word, channeling are receiving Truth. Some person are in touch with Higher Consciousness. Some persons believer they are in touch with Higher Consciousness. Ruby's conscious mind is still functioning for herself. She is able to think of herself. Speak for herself if she desires. She is conscious of all present in this room with her. Peripheral sounds she is aware of also, but apart from this Ruby's Higher Consciousness has linked with the Higher Consciousness that is Abraham, through to my Friend/Teacher Machiventa Melchizedek, through to all the Higher Realms when the necessity arises. I have said "I cannot make you believe in this communication" you must use your own integrity and wisdom to discern Truth for yourself. I have answered all queries? You required succinct answers, have I explained fully? continue letter. Concerning the Planetary circuits coming back on. What are the ramifications of this fact? What exactly does this entail and how will mortals benefit from this happening? Also what part do Quartz crystals play in this event and is this why crystals are presently finding their way to many people opening up to a more intense spiritual awakening? Abraham: The ramifications of the turning on of all circuits are diverse, it is not possible to give all information, even I am unaware of many of the ramifications. You see, so much depends on humankind desire, yes. And I believe I have answered the crystal query, there is not need for further explanation. I would like to know, and this seems to be important for my present spiritual path, if Urantia is being visited by humans from other planets, and why have I been given the privilege to see these ships, and what exactly I'm supposed to be getting ready for concerning this matter. Also, is some of what I'm seeing in the sky, Start Students, much like Lena (? ) Sadler saw in Chicago? Abraham: Yes, I am unable to give nay information regarding your experiences, or why you are privileged in these experiences. This may appear "flip" but it is for you to find out for yourself! I am certain you will be able to do this. Some of what you see could indeed be Star Students, some also could indeed be the Watchers. They will advise you if necessary to know. You see there are some informations I am unable to give because it is not the right thing to do. There are some things humankind must still earn for yourselves! Yes. Thank you for the chance to do this. It is my sincere desire that Truth will always be manifest for what is Love and Truth will endure, the rest will fall away Machiventa and Abraham, please know that we welcome you back to Urantia, and thank you for your Guidance and Love. There are still many facts to be considered about this possibility - after all we are human and many of us have had other encounters of this type only to be quite let down. If however, thorough our own gentle inner guidance and our inter-action with the both of you, we are shown that this is in fact truly happening, know that we will work in any way possible to prepare for our most Loved and Adored Michael's return. In the meantime, we are doing our best to share spiritual Truth as we know it. I repeat - I am understanding the difficulty humankind face in the seeming onslaught of differing "messages" quotation marks please - therefore, I re-iterate, use your own integrity and wisdom concerning Truth for yourself. I cannot make you believe anything you do not wish to believe. You shall find Truth within yourself. Thank you for your communication Helenn. Then you have no doubt noticed my improved "syntax" and "succinctness". I have been foraging! ! Thank you for your effort in this mission. In the first section of the preceding letter you will see the writer had been hoping for some information we had received since 1984. All our note books are at present with Doug Pratt at the University of Waikato Religious Studies department, all the information contained in the note books is at present being put on to Computer, when this has been done it is hoped we will be in a position to send all relevant information to you. Doug's intention is to remove the chaff from the wheat! as much of the contents relate to very personal "counselling" sessions with Abraham.

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We have our on in-house architect. Plans start at $1.25 per square foot. Track and field is similar to that of horse racing's Triple Crown and if one team sweeps its championship meets, the same question arises every year — can that same team do it again? Century's boys swept last season's county, regional, and state meets and they repeated the same feat in indoor. The Knights won the county and Class 2A West meet in decisive fashion, and edged Westlake by 2.5 points at states. They'll be on the hunt for their sixth straight county championship at Manchester Valley on Tuesday. Century crowned four individual champions in five events at last year's meet. <prompter> More of this please: Senior Zachary Fenton, the reigning 1,600 and 3,200 county champ, is back this season. Track and field is similar to that of horse racing's Triple Crown and if one team sweeps its championship meets, the same question arises every year — can that same team do it again? Century's boys swept last season's county, regional, and state meets. This weekend, Churchill Downs hosted the ... <assistant> Completed pargraph(s): 144th Kentucky Derby, the first jewel in the Triple Crown Series that makes its next stop at Pimlico for the Preakness Stakes and ends with the Belmont Stakes in New York. The Derby, known as “the fastest two. In the 1950s and '60s, the show jumping champion horse Snowman proved that rescue horses are capable of greatness if given time and compassion.19, Carroll audiences... <prompter> Next. <assistant> will have the opportunity to see the story of Snowman's journey from... <prompter> More. <assistant> I don't take many days off. Actually, I'm struggling to think of the last time I took off from work in the past few years, save a sick day this winter. I... <prompter> More. <assistant> take pride in the fact that I work hard. But, that's not to say there aren't days, weeks even,. As of Wednesday morning I had a column all written about the Canter... <prompter> More. <assistant> for the Cure which is a really fun adjunct to the upcoming festivities that occur right around the Preakness. But all that has changed... <prompter> More. <assistant> Canter for the Cure has been canceled because of. The Big Beast has certainly lived up to his name, and his size. The multiple Grade 1 stakes performer was named the Maryland-bred... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> Horse of the Year on Feb.25, as announced by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. Owned by Alex and JoAnn Lieblong,. I had a very interesting conversation with several highly respected long-time horse... <prompter> Next. <assistant> ladies yesterday, and it centered not on "how things are different now," or "the way it used to be," or "what's wrong with the world today? " What it centered on was the. 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Arrogancy had asked in the forums if two days with brimstone logs existed, and I like brimstone runs, so I figured, why not do one to post a log? [words 5] planning sheet, changed it a bit, and within 20 minutes had enough of a plan to go and ascend.1) I planned to donate for the Boris helmet in-run because I was going to buy it [words 6] it in-run? So that's why I pulled the JEW hat - I knew I [words 7] HP. Normally I'd just pull a CoT, no jew hat (or R&R) and just use the amazing MP from the crown to [words 8] buff. As it was, I was pretty strapped for MP. So the run is totally reproducible without a JEW Hat and without donating in-run, but requires a CoT (which is quite expensive). If you would want to do a brimstone run because you are on a budget. well, I have no great advice as to what to do here. Do a myst run for MMJ access I guess? 2) I pulled a Navel Ring because I figured I could wear it while wearing brimstone. However, I wasn't really wearing the ring with the full brimstone anyway, and GAP would have allowed bander-fattening at the friars. So GAP would be better here (although navel ring was nice for tower killing, +100% spell damage and 50% block rate is sweet).3) I didn't pull [words 9] those were good gown days. Also, I rarely ran my astral belt, and very very rarely ran both astral belt and LLK at the same time. I think if I were to do the run again, I would take an astral shirt and bring a cuirass. Astral shirt is better early, and gown is better late. Once you're wearing brimstone you [words 10] belt - too many things compete for your accessory slots. So since you won't be wearing your astral item either way, I think astral shirt then gown would be better, at least for muscle runs. For [words 11] not sure.4) I only pulled one melange, because I was fairly confident I could do the within ~520 turns. However, if you're not sure you can do it, just make room for a melange on day 1.5) Day 2 is almost completely blank because I didn't have time to fill it out, and besides day 2 pulls are much freer.6) I did it as a TT because nobody ever does speed runs with TTs, and I think Brimstone is particularly great as a muscle class. Day 1 plan is to get to level 8, YR a miner and use 5 free mines. I'm not getting full brimstone until tomorrow, so I want to spend as [words 12] since I also want to YR [words 13] familiar jacks for quadroculars. So I'll do antique 8-bit early to get to 4, use a clover for two sonars, and [words 14] beanbat. Then I'll just set the song and do quests. I forget to talk to the guildmaster until turn like 6 or 7, so I have to waste a turn or two later on to open the guild. I probably didn't really need to open it anyway, it is only useful for the malus and the cheap wind-up clock. I was running out of turns getting at the tavern; I wanted to drink peppermint booze, but no booze had dropped, and the medium hadn't dropped booze yet. So I cast ode, drank 2 pilsners at level 8, finished the tavern, made and drank a swill, then used two bricko fights with [words 15] medium to get the medium's red-aura booze - which, it turns out, is muscle aligned with bricko fights. [words 16] I had 2 turns of ode left [words 17] medium's booze. Ideally, I'd have thought of the bricko-medium interaction earlier and would have avoided drinking two pilsners at level 8, then drank peppermint later. However, I did a mistake earlier in the run, pulling two [words 18] one. That meant I was missing a pull for the third pirate piece, and with no booze from the cellar, I had no good way of getting a peppermint drink (without spending useless turns at the pirates finishing the outfit). So it ended up being okay. Day 1 was kind of bad. I only managed to get 4 hipster combats and they took [words 19] coming, and mimic gave me a crapton of piddles and nothing else. Groose took his time giving grease, oh, and I didn't even run down my navel ring runaways down to 20% because they kept whiffing. However, even despite this I managed to do everything I [words 20] was satisfied. I think I ran Jr, brimstone and friars food buff (which I grabbed yesterday before overdrinking) with fat leon's, which gave me a bit over 150% food drop - meaning no need to run a fairy. So more mimic! When running full brimstone, you take about 3 damage from any attack, so I had a CCS that went entangling noodles, toss 5 times, indigo cup + blue balls, toss until the fight ends, and used that CSS whenever I had mimic out. I wasn't actually planning on eating a badass pie but I killed the big meat bosses with the organ grinder anyway. I also killed [words 21] the organ grinder, but that was dumb. The zombie and ghoul bosses give [words 22] so I like killing them with a leprechaun, generally the groose. Here I already had all my grease, and I think red ray was up, so I probably should have killed one with organ grinder and one with he-boulder. Amazing gallery unlock. I got 6 hipster combats and 3 free runaways. I [words 23] fight on the next turn or two, in the spooky forest. WTF? That compensates for yesterday's shyness, I guess. SR up, killed Baa-baa with hound dog and got 3 stone wools. Stone woot! I ended up using the extra wool for +3 turns, but I should probably have killed some bars. I had kept the leaflet, stat script and chest of the bonerdagon for this point, where I use the shower buff and all the big stat-giving items. LOTS of stats - sadly, mostly moxie. I think I had 67 mys and 74 moxie by that point. I don't know what that is supposed to be. I don't remember misclicking, and certainly not twice. Uh? That was a pretty sweet war hippy camp. Slimeling disgorged a different outfit piece every fight, then after that I got the war start. Looks like I'll do the nuns trick. [words 24] here, then did the gremlin in 4 turns + 1 or 2 blank-out runaways. I had the stinky cheese eye up for a bit, but didn't see [words 25] AMC gremlin. So I had 6 turns of bittersweetness left and no combats - didn't much think this through. I then killed the bosses that were up, and used a stone wool to extend my bittersweetness for 3 turns, to compensate a bit for the 4 turns I'd have to waste opening the hidden city. So, I ran as much +combat as I could, and still got a [words 26] adventure here. Can't complain TOO much [words 27] the city with 4 squares untouched, which never happens to me. Guard chamber doesn't show because [words 28] pickpocket the gland and a free runaway afterwards. Upper chamber sucked. I was running +291% item drop and something like 5 rats failed to drop their ratchet. Also, I kept switching between Jr and Stinky cheese eye, hoping to get a banish, except whenever I had the Jr. it would throw a non-rat at me, and whenever I'd use the eye I'd get rats. I finally managed to banish something. Here I pulled some stuff just to see how many free pulls I would [words 29] want to know what I can pull for the nuns. My SR is going to be too late for inhaler, so instead I pull an inhaler and, since I think I'll have enough pulls left, a tempura cauliflower. I also make a ur-donut because I have nothing to do with my summons and I know I'll be a bit short of 13 by the time the battlefield ends. There is nothing better than making a prismatic wad in run. I make one nearly [words 30] luck into a mojo filter). Just remember that you can cook elemental wads into other elemental wads, and that this no longer takes a turn since they're not fancy. For some reason I think I don't have a thin black candle, and I know I need one, so I [words 31] far as I can, and take my stomping boots for a ride. I use a few free runaways, grab a plot hole that I don't really need but since I have only one tower item and tower killing becomes hard the more of them [words 32] I figure it's worth a shot (plus I'm still shy a few stats)Use one last clover and give 20k to boris to level to 13. [words 33] to use my stat script. So I could probably have saved a bit of time somewhere. I still have a clover for gum, but I need meleegra So my two pulls for large boxes becomes one pull. Ooooops! Maybe I shouldn't have pulled that tempura cauliflower. Thankfully, one large box is enough. I had enough turns left to go hunt in the dungeons of doom anyway. I need to towerkill 4 monsters, which is always a bit stressful. I don't screw up, but I can't get Trickster god to come up during the fourth. Thankfully I don't need it since I have the plot hole. 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They do this by offering games that support augmented reality, defined as combining virtual and real reality to enhance the gaming experience. This allows for features such as a smart phone app connected to a particular game in the casino as well as opportunities for players to take interactive photographs. However, casinos are aware that the novelty of these features will wear off quickly in younger players. As a result, casinos are constantly looking to update the technology they use in their games. In fact, some casinos now have what is referred to as a Gamblit game station. This hosts interactive skill based games such as Smoothie Blast. In this game players create their own smoothie with their choice of fruits. The combination of fruits a player chooses for their smoothie determines the amount of money they win from the game. Gamblit is in the process of teaming up with several gaming companies to create more skill based games. However, according to an executive for Gambling Gamblit, the company behind these interactive game stations has stated that the whole purpose of skill based games is to entertain younger players as opposed to luring them into casinos to spend money. As much as casinos are focusing on adding video game aspects to their machines, a researcher from Harvard University has stated that when video games are used to encourage young people to gamble they are losing the psychological benefits it offers. His argument is that these games won't help gamblers improve their playing skills. Even casinos in Las Vegas are jumping on the idea of making their games more interactive. One way they have done so is to incorporate e-sports into their entertainment options. These online video game tournaments in which players compete with others from all over the world is catching on with younger gamblers. E-sports also include betting on professional sports teams such as those in the NFL. Many younger gamblers are equally interested in both types of gaming. As technology continues to change and casinos struggle to reach younger gamblers, only time will tell if they can be persuaded to embrace the changes the casinos make. Gambling was first recognized in the 1790s thanks to one man's success at bookmaking. Harry Ogdon was the first person in the world that was ever able to turn a profit this way. He operated out of Newmarket Heath and studied horseracing thoroughly enough that he was able to lay realistic odds on each horse he bet on. By 1845 gambling was associated with racetracks. However, a new law at the time banned public card games in which real money was wagered. As a result bookies began to allow their customers to gamble on sporting games as opposed to races. Bookmakers would eventually take over shops to run their operation out of. Betting shops finally became legal in May of 1961. At the time, within a period of six months 10,000 new betting shops opened for business. Bookies would work behind the counter of the shops studying pages while the designated board-man would take information they received through the wire services and use it to mark up both prices and race results. In 1986 betting shops took advantage of new technology that allowed them to be equipped with TVs and serve hot drinks to their customers. This also marked the first appearance of “fruit machines” which evolved into the slot machines gamblers know and love today. Racing courses were computer generated in betting by this time. It wasn't until 1998 that bookies began to realize that they could move their betting shops to the Internet. This was the year that many online sports betting sites emerged, such as Betdaq and Betfair. It was also the year that many online Poker and Bingo sites were launched. By 2012 online gambling had created revenues totaling approximately $4 billion, up 80% since 2008. By the end of 2015 it was estimated that the total revenue had reached approximately $4. Online gambling isn't the only thing increasing the revenue within the casino industry. In 2012 there was a 75% boost in mobile gaming. In 2014 mobile gaming earned twice what it did in 2012. It has been predicted that by 2018 40% of all online gambling will be done on mobile devices. As a result more and more mobile apps are being created that allow gamblers to take their favorite casino games with them wherever they go. One way that brick-and-mortar bookmakers are attempting to compete with the online and mobile gaming industry is to include touch screen betting kiosks in their shops. These kiosks can be personalized for each individual bookmaker so that they can install a cash drawer or receipt printer. They are very interactive and user friendly. Paying, betting and gaming can all be performed on these kiosks. This is the best way that many bookmakers feel they can still compete in the industry and continue to thrive as business owners. It is likely that the casino industry will continue to grow and develop. Mobile apps are changing the face of the gambling industry. We have always been psyched about games that test our luck and we are further excited if there are great rewards in the end. The most popular casino games are the most rewarding ones but they are not just the ones that test our luck or fate without any effort on our part. If you have to guess what would be the most popular game of luck, then that has to be Bingo. Millions of people play the Bingo and the Lotto. Indeed, lottery is the most addictive, widespread and also the most rewarding game of gambling. However, it is not strictly one of the casino games and it certainly doesn't require any effort from the player. Here is a list of the most popular casino games, which are as much about luck as they are about strategy. The card game has become a household phenomenon, mostly because of pop culture. The game is not the most complicated of casino games. Many serial gamblers prefer other casino games but there is no debate that poker remains to be the most revered game in casinos. Also, the game is not just about getting the high card, the pairs, straight, full house, straight flush or royal flush among others. One has to outdo others and that is where all the bluffing, masquerading and strategizing kick in. Poker has several versions, including Texas Hold'em, Razz and 7-card stud among others. Many will be disappointed for ranking craps ahead of blackjack but this is not an order of popularity. Craps is a very easy game to play. There is hardly any effort involved and it is all about luck. There are many players at the table and you should know the rules. Get accustomed with the pass line, the don't pass line, the field line, the come line and the various bets including Big 6/8, Any Seven, C&E and of course Craps. If you have seen some movies that show the protagonists championing the counting of cards and then tricking the house to win, then you should rest assured that it is much harder than it seems. It is very difficult to keep counting and then finding yourself short of or at 21. There's a saying in Vegas that the house always wins. It happens to be true so bet responsibly. The most played game in any casino of the world. No matter how popular poker, blackjack or craps get, people will always slide a few coins down the slots. There are innumerable versions of slots and there can be different rules depending on the choice of the establishment and hence the calibration of the machine. Due to a recent increase in the net revenue generated by casinos throughout France, operators in the country are interested in expansion. This is the first time in over five years that France's net revenue has increased thanks to its casinos. French casino operators want to take advantage of this increase in revenue and expand in ways that will attract younger gamblers. There are 201 venues throughout France that offer gambling and the income generated in 2015 from these venues equals $2.36 billion. According to gambling operators France has more casinos than any other country in Europe. They have also noted that most of French casinos run by a specific operator offer casino patrons entertainment options that do not involve gambling. France's municipal governments are interested in possibly expanding the country's casino industry. Jean-Claude Gaudin, Mayor of Marseille, France, arranged for a study of casino gaming in the city to be conducted. The results of the study determined that having a casino in Marseille would lead to a €10 million increase in yearly tax revenue as well as the creation of 500 jobs. Nearby towns have already benefited from having casinos in them as Deauville's government draws 30pc per year thanks to the taxes placed on their casino games. Some French towns have drawn as much as 80pc per year from their local casino taxes. Though casinos are not allowed by law to exist inside France's borders, those who operate gambling facilities want to open their own casinos in France's capital city of Paris. There is a possibility that in the future, casino operators will be able to have private gambling clubs in the capital. The French government seemed to prefer the idea of gambling clubs to casinos for a while, though in 2008 several were closed after those running them were suspected of allowing the Corsican mafia to launder an undisclosed amount of money. It has been proposed that France replace its casinos with gambling clubs modeled after those found in London; these clubs would offer all of the usual casino games with the exception of slot machines. 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<human>: More spans: Popular author Donna Fletcher completes her identical twin sisters series in this spellbinding story about a man's fight for the love of his life. Rogan of the Wolf clan needs a healer to cure a relentless illness that is claiming the lives of his people. Hearing of Aliss's legendary healing skills, he abducts her from her clan Hellewyk. Distraught by the kidnapping and fearing she will never see her pregnant twin sister again, Aliss strikes a bargain with the wolf. She agrees to help him only if he will return her home after she mends them. Despite the circumstances, as Aliss settles in with Rogan's clan, the unlikely pair begins to fall in love. All is well until she learns the true reason Rogan abducted her. Aliss was to be ransomed for property rightfully belonging to the Wolf. Although Aliss feels the fool for being so easily led and caught in the Wolf's trap, it is Rogan who is ... life. Part of the fun in writing, Donna Fletcher admits, is doing the research. But it is with her characters that she has the most fun. She loves giving life to fresh characters and feels their excitement as they face the pleasures and pitfalls of falling in love. Donna's own adventures have taken her to England, Ireland, and Scotland. She has walked the fields where battles were ... mind. She also loves exploring and photographing old abandoned homes, and she often takes long walks in the woods with camera in hand. She feels her life is rich and full, having three terrific sons, two fantastic daughters-in-law, an endless supply of friends, a loving dog, and a crazy, black, one-eyed cat named Bear. Aliss hurriedly dressed, slipping into her dark green skirt and pale yellow blouse, while concern over the cleric's claim of his imminent death weighed on her mind. The cleric had been fine just this morning when she spoke with him. How could he be dying? As a healer, she did not take any illness lightly, and being woken in the dark of night by a distraught clan member made one assume the worst. Aliss quickly scooped her long red hair on top of her head, fastened it with a couple of bone combs, slipped into her doeskin boots, grabbed her healing basket sitting beside the door, and hurried out of her cottage. A chill filled the late night air, reminding her that although spring had arrived a few weeks ago winter was reluctant to depart. She should have grabbed her shawl but it did not matter. The cleric's cottage was but a short distance. A dark cloud blocked the light of the near full moon, causing Aliss to be more cautious of ... steps. The night seemed more quiet than usual, not a soul stirred, the only sound a mere whispered breeze. She arrived at the cleric's cottage and was disturbed to find the ill man alone. It was unusual that someone would not ... summoned. The clan Hellewyk always looked after each other and although the young cleric had only been ... such. " She reached out to touch the man's forehead, worried that fever might be the culprit. "It is filled with more than just herbs. I am certain that no matter what ails you, I have something to soothe it and make you well. ""You have nothing to be sorry for," Aliss said. Thinking he meant that he had disturbed her sleep, she sought to soothe him. "Illness and births do not wait for the light of day. I am often summoned in the middle of the night. ""Something I counted on. " He leaped off the bed, grabbed her other wrist, forcing both behind her back, and had her trussed like a captive animal before she could blink. Her scream barely reached her ... mouth. A strip of cloth was wound around her mouth and head and tied at the back. The room suddenly turned upside down when he hefted her over his shoulder, grabbed her healing basket and scurried to the door. He paused cautiously and once satisfied they were alone, he left the cottage without bothering to close the door behind him. Panic rushed up and sent a wave of nausea coursing through her. Who was this man since he obviously was not a cleric? Why was he abducting her? Where was he taking her? Fear struck her heart. The culprit who had abducted her and her ... punished. They had been reunited with their parents and their brother Raynor. His trail would be easy for Fiona to follow. She was an excellent hunter and ... weaponry. Protective of Aliss, she would let nothing stop her from hunting the kidnapper down, not her pregnancy or her husband Tarr, chieftain of the clan Hellewyk. Fiona would come after her, she had no doubt. But it disturbed her that her abductor was leaving a trail someone could easily track, because it meant he was either a fool or he had a plan that made it unimportant if he was followed. Distant footsteps kept pace with the cleric. She strained to see in the dark. Had someone discovered her absence already? Was her rescue close at hand? She continued to stare into the darkness, but not a single shadow intruded on the night. She prayed for courage and prayed her sister followed. She heard the footsteps again, but again they faded. Were Tarr's men surrounding them this very moment? Would ... relieved. This abduction could have to do with recent events that had not only upset her but her parents' clan Blackshaw as well as clan Hellewyk. It had all started with a prediction made by the prophetess Giann before the twins were born. It ... ago. Destruction to the clan was predicted if one twin did not wed. However, recently it was learned that destruction would befall the clan if both twins did not wed. When the Blackshaw and Hellewyk clans learned of this, clan members began demanding that Aliss wed soon since the prediction did not specify which clan would be affected. Tarr was then forced to deliver the unpleasant news to Aliss, though he emphasized that she could choose her own husband, just as long as she did so quickly. Excerpted from The Bewitching Twin by Donna Fletcher Copyright © 2006 by Donna Fletcher. In the middle of the sixteenth century Scotland, Rogan the Wolf has renowned healer Aliss abducted from her family because a terrible stomach ailment is causing havoc amidst his clan. Aliss at first assumes the worst about the barbarian, but once she realizes his people really need her skill, she rolls up her sleeves to try to heal them. He vows to her that once she heals his villagers, she will go home-. Rogan is shocked by her ... beast. As they work together with her trying to figure out the cause of the illness, Rogan and Aliss fall in love. She ... them-. Though lacking some of the mystery that turned THE DARING TWIN into a terrific historical romance, THE BEWITCHING TWINS is an engaging sixteenth century romance starring two intriguing protagonists. Readers will enjoy the changing relationship between Rogan and Aliss as he wonders who has captured whom. The story line can stand alone though most fans will prefer to read the other twin¿s tale first. Donna Fletcher provides a fine tale that hopefully will follow up with the non-twin sibling¿s story soon- Harriet KlausnerReally loved this book! I didnt read the first in the series, but you dont really have to to understand this one. Great charcters, great story line, ... book. Definitely would recommend if you like romance novels. I cannot understand all the five star ratings for this book. I really liked the first book in this series, The Daring Twin, so I tried to like this one. It was so repetative though, I found myself skipping every few pages toward the end. It's like the same scene played out over and over again, the two main characters said the same things again and again, and the heroine had the same internal dialogue on every single page. This book was boring. I love it so much i read it 5 times. You should like totally read this book. This is an excellent book. Very well written, I had a hard time putting it down once I started. Great story line and was very well balance. This book was terrific! Any reader who enjoys a nice warm historical romance to read would love this book. The love/hate relationship between Aliss ... fashion. Eventhough this book is a sequel to her twin ... relationships. Fiona does make an appearance with her husband, but not one that will leave you thinking 'huh? '. This is one book you don't want to miss! I love this author so I was very surprised that this story was so boring and predictable. Especially since the first book with the first sister was so good! This is the first time this author has let me down - if ... story. I prefer well developed characters and I really did not get this from this story. Mary wakes in the darkness of a dungeon after being abducted by a fearsome warrior. Suddenly her prison door opens to reveal a large man hidden in black shroud. He calls himself Michael, the Dark One. Cullen Longton was stunned by the news: he has a son! Cullen is now determined to find his child, who was stolen by a vengeful enemy, ... . Evocatively set in the Highlands of Scotland, this powerful and stirring tale of vengeance turned . Here is a freshly updated edition of one of the most popular introductions to the history and literature of the Old Testament. The Old Testament Speaks offers a clear picture of the archaeological, geographical, historical, and linguistic dimensions of God's . Barneys New York's red and navy silk twill necktie is hand-woven in a geometric pattern. Crafted in Italy, this intricate style is finished with a self-keeper loop and bar tack at the back. A halon fire extinguisher is an effective fire suppressant because halon is a clean agent. It can remove oxygen from a fire, and when you take away fire's fuel source, it cannot survive. Even though halon extinguishers are highly effective they are not good for the ozone layer, so most companies discontinued them. However, you can still buy excellent clean agent suppressants which do not harm the environment. Let's look at some of the available products for your Iowa business. A halon fire extinguisher has compressed gas in liquid state. It literally smothers fires and does not leave any residue behind. It's perfect for fires in areas of expensive equipment and materials. When you need fire suppression for a computer room or communications systems in Iowa, halon is a good choice. However, it does have environmental concerns, and it is not easy to dispose of. Clean agents like Novec 1230 give you the benefits of halon without causing environmental issues. Novec 1230 is better than using a standard halon fire extinguisher because it is safe to use in Iowa and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approves its use. It is clean to use and leaves no chemical residue or waste behind after application. If you need fire suppression equipment in the office or areas with occupied spaces, Novec 1230 is the right choice. Clean agents have a history of effective fire suppression with excellent protection. This makes them one of the most cost-effective solutions you can use for your fire prevention program. They work very fast and can put out small fires in seconds. Novec 1230 is one of the many eco-friendly clean agents you can buy for ... business. Talk to your fire equipment supplier for more information. 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Going into Arizona my FTP was 274, my VDot was 54 my weight was 145. My swimming was also at its best (best [words 12] swimmer). I had some wild notion and thought I [words 13] on a really good day if 200 watts could buy me a sub 5 hour bike. I just figured I could swim a [words 14] a 3:30 (my marathon PR was 3:29). My goals might have been lofty. I was scared to [words 15] swim. Dark and a Cold 62 degrees. I [words 16] with neoprene cap and booties. The cannon went off and I was getting clobbered. I had only started about 5 deep, [words 17] on my back and took a deep breath. This was not going my way. The year flashed through my head. I had to convince myself that I was well [words 18] put my head down and swim. It seemed that every few hundred yards on the way out, I would hit a huge group and get beat up for 20 seconds. The way back was much better. [words 19] strong in my pull, and was [words 20] the time I lost on the [words 21] out. I reached the stairs, had my wetsuit stripped, and started running to get my bike bag. [words 22] the water so I had no clue what my swim time was, but I felt pretty good about it. I wouldn't know what my time was until the race was over. I am not sure what took so long for transition. I [words 23] and cycling gloves might have taken [words 24] comfort items for the long day. The bike was 3 loops and I knew I had to do a 1:40 per loop to do 5 hours. [words 25] riding along” pace out of the gate, but I didn't have time to lose. On the way out we had a slight headwind [words 26] hill. On the way back I was flying downhill all the way to town. I hit the turnaround at 1:36, 4 minutes fast. I figured that was money in the bank that I might need later. The second loop seemed to [words 27] little harder, I started to think I [words 28] cooked the first loop. But I kept my power numbers in check. The wind seemed [words 29] changing up, not sure what it was, but it was different. I came into the turnaround at 1:39, still below my 1:40 goal [words 30] NP of 203. I saw my family cheering, this was a huge boost to start the third loop, it was like they game me superpowers. [words 31] the wind had shifted to a tailwind on the way out. It was a nice push up the Beeline. My average speed stayed over 22 [words 32] out, that was a big bonus! I headed back to town and decided to not worry [words 33] my power on the downhill. I knew I would beat [words 34] could give my legs a rest. I came into T2 with a 1:38 on the [words 35] and an NP of 199 for a total [words 36] 203. I was ecstatic! Once again running [words 37] was there yelling for me. I had goosebumps and [words 38] though. This was where the day started. I had been [words 39] “Mary” for two months now. I felt [words 40] but I had to pee. Yes, I tried to on the bike but couldn't do it. [words 41] in the transition so I figured I would run until I found one. The [words 42] to slow down. I was doing 7ish pace and hit a open porta potty on the course. I jump back out and still finish the first mile in 8:25. Ok, [words 43] time to slow it down for the first 6 miles or so. Mile 7 came [words 44] decided I had better take a Powerbar Gel. It about made me throw up. [words 45] to stick to liquids. I think I still stayed pretty conservative, I was worried about mile 18-20 and if I could hold it together [words 46] cramping. The miles just ticked off, and I still felt great. This was [words 47] spotted my family, I stopped and turned around [words 48] more lap! ” I was too excited! I was running strong. Just after mile 22 I heard someone say something like “it was only [words 49] I had no clue what the race time was, I started getting even more excited. I just kept running, and running. I saw coach Rich standing on the course, I asked [words 50] high five and said “get it [words 51] miles, it seemed like everyone was in my way. I was [words 52] to get to the finish. I completed the loop and they directed me towards some parking lot and around the corner to the finish. I clock was sub 9:50, I had a smile on [words 53] high fiving everyone down the finishing shoot, including my family. I don't think I [words 54] had a better day! I pretty [words 55] Core Diet plan from his EN webinar. Here is what I calculated. Steve and I drove up to the [words 56] the centre of Elizabeth. Steve is a careful driver and slowed to a stop before entering [words 57] roundabout. I saw him give way to me and rode on through. He started up again and ran over me. After we [words 58] alive we loaded the remains of my bike into his 4WD and went to the local police station. As we waited to report the accident [words 59] his lucky day, because he'd hit a minister, which meant I had to forgive him. I even suggested he could go home and say, "Guess what honey, I bumped into the local priest [words 60] didn't see the funny side at all. He told me later [words 61] home, he went back to the roundabout and drove through it again, and sat looking at it, wondering how on earth he had [words 62] managed to see what was right in front of him. [words 63] bull camel stepped off the Gunbarrel Highway [words 64] this crazy whitefella— me— driving in to him. I'd being watching the road very carefully because I had been travelling [words 65] safe. I'd been watching him for at least 2 kilometres, and had not seen what was right in front of me. In the reading today, Jesus talks [words 66] eternal life. It's much more than life that goes on forever after we die. [words 67] life that is now— it has to be now if it is eternal! As John sees it, eternal life is a completely different quality of life, a new dimension, a greater depth and reality into which Jesus takes us. It's a [words 68] make our joy full, or complete. (John 10:10)And we, as someone said in Bible Study on Wednesday, often feel an unfillable, empty spot inside us. [words 69] for meaning, a great grieving at the pain [words 70] we see around us, and within which we often live. Sometimes it's been dug out by terrible trauma from which we can [words 71] free. Sometimes it seems to be a great cavern [words 72] which can never be filled. Or some inescapable doom. In the long second or so that I saw Steve's truck running [words 73] away from him, knowing all the [words 74] escape. Life can feel like that. And all the while, according to John, eternal life is around us, [words 75] gift to be taken . and yet something we cannot see. We [words 76] that it is there, right in front of us. We may have [words 77] the midst of this deeper life, and we may even be actively seeking it! . and yet feel lost, and in the dark, and simply not able to see what, apparently, is here in plain sight. Eternal life is not like buying the next iPhone. It is what heals us and completes us, in our life circumstances— Irena's healing is different from Wes's, which is different from mine. I can't give you a prescription. And eternal life is way outside our present experience: the reason I didn't [words 78] whole life experience told me that we don't have camels standing on the road in Australia. So I couldn't see it. Steve was [words 79] so his mind made pushbikes invisible. But most of all, eternal life is a life. It is a way of living. That's why Jesus says, "Walk while you have [words 80] light. " Eternal life is a learning curve. We all [words 81] when a grandchild asks us to teach them to knit that they are beginning on a journey . you can't buy learning to knit. It takes long [words 82] halting and full of dropped stitches [words 83] mistakes. You can imagine a little child [words 84] needles, knowing grandma is counting stitches while she's watching TV and talking to someone [words 85] can never do this. I can't [words 86] where to begin. I can't even see what [words 87] say, "Well, that's alright for her. Grandma can slow right down, one stitch at a time, [words 88] her. But I can't see this eternal [words 89] thing. How can I be shown something one stitch at [words 90] "— Two of us get on [words 91] there is only one free seat. Who will sit down? Will I sit down if I [words 92] I ask if you need the seat more than [words 93] in the carafe at the back of the church. Will I grab it, [words 94] already had one, or will I leave it for Leonie? — I'm [words 95] church. Will I let that person on the side street into the queue at the lights, or close up the gap? There's a [words 96] life which says, "I will not get through life by taking things away from you. I [words 97] to make sure that you have the same opportunities as me. I won't take advantage of you. I [words 98] up some of my rights to give you a leg up. I will not insist on having things at [words 99] expense. I will not be the cause of you going without. tomorrow I will be changed, and I will see more things I am doing at your expense, or could be doing to even up your chances in life. As Aristotle said, "Everything we do is practice for the next time! " So on the third day I will find other things rise up and confront me. I will learn to see injustice, privilege, evil, need, despair, and hope . on a scale I had never imagined. it will seem there is much more need and despair than there is hope. And yet, in a strange way, this becomes the most comfortable place of all. The pit within me begins to be filled. I begin to see the world in new ways. I have new concerns . some old worries become irrelevant . some old wounds heal . and old scars fade a little. There are days when I am like a five year old saying, "Grandma, I knitted three whole rows without any mistakes! " I realise I have begun to step into the eternal. And yes, there will be days when it seems I drop every second stitch, and that life has no hope at all. This practice of loving my neighbour as myself is what Jesus called "hating my life. " It sets me free of myself, and it means I gain that greater, deeper understanding of life he called "eternal. " If I won't let go of living for me, I will run into the camel. I will be left sitting by the roundabout of life wondering, "How could I not see what was in front of me in plain sight? "He says "Walk while you have the light . " His life is the light. His life is the one which above all shows us how to be neighbour and heals us to see. There is a mystery in all this, and a great generosity, which I think is what we traditionally call the Holy Spirit. Sometimes when I see the wreck of people's lives, that poor lost soul in the Lindt Café, for example, I realise how close I was to being consumed by my angers and hatreds. 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<prompter> Fill in words: When should I get new tires for my car? This is a question I think about every year, usually in the fall. Currently, my lovely Dodge Journey has a little over [words 1] it. The tires are the ones I bought the car with, you know, the [words 2] very long. I swear they all wear out by 35k. So guess what? I'm getting new tires before winter hits. I always take my Journey to the dealership for repairs and maintenance. It's just easier to have it done all in one place. Plus, the mechanics there are trained to work on my vehicle. That means they have special training that other non-Dodge mechanics do not have. I also like doing my repairs and maintenance at one location because I never have the oh, the other mechanic did it, game going on. The dealership is the only place that touches my car so if anything is questionable they can pull my records and see exactly what was done the last time I was in. So how do [words 3] get new tires? Well, I have [words 4] help you tell when to take your vehicle in for new tires. Take a penny and put Abraham Lincoln into your tread with his head down, into the tread. If his whole head is visible then it's time for new tires. If any part of his head is not visible you are fine but if it's only a little bit covered you may want to start saving for those tires. I [words 5] to worry about this test because I drive so much. All that traveling really adds up, our latest trip to Missouri added 2000 miles onto my car in one week! It is suggested that if your tires are older than 6 years old you look into buying new tires. Some say every 10 years so check your tire specs and car manufacturer for more specifics. The Whole Truth in the Question of "The Fire Fiend": Between Dr. Shelton Mackenzie and C. Gardette; Briefly stated by the Latter. | The Vault at Pfaff'sThe Whole Truth in the Question of "The Fire Fiend": Between Dr. The following is a correspondence between [words 6] D. Shelton Mackenzie discussing Gardette's publication of "The Fire Fiend" and Gardette's claim that it was recovered from an unpublished Poe manuscript. Gardette addresses Dr. ## Mackenzie's changing opinions of the manuscript's authenticity. The Whole Truth in the Question of "The Fire Fiend," between Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, (Literary Editor of the Philadelphia "Press,") and C. Gardette, Briefly Stated by the Latter. Philadelphia: Sherman & Co. Shelton Mackenzie's peculiar code of (literary) morals having caused him to refuse me the opportunity of justification, and withheld him equally from acknowledging his own self-conscious mistakes and misrepresentations in the [words 7] us, I take this method of making known to my friends, and "all whom it may concern," or interest, "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" of the affair, as it relates to the relative positions of Dr. Mackenzie and myself, on the subject of the Poem entitled "The Fire Fiend. "I shall do this as briefly, clearly, and simply as possible; "nothing extenuating, nor setting aught down in malice" (which, I fear, has not been the way the learned literary Dictor will be thought to have treated me), if [words 8] myself, or the merits of my case. On the 30th day of September, 1864, there appeared in the columns of the Philadelphia Press, an editorial article, having for its title, "POE'S RAVEN: WHENCE CAME IT? "This article, which [words 9] attempt (and not a particularly brilliant one) to defend the late Edgar A. Poe from the charge of plagiarism, perorated with the following paragraphs, to wit:"In connection with this affair we may notice a great wrong done to Poe—unconsciously, we hope—by a young gentleman of this city who has dabbled in literature for some years, but has chiefly made his name known by sending to various newspapers some stanzas entitled 'The [words 10] unpublished manuscript of the late Edgar A. Poe, in the possession of Charles A. ' These stanzas, which have appeared with the above heading in various newspapers [words 11] are somewhat in the manner of 'The Raven,' but are much inferior, in all respects, to that renowned poem, and unworthy of Poe's reputation. We believe that Poe wrote them;(a) that rejecting them as not good enough for publication, he laid them aside among his failures; that he subsequently recurred, partly, to their peculiar metre, when composing his 'Raven;' that the manuscript, found among his papers after his death, was given away to some-body by Mrs. Maria Clemm, his excellent aunt and mother-in-law; and that this recipient may have been Charles A. Gardette, as aforesaid. A [words 12] Poe himself had deliberately rejected,and certainly judiciously rejected, should not be [words 13] world, from post to pillar, as the fruit of Poe's genius; but chiefly, it seems, to proclaim, in connection with the name of Poe, the name of the person who holds the manuscript. Thus flies are embalmed in amber crystallization. "Circumstances prevented my hearing of the above gratuitous attack upon my literary and personal character until the 13th of November, when I immediately wrote to Dr. Mackenzie for a copy of the Press containing it, and received the article, cut from that paper, on the 14th, through another attaché of the establishment. Mackenzie's remarks, I wrote and sent him, on the 15th, a reply, which I requested him to do me the justice of publishing in the Press [words 14] possible. "SIR: When the Press was yet young, 'The Fire Fiend, from an unpublished MS. Poe, in the possession of Charles D. Gardette,' was offered me for publication, and by me declined, because, judging from internal evidence, I thought that Poe could not have written it. (b) Neither he, nor you, nor any educated man could (all the underscoring is the Doctor's) have written"I have an impression that the poem appeared in the Evening Journal of [words 15] declined it. Then it was published in the New York paper, which I never saw, though I knew the fact, and in the St. Augustine Examiner, December 6th, 1860, as I find from a MS. copy thereof (Query: of the poem, or of the Examiner? G. sent me at the time, which is now before me. (Query: doeshe mean that the time, viz. December 6th, 1860, is now before him? G. I have always believed that you sent it, for surely no one else could care to copy such a long poem. So much for that point. "As to the other,- that Poe did write 'The Fire Fiend,' that Mrs. Clemm gave it away, that Poe rejected it, and that you held it,- I am [words 16] be assailed. (d) Some months ago, a correspondent of the Times (London) published a letter therein, in which he accused Poe of having translated 'The Raven' from an Oriental poem. One of the London journals defending Poe, said, that if he stole from any one, it was from himself, for that he had written a poem called the 'Fire Fiend,' which he had rejected, but on [words 17] the metre and the manner of 'The Raven,' and that Poe's mother-in-law had given the MS. to a gentleman in Philadelphia. Naturally enough I thought that you were the recipient, and said so. "If you desire it, your letter shall appear in the Press on Monday, followed by a note of mine, to the effect of what I now have told you. I take leave, in all good feeling, to suggest the omission of the paragraph which states that Poe never rejected the 'Fire Fiend,' 'though he might have rejected it, had it ever chanced to come within the sphere of his critical observation. '(e) This affirms a new and illogical theory, that the write of a poem is not naturally a critic upon it, with power to reject or publish it. "I have to add that I am sorry to learn from you that what I hastily wrote, without any unfriendly feeling, has been offensive to you. I would suggest that you give the public a history of the 'Fire Fiend,' and how it came into your possession,(f) for where such a man as Poe is charged with having written such a feeble poem, the mere assertion of any gentleman that he holds its manuscript, will not and ought not be accepted as proof of authorship. (g)To [words 18] I made an immediate reply, stating in substance, what is reproduced by the Doctor as its contents, in his published "explanation" (given below), and one thing, in addition, which he does not reproduce, viz. that I affirmed the line, "And my sweetest incense is the blood and tears my victims weep," to be grammatically correct, and was willing to stake my claims as an "educated man" on [words 19] correctness. On the 21st of November, Dr. Mackenzie published my first letter to him, and [words 20] "a few sentences of explanation. " Here is the combined article, as it appeared in the Press of November 21st. "SIR: Owing to long absence from town, it was but a day or two ago that I became aware of the use (or, more properly, abuse) of my name in an [words 21] above quoted, in The Press of September 30th. "Pray permit me to correct a few errors into which the writer of that article has fallen—'unconsciously, I hope'—with regard both to the MS. poem (the 'Fire Fiend') [words 22] to myself. The writer of that article asserts that I have been 'sending ot various newspapers some stanzas entitled the "Fire Fiend," &c. ' I assure the writer that I never sent, caused to be sent, or knew of the sending of the stanzas alluded to, to any other newspaper than the New York Saturday Press, to which I gave them at the [words 23] Mr. "And, had the writer seen the said stanzas in that journal—where they were originally and only published by me—and read the editorial note by which they were prefaced therein, he would have been spared the perpetration of his ingenious and ingenuous (? ) criticism. "The writer further states that the said stanzas 'have appeared in various newspapers during the last seven years. ' I assure him that, if this be true, it is an authentic case of modern miracle, inasmuch as I have the best of all possible reasons for believing that the said stanzas were never [words 24] in the New York Saturday Press, which was in the winter of 1859-60. Poe by the 'casting before the world, from post to pillar, a poem [words 25] deliberately and judiciously rejected. '"I assure the writer that Mr. Poe never deliberately, nor in any other manner, 'rejected' the poem of the 'Fire Fiend. ' I feel constrained to add, however, that I think it extremely probable he would have rejected it, had it ever chanced to come within the sphere of his critical observation. "The writer's pleasant irony on the subject of my literary reputation, and the brilliant and original simile with which he adorns it, I pass cheerfully over. It has not hurt me much, and its composition was doubtless a relief to his feelings. "The motive, too, to which he so shrewdly (! ) attributes my 'casting from post to pillar,' &c. a desire to 'proclaim, in connection with the name of Poe, the name of the person holding the manuscript'—I am disposed to treat with equal mildness. But, as he himself has—'unconsciously,' I suppose—assisted to spread still further the said 'connection,' I think he might, at least, have given my name correctly. To the best of my knowledge and belief, my middle initial is D, and not A. "However, I even forgive him this, also, and will merely state, in conclusion, that the MS. of [words 26] Fiend' was never 'laid aside,' nor 'subsequently recurred to' by Mr. Poe; that it was not 'found among his MSS. after his death;' that it was not 'given away to somebody by Mrs. CLEMM' (who never saw it in MS. <assistant> words 1: 30k in miles on words 2: factory ones that are not supposed to last words 3: you know when you need to words 4: some tips for you to words 5: never have words 6: Charles words 7: "Press" with reference to the matter between words 8: I know words 9: was, chiefly, a very unnecessary words 10: Fire Fiend—A Nightmare; from an words 11: during the last seven years, words 12: poem which words 13: cast before the words 14: as early as words 15: this city, after I words 16: not the person to words 17: which he drew for words 18: this letter words 19: its words 20: added to it what he called words 21: article under the heading words 22: to which he therein alludes, and words 23: request of the then editor, words 24: in type previous to their publication words 25: which Poe himself had words 26: the 'Fire <prompter> Fill in words: ; and that the undersigned was not such a 'recipient' [words 1] as the aforesaid writer believes he may have been. ("The writer of the above, son of a respectable dentist in this city, thinking himself [words 2] his name some weeks ago, has appealed to our sense of justice to allow his denial or defence to appear. Granting his request, it is necessary to add a few sentences in explanation. "Some months ago a letter appeared in the Times, charging the late Edgar A. [words 3] from an Oriental poem, and comments on this accusation were made by 'The Lounger' of the Illustrated Times, Mr. 'Flaneur' of theMorning Star, the editor [words 4] believe, in other London papers. One of these writers mentioned the [words 5] written a poem, in a metre resembling that of 'The Raven;' [words 6] not good enough for publication, he had worked some of its lines into 'The Raven,' and that the manuscript of the rejected poem was in possession of [words 7] to whom Poe's mother-in-law (Mrs. On this [words 8] article, vindicating Poe from the charge of plagiary,(? ) and mentioning that the other poem alluded [words 9] last seven years, been published under the title of 'The Fire Fiend: A Nightmare—from an unpublished manuscript of the late Edgar A. ' We attributed this frequent publication [words 10] Mr. Gardette's part, to have his name publicly associated with Poe's, and said [words 11] flies were sometimes thus preserved in amber crystallization,- a remark not in the best taste, nor at all original. [words 12] is that 'The Fire Fiend' was offered for publication in The Press, and [words 13] because we did not believe that Poe had written it. (h) He [words 14] blood and tears my victims weep is my sweetest incense,' for he always wrote grammatically. (i) We have also believed [words 15] Fire Fiend' appeared in the Evening Journal in this city before it was published in the New [words 16] which, however, we did not see it, and therefore missed 'the editorial note' referred to. But it did also appear in the St. Augustine Examiner, [words 17] for a manuscript copy, avowedly made from that paper, is before us, and we reasonably thought that Mr. Gardette, whose middle initial is D, not A, had sent it to us. We are not quite satisfied that our impression is incorrect. We cannot implicitly rely on Mr. Gardette's assertion until he shows how this [words 18] of the late Edgar A. Poe' came [words 19] of Charles D. Gardette;' shows, also, that it is one of Poe's manuscripts. Up to this time there is nothing but Mr. Gardette's word that [words 20] is. "(k)"Since the above was written, we [words 21] Mr. Gardette (to whom we had privately suggested, [words 22] he might withdraw or modify his letter), [words 23] 'The Fire Fiend,' which appeared, under his own imprimatur, as 'an unpublished manuscript of the late Edgar A. Poe,' in the [words 24] D. Gardette, 'did not exist even in MS> [words 25] its appearance in the New York Saturday Press;' that the editor of that journal knew, when publishing it, that the authorship (imputed) was a hoax, but added a [words 26] the poem was written and published in consequence of a discussion, followed by a challenge, between its author and a friend about the originality of Mr. Poe's genius, [words 27] was contended, rendered a successful literary [words 28] that, therefore, Mr. Poe never laid eyes upon said poem. Gardette actually congratulates himself on the counterfeit having 'been enough like Poe in manner [words 29] on both sides of the Atlantic. ' In this [words 30] is wrong. One English critic seems to have merely heard of [words 31] affirm that no one in this country carefully read it without doubts of its authenticity. Gardette offers us a succinct [words 32] composition and authorship of the 'Fire Fiend,' together with many other details he happens to know in connection [words 33] it. We decline this detailed confession of a literary fraud, and advise Mr. [words 34] his own bosom. (m) There is nothing wrong in imitating an author's style, but what can justify publishing an imitation, as from the [words 35] memory the great injustice of not confessing the 'hoax' for four or five years? We dismiss this painful subject, with no intention of returning to it. [words 36] of Dr. Mackenzie's "sentences of explanation" in the above article, as well as the errors and misrepresentations they contained, appeared to me to demand a prompt reply, and consequently, on [words 37] following letter, to wit:dismiss and not recur again to the subject between [words 38] will, I trust, find cause to modify after reading this communication. "Your comments, in your journal [words 39] &c. are written in a petty spirit of injustice, which I should [words 40] your age and experience. For example, Sir: in your private note of November 17th, to me, you correctly quoted a line [words 41] it, as thus quoted, 'ungrammatical,' and unworthy an 'educated man. [words 42] you, that the line was grammatically correct, and offered to stake my claims as an educated man on its accuracy. Now, sir, in your published comments of this morning, you [words 43] my letter, while you deliberately misquote the [words 44] as to make it ungrammatical, which it is not as it stands in the poem, or in your own previous note. If, [words 45] honorable, I do not! Nor, I think, will the public, to whom I propose to submit the question. "Furthermore, you state that you are not yet satisfied that the MS. copy of the [words 46] St. Augustine Examiner was not sent you [words 47] me,- in the face of my [words 48] denial. A moment's reflection might have shown you the absurdity of [words 49] a man would recopy his own poem from the columns of a distant and obscure newspa0per, for the purpose of offering it to another at home, when he had his own MS. But, really, your insinuation of my untruth is of no consequence. It is a matter of great indifference to me what you may think or believe with reference to myself, [words 50] much affect either my literary or social standing. "But I cannot refrain from observing to you, sir, [words 51] have taken an unwarrantable liberty, in introducing into your remarks the wholly [words 52] profession, and your very unnecessary testimony [words 53] respectability. Whether I be the son of a [words 54] shoemaker, for that matter, has certainly nothing whatever to do with the subject under discussion. Toward [words 55] such a style of remark is simple 'little' and undignified. But toward [words 56] that it very much resembles an impertinence. ""Again: you say, that I 'congratulate' myself on the poem having successfully deceived several critics, &c. There is not word of self-gratulation in my note. I said, that I agreed with you as to the inferiority of the poem to that it was intended to resemble, and simply added, that such resemblance [words 57] both English and American critics successfully. [words 58] been a fact, in spite of your denial, is conclusively proven by [words 59] in the New York Leader, for November 19th, 1864, on the subject, which, however, I had [words 60] I wrote you. But I did not, nor do I specially congratulate myself on so small a matter. "Finally, sir, though you have an [words 61] decline my proffered history of the 'Fire Fiend,' you certainly have none to advise [words 62] to its publication or withholding. You are not associated, that I am aware, [words 63] my 'bosom,' or conscience, nor is [words 64] of the 'wrong' of the literary [words 65] any means final and without appeal. "You will or will not publish this [words 66] see fit, of course. It is, however, my intention to give it to the public—if you [words 67] whether you do or not)—together with what information on the subject I may possess (including your former note to me), at such time as shall be [words 68] myself. The above letter was sent, as before stated, to Dr. [words 69] date I have heard nothing, directly or indirectly, form him, nor, as far [words 70] has anything appeared in the columns of his journal—the Press- on the subject. Therefore, being, of course, unable to compel Dr. Mackenzie to act justly and honorably toward me in the matter, I thus, after due reflection, present the facts of the affair, clearly and succinctly, before my friends and the literary public. I desire, however, before concluding my statement, to make a [words 71] comments, draw a few comparisons, andplace more immediately [words 72] a few points of contrast between the assertions and opinions of Dr. Mackenzie, as uttered at different dates and under different circumstances, on the subject [words 73] controversy. And I shall also reprint an article or two, from journals [words 74] with reference to the poem. For the sake of method and brevity, I have marked such passages in the foregoing correspondence, &c. as I desire the reader to take special not of, [words 75] index-letters; and these passages I now propose to speak of, isolating them, and specifying them by means of the aforesaid index-letters. For instance:(a) September 30. Mackenzie says, plainly and positively: "We believe that Poe wrote them! [words 76] (i. the stanzas of the "Fire Fiend. Mackenzie [words 77] positively, "The 'Fire Fiend' . was by me declined, because . I thought that Poe could not have written it! "(h) November 21. Mackenzie repeats, plainly, and again positively: [words 78] not believe Poe had written it! [words 79] 21. Mackenzie asserts (and very truly) that, "Poe [words 80] 'The blood and tears my victims weep is,' &c. "nothing of a grammatical [words 81] Priscian's head in any line of the "Fire Fiend," in [words 82] When, how, and why he discovered the said head-breaking in the [words 83] by him November 17? Andy he reversed the said line in his re-quotation and re-condemnation of [words 84] you by a suggestion. The Doctor says, September 30, that [words 85] Poe wrote the poem. Of course, [words 86] on Priscian therein, because, as the Doctor twice avers, Poe always wrote grammatically. But, on the 17th of [words 87] to state that he had formerly declined the poem because, from "internal evidence," he thought Poe could not have written it. [words 88] "internal evidence," and fell foul of the supposed violence done to Priscian. (I grant [words 89] the dates, here, of the Doctor's two beliefs, make his case rather unsound, and a little conflicting; [words 90] men, even doctors and critics, are fallible. And that, consequently, still wishing to have a case of it, he—but I leave [words 91] perspicacity. Further: (d) The Doctor says, November 17: he [words 92] assailed," because an English writer had previously asserted that I had received a rejected MS. Clemm, [words 93] Fiend,"&c. and that he (the Doctor) only [words 94] it. But the English critic did not attack me [words 95] a "great wrong" to Mr. And the Doctor did! The English critic did [words 96] publishing the said poem. And the Doctor did! [words 97] false statements as to the manner and times of the said publication by me. [words 98] critic did not affect to doubt my veracity, nor attempt to crush me by irony, nor pass sentence upon me, nor "advise" me as to the affairs of my "bosom. " And all these things the Doctor did, as you may [words 99] September 30 and November 21, and in his private note of November 17. Is he "not the person to be assailed," forsooth? (e) In his note of November 17, the Doctor objects to my statement, that "Poe would have, probably, rejected the 'Fire Fiend' if it had ever come within his critical observation," on the ground that it is "illogical," to suppose an author cannot properly criticise his own production with reference to its rejection. I acknowledge freely that such a theory is illogical; nay, I even think it is positively absurd. But bless you! I didn't fancy I was making any such assertion. Let me put a case to you, Reader. Suppose I had written you, that the poem of "Don Juan" had never come within the sphere of Byron's observation, what would you take me to mean? Would it not dimly occur to you that, possibly, I intended to insinuate that Lord Byron was not the author of "Don Juan? " I think it would—you, or to "any other man" of average intelligence, except Dr. But the learned critic did not see it in that light, for with that remark of mine before him, he still insists, with commendable, but somewhat obtuse pertinacity, both inhis note of November 17 (g) and in his published comments of November 21 (k) upon my letter of November 15 (in which that remark occurs), that I shall show otherwise than by mere assertion, the "Fire Fiend" to be a genuine MS. And yet, as I thought, I had just neatly and delicately confessed that it was nothing of the sort! Now what could have caused this somewhat sudden change in the Doctor's feelings and judgment with regard to the acceptance of the "history," or "detailed confession," do you think? It couldn't be his discovery of the fictitiousness of the poem, for you know he had no belief in its authenticity, as far back even, as the exceedingly misty and uncertain period at which he "declined" it for the Press, as he asserts on the 17th, and still again on the 21st of November. The fact that he did believe Poe was its author, on the 30th of September, may have had some influence in the matter, though I can't exactly see how. Perhaps, however, you may imagine the question as to the condition of Priscian's head had something to do with it. Well perhaps so; it certainly is not pleasant to be defrauded in one's own haste out of a capital operation in critical surgery. Mackenzie asserts, in his published note of November 21, that only "one English critic seems tohave merely heard of the forged" (forged is severe! ) "poem;" and he "ventures" (O! venturesome Doctor! ) "to affirm that no one in this country carefully read it without doubts of its authenticity! " Now this latter affirmation hardly coincides, I "venture" to hint, with the Doctor's own brief but comprehensive statement of September 30,(a) that he believes Poe wrote them! referring to the same poem, then called "some stanzas" by the Doctor. And the rest of his above "venture" in the affirmation way will not by any means be fully corroborated by the following articles on the subject, extracted respectively from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the New York Leader, viz. :"'The assertion lately made by a correspondent of the London Morning Star, that Edgar A. Poe plagiarized "The Raven" from the Persian, has brought out several letters from a class of Englishmen who look upon that celebrated production as "the greatest single poem that America has ever produced. " A writer in Notes and Queries indignantly protests against the translation theory, and only hopes that, if it be true, we have more of the same stamp, and done by as competent men as Edgar A. Bu the most important result of the discussion is a note from Mr. Macready, the tragedian, part of which we subjoin. "'I think the following fantastic poem (a copy of which I inclose), written by the poet whilst experimenting toward the production of that wonderful and beautiful piece of mechanism, "The Raven," may possibly interest your numerous readers. "The Fire-Fiend" (the title of the poem I inclose), Mr. Poe considered incomplete, and threw it aside in disgust. Some months afterwards, finding it amongst his papers, he sent it in a letter to a friend, labeled facetiously, "To be read by firelight, at midnight, after thirty drops oflaudanum. " I was intimately acquainted with the mother-in-law of Poe, and have frequently conversed with her respecting "The Raven," and she assured me that he had the idea in his mind for some years, and used frequently to repeat verses o fit to her, and ask her opinion of them frequently, making alterations and improvements according to the mood he chanced to be in at the time. '"'There are, certainly, remarkable discrepancies between this account and that which Poe has himself given to the world in one of the most famous of his critical essays. Macready transmitted to the Morning Star is very long, and contains much which is terrible, ghastly, and too horrible for print. Its author probably never designed that it should see the light. We give below the best stanzas, and the reader will not be slow to discover the presence of that same weird, wonderful, musical, sensuous harmony, which has made this singular and erratic genius the head of a distinct school of literature. '"Here follow the extracts from the poem alluded to, which, we beg to inform the Post was first printed in the New York Saturday Press, in its issue of November 19, 1859. "The contributor to that paper accompanied his communication with the subjoined note, which the reader will please compare with Mr. "'DEAR SIR: The following fantastic poem was written by Mr. Poe, while experimenting towards the production of that wondrous mechanism, "The Raven;" but considering it incomplete, he threw it aside. Some time afterwards, finding it among his papers, he inclosed it in a letter to a particular friend, labelled facetiously "To be read by firelight, at midnight, after thirty drops of laudanum. " How it finally came into the possession of the undersigned, he is not at present at liberty to tell. The poem is copied verbatim, literatim, et punctuatim, from the original MS. "Lately a joke, practiced in 1859, upon a part of the reading world in this country, has been put upon the English public with great success. A poem purporting to have been an original sketch for the more elaborate picture of 'The Raven' by Edgar A. Poe, was sent to a London newspaper, by Mr. Macready, the actor, who appears to have been deceived by it himself; for his note accompanying it, which the London editor published with the poem, bears marks of its having been written in entire good faith. The real history of the thing is, that it was written by a gentleman of Philadelphia, and sent to a New York literary paper, not now in existence, the writer accompanying it with the following note:"DEAR SIR: The following fantastic poem was written by Mr. Some time afterwards, finding it among his papers, he inclosed it in a letter to a particular friend, labelled facetiously, "To be read by firelight, at midnight, after thirty drops of laudanum. "The poem was an extremely clever imitation of Poe, but the limited circulation of the Saturday Press prevented it from becoming widely known. It has fallen, however, into the hands of Mr. Macready, and he has been the means of hoaxing with it the whole British public, for it has been widely copied in the metropolitan and provincial papers, and has even been accepted as a verity by a number of journals in this country. "The above article from the Leader also contained the poem of the "Fire Fiend" in full. But, anxious as I am(or, at least, as Dr. Mackenzie says I am) to have my "name published in connection with that of Poe, as the holder of one of his manuscripts," I have thought it best to withhold the reproduction of this slender link between that brilliant man of genius and myself, on this occasion, and I hope the Doctor will give me credit for the effort such self-denial has cost me. Readers, and friends, I have now put the case of Mackenzie vs. the "Fire Fiend" and its author, fairly before you, I believe, and I really am not very much afraid of your prospective verdict. But while I ask only simple justice for myself, I shall be glad to know that, toward the worthy and venerable Doctor and Critic, your justice is tempered by the mercy which is due to his age and infirmities. It occurs to me that a few words of explanation, with reference to the original composition and publication of the "FIRE FIEND," may be appropriately added here, and I therefore add them briefly, as follows:On a day of November, 1859, a discussion took place between a literary friend and myself, on the subject of Poe's poetic genius. In the course of this discussion, my friend maintained that Poe's marked originality of style, both in thought and expression, rendered difficult almost to impossibility a successful imitation of him. I denied this, and contended that this very peculiarity made such imitation facile; and that, generally, the more marked and singular the style of a writer, the easier it was to produce a literary counterfeit of his productions. A challenge to prove my position by such an imitation of Poe, followed the argument, and "The Raven" was selected as the poem to be paraphrased in style and rhythm. Under this challenge I composed the "Fire Fiend," and, its public success being part of the bargain, I sent it to the Editor of Harper's Magazine for publication. in manner and treatment, considered the Magazine an unsuitable medium for its publication, and politely declined it. But he added that he had shown it to a literary acquaintance,- the Editor of the New York Saturday Press,- who would accept it for his paper if I was willing to give it him. I was wholly unacquainted with this gentleman a that time, but wrote him immediately, offering him the poem, gratuitously, for the Saturday Press, and it was published in that paper, on the 19th of November, 1859, with the following editorial note, in brackets, prefacing it, viz. :"(We postpone several articles this week to make place for the following communication, which we print with the single remark, that we 'don't see it. ')"From that date to the present moment, I have never seen the poem, in type, in the columns of any newspaper or other publication, save in the New York Leader of November 19th, 1864; nor have I ever offered it to any one, directly or indirectly. Nor, finally, had I heard of its ever having been offered to any such newspaper or publication, until the perusal of DR. MACKENZIE'S articles in the Philadelphia Press gave me the startling information that for "several years" I had (wholly unknown to myself) been "sending the 'Fire Fiend' to various newspapers and magazines," including his own journal. This statement of the Doctor's is perfectly consistent with the general accuracy and ingenuousness displayed throughout his remarks on the same subject. The "Fire Fiend," then, was written as a hoax, published as a hoax, with an editorial remark sufficiently indicating the fact to any reader of fair perspicacity; and, as no money was asked, nor received for or by itspublication, and no efforts whatever made to disseminate or perpetuate the hoax, either by its publisher or author, I feel no hesitation in pronouncing it, and in believing that my readers will pronounce it, to have been a venial and harmless literary joke, instead of an "unjustifiable fraud," "forgery," and a "great wrong," as it is solemnly declared to be by DR. (RHADAMANTHUS? ) SHELTON MACKENZIE! Mackenzie claims that Clapp knew when he published "The Fire Fiend" in the Saturday Press that the poem and its story were a hoax. Gardette claims that Mackenzie never gave him the privildege of "justifying" his work with "The Fire Fiend. " The correspondence is Gardette's attempt to address Mackenzie's claims about his work. 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When it comes to superheroes Beaton's... <human>: More. <bot>: background in anything but superheroes works to her advantage as she puts creative spins on age-old favorites to create wonderfully unexpected results. Beaton's rough... <human>: More. <bot>: kinetic style is imperfect and full of emotion. While the look, on the surface, might appear crude, those that pass it by are missing... <human>: Continue. <bot>: out, as her expression work alone is worth the price of admission. Quite simply, Beaton gets more mileage out of one three panel strip... <human>: More. <bot>: than most artists can manage in an entire book. ""Kate Beaton's 'Hark, a Vagrant! ' jumps from historical figures to Nancy Drew cover remixes... <human>: More. <bot>: to the terror of a fat pony, and yet it all holds together with one common denominator: this book is hysterical. Her punch lines... <human>: Continue. <bot>: are a riot, and the way her characters look as the strangeness... <human>: Next. <bot>: unfolds around them doubly so. If you don't laugh when reading 'Hark, a Vagrant! ' you're probably a little dead inside. ""While not as splashy as some of the other big hits unleashed under the New 52 banner, Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman have given Buddy Baker an epic landscape to operate within - and considering the character's meta-history, beyond. Destined to crash headfirst into 'Swamp Thing' in the months ahead, Lemire is taking the superhero/horror mash-up he fleshed out in "Superboy" to another level, and that's saying something when you consider 'Superboy' was nominated for an Eisner. ""Ever since Grant Morrison raised the character from a third- or fourth-tier hero into something unique, there has been a strong desire to see another strong, compelling 'Animal Man' series... <human>: More. <bot>: Lemire's take isn't Morrisonian, but it builds the concept of a family-first superhero into something new, and takes Buddy Baker and his young daughter... <human>: Continue. <bot>: into some very, very dark territory. ""The mix of lurching dread in Lemire's plot and gorgeously grotesque art by Foreman has surely given its fair share of readers sleepless nights. This is... <human>: More. <bot>: how you take a previously no-list character and bring him up to the big leagues. ""For decades, Daredevil was a character who only 'worked' when he was being built up and torn... <human>: Next. <bot>: down. Enter Mark Waid, Marcos Martin and Paolo Rivera, and for the first time in decades - yes, decades - Matt Murdock's life is not only not that bad, but interesting and fun to read about, to boot. ""After reading the  issue I felt as hopeful and engaged as I did in the early 1980s when absorbing Walt Simonson's 'Thor' #337 (the first issue in his epic run). The most refreshingly joyful approach to the character in decades, and I have enjoyed each subsequent issue as much as the first. ""So, so happy to be reading a true superhero comic that truly is friendly to new readers. Waid writes Murdock with a joie de vivre that has long been missing from our current breed of introspective, narcissistic... <human>: Continue. <bot>: super heroes. Swashbuckling and brave, this is a Daredevil getting on with the job of being super, leaving his worries at the door and enjoying his powers. ""Mark Waid is setting out to give Daredevil reason to smile and the readers can't help but join in. After years of being one of the darkest titles published by Marvel, 'Daredevil,' with art by Marcos Martin... <human>: Continue. <bot>: and Paolo Rivera has been a delight, worthy of being shared. ""What... <human>: Continue. <bot>: do you do with a character that's been pushed to such a dark place that no one thought he could recover? Go fun, bright, pop art. Team one of comics' best superhero writers with two stunning artists that craft pages unlike what you've seen before. "Daniel Dae Kim as Chin Ho Kelly, Grace Park as Kono Kalakaua, James Harvey as Luke and Marshall Allman... <human>: Continue. <bot>: as JeremyDeer activity increases in June as does search for places to give birth and young deer separate from their mothers. With this increased activity, drivers may encounter more deer darting into... <human>: Continue. <bot>: the paths of their vehicles without warning, according to a release from WisDOT. Although motor vehicle collisions with deer peak in the fall months, June is one of the worst months for... <human>: Next. <bot>: driver and passenger injuries due to deer crashes. In each of the last five years, June ranked as the worst or second worst month for motorists' injuries from deer crashes, according to... <human>: Continue. <bot>: the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. “The best way to avoid crashes with deer is to slow down, put down your cell phone and eliminate... <human>: Next. <bot>: all distractions while you drive. You also need to buckle up in case a crash can't be avoided,” says David Pabst, director of the WisDOT Bureau of Transportation Safety. “Motorcyclists must be especially careful because collisions with deer can be fatal to motorcycle operators and passengers. Last year in Wisconsin, two out of the five people killed in crashes with deer were motorcyclists. Law enforcement agencies reported 19,961 deer vs. motor vehicle crashes last year. Dane County had the most motor vehicle vs. deer crashes reported in 2015 with 977. Waukesha County had the second most with 818 followed by Washington County with 769. In Door, Green Lake, Kewaunee, Shawano and Waupaca counties, more than half of all reported crashes in 2015 involved deer. Deer are the third... <human>: Next. <bot>: most commonly struck object in Wisconsin traffic crashes (behind crashes with another vehicle or a fixed object). Always wear your safety belt—there are fewer... <human>: Continue. <bot>: and less severe injuries in crashes when safety belts are worn. If... <human>: Next. <bot>: your vehicle strikes a deer, stay in your vehicle and do not touch the animal if it is still alive. "Depression is the common... <human>: Next. <bot>: cold of psychopathology and has touched the lives of us all" (Dr... <human>: More. <bot>: Martin Seligman). In my 20 year experience as a CBT therapist I have learned that Seligman is right - everybody will experience at one point in their life depression, anxiety or other... <human>: More. <bot>: forms of mental health problems. Some of us will manage on their own, some of us will need help. Seeking help for stress and... <human>: More. <bot>: mental health problems should not have any stigma attached to it - it is one way of dealing with the impact of living in an imperfect world. I am happy to answer your questions - please do get in touch. I aim to get back to you within 48 hours. He may have attained a Dove Award and a number one spot on Billboard's... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Christian Album Chart thus far, but rather than additional earthly achievements, hip-hop hit maker KB has his sights firmly set on heaven with this comfort zone-shattering endeavor. Even though his lyrics address struggle and hardship, he always leaves listeners with a Christ-centered promise that hope's right around the corner, not to mention some seriously global grooves gleaned from travels spanning South Florida to South... <human>: More. <bot>: Africa. The treatment of spider veins and varicose veins has shown to improve a woman's self-confidence. In our practice, we use the foam sclerotherapy technique. We first meet you for a consultation... <human>: Continue. <bot>: to determine if you are a good candidate for the treatment. The procedure typically performed in the office and takes 30-45 minutes. The spider veins are injected with a clear solution using... <human>: More. <bot>: a very fine needle. Most patients feel that the procedure is not overly painful. A small number of patients choose do the procedure under oral sedation. After the procedure, your legs will be wrapped with a flexible dressing. We will advise you to go for a walk for an hour in the mall or outside. Later that evening you can remove the elastic dressings... <human>: Next. <bot>: and place on compression stockings. We advise you to purchase the thigh high 30-40 mmHg compression stockings before your procedure. You can find them online or at any local medical supply store... <human>: More. <bot>: It is recommended to wear the compression stockings 24 hours a day... <human>: More. <bot>: for 2 weeks to minimize the likelihood of vein recurrence. patients do however require a series of 2 to 3 treatment sessions spaced approximately 6 weeks apart. An important fact patients suffering from infertility should know is that you are not alone. Infertility affects about 12% of women in the U. Don't be afraid to seek help because finding care in a timely manner... <human>: Continue. <bot>: can ultimately help you to live your dream of having a baby. CCRM recommends any woman under 35 and trying to conceive for one year without success, or any woman over 35 and unsuccessful after six months, to start evaluation for causes of infertility. The difference in timeline is because the single biggest factor affecting prognosis for successful fertility is a woman's age. Chances of conceiving a child with your own eggs decreases with advancing age due to decline in egg quantity and quality. While many patients struggling with infertility will get pregnant successfully with simple strategies such as oral fertility medications, intrauterine insemination (IUI) or surgery, others will require a little more assistance with in vitro fertilization (IVF) in order to conceive. Some of the common reasons... <human>: Continue. <bot>: a couple may require IVF include tubal factor (e. However, some patients also choose to undergo IVF so that they can have genetic testing on the embryos to prevent passing on a... <human>: Next. <bot>: gene mutation to their child(ren). Prior to starting IVF, it is important to understand the process fully. There are many myths out there regarding IVF, and there is no “one size fits... <human>: Next. <bot>: all” approach. We use different methods and medication doses for different patients based on their particular medical characteristics. At CCRM, we are very detailed with our pre-IVF evaluation so that we can... <human>: Next. <bot>: tailor the best treatment strategy for each patient. Success rates will also differ for each patient based on their age and cause of infertility. Being educated about your anticipated odds of conception and going into treatment with a realistic expectation helps patients handle the ups and downs of treatment better. Patients also need a thorough understanding of the time involvement for an IVF cycle... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Multiple visits to the clinic are required for monitoring sonogram, blood tests... <human>: Next. <bot>: and pre-cycle testing to ensure the best outcome. If someone has a very stressful work schedule and is unable to make their appointments, then... <human>: Next. <bot>: it is best to postpone IVF to a time when the patient... <human>: More. <bot>: can have flexibility, is not in a high-stress environment, and can be readily available for their appointments as needed. IVF can also be a significant financial commitment due to the high cost of advanced laboratory techniques that make it possible for couples to conceive. Knowing the costs involved, insurance coverage and financing options, as well as discounted medication programs, can help couples navigate the... <human>: More. <bot>: financial burdens of treatment and better prepare. The IVF laboratory is one on the most important considerations when choosing the clinic you plan to... <human>: More. <bot>: undergo IVF with. Not all clinics have the same systems or quality measures in place. I am very proud to say that at CCRM, our IVF laboratories are led by world renowned... <human>: Next. <bot>: experts in fertility, and utilize the most cutting-edge technology in the field, which is reflected in our excellent success rates. Being in good health and following healthy dietary and lifestyle strategies is also important for optimizing your chances of success with IVF. Negative lifestyle factors such a smoking, high alcohol consumption, drug use and poor nutrition are all associated with low chances of successful... <human>: Next. <bot>: conception. Obesity can also have a negative impact on pregnancy rates. ## CCRM recommends clean eating, regular exercise, antioxidant supplements and avoidance of artificial sweeteners and highly processed foods. Wellness habits such as regular yoga can also help manage stress levels, allow you to take some time for yourself and focus on your own wellbeing during the process and after. It is also very important to have other health issues, like thyroid dysfunction, diabetes or hypertension, in good control so that the IVF process is not only smooth but the pregnancy outcome is also improved. There is a lot of information on the internet and social media about IVF. However, not all of it is accurate and not all will be applicable to you. It is critical to... <human>: Continue. <bot>: be able to discuss your concerns/questions with your physician and have trust that they will do their best for you. ## Rinku Mehta is board certified a board certified reproductive endocrinologist at... <human>: Continue. <bot>: CCRM Dallas-Fort Worth. Infections with enteroviruses are common in the United States during summer and fall. During that time in 2014, the United States experienced a nationwide outbreak of EV-D68 associated with severe respiratory illness. A total of 1,153 cases were confirmed in 49 states and the District of Columbia. Almost all confirmed cases were among children, many whom had asthma or a history... <human>: More. <bot>: of wheezing. CDC can't predict whether EV-D68 will be a common type... <human>: Continue. <bot>: of enterovirus to cause sickness in future seasons because a mix of different enterovirus types circulates every year, and different types can be common in different years. But so far EV-D68 cases in years since 2014 have been reported more sporadically, which is considered typical. Mild symptoms of enterovirus infection may include fever, runny nose, sneezing, cough, and body and muscle aches. The most important thing you can do to stay healthy is wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds. Wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds. Also, avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands, and cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue or shirt sleeve, not your hands. Children with asthma are particularly at risk for severe... <human>: Next. <bot>: symptoms from enterovirus infection. Discuss and update your child's asthma action plan with his or her doctor. There is no treatment for enterovirus infections. Talk to your doctor about the best way to control symptoms. While 2014 was a big year for EV-D68, CDC cannot predict whether EV-D68 will be a common type of enterovirus in future seasons. Access to paid sick leave could... <human>: More. <bot>: go beyond workers and help improve children's use of healthcare services. Photo from Thinkstock. Many workers probably know that access to sick leave can help prevent the spread of flu and other... <human>: More. <bot>: illnesses at work. In fact, access to paid sick leave could go beyond workers and help improve their children's use of healthcare services, as well, according to a new study at NIOSH... <human>: More. <bot>: Published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, the study found that children of parents with paid sick leave were more likely to receive annual flu shots, compared to children of parents without paid sick leave. In another finding, children of parents with paid sick leave were less likely than other children to receive delayed medical care. This finding could stem from the fact that paid sick leave makes it easier to take time off work, in order to take a sick child to a clinic or doctor. Delayed medical care could lead to illness that is more serious, longer hospital stays, and costlier treatments. In addition, the study found that children whose parents had paid sick leave were less likely than other children to visit the emergency... <human>: Next. <bot>: room. Because emergency-room visits are more expensive and less effective than regular doctor visits, this finding indicates that parents' paid sick leave may not... <human>: Next. <bot>: only help improve access to care for children but also—by reducing emergency-room visits—decrease the overall long-term societal burden of healthcare costs. Parents' ability to balance their work and family lives through policies such as paid sick leave has the potential to improve their children's health by helping them receive the healthcare services they need. The study used 2011–2015 data from the National Health Interview... <human>: Next. <bot>: Survey for more than 38,800 children under 18 years old. Conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, this survey collects nationwide information on a wide range of health topics. Association Between... <human>: Next. <bot>: Parental Access to Paid Sick Leave and Children's Access to and Use... <human>: Next. <bot>: of Healthcare ServicesHearing protection among oil-rig workers improved significantly after they underwent testing for properly fitting earplugs, according to a new study by NIOSH... <human>: More. <bot>: ## The researchers reported the findings of their study in the International Journal of Audiology. In the workplace, hearing loss related to loud noise is a persistent problem worldwide. In the United... <human>: More. <bot>: States alone, loud noise exposes an estimated 22 million workers to hearing loss annually, according to information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Although hearing loss is irreversible, the good news is that it is also preventable. To prevent work-related hearing loss, NIOSH recommends that noise exposure over an 8-hour day be under 85 decibels A-weighted (dBA). In 2012 and 2013, NIOSH researchers traveled to Louisiana and Texas to test hearing protection devices (HPD) among 126 volunteer study participants employed as oil-rig inspectors and engineers. These workers face significant work-related noise from the helicopters that bring them to and from the offshore worksite. To test the level of protection afforded by the workers' earplugs, known as fit testing, they used the NIOSH-developed system HPD Well-Fit™. This... <human>: Continue. <bot>: simple system, which travels easily to field studies such as this one,... <human>: More. <bot>: involves having workers test their hearing with and without HPDs in their ears. The fit-test system measures the noise reduction provided by each worker's own earplugs. Before the fit testing, less than... <human>: Next. <bot>: half of participants had adequate reduction in the noises they might experience on the job. After the testing, more than 85% had adequate protection. Individual fit testing can identify when earplugs do not fit a worker's ear canals and can help to train workers to effectively fit and wear earplugs. For workers who want to measure the level of sound in their own workplace,... <human>: More. <bot>: NIOSH recently released a new Sound Level Meter app. Available on the NIOSH website, the Sound Level Meter app also provides information on noise-exposure... <human>: More. <bot>: limits and preventing work-related hearing loss from loud noise. Images from the NIOSH Virtual Reality Laboratory showing a subject moving to a sloped roof from a walk-through ladder, left, and from a... <human>: Continue. <bot>: regular ladder, right. If used improperly, ladders in the workplace can increase the risk of fall-related injuries and deaths. In 2010, 132 workers died in work-related falls from ladders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most of these deaths occurred in construction. Walking from a ladder to a rooftop, or vice versa, at elevated heights can increase the risk of falling. To provide workers with something to grasp, walk-through ladders have extended handles on their tops, usually provided as ladder accessories. Although these ladder accessories are commercially available, the safety of walk-through ladders compared to regular ladders was unclear. In this study, NIOSH scientists compared walk-through to regular extension ladders in the NIOSH Virtual Reality Laboratory, which uses computerized, surround-screen technology to mimic the experience of being... <human>: Continue. <bot>: at an elevated height. While study participants walked from the ladders to a simulated rooftop and back, the scientists measured participants' body movements and... <human>: Continue. <bot>: the amount of force on the ladders and estimated the required friction at the ladder base. Both types of ladders had comparable measurements that indicated a low risk of sliding out and causing a fall when positioned at the proper 75.5-degree angle. While the walk-through ladder made it easier for participants to move from the ladder to the simulated roof, it did not ease... <human>: Next. <bot>: the transition back to the ladder. Study participants included 16 experienced and 16 inexperienced male ladder users. ## The average age of the experienced group was 40 years, and the average age of the inexperienced group was 33 years. To help workers and other users position extension ladders correctly, NIOSH developed the award-winning Ladder Safety app, shown in use above. For ladder safety, the scientists recommend placing ladders at the proper angle and tying them to a secure structure at the top and, if possible, the base. To help workers and other user's position extension ladders correctly, NIOSH developed the award-winning Ladder Safety app. This app is available for free download from the Apple Store and Google Play. Mine safety regulations in the United States require a protected... <human>: Continue. <bot>: and secure space—or mobile refuge alternative—in all underground coal mines. In the event of an explosion or other mining disaster that prevents miners from... <human>: Continue. <bot>: immediately escaping, refuge alternatives protect miners from exposure to carbon monoxide and other toxic gases by providing breathable air and a safe environment for 96 hours. We recently asked Lincan Yan, a scientist at NIOSH and lead author of a study in this area, about new results published in the Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications. Working with an industry partner, Yan's team tested the rate of temperature rise within a refuge alternative at the NIOSH Safety Research Coal Mine and Experimental Mine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This four-mile underground mine provides a controlled and safe environment for testing new safety and health interventions for coal miners. A: Heat from the air-purifying equipment and the miners themselves can cause the air temperature and humidity within an occupied refuge... <human>: Continue. <bot>: alternative to rise to dangerous levels. Over the course of 96 hours, excessive temperature and humidity increases could lead to heat stress, or even death, among miners. Because of this serious risk, we wanted to measure the temperature and humidity in a test refuge alternative to see how much they increase over time. Ultimately, our goal was to develop a computer model to predict... <human>: Continue. <bot>: how temperature rises in mine refuge alternatives. A: To simulate a real-life situation, we calculated the amount of body heat generated by real miners. Using the NIOSH Safety Research Coal Mine and Experimental Mine, we then heated a tent-style refuge alternative that can hold as many as 10 people, but which, of course, was empty for the purposes of our study. Next, we measured... <human>: More. <bot>: temperature and humidity levels over 96 hours and then used these measurements... <human>: Next. <bot>: to develop a computer model for predicting temperature rise. A: Our results showed that the average air temperature within the refuge alternative increased by... <human>: Continue. <bot>: 20.5°F over the course of 96 hours. At the same time, the relative humidity approached 90%. After validating these results, we were able to predict the refuge alternative's average air temperature after 96 hours to within 1.1°F. A: Based on our computer model, we could develop new models to predict the rise in body temperature that real miners would experience in a refuge alternative... <human>: Next. <bot>: over time. Then, mining scientists could use these models to help set safety limits for air temperature and the number of occupants within refuge alternatives. Another area for additional research is temperature rise within refuge alternatives in different environments and the effects of mine dimensions and composition.

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Love Sex Machine - something that can cause your partner to query your recent Google searches when you have not told her the name of the band you are currently reviewing - are a band from Lille in Northern France, currently signed to Lost Pilgrims Records (as well as Throatruiner Records) and this is a review of their second album 'Asexual Anger'. They deal in sludge metal and the cover is a little sick and twisted, which is what you would want from a sludge metal band. Now I would be telling fibs if I said I knew much about them before them; however, with a bizarre album title, cover and brilliant name, it is time to find out what this band are all about. Starting the album off is the title track "Asexual Anger" which is bathed in feedback and heavy drumming from the start; the guitars crackle to live and then the band drop the main riff like a titanic version of Meshuggah and Crowbar had decided to release an album together. It swirls with a huge amount of aggression, it pounds the audience into submission and it does not take any prisoners. It moved at a slow pace, but that is what you want from this music - anger with powerful riffs and loud drumming! "Drone Syndrome" continues along the same sort of lines as "Asexual Anger", but this time the mood has taken a turn for the worst. It is a heavy, dark and oppressively atmospheric number that sounds as massive; I mean this is on the scale of Mantar and Strapping Young Lad huge (two bands who truly bring it when it comes to riffs for this blogger), this song is one that I have not stopped listening to since I was first sent the album and it is a mind blowing number. Truly this is one of the high lights of this release and worth checking out. "Black Mountain" takes things even slower, the speed is starting to be measured in terms of glacier speed at this point as the sludge pours out of the speakers with such a low frequency that it will rattle everything in your room when played loud enough. But the loss of speed is replaced with a giant riff that rips through the air and grabs hold of the listener, it is a strong and powerful riff which peaks at all the right points and builds back up to smash into without warning or care. The first half of the album comes to an end with "Aujeszky" and this fades in slowly with the band already starting to warm up with some strong feedback, loose drumming and a hint of bass rumble; that is until the main riff of the song starts and the bass seems to be turned up to 10, it sounds fucking gigantic in terms of sound and depth. It is a brilliant tune that sticks around in your mind long after it has finished and ends the first half of the album on a perfect note with could smash holes through walls; as first half as albums go, this is a really good start. The second half starts off with "Devolution", after a short hint of droning feedback the band launch straight into another slab of sludge that is not for the weak of heart. It rumbles like the sound of Armageddon being unleashed upon the world, the dynamics of the riffs, that bass that hooks it all together and the drums that sound like thunder brings to life one of the best songs I have heard in 2016; as the album has progressed, the quality keeps improving. "Atrocity" is the next song and this starts with the sound slightly muffed, as if it is being heard through a wall as you enter into a venue; after a few moments the muffled sound becomes clear and you are back in the pit with destruction beginning to reign down on the world. It goes between slow and uber-slow sections, never settling longer than required on either and taking the noise to new depths, it is a strong song with a great riff and ... Bot: Rest of text: performance which drives the album onwards. Sadly, we are already at the penultimate song which is called "Infernal Spiral". This is the shortest song on the album at just over three and a half minutes in length and it is straight into the action, into a swirling riff that is accompanied with the sound of screams and harrowing noise that is this band's cocktail of choice. It is the first song on the album where there is a little room for improve, it could have been stretched out as that riff if fucking awesome; but that is one a small qualm considering that the song still sounds as tight as fuck. Ending the album is the bizarrely titled "Silent Duck" (it truly is called that, not a misspelt word) and the speed can now only be measured in terms of the growth of trees, ages will pass and this song will still match that same pace as it goes on forever towards the end of existence at a droning pace. With each listen, this monolithic monster improves and you hear more from the band as it unveils a sound that would make people who attend the Roadburn festival weak at their knees. It ends this album on a truly high note, leaving nothing standing in its wake. This album is very impressive, from the opening note to the fading last clash of the symbols there is not a foot placed wrong on this record. It feels like the first time I heard Conan and Mantar, this band has a special spark about them and this album should be the launch pad to great things for the band. Apart from an extension to one song, this album is a rare thing for this listener; it is a sludge album that can be experienced in one sitting and you will get even more joy with each subsequent listen. This band are a group I will follow with great interest from now on, this album is one that you should listen to as soon as possible. At the time of writing, this album has not been released on Spotify, Deezer or Tidal; once it is on general release, I will add any streaming links. I have so many reviews in the pipeline that I have sort of developed writers block, so in order to recharge my batteries I have decided to review an album that I have not listened to in many years that I used to play religiously. But not one of my big hits, something that I loved but I did not play to death and ended up mundane and drab. Which brings me to this album here, 'Scream, Dracula, Scream! ' by Rocket from the Crypt. When this first came out I had it on CD and record (or vinyl if you are a hipster), one for in the house and one for travelling back in the days when music was more important that other things (music is still a high priority, but so is having a roof over my head). I remember that summer as I listened to this in a loft, looking out of the window and time seemed to be going forever. But the album is now 21 years old, and I am no longer a young man; but I am not having a mid-life crisis and wanting to buy cars and have a confidence crisis - I am just wanting to see if this album still holds the magic that it had for me all those years ago when I first fell under its charm. Brief back story to the album itself; Rocket from the Crypt formed in 1989 and this was their fourth album, it is their best known in the UK and it was their highest charting album at 41. The album is a trilogy of releases from the band in 1995 (together with the album 'Hot Charity' and the EP 'The Streets of Art is on Fire'). It also had three singles in the top 75, with "On A Rope" reaching number 12, they were on lots of TV shows and looked like they would take over the world; however, they just seemed to keep at the level that suited them. However, it is not the future of the band I am talking about, it is this album and now it is time to see how it has aged and if it is still the powerhouse I remember to be. "Middle" starts this album, it is not so much a song as an explosion of riffs, drums and horns; the words are - Are You Stuck In The Middle, Are You Broken, Are You Damn - or various variations on those words. It sounds like "Feel Good Hit For The Summer" by Queens of the Stone Age before they took the idea and added Rob Halford and it is still in my top ten opening track of an album ever. Human: Complete this text: It sounds like it has attitude dripping from every pour, it reeks of cool and this has not changed since the first time I heard it crackle out of the speakers - ... Bot: Rest of text: this could be a good review. "Born In '69" is actually the first song I heard from the band, it felt like a shock to the system and made me want to... Human: Continue. Bot: dance around like a silly person; these days it just makes me smile as you remember those days when everything seemed different. It is a fun two minute, punk rock anthem that... Human: More. Bot: is designed to make you bounce around and it is not trying to sell you something, be a hip brand or even be cool - at the time these guys were up against the end of grunge and the emergence of brit-pop, you could not have had a different look. The chorus has a sick hook that will stick in your mind for ages... Human: Next. Bot: and it has aged very well indeed. Next is "On A Rope" which (as previously mentioned) was their highest UK charting single, it was the only one that would be played when... Human: More. Bot: I went out and it did get the "Smells Like Teen Spirit/Walk" treatment (songs which you love, but they get over played too much... Human: More. Bot: Thankfully, there has been a lot of distance since those dizzy days and now it just sounds like a fine rock n roll number, mixed in with a little punk and with a catchy chorus that is missing from the modern music scene. When I was younger it was always this trio of songs that made me smile, to this day it is still... Human: Continue. Bot: the same. "Young Livers" was one of the three tracks to be released from this album, it is a mid-paced punk n roll anthem which has a decent hook, nice riff and... Human: More. Bot: the band sound good on the song; but I have always thought it was not the best track to be a single, it just lacked the punch of the others and that is still the same now. It delivers the good times and it is a great song to hear live, but it does not hold your attentions as other songs do on this album. Next is the song "Dropout", much like most of this album, it is just a rebellious song that does not have much in the way of lyrical context to dig into; it is a song about dropping out of the system and not giving two fucks about the world. To this day I still do not know why this was picked over "Young... Human: More. Bot: Livers", as good as the other song is performed, this is the superior track and still floors me after all these years. It just sounds like it comes from a dark part... Human: Next. Bot: of the mind of the band, it is pissed off and it just is going for broke as it has nothing to lose -... Human: More. Bot: it is a lost anthem on this album, there is more of... Human: More. Bot: them to come (this is probably turning into a love letter to this album, oh dear. "Used" was a song that I did not appreciate until years later, it is an old school rock n roll song that is crafted in a truly old school vein and when I was younger it was not a number I appreciated as much. It just felt a... Human: More. Bot: little light, but the older me wants to smash the back of the younger me around the head and tell him off. It is just a gem of a track, it has the right amount of boogie, attitude and the perfect mix of sound to give this album a different side. It might not be the song I would return to the most if I am honest, but it is the most improved number for me and that is a big tribute for me as I was not fussed by it at all before, now I think it is one of the best on the album. "Ball Lightning" however, is a song that has not really hit me; the song itself is performed as good as good as... Human: Next. Bot: anything else on the album, it is also a song which I can see an argument being made for it being another lost classic from the album. But it has always been... Human: Next. Bot: one that does not make me as excited as other songs on the album, but it has once again improved over the years with a slight surf rock undertone being weaved into the tone of the number. The second half of the album starts with "Fat Lip" and it sounds like the fight beginning once again for the band on this song, it has a large dose of aggression that was missing from other numbers on the album, which to be fair is probably for the best as you need light and shade on a record to make it more fluid. This one sounds as if the band were trying to create a song that captures their chaos and combines the punk and rock n roll, it does... Human: Continue. Bot: it perfectly as they sound fierce and on fire with this number. "Suit City" is another song that did not gel in my mind... Human: Continue. Bot: when I was a kid, it just seemed to fizzle out and... Human: Next. Bot: go nowhere fast for me back then; but in the here and now, it has improved massively. It starts with a climbing, looping riff before the rest of the band join in and take this simple tune and drive it as if the devil himself is on their tails - younger me really knew jack shit when it came to music. "Heater Hands" slows... Human: Continue. Bot: things down slightly, but not the intensity. It is a bruising number... Human: Continue. Bot: that could start a fight in an empty room, it has the devil may care attitude and does not give two fucks what the rest of the world thinks. Whilst I has still not warmed to it after all this time, I can appreciate it for what it is - a good song that will have its audience and sound like a party is... Human: Next. Bot: about to erupt. "Misbeaten" is more rock n roll than punk, it has that old school vibe that would not be out of place... Human: Continue. Bot: in a 50's era movie and would be used to give the audience a break in their live shows. Out of the (for want of a better word) gentler sounding songs on... Human: Continue. Bot: the album, it is still the one that makes me smile the most, it just seems to go back to a time when the songs were innocent and everything had hope and high prospects. The song itself is not so innocent as it is a song about rejection, something that is familiar in many love song; it is a hidden gem on this album... Human: Next. Bot: and is one that people should not skip over. "Come See, Come Saw" however is a song that keeps on improving as the years go by for me, each time I listen to it I just wonder why it was left as an album track when it is one of the best the RFTC ever wrote (much like "Dropout"). The bass and drum combo... Human: More. Bot: at the beginning indicates the way that the song is going to go as it pulses along and grabs your attention from the start, shortly to be joined by the guitars, brass section and vocals as the band into another high-octane, punk rock spliced with a large dose of rock n roll and streak of attitude that can probably be scene from the international space station (that last bit might be a fib). The penultimate track is called "Salt Future" which takes the pace down to a rebellious stride and makes a noise that would not be out of pace in a rock n roll gang style war; greasers and jocks are about to have a brawl and this is the soundtrack to the fight. It is a... Human: More. Bot: great little number and whilst it might not be the song I would go to straight away on the album, I have always had a soft spot for it as it just oozes style and confidence. Ending the album is "Burnt Alive" which takes even more out of the sound, the guitars are toned down, there is an organ attached to the song, the... Human: More. Bot: drums sound as if they are being hit like a heart beating fast whilst driving a fast car, the brass section drives the number higher and gives this song a distinct sound to the rest of the album. Again, this is a song which I did not appreciate when it first came out and it is only years later when it has made sense; but not I just smile each time I hear it and it is another of my favourite songs off this album. This album has matured incredibly well, considering there is a ton of albums from that time which now sound like hyped up pieces of shit. The songs have taken on a life of their own for me, it is no longer the going... Human: Next. Bot: out album that I used to listen to. It is an undiscovered gem of a record that showed a band at one of their peaks. It is not the deepest of records,... Human: More. Bot: it can never be accused of talking about the big issues of the day; but that is not what Rocket From The Crypt are about, they are just a rock n roll band who are trying to bring the party to you. I love this record, it is about two tracks too long and I do not care - you would be a fool not to listen to is! Scream for them interlink! ! ! !.

User: More spans: I have always maintained, simply by looking at how the events of July 1974 in Cyprus unfolded, that the Greek mainland-backed coup against President Makarios, the subsequent Turkish ... plot. This, in effect, means orchestrated by the United States of America which, thru NATO, effectively controls the military in members of that alliance. I was visiting a Greek-Cypriot cousin yesterday and over dinner there was some discussion of the events of 1974, in particular the Nicos Sampson coup against President Makarios apparently orchestrated from Athens, then in the hands of a rightwing military junta. My cousin said she had read or seen on Greek-Cypriot TV that there was evidence of strong American involvement in this coup. The reason she read or heard was that the USA wanted Makarios to sign an agreement allowing the Americans to have a military base in Cyprus, and Makarios refused to sign. If this is true it seems unlikely that the Americans desperately needed a base in Cyprus (they certainly haven't demanded or established one since), so this is more likely to have ... West. There were, and are still, two huge British sovereign bases in Cyprus, in effect two areas of British occupation. Britain being America's faithful ‘poodle', the staunchest ally of the USA within NATO, the Americans already had a proxy presence in Cyprus if they needed it. On the British bases is a listening post, and according to my father (who I suspect knew a lot more about the coup ... areas. He told me back in 1977 that there were lots of things in Cyprus I knew nothing about, and also maintained that Makarios was a ‘Communist'. Now this was strange coming from him, as he always had a photo of Makarios on his mantelpiece in Hampstead, London, alongside one of EOKA-B terrorist George Grivas. After the unsuccessful coup and attempt to kill Makarios, the picture of Makarios disappeared forever because, apparently, he was now an ally of the Soviet Union. Of course this was the real fear of the USA and NATO – that President Makarios would allow the Soviet navy ... Mediterranean. The Americans would be unlikely to ask Makarios directly to sign an agreement denying Soviet naval ships access to Cypriot ports, or to deny the Soviets a military base in Cyprus. This could not only be counter-productive, putting ideas into his head perhaps, but would be clearly seen as an interference in the sovereignty of Cyprus. A much more likely ‘test' would be to ask Makarios to sign an agreement allowing the Americans a ... Cyprus. Refusal to sign such an agreement would confirm to the Americans and NATO that Cyprus, with its strong AKEL Communist Party, was a country led by an unpredictable ‘loose cannon' in the shape of President Makarios who was no ... of. Cyprus was never a NATO member, Makarios attending summits of the non-aligned group of countries which included other neutral states like Communist Yugoslavia. Greece and Turkey, on the other hand, were NATO members. Greece had a rightwing military coup in power and Turkey had American nuclear warheads stationed there near the border with the Soviet Union. Britain, of course, was America's permanent nuclear aircraft carrier and expendable early warning station in the event of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. As Tory Prime Minister Sir Alec ... America. Had the coup been successful and had Makarios been killed in the operation then the likely end result, all agreed in advance between the NATO countries USA, UK, Greece and Turkey, would have been the annexing of Southern Cyprus by Greece (Enosis) and the incorporation of Northern Cyprus into Turkey. Since both were NATO members, Cyprus would then become part of the NATO alliance since Britain, which occupied the huge sovereign bases, was of course also a NATO member. In actual fact Makarios got wind of the coup and escaped, went to the UN in New York and asked for help because ‘Greece has invaded Cyprus'. His pleas were largely ignored (except for some ineffective UN resolutions about the events of 1974), as were Turkey's pleas to Britain, joint guarantor of Cypriot independence, to cooperate with Turkey in overthrowing the Greek-backed coup. After the Turkish intervention and the collapse of the Sampson coup, the junta in Athens was also overthrown. The fact that Greece sent so few troops to Cyprus to defend the coup, which was bound to provoke a Turkish military response, is further proof that the whole thing, including the division of Cyprus, was planned in advance by the four NATO countries mentioned – Greece, Turkey, UK and USA. The presence of the two huge British sovereign bases were a solid guarantee that any Turkish invasion would not encroach on the South of the island, so Greece did not need to send troops unless they wanted to annex the whole island. Quite obviously they were told in advance this was untenable and that fellow-NATO member Turkey had to be allowed to annex the North of the island if the South became part of Greece. The survival of Makarios meant that the island was never formally annexed by Greece and Turkey and instead two nominally independent Cypriot republics were established, one allied to Greece and one to Turkey. To this day, alongside the flags of the two Cypriot republics, flies the Greek mainland flag in the South and the Turkish mainland flag in the North. While of course in the British sovereign base areas, where British law rules making them effectively British mini-colonies, the Union flag flies. Makarios returned to Cyprus to resume his role as President of the Greek-Cypriot entity, but very conveniently died of a ‘heart attack' just three years later in 1977. Thus the archbishop who attended ‘non-aligned' summits which the USA and NATO regarded as anti-Western was finally removed from the scene, and Cyprus was flying the flags of three staunch NATO countries, and of course permanently occupied by NATO troops supplied by the UK. Turkey, of course, also maintains a military presence in the North, whilst the Greek-Cypriot republic, very closely allied to NATO member Greece, has its National Guard. This is why it is so difficult to agree terms on the reunification of the island, even under ... states. However things have greatly improved recently, with the border on the Green Line being opened to all Cypriots and freedom of movement between the two Cypriot republics. The difficulty in reaching a final settlement stems from the fact that both the Greek-Cypriots and the Turkish-Cypriots want to keep their ethnic balance and do not want a huge influx of people from the other Cypriot community taking up permanent residence, and reclaiming lost homes, land and businesses. This is now slowly recognized as being impractical after 36 years of two separate Cypriot republics, so a final settlement depends on the level of financial compensation to both communities for these lost homes, land and businesses, and also on agreeing probably limited rights of return for some Turkish and Greek Cypriots to, if not their former homes, at least the areas where they used to live. This last issue is the most difficult to resolve of course, which is why many in Cyprus prefer the status quo and are not falling over themselves to reach a final settlement. Hi, I just want to say as usual it is always the British and Americans that is the cause of practically everything. The reason for Africa's division, the reason for China and Taiwans division, the reason for Korea's division, and millions more and its unfortunate that they have destroyed our beautiful island that we all love be it Greek, Turkish, Maronite and yet it continues to suffer while they gain as usual. I am of Cypriot Turkish, Greek and Maronite mixed descent and i hate what has happened all for colonialism and all for empirialism. So pleased to read your very accurate reply, and to hold out the hand of friendship to you, a mixed-race Cypriot. I too am mixed race, brought up in London by my English mother and grandparents. My father was Greek-Cypriot but my parents separated when I was 6, and he was absent from our home or sleeping most of the time before that, so I never even learnt Greek and never visited Cyprus till I was 32 in 1977. I have visited both Cypriot republics (including that embryo state, the Turkish Federative State of Cyprus, in 1977) several times, entering the TRNC from the Turkish mainland during the 1990s. My last visit to both Cypriot republics was in November 2009. I have great sympathy for the Turkish-Cypriots who have very unfairly been made scapegoats for the division of the island, and denied EU membership even though they voted for reunification under the Annan plan, while the Greek-Cypriots rejected it so are responsible for the continued division of the island. But Umit you are right about the British and Americans. Wherever the British were involved there has been division, trouble and ethnic clashes due to Britain's colonialist past and interference. Wherever there's trouble, there's a fair bet the British were there and had a lot to do with it, drawing lines on ... desires. They handed over part of Palestine to Jewish settlers from America, Britain and other countries without even asking the Palestinians. The worst kind of colonialism. Of course in a more distant past British settlers colonized North America, Australasia and much of Africa, enslaving or killing the indigenous population. The Americans took up ... War. They invaded Vietnam simply to stop the Vietnamese voting for Ho Chi-Minh – they canceled the elections and installed a puppet dictator in the South. They launched a war on Iraq for no reason whatsoever, lying about weapons of mass destruction they knew perfectly well didn't exist there (their spy planes, spy satellites and the UN Inspectors on the ground would have spotted them, as spy satellites spotted missile sites in Cuba with much more primitive technology back in 1962. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al Quaida, and there are strong indications the CIA was involved, spiriting Bin Laden's relatives out of USA just before 9/11. Cyprus has suffered from British colonial interference and American neo-colonialist policies because of its stragetic position in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Hopefully a solution can soon be found to reunite the island under a federal or confederal system allowing the Turkish and Greek Cypriot states autonomy within a united republic. Hopefully as you say, peace that is fair for all will happen soon my brother and i hope our fellow Cypriots will preserve the dying language of Sanna that the Maronites speak as it can only be found in our ... minds. Today in almost every nation their is such an evil of nationality, ethnicity and of course religion! As an example take Cyprus, both sides have more Greece and Turkey flags around than there are Cypriot flags and yet its Cyprus. The world still bears the wounds of Colonialism and will for a very long time. They could shape the world for the next thousand years. The British way of extricating themselves from their colonies once they could not longer make a profit set the world up for many many of the conflicts we still deal with today. Same for the other Colonial powers. And the Turks have not been Saints as Ottoman Turkish history will illustrate. America? we are just a bunch of adolescents thrust upon the world. As adolescents, We really have no strategy, we are just full of energy that occasionally gets pointed in a certain direction and God help anyone in the way. It is not intentional. That would imply a certain amount of thought adolescents aren't really capable of. I do suggest staying out of our way if we are pointed in your direction however. It won't be personal, but it will not be pleasant. Umit, everything you say is so true. I have hopes that Spirit (or Allah, God) is working to inspire humans to ... together. Never before has there been so much spiritual knowledge available to so many people worldwide via the Internet. The key thing is that we are all one, whatever our religion or if we are atheists/agnostics. And it is how we live our lives and treat others which matters, not what we believe. It really is refreshing to find Greek Cypriot origin people who have not had a complete brainwash by the Greek Cypriot Government’s propaganda over the many years. ... hatred. Many GC children grow up hearing from the Orthodox Church that the Turks are their enemy. This becomes so engrained into people’s psyche that it is impossible to shake it off even in later life. And a factor people do not mention is the “small island mentality”, on both sides of Cyprus. They just can’t see beyond what they are told locally. I have met many Greek mainland people who are very relaxed about relations with Turkey and Turkish people, not so many from Cyprus. The reality of recent events of Cyprus is that it was Greek Cypriots who were wound up by Macarios and Grivas to scrap the 1960 constitution, before the ink was dry on ... 1963. What was agreed by GCs, TCs, UK, Turkey, Greece was that there should be a right of veto on issues to the Turkish Cypriots. Having agreed to it, they ratted on it. The scrapping of right of veto meant that the GC majority in government could simply do what they liked from ... on. (And what they, especially Sampson openly wanted to do was to drive the “Turks into the sea”. There is a mountain of ... plan). The net result was a very one-sided attack on Turkish Cypriots in 1963-4 with 150 people dead within a week, a deliberate effort to terrorise TCs away from their homes. From 1963-74, TCs were driven out of land owned and occupied by them which was about 30% of Cyprus, to 3%. Between 1963-74, you never saw the Cyprus flag, it was always the Greek flag in Cyprus. GCs had absolutely no interest in integrating with TCs. Cruel embargoes were applied to TCs and being denied of employment and many other human rights, many of them could do nothing but to emigrate to the UK, Canada, Australia and other countries. GCs simply didn’t want to ... ever. You are absolutely right about 1974. There is a voice recording of Macarios making a speech to the Council of Europe that we can all listen to today, where he describes the events as, the invasion of Cyprus by ... intervene. Separately, he asked Turkey directly to intervene at the same time. As he puts it “As I have already stated, the events in Cyprus do not constitute an internal matter of the Greeks of Cyprus. The Turks of Cyprus are also affected. The coup of the Greek junta is an invasion, and from its consequences the whole people of Cyprus suffers, both Greeks and Turks. It was under these circumstances that Turkey intervened. Again, it was agreed that there ... sides. TCs voted yes, GCs voted no by a large majority, but TCs are still being punished by international embargoes for voting for peace. If GCs had also voted for the plan, there will have remained only 3,000 Turkish troops on the island in accordance with the terms of the plan. But they were encouraged by Papadopulos to vote no. ... telling. He is one of the few GC politicians who can admit openly to the truth – very brave of him. His words to the GC diaspora in New York was:“Unfortunately this is our sorry state of affairs in Cyprus,” Christofias said. “I want to believe that at some point we will all be sensible and put our country ... ourselves. We have suffered enough as a country; we have attempted suicide numerous times”. I do NOT think there was a NATO plot and the United States was in no way supporting the Turkish Invasion. Fact: I was part of the American sixth fleet as a Marine naval gunfire liaison, forward observer team. We were deployed off the coast of Cyprus as the Turks invaded. During this, the Turks were actively probing the British base where all the western European and American civilians had gone. The Turks were doing extremely low flyovers of our ships with the new F4 Phantoms America had supposedly not given them and the Soviets played their own games with their “trawlers.” Some small Turkish warships were also present. American 5 inch 38's were pointed at them all the time. American destroyers were shadowing Soviet and Turk ships and running across their bows when they came in our direction. I realized the Jane's estimation of the top speed of these destroyers was quite ... still. The Turks appeared to be ... civilians. The Turks kept this up and around July 3rd, 1974, the Marines were activated and prepped for combat. They lined the units up on the flight decks and gave everyone ammo and readied the ... assault. As I noted, I was ... gunfire. We were to be deployed in advance of the Marine Landing, I assume on the British base to support them in defense ... Civilians. Our mission was to land on a high point behind the Turkish troops and call in naval gunfire to support a Marine landing within the British base. On three occasions over three days, we began to load on the helicopters. On one occasion we were boarding the helicopters. Fact: Our mission was to call US Naval gunfire upon Turkish troops. This is not the act of a country in support of Turkey. We were locked and loaded and the 17 other men I was with were going to kill Turkish troops and likely die in the process ourselves. So, I give you these facts to counter any arguments about America supporting the Turks. I was there, I was an American Marine and I was part of a mission to kill Turks to protect civilian lives if needed. I'm thanking God, that mission was not implemented as I would have likely died in the process. There you go in relation to all your speculation. I was there and personally as a Marine, we were motivated to kill Turks and that was our job. We were not looking upon them as friends and allies I ... you. The point I was making was that the Greek Sampson coup against Makarios to annex the island to Greece was probably part of a NATO plot to ride the island of the troublesome archbishop. That Turkey would then invade the North to provide a safe haven for Turkish-Cypriots must have been anticipated, especially when ... independence. The ONLY possible reason that UK, as a guarantor of Cypriot independence, did not act is that it was all part of a NATO plot. What NATO member Turkey did in response to the Greek coup may well not have been planned by NATO, but it MUST have been foreseen. ... nature. As I noted, the Turks were actively probing the British perimeter, that means shooting. That active part was an explicit threat. They were flying right over our ships with Phantoms we hadn't given them. They were so close, you could see the eyes of the pilots and watch our guns track them. and the British to not do anything. This is not the actions of any large conspiracy. And remember what was going on in American Politics. A President was going down and pre-occupied. Kissinger was let loose and play games like a kid in a candy store and I was a pawn in his games. Turkey saw an opportunity and took it. In fact, the Greeks were the first to play games that likely triggered the Turkish response. There was a temporary vacuum in world politics and they took advantage. It was more disarray than conspiracy in my opinion behind it all. And since I almost died in that conflict I have a personal interest in it and studied it somewhat within the context of international geopolitical aspects. Remember our ambassador being assassinated? Who had motive and opportunity? It was ... event. It was a warning and/or a fear and his death ... someone. These are not the acts of anyone involved in any form of conspiracy It was a classic geopolitical house of cards, collapsing coming down to what we Americans call a game of chicken. The situation was escalating with its own set of dynamics to the point that America had 2500 Marines sitting on flight decks locked and loaded and ready to go in response to the Turkish threat and as I noted, on three occasions over ... M-60. Kissinger was in over his head and once the Turks had taken things to this point, they then backed off and quit “actively” probing the British base, having achieved their purpose thereby allowing U. and me to stand down. The facts remain as follows: 1. The fascist Colonels' Junta in Athens organized the Nicos Sampson coup in Cyprus to overthrow President Makarios and annex the whole island to Greece. UK was a guarantor of Cypriot independence, and with thousands of troops stationed permanently on the island was duty-bound to overthrow the Sampson coup and restore independence. President Makarios escaped and addressed the UN General Assembly in New York saying: ‘Greece has invaded my country'. There was no response. Turkey appealed to the UK to act ... independence. This appeal was also ignored. Turkey then had no option other than to intervene and create a ... Turkish-Cypriots. The Sampson coup then collapsed, as did the Junta in Athens. Eventually President Makarios was restored as the head of the Republic of Cyprus, ... Cyprus. All attempts to reunify the island under a federal solution have been rejected by the Greek Cypriots. Conclusion: The continued division of Cyprus is entirely due to Greece, the Greek-Cypriots and the UK. The only possible reason for the UK not to act to restore the independence of Cyprus in July 1974 after the Sampson coup was a NATO or British plot to overthrow Makarios and probably to split the island into three, the current situation, i. ## the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Greek-Cypriot Republic of Cyprus, and the zones of British occupation – the so-called ‘Sovereign Bases'. 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Butch Lee guided Marquette to its first title and was the Most Outstanding Player in the 1977 NCAA tournament. He [spans 4] Rico. He gets his basketball fix running the Point Guard Academy. Darrell Griffith is one of a few Louisville players we'll see [spans 5] minute. The Most Outstanding Player in 1980 made his name in a Louisville uniform, and he remains a major presence in town. He owns Griff's restaurant, and he is a special assistant for University of Louisville's president. The man nicknamed Never Nervous Pervis is one of the most disappointing No.1 picks in NBA history, but he is also one of the most famous March Madness players ever. After taking [spans 6] Jersey. He left Syracuse in 1990, but in 1987 Derrick Coleman was a starter on a team that played for the national title. He earned millions during a prolonged NBA career, but some bad money moves cost him everything. 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He's not as notable as former teammates such as Al Horford and Joakim Noah, but he is one of the most famous March Madness players of his era. He enjoyed an overseas career before earning an M. starting his own basketball consulting business, and serving as operations manager for Pontoon Solutions. It's OK to be honest and admit you probably forgot about Luke Hancock. Even though [spans 18] Greece. After that one season, Hancock studied to become a financial advisor and that's what he's done since 2015. Watchdog reveals information about insider trades in the constituent companies of the [spans 19] 5th. Patrick Pichette who is SVP & Chief Financial Officer at Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), sold 1,653 shares at $626.68 per share for a total value of $1,035,902. The shares recently traded at $623.77, down $2.91, or 0.46% since the insider sale. About the company: Google Inc. is a global technology company that provides a web based search engine through its website. The Company offers a wide range of search options, including web, image, groups, directory, and news searches. Get the most recent company news and stock data here >>Marc A Onetto who is Senior Vice President at Amazon. (NASDAQ:AMZN), sold 50,455 shares at $196.52 per share for a total value of $9,915,611. The shares recently traded at $191.99, down $4.53, or 2.31% since the insider sale. About the company: Amazon. is an online retailer that offers a wide range of products. ## The Company's products include books, music, videotapes, computers, electronics, home and garden, and numerous other products. Amazon offers personalized shopping services, Web-based credit card payment, and direct shipping to customers. Get the most recent company news and stock data here >>James A Hixon who is Exec. Relatiions at Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC), sold 19,905 shares at $76.15 per share for a total value of $1,515,766. The shares recently traded at $74.86, down $1.29, or 1.69% since the insider sale. ## About the company: Norfolk Southern Corporation provides rail transportation services. The Company transports raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods primarily in the Southeast, East, and Midwest and, via interchange with rail carriers, to and from the rest of the United States. Norfolk Southern also transports overseas freight through several Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports Get the most recent company news and stock data here >>Howard D Schultz who is chairman, president and ceo at Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX), sold 795,500 shares at $44.24 per share for a total value of $35,189,897. The shares recently traded at $43.73, down $0.51, or 1.15% since the insider sale. About the company: Starbucks Corporation retails, roasts, and provides its own brand of specialty coffee. The Company operates retail locations worldwide and sells whole bean coffees through its sales group, direct response business, supermarkets, and on the World Wide Web. Starbucks also produces and sells bottled coffee drinks and a line of ice creams. Get the most recent company news and stock data here >>Michael R Hallman who is Director at Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU), sold 50,000 shares at $53.98 per share for a total value of $2,699,239. The shares recently traded at $54.16, up $0.18, or 0.33% since the insider sale. About the company: Intuit Inc. Get the most recent company news and stock data here >>Steven A Cosse who is Director at Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR), sold 20,000 shares at $55.29 per share for a total value of $1,105,754. The shares recently traded at $55.32, up $0.03, or 0.05% since the insider sale. The Company also has exploration and production activities in countries that include United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, and Ecuador. Murphy Oil has retail operations as well in the United States. Get the most recent company news and stock data here >>Jackwyn Nemerov who is Executive Vice President at Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. (NYSE:RL), sold 17,200 shares at $150.00 per share for a total value of $2,580,000. The shares recently traded at $150.63, up $0.63, or 0.42% [spans 20] sale. The Company's products are sold under a wide range of brands. Polo's operations include Wholesale, Retail and Licensing. Get the most recent company news and stock data here >>Anthony L Mcworter who is Exec. Officer of Principal Sub at Torchmark Corp. (NYSE:TMK), sold 25,000 shares at $43.30 per share for a total value of $1,082,555.74, up $0.44, or 1.02% since the insider sale. About the company: Torchmark Corporation is an insurance and financial services holding company. 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A Yamaha RX-V795A AV Receiver with a Raspberry Pi 3B with HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro, Steel case, and 16 GB memory card running RoPieee OS to create a RoonBridge. Zone A of the RX-V795A receiver is powering a pair of Coral X-III 3-way bookshelf speakers. Mostly using an Apple iPad Pro 10.5" as the Roon control. It's already quite possibly the best sound system in a dive shop anywhere in the world. Staff and customers love it. Soon it will be even better. Waiting to get another HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro, installing shelves for the speakers, and finishing off a network cabling upgrade so as to get the back room sound system running. I'd like to be able to let customers choose the music, but I can't just yet. While Roon supports profiles, it doesn't password protect them, and all profiles have full access to the music library. To give customers access, I really need to be able to have a profile where users can only read and play music. I don't want them being able to edit and delete music library contents. A Yamaha RX-V992 AV 5.1 channel Receiver is driving a pair of Yamaha NS-50T 2-way speakers. DAC is a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro. The FLAC lossless music files from my collection of 1,390 albums and 22,061 tracks are being delivered from an Intel i7 NUC running the Roon Labs ROCK music server software. The ROCK uses a 4TB Western Digital external USB3 hard drive for music file storage. An Apple iPAD Pro 10.5" and Android based smart phones are used as the Roon control devices for browsing the library and selecting the music. It's an eclectic mixture of vintage, unloved and new gear put together relatively cheaply. Yet it sounds awesome! If Roon's profile feature supported a guest/party mode, I'd let customers install Roon on their smartphones and select what they want to play. However, right now with Roon profiles everyone has access to everything and can edit and delete metadata and tracks. Roon needs a locked down party/guest mode where the setup is read and play only. Hi there Lloyd, Wow! -a Dive shop that has cool Music! -Kudos-most are pretty grim and not the most friendly-maybe due to the piss poor paid staff😥Your setup looks and I'm sure sounds great! . Just an aside myself as a previous Wreck/Cave [spans 2] sadly. -that is a cakewalk compared to the navigation/logistics as they [spans 3] Rescuers. I wonder if those Norwegians could've assisted? Customers are loving it. When they come in I often start to turn the volume down and many ask me to [spans 4] up. Lots of comments about how the shop just feels much friendlier now. Plenty of requests for something they'd like to hear. Of course I'm inflicting my musical tastes on them, but I have a fairly broad range of genres available. Most of the time I start [spans 5] library. It's interesting to hear the connections it makes. I started this morning with the album "A Night In San Francisco" by Van Morrison and so far it's played tracks by John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, The Travelling Wilburys, Eagles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Supertramp. The Doors, The Police, Bob Seeger, Billy Joel, Pink Floyd, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, and currently The Allman Brothers Band. Yes, watching it and not liking their chances. When the highly experienced cave rescue guys from England that found the boys describe it as "a bit gnarly" and a Thai navy seal diver dies in there, it makes you wonder. Most scuba divers couldn't cope going through a squeeze in an underwater cave where your air cylinder has to be pushed in front of you. And in Thailand it is much worse. The water is very cold and there is absolutely no visibility, even with a powerful torch. The space is so confined. That is pretty terrifying, dangerous and challenging for highly experienced cave divers. Now imagine teenage you trying to do it when you can't even swim. I am only a "novice" diver and know how easy it is to panic underwater. Many times for a stupid reason I would panic and suck up air like their is no tomorrow or just wanted to go up ,and breath normal air. Their is no way I will ever go cave diving - I am just too scared. I am hoping the fact that they have survived so far shows that they have the strenght to do it. Maybe their young age [spans 6] stead. I'm not a big believer in thoughts and prayers, unlike all of those in power in the USA who think that's the only [spans 7] citizens. Tears For Fears will be performing 1 event in Birmingham on Tuesday 12th February 2019 at the Genting Arena. StickyJ customers have been ordering for years with us knowing they will get their perfect personalized gift or jewelry on time safely! Here are they ways we make sure you track your order from the confirmation button to your doorstep. 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Human: What are the missing spans: Alumni around the world posted their favorite Chicago Booth memories on social media in the build-up for 2018's festivities. Share how you are celebrating #BoothReconnect on social media for a chance to win an Apple Watch. Read the contest rules to find out how you could win. Get your social media profiles revved up for Reconnect by adding beautiful images that show your Booth pride. Download your favorites here. The University of Chicago Hospitals has pulled out of the bidding for a dozen Chicago-area medical practices owned by Humana Inc. A spokesman for U of C said late last week that the Hyde Park-based medical center "has been out of the bidding for some time. " Sources close to the talks said U of C was eliminated early last month because it wasn't able to conclude an agreement with Humana for future coverage of the medical groups' patients. based Humana is still talking with a number of other potential suitors (Crain's, Dec. Efforts to sell Sengstacke Enterprises Inc. - publisher of Chicago's only African-American [spans 1] Tenn. - are accelerating with the issuance [spans 2] company. Sources familiar with the sales effort say prospective buyers must demonstrate they have at least $10 million in financing in hand. It's expected to take four to six weeks to gather the offers. Kackley, managing partner at Arthur Andersen's Chicago office, is being promoted to chief financial officer at professional services giant Andersen Worldwide, parent of both the accounting firm and the world's largest management consultancy, Andersen Consulting. McMillan, 39, will replace Mr. Kackley as chief of the auditing firm's Chicago office on March 1, according to an announcement to be made early this week. Kackley succeeds John D. Lewis, 57, who is retiring. McMillan, who previously headed the Chicago office's [spans 3] 1980. Another large excursion boat will call Navy Pier home port when the cruising season begins this year. The [spans 4] pier. It will be operated by Chicago-based Premier Yachts Inc. which also owns the Odyssey at Navy Pier and excursion vessels in Boston and Washington, D. A conservative political action committee known for its strong opposition to abortion is considering airing "independent" TV ads in Illinois' heated GOP primary battle for the U. Officials of the Campaign for Working Families, headed by Gary Bauer, say they'll decide in about two weeks whether to launch an ad blitz in the clash between pro-choice state Comptroller Loleta Didrickson and pro-life state Sen. [spans 5] Corp. millions, the Michigan Public Service Commission ordered the company to pay competing local telephone carriers for completing calls from Ameritech customers to Internet service providers (ISPs) served by the rivals. A proposed order in a similar proceeding before the Illinois Commerce Commission [spans 6] week. Ameritech has refused to pay for such [spans 7] networks. An Ameritech spokesman called the ruling wrong and said the company will appeal. Calls to ISPs typically last much longer than ordinary voice connections, making [spans 8] higher. Rivals such as Teleport Communications Group Inc. of New York and Chicago-based Focal Communications Co. have targeted the ISP market, allowing them to benefit disproportionately from the fees (Crain's, July 28). Estimates of the amounts owed to the competing carriers were not immediately available. On-line music "broadcaster" JamTV Corp. of Chicago is expanding its lineup of Internet-based live concert simulcasts with this week's scheduled launch of Rolling Stone Network (www. JamTV will contribute [spans 9] Inc. the New York-based parent of Rolling Stone magazine.11, JamTV also will provide daily video newscasts on the site; Rolling Stone will contribute archival material and new articles. Five industrial real estate brokers bolted Friday from Northbrook-based Grubb & Ellis Co. to Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler Inc. Among [spans 10] year. Also switching firms are Brent DeNoble, Jeffrey Kapcheck and Michael Senner. ## Grubb's 21-broker industrial group generated $312 million in 1997 deals; CBK's 23-broker industrial group generated $550 million last year. John Moysey, executive vice-president of Grubb & Ellis, downplayed the defections: "Anytime you lose anybody, it makes an impact. But it's relatively common in our industry for this to happen. "United Scrap Metal Inc. a $40-million metal recycler based in Cicero, acquired RPS Industrial Metals Inc. a Franklin Park scrap processor. A United Scrap spokeswoman says the company is scouting additional deals in a rapidly consolidating market. RPS generated sales of $7 million last year; [spans 11] location. United recently expanded its Cicero facility with a 124,000-square-foot wire processing plant. CLARIFICATION: While rival local phone providers disagree, Ameritech Corp. attorney Gerry Friederichs insists that, by law, all carriers have the same eminent domain rights to wire office buildings as Ameritech does. His comments were in response to a Feb.2 story on downtown landlords seeking access fees from competing phone companies. His 358-minute documentary (seven chapters split into two cycles of 164 and 194 minutes) is a collage of archival imagery and texts and a decade of "home movies" that show his daughters growing up in front [spans 12] camera. The associations between the archival and the personal aren't so much [spans 13] inevitable. Havilio's thoughtful voice-over is punctuated with excerpts from the diaries of famous travelers to the region and with interviews that have an intriguing ambiguity. During these segments the movie's ideological perspective becomes almost frustratingly neutral; Havilio's father, an Israeli diplomat, tells self-congratulatory stories that demonstrate personality more than power of recall. Another relative speaks of his own memoir, saying, "I included only things I was sure happened. What I wasn't certain about I didn't write down. " Yet nothing is privileged or dismissed in this boldly expansive history [spans 14] past. Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. The seeds of the chia plant (part of the mint family) are trendy now for their health benefits; they're high in omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, protein, and antioxidants. Anna Shovers (the Publican), who challenged Omilinsky to create a dish with chia seeds, eats them every day for breakfast. The nutritional value of chia seeds isn't a recent [spans 15] water. The chia plant nearly disappeared in South America after Spanish colonists banned [spans 16] seeds. "It was fun to take something superhealthy and make it superunhealthy," Omilinsky said. And it's not the first time the seeds have made it into a dessert at Cafe des Architectes: according to Omilinsky, when Patrick Fahy was the restaurant's head pastry chef he used them as a garnish for one "because he thought they looked like little dinosaur eggs. "The tiny gray seeds are extremely hydrophilic, and can absorb 12 times their weight in water. "When they're hydrated, they've still got the little crunchy on the inside, but they're slimy little goobers on the outside," Omilinsky said. That sliminess—combined with the fact that chia seeds don't taste like anything—made them challenging to work with, she said. Omilinsky used the seeds several ways: in a cake, a sorbet, a citrus salad, a sugar tuille, and a streusel. "They looked a lot like poppy seeds, and I was like, well, lemon poppy-seed cake. Lemon chia-seed cake," she said. "And it worked exactly the same way. They have the same crunch that poppy seeds do. They get stuck in your teeth the same way too. " Because it's citrus season, she made a salad with orange, clementine, and pink grapefruit segments tossed with [spans 17] juice. The sugar tuille was made with isomalt, a sugar substitute that doesn't crystallize or get tacky the way sugar does. Omilinsky melted it and stirred in toasted chia seeds, then spread the mixture onto a silicone sheet until it cooled enough to allow her to stretch it into thin glasslike sheets. More toasted chia seeds went into a streusel with butter, sugar, flour, and feuilletine (crispy flakes of very thin wafers). In the blood-orange sorbet, Omilinsky said, the seeds hydrated a little, thickening the mixture—which worried her at first, but the sorbet came out just fine. The centerpiece of the dish, a Meyer lemon panna cotta, was the only major element without chia seeds in it. "I figured there were enough weird textures going on," Omilinsky said. Garnishes included dots of passion-fruit curd, orange "pearls" (orange juice set with agar), and microgreens. The dessert, Omilinsky said, tastes like citrus. The chia seeds add texture, but don't taste like anything. Still, she said she'd "definitely" [spans 18] again. Crunchy is my favorite flavor. "Meg Galus of NoMi Kitchen, working with century eggs, which are eggs preserved for weeks or months in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime, and rice hulls. Omilinsky hasn't tried the Chinese delicacy, and said, "I'm a little freaked out by it, actually. " But she says that Galus "likes a challenge . I think she'll have a blast with it. "The walls at Meadowbrook Aquatic Center in Mount Washington are adorned with poster-sized portraits of past and future champions who cut their competitive teeth there. But while the record-breaking performances of world-class athletes such as Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff garner most of the swimming [spans 19] spotlight. Phil Wetzler, 69, a longtime volunteer [spans 20] Thursday. "The opening ceremony was just incredible," Wetzler said by phone from the World Games. "Everybody was really up for (the event). "The Baltimore native was selected from among 48 candidates. Initially notified that he was the first alternate, Wetzler got his break when another coach pulled out. Wetzler, who was a Marine in the 1950s, was overwhelmed when he received the news that he had been chosen and looked forward to his chance to again serve his country. "It's a tremendous opportunity to represent my country as well as these young athletes who are working so unbelievably hard to succeed," Wetzler said before he departed for China. "I love America, and I embrace the commitment to make this group of people better and to make them proud to represent the USA. "Head aquatics coach Debbie Doman was part of the Team USA committee that selected Wetzler for an assistant coaching position. She interviewed him by phone and came away impressed with his commitment to helping the disabled. "He's very passionate about Special Olympics," Doman said. "He's very excited about representing his country in this situation. "Wetzler's selection to the Team USA coaching staff culminates a life dedicated to working with people with disabilities, a calling he first heard as a young man. When growing up, he would accompany his mother and grandmother [spans 21] volunteered. By the time he was 18, Wetzler, who swam competitively at City and later at Duke, had already taught his first disabled student how to swim. After he retired from the men's clothing industry in 2003, Wetzler began spending much of his free time volunteering at the League, where he continues to volunteer and now serves as a board member. In 2005, when he found out that Special Olympics Maryland had no aquatics program, Wetzler started one and struck a deal with Meadowbrook [spans 22] counterparts. Starting with seven athletes, the program has steadily grown and now has 27 swimmers and a host of grateful parents. Mason Surhoff, [spans 23] B. Surhoff and his wife Polly, is one of Wetzler's pupils. "(Phil) has a great heart," said Polly Surhoff. "He doesn't really take full credit for the amount of work he puts into coaching. He's a true volunteer. "Wetzler and the rest of the Maryland Special Olympics team were honored recently at a reception aboard the USS Constellation at the Inner Harbor before they departed for Shanghai. As he made final preparations for his trip, [spans 24] athletes. "All of these athletes know they aren't a Michael Phelps or a Katie Hoff, but they know they can be winners," Wetzler said. "Winning, to them, isn't always about a [spans 25] medal. It's about being able to participate and give their best. It's about heart, and these kids have miles and miles of heart. "The heavy metal music pouring from a boombox mingles with the sweat and determination of teens pumping iron in a high school weight room. They sport a similar wardrobe consisting of black T-shirts, black shorts and high-top gym shoes, flexing their muscles in their quest for fitness and health. Their faces appear youthful, but there is a hardened look in their eyes that speaks of the battles they have endured. They are enrolled in the Forest View Alternative School in Arlington Heights, a high school for students with behavioral and emotional disorders which have led to an array of problems, from bad grades to unruly conduct to drug and alcohol use. The were plucked from the six high schools in Northwest Suburban District 214 and placed in the alternative school, a smaller, more controlled environment where they receive more personalized training. They get the same education as students in the other high schools. Only their education is designed not only to get them a diploma, but help them get through life. "Some of our kids have chaotic messes in their lives," said Bill [spans 26] school. "They respond very well to a structure that is safe and orderly. "Cristina, 16, is one of those students. She arrived at the school last fall, having failed every course her freshman year because she was cutting classes and taking drugs. She recalls an early childhood in which she was a straight-A student and school council member. That changed in junior high. Now, her experiences at the alternative school, combined with some group therapy, have helped Cristina achieve passing grades and enhanced her self esteem. "I adore it here," she said. "I'm learning how to [spans 27] stress. They are teaching us skills to live. "The concept of an "off-campus" high school in District 214 [spans 28] problems. While the program was called Special Therapeutic Education Day School for 19 years, officials renamed the program to the Forest View Alternative School last year. The new name better reflects the alternative educational choices available in the structured setting at the former Forest View High School, which was closed due to declining enrollment in 1986. "The students here are [spans 29] said. "There is all kinds of potential there. If you can catch their attention, the growth is unbelievable. "Johnson said that while the teens at Forest View Alternative School are technically categorized as special education students [spans 30] disabled. School officials say it is difficult to paint a portrait of the typical student who is referred to the alternative school by the dean of students at their home school. Yet they do see a common pattern involving teens living in single-parent homes, a history of substance abuse problems and a [spans 31] self-esteem. "Sometimes by the time a student arrives here, the parents have had it, and they're not overly supportive," said instructor Audrey Gross, adding [spans 32] program. With a staff to student ratio of 1-5, the focus of each homeroom is designed to allow students to earn the accreditation of any equivalent course offered in the student's home school. Officials maintain that students are encouraged to ultimately return to their home [spans 33] requirements. Joe, 17, who is completing his third year in the program, has opted [spans 34] succeed. ""I've been clean-off drugs-for two years, and I have a lot of friends here," explains Joe, who hopes to enroll in the Harper College Law Enforcement program after high school with the goal of becoming a police officer. "I think that we all hope that the students here will get additional training after high school and that we're not going to see their names on the police blotter," said special education coordinator Tom Byrne. Byrne said that he usually arrives at school at 8 a. and remains long after the final school bell tolls at 2:30 p. Byrne oversees students who return to school for an evening [spans 35] trip. "These kids have tremendous survival skills. I think that most of them will find some way to assimilate, to find their niche somehow," Byrne said. "We plant the seeds, provide a place to grow up and show them where the doors are. "Advocates of alternative education strive to strengthen fragile egos by promoting participation in team activities that in many cases provide a reason for students to remain in school. "We were told that if we offered competitive sports to behavior disorder kids we would wind up with chaos. We've [spans 36]. 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<prompter> Fill in the missing words: Friedemann Freund doesn't shrink from taking on the really [words 1] problems. His research has elucidated such important phenomena as the fact that rocks under stress behave like batteries that can [words 2] within the crust of the Earth. These are not piddling electron flows, either - the currents [words 3] millions of amperes, sufficient to be measured above ground, [words 4] perhaps even from orbit. Understanding and exploiting [words 5] dramatic breakthrough in earthquake forecasting. I [words 6] 15 years ago. What many find [words 7] I came to study earthquakes from the field [words 8] - I wanted to understand defects in minerals [words 9] put under stress. Of course, our very tectonically active, dynamic planet puts rocks under enormous stresses all the time. Eventually, these rocks rupture and generate huge shock waves that can bring down buildings or generate tsunamis that can run back and forth across an entire ocean several times. It is [words 10] magnitude 9 earthquake releases the energy equivalent to several million atomic bombs of the Hiroshima class. Photo to the left is an extensional crack taken in the [words 11] on October 17, 1989. Geological SurveyThe conventional seismological community is unable to derive early warnings for even the large magnitude earthquakes, such as the recent quake that devastated parts of Japan or the 2004 Indian Ocean [words 12] Sumatra that produced a killer tsunami. Through my work, I hope to help build an understanding of the very subtle signals generated [words 13] deep in the Earth to the level where rocks will eventually rupture. I became interested [words 14] many years ago while living in Germany. I chose the [words 15] material one could attain, which was magnesium oxide. My colleagues were skeptical of [words 16] was nothing left to find. But my work led me to a family of [words 17] which everybody else had overlooked or misinterpreted as [words 18] form of contamination. I spent the next 20 years [words 19] every physical technique available. I discovered one of the characteristic features of these defects was that, when activated, they would change the electrical conductivity, by 8 orders of magnitude. After working in this area a number of years, turning [words 20] studying rocks, I recalled my old [words 21] the magnesium oxide crystals. They had generated electricity when I "tickled" them. By the mid-1990s, I knew that minerals in common rocks have [words 22] defects. It occurred to me that if I mechanically stressed those rocks, I might be able to generate electricity. This idea [words 23] to be correct but it took [words 24] time to invent an experiment that has since become a benchmark experiment. Working with two [words 25] was able to demonstrate in 2006 [words 26] we apply moderate stress to one end of a block of granite about 20 feet [words 27] from the other end. In addition, based [words 28] had published in the mid-1980s, we showed that air molecules become massively ionized at the rock surface and that small sparks are flying [words 29] corners and edges due to the firing of corona discharges. [words 30] being used in the field to detect [words 31] the atmosphere? I've been working with Tom Bleier, who leads Quakefinder, the humanitarian R&D division of Stellar Solutions. Tom [words 32] installed air conductivity sensors along California's San Andreas Fault. When there has been a moderate or big earthquake [words 33] of his sensor stations, he has indeed recorded a very large increase in air conductivity. When we saw this effect for the first time, we were very pleased even though our sensor was overwhelmed by the amount of ionization. This air [words 34] the ground level and the upward expansion of the heavily ion-laden air, probably up to the stratosphere, is what [words 35] distinct reactions in the ionosphere some 200-300 km [words 36] us. These are very complex processes, widely reported in the [words 37] indicators - fascinating for us to begin understanding how these processes work. I'm pleased to see this work receiving press coverage, including news reports in Los Angeles [words 38] Area. I have not looked at this earthquake in any detail because it happened deep underneath the [words 39] filtering out many of the signals that arise from electric currents. However, this is work we want to do this summer with one of the SETI Institute's REU (Research [words 40] interns. We'll look at the influence the [words 41] occur on land and under the ocean. The sheer scope of the work is [words 42] one of the many aspects that have come out of my work. Even though [words 43] some people now call me the earthquake guy, this work is actually only an [words 44] even wider area of research. In reading a variety of seemingly unrelated reports, I began to wonder if the defects I had seen in the minerals 25 years prior could be responsible for the signals people were [words 45] environment prior to earthquakes. To me, the [words 46] quickly became Yes! That seemed to be an intriguing avenue [words 47] follow. In early June 2011, I [words 48] at a brain mapping conference in San Francisco, California, [words 49] very interesting phenomenon. The ionosphere that wraps around the globe has a standing wave that is constantly fed by lighting strikes [words 50] the surface of the Earth. Every lighting bolt that hits the Earth emits a broad electromagnetic radiation from very high frequencies that you can actually hear. In the old radios, [words 51] strikes. But there is also a [words 52] one component in the low frequency, around 8 Hz, is the frequency that a wave takes to travel in one single oscillation around the entire Earth and reconnect. I became interested in the [words 53] electromagnetic waves might have on living organisms. It turns out our brain emits radiation at [words 54] Hz. Even the brains of little animals, such as mice, emit 4 Hz of electromagnetic radiation. Prior to an earthquake, the earth sends out bursts of low and extremely low frequencies that cover the entire spectrum around 8 Hz from [words 55] Hz. These electric waves come from the belly of the earth. There are some very interesting studies that link psychological and physiological phenomena in humans and animals to [words 56] earthquakes exactly at the same time when these electromagnetic waves are emitted. What are some examples of psychological or physiological phenomena exhibited prior to an earthquake? Evidence is mounting that ultra low [words 57] extremely low frequency radiation emitted in the natural environment can have [words 58] animal health and behavior prior to an earthquake. An excellent paper [words 59] written by Dr. Shitov, a professor in Southern Siberia. He characterized a number of incidents that [words 60] the 2003 magnitude 7.5 Chuya earthquake, [words 61] Siberia. One of the aspects he looked at was medical records. Shitov was able to show that about two weeks before this earthquake, there was an unusual increase in the number of people [words 62] help. The complaints of those who flocked to hospital emergency rooms before the earthquake were related [words 63] dystonia, epilepsy - while other conditions such as [words 64] which are due to poor air quality and drinking water pollution, showed up after the quake. Emergency visits prior to the Magnitude 7.5 Chuya earthquake in Siberia. Shitov, 2010Another example of interesting pre-earthquake behavior came about through pure chance. In the spring of 2008, a group of medical doctors at [words 65] China, were monitoring the circadian rhythm of laboratory mice. On May 12, [words 66] their experiment, the devastating magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake [words 67] kilometers from the university. The researchers continued their experiment but then found out that three [words 68] the earthquake, the circadian rhythm of the mice had become completely random. [words 69] after the earthquake, until the animals' behavior returned [words 70] a normal pattern. A friend from China sent me the electromagnetic wave spectrum recorded at the same university. 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Suddenly the toads disappeared from the lake, which was the study area. When the student couldn't locate the toads, she became worried as this was extremely unusual behavior. Then the deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the heavily damaged the town of L'Aquila, Italy, approximately 70 kilometers from the lake. Three days later the toads returned. Strange and interesting things are observed before major earthquakes. I find this area of study a wonderful challenge in which to understand the complexities of the world. It's fascinating to think these occurrences are driven by the sun and are influenced by processes that originate in our closest star. We have a diurnal pattern of a distribution of earthquakes controlled by a current in the ionosphere, which is controlled by the activity on the sun. When we move into a new cycle of solar activity, such as we are now entering, the currents in the ionosphere will have a higher chance of triggering earthquakes in the earth's crust. If you look at 100 or so years of seismic activity records from around the world, you will see a clear pattern that the number of earthquakes follows the solar activity. I want to understand the details surrounding this fact. Image to left: The X9-class solar flare of Dec.5, 2006, observed by the Solar X-Ray Imager aboard NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. Credit: NOAA's Space Weather Prediction CenterMy biggest challenge is to convince at least a good fraction of the scientific community that these phenomena take place. The work I'm doing is new and some scientists cannot understand that this discovery, which I developed from physical studies of magnesium oxide single crystals, also applies to dirty rocks. Many reject this work out of hand because it provides a new explanation to historically well-documented phenomena. There's no doubt seismologists have done wonderful work. They look at the number of earthquakes, details of past earthquakes, and then they construct elaborate statistical models when the next earthquake will happen. But they can't "predict" earthquakes. That's where the 30-year uncertainty comes in that is reflected in insurance policies. I don't want to look backwards at past earthquakes and predict future earthquakes statistically. I want to train my eyes or my instruments to understand the earthquakes as they happen. As the stress is building up deep in the earth 10, 20, 35 kilometers below the surface of the earth, can we pick up and understand the signals that are detectable at the surface? Since these signals range from animal behavior to ionospheric perturbations and everything in between, it is important to understand how the basic physics is related. If we can show - and I think we can - how atmospheric phenomena and phenomena in the biologic world, such as animal behavior, are linked to ionospheric perturbations, we can then use this to forecast conditions under which earthquakes are likely to occur. Collapsed building and burned area in San Francisco as a result of the October 19, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Geological SurveyWhile we can't predict earthquakes, we can issue an alert stating, "Stresses seem to be building up deep in the earth's crust at a particular fault and if these stresses reach a certain level, there is an increased chance of an earthquake within the next few days. " This can have tremendous impact on the public and saving lives, instead of being unprepared and having to deal with the aftermath of a massive earthquake. I realized the same defects I had painstakingly studied in the synthetic crystals I was growing also occurred in minerals. The first mineral I looked at was olivine from the Earth's mantle. Olivine is the most abundant mineral in the universe, not only on Earth but also in the interstellar dust. Most of the dust grains we see out in the galaxies consist of tiny olivine crystals. All these olivine crystals had certain defects. I became more and more interested, and I realized some of these defects actually consist of carbon atoms linking themselves up with hydrogen. Suddenly a door opened that led to a pathway for understanding questions related to the origin of life. As I came to NASA Ames in the mid-1980s, my interest was focused on the question of the origin of life and how we can understand the conditions on a lifeless Earth 3 ½ billion years ago. It takes very complex bioorganic chemistry for life to evolve, and I wanted to understand more. This area of interest is what brought me to the SETI Institute. Motivation is an interesting incentive, and its sources change with age. Throughout my career, however, I have always wanted to understand nature. I've been motivated by a desire to try and understand how big things in nature work and also to look at the simple questions in our lives, such as what is chlorophyll or how is it possible for cold-blooded animals to live in cold water and still be active, knowing their body temperature is almost the same as the water temperature. My curiosity will never be quenched as long as questions exist for which we have yet to discover the answers. Strangely enough, Velikovsky's book, Worlds in Collision, published in 1950, caught my attention. Velikovsky was a colorful character. He had the idea that Venus had been a wandering object that passed near Earth. He proposed this near collision resulted in creating many of the reported floods and other natural catastrophes found in numerous old writings from different cultures continents apart. Velikovsky wrote that Venus was later captured by the solar system and was added to our planetary lineup in the early centuries BCE, after which Venus eventually became a normal planet. That was such a challenging proposal to accept. But if I didn't want to accept it, how would I refute it? Even as a young man, I was intrigued by the scientific process. How has your lifelong study into the physics of Earth influenced your thoughts on the possibility of life on other planets? Wherever in the universe there is a planet with land and liquid water and an active weathering system, I predict that this planet will slowly but inextricably become oxidized. Even without life and without photosynthesis this planet will acquire oxygen in its atmosphere. Carl Sagan's proposal of the "pale blue dot" being a symbol of life in the "blackness of space" is a beautiful metaphor. Life is not necessary to create a pale blue dot, but the same weathering process which injects oxygen will also release organic molecules into the environment, specifically complex molecules such as must have been available on the early earth, forming the basis for self-organization and the origin of life. Image to the right: This is a computer artist's illustration of a giant but remote galaxy string discovered recently. Credit: NASAMy work suggests that wherever planets exist in our galaxy and beyond, which are similar to the earth with a similar weathering system, they will create situations for life to form. If this life self-assembles from the organics released from rocks during the weathering cycle, it will look similar to our own - similar in its overall biochemical foundation. I don't believe in life based on silicon chemistry or on a completely different chemistry. Earth-like planets anywhere will, by necessity, develop both oxygen and primitive life. You've had an Adjunct Professor position at San Jose State University since 1989. What type of affiliation do you have with the University? As an adjunct professor, I have the privilege of sitting in on faculty meetings, although I don't have a voting voice. This position also allows me to select and work with students from the University's Physic Department and other departments. I enjoy working with young people, and I've been able to work with some very good students. I'd like to revisit some ideas I had about 30 years ago. At the time my work had led me to become interested in proton conductivity. I developed a complete semiconductor physics of protons carrying electric currents as they relate to certain chemical processes. I would like to see whether my basic understanding of proton conductivity can be applied to better understand to the functioning of the living cell. Our cells have an amazing capability of transporting protons through the cell membranes. Peter Mitchell who proposed an elaborate but basically "unphysical" mechanism for this transmembrane proton transport received a Nobel Prize. I challenge his idea. If I had six months or a year, or if someone would give me the money to hire a capable young Post-Doc, I'd love to see how far I can take my fundamental understanding of how protons conduct electricity and how they couple to the flow of electrons - a fascinating project, if only I had the time to do it. Once again it is time to acknowledge that I will never read all of the papers I've flagged in my RSS reader. but I can at least go through the abstracts. While my summaries here may be slightly in error due to the fact that I haven't actually read the papers in question, here is what I'm skimming . Callan Bentley has declared a meme: What are ten things that every geology major ought to know about? The only restriction is you're not allowed to list anything that has already been listed by a previous geoblogger. You don't have to list everything, just ten important things. Before I add to the . Free-Ride: What have you been learning about in science this school year? Younger offspring: Lots of stuff. Free-Ride: Like what? Younger offspring: We learned about rocks and minerals. Rocks are made out of minerals, and some rocks have more than one kind of mineral in them. When it comes to geologic phenomena, the difference between renewal and cataclysm can walk a fine line. On All of My Faults Are Stress Related, Kim Hannula elucidates the distinction between causes and triggers. Citing an article about the Zipingpu Dam that concludes that the weight of the . I cannot seem to find the Shitov 2010 reference. Web of Science does not return any relevant paper for 2010. Freund perhaps provide the details of that reference? I hope that in the full paper he provides a much longer time series, and a statistical analysis to show that this data is indeed unusual, as well as an analysis of all potential nervous system disorders that would conceivably be correlated as well. There is a very very weak diurnal signal in earthquakes, due to tidal stress loading of optimally oriented faults, I wonder how Dr. Freund distinguishes his solar activity model from this signal, and what sort of plausible causal mechanism he has for it? As to Dr. That stress changes within the solid earth can cause changes in the electrical conductivity of the Earth (by several mechanisms), and can change local magnetic fields, and propagate up into ionospheric signals is an idea that is generally well received because it is backed up with solid physical theories. I have yet to see a good theoretical mechanism proposed as to how changes in the ionosphere, can affect the solid earth to the extent of triggering earthquakes, even on optimally loaded faults. Several years ago, on one of the Usenet amateur radio newsgroups, there was a discussion of earthquakes; one of the participants said that Morse signals from Japan consistently developed a fluttery or watery distortion in the days before a major quake. This would fit well with an 8 Hz signal beating with the transmitted radio signal. If you could find some verifiable references to this, it might be interesting. Thanks for pointing out the distortion of Morse signals before major earthquakes. I had not heard about this. However, EM wave propagation by way of reflections at the ionospheric E and F layers have long been recognized as being very sensitive to processes that happen over the epicentral area of an impeding earthquake. The effects are seen over a wide frequency spectrum. This research is mostly associated with Masashi Hayakawa in Japan who is professor at the University of Telecommunication in Chofu, Tokyo, and a pioneer in the systematic studies of these phenomena. My work is more concerned in understanding WHY the ionosphere is altered in such a way as to change the EM wave propagation. It's hard to get a word in with Derek Smith. He's winding through the crowd, shaking hands and nodding hellos across the locker-lined corridors of Revolution Hall, a hulking high school auditorium-turned-venue in Portland, Oregon. At one point, Smith stops to chat with John Plummer, the owner of Bull Run Craft Cannabis—a wiry man wearing a trucker hat and a powder-blue suit jacket over a T-shirt that reads CORP WEED SUCKS. Like many others in attendance at the 2nd annual Cultivation Classic, a competition reserved for sustainably grown cannabis, Plummer has come to see if his carefully tended bud is dank enough to earn an award. Smith, however, has come to the event for something else entirely: hard data on the environmental footprint of weed. He's trying to figure out exactly how much energy, water, and carbon go into producing this resource-hungry crop. In service of that goal, he teamed up with the Cultivation Classic team to ask every grower who entered the competition to fill out a six-page Web survey on their cultivation techniques. “Data is largely absent in this industry,” Smith says. Traditional cultivation techniques are energy and water intensive. But growers are exploring other methods to reduce the environmental footprint of cannabis.5G networks will provide extremely reliable communication with transmission delays not exceeding one millisecond. Such are the requirements of the so-called tactile Internet where not only data but also haptic sensations are transmitted over the network. For example, a surgeon can remotely perform an operation with an artificial hand and sense a feedback within a thousandth of a second. Similar ultra-low delays are necessary for self-driving vehicles or virtual reality applications, for instance, in order to transmit a hologram of an interlocutor – a 3D image that accurately conveys emotions and gestures. The second feature of fifth-generation networks is the ability to support high user density: up to a million devices per square kilometer can connect to each other at an average speed of about 100 megabits per second. Thirdly, the peak speed in 5G networks may reach tens of gigabits per second. On the verge of the 5G era, research aimed at enabling gigabit-rate transmission via millimeter wave channels (mmWave) is of enormous interest. The announcement of the JSAC special issue on mmWave provoked a staggering response of the scientific community: in less than four months JSAC received 96 papers, the majority of which came ... <assistant> The completion of this text could be: from the most prominent research groups in the field. After a rigorous selection, 38 papers were published in two issues of the journal in July and September of this year, including the study conducted by an international team of scientists from the Royal College, London (UK), Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and RUDN University (Moscow, Russia). "JSAC is one of the most reputable journals on telecommunications; in its field it is comparable to journal Nature. The impact factor of JSAC is over eight. JSAC accepts only cutting-edge research and does not publish anything that deals with accomplished projects. "In our paper, we analyze the use of the microwave range in high-density urban mobile networks. This range allows to provide both ultra-high speed and ultra-high throughput communication to devices in rapid motion and in high-density conditions, for example on a busy street or in a large shopping center. However, the use of millimeter waves in such environments faces serious problems related to the quality of wireless communication. These include signal attenuation at relatively small distances, up to hundreds of meters, and connection sensitivity to line-of-sight blocking. The ultrashort wave transmitter is directed toward the receiver, and the radio channel is like a narrow cone of light: whenever there is a foreign object on its way (a person, a car, even a lamp post) the communication is blocked. By means of a mathematical model we seek to find ways to use the microwave range despite its limitations while maintaining quality," Prof. While one part of the international research team was working on structural issues and long-term prospects, the other was making simulators – software tools that technically model the system of the future. "It is said that by means of their models mathematicians get a glimpse of the future, but I would put it another way: we, mathematicians, rather provide support to those who try to do so. First, a system is developed; second, it is studied from the technical point of view, and only then comes a mathematical research. These three components must be present in a paper for a high-ranking journal, and all three must be strong and cutting-edge. For example, at every step during the review period we had to prove that our work meets the ultramodern criteria," the scientist continued. Besides signal loss, the researchers have been working on other problems that exist in 5G. One of them is effective radio resource (frequency range) allocation in the network. We have become accustomed to see the abbreviation LTE on our smartphone screens, it stands for Long-Term Evolution of mobile communication systems, the standard developed by the 3GPP consortium. The LTE standard is the base of 5G networks, however today its allocated frequency range is close to saturation, meaning that there are not enough radio frequencies to meet the requirements of 5G networks. The second problem is related to power consumption: in order to operate efficiently, the network requires a huge amount of electricity. A shortage may result in servers, cloud systems, routers and network components running out of coal, so to speak. "Here are the challenges humanity faces: the first one is that the capacity of mobile communication frequencies will soon be exhausted, the second is that network equipment will face electricity deficit," Prof. Opening up a new frequency range, mmWave, to high-density mobile networks is an attempt to respond to one of these challenges. A solution to the aforementioned communication blocking problem in a heterogeneous mobile network has also been suggested: if an mmWave connection is blocked, then it can be transferred to a Wi-Fi network, or, if necessary, to an LTE network. This is a very simplified picture of the connection reliability measures in a 5G network. To analyze such a network, mathematicians solve optimization problems, for example, to minimize transceiver power consumption or to optimize the frequency range. "Ultramodern 5G communications and various communication scenarios based upon them may be implemented in the future. Whether they will be implemented or not is a matter of collaboration between the academic community and the industry. It is going to be a long way, and the work done by scientists should be reflected in the standards developed by international organizations," the scholar added. Among other achievements of his team, Prof. Samuylov mentioned their participation in the IEEE Globecom, a major worldwide conference on telecommunications. The selection for this conference is just as tough as for publication in JSAC, nonetheless the scientists from RUDN University have presented joint results with their European partners at IEEE Globecom for two years in a row now. Samuylov noted that the competitiveness enhancement program "5-100", in which RUDN University is taking part, makes a significant contribution to the development of science in Russia.20 universities participate in this megaproject, and five of them should enter the top 100 of the QS World University Rankings by 2020. In particular, thanks to this program RUDN University has been able to attract foreign researchers to work in Russia. "This year, I have 20 people from abroad working with me, including our compatriots with PhD degrees. Now, we start to pay foreign scientists money, and not vice versa. It is difficult for us to compete with the West at the technology level, mainly because we do not produce hardware components. But we are engaged in mathematical modeling and are competitive due to the internationally high level of the Russian mathematical school. Today, the Institute of Applied Mathematics & Communications Technology of RUDN University employs about one hundred people, half of whom have high qualifications and wages above the Moscow average. This is unprecedented for Russian higher education nowadays," the scientist concluded. Credit: Scientific Reports Zika virus has been detected in dead monkeys found in Brazil near São José do Rio . Credit: Kirstine Lavrsen, University of Copenhagen Researchers have identified an enzyme that is absent in . A couple of years ago at Techcrunch 50 they picked a Twitter clone, Yammer, to win. That made sense, because it was the best business. But looking at the final seven companies at this year's Techcrunch Disrupt, just announced, I see one that sticks out. It's a clone of Quora for the enterprise. Badgeville is a clone of Foursquare's game for other things. Silicon Valley needs to be sent a message that we need real innovation and interesting new ideas. There are a few other ones. My favorite? DataSift, which you've already seen on my show, but is the one that I am already using and is already rocking my world (I got it for first time last night). Let's go through the winners (listed in no particular order, the final winner will be announced later today after a final round of presentations by these companies). Turns the web into a video and audio experience. MG Siegler of Techcrunch wrote “Just may be the future of information consumption.”OK, to me, there are really two that stand out from the crowd. Cloudflare and Datasift. ## Real technology innovations. If I wear my Rackspace hat, I'll vote for Cloudflare, I can see how that will help a lot of our customers make their sites faster. If I wear my Scoble hat I'll vote for Datasift. That will help me (and other companies and users) find the best tweets and get rid of noise and spam in their streams. But I'm afraid that Arrington will, once again, vote against technology innovation and go for the clone. Please don't let that happen! You can vote for your favorite company until this afternoon. Please do and help me tell Arrington to support technology innovation. @Robert – don't you think that inadvertently you've stumbled across something rather profound about Silicon Valley? Where are the greentech, medtech innovators? These are the folks who are really doing mind boggling things. Anything that's a clone is pointing the way to acquisition or death (depending on which event occurs first. The fact Twitter has so many clones tells me their long term trajectory. Yup, but Arrington tends to focus on things that have widespread consumer impact. Greentech and medtech just aren't that interesting to him. Neither is enterprise, actually, although he likes it when enterprises take consumer tech and validates it. Salesforce with Facebook. @robert – I see that but what Arrington likes and what are making a real and huge difference in the world are not necessarily the same thing. Who'd have though for example that GE would be making huge innovation plays in medtech and greentech that sit comfortably alongside Zoho investments in that company? Silicon Valley doesn't have that feel for doing things that change the world in the way it did years back but a place that bright kids go to flip something they dreamt up in a bedroom. Hard problems require a bit more than that. Even Google doesn't seem to have that science based whacko geek thought leadership it once enjoyed. At least not from what I am seeing. Even so I do see disruption based upon new-ish technologies that is delivering value and that surely has to be the litmus test. Not another Yammer et al. The funny thing is I'm starting to see the world the same way. It's why I've changed the title tag on my blog to “searching for world-changing technology” and why I'll be in Europe twice in next five months. I'm getting bored with the Techcrunch-style company and am looking for real technology leadership. It's why I went to the LED Fab opening (Techcrunch wasn't there, that is greentech after all). FWIW I recommend checking out The New Polymath by my buddy Vinnie Mirchandani – he has hundreds of examples of the kind of thing I'm thinking about and a nice forward by Marc Benioff. to/aQn4rz I'm sure he'd send you a copy. You can skim the examples to get a feel for some of this stuff. The enterprise world is getting some heat lately, and as the technology and crowds mature, it's definitely time to start migrating great apps from the consumer world to the enterprise, and no second can be too early for the poor starved crowds in the cubicle. However, thinking that migrating a service to the enterprise is just copying it and there's no innovation involved is misleading concept. The challenges in building organization and a product a company would be willing to buy upfront, understanding the ROI issue and more importantly, allowing your customer to immediately understand them, and maybe the most difficult challenge – giving a real value to the users (employees in this case) that will make them USE the system – is extremely difficult, and a lot of innovation is needed there (and true to that – no one really made that happen yet, maybe other than SFDC)Oh, I know there's some innovation. I've interviewed Yammer and Salesforce (nearly went to work for Salesforce, too, so I know that quite well) but it's not the same as trying to cut a new path. @Scobleizer I think DataSift is “feature not a company”, twitter for sure is gonna implement their own search filter at some point, thats where they can make monetize or they might end up buying Datasift. I agree its great tool that I have been looking for. Rak: I still think Qwiki is something that looks awesome on its surface but when you actually start using it you won't keep doing it. It's just too slow to get info that way. @Scobleizer I agree it will be slow, it wont appeal so much to tech savvy people, google will be the search tool for us. But I see it more for regular users like mom/dad, grandma . Since it is focused on rich media content, I'm guessing they can monetize it later by embedding rich media content Ads. The challenge is whether they can index all the content that people usually search for. I atleast would like the Qwiki page to appear high in google search, just like Wikipedia often shows up as top result in google search, they can make money that way. The thing is though, Quora for the enterprise would actually be a pretty big deal. So I can see the attraction of Opzi. Whilst I don't have a problem w/ enterprise apps drawing inspiration from consumer innovation (i don't consider that me-too), I get your drift and agree – theres too much incremental innovation in general. Of the consumer options in this list, its really hard to pick one thats going to have differentiated mainstream appeal. Maybe CloudFlare but OEMed by RackSpace et al. Datasift for marketers maybe and the very few content junkies like us. If you put Datasift underneath a consumer paginator, like Flipboard or Paper. li, that would really have mass appeal even if no one really knows what's underneath. All these developers honing skills on the consumer platform is awesome talent pool for “under the hood”The problem *I* have with enterprise software apps is that they're essentially un-sellable. Quite frankly, I don't understand how even a quality product like Jive Software has been able to get any traction given the competition from giants like IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle. Of course, I'm not all that keen on tweetstream filtering tools either, mostly because I build my own. 😉 I am not going to pay someone to filter my tweet stream, and a business isn't going to pay for “social media monitoring tools” unless they increase revenue, lower costs or save time. Why aren't there social media demand generation tools? Customer service social media dispatching tools? *That's* what businesses need, and startups aren't building them – big names like Microsoft, Radian6 and Webtrends are. As someone who plays in the enterprise space and does zero in SV, I don't think there is anything wrong with an enterprise level product winning something like TCDisrupt. But, I do agree that clones should not win. No matter what, innovation should be valued and rewarded everywhere. But I would love to see projects coming out of IBM Research and from folks like Microsoft, Oracle, etc.compete against stuff being done at startups. Scoble – you should get yourself to the IBM Center for Social Software in Cambridge, MA sometime. I have seen stuff that is mindblowing. Yeah, and you should get to IBM's research lab in New Almaden. They let me move an atom of Iron across a piece of copper. Way more interesting than most of the startups I've seen lately. Oh, and at Microsoft Research I saw something very mindblowing and cool (you'll see it on TV next year, I'm sure) but can't talk about that until October. Happy to host you at IBM Research's Center for Social Software in Cambridge the next time you are on the east coast. In fact, we're hosting “IBM, Social Software, and the Enterprise” for an intimate group of social software bloggers next week. ## Interested? Contact @karenlilla.

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Twice previously I aspirated (sucked out with a needle and syringe) clear gelatinous material from this large ganglion and injected steroid (Kenalog, like cortisone) into the lesion and now twice it has returned. I scheduled her for surgical excision of the ganglion tomorrow in my office under local anesthesia. I will make an incision, cut it out and put in stitches. I didn't get a clinical photo, but here's her ultrasound of the ganglion. It shows up as a large black (hypo-echoic area). Ultrasound bounces sound waves off of things. When it hits bone it makes nice white lines. Soft tissues show up as different shades of gray depending on their density and fluid shows up as black because it doesn't bounce sound waves off, they go right through the fluid. (click any picture to enlargeNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. 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You think I'm exaggerating? ! ! For example, there is no egg in eggplant, no ham in hamburger, and no apple or pine in pineapple. The Anglos did not create the English muffin, and the French want nothing to do with French fries. Sweetbreads are not sweet or bread but they are [spans 2] candy). Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. We take the language as defined by ‘experts' and refuse to explore the paradoxes that plunge us into confusion. We have become so conditioned to accept the exceptions, we refuse to ask any questions. Writers write but fingers do not fing, grocers do not groce and hammers do not ham. Then there is the whole issue of plurals. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? If it is one goose and two geese, then why not one moose, two meese? Doesn't it bother you that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have odds and ends, and get rid of all but two of them, what do you call that? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? It's no wonder that English speakers are nervous putting together a sentence. One immigrant as frustrated as I, gave me this example - ‘The door is ajar. ' Hold on! Wait a minute, the door is a door and a jar is a jar – what does this sentence mean? In what other language do people recite at [spans 3] smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same thing? Does it bother anyone that a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? We must all marvel at a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you can fill in a form by filling it out, and in where an alarm goes off by going on. The English contradictions are endless – children are asked to believe that when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible – come on, give me a break! And then, there is the continuing problem of single words with multiple meanings: here are a few examples that can lead any writer into a bramble, particularly if English is not your first choice for literary communication. Sergoyan holds degrees in aeronautical and mechanical engineering and has been involved in the aerospace industry for over forty years. Since the days of Apollo he has worked for a variety of aerospace companies and participated in many of the major space research projects. For the past twenty years, Mr. Sergoyan has been a Boeing senior engineer in Seattle, developing technology to improve aircraft manufacturing. He is a Boeing Designated Expert (BDE) in measurement systems and has a dozen patent awards and numerous technical publications. The stories in The Gathering Place come from interviews with friends and family. The book is his first non-technical publication. Sergoyan and his wife live in Mukilteo, Washington, with family nearby. He spends his spare time enjoying the mountains and underwater scenery in the American Northwest, hand knotting oriental rugs on a Tabriz loom, and playing tennis. coffeetownpress.comHow is the old fighting tam which visited Dillard in her bed at night emblematic of the way we experience life's mysteries as children? "I used to have a cat, an old fighting tam, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. He'd stick his skull under my nose and purr, stinking of urine and blood. Some nights he kneaded my bare chest with his front paws, powerfully, arching his back, as if sharpening his claws, or pummeling a mother for milk. And some mornings I'd wake in daylight to find my body covered with paw prints in blood; I. looked as though I'd been painted with roses. " It was hot, so hot the mirror felt warm. I washed before the mirror in a daze, my twisted summer sleep still hung about me like sea kelp. What blood was this, and what roses? It could have been the rose of union, the blood of murder, or the rose of beauty bare and the blood of some unspeakable sacrifice or birth. The sign on my body could have been an emblem or a stain, the keys to the kingdom or the mark of Cain. I never knew as I washed, and the blood streaked, faded, and finally disappeared, whether I'd purified myself or ruined the blood sign [spans 4] Passover. We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence. "Seem like we're just set down here," a woman said to me recently, "and don't nobody know why. "Describe the difference Dillard discerns between active and passive mystery in nature. How are the mountains different from the stream? "Theirs is the one simple mystery of creation from nothing, of matter itself, anything at all, the given. Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You canheave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, [spans 5] will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home. ""I sit on the downed tree and watch the black steers slip on the creek bottom. They are all bred beef: beef heart, beef hide, beef hocks, They're a human product like rayon. They're like a field of shoes. They have cast-iron shanks and tongues like foam insoles. You can't see through to their brains as you can with other animals; they have beef fat behind their eyes, beef stew. "I sit on the downed tree and watch the black steers slip on the creek bottom. [spans 6] Creek. On one side of the creek is a steep forested bank; the water is swift and deep on that side of the island. 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But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light, the canary that sings on the skull. Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who? ), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous. About five years ago l saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of an arm or the kindling of a star. " The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing from a limb and not falling, accelerating thirty-two feet per second per second, through empty air. Just a breath before he would have been dashed to the ground, he unfurled his [spans 17] grass. I had just rounded a corner when [spans 18] sight. 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The sight held awesome wonders: power and beauty, grace tangled in a rapture with violence. "We don't know what's going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions of monkeys at millions of typewriters, then what is it in us, hammered out of those sametypewriters, that they ignite? We don't know. Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a [spans 20] here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise. "At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, "Come down to the water. " It was an extravagant gesture, but we can't do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the [spans 21] vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which [spans 22] flames. ""The wind is terrific out of the west; the sun comes and goes. I can see the shadow on the field before me deepen uniformly and spread like a plague. Everything seems so dull I am amazed I can even distinguish objects. And suddenly the light runs across the land like a comber, and up the trees, and goes again in a wink: I think I've gone blind or died. When it comes again, the light, you hold your breath, and if it stays you forget about it until it goes again. At four o'clock the eastern sky is a dead stratus black flecked with low white clouds. The sun in the west illuminates the ground, the mountains, and especially the bare branches of trees, so that everywhere silver trees cut into the black sky like a photographer's negative of a landscape. The air and the ground are dry; the mountains are going on and off like neon signs. Clouds slide east as if pulled from the horizon, like a tablecloth whipped off a table. The hemlocks by the barbed-wire fence are flinging themselves east as though their hacks would break. Purple shadows are racing east; the wind makes me face east, and again I feel the dizzying, drawn sensation I felt when the creek bank reeled. At four-thirty the sky in the east is clear; how could that big blackness be blown? Fifteen minutes later another darkness is coming overhead from the northwest; and it's here. Everything is drained of its light as if sucked. Only at the horizon do inky black mountains give way to distant, lighted mountains—lighted not by direct illumination but rather paled by glowing sheets of mist hung before them. Now the blackness is in the east; every-thing is half in shadow, half in sun, every clod, tree, mountain, and hedge. I can't see Tinker Mountain through the line of hemlock, till it comes on like a streetlight, ping, ex nihilo. Its sand-stone cliffs pink and swell. Suddenly the light goes; the cliffs recede as if pushed. The sun hits a clump of sycamores between me and the mountains; the sycamore arms light up, and I can't see the cliffs. The pale network of sycamore arms, which a second ago was transparent as a screen, is suddenly opaque, glowing with light. Now the sycamore arms snuff out, the mountains come on, and there are the cliffs again. "What is Dillard's mission in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek? How does the simple act of walking in her backyard leave her ' breathless under the gale force of the spirit'? "Like the bear who went over the mountain, I went out to see what I could see. And, I might as well warn you, like the bear, all that I could see was the other side of the mountain: more of same. On a good day I might catch a glimpse of another wooded ridge rolling under the sun like water, another bivouac. I propose to keep here what Thoreau called "a meteorological journal of the mind," telling some tales and describing some of the sights of this rather tamed valley, and exploring, in fear and trembling, some of the unmapped dim reaches and unholyfastnesses to which those tales and sights so dizzyingly lead. I explore the neighborhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a [spans 23] bewilderment. He hasn't the faintest clue where he is, and he aims to learn. In a couple of years, what he will have learned instead is how to fake it: he'll have the cocksure [spans 24] place. Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neighborhood, view the landscape, to discover at least where it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can't learn why. " So I think about the valley. It is my leisure as well as my work, a game. It is a fierce game I have joined because it is being played anyway, a game of both skill and chance, played against an unseen adversary—the conditions of time in which [spans 25] else. I stake the time I'm grateful to have, the energies I'm glad to direct. I risk getting stuck on the board, so to speak, unable to move in any direction, which happens enough, God knows; and I risk the searing, exhausting nightmares that plunder rest and force me face down all night long in some muddy ditch seething with hatching insects [spans 26] crustaceans. "But if I can bear the nights, the [spans 27] pleasure. 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Having clearly defined blog groups will help you continue generating significant content and topics for your blog. Most search engines will use a maximum of one hundred sixty characters for your post explanation on their search engine pages. If you don't build a meta-description (defined as a “ . concise summary of the page's content”), a search engine will often take the 1st 160 roles it realizes on your web page instead. Note too, that after you build a meta-description that is fewer than one hundred sixty characters, you will see the complete description inside the search engine. Or else it will be stop. Bloggers find editorial calendars great for scheduling and organizing matters for posts. Some people work with their calendars to track even more elaborate particulars. Like other forms of composing, a writing is rarely completed in you draft. A large number of writers believe that it is helpful to take a post through several changes and fine-tune the post as you go along. Check grammar, spelling and punctuation, and make certain that all of your links will work. By following a couple of tips and best practices, you can raise the chance that your blog content will be located by search engines-by Google in particular. The heading structure of your internet pages is one of the very important aspects of website SEO. It defines which parts of your content are important, and exactly how they're connected with each other. Because they may have different goals, a single post needs an additional heading composition than the blog's homepage or the category archives. • Longer pieces of articles, a intending is what helps a audience skip to the parts that he finds interestingJudy points out too that viewers are vision learners and pictures can help persons take in and retain information better. Bloggers can learn a great deal from classic journalists and the ways that that they approach all their news stories. The overall design of your websites is the very first thing visitors find and that significantly impacts bounce cost, page perspectives and conversion rate. The brief list has little description although can entice readers to bookmark the post to work with the list being a resource later on or to show it across their own systems. In a in depth list, every single bullet is a complete believed and is a good method to converse complex facts. The cross list combines the aspects of short and detailed lists, often with descriptive narratives or details in sentences between the real lists. Nate's post includes a lot of beneficial information about prospect lists as a strong content promoting tactic and is a good example of a hybrid list. There are five metrics to hold an eyes on to have a clue how your blogs is going: visitors, sales opportunities, subscribers, inbound links and social media shares. Simply because Magdalena says, “Measure the performance of your business weblog regularly for weaknesses in the content you're producing, what topics your audience truly cares about, and what running a blog tactics do the job.”If you find topics and approaches basically particularly well, try to reproduce those hard work and be willing to let go of features that are not performing very well. Magdalena recommends looking at your five most successful blog articles and requesting, “What have they got in common? ”Not simply are readers interested in this content in your article, they also would you like who wrote the post and their function at your company. Sometimes you will come across a carefully researched and well-written content only to find an attribution of “admin.” Even if the blog page is only written by you and youre the kurator of the weblog, be sure to include your name, name and a better way for visitors to contact you. The type of post jots down can comprise completely basic content or can consist of content that you've curated. here's a misconception among marketers that curated content material is lazy and unoriginal, but we think it's the entire opposite. It will take time and mindful evaluation to create quality curated content as well as the result can be oftentimes a very valuable piece of content that helps persons seeking information concerning a given issue to cut through the clutter online and preserve time. The 26 ideas series here on Social Media Examiner is among the curated posts, pulling in the expertise of others who have got written over the topic. Simply because a curator of this sort of post, I like the trip of the analysis and find this especially satisfying to see the articles pulled alongside one another in a way that hadn't been recently available. Curated posts can be incredibly satisfying! What are you going to write about post following post, week after week, year following year? At times thinking about content for your weblog can seem difficult. “One particularly effective way to acquire content delete word blogging comes from examining web stats for the kinds of questions people type into search engine listings or Bing that deliver visitors.”What concerns are the web tourists asking prior to they appear on your webpages? How can you maximize your content to response readers' issues? Well-researched blog posts can separate your content out of your competitors'. Being known as a first choice source in the industry can help make your website stand out. Just where do you head to research article content? For example , while I can frequently find a wide range of useful content material via web-based searches, occasionally there's nothing can beat a visit to the local library or a book shop where I actually often will discover a beneficial book on the shelf that I wouldn't have best-known existed should i hadn't recently been standing presently there physically eyeballing them. When ever you've been blog in a competitive marketplace for a short time, chances are excellent that you will see other bloggers posting on matters similar to yours. It doesn't mean that you have to prevent the topic totally; rather you should use it when an opportunity to check out what proved helpful and did not work within their post and write yours in a way that will aid you to stand out in the topic spot. By reading the comments on similar blog posts, you will get a fantastic view of what problems and thoughts people possessed after reading the post and you can require a slightly different viewpoint by making sure you cover the ones areas in your document. He says, “Without a headline or perhaps post title that moves a internet browser into a target audience, the rest of your words might as well not even exist. Nevertheless a subject can do more than simply get attention. A great headline can also connect a full note to their intended crowd, and this absolutely need to lure the reader into your body text.”Probably one of the most severe mistakes a blog post can make is lacking the amount of their readers, failing to remember who they are and their needs and interests. Content material can serve as customer support and that for being helpful, articles should be user-focused (asking what our users' problems and priorities are), communicated clearly and shown in brief language. In the ideal blogging universe, creating invaluable content will be at the top of every blogger's list for post aims. • Findable content includes: a great H1 tag; at least two H2 tags; metadata including subject, descriptors and keywords; links to similar content; alternative tags just for images. • Actionable content includes: a call to action, any to comment, an invites to share, links to related content, a direct summary of what to do. How a large number of words should you have in your writing? Some websites have establish parameters designed for optimal proportions and put a value on if the post can be short or long. Freelance writers should emphasis instead about whether articles and reviews are enhanced for mobile, use successful formatting, speak in a clear manner which outlining the points you need to cover could ultimately be considered a better by using your time and energy. If you're restricted to short posts by parameters set up in advance to your blog, then you could also go along with Corey's information to connect to longer-form articles you've created around the theme. In the heels of our discussion regarding blog phrase count, a shorter writing can also be an excerpt or summary of what visitors will find in your longer-form content-e. e book or bright white paper-but that needn't become restricted to words. Readers like to get to know how writers tick and often appreciate hearing a few personal details and insights in the person who has got taken these people on a trip through a post. While organization blogs should not be looked at as personal publication entries, you are able to tell your visitors a little bit about how you work. For example , We stated furthermore writing curated posts just like the 26 tips series here on Social Media Evaluator is one of my favorite types of articles and reviews to write. (Truth be told, curated posts can be some of my favorite types you just read. In the description of “research” previously mentioned, I likewise shared how research is a single of my personal favorite parts of writing a blog and how I like researching the two online and offline getting into the footwork of visiting libraries and bookstores in search of materials. Ideas for blog articles come by any means times-when youre driving in your car, relaxing at your receptionist counter, and certainly, even in the middle of the night! Chances are great though that your actual writing of the post will happen in multiple breezes and alterations, and according to how you do the job, it may take place over a period of days. What is a good idea is to make a time and place where you can enter into the zone for writing and allow yourself to go with that, with simply because few distractions as possible. A writing contains several areas that require our focus and proper care. There are 6 parts of the anatomy of a lead-generating blog post:Simply by knowing the ins and outs of your blogs platform, you'll ensure that your posts look as good as they can. Take the time to master the visual manager (or natural HTML, in case you prefer) so that you will know how to data format a content, insert an image and embed a video or perhaps podcast. If you're not comfortable along with the more technological aspects of blogs, try to look for someone who can be a resource for you to answer questions as they arise. Whether your new blog post is a stand-alone article or part of a string you're crafting, it should fit into your blog categories as well as your general corporate content material strategy. Meaning that you want to remain on topic and also have your posts squeeze into the types you've set up. When you choose the categories, ask yourself, do they earn sense, is to do they fit in the objectives of my business? Having precise blog classes will help you continue generating important content and topics for your blog. Most search engines will use a maximum of one hundred sixty characters for your post description on their search engine pages. concise summary of the page's content”), a search engine will frequently take the initially 160 character types it locates on your site instead. Notice too, that after you make a meta-description that is fewer than 160 characters, you'll see the full description in the search engine. Normally it will be cut off. ## Writers find content calendars great for scheduling and organizing subject areas for article content. Some people work with their calendars to track even more elaborate specifics. Like other styles of publishing, a blog post is seldom completed in an individual draft. A large number of writers discover it helpful to take a post through several revisions and fine tune the content as you go along. Check grammar, spelling and punctuation, and make certain that your entire links will work. By following a couple of tips and best practices, you can improve the chance that your blog post will be discovered by search engines-by Yahoo in particular. The heading composition of your web pages is one of the very important aspects of on-page SEO. That defines which will parts of your content are important, and exactly how they're connected with each other. Because they have different goals, a single post needs one other heading composition than the blog's homepage or the category archives. • For longer pieces of articles, a started is what can help a audience skip to the parts that he finds interestingJudy points out also that visitors are visible learners and images can help persons take in and retain info better. Bloggers may learn a great deal from classic journalists and the ways that that they approach all their news posts. The complete design of your websites is the first thing visitors find and that significantly has a bearing on bounce pace, page suggestions and ralentissement. The brief list has small description yet can entice readers to bookmark the post to use the list to be a resource as time goes on or to reveal it around their own networks. In a precise list, each bullet is known as a complete believed and serves as a good way to connect complex details. The crossbreed list combines the portions of short and detailed to do this, often with descriptive narratives or details in paragraphs between the genuine lists. Nate's post provides a lot of valuable information about data as a effective content promoting tactic and is a good example of a hybrid list. There are five metrics to hold an eyeball on to understand how your blogs is going: visitors, prospective customers, subscribers, backlinks and social media shares. For the reason that Magdalena says, “Measure the performance of your business blog page regularly for weaknesses inside the content you happen to be producing, what topics the audience truly cares about, and what blogging tactics work for you.”If you find topics and approaches that work particularly well, try to duplicate those hard work and be happy to let go of features that aren't performing well. Magdalena recommends looking at the five many successful blogs and asking, “What have they got in common? ”Not merely are viewers interested in this content in your blog post, they also would you like who wrote the content and their position at your business. Sometimes you'll come across a thoroughly researched and well-written content only to find an attribution of “admin.” Even if the blog is only authored by you and you happen to be the owner of the weblog, be sure to the name, subject and a system for readers to contact you. The type of post you write can comprise completely basic content or can include content that you've curated. here's a misconception among marketers that curated articles is laid back and unoriginal, but we believe it's the complete opposite. It takes time and careful evaluation to produce quality curated content plus the result is normally oftentimes a very valuable piece of content that helps people seeking information concerning a given topic to cut throughout the clutter online and save time. The 26 strategies series here on Social Media Examiner is an example of curated articles or blog posts, pulling in the help of others with written in the topic. Seeing that a curator of this sort of post, I really like the journey of the investigate and find this especially satisfying to see the articles pulled alongside one another in a way that hadn't been recently available. Curated posts may be incredibly fun! What are you going to discuss post after post, week after week, year after year? At times thinking about articles for your weblog can seem challenging. “One especially effective approach to get content ideas for blogging comes from looking at web analytics for the kinds of issues people type into search engine listings or Msn that deliver visitors.”What problems are the web visitors asking just before they appear on your internet pages? How can you your own content to answer readers' issues? Well-researched blogs can differentiate your content out of your competitors'. Staying known as a go-to source within your industry will help make your blog stand out. In which do you go to research posts? For example , while I can often find a lot of useful content via web-affiliated searches, occasionally there's nothing like a visit to the local library or a bookstore where We often will quickly realize a useful book on the shelf that I will not have well-known existed merely hadn't recently been standing now there physically eyeballing them. The moment you've been operating a blog in a competitive marketplace for quite a while, chances are excellent that you will see additional bloggers writing on topics similar to yours. It doesn't mean that you have to prevent the topic entirely; rather you can utilize it seeing that an opportunity to observe what previously worked and did not work within their post and write your own in a way that will let you stand out in the topic spot. By reading the comments about similar blog posts, you will get an excellent view of what issues and thoughts people experienced after reading the content and you can have a slightly different point of view by making you need to cover the areas in your article. He says, “Without a headline or perhaps post subject that transforms a browser into a visitor, the rest of the words may as well not really exist. Nevertheless a fonction can do more than simply get attention. A great headline may also talk a full note to their intended target market, and that absolutely must lure you into your human body text.”Quite possibly one of the worst mistakes a blog post can make is lacking the symbol of their readers, failing to remember who they are and the needs and interests. Articles can serve as customer support and that for being helpful, content material should be user-focused (asking what our users' problems and priorities are), communicated obviously and shown in concise language. In the ideal blogging environment, creating valuable content would be at the best of every blogger's list for post objectives. • Actionable content includes: a call to action, a location to comment, an party invitation to share, links to related content, an immediate summary of what to do. How various words in case you have in your blog post? Some sites have establish parameters with respect to optimal amount of time and put a worth on if the post can be short or perhaps long. Copy writers should focus instead upon whether articles or blog posts are improved for mobile, use powerful formatting, connect in a very clear manner and this outlining the points you would like to cover may possibly ultimately be a better consumption of your time and energy. If you're restricted to short posts by parameters placed in advance for your blog, then you might also comply with Corey's suggestions to connection to longer-form articles you've produced around the theme. On the heels of the discussion about blog expression count, a shorter post can also be a great excerpt or perhaps summary of what visitors will find in your longer-form content-e. electronic book or bright white paper-but it needn't become restricted to words. Readers choose to get to know just how writers tick and often enjoy hearing a few personal details and insights through the person who features taken these people on a trip through a content. While business blogs should not be regarded as personal log entries, you may tell your viewers a little bit about how precisely you function. For example , I actually stated above that writing curated posts like the 26 ideas series here at Social Media Reviewer, evaluator is amongst my favorite types of content to write. (Truth be told, curated posts are some of my personal favorite types you just read. Inside the description of “research” over, I as well shared how research is one particular of my personal favorite parts of running a blog and how I enjoy researching both equally online and offline by doing the footwork of visiting libraries and bookstores in search of materials. Ideas for blog articles come at all times-when you happen to be driving in the car, relaxing at your receptionist counter, and certainly, even in the middle of the night! Chances are good though the actual writing of the content will happen in multiple drafts and revisions, and based on how you operate, it may take place over a period of days and nights. What can be helpful is to produce a time and place where you can enter the sector for authoring and allow you to go with that, with simply because few disturbances as possible. A post contains a lot of areas that want our interest and health care. There are half a dozen parts of the anatomy of any lead-generating blog post:Simply by knowing the intricacies of your running a blog platform, you will ensure that you look as good as they can. Spend a bit of time and master the visual publisher (or natural HTML, when you prefer) in order that you know how to structure a post, insert an image and embed a video or podcast. If you're not comfortable considering the more specialized aspects of operating a blog, try to look for someone who can be a resource for one to answer questions because they arise. If your new article is a stand-alone article or part of a series you're crafting, it should squeeze into your blog different types as well as your general corporate content strategy. Which means that you want to stay on topic and possess your posts go with the categories you've proven. When you choose the categories, determine, do they make sense, and do they fit in the objectives of my business? Having clearly defined blog groups will help you continue generating meaningful content and topics for your blog. Many search engines uses a maximum of one hundred sixty characters for your post description on their search engine pages. concise summary of your page's content”), a search engine will most likely take the initial 160 people it discovers on your site instead. Note too, that whenever you generate a meta-description that is fewer than 160 characters, you will see the complete description inside the search engine. In any other case it will be stop. ## Writers find content calendars great for scheduling and organizing topics for article content. Some people work with their calendars to track more elaborate facts. Like other designs of writing, a writing is hardly ever completed in you draft. Various writers find it helpful to require a post through several revisions and fine tune the post as you go along. By following a few tips and best practices, you can add to the chance that your blog content will be identified by search engines-by Yahoo in particular. The heading structure of your pages is one of the extremely important aspects of onpage SEO. This defines which usually parts of your articles are important, and how they're interconnected. Because they have different goals, a single content needs a second heading composition than your blog's home-page or the category records. • Longer pieces of articles, a heading is what will help a target audience skip to the parts that he/she finds interestingJudy points out too that viewers are visual learners and pictures can help people take in and retain details better. Bloggers can learn a great deal from classic journalists as well as the ways that they will approach their news testimonies. • The inverted pyramid works (basic overview in first paragraph and then delve into more details in subsequent paragraphs)The complete design of your web blog is the very first thing visitors look at and it significantly affects bounce level, page perspectives and métamorphose. • Chiseled site architectural mastery by reducing the number of clicks it takes to reach your contentThe brief list has minimal description nonetheless can entice readers to bookmark the post to use the list as a resource in the future or to publish it around their own systems. In a precise list, every single bullet can be described as complete believed and serves as a good approach to communicate complex information. The cross list combines the factors of short and detailed lists, often with descriptive narratives or explanations in paragraphs between the actual lists. Nate's post includes a lot of beneficial information about email lists as a effective content promoting tactic which is a good example of a hybrid list. There are five metrics to hold an attention on to understand how your blogs is going: visitors, leads, subscribers, backlinks and social media shares. As Magdalena says, “Measure the performance of your business blog regularly to recognize weaknesses inside the content you're producing, what topics your audience really cares about, and what running a blog tactics do the job.”If you find topics and approaches that work particularly very well, try to repeat those work and be ready to let go of features that aren't performing very well. Magdalena advises looking at the five most successful blogs and asking, “What do they have in common? ”Not merely are readers interested in this content in your post, they also learn who wrote the post and their role at your firm. 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For instance , while I could find a lots of useful content via web-based searches, at times there's not like a trip to the archives or a book shop where We often will discover a useful book on the shelf that I wouldn't have well-known existed plainly hadn't been standing now there physically eyeballing them. When ever you've been blogs in a competitive marketplace for quite a while, chances are good that you'll see different ... Assistant: The completion of this text could be: bloggers writing on issues similar to yours. It does not mean that you have to steer clear of the topic totally; rather you can utilize it because an opportunity to see what been effective and didn't work inside their post and write your own in a way that will let you stand out in the topic region. By browsing the comments upon similar blog posts, you will get a fantastic view of what issues and thoughts people possessed after reading the content and you can require a slightly different perspective by making be certain to cover those areas in your content. He says, “Without a headline or perhaps post title that turns a web browser into a reader, the rest of your words might as well not even exist. Yet a headline can get around rather than simply pick up attention. A great headline may also communicate a full subject matter to it is intended target audience, and that absolutely must lure the reader into your human body text.”Possibly one of the most severe mistakes a blog post could make is absent the bench mark of its readers, forgetting who they are and the needs and interests. Content material can serve as support services and that to be helpful, content should be user-focused (asking what our users' problems and priorities are), communicated obviously and offered in succinct language. In the excellent blogging environment, creating valuable content will be at the leading of every blogger's list with regard to their post goals. • Findable content includes: an H1 tag; at least two H2 tags; metadata including subject, descriptors and keywords; links to other related content; kosmos tags designed for images. • Understandable content includes: an appropriate content material type (text, video), signal that you considered as the users' salud, context, admiration for the users' studying level, articulating an old idea in a new way. • Actionable content includes: a call to action, an area to review, an invitation to share, links to related content, an immediate summary of what to carry out. How a large number of words should you have in your writing? Some blogs have establish parameters pertaining to optimal size and put a value on whether a post is normally short or perhaps long. Copy writers should focus instead upon whether articles and reviews are improved for cell, use successful formatting, connect in a very clear manner and that outlining the points you wish to cover may ultimately become a better by using your time and energy. Should you be restricted to shorter posts by the parameters set up in advance to your blog, then you may also adopt Corey's information to connection to longer-form content material you've created around the subject. In the heels of your discussion regarding blog expression count, a shorter blog post can also be an excerpt or perhaps summary of what readers will find in the longer-form content-e. eBook or white colored paper-but this needn't always be restricted to words. Readers decide to get to know how writers tick and often love hearing a few personal details and insights through the person who contains taken all of them on a journey through a content. While business blogs shouldn't be regarded as personal diary entries, you may tell your visitors a little bit about how you run. For example , I actually stated furthermore writing curated posts like the 26 strategies series here at Social Media Examiner is certainly one of my favorite types of subject material to write. (Truth be told, curated posts also are some of my personal favorite types to learn to read. Inside the description of “research” previously mentioned, I as well shared just how research is one particular of my favorite parts of blogging and site-building and how I love researching both online and offline by doing the hard work of going to libraries and bookstores in search of materials. Ideas for blog articles come by any means times-when youre driving inside your car, relaxing at your workplace, and certainly, even during nighttime! Chances are great though the fact that actual crafting of the content will happen in multiple breezes and revisions, and based on how you operate, it may take place over a period of times. What is a good idea is to produce a time and place where you can get into the area for writing and allow you to go with it, with seeing that few disruptions as possible. A post contains several areas that require our focus and proper care. There are half a dozen parts of the anatomy of your lead-generating article:By simply knowing the details of your writing a blog platform, you'll ensure that you look as effective as they can. Take time to master the visual publisher (or natural HTML, in the event you prefer) so that you know how to data format a content, insert a picture and add a video or perhaps podcast. Should you be not comfortable together with the more specialized aspects of blog, try to find someone who could be a resource for one to answer questions as they arise. Whether your new article is a stand-alone article or perhaps part of a series you're publishing, it should match your blog different types as well as your general corporate content strategy. Meaning that you want to stick to topic and have your posts match the different types you've set up. When you choose the categories, think about, do they make sense, is to do they fit in the objectives of my business? Having precise blog types will help you continue generating significant content and topics to your blog. The majority of search engines uses a maximum of one hundred sixty characters to your post description on their results pages. concise summary of your page's content”), a search engine will usually take the primary 160 personas it locates on your site instead. Be aware too, that when you make a meta-description that is certainly fewer than one hundred sixty characters, you'll see the full description inside the search engine. Otherwise it will be block. ## Bloggers find content calendars helpful for scheduling and organizing subject areas for article content. Some people apply their calendars to track even more elaborate specifics. Like other designs of producing, a post is seldom completed in an individual draft. Many writers find it helpful to require a post through several revisions and fine-tune the post as you go along. Check grammar, spelling and punctuation, and make certain that all of your links are working. By following a few tips and guidelines, you can boost the chance that your blog content will be noticed by search engines-by Yahoo in particular. The heading composition of your web pages is one of the very important aspects of website SEO. This defines which usually parts of your articles are important, and just how they're connected with each other. Because they may have different goals, a single content needs a second heading framework than the blog's site or your category archives. • For longer pieces of articles, a started is what allows a reader skip to the parts that he/she finds interestingJudy points out also that readers are visible learners and pictures can help people take in and retain details better. Bloggers may learn a great deal from classic journalists plus the ways that they will approach their news posts. • The inverted pyramid works (basic overview in first section and then delve into more details in subsequent paragraphs)The general design of your web blog is the initial thing visitors see and that significantly has a bearing on bounce fee, page displays and conversion rate. The brief list has tiny description yet can entice readers to bookmark the post to use the list like a resource as time goes on or to show it throughout their own sites. In a thorough list, every bullet is a complete believed and serves as a good approach to talk complex details. The hybrid list combines the factors of short and detailed to do this, often with descriptive narratives or answers in paragraphs between the real lists. Nate's post incorporates a lot of useful information about email lists as a strong content promoting tactic and is a good example of a hybrid list. There are five metrics to hold an vision on to discover how your blogs is heading: visitors, leads, subscribers, inbound links and social websites shares. Because Magdalena says, “Measure the performance of the business blog page regularly to spot weaknesses in the content you happen to be producing, what topics your audience really cares about, and what blogs tactics be good enough.”If you find topics and approaches that work particularly very well, try to replicate those work and be happy to let go of features that aren't performing well. Magdalena suggests looking at your five most successful blog articles and asking, “What do they have in common? ”Not simply are viewers interested in this article in your post, they also would you like who composed the post and their function at your organization. Sometimes you'll come across a carefully researched and well-written content only to find an attribution of “admin.” Even if the blog page is only authored by you and you're the boss of the blog page, be sure to include your name, title and an opportunity for readers to contact you. 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Because Magdalena says, “Measure the performance of the business blog regularly to distinguish weaknesses inside the content you're producing, what topics your audience truly cares about, and what blog tactics meet your needs.”When you find topics and approaches basically particularly well, try to repeat those initiatives and be ready to let go of features that aren't performing well. Magdalena suggests looking at the five many successful blogs and requesting, “What do they have in common? ”Not simply are readers interested in the content in your article, they also find out who wrote the content and their function at your institution. Sometimes you'll come across a completely researched and well-written content only to find an attribution of “admin.” Even if the blog is only written by you and youre the officer of the weblog, be sure to the name, subject and the easiest way for viewers to contact you. 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A great headline can easily also speak a full warning to it is intended crowd, and this absolutely must lure someone into your physique text.”Possibly one of the most severe mistakes a blog post can make is absent the mark of its readers, forgetting who they are and their needs and interests. Content material can serve as customer satisfaction and that to be helpful, articles should be user-focused (asking what our users' problems and priorities are), communicated obviously and offered in short and snappy language. 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Yogurt can help too, but honestly it is about trying what you have to hand, see how it works and adjust as you go forward,Playing tell me if I can use only condensed milk for cup cakes, brownies in place of eggs and the quantity of condensed milk in place of one eggThe thing to remember about condensed milk is that it is like a liquid sugar. This is not the best thing to add to a recipe which already has a lot of sugar. for cupcakes and brownies I would choose applesauce/pureed banana/curd/yogurt/flax egg/silken tofu so as not to upset the sugar balance. The chart tells you 3 tablespoons per egg for condensed milk, but I would not use it in a sponge cake. Hi Emma! This explanation of egg substitutes is amazing. I was wondering if you have one for butter as I want to try to make some recipes all vegan and I would like to use some oil on them. When you replace butter for oil in a recipe you need to do it carefully. About 1/3 less oil than the amount of butter. butter is more than just fat. Thanks, Gemma, and sorry for the typo mistake, my computer changes some words and I didn't double check before sending my previous comment. So if I understood right, if a recipe has 90 grams of butter I should use 60 grams of oil? I think that will work well for you. Do not worry about spell check, you should see some of my comments! The phone does not help, never as easy as the laptop,I have a question about eggs substitutes, do you know what should I do if the recipe only uses egg yolks? I've seen that aquafaba is great for egg whites, but I don't know what to do in the case of egg yolks. Really this is specific to the recipe. You have to ask yourself ‘what is the purpose of the egg in this recipe? '. Eggs play a different role in different things. They create structure, they thicken sauces and custards, they add moisture to cakes and other baked goods, they enrich breads and cakes, they can be the leavening and can even act as glue to bind ingredients without adding too much water. So, flax egg is a super enriching thing, you can use that in places along with aquafaba too if you wish. Sometimes the aquafaba is enough if the role is to bind, or leaven for instance. I recently made Chocolate Vanilla Marble cake in 9×5 inch loaf tin. The recipe called for 2 eggs and I happened to have just 1. The recipe also called for yogurt. So, I added about 60g more yogurt than the recipe indicated to compensate for the weight of one egg. The change of ingredients in a recipe will always affect the results. for a sponge type recipe applesauce is a great sub, and flax egg too keeps the moisture in the mix. I am surprised though that the yogurt was not as effective for you, especially as you had one egg. 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Based on that alone, we are drawn to his idealistic ways, even though we were skeptical when he first announced his candidacy. Then how did he attract the younger crowds, you might ask? His record, his history, his approval rating in the senate. Unlike many politicians, he isn't afraid to go out of his way to voice an unpopular opinion because the thing is, it isn't so unpopular. Our drive is for a candidate who is open and cares about our voice, the voice of the working class. Take a peak into how politics is being ran right now, the voice of the public rarely turns out real results. And now comes along a senator who stands up to “Big Brother,” and we flock to him. It's the same reason Republicans are drawn to Trump. The system is rigged, and we want someone who we feel can change it. The only difference between the two lies between “telling it like it is,” and someone who actually listens to the people and wants to make a difference. Sanders is leading a political revolution, he is funded by the people and has voiced his distrust of the establishment. The same distrust I mentioned earlier, the one that strikes a chord with millennials and turns them against main stream media. We want the American Dream in the sense that we want a government that provides equality for all and cares about the betterment of society and its people. It makes sense why younger generations are attracted to someone who is anti-establishment because we want to restart and build something better, like FDR with the great depression. And that's really the meaning of democratic socialism, right? Providing people with the opportunity to succeed without capitalism getting in the way. Big money shouldn't be in our politics, our medical care or our schools. The graduating class of 2015, my graduating class, will graduate from college with more debt than ever before. We are being set up to fail before we even get into the business world, so Sanders' message of cutting the bullshit resonates with a lot of us. It is resonating so well, that even Hillary Clinton has started adapting his stump speeches into her own. And this is not to bash HRC, but to show that she recognizes the power Bernie has tapped into. Millennials biggest concern with Hillary is her indecisive nature. Six months ago, Hillary wasn't running the campaign she is today. I've always struggled with the Clintons' simply because I remember them growing up, I remember her campaign in 2008 and how she has a very fear heavy tactic of deeming the GOP as our biggest enemy, and clinging to people like Obama and Henry Kissinger. It makes me afraid that she cannot work across the aisle and won't be able to pass through a lot of the ideas that she is now promising. It makes me afraid that she will say what people like to hear to get elected, but not follow through when it comes time. To quote The Dark Knight (2008), Bernie Sanders is the hero America deserves, but he is also the hero America needs right now. For those put off by his plans to uproot the political system, research his policies, look through his history and how he has always championed social issues. Maybe this is a “rose-tinted glasses” view of the Sanders' campaign, but it fits the candidate I choose to support and the idea of what I want the country to become. PART I Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Mis-direct are Widespread in Occupy | PopularResistance. OrgThere were also reports in Los Angeles of a dozen undercover police in the encampment before they were forcibly evicted by the police. The raid by the LA police was brutal and resulted in mass arrests, with most charges dropped, but with others mistreated in jails. ## Similar pre-raid undercover activities were reported in Nashville,Tennessee. There were frequent attacks on people who did the most work and were perceived as leaders. The anti-leadership views of many occupiers were used to essentially attack the most effective people. Sue Basko wrote about this in Los Angeles in a comment on a Chris Hedges article, writing that there was an “ongoing campaign of harassment and coercion against the Occupy LA participants and volunteers. Each day is a fresh set of victims.” She describes the use of Twitter, list serves and blogs to “defame and harass anyone giving their efforts to help Occupy LA.” This has included attacks on “social media workers, the website team, the lawyers (including me), the medics, the livestreamers, the writers, and on and on.” She also writes “there is the very strong belief that some among them are FBI or DHS agents placed there to start the group, egg it on, control it.” Conversations with others in Los Angles confirmed this report. Our experience in the area of personal attacks included outlandish lies calling us criminals and thieves and near daily email attacks since early December. We found that when we respond and correct lies, it does not stop them and have concluded that if someone has the intention to be a character assassin there is nothing you can do to stop them except to expose them. While that does not necessarily stop them, it at least gets those in the occupation who are not gullible to doubt the undocumented personal attacks. The agitator at the Air & Space Museum and Mike Stack are superficially similar, but these are not the same people. I have pictures of Stack that aren't available now, lifted from his yfrog account before he locked it down. Specifically:One of the two of them has a facial mole, I think Stack, the other fellow does not. It's quite clear in a side by side comparison. Stack has ‘softer' features – ears are round, the agitator's ears are angular, Stack carries a bit more weight, proportionally, and he is around 40, while the agitator looks to be maybe early 30s. I caught this and squelched it with people I knew. Democratic Underground has some folks who have the bit in their teeth on this particular issue, and they ... Output: Rest of text: are quite simply incorrect. I would rewrite the section about the Air & Space Museum, say something to the effect of “incorrectly identified as Mike Stack, see comments for details”. I enjoy you because of your entire effort on this web site. My niece enjoys participating in investigations and it is easy to understand. This article that I've been waited for so long. I need this article to complete my assignment in the college, and it has same topic with your articleSeveral of us observed the infiltration at Occupy DC, and then lately at Freedom Plaza. Kevin and Margaret, thank you for your wonderful example in staying calm and watchful. Let me suggest a tactic. Peaceful protesters surround a violent, screaming person among them, so many of them that this out of sync person begins to withdraw from the crowd. They curround him/her as long as it takes. Many times at Odc I observed the ‘stabilizers' working effectively in many ways. I am so proud of all of you younger people. Do not ever think that OCCUPY has failed. they are scared to death of you–you are so very powerful. Occupy is just resting. Can't wait to see you all rise again in April. A liquor license is mandatory for any business that is going to produce, distribute, or serve beer and wine or distilled spirits to the public. Liquor Licenses are priced and classified in different ways, according to what the holder wants. Below you will find a list of some of the licenses classes. These are the most popular licenses wanted by consumers. Liquor License Classes. ## Grocery Beer License New York Grocery or Drug Store Beer License Good for selling only beer for off-premises consumption. If you wish to sell wine coolers and other wine products you need the license listed below (Grocery or Drug Store Beer/Wine License). 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OWS immediately needs a good, non-partisan forum, with thread affinity groups, like any other decent forum. The lousy forum at occupywallst.org is very, very busy. But it serves only the police and pro-Democratic Party trolls, who infiltrated the site. No development of persons or strategic issues can happen, which is exactly what the Democrats want. Now that Bullygate has broken, and Joe Biden forced Obama to support same-sex marriage, the Democrats show, how they anticipated the breaking of Bullygate. Mitt Romney claims he cannot remember. So the Democrats can refuse substantive reforms, AND win the election. OWS needs to get a good forum. The occupywallst.org site shows how popular that would be. But we cannot get by the Democrats at that site, including the one moderating. I am not surprised by Kevin Zeese's allegations of Democrat-infiltration, see Ralph Nader 2004, infiltrated signature drive and lawsuits. Re Kevin's allegations of DP infiltration, Kerry 2004 campaigners allegedly infiltrated the Nader 2004 signature drive, to thwart it, and then the Democrats sued Nader 2004, to keep Ralph off the ballots of several states, and to bleed his campaign. At occupywallst.org, pro-Obama trolls are occupying the single-threadline forum, and they forward non-partisan targets, to a pro-Democratic Party moderator, who deletes or moves down posts, while non-partisans are not allowed to accumulate the stupid points, from ‘twinkle' and ‘stinkle' buttons. OWS needs to get a decent forum, with thread-affinity groups, so we can sort leaders and strategy, from demagogues and police. We don't need Democratic Party trolls or moderators. Your spam-filter at this site DOES NOT WORK. You have spam up here already, an ad for a nursing home, but the filter prevented my first attempt at comment. OWS needs to get its e-media, together, now, here and at OWS-NY and everywhere. 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If you want to find the best hunting gear, but you don't have time to go through the buying tips and reviews prepared by our research team,... <prompter> Next. <assistant> this short section should tell you everything you need to know about the best hunting optics. After analyzing a lot of feedback coming from... <prompter> Next. <assistant> both amateur and professional hunters and target shooters, we have concluded that the USCamel UW035 are the best hunting binoculars out there. Since this model features a lightweight frame, it takes the cake when it comes to usability. With its high-quality optics, the USCamel UW035 can allow you to take a peek at your target both efficiently and easily as the images you'll be... <prompter> More. <assistant> looking at will always be crisp and clear. If the USCamel UW035 is unavailable or you'd prefer a monocular instead, you should consider the... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> Bestguarder WG50 as it's a good alternative in terms of reliability and performance. Whether your need for hunting optics is for regular or just occasional use, it can be difficult to find... <prompter> Next. <assistant> the right device on the market to suit your application. There are simply too many choices as well as a lot of specifications to look into when choosing this type of equipment... <prompter> Next. <assistant> That being said, it is still essential that you make the perfect choice to ensure a productive hunting adventure every time. The research involved can take so long that it can be quite tempting to simply base your choice on how well the product is described by the manufacturer instead of consulting expert review sites for this type of hunting gear. To help buyers... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> become more informed when making choices on their hunting optics, we showcase below what we consider the top rated choices on the market. We have detailed every category in the next sections to help buyers enjoy a smoother and less stressful purchasing experience. The best hunting binoculars are a perfect complement to a top quality hunting rifle or hunting bow. Hunting binoculars are used for surrounding terrain scouting to obtain a better view of potential targets to get details of your prey or perform evaluation from a distance. While compact models come with 22mm or 26mm diameters, most full-size models come with 42mm lens diameters. Midsize models offer a good compromise with 32mm objective lenses that deliver a good low-light performance while facilitating easy portability. A greater magnification... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> is needed for hunting in wide open areas. Eyecups keep stray light... <prompter> Next. <assistant> from the eyes. The binoculars have to be able to withstand the... <prompter> More. <assistant> elements when used in the wilderness. This means you want them to be fully waterproof to prevent moisture from getting into the optics, aside from resilience against debris and dust as well... <prompter> More. <assistant> Fogproof models are filled with nitrogen or argon gas that effectively combats internal fogging due to temperature changes. A tough rubber armor protects the... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> unit from the knocks and drops that come with its use in... <prompter> Next. <assistant> the wilds. You may also like a camouflage finish to keep you hidden, and special lens coatings that enhance the appearance of reds, browns, and other natural wildlife hues by blocking the colors of foliage and haze for effortless spotting of game. Eye relief is essential for eyeglass wearers, as it is the distance behind the ocular lens where the image is in focus... <prompter> More. <assistant> Eyeglass wearers can't get their eyes close to the lenses, necessitating longer eye relief of at least 15mm to view the full image, but there may be a tradeoff with the reduced field of view. Providing high-level outdoor performance, the USCamel UW035 is perfect for hunting and birdwatching. Built with a magnesium alloy body, this device also boasts a durable yet lightweight frame that... <prompter> Next. <assistant> ensures a lifetime of use in the hunting field. The phase and dielectric coatings on the BaK-4 prisms increase the light reflectivity for clear, high-contrast images and as much brightness as can be perceived with the naked eye. This fogproof model is geared to prevent debris, dust and moisture from getting into the sensitive optical components. It delivers an ultra-wide field of view of 303 feet at 1,000 yards for easy scanning and scouting. For various types of optical instruments such as telescopes, binoculars, game and trail cameras, spotting scopes and more, a tripod is an essential accessory. It serves to support large and heavy hunting optics as well as to improve steadiness during the use of high-magnification instruments. Tripods comprise two basic parts: the tripod leg set... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> and the tripod head. More affordable models have the tripod leg set and head sold as one unit, so you can't switch or remove heads. On the other hand, more expensive models come with interchangeable heads and legs to allow versatility. You want a heavy tripod head to accommodate high-magnification or large instruments, and this may come at a premium price. Only small loads... <prompter> More. <assistant> and small instruments can be supported on a cheap tripod. Weight and payload capacities are frequently overrated by manufacturers to attract buyers, as they... <prompter> Next. <assistant> are only useful for product comparison but not for actual functionality. Compact tripods are too large for tabletop use but are great when the user is seated in a chair. A compact tripod offsets portability with height. Digital point-and-shoot cameras and 70mm scopes or smaller are handled easily by a compact tripod, which is not suitable for 80mm and large spotting scopes as well as telephoto lens-geared SLR cameras. While standing, average-height hunters can use a camera, binoculars or spotting scope on a full-size tripod. Make sure to match the weight and size of the spotting scope, camera or binoculars with the strength and weight of the tripod. Stability and affordability do not come together in a tripod, which is quite unfortunate, so expect to pay more for... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> a tripod with a larger payload. Providing great support for a camera, binoculars, small telescope or spotting scope, the Celestron 82050 TrailSeeker is configured as a sturdy aluminum tripod that is height... <prompter> More. <assistant> adjustable from 18.9 to 70. It comes with a two-way smooth-panning head with a quick-release plate. You can set the four-section legs to three different angles. The flip-lever offers quick and easy locking during length adjustment. To get additional height, simply extend the center column. For added stability, the retractable hook adds extra weight. Lightweight and superbly easy to operate, this model comes with... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> a shoulder strap and tripod case for hassle-free storage and transport. A good quality monocular offers an efficient means of locating animals in their natural habitat and for scouting terrain. Make sure you get one with good magnification, but an overly large value such as 10x can be hard on the hands. You might be better off choosing a 6x or 8x monocular, which can still provide ample magnification without being overly powerful as to be challenging to handle due to unsteadiness. Tripods may be available but if you need to carry the monocular into the bushes, a tripod can be inconvenient. Moreover, think carefully about the quality of the optics in your monocular. The optics should deliver bright, clear and crisp views even at top magnification levels... <prompter> Next. <assistant> BaK4 glass prisms with fully multi-coated lenses are the best, as all air-to-glass surfaces come with antireflective coating for maximum light transmission. A roof prism structure is preferred over porro prism since... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> the latter can easily become blurry with slight bumps during your trek through the hunting terrain. You want the field of view to be at least 315 feet at 1000 yards. The focus ring should provide easy functionality for making adjustments, which is essential when tracking a target on the move. The monocular should be durable with a waterproof and fogproof build. The Bestguarder... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> monocular is undoubtedly the best hunting monocular on the market thanks to its 6x magnification that offers enough power for distant viewing of the target. The 50mm objective lens works well with the 1-5x digital zoom for bright and clear images. The video and photo can even be stamped with the date and time for effortless documentation. Get up to 1150 ft/350m viewing distance thanks to the built-in infrared illuminator that you can choose to switch off for nighttime viewing. The device is easy to hold for portability thanks to the removable strap. This device is versatile enough to be used as a live infrared surveillance camera simply by connecting via a TV cable to your TV or via a USB cable to a computer. Making an excellent... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> addition to virtually any rifle, a modern rifle scope lets you see targets more clearly while supporting precise aiming. The basic aspects of such... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> a piece of gear are expressed as a standardized equation, giving you the magnification first and the lens diameter second, separated by an ‘x'. Frequently, there are two numbers for the magnification separated by a dash, and this expresses the adjustability range of the magnification level from the lower to the higher one. The performance or limit of usefulness of a scope is expressed... <prompter> More. <assistant> in its magnification. A 4x scope would be ill-equipped to accommodate the needs of a 1000-yard benchrest shooter; on the other hand, shooting when deer hunting in thick forests would be quite... <prompter> More. <assistant> difficult using a 32x scope. As a rule of thumb, low magnifications such as 4x or 6x support more intuitive and faster shooting along with better target tracking. High magnification levels such... <prompter> Next. <assistant> as 16x and higher provide fantastic resolution of targets but tend to be heavier and larger as well as more expensive and difficult to use. Delivering 4x to 16x magnification, the Bushnell Elite 4500 is equipped with a 40mm objective lens and uses Dead On Accurate™ (DOA) Reticle Technology that extends the effective range significantly so you can assess the quality of your target... <prompter> More. <assistant> quickly. With fully multi-coated optics, this device comes with all air-to-glass surfaces having multiple layers of anti-reflective coating to deliver exquisitely high-contrast and bright images that reduce eyestrain because of less loss... <prompter> Next. <assistant> of light before the image gets to your eye. This product is mentioned among the best for deer hunting and it offers dependable durability... <prompter> More. <assistant> thanks to its waterproof, fogproof and shockproof construction. Whether you're into archery tournaments or live game hunting, you will need the best scope for... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> crossbow hunting to see the target clearly from a distance. This type of device enables effortless shot visualization of the target to improve accuracy and thus ensure clean and quick ethical kills,Sometimes... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> called sights, scopes help ensure that the target does not suffer because those types of devices are designed to deliver clear visual. Make sure the scope provides a proper fit. You can... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> choose from laser, reticle and red dot scopes. A red dot sight projects a visible red dot for easy aiming. A reticle scope has crosshairs that can be wired in, etched into... <prompter> Next. <assistant> the lens or even illuminated, providing a four-quarter lens view breakup for... <prompter> More. <assistant> effortless target visualization. The best sight for crossbow comes with laser capability, which is great for moving targets. Equipped with fully multi-coated lenses, the... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> Nikon Bolt XR BDC 60 is a shockproof, waterproof and fogproof device that offers easy viewing of the target. Outfitted with a large ocular... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> and quick-focus eyepiece, this model comes with a lightweight compact design and is inarguably the best scope for night hunting thanks to its ability to transmit up to 92 percent of ambient... <prompter> Next. <assistant> light for top notch contrast and brightness when you're assessing the target. This crossbow scope offers 3-32x magnification for versatility and comes with a 32mm objective lens for superb performance. The optical... <prompter> Next. <assistant> elements are given multiple layers of anti-reflective coating for exceptional edge-to-edge clarity. Truly a must-have accessory for the avid target practice shooter or live game hunter, a bow sight provides easy target magnification thanks to its ability to make the target look larger than it is from a distance. This ensures hassle-free visualization of the shot for effortless planning for bow shooting and hunting... <prompter> Next. <assistant> A bow sight contributes to greater shot accuracy, which provides clean and quick shooting and ethical kills. Because of how it helps ensure precise hits, a bow sight ensures that the prey... <prompter> Next. <assistant> does not go through prolonged suffering. A bow sight is configured as a long black tube at one end of which is an ocular lens fitted on an eyepiece. A model with zoom functions comes with a power ring for adjustment of the zoom for the sight. A windage adjustment and elevation adjustment tool is in the middle of the body of the sight... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> An objective bell can be found at the end of the bow... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> sight. You can choose from laser, reticular or red dot sights. Red dot sights project a red dot that you can see, for effortless aiming at the target. Some models project a green dot. Single-style distance settings are what some models have. Advanced multi-dot sights enable you to set a number of shooting distances or scope limits, along with an option to make the... <prompter> Next. <assistant> illuminated dot brighter or darker depending on your preference. A reticular sight has crosshairs for easy dividing of the lens view into four quarters... <prompter> More. <assistant> Undoubtedly the best bow sight on the market, the Tabiger Archery Essential is a 3-pin bow sight made of durable 6061-T6 aluminum to ensure many hunting seasons of use. Projecting either a... <prompter> More. <assistant> red or green dot depending on your preference, this bow sight provides... <prompter> Next. <assistant> markings for elevation and windage to facilitate problem-free level adjustment using the two vertical bars. The bow stabilizer ensures an efficient compact design so your view remains sturdy regardless of the recoil or vibration when the projectile is released. This model boasts molded vibration reducing technology so your shots are accurate for clean and ethical quick kills. Hold your arrow securely and safely thanks... <prompter> More. <assistant> to the convenient arrow rest. This model comes with elevation and windage... <prompter> Next. <assistant> adjustment without damaging the fletching or inhibiting it during release. When you're a rifle hunter, bowhunter or muzzleloader, a hunting laser rangefinder can make... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> a significant difference between a successful hunting trip and cruelty to the target. Wrong 50 yard estimates, for instance, can result from uncontrolled long... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> shots that come from the bullet dropping too fast. Such advanced models allow far or near priority settings, with the device reporting the farther of two distances in the far setting with a split reading, for easy distinction between simple cover and the game animal. For bow hunters who wait for their target in an elevated hunting stand, angle compensation can be highly useful... <prompter> Next. <assistant> The elevated angles when hunting at that position can have an effect on the true horizontal distance to the target. However, models with an angle compensation feature are able to offset the... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> difference that comes from the elevated position of the hunter so the weapon can be set accordingly to accommodate the difference. A lower magnification... <prompter> Next. <assistant> provides a larger field of view when tracking a moving target at comparatively close distances. A low magnification also allows single-handed use of the device since the image will be easier to... <prompter> Next. <assistant> view steadily compared to units with higher magnification. Dual-purpose rangefinders with higher magnifications are effective for bowhunting, while an archery rangefinder would serve you better with lower power via 4x magnification. Offering rapid accuracy and the ultimate in portability, the Nikon 8397 ACULON AL11 is outfitted with the brand's quality optics using a 20mm objective lens and 6x magnification. Offering long eye relief for... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> eyeglass wearers, this model provides a clear view and exquisitely detailed target sighting with the multi-layer coated optics for minimal loss of light due to reflection for a superbly realistic view. This model comes with an ultra-compact and 4.4-ounce lightweight design for comfortable around-the-neck wearing or pocketability, which enables problem-free carrying. Offering easy use, this model provides intuitive operation at a simple push of a button for an instant distance reading. The exclusive Distant Target Priority Mode enables the device to display the range of the most distant target amidst a cluster of targets measured, helping distinguish between target and brush or foliage. Your choice of hunting optics pretty much influences the outcome of every hunting trip. Seasoned hunters know that shooting skills, whether with a rifle or... <prompter> More. <assistant> bow, are not the only important aspect to a successful hunting endeavor. With top quality hunting optics, the odds are definitely in your favor especially when your hunting skills are already well-developed. Hunting optics improve your accuracy and enhance your long-range shooting skills even more. However, you can ensure optimal use of your collection of hunting optics by supplementing them with premium quality hunting optics accessories. A binocular harness with Anti-Bounce technology provides a safe means of securing your binoculars to your chest to prevent them from bouncing or swinging during your trek towards the hunting site. You want this accessory to have dependable security straps for fastening your hunting optics with maximum security as well as tension-free protection of the glass optical elements of the device. A... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> hunting firearm or rifle can be used optimally with a boresighter, which is useful for eliminating point-of-aim errors due to parallax arising from extreme... <prompter> Next. <assistant> misalignment. Quality boresighters come with natural backlighting of the target, along with LED illumination for easy shooting even in low-light situations. You will want this type of accessory to come with a... <prompter> More. <assistant> long battery life because you don't know how much time you have... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> to spend outdoors. A scope cover protects your precision optics from moisture, dirt, dust, scratches, scuffs and dings. An optics case provides extra protection for your hunting optics such as your spotting scope. A good quality optics case comes with a lightweight yet strong and watertight resin body and a special valve that prevents moisture by equalizing air pressure inside the case. A reticle leveling system enables you to ensure a perfectly leveled scope on any firearm. Top rating reticle leveling systems come with CNC machined and factory adjusted calibration set screws, a protective molded case and anodized aluminum construction for years of use. Other useful hunting optics accessories include cantilever mounts, bubble levels, binocular adapters, window mounts and more. Your hunting optics need to be stored properly... <prompter> More. <assistant> for easy transport or carrying. There is a large variety of hunting optics storage systems that enable you to accomplish this easily while ensuring... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> convenience. It pays to invest in top quality hunting optics storage systems to protect the investment you have also made on your hunting optics. In the long run, since storage systems are... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> definitely cheaper than the hunting optics themselves, you'll save more money on replacements of damaged or ruined gear that happen due to improper or inadequate storage and transport systems. A binocular case keeps your binoculars protected as you traverse the hunting trail while ensuring that the sighting gear is always within reach. A scope case protects the sensitive components of your hunting optics from... <prompter> More. <assistant> being damaged due to the bumps and shock during your trek through the hunting grounds. A binocular harness holds your hunting optics securely to your chest with reduced bouncing around as you climb or walk while keeping them within easy reach. <prompter> Can you tell me how to fill in the missing spans: Make sure that the harness, connector or case has a durable strap. Your choice of hunting optics can spell the difference between finding the trophy catch for your [spans 1] handed. There may be a need to read plenty of hunting optics reviews in order to find the product that works for you. These are the elements to look into when selecting hunting optics. A hunting scope lets you assess the size and condition of the target. ## Multi-power scopes provide the greatest versatility. Hunting scopes come with a tube-like structure as well as a range of magnification powers. The best telescope for hunting falls into this category. ## Other examples of scopes include the best monocular for hunting, the best laser rangefinders, spotting scopes, the best gun scopes, and binoculars. Lighter than a deer rifle, binoculars let you view the target with both eyes open, ensuring comfortable use. The best hunting binocular offers dependable performance in terms of clarity and brightness and offers the ability to bring out small details in your target. You get a larger field of view since you can see a larger area with less movement. Binoculars also support easy use when you are hunting in a blind or on a tree stand. They are versatile enough for use during vacations, ball games and other outdoor activities. A 7x to 8x magnification is sufficient for most hunting situations. Spotting [spans 2] steady. They are designed closer to a telescope than binoculars. The average magnification is between 20x and 60x. Spotting scopes will need frequent adjustments since their field of view can become unbalanced easily even with just an accidental slight bumping of the device. This kind of device is suitable for use in large, open areas for target locating, or at a [spans 3] shooting. A good quality spotting scope enables you to stay put and not to have to walk downrange just to mark where you'll be hitting. Since the scope is attached to a loaded hunting rifle, it can add weight to your weapon. Rangefinders work best with close-range weapons including a pistol or bow. They will also be essential for long range shots in terms of trajectory. This type of scope reduces the guesswork out of judging the distance between you and your target. It allows you to compute the difference between the point of impact and the crosshairs so you can do the corresponding adjustments in shot placement. An HD digital camera offers screen viewing, video recording and high definition clarity in a single device. However, this type of device tends to [spans 4] fragile. Be sure to take along spare batteries and ample memory storage options for the [spans 5] catch. Hunting sights also feature a sophisticated optical system to offset such elements as elevation, parallax, windage and low light hunting conditions. The best bow sight for deer hunting employs a system that requires alignment to allow you to obtain a precise point of aim on your target. Typically, sights are not equipped with any kind of magnification power and those that do, have it at low levels such as one power. Some examples of sights include laser, red dot scopes, the best adjustable bow sight, telescopic sights, open and reflex sights, laser sights and others. When choosing hunting optics, one vital element to look at is magnification, regardless whether you're using a pair of binoculars, a spotting scope or a rifle scope. Why? Because the ability of your hunting optics device to make objects appear larger than they are is the tool's primary functionality. This is why some products include the magnification in their names. Hunting optics show you this value through an equation, with two numbers separated by an ‘x'. The first number is the magnification, thus in the equation 10×40, the ‘10' is the magnification and it signifies that the device magnifies [spans 6] times. For spotting scopes, you want something in the 60x range while for rifle scopes and binoculars, you want it closer to 8x or 10x. The second number that you can find in your hunting optics description that includes the magnification is the lens diameter. The second number is the lens diameter in millimeters. Thus, a 3×40 device has a three-power optic and a 40mm lens. As long as you have the budget, get the largest diameter available that you can also handle. The diameter of your lens influences the field of view of the hunting optics. With a larger outer lens, you'll be able to see more, and scanning a large area is immensely beneficial when looking for game. The brightness of the image also has something to do with the lens diameter, and the larger this value is, the more light gathering capability the lens has. Even if you have good magnification, the details of your target will not be easily viewable if the [spans 7] small. Clarity and brightness are also dictated by the type of optical elements used in your hunting optics. The best compound bow sight, for instance, comes with top quality lens coatings along with cutting-edge optical technologies that can help you enjoy bright and clear images. Those elements distinguish premium quality optics from inferior ones. Thus, products on the higher end of the price spectrum enable you to enjoy crisper and brighter images that are less distorted compared to what low-priced inferior products are designed to deliver. For long distance, big game hunting, there is a greater need for the hunting optics to have both scanning and magnification capabilities, as compared to waterfowl hunting for which you would need good magnification as well as a wide field of view. In close range hunting, you'd have to keep both eyes wide open, as well as a broad field of view. Wildlife observations require optics equipment with a weight that can be supported on a tripod, so as to avoid rendering transportation cumbersome. Variable zooming abilities are a necessary addition, in this case. High-powered magnification and the ability to withstand recoil are needed for long distance target shooting of stationary targets. Accuracy and aim are needed as much as trigger velocity for speed shooting competitions. Bear in mind that you should obtain hunting optics that [spans 8] application. In hunting, it's always a challenge to see your target from far away, and without hunting optics, that would be impossible to do. Fortunately, both bow and rifle hunters now have a wide range of hunting optics to choose from. Whether it's binoculars, spotting scopes, hunting scopes or rangefinders, as well as a host of other optical tools, you always have something available on the market to help you see well and hunt well. The best hunting optics are engineered to provide good visuals so you can enjoy every hunting trip. If you are a gun hunter, you will find a rifle scope indispensable when hunting in open terrain. Riflescopes offer a wide range of variations compared to spotting scopes and binoculars. Regular rifle hunters go for a general purpose 3-9x40mm scope because of how this type covers a variety of hunting situations easily. For hunting in dense timber, you have other options including fixed 4x zoom and 2-7x. You can choose from variable zoom, fixed zoom, a variety of reticle types or crosshairs, a range of bullet drop adjustments over trajectory or distance, as well [spans 9] distances. The choices vary as well from [spans 10] units. The best rifle scope brands come with scope covers that not only allow quick access to the device but are also durable. One thing to remember is scopes with high top-end magnifications typically feature high low-end magnification as well, which can be impractically high for shooting at close range. However, if you plan to shoot predominantly from a distance, you will need at least a 12x magnification. Spotting scopes are characterized by large lens diameters and high magnifications. Spotting scopes provide the best optics for hunting next to binoculars and this will be quite useful when you need to find your prey. Typically tripod mounted, a spotting scope is utilized for scanning an area for game. Durability is a prime element you need in a spotting scope, which you want to have shockproof optics and a rubber body along with a dependable warranty. Spotting scopes are more compact than binoculars [spans 11] counterparts. Lighter models offer smaller objective and zoom options while large objective, high zoom models are quite hefty, weighing in as much as 5 pounds or even heavier. A greater amount of light enters a large objective lens, giving you brighter images at any fixed zoom level. Small spotting scopes may lack clarity and eye relief. A good spotting scope should be paired with a good quality tripod. When in the market for binoculars, you want a good balance of lens diameter and magnification to scan the horizon. Excessively large binoculars can be hard to hang around the neck. A good balance between performance and weight should be available from binoculars in the 10×40 or 10×42 range. A relatively ideal configuration would be 8×42. Whichever you choose, you want the device to be rugged enough for your outdoor adventures, and to offer the right objective and zoom for your hunting needs. You also want to invest in the best hunting tripod for binoculars for optimal use. You will need to know the exact distance between yourself and the prey in order to make adjustments accurately to your shot placement, whether with a bow or a rifle at a distance of around more than 200 yards. A rangefinder puts together a sensor and laser with a monocular. A button activates the laser while the shooter looks through the monocular. The laser bounces off the animal and reverts back to the sensor, then the monocular allows you to know how much distance there is between you and your target, either in meters or yards. Some models offset angular drop as well. You want the monocular to provide optical clarity. The device should offer good ranging distance, [spans 12] time. ## Manufactured from Polypropylene. BRAND™ Urine Beaker without Lid is CE-marked according to IVD-Directive 98/79 CE. X1000 Urine beaker, without lid, PP, IVD grad. to125mlUsed with injecting and withdrawing fluids from vials or semi-rigid containers. 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Get regular maintenance checks, and don't ignore the warning light when something needs fixing.”The brains behind the drive are Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt and Dr. Sijo Parekattil, both urologists and co-directors of The PUR Clinic (Personalized Urology and Robotics) in Clermont, Florida. The problem, they say, is that surveys show that men don't go to the doctor as often as women, and are not as forthcoming when they do. On June 4 (just in time to celebrate Men's Health Month), the doctors will be getting in their all-electric Tesla and driving 2,500 miles from Florida to California, stopping along the way to get their message out.1 reason (22%) is that they are “too busy,” according to the Orlando Health survey.2 reason (21%) is that they are “afraid of finding out what might be wrong.” The third reason (18%) is fear of “uncomfortable” checks like prostate or rectal exams. 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<|prompter|> More of this please: We getting ready to leave Coolgardie town this morning at 8:30am. Then we make our way to Kalgoorlie where we be setting up camp at Elijah memorial at 3:00pm today. Also I just wanted to say thank you to Sylvia Tucker at Coolgardie town for helping us by letting us stay at her other house and resting up. Thank you Sylvia for helping us out for letting us have a shower at your house and showing us where was the funeral being held for Elijah on Tuesdays. I'm on my way to Kalgoorlie now. The team well catch up within a hour wild I'm walking. So I be walking a lone for 1 hour because the team need to finish packing up everything. So that mean I need to watch both side of the road car's coming in front of me and behind me because I walking in to a town that has full of hatred and full of racism. I just wanted to say thank you to Sarah Vasey from GWN 7 news for coming out this morning and doing a interview with me 🙂 guys watch GWN 7news tonight if you want to see the interview today. Hey guys quick update just letting you know we made it to Kalgoorlie and we are now at Elijah memorial setting up camp. But we here for the weekend to spread time with the elders and the locals in Kalgoorlie. Everyone is welcome to come down and set around the fire with us and welcome to join us tonight“Good morning all I be rest up today at Coolgardie town before I make the walk to Kalgoorlie tomorrow morning and set camp at Elijah memorial to spend the weekend with elder and the local in Kalgoorlie. Before I start the walk out to the desert way.”“Thank you Sylvia and Steve for coming up to Kalgoorlie and have a talk with us for the last two days. Also coming with us to Elijah memorial to see want we need to do to make think better for this country. Thank you so much for given us food to help us for the desert area to. So thank you Sylvia and Steve”“Proud man dancing with pride and honour. We know that our ancestor dance with us in spirit on a sacred ground. That one spot that one spot on that sacred ground 60,000 year of dancing of proud people. When i dance on a sacred ground. I know my father, my grandfather, my grand grandfather and my family before me are dancing next to me on a sacred ground in spirit. That how proud we are of our culture and who we are. So that why we never stop fighting until our culture is safe for the future generation.60,000 year of culture cannot go away without people like me and other a well to keep it a live.”“Finley we got the car back. She fix up and ready to go for the desert area trip 🙂 it cost me 600 dollar to get it fix. But as long she ready for the trip and help us finish the walk off to Canberra. This car well go up in a museum telling people she did her part by carting all our equipment and other think we need to Canberra.”“This why I don't touch gold. We are at the super pit in Kalgoorlie. When well people learn that your already have a none you don't need to be greeted for money by selling gold. The more we mining the land the more the land get sick. Mother nature well take it revenge by earth quake and rain to tell us to stop mining the land.”“Doing this walk for justice sometime drag me out. That I need to go and have a afternoon sleeps when it is rest day. I need to let my body to recharge itself and power my body back up. So every rest day I have a good few hours of sleep in the afternoon 🙂 Than the next day I'm recharge and ready to go again :)”“People need to understand that I'm doing this walk for Justice as a homeless man. Why I said I'm doing it as a homeless man because I give up my house an move out by storing all my stuff in storage. So I have no home to go back to but start from the bottom after this walk. I taking one year off from work and only got three week of pay. But happen to know that I have a job to go back to and start over again. On top of that the only money I have is from the Crowd funding and I notes that only low class people have help and donates from the bottom of they heart thank you guys 🙂No sponsors don't want to sponsor my walk and i don't know why because maybe I'm standing up for the low class people up against the rich and also I being complete ignored by the main stream media like channel 7 and channel 9 I don't know why. But channel 7 copy and paste what I said to Allan Clarke who written my story why I'm doing this walk for justice. I like to thank channel SBS , NITV and people who want to do a story on my journey and what I'm doing by covering it. So that why I'm doing this walk and say i'm a homeless man. I doing this walk as a homeless person to show that if I'm homeless and I'm standing up to the rich. Than you should too and help me by walking with me when I reach Canberra, share my post or donate to help me get there. I'm doing this as well because the love I have for my people, my country and this world. I believe the world we live in can be better than want it is now. All I ask from people is not to get angry on my Facebook page and show some respect. If you don't want to show respect I well block you because I don't have time to read uneducated people when they don't know that when I finish this walk it well show a new way for my people, for my country and for this world. So let come together and work on building this world and make it better for all o. k“Update guy's I'm starting the walk again where the support team pick me up yesterday and I about 40km out from Coolgardie town. I well reach Coolgardie about 4:00pm. Then I well rest up all day tomorrow to start the walk to Kalgoorlie town on Friday morning and I well get to Kalgoorlie in the afternoon around 3:00pm to set up camp at Elijah memorial to spent sometime with the Kalgoorlie mob over the weekends. Also to speak with the elders and the local around Kalgoorlie town.”Laura and I caught up with Uncle Ben in Southern Cross on our way back to Perth on the weekend before young Elijah's funeral, he bought some chocolates for Clinton and Noonie to keep their energy and spirits up. Good to see him join the walk. ““Hey guys I'm asking if anyone from Kalgoorlie town can help us out by towing the car in to Kalgoorlie. Out car broken down and we need help. I well pay for fuel if anyone can help us out. We about 40km out from Coolgardie and our car wont start. Please message me on Facebook.”“Hey guys quick update. The car broking down but it won't stop us still doing the walk. The car only need to get service because one of the wire pull out and we don't know what it is. So like I said we have to deal with think like this and we over come it.”“Hey guys good news the car finely started. We on our way to Coolgardie town to see the elder and have a shower to get ready for the funeral today. We not going to turn off the car until we reach Kalgoorlie town to see want wrong with it and get it fix. Wild we are at the funeral to day 🙂 thank you to who ever watching over us ““Today was the hardest day so far of the walk for justice. I have seen so much hurt and pain in my people eyes today at the funeral. The pain of no justice for young Elijah. It make me understand that I need to finish this walk to get justice for my people and young Elijah. After the funeral I went for a ride to the site where Elijah was run over and lost his life. When we went to the memorial it was like a ghost town and you can feel a bad vibe because you can see why the people left because it got to do with fear, racism and hatred. I well be camping in Coolgardie tonight to start the walk about 20km out from Coolgardie before I make the walk to Kalgoorlie on Thursday morning. When we get to Kalgoorlie on Thursday afternoon we well be camping at the memorial to show my people not to be a feared no more. I well fight for you all my people in Kalgoorlie and i well never stop until I get justice for young Elijah and everyone else in this country. It is time we get our justice and take back what was our from this government and this company who trying to rule us. Racism and hatred must be stop in this world. It time we stand together and fight for justice for all.”(ADMIN) We here on the Support Team send our deepest condolences to our brothers and sisters in Kalgoorlie and we stand with you in calling for justice for Young Elijah. “Good morning all a other day of walking. I have gotten up early today this morning at 5:30am to start the walk at 6:00am. So it going to be a 12 hour walk today. But other than that I hope you all have amazing day for a Monday”“Today I be walking thought the bush and following the purpline to catch with time and also catch with Km today.”“If I ever come a cross gold when I'm walking. I well never touch it or take it. I said to my self before I started this walk ... <|assistant|> The completion of this text could be: that i'm doing this for my people, for my country and this world we live in. I do this walk for the love I have for the people and wild life. That live homeless, that live in poverty, that live in wars, people who don't eat at night in three world country and wild life home a being destroy by the greed of man who choose money more than the world we live on. I believed that this world we live in can come better that want it is now. But we a run by people who want to control us by the way we live and control the world as well. So I doing this walk to stand for the people land the mother natural it self up against the government and company. But we only well win if we stand together as one people.”“Say hello to our new friend this morning. He came down from the tree and sat with us around the fire. So I got up and given he some bread to eat. Nature it self know want I'm doing because I well stand up for the land and the wild life to protect them from mining company that chooses to destroy they home for money. Look after the land and the land well look after you.”“Good morning guys quick update. Me and the team are still on the road walking to Kalgoorlie town. It being amazing so far and that the land out here is so beautiful. Also the air out here is nice and fresh. We all doing great and if you wanted know where we are just look on the side of the road from southern cross to Kalgoorlie you see us walking heading to Kalgoorlie”“We settled up camp in side a old house. Complete run down to the amazing but it keep us all warm from the cold lastnight. The house was build back in 1940 and no no ghost didn't come to the house to scarier us of haha lol But the house is amazing and old. Now we on the road again towards all.”“Far a way in those descent land, I walk this land proud and free, far a way from home, searching high and low. Far a way from homeeeee. “Hey guys quick update and also we on t. v tonight on SBS world new at 6:30pm today on channel 3 or channel 30 please watch it.”Author ClintonswalkforjusticePosted on September 24, 2016 September 27, 2016 Categories The WalkTags Aboriginal, Australia, Boorabbin, Clinton Pryor, Indigenous, Southern Cross, Western AustraliaLeave a comment on Day 17: Boorabbin “Good morning quick update. We on our way to Kalgoorlie now. It will take us 4 day but you mob in Kalgoorlie we on our way now 🙂 to see you 🙂. Also the other day the Australia government is on the move to push for this recognised think and try get it done quicker. While we on the other hand are on the move for our treaty. So it a race for a treaty or recognised.”“We are now leaving southern cross and on our way to Kalgoorlie. We well be off Facebook for about 4 days until I reach Kalgoorlie. Until than I seen you in 4 days guys :)”“Now I'm entering the desert people area. The view up here is beautiful and amazing looking at the desert country. Also I realize that there town next to the road going to Kalgoorlie. So that mean I well still have signal for my phone.”“Goodmoring all just letting you all know that my left leg has heal up and I ready to go to start the walk on to Kalgoorlie. I well be leaving Southern Cross tomorrow morning around 8:00am to start the walk to Coolgardie town, then Kalgoorlie. It well take me about four days to get to Kalgoorlie. Also that mean I well be out of signal for 4 day until I get close to Coolgardie town than Kalgoorlie. On top of that then I well start the walk from Kalgoorlie on to Leonora town and that well take other 3 to 4 days of walking. Before I go on to Laverton town where the biggest test of my life start there. Laverton town well be the last town I well see. Then I well be walking on thought the central desert road for about 14 day's out in the desert before reaching Warburton town. That mean I well be out of signal for about 14 day out in the desert. The elders out there well walk with us to make sure I reach Warburton safety more or less lorn mob I need to walk though the desert area because I need to get they message stick and the story from the elder from the community out in goldfields mob. After I leave Warburton then I well start the walk on to Kaltukatjara community in the N. T next to the board of western Australia and north territory before walking on to Uluru Mutitjulu the heart land people. The biggest test of my walk well be the desert area and no one has Never walk that road seen the old time. If I walk that road it well show this country and the world that I well not stop until I reach Canberra to see the prime minster to get justice for my people.”“Also just want to thank Jum, Garry's brother for lending me his Kangaroo skin. So I can wear it when I reach Parliament house in Canberra”“We just changing trailer because of the other one is to small. So we changing to a big one. Thank to Jum Gum an Garry making this work. We at Garry brother place working on the new trailer.”“Please have a read. Why I'm pushing for a treaty for my people and walking for justice for my people.”Did you know that Australia is the only Commonwealth nation that doesn't have a treaty with its Indigenous people? This is a major concern for many Indigenous people. But why? Calls for a treaty in Australia refer to a formal agreement between the government and Indigenous people that would have legal outcomes. A treaty in Australia could recognise Indigenous people's history and prior occupation of this land, as well as the injustices many have endured. It could also offer a platform for addressing those injustices and help to establish a path forward based upon mutual goals, rather than ones imposed upon Indigenous people. Treaties are accepted around the world as a way of reaching a settlement between Indigenous people and those who have colonised their lands. New Zealand, for example, has the Treaty of Waitangi, an agreement signed in 1840 between the British Crown and over 500 Maori chiefs, while Canada and the United States have hundreds of treaties dating back as far as the 1600s. Australia has never entered into negotiations with Indigenous people about the taking of their lands or their place in the new nation. And yet, the idea of a treaty in Australia goes back many years. In 1832 the Governor of Van Diemen's Land remarked that it was “a fatal error . that a treaty was not entered into” with the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. In recent times, Prime Minister Bob Hawke promised to deliver a treaty by 1990. However, the controversial term raised alarm and was changed to a ‘document of reconciliation', Makarrata* or compact. These discussions were eventually replaced by the push for Constitutional recognition. Makarrata is a word in the Yolngu language meaning ‘the resumption of normal relations after a period of hostilities'. Some people preferred the word Makaratta because they felt the word treaty was too divisive and more often describes agreements between countries rather than within countries between different parts of the population. The word sovereignty is usually used to describe the independence of nation states. It refers to a nation's ultimate authority to govern its own affairs without interference from other countries. Sovereignty is a means for Indigenous people to seek greater control over their lives and limited government interference in Indigenous affairs. Indigenous sovereignty in Australia includes concepts such as self-government, autonomy and the recognition of cultural distinctiveness, though not the creation of a new country. ## Supporters of a treaty generally agree that a treaty must acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty. However, previous governments have claimed that recognising Indigenous sovereignty in Australia would fracture the nation. For example, Prime Minister John Howard said that “(a) nation . does not make a treaty with itself”. Today the issue of sovereignty continues to underlie calls for, and opposition to, treaty. Calls for a treaty and proposals to recognise Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution are two related but separate issues. Treaties and constitutions serve two different purposes; a treaty is a contract between two sovereign parties, while a Constitution is a set of governing laws (7). These initiatives are not mutually exclusive, and can even complement each other. There are concerns among some groups that Constitutional recognition would effectively negate Indigenous sovereignty, making future attempts at a treaty impossible. However, legal experts state that none of the current proposals to change the Constitution do anything to undermine claims to Indigenous sovereignty. “When for a ride today out to the Rabbit Proof Fence again to have a read and set out there just for a bit. On my own and have a think about how this three strong women run away from moore river mission. I didn't had time to read everything about it because of the walk and I need to get to the next camping spot. But today was a good day to go back out there to have a read and i have a think. Also think about the walk for justice I'm doing.”“I know I well never be a lone. I know my people and this country are watching me want I'm doing. Mainly those who has pass on and the old people watching me. I only want my people to have they treaty so think can get better for them. But must of all I want to see my country that have the live of all different culture people living here to come together as one people to build a better world for all who live on earth.”“Me at Heirisson Island Matargarup protecting for the forced closure of remote community and for the homeless in western Australia. Talk about having a big smile on my face.

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Tony lost his innocence because he has experienced three people being murdered. In the book Antonio is reminiscing his dreams," And I remembered my dream. Andrew had said he would not enter the house of [words 78] women until I lost my innocence. Had I already lost my innocence? How? I had seen Lupito murdered. Antonio lost [words 79] events than anyone his age had seen. In the story Antonio says, "These are the men I have seen die! I cried. Who else will my prayers accompany [words 80] "(243). Antonio lost innocence when he started being scared of someone else dying. Antonio also started to grow up when he saw the powers of Ultima [words 81] carp. In the text Antonio states," I had seen Ultima's cure. I had seen the men come to hang her. I had seen the awful fight just now. I [words 82] and revealed in the beauty of the golden carp! "(165). Antonio was exposed to new ideas of magic or new gods [words 83] his own religion. He started to think for himself. 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Bless Me Ultima fits the description of "magical realism" because the story talks a lot about a curandera named Ultima. As we all know, a curandera is a healer. Rudolfo Anaya portrays Ultima as this old lady who has magical and spiritual powers. She seems to bring life to things around her. "When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed it mystery into my living blood. " (Anaya, 1) "Your daughter will not lift the curse, and so I must work the magic beyond evil, the magic that endures forever-" (Anaya, 94) 2. Archetypes in Bless Me Ultima: Virgin of Guadalupe, Ultima = Mother. Motherly is an archetype in Bless Me Ultima. It reflects the cultural heritage of Ultima because she is a curandera and she was at Antonio's birth and his catechism. She is like his protector. Tenorio, his daughters = Dark, evil figures. Evil figures is an archetype in Bless Me Ultima. It reflects the cultural heritage of Tenorio's daughters because they lost. Irma Rosero AFPRL 356 Latino Literature Sec 051 September 18, 2011 Cultural and Religious Identity: Bless me, Ultima Bless Ultima, me, is a novel written by Rudolfo Anaya in 1972. The story starts in 1940 during and after World Word II in Guadalupe, New Mexico. The main character is Antonio. Anaya describes Antonio's childhood through a life changing journey. Also, Ultima, the “ curandera” who helped his mother in childbirth has a strong presence in his spiritual growth and development. Antonio portrays a human being with internal struggles and experiences that conflict with tradition, beliefs, faith, religion and find acceptance of change and growth. Antonio's familia education is tense with the two opposing symbols of Spanish colonization, his mother's family, the Lunas, and his father ‘s family, the Marez. Through the novel, Antonio is divided between his Luna blood and his Marez blood, always trying to decide between the two and please his parents desire. “This one will be a Luna . he will be a farmer and keep our customs and traditions. Perhaps God will be bless our family and make the baby a. Bless Me Ultima is the story of how a curandera named Ultima and her owl come to live with the Marez-Luna family in the their small home on a rocky hill in Guadalupe, New Mexico during World War II, and of how she helps influence and teach the hero of the story, young Antonio Marez in the ancient customs of healing and magic. We learn that Ultima was the midwife during Antonio's birth, and that after performing his birth, Ultima has a special bond with the boy, and this becomes evident in a dream where Antonio remembers how Ultima presided over his birth, and of the differences between his father's family – vaqueros or cowboys – and his mother's – a peaceful farming family who were part of the original settlers of New Mexico. His father is not religious, while his mother is devoutly a Catholic, and there is tension in the home due to this. Both parents agree to bring Ultima into their home because she is old, and they respect her, and while she is not related to them, she is closely linked to their family. Following a horrific shooting of the towns sheriff by Lupito, a damaged and disturbed returning Mexican G. – Antonio witnesses Lupito's own murder on the river by his father, and a group of towns men seeking vengeance for the senseless murder of the sheriff by Lupito. Here, Antonio sees how Narciso, the town drunk is kinder even than his. Like the quote above states, the incidents they go through are simply black and white, good and bad. However, as they grow older, they lose their innocent state of mind. They are suddenly thrown into a world where they are constantly struggling to defeat the odds and are desperately seeking answers to life's questions. Is there anyone that helps them during this difficult time, to see the "shades of gray? " Of course, there can be many answers to this question, but I think the single most influential person who guides a child through this stage is a family member. Family is one of the most important factors that help shape a person's life. In the critically lauded and moving tales of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee and "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya, the protagonists are all children, newly thrust into the world, faced with extreme obstacles and situations that test their character. Each one deals with these obstacles in different ways because of their different personalities. However, one thing is certain-the main characters of both novels overcome their hurdles and develop a strong level of morality along the way because they are guided by the love, understanding, and experience of their family members. A major theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is the moral nature of humans. At the beginning of the novel, Scout and Jem live in their childhood world, intuitively assuming that everyone is good because not. Marquez English 10 Period 6 October 29, 2013 In the novel Bless Me, Ultima, Antonio has many dreams but there is on dream that changes him completely. The author of Bless Me Ultima is Rudolfo Anaya. In this dream Antonio watched all of the people he cared about die and experiences the presence of the three men that are an important part of his life. Tony sees three figures standing in front of him but he is unsure of who they are until they finally reveal themselves. “This is the boy who heard our last confession on earth . At first Tony thinks he is looking at his brothers but then he realizes they are Lupito, Narciso, and Florence. He sees them standing there and staring right into his eyes. He can tell it's them by what they just said. “These are the men I have seen die! I cried. Who else will my prayers accompany to the land of death? ” (243). Antonio is hurt because he is looking at the three most important people that passed away in front of him. He feels hurt by what he is seeing and hearing. Tony is depressed by the loss of his mentors. In three middle part of this dream he sees two of his most trusted Gods being destroyed. the priest desecrated the altar by pouring the blood of dead pigeons into the holy chalice. The old gods are dying, he laughed.” (244). In this part the priest is pouting blood instead of the traditional wine while laughing at. Courtney Pauley Professor Barnes Acc English 10/ 2 September 20, 2012 Theme Analysis: Bless Me Ultima/ Civil Peace Chinua Achebe and Rudolfo Anaya write stories about two people that must over come struggles and difficulties in life. The characters in both stories must overcome internal and external conflict. A theme expressed in both stories is that everyone has conflicted and struggles in their life but they must overcome and make the best of the situation. ## This theme is expressed through character thoughts, symbolism and character experiences. In Anaya's story, Bless Me Ultima, the main character, Antonio must over come many different obstacles, in one summer. Throughout Antonio's summer he experiences death everywhere, he experiences the death of a stranger, family friend, and 2 close friends, but some how through it all he stays strong. He witnesses the death of a dear friend, “ the lonely river was a sad place to be when one is a small boy who has just seen a friend die” (Anaya, 231). Antonio wintness the death of someone from town, Lupito, although he did not really know the man, witnessing the death of anyone can be saddening, “ I saw Lupito lifted off his feet and hurled backwards by the bullets.” (Anaya 20) Not only did Antonio have to say goodbye to the people who died, shortly after his brothers returned from war, they were gone again, “I wondered if I would ever. Antonio's Growing Up In the novel, Bless Me Ultima, Antonio Marez has personal endeavors that provide him with his outlook on life. The author, Rudolfo Anaya sets this up beautifully by putting the protagonist, Antonio, through a riveting and exciting plot. In the novel, Antonio Marez has multiple exposures of maturity, such as being raised in a rural area, experiencing death firsthand, and learning the act of forgiveness. An experience that gives Antonio a different outlook on life is being raised in Guadalupe. Growing up in this rural area has put him very close to nature and the land. This shapes his outlook on life because it connects him to his family, since his uncles are very close to the land. This also makes Antonio more mature because it develops a love and respect for the land. Being raised in Guadalupe also sets up a distinctive perception for Antonio because he lives in a middle class environment. For example, in Antonio's household his father and mother both work hard and Antonio is given chores and discipline. This shapes his maturity because it does not make him spoiled or self-indulgent. It also builds his character because it makes him work hard to accomplish his goals. Another experience that shapes the maturity of Antonio is witnessing death firsthand. Seeing Narciso or Ultima die in front of his eyes leaves Antonio with a severe and grueling scene. This definitely changes his outlook on life. Compare and contrast 2 characters from a novel you have studied. With close reference to the text, give reasons to support your answer. I choose the novel Step by Wicked Step, written by Anne Fine. I am going to compare and contrast Claudia and Pixie. There are similarities and differences between them which can be observed clearly throughout the story. First of all, Claudia and Pixie share similar fate where their parents are divorced and their fathers live with another women. Claudia's father lives with his girl friend named Stella. Sometimes Claudia spends her time with her dad and Stella even though she hates Stella. She refuses to enjoy her stay with her dad out of loyalty to her mother and she also ignores Stella. In Pixie's case, her father marries Lucy who has two daughters, Sophie and Hetty. Pixie hates her step sisters. Her father promises that she would have her own room whenever she stays with them but later her step sister, Hetty moves into her room after having a fight with Sophie. This really makes her mad and she tries many ways to get rid of Hetty. Life is miserable for both Pixie and Claudia. However, the biggest difference which can be observed between Pixie and Claudia is that they have different approaches in dealing with their problems. Claudia is fair and sensible. Even though she hates Stella, she does not blame the lady for her parents' break-up. She is more gentle in her actions. For example, at the dinner party, she thinks that the guests are rude for not appreciating Stella's hard work. She realizes that ignoring Stella would not help solving matters between her parents. Feeling sorry for Stella, she decides to help her get accepted by showing off the green pyjamas which Stella has given to her. On the contrary, Pixie is more aggressive in her actions. In order to get Hetty out of her room, she creates stories that her room is haunted and when that fails, she tries to irritate Hetty by asking her to help with her maths. Finally, she tries the silent treatment on Hetty and that makes the girl tell Lucy everything. When Lucy confronted her, Pixie refuses to submit but instead she stands up for herself and expresses her feelings. She hates to pretend that her family is normal and she could not accept strangers as family. However, after they both pour out their frustration, things become better for them. In a nutshell, Claudia and Pixie have both similarities and differences between them. I learn many lessons while reading the story about them and the other children in this novel. Based on one of the novel that you have studied, write about a memorable event and how the event affects one of the characters in the story. Support your answer with close reference to the text. I choose the novel Step by Wicked Step written by Anne Fine. 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<human>: Finish this: After a slow spring, Stephen Moss's favourite summer visitors have all returned to Somerset – cuckoo, swift, hobby and a surprise redstartChina's Xiaomi Technology rung in the New Year with a triple-digit percent revenue increase, but investors shouldn't pop champagne corks yet, analysts say. Xiaomi recorded $11.97 billion in 2014 pre-tax sales, an annual increase of 135 percent, CEO Lei Jun announced in a Weibo post over the weekend. The privately-owned firm also sold 61 million smartphones last year, a 227 percent jump from 2013. In comparison, sales of Samsung's smartphones declined in the third quarter of 2014 while iPhone sales rose 26 percent on year, according to Gartner data. "I don't think Xiaomi can repeat this astounding growth of 135 percent, it's a case of too big, too soon," said Cyrus Daruwala, managing director at IDC Financial Insights. "We're definitely in wait-and-see mode; investors are not looking to raise their profile on Xiaomi yet. The results are too dramatic and can only go downhill from here. "Vital components of the firm's business model remain missing, Daruwala added: "We are unclear as to their research and development (R&D) plans. What is their sourcing strategy in terms of commodities and raw materials? In manufacturing, will they embrace a high-end or low-end focus? We also need more clarity with regards to regional and global expansion plans. "Other analysts are also cautious, questioning the company's sustainability amid its massive hype in the tech world. With a market valuation of $45 billion, Xiaomi has been called tech's most valuable start-up and is currently the third-largest smartphone maker. Lei's weekend blog post lacked profit figures, but a regulatory filing released in December indicated worrisome profitability levels. The tech firm logged an operating margin of 1.8 percent in 2013, far behind Samsung's 18.7 and Apple's 28. Many experts attributed the poor performance to the firm's low-cost, large volume strategy in phone manufacturing. Intensifying domestic competition also remains a key headwind for Xiaomi as Lenovo, Coolpad and Huawei all have plans to copycat its low-cost smartphone model, said Tom Kang, director at Counterpoint Research. Worries over the firm's long-term growth are also in focus as it tries to present itself as an Internet firm rather than a handset maker: "Developing hardware is just a part of Xiaomi's businesses, and the driving forces behind those devices are its software and Internet content,'' said CEO Lei last month, according to media reports. Xiaomi is heavily focused on content, said Ryan Huang, market strategist at IG. By acquiring content providers in its ecosystem like digital game maker Gameloft, e-book retailer Beijing Doukan as well as video sites Youku Tudou and iQiyi, it's providing value-added services to lock in users from leaving the brand, like Apple did with iTunes, Huang added. However, confidential data leaked in November proves the company still has a long way to go before calling itself an Internet play.94 percent of 2013 revenue came from handset sales, The Wall Street Journal reported in November. Xiaomi's hopes for diversification aren't just limited to the Internet. Last month, it unveiled a new air purifier that can be controlled via mobile phone, Counterpoint Research's Kang pointed out, adding that its high customer loyalty will enable it to grow beyond consumer electronics. "I do believe Xiaomi's overall revenue will continue to expand, it just may not come entirely from phones," he said. Meanwhile, CIMB believes the firm is headed for another stellar performance in 2015, but strictly based on smartphone sales: "We believe that Xiaomi's growth momentum will persist into 2015, driven by the improvement in its supply chain and overseas expansion. Xiaomi now targets to ship 100 million smartphones in 2015, a jump of 67 percent on-year. "The briefing will take place in New York at a secure FBI facility, a federal official told NBC. It will be Trump's first conducted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ## General election presidential candidates have traditionally received briefings for decades. But unique concerns about the ability to handle sensitive information surround Trump and Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump, the billionaire developer, has proven loose-lipped on the campaign trail. Clinton, for her part, has been dogged by her handling of classified information on a private email server as secretary of state. She was not charged with any wrongdoing, but FBI Director James Comey deemed her handling of information "extremely careless. "Director of National Intelligence James Clapper previously said the general election briefings are "fairly general. "ABC News first reported that Trump would get classified information on Wednesday. It is unclear when Clinton will start receiving briefings. HCCI's study found that the high-deductible plans appear to be doing just that. The study was based on fee-for-service claims provided by Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare for 40 million people per year who were covered by employer-sponsored insurance. In every year studied, people who weren't in consumer-directed health plans had total per capita spending on health care that was higher than CDHP enrollees, according to the report. Per capita out-of-pocket health spending by non-CDHP enrollees was just an average of $687 annually from 2010-2014, according to HCCI's report.23, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - LMI Aerospace Inc. (Nasdaq:LMIA) ("LMI" or the "Company") has announced that Engineering Services President Brian Olsen resigned his post effective Oct.7 to take another position within the industry. Engineering Services Chief Operating Officer Jay Inman will oversee Olsen's duties while LMI evaluates options for a future leader of that business segment. “We appreciate the many contributions Brian has made in his nearly 10 years of combined service at LMI, and we wish him well in his new pursuits,” said LMI Aerospace Chief Executive Officer Dan Korte. “Jay has held various leadership roles within Engineering Services and has played an integral part in helping redefine our strategy to diversify our customer base as well as reinvigorate revenue growth and profitability in the business. He and other leaders will continue to work together to ensure we stay focused on implementing that strategy throughout this transition.”Olsen originally joined LMI in 2002, left LMI in 2005, then returned in 2010. Over the years he has served in a number of leadership roles including Contracts and Business Development. He was appointed to lead Engineering Services in 2015. This year has seen a large number of beloved stars leaving us, including David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Alan Rickman and now actress and author Carrie Fisher. Martin, who is notorious for killing of swathes of his characters in his "Game of Throne" novels, has referred to 2016 as a "wretched year. "The number of favorite celebrities dying this year has prompted a South Carolina man to set up a donation page to make sure 94-year-old actress and "Golden Girls" star Betty White doesn't fall victim to 2016. "Help 2016 catch these hands if it goes anywhere near Betty White! If she's okay with it I will fly to where ever Betty White is and keep her safe till Jan 1 , 2017," South Carolina-based Demetrios Hrysikos wrote on the GoFundMe page. He further stated that if White doesn't want the money then he will donate it to a charity to help new stars. "Now , assuming she doesn't want a strange Greek standing guard outside her door, all monies will be donated to the Spartanburg Little Theater to help craft new stars of stage and screen to carry mantle of the legends that have left is this year. "A number of users took to Twitter to thank Hrysikos and also express their concern after Betty White started trending. Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC interview with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" (M-F, 9AM-11AM ET) today, Wednesday, February 22nd. ## Following is a link to the interview on CNBC.com: http://video.com/gallery/? video=3000595271. Jim Woods used to be a commercial real estate analyst for Deutsche Bank in San Francisco. Now he runs his own fledgling company selling organic, naturally-caffeinated beer. Cheryl DelMastro's real estate agency and her 22 employees fell victim to Florida's housing bust. Now she's running a successful firm selling baby socks to the likes of Target , Shop-Rite and Duane Reade. Maxine Tatlongari(cq) went from the American Cancer Society, where she was laid off after 11 years as a fundraiser, to running her own company that sells vanity mirrors and makeup tables. All are members of the new class called “accidental or necessity entrepreneurs,” people forced out of work by the recession who have started up their own ventures. They've also decided they rather be their boss than be subjected again to the indignity of a corporate layoff or buyout. And their numbers are certainly growing, according to the Kauffman Foundation's latest Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Through three quarters of this year, the average percentage of job seekers starting a business increased to 8.99%, compared to 5% for all of 2008, according to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement consultancy. That's consistent with 2008 Small Business Administration data showing that the number of self-employed people grew by a record 8.1 percent, about three times the historical average. LegalZoom.com, the online legal document service, says the part of its business that helps new ventures was up 10 percent in the first half of this year. Jim Woods launched his MateVeza brand of beer while he was still working for Deutsche Bank, working nights, weekends and vacation days. ... <assistant>: The beer, brewed with the South American Herbal tea yerba mate, was named one of the Top 25 Beers of 2007" by Draft magazine. Confident of his beer and its distribution network, he plotted his exit from Deutsche Bank. When Deutsche started cutting jobs to cutting jobs, Woods politely asked his boss to lay him off. He got his wish in August. "After receiving my severance package I turned around and wrote a check to the brewery for beer I had recently brewed," says Woods. "I've set out now to bring my organic, naturally caffeinated yerba mate ale to the masses.”"I chose to reinvent myself," says DelCastro. "Turning a negative into a positive was my mission in becoming a 'mompreneur. ' "She used her experience raising three children and came up with a baby sock with an adjustable Velcro strap, which prevents children from removing the sock. Eighteen months later, the socks are a national hit. "I knew I could find a promising future in spite of the economic times,” she says. “So many people are now reinventing" themselves. Whether going back to school or changing industries, we are reassessing our direction and purpose in our lives.”One thing Maxine Tatlonghari knew how to do was raise money. But instead of raising it for the American Cancer Society as she'd done for 11 years, she began to do it for her own startup company, Vanity Girl Hollywood, which she launched in February. "While I was upset at the time, I now see it as a chance of a lifetime," Tatlonghari says. "I was always an entrepreneur at heart, and this gave me a much-needed kick in the pants to get my business off the ground. "Only two-thirds of them survive two years, according to the Small Business Administration. That survival rate falls to 44 percent at four years, and to 31 percent at seven years. The National Federation of Independent Businesses estimates that over the lifetime of a business only 39% are profitable, while 30% break even or lose money. Until mid-June, he led a team of developers at the major payroll company Automatic Data Processing . After 14 years with the company, his job was eliminated in a reorganization. Since 1988, however, Hoeg had been a civilian volunteer with the U. Coast Guard Auxiliary, working as an aircraft pilot, whose duties included aerial photography. "There was a lot of soul-searching, and thought about what motivates me and makes me happy," Hoeg said. "There was, of course, concern about leaving the perceived safety of working for a large corporation. Much of that perception is a mirage. In a large corporation one gives up much of his self-determination. My advice to others would be to find something you're passionate about, study the market and the competition and don't give up. "As is the case with many people who lose their jobs these days Sherri Cappabianca saw it coming and began to prepare her second act. in Orlando last March, she jumped into her own business as a “canine wellness practitioner,” doing massage, acupressure, even aromatherapy, for dogs. "I actually started it part-time prior to getting laid off knowing that the layoff would eventually come," she says. Since starting up Rocky's Retreat: Canine Wellness & Healing Therapies, Cappabianca says she's learned a variety of skills, from sales to marketing to public speaking. Most importantly, she has learned: “In following your passion, anything and everything is possible. Being a former engineer, I've stepped completely out of my comfort zone by starting this business,” she admitted. “But it's been one of the best things that's ever happened to me. I don't ever want to go back to software, I love working for myself and helping improve the quality of life for people and their dogs.”A working mom, her childrearing routine suggested a product. With a son in daycare, she searched the market unsuccessfully for suitable "nap time" materials. Now her company, Royal Nap Mat, sells an all-in-one boutique bag carrying a quilted mat, pillow and fleece blanket. "Life is about moving forward and responding to what comes your way," says Jermin. "If the door closes, perhaps it is your opportunity to finally live the life you really want to. For me it was entrepreneurship. Wall Street firms were reducing the staffs, therefore, it was wise for me to have a plan B. "Some laid-off entrepreneurs have gone the franchise route, taking their severance money to open a new branch of an established business. In November 2008, Joseph Gliottone was let go as senior vice president at Boston-based ad agency Arnold Worldwide. "After six and a half years at Arnold and more than 30 in the industry, I felt it was time to do something completely new and different," says GliottoneHe launched DoodyCalls, a pet-waste removal business. With help from the parent company, Gliotonne has carved out a business scooping poop from residential properties and selling, installing and servicing pet waste stations for homeowners' associations and apartment complexes. "Did I ever envision myself getting into this business? No," he says. "But the pets-services industry is still booming and, much unlike advertising, this is a business that will never be dictated by technology. While it certainly is a ‘slightly different' business venture to pursue, I am proud to say that I'm number one in the number-two business. "Ric(cq) Franzi bought a franchise for Renaissance Executive Forums in Orange County, where he had been general manager for a division of the troubled Delphi auto parts company. "I knew my job at Delphi was going to disappear," he explained. "At 50, I was leery to jump onto another corporate treadmill. I'd once dreamed of owning my own business, but never taken action. Was this the nudge I needed? "Franzi had been an enthusiastic member of a monthly businessmen's peer group, and thought he could make a difference in how executives interacted with each other and made decisions. He partnered with an executive coach and bought a franchise, now the fastest-growing one in the Renaissance system. Members pay dearly to attend his monthly, half-day, round table sessions. His clients range in size from bosses of small- to medium-sized businesses to CEOs of companies with revenue in excess of $500 million dollars. "Thank God I let Delphi go" Franzi says. "It allowed me to finally let go of my fears and find my true passion and purpose in life. "Nov 12, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) - iEmergent is a market research and advisory firm that provides forecasts, business development tools and support to the housing and real estate finance industries.12, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ - Todd A. Benni has joined the Intellectual Property Practice at McDonald Hopkins LLC as Of Counsel. He is based in the firm's Cleveland and West Palm Beach offices. The Intellectual Property Practice provides counsel, representation and legal opinions on matters ranging from patent, copyright and licensing, to trademark and trade secret issues. His experience encompasses the preparation and prosecution of U. ## and foreign patent applications, and trademark applications. Benni has negotiated and drafted a variety of intellectual property agreements. He has conducted all kinds of intellectual property due diligence, managed worldwide domain name portfolios, drafted intellectual property policies, and handled a variety of Internet issues. Before joining McDonald Hopkins, Benni served as Senior Managing Counsel, IP, Advertising and Licensing for a leading global supplier of office products and services. in 1998 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995 from Purdue University. About McDonald Hopkins McDonald Hopkins is a business advisory and advocacy law firm with offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, and West Palm Beach. The president of McDonald Hopkins is Carl J. For more information about McDonald Hopkins, visit www. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, talks to CNBC's Steve Sedgwick about the US economy, the housing crisis and whether he could be the next man in charge of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Tom Lee, Fundstrat Global advisors, called the recent surge in stocks but didn't let the volatility detail his thesis. He joins Fast Money team to discuss his bullish views. Australia's election results are so close, it's not clear the ruling Coalition will have a majority, says Monash University's Zareh Ghazarian. Japan and China have contributed the most to HNWI wealth growth in Asia, says Capgemini's David Wilson. A survey of 1,000 people conducted by Thermosoft International reveals the luxury items people say they couldn't live without. TRUMPF has acquired a full stake in Teufel Solutions AG effective August 1, 2018. Founded in 2002 as an SAP systems company based in Bottighofen, Switzerland, Teufel Solution is a development partner for the TRUMPF TruTops Fab software. This manufacturing control system can be used to oversee the entire sheet metal production process, as well as monitor and manage all machine jobs. The system is modular in design and allows users to implement functions step by step. By taking over Teufel Solutions AG, TRUMPF is strengthening its portfolio in all aspects of digitally connected manufacturing. ## TRUMPF Chief Digital Officer Mathias Kammüller stresses its significance, saying: "TRUMPF believes in connected manufacturing. The takeover of Teufel Solutions is a firm sign that we continue to pursue our digital ambitions. Teufel Solutions has specialist expertise in TruTops Fab and TruConnect, and this is the perfect complement to TRUMPF's existing Industry 4.0 activities.

User: Finish this: Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by MICHAEL GAYDOS & BILL SIENKIEWICZ NEW COVER BY DAVID MACK Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time, she was a costumed super hero — but not a very good one. Her powers were unremarkable compared to the amazing abilities of the costumed icons that populate the Marvel Universe. In a city of Marvels, she never found her niche. The self-destructive would-be Avenger is now the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations — a small, private-investigative firm specializing in superhuman cases. When she uncovers the potentially explosive secret of one hero's true identity, Jessica's life immediately becomes expendable. But her wit, charm and intelligence just may help her survive another day. Thrust into the midst of a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels, has Jessica burned too many bridges to turn to old friends for help? Collecting ALIAS #1-9. $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9855-0GERRY DUGGAN (w) NIK VIRELLA (A) Cover by LEONARD KIRK VARIANT COVER BY TBA • Fisk and his men are triumphant-but have they let their guard down? • Just what concoction is timid Dr. Banner cooking up in his apothecary? • You cannot miss the shocking last page as a hero is reborn. Rated T+ .99 *SECRET WARS SERIESMARGUERITE BENNETT with KIERON GILLEN (w) STEPHANIE HANS with FRAZER IRVING (a) Cover by STEPHANIE HANS Variant cover by FRAZER IRVING “IN WHICH HEARTS REND AND HEADS ROLL” • Enchantress's prophecy strangles Angela and Sera from all sides when they are forced to ride hell (and a few other realms, too) for leather to the distant coast. • In a haunted castle, a tormented witchbreed girl named Anna Maria – a. the 1602 Rogue – makes a deadly deal – with a shocking price! • Kieron and Frazer Irving bring to life the first tale Angela tells that is her very own – as the forces of Faerie close in! 32 PGS.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESWritten by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by MICHAEL GAYDOS & DAVID MACK NEW COVER BY DAVID MACK All she ever wanted was to be a super hero. But life had other plans for Jessica Jones. Now, the adventures of the would-be Avenger turned bitter super-powered private eye continue with two new cases. First, Jessica travels to upstate New York to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl rumored to be a mutant in a prejudiced small town — but a murder mystery and a drunken, ill-advised fling complicate matters. Then, the hard-luck PI goes on a date with . the Astonishing Ant-Man? ! Collecting ALIAS #11-15.128 PGS.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9856-7Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by STUART IMMONEN, SARA PICHELLI & MORE Cover by STUART IMMONEN The original X-Men's arrival in the present sent shockwaves through the Marvel Universe, but we've only seen the effects on Earth — until now! When an alien race discovers that Jean Grey — once (or future) host of the destructive Phoenix Force — is back, they decide to hold her accountable for Dark Phoenix's genocide! Now it's up to the Guardians of the Galaxy to help the All-New X-Men save Jean from twisted intergalactic justice. But will they be enough against the universe's most powerful army? Back on Earth, the present-day Beast is tortured by his decision to bring the original X-Men forward in time, but can he repair the damage he's done while the future Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is still gunning for the time-tossed teens? Collecting ALL-NEW X-MEN #22-30 and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2013) #11-13.288 PGS. Rated T .99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9338-8DAN SLOTT (w) • ADAM KUBERT (a/C) VARIANT COVER BY GABRIELE DELL'OTTO MANGA ARTIST VARIANT COVER BY TBA • To protect his family, Spider-Man takes the fight to the god-like REGENT! • But that doesn't mean his daughter will sit back and let her dad have all the “fun! ” 32 PGS.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESWritten by JONATHAN HICKMAN Penciled by STEFANO CASELLI, MIKE DEODATO JR. VALERIO SCHITI, KEV WALKER & MORE Cover by JIM CHEUNG The Illuminati killed a world — and their own is next. Jonathan Hickman's cataclysmic saga, two years in the making, jumps ahead to its epic climax! For Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Illuminati, it has all been building to this — the day of the Final Incursion! Eight months after the events of Original Sin, and the revelation of the Illuminati's desperate, world-destroying actions, much has changed for the Avengers. How have they survived their sins? And the Cabal has re-formed with a new, deadly cast, but their motives are complicated. Both groups will fight to save their world — but have all the battles they've endured, all the sacrifices they've made, prepared either group for the inevitable moment where time runs out for everybody? Collecting AVENGERS (2012) #35-37 and NEW AVENGERS (2013) #24-25.144 PGS.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-8923-7AL EWING (w) ALAN DAVIS (a/C) • Mondo City breaks out its biggest gun - the multi-story murder-dozer they call the WAR MACHINE! • Meanwhile, Captain Britain faces Mondo's toughest lawman, Boss Cage - from the inside of a cell! • Once the brutal Boss System is done with the Defenders. will there be anything left of them to arrest? 32 PGS.99Written by CHARLES SOULE Penciled by STEVE MCNIVEN Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN Logan is no stranger to death. He's killed thousands. He's watched teammates, friends and lovers die. Now, stripped of his healing factor, the X-Man and Avenger faces his own date with the reaper. There's a bounty on his head, a price big enough to put a horde of enemies and assassins on his trail. The race is on to find Wolverine, but who put out the contract? Sabretooth? Viper? Or someone even worse? When Logan discovers that his mystery foe wants him alive, he turns on the offensive. As the hunted becomes the hunter once more, he's determined to die the way he lived. The Wolverine will go out fighting. Collecting DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1-4.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9163-6Written by ROBIN FURTH & PETER DAVID Penciled by PIOTR KOWALSKI Cover by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO Stephen King's dark fantasy epic returns as Eddie Dean comes face-to-face with the Gunslinger! Eddie, the troubled young man with the ability to open doors to other worlds, smuggles narcotics for dangerous mobster Balazar. But now he must escape a packed airplane guarded by armed customs agents! How will Eddie avoid prison — and fulfill the contract that will clear his brother Henry's debt? The answer lies in Mid-World, with a dying gunslinger named Roland, and his quest to save the Dark Tower! With Henry in Balazar's clutches, Eddie must face down the mobster — but how, without revealing his secret? As gangland war breaks out, it's Eddie and Roland versus the world! What doors will be opened when there's nothing left to lose? Collecting DARK TOWER: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE — HOUSE OF CARDS #1-5. Mature .99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9281-7Written by JEFF LINDSAY Penciled by DALIBOR TALAJIC Cover by MICHAEL DEL MUNDO Dexter returns in a blood-soaked Australian adventure written by his creator, Jeff Lindsay! Dexter Morgan isn't just Miami's No.1 forensic blood-spatter expert — he's also a serial killer who targets other killers! But when Dexter travels Down Under on the trail of a new murderer, he quickly learns that sharks aren't Australia's only deadly predator. Who is setting up illegal hunting safaris in the Outback, and are they targeting more than big game? Dexter investigates as only he can, but soon discovers that he isn't the hunter — he's the prey! Now Dexter is trapped in a private preserve where humans are in the crosshairs. Will this one end with a bang? Under the hot Australian sun, Dexter's Dark Passenger is given free reign, blood will flow, and the guilty will not go unpunished! Collecting DEXTER DOWN UNDER #1-5. Parental Advisory .99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-5451-8Written by GERRY DUGGAN, BRIAN POSEHN & MORE Penciled by MIKE HAWTHORNE, SCOTT KOBLISH, SALVA ESPIN & MORE Cover by SCOTT KOBLISH It's the end of the road for the Merc with a Mouth! First, our red-clad hero is stalked by a classic Spider-Slayer! Wait, this isn't a Spider-Man book. Deadpool had better find out what's going on before it mashes him into spider-paste! Then, inverted by the events of AXIS, Deadpool puts down the guns — and goes Zen! So how can he possibly save his friends from an attack by the also-inverted X-Men? ! In the aftermath, Deadpool takes a relaxing vacation to the Middle East, clashes with Omega Red, journeys into the Tomb of Scariness with Shiklah and battles the revenge-crazed ULTIMATUM organization! Oh, and he dies at the end. Is that a spoiler? Plus: a slew of bonus stories, including one final flashback feast in which Deadpool gets his hands on . the Infinity Gauntlet? ! Collecting DEADPOOL (2012) #35-44 and #250.304 PGS.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9826-0 Trim size: oversizedCHRIS BURNHAM (w) • RAMON VILLALOBOS (a) Cover by Ian Bertram VARIANT COVER BY TBA • Is Quentin Quire a Magneto loyalist or simply an anarchist eager for destruction? • Plus, Wolverine finds himself in a tight situation and Dr. Hank McCoy confronts his most intelligent and formidable challenger yet—himself! 32 PGS.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESCULLEN BUNN (w) • MATTEO LOLLI (a) Cover by TONY HARRIS MANGA ARTIST VARIANT COVER BY TBA • You guys understand this is NOT A SECRET WARS TIE-IN, right? • It's nothing less than the TRUTH that THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW! • THIS is how the ORIGINAL SECRET WARS really ended! • YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE IT! Which is your right.99Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by VALERIO SCHITI & FRANK CHO Cover by VALERIO SCHITI The Guardians of the Galaxy are caught in the pull of the Black Vortex! With the Slaughter Lords hot on their tails, the X-Men and the Guardians must find somewhere to stash their precious cargo, but will the temptation of the Vortex's unknown power be too much for this band of misfits? Rocket leaps into action! Gamora goes on the offensive! Ronan is deposed! Star-Lord is defiant! This story has it all — but does it seem like the Guardians have forgotten something in all the cosmic craziness? Oh, that's right, Peter got elected president of Spartax! Wait, what? ! As rifts begin forming within the team, will their friendship and history be enough to hold the Guardians together? Plus: What is a S. Helicarrier doing floating in space? ! Collecting GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2013) #24-27 and ANNUAL (2015) #1.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9766-9 Trim size: standardNEW PRINTING! Written by JEPH LOEB Penciled by LEINIL FRANCIS YU, ED MCGUINNESS, JOHN ROMITA JR. DAVID FINCH & JOHN CASSADAY Cover by ED MCGUINNESS Where were you when you heard that Captain America died? You were probably shocked, most likely thinking, “How could they? How could this happen to Cap? ” And for a moment, perhaps you thought about all the ways the super soldier meant something to you. Fallen Son follows the reaction of the legendary hero's best friends and closest comrades as they struggle to work through the stages of grief stirred by the loss of their ally. All have their own sense of loss, their own levels of grieving. ... Assistant: Completed pargraph(s): The story of a Fallen Son and the world he helped make a better place. Collecting FALLEN SON: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA — WOLVERINE, AVENGERS, CAPTAIN AMERICA, SPIDER-MAN and IRON MAN.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9859-8SKOTTIE YOUNG (w) • SKOTTIE YOUNG (a/C) Variant Cover by TBA • Playtime is serious business in the land of Marville and our tiniest heroes are putting in work to prove to their new neighbors which crew toughest. • The smaller they are, the harder they brawl-this is BATTLEWORD after all.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESIssue #9 – JAVIER PULIDO (w) • JAVIER PULIDO (a/C) Issue #10 – TIM SEELEY (w) • MIKE NORTON (a/C) ISSUE #9 – • Far, far away, one of the most dangerous weapons in the Galaxy has been stolen. by Spider-Man? ! • Peter Quill is back on Earth, his mission: recover the weapon and bring the web-slinger responsible for its disappearance to justice! • Stars clash when Starlord meets Spider-Man! 32 PGS.99 ISSUE #10 – • In an attempt to get revenge on his bounty hunting archenemy, Macho Gomez, Deadpool has set a trap! But he's also managed to snag one very tough space faring rodent: Rocket Raccoon! • Now the two mercs have to stand each other long enough to navigate a maze filled with some of the most dangerous critters ever to drop guano on the Marvel Universe: THE DRAKILLARS! 32 PGS.99RICK REMENDER (w) • ROLAND BOSCHI (a) Cover by ANDREW C. ROBINSON VARIANT COVER BY TBA • Nomad stands his ground; the teachings of Steve Rogers endure. • With the world crashing down on top of him, Ian Rogers struggles to get home. • Who is Poison and why is she willing to help Nomad? 32 PGS.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESJeff Lemire (W) • Ramon Perez (A/C) MANGA ARTIST VARIANT COVER BY TBA • A boy at odds with his big brother. A hero out of sync with his partner. Team Hawkeye, both past and present, is fractured. Things come to a head as Barney, Clint, and Kate learn what it means to carry the name Hawkeye.99DAVID MANDEL (w) • MICHAEL WALSH (a) Cover by AMANDA CONNER Variant Cover by MICHAEL WALSH • Hey there, comic reader! Have you ever wondered what Hydra agents do during their downtime? No? Well . then, uh, go read HAIL HYDRA. For everyone else with a burning desire to see a Hydra agent letting it all hang out, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU! BE THRILLED as Hank picks up his kids from school! BE AMAZED as Hank talks with Hydra's HR department! And BE STUPEFIED as Hank wishes he had picked a different line of work! From CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM executive producer David Mandel, Hank Johnson, Agent of Hydra will have you looking at faceless henchmen in a whole new light. ONE SHOT/Rated T+ .99DENNIS HOPELESS (w) Marco Failla (a) COVER BY KRIS ANKA BLANK COVER VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE MANGA ARTIST VARIANT COVER BY TBA PROMO VARIANT COVER BY JORGE MOLINA INHUMANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY TBA • The House of Magnus controls all, having crushed all resistance to their reign. Magneto rules with an iron-fist, while his children and grandchildren live their lives as royals—with all the privileges and pit-falls that come with that title. • But is Magneto's control as all-encompassing as it seems? And what happens to a conqueror when there is no one left to conquer? 32 PGS.99SKOTTIE YOUNG (w) • JIM MAHFOOD (a) Cover by JIM MAHFOOD VARIANT COVER BY TBA • Spend a day with Howard, a private investigator and the only human living in city full of animals. But not, like, criminals and lowlifes. We're talking elephants, apes, ducks and kitty cats. Catching a case, grinding a few gears, dodging some bullets and almost getting killed by an anthropomorchic monstrosity. It's just another Monday for Howard the Human brought to you by Skottie Young (ROCKET RACCOON) and Jim Mahfood (MIAMI VICE REMIX).99Volume #19 in the Incredible Hulk Epic Collections Written by PETER DAVID, RON MARZ, ROY THOMAS & MORE Penciled by DALE KEOWN, JAN DUURSEMA, CHRIS BACHALO, GARY FRANK, KEVIN MAGUIRE, JAMES FRY, TOM MORGAN, MC WYMAN & MORE Cover by GARY FRANK As one Leader falls, another rises! An epic clash between the Hulk, the Leader and the U-Foes is going to end very badly for the Gamma-brained villain. Rick Jones' girlfriend, Marlo, won't fare any better: She dies! But thankfully, that's not the end of her story. As for the Hulk, he's about to get an offer he can't refuse — one that puts him in charge of the Pantheon! He'll have his hands full with the Juggernaut, the Avengers and Doc Samson.480 PGS.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9299-2DUSTIN WEAVER & GERRY DUGGAN (W) • DUSTIN WEAVER (A/C) • It's all-out war for the Infinity Stones with the Bakian family at the center of it. • The fate of Battleworld hangs in the balance, but so does the fate of one family that has been torn apart.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESNEW PRINTING! Written by PAUL JENKINS Penciled by JAE LEE Cover by JAE LEE The Inhumans are one of Marvel's most enduring oddities. A race of genetic anomalies secluded on their island kingdom of Attilan, their mutations are self-inflicted; as a coming-of-age ritual, each Inhuman exposes themselves to the Terrigen Mists that impart unearthly powers — some extraordinary, some monstrous. But now, Attilan is under attack from without and within. Can the Royal Family, led by the mute Black Bolt, repel the foreign invaders who assail their outer defenses, as well as the internal threat of Black Bolt's insane brother, Maximus the Mad? Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee infuse one of Marvel's oldest families with a modern sensibility — including international politics, class dissension and the age-old struggle of growing up. Dark and grimly compelling, it remains one of Marvel Knights' most beloved stories. Collecting INHUMANS (1998) #1-12.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9749-2CHARLES SOULE (w) • JOHN TIMMS (a) Cover by DAVID JOHNSON DESIGN VARIANT COVER BY DAVE JOHNSON MANGA ARTIST VARIANT COVER BY TBA • Black Bolt undergoes the same interrogation that killed a Ghost Rider in #1. Can he survive? • The Resistance makes its big push against Medusa's royal rule! 32 PGS.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESDAN ABNETT (W) • OTTO SCHMIDT (A/C) VARIANT COVER BY TBA • A dark and potentially catastrophic madness haunts the domain of The Forest Hills, and has caused an unthinkable tragedy. Lord Michael Korvac, governor of the domain, has commanded his loyal Guardians to neutralize the threat as fast as possible, as a crucial peace summit with Korvac's rival, the Wonder Man Simon Williams, is at risk. But can even the powerful Starhawk locate the source of the problem? And if he can, can he SURVIVE it.32 PGS.99Written by KAARE ANDREWS Penciled by KAARE ANDREWS Cover by KAARE ANDREWS THE WOLVES ARE AT THE DOOR! Danny Rand's climb to redemption brings him to the one person he is most unprepared to face. Are Danny's recuperating fists able to save him from the demons of his past? And see what happens when Brenda and Detective Li get closer to the sinister truth behind the revamped Rand Tower. Collecting IRON FIST: THE LIVING WEAPON #7-12.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-5436-5Written by MARCUS MCLAURIN Penciled by DWAYNE TURNER, RURIK TYLER, GORDON PURCELL & SAL VELLUTO Cover by DWAYNE TURNER Power Man no more! Harlem's favorite son is ripping up the silk shirt and getting back in the game as Luke Cage, Hero for Hire — and he's working overtime! With Chicago as his new home, it's no surprise Luke soon has his hands full with the Untouchables! And that puts him square in the Punisher's sights. Bullets are one thing for a guy with steel-hard skin, but he'll need a power upgrade before locking horns with the Rhino and butting heads with the Hulk! It's far from a sweet Christmas when a new foe strikes — one with ties to one of his greatest enemies! With his family's lives at stake, Luke sure is a friend in need. Good thing Iron Fist is his friend indeed! Collecting CAGE (1992) #1-12 and material from MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #82.320 PGS.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9298-5Written by MARGUERITE BENNETT Penciled by ALEX SANCHEZ Cover by STEPHANIE HANS Acclaimed author James Patterson's New York Times-bestselling series gets a mighty Marvel makeover! Follow the high-flying adventures of Max and her extraordinary “flock” — Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel — as they try to escape their creators and defend themselves from the diabolical Erasers. Along the way Max discovers her purpose: saving the world! But can she? And where is that mysterious voice in Max's head coming from? As the Flock find themselves in New York City with the Erasers close on their heels, their past may catch up with their future — and destroy it! Max and the Flock get closer to uncovering their past, but is it all just a game of entrapment? And when they finally find the answers they've been searching for, are some secrets better left unlearned? Collecting MAX RIDE: FIRST FLIGHT #1-5.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9742-3 Trim size: oversizedWritten by LEN WEIN with ARCHIE GOODWIN, BILL MANTLO & MARV WOLFMAN Penciled by ROSS ANDRU with DON PERLIN Cover by ROSS ANDRU J. Jonah Jameson has Peter Parker pegged as Spider-Man. Doctor Faustus is set to drive our hero insane. The Molten Man is back. The Punisher is back in town. And that's just the warmup for the return of the Green Goblin in the conclusion of Len Wein's celebrated AMAZING SPIDER-MAN run! When the Goblin strikes, all bets are off. $75 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9186-5 Trim size: Masterworks HCCHRIS YOST (w) AMILCAR PINNA (a) Cover by DAVID LAFUENTE • Entangled in a plot that extends far beyond the borders of Killville, can M. hope to save the life of the Thor he loves and ensure the continued existence of his beloved murder paradise? 32 PGS.99SIMON SPURRIER (w) • KEV WALKER (a) COVER BY KEN LASHLEY VARIANT COVER BY TBA • Stalked across the zombie-ridden Deadlands by a merciless hunter, Elsa Bloodstone is determined to fight her way out and save the life of a child who relies on her for survival. • But Elsa is about to learn that the child is not who (or what! ) she originally claimed to be .99 *SECRET WARS SERIESAdapted by JOE CARAMAGNA Featuring screen-capture images from MARVEL'S AVENGERS ASSEMBLE SEASON TWO Explosive action featuring your favorite heroes, based on the hit animated series now airing on Disney XD! • Hulk and Hawkeye are trapped in a televised death match by the malevolent Mojo! Can they survive killer robot Torgo's onslaught long enough to escape? • Tony Stark begins aging backwards when the Time Stone affects his Arc Reactor! Can Iron Man stop time's reverse flow — while facing dinosaurs and other temporal terrors? • Tired of with his son's dealing with mortals, Odin orders Thor back to Asgard. Thor must prove to his father that he does good on Earth — or return home forever! • M. uses an Infinity Gem to cause the Avengers to swap minds. Earth's Mightiest Heroes must scramble in their new bodies to liberate S. User: What are the missing words: Collecting MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE SEASON TWO #5-8. All Ages .99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9359-3 Trim size: digestAdapted by Joe Caramagna • The Reality Stone flips the world on its head, as our heroes become villains! • How will the Dark Avengers fare [words 1] Surpeme? ! 32 PGS.99WILLIAM HADEN JR. BLACKMAN (w) DALIBOR TALAJIC (a) Cover by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA THE KUNG FU SAGA CONCLUDES! • Shang-Chi continues battling through the Thirteen Chambers to face his father, the immortal Emperor Zu! • But first, he must defeat his rivals, Rand-K'ai, Great Master of the Iron Fist, and Red Sai, deadly leader of the Red Hand! 32 PGS.99Adapted by Joe Caramagna • Spider-Man must team up with Norman Osborn, now piloting the Iron Patriot Armor! • Can Spidey trust a man who swears he's put his villainous past behind him? ! 32 PGS.99G. WILLOW WILSON (w) ADRIAN ALPHONA (a) COVER BY KRIS [words 2] BY TBA • Between teaming up with her personal hero to rescue her brother and trying to keep her city from falling into an all-out frenzy, Kamala has barely had [words 3] come to terms with the fact that the world is literally collapsing around her.99NEW PRINTING! Written by [words 4] ELLIS Penciled by STUART IMMONEN Cover by STUART IMMONEN RRRAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH! ! ! Action! Excitement! Explosions! The Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, or H. (a subsidiary of the Beyond Corporation©) put NEXTWAVE together to fight Bizarre Weapons of Mass Destruction. When NEXTWAVE discovers that H. and Beyond© are terrorist cells themselves, and that the BWMDs were intended to kill them, they are less than pleased. In fact, they are rather angry. So they make things explode. Starring Monica Rambeau (formerly Captain Marvel and Photon), Aaron Stack (Machine Man), Tabitha Smith (X-Force's Meltdown), monster-hunter Elsa Bloodstone and The Captain! If you like anything, you will LOVE NEXTWAVE! BOOM! Included on the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for 2007 by the Youth Adult Library Services Association, Nextwave is a pure extraction of comic-book action and adventure, with plenty of kicks, punches and explosions along the way! Collecting NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H. #1-12.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9839-0BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w) • ANDREA SORRENTINO (a/C) MANGA ARTIST VARIANT COVER BY TBA • As the mysteries of Battleworld begin to unravel, Logan finds himself in a world eerily similar to the one he himself helped dismantle. • But in trying to untangle the web of secrets, he [words 5] not even be able to trust his own memories. • And this new neighborhood may not be as friendly as he thought .99 *SECRET WARS SERIESJOSHUA WILLIAMSON (w) LUCA PIZZARI (a) Cover by RILEY ROSSMO • Under attack by the horrors of the Deadlands, the villains learn that only way to survive is to [words 6] souls to the Devil . • Magneto has always hated everything about the Red Skull, but would he betray that to gain his freedom? • Rising stars Joshua Williamson and Luca Pizzari continue their tale of bloody revenge across all of Battleworld! 32 PGS.99Written by SKOTTIE YOUNG Penciled by SKOTTIE YOUNG & JAKE PARKER Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG Rocket Raccoon is the last of his kind: a hero to the weak, a champion of good, a swashbuckling pioneer of valor (and guns). But his life of adventure may end abruptly when he's framed for murder — and the authorities aren't the only ones on his tail! (Get it? ) There's another “Rocket Raccoon” out there, but the universe just ain't big enough! The lookalike killer is one step ahead of Rocket; now, it's up to our hero and his best pal, Groot, to find the truth! With Macho Gomez and the Ex-Terminators tracking [words 7] it out alive and clear his name? Superstar creator Skottie Young delivers the series we've been waiting decades for. Because really, Rocket and Groot are the only Guardians of the Galaxy you actually care about, right? Collecting ROCKET RACCOON (2014) #1-6.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-9045-5NOELLE STEVENSON (w) [words 8] With the Winter Soldier hot on their tail, the Runaways flee to the Wild West of the 1872 domain! • Plus, Jubilee is in for the shock of her life! • And Molly gets a cowboy hat! (You guys, are we still saying “adorbs”? ) 32 PGS.99 *SECRET WARS SERIESMARK WAID, AL EWING, STAN LEE (W) LEE FERGUSON, JACK KIRBY [words 9] TOTINO TEDESCO HOWLING COMMANDOS VARIANT BY ART ADAMS Variant cover by JACK KIRBY & JIM STERANKO BLACK & WHITE VARIANT BY JACK KIRBY JIM STERANKO THE MAN CALLED D. Oversized Anniversary Issue! Waid! Ferguson! Kirby! Steranko! • A commemorative 50th Anniversary story that spans the past and the present, and unites Phil Coulson and Nick Fury, Sr. in a unique cross-time adventure to answer a riddle that lies at the heart of the origins [words 10] The Man Called D. Includes a sequence penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Jim Steranko that has never seen print as part of a story before! • Plus: The return of Dum Dum Dugan and the [words 11] Howling Commandos! The very first SHIELD story from 1965! 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Input: Generate more: The 2012 Parks Bond will focus on renovating and improving parks to respond to our neighborhoods' and users' needs. The Bond will specifically enhance natural features at Lake Merced. $2 million has been allocated from the 2012 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond for the Lake Merced Project, as well as a $1M California Natural Resources Agency Grant secured by California Assemblymember Phil Ting. A community meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 6pm in the Lake Merced Boat House. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the scope of improvements proposed for the recreational spaces around Lake Merced, made possible through a combination of California Natural Resources Agency General . Continue reading →We had great turn-out for the second Lake Merced Improvement Project community meeting on 1/12/17. Thank you to everyone for your constructive feedback and support for the project. Among the potential scope elements we discussed were improvements to the perimeter path and fitness equipment, environmental and erosion control issues, and . Continue reading →The Recreation & Park Department is pleased to announce the LAKE MERCED IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, funded by the 2012 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond. PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE SECOND COMMUNITY MEETING! . Continue reading →Thank you to the approximately 20 community members who attended the first Lake Merced Improvement Project meeting on 11/3/2016. We received lots of good/productive feedback on a variety of programs at the lake, including trail improvements, boating, pedestrian/bike safety, water recreation, and more. Lake Merced is clearly well loved! As . Continue reading →What these exercises are to get you to realize is Inspiration doesn't just happen, its created. There is nothing magical about inspiration, you have to engage with the world for it to happen. Friday Sept 17 - I was DJing at the After Sunset concert at LMU. Early on, there weren't a ton of people there, so I wasn't trying to play as intense of a set as I normally would. This also gave me more time to look around and notice what was going on with this exercise in mind. The thing I thought was the most funny was the oxygen bar in the back right corner. It's not like I haven't heard of one before, but actually seeing people. First off, it looked like a group of 25 people all hooked up to IVs in the hospital since the way it's breathed in is through nasal tubes. Second, everyone is just standing there breathing and looking around all bewildered like they're expecting some crazy high to hit them. I decided to try it for a bit later on just to see what the hype was all about. Saturday Sept 18 - Once again, I was DJing, but this time it was at a pool party on the rooftop of the Standard Downtown. This was the last pool party of the summer for the company that put it on for the past couple months, and the day before the party, they decided to add a special guest headliner. It was this girl named Chanel who is the secretary on Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory (show on MTV). Now, I'm not going to go on and complain about how ridiculous it was that a blonde diva from Hollywood got to headline a show because she thinks she wants to be the next Weezy, but what I did have a wild time observing was the type of crowd that came to the party because her name was on ... Output: Completed pargraph(s): the bill. I love people watching, and the pool parties (or any club in downtown or Hollywood) has the best assortment of hipsters and scenesters ever. My favorite on this particular day, though, was a black dude wearing all blank white clothes, some throwback hi-top Nike boots, sunglasses from 2040, and a chain connected to a toy plane about the size of a grapefruit hanging off his neck. Whaaaat? I wish I would have asked him why he was wearing a plane, but I don't even know if he would have had an answer for that. Just another day in the Hollywood life. On my walk from my car to my work-study job on campus today, I collected some objects that I passed by. There weren't very many unnatural things around which made me realize how friggin well kept LMU's campus is. I found some listing tear-out tabs, an awesome LA Weekly cover featuring JD Samson of Le Tigre on her new band MEN (see my inspiration forum). The most interesting part of my exploration, however was that out of all the artifical objects that I found on my way that were actually out of place (i. litter), three were candy wrappers. One was a Rice Krispy Treat, one was a Peanut M&M's bag, and the last one was a Milano cookie wrapper. So in the spirit of the coincidence, I have decided to start a candy wrapper collection for Exercise 5. I finally just brought down my favorite toy collection from when I was a little kid. My mom never threw them out, and I'm really glad she didn't because ever since I've added them to my room down here at school it's made me feel a little more at home. The toys I'm referring to are these action figures that I used to collect called "Gundams" from this Japanese Anime cartoon that I always used to love called "Gundam Wing". Everyone always says, "I like your transformers" when they see them. I appreciate the compliments, but transformers were boy-scouts compared to these puppies. PS - I forgot to mention that I still have all my old Pokemon cards. Every one except for Alakazam. Anyone wanna trade? haha. So for exploration #7, I did something a bit different. I filled out a 4 x 6 grid of rectangles on illustrator, and then had my girlfriend sit down and randomly fill each one with a different color that she liked. I then came back to it and wrote the first thing that each one made me think about. I picked a robot toy that I found at my job. He sits next to a Santa stuffed animal, a snowman stuffed animal, and a toy skull. He looks like a toy out of a happy meal from some fast food resturaunt. I like it, but the whole brain in a robotic body thing isn't as cool as that bad guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The orange button on the front pumps air into the helmet so his head spins around. I wonder how he grew eyes and a mouth on his brain in the first place. The water's only filled halfway up the helmet now. I wonder if it was always like that, or its just so old that half of the water somehow evaporated. He has a whole bunch of tubes on the back of his helmet that connect to a backpack on his body. There are screws on the back of his shoulders. Input: More words: I could probably take him apart if I unscrewed them. Looks like he has a voicebox ... button. His suit is bolted right down the middle of ... he obviously doesn't need to go to the bathroom anymore. The bottom soles of his feet ... red. Looks like they may have been painted by someone. ... right foot it says "MFG For McD Corp. And under his left foot it says, "Copyright 2003 Toy Quest". I guess it was a ... in China. I decided to keep a couple ... collected in project 4, and explore the differences in them. I love graffitti, and although it's often almost impossible to ... would still consider it lettering just like anything else. I was out in Venice with my buddy Raul the other day, and we took a ... some of the stuff I really liked. The air conditioner, my typing, my coughing, ... voices, bass from a room down the hall, the elevator gears shutting on and off periodically, thuds from above, the creaking of my chair, the sound ... of metal vibrating in the air conditionerThere are all the usuals including 409, Cascade, dishwashing soap, sponges, rubber gloves, kitchen bags, and of course a trash can. There is also a box of ... is unusual to me. All the piping from the sink runs down below. There is a really wide plastic black cylinder ... that grinds all the food in the sink. From there, a gold pipe runs horizontally to a silver vertical one that then continues all the way to ... cupboard. There's all this glue at the back where the pipe runs into the wall that looks like melted ... together. I am going to take the next ... nonstop about all the random thoughts that are going through my head. Honestly, this was the best way ... completing this exercise. I have way too many thoughts ... to document all of those so something like ... works alot better. I've done this kind of an exercise before and I ... it's weird to just write of ... consciousness. My girlfriend is watching Family Guy, but she just changed it to CSI. I ... like every time I see part of a CSI episode, it's always a scene where they find some fingerprints on various objects. ... golf club. Where is my mind? I'm completely wiped from the week. I'm shooting my thesis film on Friday, so ... thoughts right now. It's my birthday on Thursday. It's like the first birthday that doesn't really matter. I got ... today. My favorite one that I ... that I haven't even heard of before. Searched the name on Google too and couldn't even find him/her/them? There's ... on TV right now about this robot that says different things to you based on what cards you choose to slide into his stomach. Its for younger kids, but ... this kid that looks like he's definitely over 13 in it. That doesn't seem right. Type is all from 1 location. Where ... diversity. Type is all around when you pay attention ... see. I really really liked this ... I wanted to uncover his "mystery". What do these pieces mean? ... of his art? What I found out was ... actually a team of five guys that made these pieces. They go by ... is what they have to say about themselves:"Team Macho is a collaborative illustration and fine art effort composed of Lauchie Reid, Chris Buchan, Nicholas Aoki, Jacob Whibley, and Stephen Appleby-Barr. They currently occupy a large studio in Toronto, Canada where their joint efforts ... clients and preparing gross quantities of highly ... artwork for galleries in Canada and abroad. "After my findings, I decided that I ... same type of thing. I am going to start an art piece, and then hand it off to my friends who are also ... a collaborative piece that contains ideas from a number of different creative minds. I'll post it up on the inspiration forum once it's done. Water comes in every shape ... be found at the lowest parts of the earth, as well ... highest. This is my exploration of the wide variety ... experience it in its different forms. I'm sitting ... Den. One thing I instantly notice is ... wide a variety of students there are. I see a big ... seniors hanging out in the corner ... freshmen studying right next to them. Directly in front of me is an LMU waterpolo player on the phone with his buddy. He's on his computer, and from the conversation, it ... his buddy answer his homework questions for him. ... history. A girl from my acting class is sitting ... room. She sticks out with her hot pink macbook case, and her pink jacket. A guy flirting with a girl ... bar. She's got a Buzz Lightyear backpack. no wonder! It's making me ... how genius Apple is. It's a pretty sleek design. Very ... simple. One circular dial with a big circle button in the ... a screen, and a couple of holes for sound and ... entire list of features. I was imagining this exercise as an exploration of what ... be like to experience the world as ... were blind. I was thinking that (once they got past the actual uploading of the music) it ... blind person to use an iPod with ease. I had both my roommate and my friend participate in this touch exercise. Surprisingly, they both missed the rice ... gum wrapper, but pretty much got everything else. My roommate thought the rice were Nerds and thought the wrapper ... receipt. My other friend had no idea what the ... and he said the gum wrapper was just a piece of paper. I guess he's kinda right. I mean I don't know how they would pick up ... at it anyway. Other than that, they did really well at guessing everything, I was impressed. This ... Costa Rica last Christmas. My grandparents took us on a cruise over ... break through the Panama canal and other surrounding countries, and Costa Rica was one of the stops. We obviously spent alot of time shopping while on the cruise (who doesn't), but out of what seemed like a ... the different ports we stopped at, I never really found anything that I really liked. This mask was one of the only things that I ended up buying. I think ... and it kind of represents my personality pretty well. Even though ... think it works really well for this exploration. Lemme ... you guys like it! Got these at a Little Boots concert. The picture doesn't do it justice, but when you put them on, the color lines on everything ... everywhere. There is nothing more magical than adding these to your get up at any concert you ... to. This is our Buddha, the biggest and jolliest out of the ... apartment. He is the guardian of the kitchen. Perched on top ... biggest task is to guard the alcohol from thieves, especially ... to get drunk when my roommate or ... around. In return for the favor, while we're away he enjoys ... Mr. That's why he's always so enlightened and jolly. ... though, and he gives our kitchen good luck, so we keep him around. Drunken Guardian Buddha. I don't have these in my house, but I wish I did. All the trash ... gross and I really don't want to touch it. These make trash look pretty glamorous though. I'm currently sitting in my room at my desk. ... is practicing his DJing on my decks. I'm supposed to ... measuring time by sitting right where I am. I'm going to ... by the songs he plays. Right now it's 21 Questions o'clock. And now for some reason ... un-italic. So I guess I'll also ... amount that it takes until this text becomes normal again. I don't really know what else to say, and I don't think these italics are ... stop. Ooh, it's California Love o'clock now. Wuddup Pac? The ... I decided to go out on ... this exploration. I added some chicken and egg into the mix. First I poured the rice in with ... butter. I sauteed until the rice was brown. At the same time, I defrosted a frozen chicken breast. ... I added 2 cups of water and the special seasoning. I then took the defrosted chicken and cut it into thin, bite-size pieces. I poured the chicken into the mix as well, and let it all get to boiling. Once ... I covered the pot and turned the heat to low to let ... the water. I got two eggs and mixed ... were blended pretty evenly. After about 15 minutes, I uncovered the pot, poured the eggs over the mix, and mixed it all up. I cooked it a little longer on medium heat to ... in, and then it was done. I shared it with my ... it all before I even read this exploration. Hence, the lack of picture. I have a pair ... BlueBlockers. If you don't already know, they are these special orange colored sunglasses that change ... when you wear them. They don't really "Block Blue" but they do make it a little less intense so that the sky ... harsh on the eyes. The best part about them though, is that they add a vibrant tone to everything else, and make the world look so much more saturated and pretty. Greens are way greener too. So whenever I drive past a park, I always end up wondering ... well that the trees and grass ... green. Then I take off my magic shades, and I realize that I'm seeing a bit of an altered reality. I found a magazine in the trash, and cut out my two favorite pictures from it. They ... together. Went to Ralphs on Lincoln to buy some bread. For the exercise, I decided to write down every beer they carried, and mark which ones I've had. For this ... experience, I decided to keep my ... as possible. Its really weird, don't know how I thought of it, but it's made me realize a bunch of things. First, we produce a ton of saliva, and when mouth is dry it produces even faster. I've been having to swallow like every 30 seconds now since I started this. Second, ... when we keep it open. My lips were the first to dry ... then my cheeks, now my tongues getting there, but I'm gonna stop before this gets uncomfortable. So I guess the last discovery is that I can do it successfully for about 7 minutes. Kyle's room reminds me of a place where work and play collide into one sufficient space. Located in the center of his room a Portuguese flag hangs from the ceiling over the bottom of the bed. Posters of various different arts collide to provide a fine eye candy if you are to sit in the room for a long enough time to gander at them. From monopoly themed shoes to vintage spiderman posters show the amount of influence that go into his daily life. A large closet on one side of the room seems to hold anything from soccer balls to dj equipment and his whole clothing collection. There also is a desk that has his computer, printer, and studio reference monitors where i assume he spends the majority of his time at home. Overall a very cozy vibe that has been instilled into this not so fancy apartment. I went to the library earlier to gather some materials for this exploration, and I found something even better. I was looking in the art section of the main stacks with all these fat art books, and in one of the books I had grabbed form the shelf, I found these sketches! Thought they were absolutely radical. · As I read the exploration, I leaned over my desk with my right arm and rested my head on my palm. Scratched my head while I read and thought. · I've heard it from other people, but I always look at my fingers because they're pretty abnormally long. · Whenever I watch tv for a long time, I find myself looking way up just to see the screen because my face is angled so far down. I don't know why I do this, and apparently I have perfect vision, so I'm not sure what it means. · It's very very rare that I ever wake up in the morning without pressing my snooze button at least twice· I would venture to say that about 75% of the time when I drive, I do it with my right hand at the top of the wheel, while sitting back and leaning on my left against the driver side door. I guess I'm not the safest driver on the block. Around campus there are many different smells that make themselves quite distinct. Outside the film school it still smells a bit like flowers from all the rose bushes that line the walkway up to the building. As one approaches the fountains, a faint smell of chlorine, mixed with coffee (from the coffee stand next to it). Inside foley, it smells like old building. Once you arrive in the Lair, the big smell is Quiznos, and as you move in between stations, the various other food smells join in. Yesterday morning, I woke up to 103.5 playing Christmas music. The first thing I heard as I awoke, was the radio DJ talking about when Bing Crosby and David Bowie got together to sing The Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth collab back in the day. I was really tired so it took me awhile to get up. I put on my gym clothes because I had told myself the day before that I would go to the gym that day. I got to work at TV Engineering a little bit after 9, so I was late, but my boss wasn't even there yet so I was safe. My card to open it didn't work, so I had to wait until another guy could let me in. At work I did a huge post on Shifty about the event that I DJ every tuesday night, along with some new music that I put up for download. I made sure to post it all over social media platforms, and by the time I was done with all of that, it was 1pm and time for me to go. I went to the lair and bought a chicken salandwich, an odwalla, and some gummiworms. I had acting class after that, at 2, and didn't do anything the entire class because my scene partner was already gone for thanksgiving break. After class, I went home because I was too lazy to go straight to the gym. I worked on my new DJ mix for a bit, and then forced myself to get back to school and do my thing. I went back, went to the gym, and then hit the editing room in the film school to start work on my new music video that I just shot. I edited that for 5 or so hours, and then went over to my friend, Mo's house, because she was having a pre-break party. I hung out there with all my friends for a bit, then drove some peeps home, late night, then went home myself. I brushed my teeth, and passed out. So I traced the outlines of some stains I found around the apartment and then cut them out on different colored pieces of paper, and arranged them in a collage, like the exercise said. made a cool face I guess. The other day I went to Costco to get food with a buddy. When we were waiting in line to order, I decided that I was going to talk to the person in a New York accent and see what happened. When it came my turn, I put on my best accent and said "Can I get a dog? ". The cashier looked at me all taken aback, and said "I'm sorry? ". The lady said, "OH a dog! ", and went to go get it. Now I know how it feels to be from the Eastcoast and misunderstood. A general view of works on display at Art Public during Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 on December 8, 2012 in Miami Beach, FloridaHotels, building terraces, restaurant entryways and even Biscayne Bay itself will be transformed this week as Art Basel Miami Beach comes ashore with one of its most eccentric contemporary shows yet. Artists, dealers, collectors and art aficionados from around the world are converging on Miami for the December 5-8 fair, one of the biggest of the season. This will be the 12th year that the Swiss art franchise has shown its wares in Miami Beach, transforming the beach resort into a cultural capital for a week. "We have passed the first decade of a cultural movement, winning renown in the country and the world," Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado told AFP. On Wednesday, he inaugurated the Perez Art Museum, a lavish new venue in the center of the city designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. Art Basel's presence since 2002 in Miami Beach, a separate municipality with its own mayor, "contributed to developing other areas of Miami that today are modern cultural capitals," the Cuban-born mayor said. "In terms of tourism, hotel occupancy, art transactions, this week will bring in some $200 million to Miami. "Art Basel director Marc Spiegler, who opened the event with a preview for special guests at the Miami Beach Convention Center, said the fair was there to stay, even though the venue is set to undergo a three-year renovation. But considering a Basel fair outside Florida "was an extremist scenario because what we've built in Miami Beach is so strong," Spiegler added. This year's fair will feature sculptures, painting and installations of 258 galleries from 31 countries. During the event, art literally takes over the city's public spaces. Giant colored bears adorn the sidewalk of the Brickell financial district, while four huge bulldogs by Belgian artist William Sweetlove stand proudly on a rooftop terrace of the Miami Children's Museum. Graffiti covers the up-and-coming Wynwood neighborhood, central Miami has murals, furniture stores exhibit works by local artists and a huge alligator head made from reclaimed metal floats across the water. For small gallery owners, "this is the week where the work of a whole year is in play, and the most important thing is to bring together that mass of experts and buyers from Europe and cities like New York," said local collector Veronica Induchaga. The galleries' main goal is to connect rich collectors with new art forms and living artists who already have an international reputation. "Many of us have learned to appreciate contemporary art and artists who will have a lot to say later on," said a Mexican collector who did not want to give her name, as she examined a $20,000 sculpture with a curator in a showroom. 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<user>: how to fill in the missing spans: South Africans lined up in Johannesburg for up to eight hours to cast their ballots in the April 22 national elections. The ruling ANC did not maintain its two-thirds majority in the parliament with Jacob Zuma as the new president-elect. We have come to the end of a vibrant election campaign. The huge voter turnout has indicated the value attached by our people to the right to vote and to the constitutional and democratic way to change or renew a government's mandate. We are very grateful and humbled by the decisive mandate we have received from [spans 1] Africans. They were attracted by our policies and the delivery of services [spans 2] 1912. We do not take the mandate lightly. We know the responsibility that comes with it. We also thank our people who voted for the ANC for the first time in this election. We assure you that your vote was not misplaced. We thank ANC cadres, supporters and volunteers for their excellent work across the length and breadth of our country. This is your victory. To those South Africans who did not vote for the ANC, we will form a government that takes care of your needs to the best of our ability. Working together we will make it a government for all South Africans. The new President of the Republic will be a President for all, and he will work to unite the country around a programme of action that will see an improvement in the delivery of services. He [spans 3] country. Now that the election is over, we must enter a new era of hope and progress. We must enter a period where we bury mistrust, uncertainty, pain and tension, and begin a new chapter of harmony and collaboration. We cannot afford to dwell on the negatives. We must enter a period in which South Africa reclaims its position [spans 4] interests. We thank women, youth, black professionals, minority groups, workers, artists and entertainers, traditional leaders, religious leaders and many sectors and individuals who made inputs into this Manifesto. We have scored a victory for a better education system, better health care, safer and secure communities, and rural development. We will make our country one that creates an enabling environment for women to develop, thrive and be successful. We remain committed to every word we uttered during the election campaign. We were serious when we said we would [spans 5] non-performance. We were serious when we said we want [spans 6] citizens. We will not be a government that is out of touch with its people. We will work with all parties in Parliament to deepen the oversight role of Parliament. We will work with all parties. We will need to do more to elevate our national days, such as the forthcoming Freedom [spans 7] building. We intend to work with all parties and sectors to promote our sports development, starting with the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup. We must work tirelessly together to make the Confederations Cup in June and the World Cup next year phenomenal successes. We will work with the African Union and SADC, as well as with other regional blocs, to promote sustainable development, peace and security. We will continue with efforts to find lasting solutions in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Western Sahara, Somalia and other flashpoints. We will strengthen our participation in multilateral institutions, including the United Nations. We will further deepen our relationship with the developed North as well as our role in the South-South dialogue programmes. As we prepare for the transition into a new administration, our message to South Africans is that we will remain true to our undertaking to build a caring, inclusive, listening and responsive government. South Africa needs a government [spans 8] years. The ANC, working together with all our people, will form such a government. Working together, we will do much more to build a better life for all our people. The twenty-seventh of April is the day on which for the first time all South Africans exercised their democratic right to cast their votes for the party of their choice. On this special day we celebrate the continuing hope and resilience of our people, working together to achieve the vision in our Constitution. Fifteen years ago, South Africans queued in every part of our villages, townships and cities - proud to make history through putting their mark on a ballot paper, an act that would bring us freedom from more than 300 years of colonialism and segregation and more than 40 years of apartheid. This nation has indeed trudged a very long way from an embittered and divided past to a society based on equality, dignity and respect for human rights. Our Constitutional order has proved itself to be not only rugged and enduring but impregnable too. April 27 1994, marked the unity of our people and a beginning of a long journey from our divided past. Much has been achieved since that epoch-marking day in the evolution of our nation's history. The democratic government is also amply aware that despite all the gains made during the 15 years of democracy, much more still needs to be done to roll back the apartheid legacy, and especially, push back the frontiers of poverty. In much the same way our nation has to work harder to consolidate participatory democracy in our country in ways that requires much more than just trooping to the polling stations to cast votes at the end of every five years. As South Africans we need to embrace the reality that only collective efforts from all sections of society can enable us to deal with our unique challenges in a way that yields positive results. Our history is etched with the footprints of those who planted the seeds of freedom, of those who laid the foundations for equality. It is our generation that has succeeded in giving the dream of freedom a concrete reality. Apartheid sought to and succeeded in depriving [spans 9] living. This historical reality has been the driver behind government's efforts at reversing the legacy of apartheid and creating a better society. Today the battle takes place in the realm of ideas - as we proceed to improve the conditions of life for all citizens of our country. Today we exercise the right to freedom of speech and movement. We are also free to congregate and to gather together and to dance in celebration of our diversity and of our unity. Today the battle is the fight to end poverty and to work towards sustainable development. Today our struggle is and must be a social contract between the government and the people to improve health care, to achieve universal access to education, to expedite the delivery of housing, to strengthen the provision of free basic sanitation, electricity and clean water and to create decent work. Today we need to unite in a common cause of fighting vestiges of racism and inequality. South Africa will continue to take the lead to demonstrate to ourselves and the world that we can build a society which is truly non-racial, non-sexist and democratic. Perhaps beyond the symbolic force of April 27 is the underlying imperative of reanimating the dream of building a thriving society free from all forms of oppression. Central to this vision has been and remains [spans 10] growth. This vision, holds out the prospects of a prosperous South Africa defined by the bonds of a common destiny as we work together to do more to reach our goals. Today the battle is about striving to close the gap between rich and poor, to provide the necessary skills to all our youth, to provide all our people with productive lives in service of national and continental economic development and in pursuit of a golden Age for Africa and the developing world. The attainment of prosperity in South Africa depends on our continuing to act in ways that are true [spans 11] life. It is the selfless actions of men and women that will continue to give this nation its lifeblood. A generation of youth sacrificed their lives knowing that they did not have the right to grow up and grow old and to live long and productive lives. Let us remember them and be thankful for their sacrifices, heroism and selflessness, which [spans 12] freedom. In celebrating April 27 we fully honour the commendable heroism and sacrifice over years of the struggle to win our freedom, with the solidarity of people from across the globe. In honouring the memory of these great South Africans let us recommit ourselves to continue with the struggle for the improvement of the lives of all our people, irrespective of race, gender or station in life. These individual and collective acts, by each and [spans 13] land. On Freedom Day government reaffirms its commitment to consolidate democracy and create a South Africa united in diversity. Warriors have died for us. Youth have given their lives for us. Generations have fought for this precious and treasured fifteen years of freedom. Freedom is a lived reality. Let us all work together to improve the quality of life for all so that the fullness of freedom becomes our lived reality as a united and prosperous people. Kgalema Motlanthe is ANC Deputy President. This is an edited extract of an address at the Freedom Day celebrations in Durban on 27 April 2009. The Congress of SA Trade Unions will mark Workers' Day on May 1 with 36 rallies around the country, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Wednesday. mobilising for our own interests. We want decent work, more jobs. We are also mobilising for the commitment, made to restructure the economy, to be realised. "president Sidumo Dlamini, ANC president Jacob Zuma and SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande - would be held at Mdantsane, East London. "We want [spans 14] effectively. We want to see fresh blood, unity, continuity and loyalty to the Polokwane (ANC conference held in December 2007) resolutions. "between it and the ANC on the formation of the new government were going, and [spans 15] labour. "We want the ANC government to implement the commitments made to the poor and working class," Vavi said. "We are also calling on government to declare a no-trading day on April 27, May 1, June 16 and August 9. I know some workers would be working on Friday (Workers' Day) at retailers like Checkers, Spar and Pick 'n Pay. "Vavi said the trade union would also like to see "nothing less" than a two percent drop in inflation. Go to any of the four major banks in South Africa, they will show how many houses and cars that were repossessed because of that," he said. President Kgalema Motlanthe is set to address the Cosatu rally at Themba Stadium in Hamanskraal, and Vavi will be speaking at the rally in Durban, along with the ANC's Cyril Ramaphosa and the SACP's Jeremy Cronin. Lynn Nottage is the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Nottage is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. "Ruined" has been extended for six weeks at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. Lynn Nottage was sitting on her couch watching MTV in her bathrobe this week in Brooklyn, N. procrastinating instead of writing, when a reporter called and asked her how it felt to win the Pulitzer Prize. "I was like, 'Excuse me? '" says Ms. Nottage, a playwright who until the phone rang didn't realize she'd won the award for her drama, "Ruined. "Robert CaplinThe play, which explores the lives of rape [spans 16] Ms. Nottage conducted with refugee women during trips to Africa. Nottage, who had once worked in the press office of Amnesty International, visited the human rights group's office in Kampala, Uganda, and women who'd heard about her project came to tell her their stories. "In some cases the women had been walking since dawn," she says. The Pulitzer for drama usually goes to plays that deal with American life, but the Pulitzer board made an [spans 17] hopeful. Last week, the play extended its run to May 17 at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. The 44-year-old playwright, a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, is at work on [spans 18] role. Nottage's research is easier: watching old movies. Nottage, who received a 2007 MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, is the second African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer for drama (Suzan-Lori Parks won in 2002 for "Topdog/Underdog"). "I hope it encourages younger African-American women to write in a very bold and expansive way and not to pander but to challenge," she says. [spans 19] success. In the 1990s, she wrote briefly for the children's TV show "Gullah Gullah Island," but she says a producer told her that she didn't understand the character of Binyah Binyah Polliwog. "That was the very, very beginning," she says, "when I was still trying to find my voice and my confidence as a writer. " - [spans 20] Stage. The play was written by Purlitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. Manhattan Theatre Club will extend its hot-selling production of Lynn Nottage's Ruined an additional six weeks, to June 28, following the play's recent win of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Kate Whoriskey directs the drama about a fierce saloon owner, Mama Nadi, who also rents out women in an effort to control the violence against them in the civil war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. This marks the sixth extension of the Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre co-production, which [spans 21] Street. Nottage is the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel. According to MTC, Ruined is a "haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life? "Tickets for Ruined are available via New York City Center box office, CityTix at (212) 581-1212 and www. Women wearing surgical masks shop in the downtown Los Angeles Fashion District Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)While it's too soon to predict how widespread and deadly this new variation of influenza virus will be, information about the likely origin of the outbreak is starting [spans 22] surface. A huge factory-farm pig operation owned [spans 23] U. corporate giant Smithfield and operated by its Mexican subsidiary, Granjas Carroll de Mexico, may have spawned this new threat to public health. Local residents from the towns of La Gloria and Perote in the Mexican state of Veracruz have been fighting the pork-breeding giant for years. Producing close to a million hogs annually, the company maintains huge lagoons of hog manure as well as open-air dumps for rotting remains of hogs that die before being slaughtered. Fumes from the hog waste foul the air for miles and residents believe that their ground water may have also been contaminated. Swarms of flies [spans 24] towns. It is well known that flies can spread avian flu by carrying material from infected bird droppings from place to place. It is possible that flies feeding on the hog manure may also be in contact with bird droppings and [spans 25] outbreak. According to reports from the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, local residents tried to block the construction of the farm as early as 2005. A year ago, several activists were arrested by Veracruz authorities, who have worked closely with Granjas Carroll to suppress opposition to the huge hog operation. Long before the swine flu outbreak made it into the international news, hundreds of La Gloria residents were complaining of severe respiratory infections, with many developing into pneumonia. Pneumonia is one of the severe complications of influenza infection. private company that monitors health outbreaks around the world for its subscribers, noticed the outbreak in Veracruz over a month ago and called the U. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). With its attention still on alleged—and non-existent—bioterrorism, the CDC ignored these calls for several weeks. The first confirmed case of the new swine flu virus was that of a young boy in La Gloria, who has since recovered. The outbreak has spread to Mexico City and other Mexican areas as well as some cases in New York, California, Texas and other locations in the U. as well as around the world. At this writing at least 1,500 suspected cases in Mexico have resulted in over 150 deaths. While cases in the U. have so far been milder, one or two suspected deaths have already been recorded. Health officials believe that the current strain of virus is a mix of genetic material from viruses that infect hogs and birds as well as humans. For almost a decade, world and U. health officials have focused on so-called avian or bird flu—labeled H5N1—which has spread around the world but has not “jumped” to human populations. Although some people contracted bird flu from close proximity to poultry and water foul, no human-to-human transmission has been reported. This new swine flu is a variation of H1N1, which is much more common in human flu. It's already clear that it is spreading by human-to-human transmission. Because the largest number of cases have come from Mexico, some right-wing commentators on the Fox network have already tried to blame Mexican immigrants for bringing the virus across the border and may use the fear [spans 26] bashing. cases seem to be among tourists from this country or those close to tourists has so far limited the attacks on immigrants. So far, however, relatively little attention in the big business mass media has been given to the Smithfield connection or the fact that similar huge and hazardous plants can [spans 27] elsewhere. An article in Rolling Stone magazine in 2006 estimated that Smithfield alone produced 26 million TONS of animal waste a year—the byproduct of over $11 billion in sales. So-called “free-trade” agreements like NAFTA have enabled corporate giants like Smithfield to set up their hazardous shops in Mexico with little or no regulation and at the expense of the local people. Will the corporate criminals who have profited from this environmental and public health disaster [spans 28] family. The State Supreme Court upheld his conviction on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied his motion [spans 29] 2009. While news channels across the country are consumed with counting up to President Obama's first 100 days in office, Troy Davis has been counting down his last 30 days before a new execution date could be set. Help make these extra days count. On May 19th help save Troy Davis by putting together any activity, event or creative action that calls attention to his case. So now is the time for us to organize to save the life of [spans 30] Davis. We're asking everybody to come out strong on May 19th – a day marked in human rights calendars across the world as the Global Day of Action for Troy Davis. Whether you're holding a "Text TROY to 90999" sign on a busy street or organizing your local Amnesty chapter to hold a public demonstration or vigil, we need everybody to contribute their time on May 19th to make sure that the state of Georgia does not kill a man who may well be innocent. Register your Global Day of Action for Troy Davis activity or event now. We know that time is short for organizing public events, but an execution date could be set as early as late May, so it is essential that action be taken soon. It's also really important that we get an accurate count of how many events and activities are taking place on [spans 31] Georgia. Our emails and phone calls have gone a long way in buying Troy some much-needed time, but now we've got to take our action to the streets. We appreciate the tens of thousands of you who have stood in Troy's corner while heart-stopping scenes have unfolded. On three separate occasions, Troy has been scheduled for execution. And on three separate occasions, his life was saved within a short period of time, even minutes, of his scheduled execution date. Each time, those last minute stays came after people like you turned out by the thousands to rally in his defense. It was no coincidence. Troy's sister and long-time Amnesty activist, Martina [spans 32] times. Now here we are again with [spans 33] down. While we can see little opportunity for legal recourse or second chances, we know that your advocacy has a strong record of making amazing things happen. When we first introduced you to Troy Davis in early 2007, few people outside of Georgia knew about the injustice taking place. In the past two years, countless people have come to see Troy's case as a prime example of why the death penalty must be abolished – the risk of executing someone for a crime they did not commit is just too high. We are serious when we say that we need everyone to support Troy Davis on May 19th by organizing their own event or awareness-raising activity. After all, if you had 30 days left to fight for your life, wouldn't you want to know that you had [spans 34] Somalia. Pirates have attacked the shipping lane where strategic resources are transported daily. (FinalCall.com) - “Far beneath the surface of the tragic drama of Somalia, four major U. oil companies are quietly sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions to explore and exploit tens of millions of [spans 35] . According to documents obtained by The Times, nearly two-thirds of Somalia was allocated to the American oil giants Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips in the final years before Somalia's pro-U. President Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown and the nation plunged into chaos in January, 1991.”These words taken from a Los Angeles Times article written January 18, 1993, by Mark Fineman, not only do much to expose the reason for the U. led attack and failure in Mogadishu, Somalia on October 3, 1993 (known sentimentally as Blackhawk Down or militarily as Operation Gothic Serpent), but it also gives rise to the speculation about today's so-called “Somali sea pirates.” The pirates are now presented as a world threat or, at least, a threat to the United States of America. All such threats must eventually be met by an ominous defensive response from the most powerful military in the world. Somali President Siad Barre, who had been supported by the Soviet Union until he attempted to unite [spans 36] 1989. He was ousted by General Mohammed Farah Aidid in 1991. Both the Soviet Union (at that time) and the United States had realized then, as now, the geostrategic importance of Somalia on the Western shore and Yemen on the Middle East side of the mouth of the Red Sea. During the presidency of George H. Bush, two UN labeled moves, Operation Provide Relief in August, 1992 and Operation Restore Hope, in December, 1992 in accordance with UN Resolution 794 were initiated as so-called humanitarian relief efforts which required the presence of foreign troops to keep the peace. This is the premise which landed the U. Marine Corps with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit I in Mogadishu. With the help of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, the U. troops secured almost a third of the city, including the valuable port and airport facilities which allegedly helped humanitarian supplies be airlifted. The locations also facilitated U. troop activity in Somalia and carving out a safe haven for millions invested and billions projected to be made from undelivered oil contracts. It was President Bill Clinton, husband of Hillary Clinton, now Secretary of State, who ordered the October 3, 1993 assault by United States Army Rangers and Delta Force operatives who killed some 500 to 1,500 men, women and children in an onslaught against General Aidid. had decided to arrest the Somali leader. Two famed Blackhawk helicopter gunships were shot down by grenade launchers, shocking those involved [spans 37] U. It was later discovered that the Somali operators of the grenade launchers had been trained by CIA-trained Afghans who were taught to use the grenade launchers to shoot down Soviet copters in Afghanistan. What is seldom mentioned is that three months before Operation Gothic Serpent, on July 12, 1993, Mr. Clinton had already launched a U. led Gaza-like attack on a supposed safe house meeting in Mogadishu between General Aidid's Habar Gidir clan. Thousands of 20–millimeter and reportedly 16 TOW missiles were fired upon the compound, killing some 73 elders, not gunmen, meeting to resolve the conflict between Mr. Aidid and the multinational task force in Somalia. The United Nations, in concert with the U. had committed UNISOM II troops to support American troops brought in to help “keep the peace.”Since this tumultuous period, there has yet to be a period of peace, as most that have interfered have worked to continue, not only the conflict of division, but also ever growing famine, starvation and destitution in Somalia. “Somalia is of geostrategic interest to the Bush administration, and the focus of operations and policy since 2001. This focus is a continuation of long-term policies of both the Clinton administration and George W. Somalia's resources have been eyed by Western powers since the days of the British Empire. But this has not dimmed continuing interest in Somalia's untapped and unexplored potential, and the possibility of an energy bonanza . Conoco, Agip, Amoco, Chevron, and Phillips held concessions in the area. Of more immediate logistical and military interest, Somalia is situated on a key corridor between the Middle [spans 38] U. backed countries such as Ethiopia from the West [spans 39] U. warship attacks upon what amounts to fishing boat-sized desperados, or so-called “pirates.”Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared April 8 that “pirates” holding American container ship Maersk Alabama Captain Richard Phillips captive are “merely criminals.”The question has to be raised how this rag-tag group of fishing [spans 40] ships. File film footage is questionable and could only be men going aboard most of these ships to work. Will the problem be solved at sea or will it require an invasion into Somalia? Some analysts are already saying strike the “pirates” at their bases in the country. Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo has announced that national elections will be held before the end of 2009. The west African state has been the center of civil [spans 41] decade. UNITED NATIONS-Cote d'Ivoire's UN envoy announced yesterday that his country would hold long-delayed presidential polls by December 6, catching the opposition by surprise. Ambassador Ilahiri Djedje told the UN Security Council that the first round of the election, which has been put off repeatedly since President Laurent Gbagbo's mandate ran out in 2005, will finally be held before year's end. "The peace process in Cote d'Ivoire is not stalling, the political decision has been made," he said. The exact date of the election, which the Independent Electoral Commission has set between October 11 and December 6, would be announced by Gbagbo "in the coming days," Djeje added. "The institution that decides the date of elections is the independent electoral commission, not an embassy," said Niamkey Koffi, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast. [spans 42] Nations. "Coulibaly said it is up to the commission to decide on a schedule for the elections and submit it to the president, who then ratifies it in a decree. Zambia's new president Rupiah Banda, who was sworn in on Sunday, [spans 43] 2008. He served as vice-president prior to [spans 44] Mwanamasa. ZAMBIA will continue to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery efforts, visiting [spans 45] said. Speaking at a State banquet hosted in his honour by President Mugabe and the First Lady, Amai Grace Mugabe, at State House last night, President Banda commended his Zimbabwean counterpart for Government's well-articulated economic recovery programme. He assured Zimbabwe of Zambia's continued support despite the negative effects of the global economic crisis, while reiterating that the illegal sanctions imposed on the country by a cabal of Western nations and their allies must be lifted immediately. "I wish to re-affirm Zambia's commitment to contributing to the Short-Term Emergency Recovery Programme in order to assist Zimbabwean brothers and sisters. "Following the Sadc Extraordinary Summit in Swaziland, we are encouraging countries to lift sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe. "The lifting of sanctions will help facilitate the implementation of the recovery programme," he said. President Banda arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday afternoon on a four-day State visit that will see [spans 46] today. President Banda, who is accompanied by his wife Thandiwe and family, was met at the Harare International Airport by President Mugabe, Amai Grace Mugabe and their children, Robert Jnr and Belamine. President Banda was given a 21-gun salute at the airport — the highest honour that can be bestowed on a visiting head of state. Presidents Mugabe and Banda will tour stands at the ZITF grounds before the latter officially opens the annual exhibition later today. President Banda is also expected to travel to his birthplace in Vumba Chigwe Village, Gwanda District, in Matabeleland South. At last night's banquet, President Mugabe outlined the long history of co-operation between Zambia and [spans 47] struggle. "For these sacrifices and for your country's support under very difficult circumstances, Zimbabwe will always remain grateful," he said. He paid tribute for Zambia's support during the inter-party talks that led to the formation of the inclusive Government. "We recall with deep gratitude, that Your Excellency, as Acting President of Zambia, attended the signing of the [spans 48] 15. "This is typical of the solidarity which your great country and people have always shown for Zimbabwe. "President Mugabe [spans 49] succeed. "We may be experiencing a few teething problems in the process. This is normal in an arrangement of this nature. "However, as you are aware, we have put mechanisms in place to deal with such problems and I am confident that these problems will soon be behind us," President Mugabe said. He condemned the illegal economic sanctions, saying Government's efforts to turn around the economy would be hampered by the continued existence of the economic embargo. "This is precisely why Sadc, as well as the AU and many other progressive countries, have called for their (the sanctions) removal. "With the signing of the GPA and the formation of the inclusive Government, one finds it difficult to understand the motivation of those who are still punishing Zimbabwe. "President Mugabe took time to condemn the ongoing political turmoil in Madagascar and the recent assassination attempt on Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili. ZIMBABWE has increased surveillance [spans 50] globe. In an interview yesterday, Health and Child Welfare Minister Dr Henry Madzorera said following the outbreak his ministry, with the assistance of partners who include the World Health Organisation country team, had deployed health teams at the country's ports of entry [spans 51] (H1N1). "At the moment we have no recorded cases of the flu, but as a precaution we have put a number of measures in place to detect the virus in the event it spreads to Zimbabwe. "A taskforce consisting of the ministry, the Department of Veterinary Services and WHO has increased surveillance at the country's main ports of entry that include the Harare International Airport, Bulawayo (Joshua Nkomo) Airport and Beitbridge, among others. "We have put our structures [spans 52] cases. Any suspected cases or individuals presenting symptoms similar to those of swine flu will be referred to our hospitals that investigate infections in the nearest city such [spans 53] said. Minister Madzorera said the taskforce was therefore on the lookout for any signs of flu or any other unusual signs among visitors to Zimbabwe. He said health personnel had been asked to be on the lookout for any unusual increase in cases of flu. "Although Zimbabwe does not have drugs to treat the bug in its stocks, Zimbabwe is aware that WHO Africa Regional Centre has enough of the medicine and in the event that the drugs are needed we can get in touch with them," he said. According to the WHO, the human swine flu outbreak continues to grow in Mexico, United States and the globe forcing the global health body to raise the pandemic alert level from phase three to phase four, a clear signal of the need for quick response and mitigation efforts. The rise in the pandemic level means experts believe the virus is showing a sustained ability to pass from human to human, and [spans 54] outbreaks. Although Mexican authorities say they have recorded nearly 160 deaths of the bug and 2 000 cases, WHO says it has officially recorded only seven deaths. In [spans 55] each. Swine flu is a respiratory disease thought to spread through coughing and sneezing with similar symptoms to those of normal flu. Swine flu is caused by any strain of the influenza virus endemic in pigs and is rare in humans. People who work with pigs, especially those with intense exposures, are at risk of catching swine influenza if the swine carries a strain able to infect humans. BRITAIN and the Commonwealth have, with immediate effect, lifted travel advisories warning their citizens against visiting Zimbabwe with the European Union promising to do the same in the next week or so, a Cabinet minister has said. The Commonwealth joins Japan, Germany, and the United States who have since lifted their travel warnings. [spans 56] warnings. "Allow me to announce that Britain and the Commonwealth have removed travel warnings they had imposed on their citizenry. "The EU has promised that it will do the same in the next one-and-a half weeks. So there is no need for anyone to claim that we have failed to do business because tourists are banned from visiting this country. "America, Japan, Germany and others have done the same, so we should be seeing a flooding of our resorts by tourists from these countries," Minister Mzembi said. He said once the EU lifts travel warnings, that would signal the end of travel warning regimes that have severely affected tourist arrivals in particular, and business in general, since citizens of those countries adhere to the their government warnings. "There will be no more excuses because we are now a safe destination and anyone can come. I have received more than 25 letters from countries that are working on removing travel warnings in the EU and elsewhere," he said. Minister Mzembi said he would, next week, lead a delegation to Brazil to negotiate with that country's football bosses to have the Samba Boys, as the Brazilian national team is affectionately known, camp and train in Zimbabwe ahead of the 2010 World Cup soccer finals in South Africa. "I am leading a delegation to Brazil and hopefully we will be able to convince the Brazilians to camp here first before going into South Africa for their matches. "When we were fighting politically, other countries were moving in and clinching deals with teams that qualified for the soccer finals, so we now have to move fast and put ourselves in better deals," he said. Minister Mzembi challenged the banking sector to ensure that plastic money is made available so that tourists do not have to carry with them huge sums of cash. "We urgently need to sort out our use of cash. No tourist would want to have a lot of cash while travelling to several places [spans 57] said. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U. House of Representatives Wednesday approved an expansion of federal "hate crime" laws - an effort that former Republican President George W. On a vote of 249-175, the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill backed by the new Democratic White House to broaden such laws by classifying as "hate crimes" those attacks based [spans 58] disability. "Hate crimes motivated by race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, and identity or disability not only injure individual victims, but also terrorize entire segments of our population and tear at our nation's social fabric," Hoyer said. "I urge members on both sides of the aisle to act on this important civil rights issue by passing this legislation to protect all of our citizens from violent acts of intolerance," Obama said in a statement before the vote. "All violent crimes must be vigorously prosecuted," Smith said. "Unfortunately, this bill undermines one of the most basic principles of our criminal justice system - 'equal justice for all. '""Justice will now depend on the race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or other protected status of the victim," Smith said. "It will allow different penalties to be imposed for the same crime. "One, vetoed by Bush, would have expanded a federal health insurance program for children. The other, blocked by Bush's fellow Republicans in the Senate, would have reversed a U. Supreme Court ruling to make it easier to sue for discrimination in the workplace. With Democrats having won the White House and expanded their control of Congress in the 2008 election, both measures [spans 59] priorities. And they became among the first bills Obama signed into law. As the capitalist downturn deepens state repression escalates against people in the U. and internationallyOver the last several months, a series of dramatic cases involving police killings of civilians have brought to light the essential role of law-enforcement within capitalist societies. Numerous cities throughout the United States have seen a dramatic increase in the murder of African Americans by cops as well as the escalation of raids and deportations against immigrants both legal and undocumented. Although the problem of police terrorism and repression has existed for well over a century in the U. even going back to the period of slavery and the post-civil war era, since the beginning of this decade, there have been disturbing trends indicating that the level of repression is reaching critical proportions. This rise in reported [spans 60] deteriorate. In regard to the repression carried out against the immigrant communities in the U. a Human Rights Watch report released on April 15 pointed out that the overwhelming majority of forced removals are carried out for relatively benign reasons that do not pose any threat to the larger communities where the deportees live. In fact approximately 75% of all non-citizens deported from the country over the last ten years after serving prison and jail sentences had been convicted of nonviolent offenses. According to the Human Rights Watch Report, entitled "Forced Apart: Non-Citizens Deported Mostly for Nonviolent Offenses", 20% of those forcefully ejected had been in the United States legally, sometimes for decades. The report [spans 61] offenses. Alison Parker, the deputy director of the U. Program of Human Rights Watch and author of the report, said that "In 12 years of enforcing the 1996 deportation laws, no one bothered to ask whether ICE actually focused on the target group-undocumented immigrants convicted of serious, violent crimes. We now know that a good number of people who are here legally and who are convicted of nonviolent offenses are regularly swept into the dragnet. " (Human Right Watch, April 15)In utilizing Census data and figures reported by the Pew Hispanic Center, Human Rights Watch estimates that over 1 million people have been effected by these deportations through family separations and [spans 62] Security. "We have to ask why, in a time of fiscal crisis, significant immigration enforcement funds are being spent on deporting legal residents who already have been punished for their crimes," says Alison Parker. "Many of these people have lived in the country legally for decades, some have served in the military, others own businesses. And often, they are facing separation from family members, including children, who are citizens or legal residents. " (Human Rights Watch, April 15)In addition to the escalation of deportations within immigrant communities, the African American population has been severely effected by the misconduct and brutality of law-enforcement agencies throughout the country. Most of the killings are deemed as "justifiable homicide" by the prosecuter's offices and these notions are often reinforced by the corporate media which portrays African Americans as violent prone and criminally inclined. During the summer of 2007, the publications ColorLines and the Chicago Reporter carried out a collaborative national investigation of police shootings in the 10 largest cities in the United States. As a result of this effort, a number of trends emerge related to police-community relations in urban areas. African Americans were highly affected disproportionately as victims of fatal police shootings. The most highly noticeable areas of the country where this phenomena existed [spans 63] Vegas. In each of these urban areas, the percentage of African Americans killed by law-enforcement was twice the number of their proportion within the population of these cities. According to Delores Jones-Brown, who at the time of the study was the interim director of the Center on Race, Crime and Justice at John Jay College in New York, "There is a crisis of perception where African American males and females take their lives in their hands just walking out the door. There is a notion they will be perceived as armed and dangerous. It's clear that it's not just a local problem. " (ColorLines, Issue #41, Nov/Dec 2007)At the same time this above-mentioned study also points out that the number of Latinos killed by law-enforcement is rising. Beginning in 2001, "the number of incidents in which Latinos were killed by police in cities with more than 250,000 people rose four consecutive years, from 19 in 2001 to 26 in 2005. The problem was exceptionally acute in Phoenix, which had the highest number of Latinos killed in the country. " (ColorLines, #41)ColorLines states in their report that between 1980 and 2005, 9,500 people around the country were killed by the police. This on average is one person per day who dies as a result of aggressive police actions against civilians. "Unless we begin to hold these officers accountable in these cases, they'll only grow in number and signficance," Jones-Brown said. Police killings of African Americans and other people of color have resulted in massive protests, the formation of anti-brutality coalitions and urban rebellions. In Cincinnati during the early part of the decade, cops shot to death more people than any other city of similar size with the [spans 64] Minneapolis. In a study conducted by the [spans 65] shot. Minneapolis police shot 29 people between 1995 and 2001, resulting in the deaths of 12 individuals. In Cincinnati police shot 22 people during the same time period, 13 resulting in fatalities. Another two died after they were sprayed with chemical agents while being attacked by the cops. (Common Dreams, April 28, 2001)In Cincinnati, the fatal shooting of an unarmed [spans 66] rebellion. The community was mobilized through the formation of a Black United Front and the Justice Department established a monitoring commission to encourage reforms within law-enforcement. More recently, the killing of African American men in New Orleans, Louisiana and Oakland, California drew national attention. Adolf Grimes III was shot 12 times in the back by the New Orleans police on December 31, 2008. Grimes, who was an alumni of one of the city's most prestigous high schools, had no criminal record. Grimes was the father of an 18-month-old baby and a hard working man living in Houston, Texas. He was visiting his family in New Orleans when he was killed by the police. Oscar Grant III of Oakland was killed the same day by the transit police in the city. He had been detained by officers and was then shot in the back. As a result of outrage in the community, youth erupted in rebellion for several days. The community anger and fightback resulted in the indictment of the officer involved in his killing. In the city of Detroit on April 10, young 16-year-old Robert Mitchell died after being tased by Warren Police, a neighboring suburb. Mitchell, known as "Tazzy" by family and friends, was described by his mother as having a "learning disability. "Mitchell was in a car that was pulled over by Warren Police for no apparent reason. Although police claim that the license plate was expired, this allegation proved to be false and no ticket was issued or arrests made in the stop. Mitchell, fearing for his safety, ran into Detroit and was chased by the Warren cops. He was later tased in an abandoned house on Pelkey Street and died. His family has recently filed a wrongful death civil suit in federal court. The cops involved in his death have not been charged with any crime or have they been disciplined by the city of Warren. The cops have returned to regular police duties after an internal investigation. The use of state repression to control, contain and exploit oppressed and working people is an international problem. The French colonial state sent in hundreds of riot police to suppress the strike. In Guadeloupe strike supporter Jacques Bino was killed during a confrontation between the French police and striking unionists and youth. The French took no action against the police involved in this incident. As a result of police repression against the strike, rebellions erupted in both Martinique and Guadeloupe in February and March. In Kenya during early March, two human rights activists, who had provided evidence to United Nations [spans 67] street. Oscar Kamau Kingara, the director of the Oscar Foundation, along with the program coordinator of the agency, John Paul Oulo, were shot in their vehicle by gunmen just several blocks away from the presidential palace. The Guardian [spans 68] gang. The Oscar Foundation made its name investigating police abuses. Since 2007 it has reported 6,452 'enforced disappearances' by police and 1,721 extrajudicial killings. " (Guardian, March 6, 2009)Kenya's government has been supported by the United States for many years. As a result of the corporate media generated hysteria surrounding the seizure of cargo vessels by Somalis in the Gulf of [spans 69] U. and other imperialist states have called for the formation of an international "piracy court" to prosecute Somalis caught on the waters off the coast in the Horn of Africa. This "piracy court" would be based in Kenya and funded by the imperialists. multi-national oil companies have exploited the [spans 70] status-quo. As a result of the high incidence of police killings, Human Rights Watch urged that "Nigeria's government should launch an independent public inquiry in light of official statistics indicating that police have shot and killed more than 8,000 Nigerians since 2000. The figures show 785 killed in just three months this year (2007), while the true number of people killed by the police since 2000 may exceed 10,000. " (Human Rights Watch, November 18, 2007)In the United States, the impact of the economic crisis has impacted the African American community at a far higher rate than the white population. In a recent report issued by the Center for American Progress entitled "Weathering the Storm: Black Men in the Recession", the study points out that the current economic downturn is taking a devastating toll on African American males. The reports says that "March was one of the worst months for layoffs on record. Many workplaces have also implemented hiring freezes, a more important and less acknowledged contribution to sharply rising rates of unemployment. "Black men's unemployment rate of 15.4 percent in March 2009 was more than twice that of white men and up almost 7 percentage points from a year earlier. One recent study called African American's economic situation 'a silent economic depression,' in which soaring levels of unemployment impose significant [spans 71] communities. " (Weathering the Storm, pp.2-3)As a result of this growing crisis, it is not surprising that police repression and terrorism will escalate against working people in general and the oppressed national groups in particular. The growing levels of state violence can only be counteracted through mass organization and mobilization. The demand for a complete end to police brutality and terrorism must also coincide with calls for a real jobs program aimed at the unemployed and underemployed in the United States. Any genuine economic stimulus package must take into consideration the rapidly rising unemployment and poverty rates in the African American and other oppressed communities throughout the country. It is essential that the coalitions that have sprung up around the country to fight foreclosures, evictions and utility shut-offs must also advance demands to create meaningful employment aimed at putting the jobless back to work with all deliberate speed. Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire and has written extensively on the global economic crisis and its impact on working people and the nationally oppressed in the United States and around the world. Gu Xiulian, vice-chair of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), meets with Grace Mugabe, the First Lady of Zimbabwe and head of a visiting women's delegation, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 19, 2007. China is concerned over the difficulties that African countries are suffering from the global financial crisis and hope to work together with them to tide over the difficulties posed by the crisis, said a Chinese deputy speaker here on Tuesday. He cited a case in point in the commitment made by Chinese President Hu Jintao during the recent G20 summit in London. Chinese President Hu said at the summit that his country will, within its capability, continue to increase its aid to Africa, reduce or cancel African countries' debts, expand its trade and increase investment in Africa, fulfilling the commitments it made during the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2006. Abulaiti, also [spans 72] Ethiopia. During his talks with Degefi Bula, speaker of the House of Federation, the Chinese deputy speaker said China and Ethiopia have enjoyed long-standing friendship over the past several decades, adding that the two countries have witnessed frequent high-level exchange of visits, stronger [spans 73] years. Degefi, for his part, said Africa and China should enhance coordination in efforts to eliminate the adverse effects of the financial crisis. He expressed his gratitude to Chinese government for its support to Ethiopia in particular and to Africa in general even in time of global economic meltdown. Degefi said the Ethio-Chinese relations had a firm foundation and traced as far back in history as the age of maritime voyage. He said the participation of Chinese investors in Africa is creating jobs for many Africans, which eventually is supporting the economies of the countries. [spans 74] country. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the United Nations for Children and Armed Conflict, visited the Democratic Republic of Congo in April 2009 to report on the status of youth in the war inside the country. KALA CAMP, Zambia, April 28 (Reuters) - The U. refugee agency UNHCR and the European Union urged Congolese refugees on Tuesday to return home from Zambia, warning food aid could dry up as agencies focus on other humanitarian projects. Officials at Kala Camp said out of 18,549 people that the UNHCR planned to repatriate this year to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), only 129 had registered for the voluntary programme. Junior Home Affairs Minister Misheck Bonshe said Zambia may shut down the camp and warned that refugees who refused to leave would be treated as illegal immigrants. The repatriation programme, which will resume in May, has been suspended several times due to funding shortfalls and heavy rains. During a visit to the camp 1,080 km (670 miles) north of Lusaka, officials from the UNHCR and the EU made a joint appeal to refugees to return to the DRC. "We ask that you take this as the [spans 75] representative. "There will be other competing events that need our support, so that means we will not be able to provide (your requirements) as before. "Officials say 45,307 refugees out of a total of 81,684 refugees still living in Zambia are from the DRC. Years of fighting between Congo's army, local ethnic militias and troops from neighbouring states have sent waves of refugees fleeing across most of the vast nation's land borders, straining the resources of nearby countries. Derek Fee, head of the European Union delegation to Zambia, said that the EU would focus on assisting refugees who have returned to the DRC. "Now that conditions back home are conducive for your return, our assistance to UNHCR will shift more to DRC to help with your re-integration in the DRC," Fee said. The number of Rwandans laying down their arms and leaving militias that terrorize civilians in the [spans 76] today. Rwandan rebels are now surrendering at a rate of 146 fighters a month, according to the UN mission in the DRC (MONUC), with more than 660 heeding the mission's call to return to civilian life since the start of this year, along with 1000 of their dependents. This past weekend, another 10 members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) surrendered to a joint UN-Congolese army patrol near Goma. The rebels brought with them 31 of their dependents along with a sizable arsenal of weapons, MONUC said. The mission said the new additions to its disarmament program are now being processed for repatriation to Rwanda. It called on remaining FDLR fighters to follow suit, offering them and their families a chance for a decent future and stressing that life in the bush will only become more and more difficult from now on. The FDLR and other Rwandan militias have been a key factor in the resurgence of violence in North Kivu province, where over 100,000 civilians have been uprooted by fighting in the past two months, in addition to the many hundreds of thousands previously displaced. The ethnic Hutu rebels, who recently carried out a wave of retaliatory attacks against civilians after being targeted by a joint Congolese and Rwandan military offensive, have been operating in eastern DRC since the 1994 genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda. KINSHASA, 24 April [spans 77] rebels. “The two sides accuse the civilians of helping their enemies. Some houses have been occupied by the army,” said Nestor Yombo, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The FDLR presence here follows their forced departure during a joint operation by troops from both DRC and Rwanda in mid-January. Yombo said that during the heaviest recent fighting on 17 April in Luofu and Kasiki, 16 people were killed, including six children who were burned to death. Hundreds of houses were torched and the local health centre looted. The DRC army and the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, known as MONUC. are currently setting up a joint operation against the FDLR. MONUC military spokesman Jean-Paul Dietrich said the FDLR attacked Luofu while peacekeeping troops were deployed in a nearby village. “They (peacekeepers) reacted as soon as we learnt there was gunfire in Luofo. The FDLR was targeting the army and not civilians and some huts caught fire because of the gunfire,” he said. NAIROBI, 22 April 2009 (IRIN) - More child soldiers are to be demobilised in South Kivu Province, but concerns remain because some of those freed earlier have ended up in the national army, Radhika Coomaraswamy, special representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict, has told a news conference in Kinshasa. About 1,200 children have been released from various militias since January. However, any that have joined specially designated brigades within the national army will not be allowed to stay. "The new Congolese army cannot afford to have children in its ranks and the integration process is a unique opportunity to identify and release them," she said. At a transit centre in Masisi, she heard stories of grave human rights violations: "Sexual violence remains one of the most critical concerns in the DRC, devastating the lives of thousands of girls," she said. Kinshasa, April 21, [spans 78] province. After her meeting today with the DRC Minister for Defence, Ms. Coomaraswamy said she obtained his agreement so that the representatives of MONUC's Child Protection division, and also those of other UN agencies, in particular UNICEF, are present at the FARDC integration sites in order to check for the presence of children. “The new Congolese army cannot be allowed to have children in its ranks, and the process of integration is a single opportunity to identify and release them,” said the Special Representative. As for the problem of sexual violence, the Special Representative said that 48% of victims in the DRC are minors, and that 67% of those responsible are men in uniform. She thus asked Alan Doss, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, to advocate to [spans 79] violence. Coomaraswamy said that the Ministry of the Interior with the support of UNICEF will create a special unit within the Congolese police, in the fight against sexual violence. She also cited the fight against impunity, which “is one of the priorities for the civilian populations”. In this regard, she underlined the good work of the military auditors [spans 80] done. Coomaraswamy said that the dependents of soldiers needed more assistance. She cited the need for the creation of military barracks to shelter these families and to give access to education for the soldiers' children. Displaced people were also a cause of concern for the Special Representative, and she stressed that it is necessary to include the education of displaced children as one of the programme priorities for humanitarian actors,Ms. “Except for the French government's pilot programme, there are no long term (three year) reintegration and rehabilitation programmes for children liberated from armed groups in the DRC. I met with the ambassadors of donor countries, and explained to them that the need for extra funding was a priority,” the Special Representative concluded. US warplanes taking off for Somali bombing mission from the USS Eisenhower near the Horn of Africa. The US and EU are expanding their presence in the region amid hysteria generated by the piracy issue. LONDON (Reuters) - More spotter planes are urgently needed by the European Union's naval force to combat Somali pirates operating off the horn of Africa country's coast, senior naval officers said on Tuesday. Somali pirates have made millions of dollars in ransoms hijacking commercial vessels in the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean, despite patrols by foreign navies off the Somali coast, disrupting aid supplies and trade routes. The EU launched its naval operation in December with at least 12 of the 27-member states involved with four to eight warships deployed in the region. But the force currently has one permanent aircraft available for the mission with another plane seconded for now. "The shortage for us is actually not in warships but in maritime patrol aircraft," said Richard Farrington, chief of staff for the EU's "Operation Atalanta", which is headquartered in England. "The EU operation could bring better results if more aircraft were sent . European aircraft with long range, useful in detecting (pirate) motherships that can then be inspected by special forces teams," Greek Commodore Antonios Papaioannou, a former commander of the EU force, told Reuters in a [spans 81] alone. "We haven't solved the problem, but we've made the [spans 82] Somalia. Unemployed young men with no work, money or prestige within their tribal groups have been attracted to piracy, gaining wealth and status among their peers. Farrington, a captain in Britain's Royal Navy, said the forces were dealing with an invisible enemy. "He is operating in a completely lawless society," Farrington said. "He does not wear a black patch on his eye, [spans 83] find. "Farrington said with resources he would aim to carry out a patrol every day using aircraft both in the Somali basin and the Gulf of Aden, without giving further details. Currently naval forces from more than a dozen countries, including Russia, China and the United States, are trying to tackle piracy off Somalia's coast. Farrington rejected some analysts' views that a lack of coordination between the naval forces was hampering the effectiveness of tackling the seaborne gangs. Earlier this week an Italian cruise ship used guns and a fire hose to beat off an attack by pirates. "As soon [spans 84] said. "You should leave military action to the military. "Although there has been much focus on the outbreak of swine flu in Mexicio and the United States, the HN 51 or bird flu has been reported in Egypt with three deaths. CAIRO (Reuters) - A 33-year-old Egyptian woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, Egypt's third human death from bird flu in a week, the state news agency MENA said on Friday. The woman, Saadiya Mohamed Abdel Latief Hamed, died in Kafr El-Sheikh province and is Egypt's 26th bird flu victim, MENA said, citing a health ministry statement. She was admitted to hospital on April 15 suffering from fever and difficulty breathing, and tests confirmed she was infected with H5N1 avian flu. MENA said she had been exposed to infected household poultry. Egypt, harder hit by bird flu than any other country outside Asia, has seen a surge of cases in recent weeks, with eight new human infections in April alone - as many as in all of 2008. Most of the Egyptians infected this year have been young children. While the avian influenza virus rarely infects people, experts say they fear it could mutate into a form that people could easily pass to one another, which might spark a pandemic that could kill millions. Since 2003, H5N1 has infected more than 400 people in 15 countries and killed more than 250. It has killed or forced the culling of more than 300 million birds in 61 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Most Egyptians infected with bird flu had come into contact with infected domestic birds in a country where some 5 million households depend on their poultry as a significant source of food and income. The World Health Organisation said this month it was concerned some Egyptians may carry the bird flu virus without showing symptoms, and this could give the virus more scope to mutate to a strain that spreads easily among humans. Whether such cases exist will be the focus of a planned Egyptian government study, backed by the global health body. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressing the European Parliament on the situation of people in Gaza. He said that Israel should be held responsible for the carnage. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday refused to accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. "A Jewish state, what is that supposed to mean? " Abbas asked in a speech in the West Bank's political capital of Ramallah. Abbas said the topic was "extensively discussed" and rejected by the Palestinians during a November 2007 international conference in Annapolis, near Washington, during which the two sides relaunched peace negotiations. Netanyahu has demanded the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state as part of an eventual peace deal. Such a move would amount to an effective renunciation of the right of return of refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when Israel was created, a cherished principle of the Palestinians. Abbas also criticised Israel's firebrand Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said the new cabinet was not bound by the previous government's decision taken at Annapolis to relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians. "Lieberman is in a class by himself. He has yet to learn the art of politics and he has not yet practised politics enough. "He is an adversary, he has come to [spans 85] said. On the latest round of Palestinian reconciliation talks which opened yesterday in Cairo, Abbas said if the parties managed to form a [spans 86] accords. "It is the government and its members that should respect such deals and not movements," Abbas said. 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Instruction: Fill in the missing spans: Supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) returns in this animated sequel that stays very much within the parameters of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Oh, things are a bit different, but they're also just the same. And those little minions, so popular with the younger viewers, get plenty of fun moments en route to their own spin-off movie (due in 2015). Gru has left his evil life behind, and is now a lot happier. He is a father to three adopted girls, and uses the lab and his staff to create a range of flavoured jellies (jams to us folk in the UK). His idyllic life is interrupted, however, when the Anti-Villain League ask him to help as they try to find a dangerous stolen substance. They have tracked its signal to a shopping mall, but need Gru to go in and find out just which one of their main suspects is the thief. Lucy (Kristen Wiig) is an agent able to offer assistance, and also quite an admirer of Gru. With everyone returning to the main roles behind the scenes, this is clearly a project in capable hands. Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, as well as writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, all know the characters well, and all know what worked from the first outing. Of course, for anyone who isn't as easily amused by those minions, that approach isn't without its shortcomings. But giving the little guys more screentime is clearly something that pleases the target demographic, and you can't blame the film-makers for wanting to keep that section of the audience happy. Carell and Wiig are a lot of fun [spans 1] well. But it's Benjamin Bratt who deserves a special mention. Taking over so late in the game, after original star Al Pacino had already spent so much time on the project that the animation was created to his dialogue, Bratt had to both create a fun character, Eduardo, and also match the speech movements already animated. That couldn't have been the easiest task, but you'd never guess from the final product. Bratt never seems like a replacement. He's fantastic in the role, and viewers should be glad that he was able to step in and "save the day", as it were. If you liked Despicable Me then you'll like this sequel. Children will love it, and there's plenty for adults to enjoy. Be warned, however, that if you never warmed to those minions then you may want to give this a wide berth. Shiny discs, cinema tickets, laptops and the other resources I use all cost money. So does my book, but it's really not that much money. And you might even enjoy it. That's the tagline for Edge Of Tomorrow, a film most easily described as Groundhog Day meets Saving Private Ryan, with the sentinels from The Matrix movies added to the mix. Tom Cruise is the leading man, sharing the screen with Emily Blunt, for the most part, and director Doug Liman is the man doing his best to ensure that viewers get plenty of bang for their buck. Cruise plays Cage, the hero of the movie, but you wouldn't know that from the first scenes featuring his character. Because Cage is not a soldier. He's a Major, yes, but one who has always managed to avoid being involved in any major battle with an invading alien force that has been waging war against humans for the past five years. When Cage defies a request to lead troops into [spans 2] battle. When tomorrow comes along, Cage can't even work his battle-suit properly. He has no idea how to turn off the safety. He dies pretty quickly. And then wakes up again, handcuffed and about to be bawled out by Master Sergeant Farell (Bill Paxton). It turns out that Cage has absorbed some power from the enemy, an ability to reset the day when he dies, but it's only a woman named Rita (Emily Blunt), a war hero who has, at one point, gone through exactly what Cage is experiencing. Can they use the power to change fate and win the war? Based on source material by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (which goes by the better title "All You Need Is Kill" - the original title for the movie), Edge Of Tomorrow delivers everything that you expect from it. [spans 3] short. Many reviewers have already commented on the fact that this is the ultimate videogame movie and that's a good point. Cage has to learn with each journey, and whenever he's killed he ends up "respawning" back at the start, although viewers are saved the full journey on each occasion, joining the characters instead at every main junction to see how bad decisions are overturned, and how the main character develops his muscle memory on each attempt. The script, by Christopher McQuarrie, Jex Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth, is sharp and witty throughout. You do get one or two scenes of exposition, of course, but they're perfectly done, brief and informative, before everyone gets back to battleground manoeuvres. There will always be people who hate Tom Cruise, no matter what he does. Well, screw 'em is what I say. I've been a fan of the man for years, and he almost always delivers the goods when it comes to blockbuster fare of this type. This is another good performance. It's fun to see his character develop throughout the movie, especially in the first third, which makes it [spans 4] soldier. He is, in fact, a bit of a useless coward. Cruise puts on his big grin, and isn't afraid (as [spans 5] combat. That grin brings a whole backstory that the writers don't need to make explicit. But when the grin disappears and the constant battling starts to reshape Cage into something he never thought he would be - a soldier - it becomes easy to root for him, and easy to believe in his transformation. Because Cruise makes it easy. Nobody seems to hate Emily Blunt, and her performance here isn't likely to upset anyone. She's tough, likable, smart and naturally beautiful without ever being made into "the girl who needs saved" or any of that nonsense. Oh, there is added motivation for the character played by [spans 6] race. Elsewhere, Brendan Gleeson is enjoyable in his [spans 7] exposition. Jonas Armstrong, Tony Way, Kick Gurry, Franz Drameh, Dragomir Mrsic and Charlotte Riley are the main soldiers who end up stuck with the rookie in their midst. The main [spans 8] focus. Liman spins a number of plates here and makes it all seem pretty effortless. The action moments are as intense as they need to be, but never headache-inducing, the plotting and pacing are perfect, and the humour running through almost every [spans 9] film. Cruise can't just fall asleep every night and then wake up again. There are one or two big plot holes (almost always inevitable with this kind of material), but if you're sitting thinking of them while the movie is unfolding then you're a tough viewer to please. I was, admittedly, ever so slightly disappointed by the final few minutes, but this is superior sci-fi action fare, and I don't see why anyone should write [spans 10] flaws. On the contrary, I encourage all sci-fi movie fans to check this one out as soon as possible. Ironically, after the first trip you may even want to watch it again. All of these movie reviews come from me watching a LOT of movies, of course, and that is why I keep reminding people that every copy of my book sold gets a few pounds in my pocket, and gets you a good read (if I say so myself). So please feel free to remember me whenever you're visiting Amazon. As flawed as it is ambitious, animator Ralph Bakshi's attempt to make an epic movie from The Lord Of The Rings may have left viewers with a rough, unfinished product (it all ends rather abruptly after the battle at Helm's Deep), but it stands up as a damn fine take on the familiar material. In fact, knowing just how much screentime was allocated for the Peter Jackson movies, it becomes easier and easier to see how well done this animated effort really is. For the [spans 11] possession. Helped by the wizard Gandalf (William Squire), Aragorn (John Hurt), some dwarves, and a few fellow hobbits, he journeys from his home in the serene Shire to the ominous Mount Doom, the one place where the ring can be destroyed. Tolkien certainly didn't seem to have any movie adaptations in mind when he wrote his most famous work. It's a dense, at times uneven (yes, I said it), novel. The fact that the tale eventually became a hugely successful trilogy is a pleasant surprise, but the fact [spans 12] miraculous. While Bakshi is the man who gets to put his name at the top of the list, major credit should go to writers Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle, the men responsible for condensing so much source material into a script that's entertaining and succinct, but not insubstantial. John Hurt is, arguably, the biggest name in the cast, but everyone fits the role that's given to them. Anthony Daniels is also part of the group, playing Legolas, and Annette Crosbie and Andre Morell both give enjoyable vocal performances as, respectively, Galadriel and Elrond. Despite it being unfinished and imperfect, the film still holds a strange allure which I think is due, in no small part, to the rotoscoping technique mixed with the traditional animation. I certainly still hold on to the childhood memories of fear that I felt when first seeing the dark ringwraiths (I didn't know what rotoscoping was at the time, of course, but I knew certain characters in the film seemed different from the others, with the ringwraiths being the most unsettling). Perhaps when watching the film nowadays I still view it with some nostalgia colouring my perception, but I [spans 13] not. I like to think that it [spans 14] stardust. The sequel to the superhero reboot that nobody felt was really needed. Marc Webb returns to direct, everyone gets to reprise their onscreen roles, and the new faces are all welcome additions. It may still lag behind the Raimi movies, but this is a step up from the film preceding it. Things are about to get pretty stressful for your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man/Peter Parker (played by Andrew Garfield). He's worried about how his superhero duties may endanger the lovely Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), he still wants to find out [spans 15] Foxx). And when Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) comes back into town . well, I think most fans of Spidey will know what's going to happen there. Deftly stepping between light and dark moments, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 feels, at times, like a teen comedy riff on the character. From the opening sequence, showing a determined villain (Paul Giamatti), driving through town with a load of stolen plutonium while Spider-Man tries to stop him, to the very last scene of the film, Spider-Man seems completely at ease win his role, and sure that he'll win out. Thankfully, the movie throws enough at him to give him doubt, but it's fun to hang out with a superhero who doesn't spend the majority of the film as a tortured soul. Oh, he has his moments, but they don't taint the entire movie. This is a fun blockbuster, but one that ups the stakes just in time for a gripping third act. The script, by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, is fine, I guess. Everything is sketched out well enough, and Garfield gets a lot of lines that provide laughs, but it's also very heavy-handed at times (although that's nothing new when it comes to Spider-Man movies). It's admirable that the film never feels rushed or overloaded, despite the extra villains in the mix, as well as the developed backstory for Peter's absent parents. Webb clearly has a blast this time around, and that feeling is shared with the viewing audience. Swing around the town with Spidey, revel in some of the huge set-pieces that provide some great eye candy, and enjoy the fights that always seem to allow Spider-Man one or two of his usual smartass lines, no matter how beaten and out of breath he is. The CGI certainly dominates at times, especially in the second half, but it's all polished enough to make the excess a bit easier to accept. The other element making things easier to accept is the great cast. Garfield and Stone are still fantastic in their roles, with the former especially good at doing the slightly mopey teen schtick without seeming too irritating. [spans 16] roles. But it's the villains that everyone gets excited for, and what a selection of good folk being bad this movie has for you. Foxx is great, both as the timid and "invisible" Max Dillon and then, later, as the powerful Electro. You really feel sorry for him, in both incarnations, before he decides to embrace his powers and make his mark. Dane DeHaan doesn't get as much sympathy, but [spans 17] Goblin. Anyone hoping to see much [spans 18] screentime. Colm Feore is easy to dislike, as a conniving member of the Oscorp team, Chris Cooper is Norman Osborn, the man responsible (directly and indirectly) for most of the events in the movie, Felicity Jones is sadly underused as Felicia, an assistant to Harry, and there's another Stan Lee cameo, although it's more groan-inducing than amusing in this instance. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 looks good, sounds good (top marks to Hans Zimmer for the score, especially anything accompanying the scenes featuring Dillon/Electro), and doesn't disappoint anyone looking for superior blockbuster entertainment. It also sets everything up for a mouth-watering next instalment without those building blocks feeling like too [spans 19] distraction. It's not up there with the best of the recent superhero movies, because some of them have really raised the bar of late, but it's a fun time at the cinema and one that I look forward to picking up on shiny disc. The spin-off movie for a character first introduced to viewers in the Shrek sequels. Puss In Boots is a character that I, and many others, enjoyed when he joined in with the other established characters and helped to mix things up a bit. He never, however, seemed like someone who needed his own movie. And Puss In Boots proves [spans 20] right. Part adventure romp, part "origin story", Puss In Boots puts Puss (Antonio Banderas) in the middle of an adventure with his former friend, Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), and a talented, attractive thief named Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek). Will the adventure have a good outcome, allowing Humpty to finally [spans 21] don't. Puss In Boots fell into the latter category for me. So much of the movie has been done before, [spans 22] minority). Banderas and Hayek both have rich, warm voices, suitable for their kitty cat characters, and there are no problems with the line delivery. Galifianakis isn't as enjoyable, but he does what's asked of him. The main problem seems to be that the script, mainly written by Tom Wheeler, just isn't good enough. None of the dialogue stands out, and most of the set-pieces suffer from a sense of overfamiliarity (e. another dance off, but, y'know, with cats instead of people). Director Chris Miller doesn't do much to help, but I guess he doesn't have to. [spans 23] cats. Basically, this is a movie that will probably keep the kids entertained even if it doesn't try to be half as good as it could be. Considering the amount of great family entertainment that has appeared in recent years, that's a great pity, and puts this low on any list of prioritised viewings. Maleficent, for those who may have forgotten, is the main villain in Disney's [spans 24] Mouse. This film is all about her, and allows people to see a different side to the famous baddie. Apparently, the story [spans 25] told. Maleficent changes that, giving viewers the other side of events. It is to Sleeping Beauty as Wicked is to The Wizard Of Oz, to make the obvious analogy. I don't want to give too much away, as there are a number of pleasant surprises here in the way that the plot unfolds, so all I will say in my summation of the storyline is that Maleficent is introduced as a happy, winged fairy (played by Isobelle Molloy) and then experiences something that turns her into the scary adult that cursed a princess named Aurora. The scary adult version of Maleficent is played by Angelina Jolie, and the Aurora who is due to suffer on her sixteenth birthday is played by Elle Fanning. Let me start with the positives here, because I liked a lot of aspects of Maleficent. The first, and main, ace up its sleeve is Angelina Jolie in the lead role. There may be scenes in which her cheekbones are far too distracting (no, really, I'm serious, I thought they were going to rip through her skin at some points), but her performance is almost perfect throughout. She puts on a decent British accent, looks superb in the costume and make-up, and manages to move from scary to funny to sad as the scenes demand. I know, I know, that's a basic [spans 26] ease. The rest of the cast also do good work, although Sharlto Copley is left to go overboard as the distraught king/father who becomes obsessed with destroying Maleficent before any harm comes to his daughter. Fanning [spans 27] man. Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, and [spans 28] exact. The production values, and the design of the world shown onscreen, are also excellent. There are often an over-abundance of FX shots in each sequence, but they're pretty gorgeous. This is eye candy, and it's eye candy that many will find most satisfying when things move from the sweetness and light of the opening scenes to the darker visual style of the next hour. Director Robert Stromberg, enjoying his first time in the big chair, fumbles things from the very beginning. I have little doubt that many decisions were dictated to him, and I should have expected a final product like this from Disney (damn my eyes for letting the trailer deceive me), but the bright, colourful moments don't feel as if they belong in this movie. When things darken, however, they don't go dark enough. This isn't a twist on familiar material. This is an entire rewrite to make everything sweeter, which makes [spans 29] impressive. Thankfully for Stromberg, he can quickly point a finger at screenwriter Linda Woolverton, because this is one stinker of a script. Oh, there are some great lines here and there, mostly made great thanks to the delivery by Jolie, but it's 95% awful, made worse by the fact that it's clearly meant to be clever and fun throughout. The voiceover narration, by Janet McTeer, is especially bad, often relating information that could have been shown onscreen. In fact, it's occasionally describing exactly what IS being shown onscreen. At the start of the movie I thought it was irritating, but acceptable, as a shorthand way to throw viewers into the world. But I soon wanted McTeer to just shut up, which she doesn't (okay, she does, but the narration keeps cropping up at various points throughout the movie). This is a film made enjoyable by the sheer force of Jolie's adopted personality in [spans 30] given. That would take real magic, and there's none of that here. I WILL keep reminding people that every copy of my book sold gets a few pounds in my pocket, and gets you a good read (if I say so myself). Perspolis is a perfect mix of thought-provoking content and cinematic entertainment. Showing the life Marjane (Chiara Mastroianni), who we see develop from a little girl into a strong and confident woman processing the turbulent, repressive and often horror-filled world around her. Marjane, you see, grew up in Iran and witnessed the Islamic Revolution and great change. Unfortunately, that change wasn't all for the better, although it may have seemed that way at the time. Depicted mostly in black and white throughout, Persepolis manages to effectively show a number of horrors without ever being too explicit, but also without coating everything in sugar and honey. It really gives viewers a good general idea of how people [spans 31] years. Writer-directors Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi (with the latter translating her autobiographical graphic novel) do fantastic work. The animation is stylised, yet all of the main characters feel like very real, well-rounded human beings, which is so vital when showing how people have been held down, and often dehumanised, in the context of the movie. Mastroianni is very good as Marjane, while her real-life mother Catherine Deneuve does a great job in the role of her onscreen mother. Simon Abkarian is [spans 32] needed. I was very pleased that I'd finally given Persepolis [spans 33] rolled. I'd been made to think about many freedoms we take for granted, I felt as if I'd learnt a little bit more about some quite important world history, and I'd been hugely entertained by an animated woman steeling herself ready for a new stage in her life by singing "Eye Of The Tiger" enthusiastically, if amusingly out of tune. But I also know that there's more I should look into, that this is just one small part of events that shouldn't be forgotten. I will be hoping, at some point, to educate myself further on the central subject, and that's, arguably, where Persepolis succeeds most. Bad Neighbours (or just Neighbors, as it was originally titled in America) is one of those all-too-common cinema releases, a comedy that packs all of the best bits into the trailer. And, as is also all-too-common, it's all the more frustrating because it had the potential to be so much better. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play Mac and Kelly Radner, a pair of adults who are trying to hang on to their youth and spontaneity. Viewers know this from the very first scene, which shows the couple trying to have some fun, spicy sex while the blissfully ignorant gaze of their baby daughter proves to be too off-putting. Perhaps the two will just have to accept that their adults now, with all of the responsibilities that entails. In fact, they have to act like real adults when the house next door to them is turned into a fraternity house (led by Zac Efron, as Teddy, and Dave Franco, as Pete). Mac and Kelly initially try to be cool, and even join the youngsters at their first big party, but it's not long until they realise that they have to do whatever it takes to ensure that the parties don't carry on. Teddy and Pete, of course, will do whatever it takes to keep the music loud and the alcohol flowing, and so begins a battle of wills. Director Nicholas Stoller makes Bad Neighbours very much a party movie. There are loud tunes, neon-infused moments of drunken dizziness, and scenes that focus on [spans 34] shenanigans. "Isn't this fun? " it seems to say. But those moments jar when the tone shifts, when it becomes clear that it's not as fun as it looks, when it's all about people partying or fighting because they don't know what else to do to reassure themselves of their position in life. The blame lies squarely with writers Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, who just don't seem to be able to navigate the territory that they themselves laid out. Being unsure about how to mix the laughs with the darker moments wouldn't be so bad if the laughs were funny enough, but they're not. Instead, we get a lot of typical Rogen lines from Rogen, and lots of juvenile gags about penises. I like Rogen, but his character in this movie really needed to be more removed from his usual persona, and it isn't. When it comes to his performance, Rogen is fine. If you like Rogen (which I do). [spans 35] script. Ike Barinholtz and Carla Gallo create some laughs as their friends, a couple now separated from one another, which makes for some obvious friction when they have to be in the same space. Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Halston Sage, and Craig Roberts also do just fine in their range of roles; a well-endowed frat member, the girlfriend of Teddy, and a poor, bullied lad nicknamed Assjuice. The worst person onscreen here is Zac Efron, which shows how badly his character is written. I like Zac Efron, I really do. In fact, if it was anyone else in the role that he [spans 36] lower. He manages to improve things slightly [spans 37] will. But this role may be the worst that he's ever been handed in his career, so far. He's the antagonist, but he's also given too little depth too late in the proceedings as the writers try to layer the whole film with some meaning that isn't required. This is a film in which the funniest moments include the misappropriation of airbags. Okay, comedies can be layered with drama, but when things are shoehorned in as clumsily as they are here . it just doesn't work out. I wanted to enjoy this movie. I'm often a sucker when it comes to any cinema experience. Despite my years of experience, and disappointment, I still watch a well-edited trailer and think "yes, can't wait to see that". And, as many people know, I am easily pleased. It would have only taken one BIG laugh, or a better balancing act between the comedy and the slightly darker undercurrent, and I would [spans 38] time. Loosely based on a story by E. Baker, The Princess And The Frog is, for me, one of the most unjustly dismissed Disney movies from the past few decades. I think that's all to do with the soundtrack. I enjoy the songs when they're on, but I must admit that I can't recall a single one as soon as the last note is played. The story, set in New Orleans, concerns Prince Naveen (Bruno Campos), who has been turned into a frog by the deceptive Dr. Facilier (Keith David). He needs to be kissed, of course, in order to turn back into his human self. Unfortunately, when he convinces a young woman named Tiana (Anika [spans 39]. 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Some movies just grab you and some spans 22: and done better, and it feels like a trip back to a drying well (although, good grief, there's a sequel planned at the time of writing, so I may be in the spans 23: There's enough here to make the film passable entertainment, it's not as if I will say that it's a poor film, thanks to the decent animation, movie references, and the fun that comes from heroics being accomplished by such cute spans 24: Sleeping Beauty, a film that remains an undeniable high point amongst so many animated classics from the House Of spans 25: that we all thought we knew didn't play out quite as we were spans 26: requirement for many actors, although you wouldn't always know it, but she really dances through all of the mood changes with spans 27: is very likable, and Sam Riley is an absolute standout as Diaval, a crow transformed into a spans 28: Juno Temple are fine as fairies (although they are given far too many comedy moments that aren't really all that funny), and Brenton Thwaites is perfectly acceptable as the bland Prince Charming type, Prince Phillip, to be spans 29: the movie lazy and clumsy when it should have been interesting and much more spans 30: the main role, and even she can't always do enough to improve the lines that she's spans 31: live under the shadow of an oppressive regime by showing how Marjane at first explores her environment with childish curiosity, and then eventually rebels against much of it with a strength developed over the spans 32: Marjane's father, but Danielle Darrieux steals a number of scenes (or, at least, her animated character does) as Marjane's grandmother, the savvy matriarch of the family who proudly watches her granddaughter find her voice when it's most spans 33: a watch as the end credits spans 34: general spans 35: Rose Byrne is also fine, although she's not treated as well by the spans 36: has in this movie then the whole film would rate even spans 37: thanks to his charisma and, well, sheer force of spans 38: have at least thought of this as a worthwhile way to pass some spans 39: Noni Rose) to kiss him the end result isn't what either envisaged Instruction: The rest of this: Tiana also becomes a frog, Which means that the two have to hop off together in search of a remedy. On their travels they are joined by Louis (Michael-Leon Wooley), a trumpet-playing ... Output: Completed pargraph(s): alligator, and a firefly named Ray (Jim Cummings). Written by Ron Clements and John Musker, with help from Rob Edwards and quite a few others, The Princess And The Frog is a... Instruction: More. Output: very traditional Disney movie in terms of the overall style and feeling throughout. There aren't really any/too many sly gags for adults, the focus... Instruction: Continue. Output: is on the characters and flavour of the setting. That's no problem, however, when New Orleans provides such a wonderful backdrop to the events,... Instruction: Continue. Output: and when the characters are such enjoyable company. Keith David stands out as Dr. Facilier, but that may be a little unfair - the villain is, after all, often the most fun... Instruction: Next. Output: part to play. Campos and Rose are both absolutely fine in the lead roles, with the former going through the usual Disney journey of self-discovery while the latter helps to point him... Instruction: Continue. Output: in the right direction. Peter Bartlett is also very good as the conniving Lawrence, the valet to the prince who works with Dr. Facilier... Instruction: Next. Output: to keep his former master in froggy form. Wooley and Cummings are... Instruction: Next. Output: both a lot of fun, and the supporting cast includes fine work from John Goodman (always so good in voice roles, I find), Oprah... Instruction: Continue. Output: Winfrey, Jenifer Lewis, Jennifer Cody, and Terrence Howard. With its beautiful animation, memorable characters, and the usual selection of moral lessons this has almost... Instruction: Next. Output: everything required from a Disney movie. It's just a shame about those songs. But I hope that anyone who has seen the movie, and subsequently forgotten how good it was, revisits (and possibly reappraises) it, and I hope that anyone previously dismissing it as lesser fare ends up giving it a chance. There may well be some people who end up enjoying it as... Instruction: Continue. Output: much as I do. I really enjoyed Cloudy With A Chance Of... Instruction: More. Output: Meatballs. Really REALLY enjoyed it. So I don't know why I assumed the sequel was just some rushed cash-in, without any of the same... Instruction: Next. Output: people in the main voice roles. In fact, this is a sequel on a par with the first movie. It's consistently cute from start... Instruction: Next. Output: to finish, but manages to undercut that cuteness with sharp humour, amusing puns (okay, I found some of them hilarious), and bright, imaginative sequences throughout. Leading directly on from the events of... Instruction: Next. Output: the first movie, the residents of Swallow Falls are invited to move elsewhere while their island and town are cleaned up. Inventor Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) is given the chance of a lifetime, when he's offered a job at LIVE Corp, the company ruled over by his hero, Chester V (Will Forte). But Chester V has a secret agenda, and only wants Flint nearby... Instruction: More. Output: to keep an eye on him. The machine that caused so much trouble in the first movie hasn't shut down. It is, in fact, now helping to create a variety of food-based lifeforms. Flint is asked to go back to the island to help fix the situation, and his friends won't let him go back alone. Just like the first movie, every aspect of... Instruction: Next. Output: this film just feels right. That's not to say that it's a perfect film, oh no, but it IS a load of fun from start to finish, full of creativity and jokes... Instruction: Continue. Output: that should make you laugh out loud (well, they made ME laugh out loud). Hader and Forte are both very good in their roles,... Instruction: Next. Output: but they're helped out by a supporting cast that includes Anna Faris, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, James Caan, Terry Crews (voicing the character originally voiced by Mr. T in the first film), and Kristen Schaal. Directors Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn have a lot of fun working from the script by Erica Rivinoja, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. They have so much fun,... Instruction: Next. Output: in fact, that it fills up almost every frame, guaranteeing that viewers of all ages will keep smiling throughout. Anyone who hates some quality... Instruction: Continue. Output: punning may be a bit put out, but I distrust anyone who hates some quality punning anyway. Everyone else is pretty much guaranteed a great time. If you liked the first movie as much as I did then you'll also like this. ## It's smart, it's silly, it's highly rewatchable. Get to it ASAP if you have good taste (taste, see, because of all the food content in the movie - see? See? ). Written and directed by Sylvain Chomet, The Triplets Of Belleville doesn't have any names familiar to me in the vocal cast, doesn't have a high concept at its heart, and doesn't have built-in fanbase that it's aimed at. What it does have is inventiveness, humour and a lot of heart. The story is all... Instruction: More. Output: about Madame Souza and her grandson, Champion. From a very early age, Champion has loved riding his bike. Over the years, he keeps cycling and cycling, supported and trained by his grandmother. He's aiming for one thing, of course, and that is a shot in the Tour de France. Unfortunately, once competing in the race, Champion is kidnapped, along with some other cyclists, by... Instruction: Next. Output: some crooks who want to use them in a scheme that will make them a lot of money. Despite the odds against her, Madame Souza heads off in pursuit of the crooks, with her loyal dog, Bruno, by her side. She is determined to save her son, and soon finds some unlikely allies in the shape of the three singing ladies also known as the Triplets Of Belleville. The Triplets Of Belleville is a beautiful piece of work, full of gorgeous details throughout and lots of fun stylistic choices (such as the broad-shouldered criminal henchmen, or the overdeveloped muscles that Champion uses when pedalling on his bike). A lot of the characters are caricatures, but they're either treated in an affectionate way or used perfectly in moments of... Instruction: Next. Output: comedy, showing just how much thought has gone into each design choice. Although the movie is French through and through, with affection for the country shining through just as the affection for Edinburgh was front and centre in Chomet's The Illusionist, most of the story is told visually. There are noises, and a few lines of dialogue, and a wonderful score (by Benoit Charest),... Instruction: More. Output: but you could watch the film with the sound off and still understand most of it. I wouldn't recommend that, of course, as you'd... Instruction: Continue. Output: miss out on some gags and great moments, but it's possible. Old ladies rarely get such prominent leading roles, especially in stories revolving around kidnapping and dangerous criminals, but thank goodness that Chomet created Madame Souza and the Triplets Of Belleville. The characters allow him to lace every scene with humour and quirkiness, completely twisting any "seen it all before" moments into something witty... Instruction: More. Output: and original. Sylvain Chomet is a great talent, and The Triplets Of Belleville remains his best film. I'd encourage all animation fans to check it out whenever the chance arises. An interesting,... Instruction: More. Output: quirky, sci-fi anthology movie, Heavy Metal, with its gratuitous nudity, wish fulfilment moments and title-appropriate soundtrack, is pretty much designed for teenage boys. That's... Instruction: Continue. Output: not to say that it's a bad film, but it does seem to fill many sequences by going for easy options and rather juvenile... Instruction: More. Output: moments. The stories in this movie are all connected by a deadly,... Instruction: Next. Output: glowing orb. The orb has intelligence, and also the ability to voice... Instruction: More. Output: its thoughts, and the framing device of the movie is the orb relating some cautionary tales to a scared young girl. The stories all tend to show how the orb affects those it comes into contact with, for better or for worse, and violence occurs frequently. Mostly based on material from a long-running magazine of the same name, Heavy Metal is easy to enjoy,... Instruction: Continue. Output: even if it's not so easy to love. The stories often have a nice, old-fashioned feel to them, they're all pulp pleasures taking place in different environments, and sometimes developing interesting mythologies... Instruction: Next. Output: in the limited time they have. Screenwriters Daniel Goldber and Len Blum have a great selection of stories to work with, including some written by the great Dan O'Bannon, and they manage to keep the tone consistent while hopping from one story to the next, mainly by populating the tales with a mix of robots, space travellers and topless women. Director Gerald Potterton keeps... Instruction: More. Output: everything moving along nicely, helped by a voice cast that unexpectedly includes John Candy, Eugene Levy, John Vernon and Harold Ramis, among others, and... Instruction: Next. Output: it never quite outstays its welcome (running at just under 90 minutes), although it comes close during the last section. And then there's the soundtrack, which caused the film to be unavailable for a number of years due to problems with the music licensing, apparently. The bands/artists getting to invade your ears include the following: Blue Oyster Cult, Stevie Nicks, Journey, Cheap Trick, Nazareth,... Instruction: More. Output: Black Sabbath, and more. Okay, none of the songs will appear on any greatest hits album, but they're an extra part of the appeal... Instruction: Next. Output: to the target demographic. It's not a great film, and the love that some people have for it surprises me, but it's enjoyable enough... Instruction: Continue. Output: And has plenty of those robots, space travellers, and topless women to keep me happy. Which may just be yet another sign of my struggle to keep wearing the disguise of a mature adult. Most people will already know whether or not they're going to like Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. It reteams writer-director Adam McKay with writer-star Will Ferrell, it brings back all... Instruction: Continue. Output: of the main cast member, and it fills the screen with many gags riffing on material from the first movie. Ferrell is Ron Burgundy, of course, and this movie sees him at another crossroads in his life. He's having relationship problems with Veronica (Christina Applegate) and he's not the success he once was, but Freddie Shapp (Dylan Baker) comes along at just the right time to make him an interesting offer. The idea seems ridiculous, but when Ron is allowed to get his old team back together he sees no reason not to at least give it a go. Which allows viewers to spend more time with Ron, Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), and Champ Kind (David Koechner). I was hoping to love this sequel,... Instruction: More. Output: and perhaps one day I will. It has some decent gags here and there, but too many moments feel either overdone and stretched out, with the film coming in at just under two hours, or far too reliant on replaying jokes from the first movie, with minor variations. I must say, however, that when I first saw the first Anchorman movie I wasn't impressed... Instruction: More. Output: I didn't see what all the fuss was about. And then I ended up watching it almost every day for a fortnight, eventually coming... Instruction: Continue. Output: to the conclusion that it was the funniest movie of the year. I'm not sure if the same thing will happen here, but I... Instruction: Next. Output: will allow for the fact that this may well grow on me. As well as Dylan Baker, Meagan Good is a new addition to the sprawling ensemble, adding some more discomfort for Burgundy by being both a woman and black. Yes, you can imagine some of the awkwardness that ensues, but Good matches everyone in the cast with her fun, fiery turn. James Marsden... Instruction: Continue. Output: gives yet another great performance in an increasingly long line of great performances (seriously, the guy is turning into quite the scene-stealer) as Burgundy's... Instruction: Continue. Output: main rival in the studio, Greg Kinnear gets a few good moments... Instruction: More. Output: as Burgundy's main rival elsewhere, and Kirsten Wiig bumps up the laugh... Instruction: More. Output: quota as a female counterpart to Brick Tamland. Fans will also be happy to hear that there's another cameo-filled fight scene to liven up the third act. McKay and Ferrell seems to bring out both the worst and the best in one another. They have some great ideas, and great running gags, but the self-indulgence on display sometimes outweighs the thin material, and an... Instruction: Continue. Output: excessive runtime really doesn't help. Those who want to stay classy for much longer will do well to pick up Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues on Bluray, which also contains the alternate version of the movie (complete with 763 new jokes, according to the advertising) and more extras than you can shake a glass of scotchy scotch scotch at. Based on the book "A Day With Wilbur Robinson", Meet The Robinsons is a film full of fun moments and some time-travel shenanigans, but it never feels like a completely satisfying movie. Seven people worked on the screenplay, including director Stephen J. Anderson, and it's a shame that not one of them could do enough to lift the thing from good to great. Wilbur is a young orphan, seemingly... Instruction: More. Output: destined to remain at the orphanage forever. None of the prospective parents who come to see him end up taking him home. He doesn't always help himself in that regard, thanks to a penchant for creating inventions that don't always work as they should, but he's a sweet kid desperate to feel wanted. Which is why he puts all of his energies into inventing a machine that will show any memories hidden away deep inside the human mind. He wants to see the face of his mother, who dropped him off at the orphanage years ago. Unfortunately, his invention gets the attention of the evil Bowler Hat Guy, which leads to a young lad named Lewis trying to help Wilbur out by taking him away for a while... Instruction: Next. Output: in his time machine. But time travel is only a good thing when people stick to the rules. It also helps if people don't... Instruction: Next. Output: crash the time machine. While Wilbur and Lewis try to put things... Instruction: More. Output: right, the Bowler Hat Guy sense victory coming his way. Mixing kid-friendly... Instruction: Continue. Output: science fiction with some quirky humour and a nice retro style, there are lots of elements here to enjoy. The third act, that brings about a few revelations and ties everything together nicely, it very good. The sweeter moments of the opening scenes are also very good. But this is a film that spends its middle section just wandering aimlessly around between pointless scenes... Instruction: Next. Output: and too many redundant characters. Okay, they're not redundant in the grand... Instruction: More. Output: scheme of things but the Robinsons are a large family with only one or two individuals who really stand out. The vocal cast isn't a big help. Although everyone does a good... Instruction: More. Output: enough job, it's a shame to have Angela Bassett, Laurie Metcalf and Harland Williams wasted in supporting roles. The latter has the most fun, and there are also small roles for Adam... Instruction: More. Output: West and Tom Selleck, but there's never enough good voice work to... Instruction: Continue. Output: shake the feeling that the whole enterprise is quite bland and anonymous. Danny Elfman provides a decent score, which is as Elfman-esque as his usual work, and there's one great gag spoken by a dinosaur (well, he makes noises and it's translated - but you have to turn on the DVD subtitle option to read it), but that's about all I have left to say. I've run out of praise to sprinkle throughout this review. Ultimately a bit of a disappointment, Meet The Robinsons is still passable entertainment. But it should have been much better. I won't beat around the bush, I love Mad Monster Party? despite knowing how flawed it is. The pacing isn't perfect, the jokes are a bit lame, the songs aren't exactly classics, and... Instruction: More. Output: the story keeps throwing up ridiculous moment after ridiculous moment. Baron Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) is throwing a party. He's due to retire, and so... Instruction: Next. Output: invites lots of famous monsters to his home on The Isle Of Evil, where he will also choose his successor. The guest list includes... Instruction: Next. Output: Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, Dr. Hyde), the invisible man, an aquatic creature (probably from a black lagoon), and . Felix Flankin, the Baron's... Instruction: Next. Output: nephew. Also in attendance are The Monster, of course, The Monster's Mate, and the lovely Francesca. And Yetch, an assistant to the Baron who... Instruction: More. Output: is quite smitten with Francesca. It may not be a Christmas-themed work, for a change, but this is unmistakably another wonderful Rankin/Bass production, with... Instruction: More. Output: the usual cast of colourful characters, lovely visual details and musical interludes. Looking at it objectively, it's a couple of notches below their best... Instruction: Next. Output: work, but what horror fan can be objective when a stop-motion feature brings together such classic archetypes? And let's not forget the zombie bird men, and a gigantic ape that also makes an appearance. The script by Len Korobkin and Harvey Kurtzman (with some uncredited help from Forrest J Ackerman, apparently) alternates between awful and great. Again, I just don't mind. Even when it's... Instruction: Next. Output: being pretty bad, in terms of dialogue and obvious gags, it's trying so hard to please that I give in to it. The vocal cast isn't exactly a who's who of celebrities from the time, but the inclusion of Karloff is the biggest plus. Allen Swift is the man responsible for most of the other voices, and does great work in every role, while Gale Garnett gets to wind the men around her little finger in the role of Francesca. Phyllis Diller has fun as The Monster's Mate, but she's given a never-ending stream of bad jokes/puns to deliver. The film is akin to one extra-large Halloween cracker, and crackers are always put out on the table when a party atmosphere is being created. The jokes in crackers... Instruction: More. Output: are usually awful, the toys/gifts are rarely much better, and there are... Instruction: Next. Output: often times when you pull them apart and don't even get a satisfying bang (now, now, stop making up your own jokes). Yet that doesn't make them, or the party, any less enjoyable. The same can be said of Mad Monster Party? There have been many movies adapted from the works of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, and a number of those movies have... Instruction: More. Output: been fantastic (yes, I'm thinking mainly of Total Recall and Blade Runner). Most of the movie adaptations, however, have failed to translate some of his more interesting ideas from page to screen. Screamers may have had some identity crises and paranoia in the mix, but it still didn't delve deep enough into the territory that Dick returned to on numerous occasions. Keanu Reeves stars... Instruction: Continue. Output: as Bob Arctor, an undercover operative who is fraying at the edges. He's supposed to be investigating sources of a drug named Substance D, but instead seems to spend too much time... Instruction: Next. Output: addicted to the damn thing and hanging out with fellow addicts, Charles... Instruction: More. Output: Freck (Rory Cochrane), James Barris (Robert Downey Jr. and Ernie Luckman (Woody... Instruction: Continue. Output: Harrelson), as well as his sorta-girlfriend, Donna Hawthorne (Winona Ryder). Things get stranger for him when he is tasked with surveilling . himself, although the superiors assigning him to keep a closer... Instruction: Continue. Output: eye on Bob Arctor don't know that he actually IS Bob Arctor (all agents work in disguise as an added safety measure). Directed, and adapted into movie form, by Richard Linklater, A... Instruction: More. Output: Scanner Darkly is a strange, smart, and unique experience. The plot may wind towards a bleak third act, but there's plenty of humour in the first hour or so, and the characters/cast all do well at holding your attention while often talking about things that seem meaningless. Although "seem" is the key word there. Everyone involved gives a great performance, with Downey Jr. on... Instruction: More. Output: top form, but, because of the rotoscoping technique used, praise must also go to the animators who worked on the film. Yes, all of... Instruction: Next. Output: the stars are pretty recognisable, but they're all slightly hidden under a layer of animation. This may seem like an odd choice, but makes perfect sense when you see Arctor working in his scramble suit - a suit that constantly changes to make identification of the wearer impossible. It also helps with the overall tone of the movie, and the more hallucinatory aspects. Science... Instruction: Next. Output: fiction that treads scarily close to science fact, A Scanner Darkly isn't guaranteed to please everyone (I know, I know, no movie does that, but you know what I mean). I hope, however, that people at least give it a try and help to build its small, but loyal, fanbase. Don't forget, every copy of my book sold gets a few pounds in my... Instruction: Continue. Output: pocket, and gets you a good read (if I say so myself)... Instruction: Next. Output: Let me start this review by reminding people that I was in the minority when it came to Monsters, the cinematic feature debut of Mr. I thought that the film was good, but not great. Edwards had the potential to do much better, I thought. When the news came that he'd been handed Godzilla, I was as excited as anyone else. And as the... Instruction: Next. Output: hype machine started to gather speed I was definitely eager to be wowed by this movie. I paid extra for IMAX tickets, I picked the best seats available, and I slipped on the 3D glasses. What's the plot? Well, after a fantastic credit sequence, we get to see Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) trying to figure out what to do about tremors that he fears... Instruction: Next. Output: may cause problems for the Japanese nuclear power station he works at. Those tremors do cause problems. Fast forward by fifteen years and Joe is still obsessing over just what happened. The area is, apparently, dangerously radioactive, but Joe thinks that something is being covered up. When he's arrested for trespassing, while trying to access his own home (abandoned in the middle of the... Instruction: Continue. Output: disaster, it has some of his work/research that he desperately needs), it's... Instruction: Continue. Output: up to his son, Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), to travel to Japan, pick him up and try to keep him out of further trouble. Ford... Instruction: Next. Output: had just started to enjoy some leave time from the military, settling down with his wife (Elizabeth Olsen) and son (Carson Bolde), but picking up his dad will soon be the least... Instruction: More. Output: of his worries. It's not long until a MUTO – Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism – shows up and starts to make a mess, to put it mildly. And then, well, it's only a matter of time until the titular creature makes an appearance. Godzilla is not a BAD film, and many fans of the big guy have expressed their absolute delight with the final... Instruction: Continue. Output: product, but it's a film that highlights just how small the bag of tricks is that director Edwards is working with. Most of the... Instruction: Continue. Output: movie can be summed up in this way – camera looks at character, character looks awestruck, camera then moves to reveal part of whatever... Instruction: Next. Output: is inspiring reaction. Seriously, remove every shot just like that and you could probably shave ten minutes off the runtime. Some have complained about the slow build, but that really didn't bother... Instruction: Continue. Output: me. Patience is a virtue, and it's fair enough to make people wait and wait for the main event. It's a shame, however, that an early trick/gag of cutting away from some... Instruction: More. Output: monstrous action is then repeated on so many occasions that you start to suspect that the whole thing is one big leg-pull. The big third act was interrupted a few times, each... Instruction: More. Output: time cutting away to scenes that seemed painfully boring compared to what viewers knew they were missing out on. It's also a shame that everything felt as if it was taking place in a large studio lot, as opposed to a city full of people. I know that evacuation measures were put into place, but I find it hard to believe that the location... Instruction: More. Output: of the final battle would be cleared out so quickly. The end... Instruction: Continue. Output: result is something that feels impressive, but also feels as if it is taking place in a vacuum. This is a failing highlighted by just how potentially great the mid-point sequence in Hawaii is, but that set-piece is one of those just used to tease the audience on the way to the grand finale. The acting from everyone concerned is just fine for the film. I thought Taylor-Johnson was decent enough as the rather bland military man who ends up stuck in the middle of a monster mash, Cranston is the human highlight of the cast, but isn't around for long enough, and Olsen has to look concerned a lot of the time, which she does. Ken Watanabe gets a few choice lines, he's a man who knows... Instruction: Next. Output: what Godzilla is and how he should be respected, while Sally Hawkins hangs around beside him and isn't given all that much to do at all. And then there's David Strathairn, who does well as the Admiral trying to save as many lives as possible. While nobody, Cranston aside, is on their best form, complaining about the acting in a Godzilla movie is like complaining about there not being enough sex and violence in a Pixar film. The two don't really go together, so just sit back and enjoy it for what it is. The other main stars are pretty superb, it must be said, with Godzilla looking the best that he's ever looked. He may be a CG creation, but he feels real, he has weight, and... Instruction: Next. Output: his appearance mixes new touches with the established, classic template. Similiar praise... Instruction: Next. Output: can be heaped upon any other creatures onscreen, although it's a shame that the main MUTO feels a bit too much like a blend between the creature from Cloverfield and Super 8. The script by Max Borenstein is okay, bringing a seriousness back to the franchise that was missing in the much-maligned 1998 movie (a film which most like to dismiss, but I enjoyed)... Instruction: Continue. Output: But giving the movie a serious tone and forgetting to include ANY sense of fun are two very different things. Aside from one cheeky gag – a big showdown being played on a news report – the film is a pretty po-faced and humourless affair. Thankfully, it does include plenty to appease fans, and at least consistently tries to deliver spectacle on a grand... Instruction: Continue. Output: scale. Last, but by no means least, I have to mention the superb audio work. The score, by Alexandre Desplat, is almost flawless throughout, and I'll happily admit that there have been... Instruction: Next. Output: few sounds to impress me in the cinema half as much as... Instruction: More. Output: hearing that mighty Godzilla roar. Even if you end up as disappointed as I was, this is a film to see on the big... Instruction: Next. Output: screen, accompanied by a superior sound system. Although it falls down on a number of main points, there are also still many great moments in the movie. Edwards has done what he... Instruction: More. Output: set out to do. Put Godzilla back on the big screen, atomic breath and all, in a movie that gives him the respect he deserves. Maybe next time he'll also respect the audience a little bit more. I knew this was going to be a tough film to watch. It was from the makers of Watership Down (which I still haven't seen . yet),... Instruction: Continue. Output: and it was a movie that left an impression on most who saw it. Well, from the very first scene, it soon became apparent... Instruction: Next. Output: that this IS a tough film to watch. Not recommended for animal lovers or very young children, The Plague Dogs is a dark adventure story about two dogs who escape from a... Instruction: Next. Output: research lab. Both have endured numerous horrors, all in the name of science, at the hands of "the white coats" and neither dog wants to end up back in that situation. Not... Instruction: Next. Output: really sure of what to do out in the wild, the two escapees end up receiving guidance from a canny fox. Meanwhile, a search... Instruction: More. Output: is organised and it looks like time is running out for the furry fugitives. Based on the novel by Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs was adapted into movie form and directed by Martin Rosen, and the man doesn't pull any punches. It's hard to imagine people thinking of this being pitched to younger viewers, but it's also admirable that the subject matter has been... Instruction: Next. Output: dealt with in a way that will cause all viewers to be upset by what they see, and to consider just how animals are inconsiderately, and sometimes cruelly, treated. The animals are easy to sympathise with, and easy to root for, without being transformed into anthropomorphic Disney creations. Voiced by John Hurt and Christopher Benjamin, both of the dogs are likable without ever being... Instruction: Continue. Output: made cute. The bigger dog, especially, has moments in which it snaps at humans, but with good reason. Anybody/anything would react in the same... Instruction: More. Output: way after such maltreatment. The fox (voiced by James Bolam) is a bit harder to warm to, seemingly sneaky and selfish on occasion, but as the movie develops it becomes easier to... Instruction: Continue. Output: understand him, and to realise that he's just acting according to his nature. Parents will want to vet this one, no pun intended, before deciding whether or not to let youngsters watch... Instruction: Next. Output: it, but I hope that most people realise how good, how worthwhile, it is. It's the kind of family film that we don't really see any more in the timid, sanitized products... Instruction: Next. Output: that tend to rule the box office nowadays (with one or two exceptions). I encourage families to watch the film together, to deal with the emotional turbulence, and to then discuss it after the end credits roll. Shiny, bright, easy entertainment, Robots is enjoyable enough, despite the fact that it's a couple of notches below any of the better animated movies of the last decade. It's lovely to look at, with design work that holds up well alongside any other title from the decade, but just doesn't have much else going for it. Ewan McGregor voices Rodney Copperbottom, a robot who dreams of being a great inventor. He decides to head off on a quest to impress the mighty Bigweld (Mel Brooks), the big cheese in Robot City... Instruction: Continue. Output: Unfortunately, Bigweld is no longer in charge of his own company, which is now being managed by the greedy, devious Ratchet (Greg Kinnear). Rodney still wants to meet Bigweld, and his persistence might just lead to an upturn in the fortunes of the poorer residents of Robot City (including Fender, voiced by Robin Williams). Co-directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, there's a wealth... Instruction: Continue. Output: of detail and gorgeousness in every scene here. The same can't be said of the script, written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and David Lindsay-Abaire. It's not exactly poor, but it just feels a bit flat. Even the lines rattled off by Robin Williams feel lacking in energy, especially compared to his far superior turn in Aladdin (over two decades old, but still one of the standout performances in any animated work). While the vocal cast all do well, it's a shame that there aren't a few more easily identifiable voices. Williams is obviously Williams, and Paul Giamatti is always welcome in any movie, but McGregor provides a bland, American accent, and Kinnear seems a bit tame in a role that you'd expect him to seize with his... Instruction: Continue. Output: usual relish. Brooks, great director that he is, doesn't make much of an impression as Bigweld, while Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Stanley Tucci, Amanda... Instruction: More. Output: Bynes, Dianne Wiest and the rest of the cast are in the... Instruction: Continue. Output: same boat. They all do a perfectly good job at reading their lines, but they're left bereft of any real personality. Funnily enough, it's Jennifer Coolidge, in a supporting role, who ends up as one of the most memorable robots, thanks to her fun character actually matching her usual onscreen persona. Robots has all of the parts in place, all of the nuts and... Instruction: More. Output: bolts are on, but it just put a decent motor into the... Instruction: Continue. Output: gorgeous exterior. Aesthetically pleasing it may be, and a lot of the visual gags are very enjoyable, but the fact that it never fires on all cylinders (pardon the pun) means that... Instruction: Continue. Output: it's unlikely to be anyone's first choice when browsing the family entertainment section. As slow burn thrillers go, this is one of the best... Instruction: Next. Output: I can think of in recent years. I could start to describe the different movies it hews close to, but that just might end up doing it a disservice. So I'll just say that it takes a lot of familiar beats from the revenge thriller subgenre and twists them ever so slightly, making things feel a lot fresher in the process. Macon Blair is... Instruction: Next. Output: Dwight, a young, homeless man. He may seem to have no plan in life, and no ambition, but it soon becomes clear that there's one thing he wants, at any cost. When a kind police officer takes him back to the station to break some bad news - the killer of his parents is finally being freed from prison - Dwight then sets about preparing for what he knows he must do. Unfortunately, it doesn't go quite as planned, which sets off a damaging sequence of events that Dwight is then desperate to stop. Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, Blue Ruin is one of those movies best described as quietly powerful. Or, perhaps, brooding. Almost every scenes is loaded with the potential for danger and pain, either... Instruction: Continue. Output: physical or emotional. But that's not all there is to it. There are some jumps here and there, some scenes that will get your... Instruction: Next. Output: heart racing, and a number of scenes that show just how good Saulnier is at using various cinematic techniques to wring more tension from the material. The cast all do a great... Instruction: Continue. Output: job, but the top honours go to Blair for his portrayal of Dwight. First shown with an unruly head of hair and big, shaggy beard, Dwight may physically transform as the movie unfolds but his behaviour never changes. He has always been determined to get his revenge, but he's also a timid man who doesn't really know what he's doing. Amy Hargreaves doesn't have... Instruction: Next. Output: much screentime, playing Dwight's sister, but she does well enough, Devin Ratray is enjoyable as an old friend who helps Dwight out, and Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb and David W. Thompson all do a good job as relatives of the man Dwight is aiming for. Although I don't think it's QUITE as good as all of the praise it has been garnering over the... Instruction: More. Output: past few weeks, Blue Ruin is still very good indeed. It's worth seeing, and it's worth going out of your way to see it... Instruction: Continue. Output: at a local cinema, because supporting quality independent cinema means that we can get more and more of it. Which is good for us movie lovers. It's strange now to think of the many, many years before Pixar were such a huge success in the realm of animated movies, but Toy Story certainly announced their arrival in the best way possible. Smart, packed with... Instruction: Next. Output: great gags and characters, a visual delight (although Pixar would develop and improve with each subsequent movie), and benefiting from a premise that will... Instruction: Continue. Output: appeal to any child, and anyone who can remember their childhood. Woody (Tom Hanks) is a cowboy, and he's also young Andy's favourite toy. When nobody else is around, the toys are all able to live the lives that they keep secret from all of us humans. But things change when Andy receives a shiny new toy for his birthday. A Buzz Lightyear (Tim... Instruction: Continue. Output: Allen) action figure. Buzz has a laser, wings, better audio speakers, the lot. He's a super duper, shiny spaceman, and his presence threatens Woody's position as the number one toy in the room. And to add to the frustration, Buzz doesn't realise that he is a toy. He thinks that he is THE Buzz Lightyear. Directed by John Lasseter, who also developed the story... Instruction: Next. Output: idea with Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft, Toy Story remains not just one of Pixar's best movies, but also a statement of... Instruction: Next. Output: intent. It showed just how in tune they were with audiences, mixing fresh ideas and animation with enough jokes and nostalgia to keep adults happy. The script is packed full of great lines, written by Stanton, Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen, and one Joss Whedon, and the world of the toys is rendered in a creative, colourful, and brilliantly believable, way by the team of... Instruction: Continue. Output: talented animators. The voice cast is the icing on the cake. Hanks... Instruction: More. Output: and Allen are both superb as Woody and Buzz, but the film is given even more plus points thanks to the involvement of Don... Instruction: Continue. Output: Rickles, Jim Varney, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, R. Lee Ermey, Annie Potts, and, well, basically everyone who lends their voice to any character (including... Instruction: More. Output: Erik von Detten, who does great work as Sid, the nasty kid who lives next door, and spends a lot of his time damaging... Instruction: Next. Output: toys). The original, and still the best, Toy Story is an object lesson in how to make a modern movie for the whole family. The tools are used to realise the story,... Instruction: Next. Output: as opposed to being overused just because they're available, the film talks directly to children without ever talking down to them, and both the... Instruction: Next. Output: script and visuals provide enough gags and details to keep boredom at bay, no matter how many times you've already seen it. Wallace and Gromit are two British characters, the former a human and the latter his dog, with a great love of cheese, and the two have been entertaining us in numerous short films for years now. Created by Nick Park, the big boss at Aardman Animation, they are, arguably, the best double-act from the UK since The Two Ronnies. Oh yes, they're THAT good, even if they're made of plasticine/clay and only move thanks to stop-motion animation. But not every great duo can make the transition from the small screen to the big screen. There is, however, nothing to complain about here. This feature movie is... Instruction: Continue. Output: a joy from start to finish. The plot sees our two main characters finding themselves a bit perturbed when local villagers have their greenhouses and vegetable plots ransacked. Wallace and Gromit, having offered security with their Anti-Pesto humane pest control service, have a lot of fingers pointed at them for their inability to deal with the situation, but this is a situation that nobody... Instruction: More. Output: could have envisioned. As the title suggests, this is one veg-munching pest unlike any they have dealt with before. There's also a potential love interest, in the shape of Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter), and some rivalry from Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes), a man who believes that the best way to deal with pesky rabbits is just to shoot them all. Directed by Steve... Instruction: More. Output: Box and Nick Park, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Mark Burton and Bob Baker, Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit... Instruction: Continue. Output: is, for me, practically perfect in every way. Every scene is so jam-packed with jokes and references to other movies that repeat viewings are essential, but nothing ever detracts from the main events that are put front and centre. Peter Sallis returns to voice Wallace, a wise decision as the character just wouldn't seem the same with anyone else voicing the part, and he... Instruction: Next. Output: simply IS Wallace. Carter and Fiennes are both a lot of fun in very different ways, and Peter Kay gets to raise a smile or two as PC Mackintosh. I could praise every single member of the voice cast, and I could quote over a hundred great lines from the script, and I could wax lyrical about the detailing and look of each scene,... Instruction: Continue. Output: but that still wouldn't necessarily convey just how much I love this film. Because, as immature as it may seem, even just seeing bunnies floating around while caught in a humane piece... Instruction: Continue. Output: of kit that sucks them up into a containment unit is enough to put a huge grin on my face. The '80s, as far... Instruction: Next. Output: as I'm aware, is the decade when people here in the UK... Instruction: Continue. Output: REALLY started to take notice of anime. Akira is the title, I think, that really led to an increased interest in the form, but there were other titles that came along to help. Personally, discovering Urotsukidoji: Legend Of The Overfiend as a teenager was quite an eye-opener. Especially as I didn't even know what the word "hentai" meant back then. I'm not sure that... Instruction: More. Output: many others did either. Based on comics by Toshio Maeda, this is a film edited from some previous anime episodes, but they're all put together quite seamlessly (as far as I was concerned). It's a tale chock full of demons, big battles, sex, nudity, more sex, tentacles, and all of the stuff that would ensure my attention was held as a teenager. The plot... Instruction: More. Output: is quite simple - an entity is about to enter Earth that will reunite the different worlds and make everything better - but it's given plenty of twists and turns as characters try to find the entity in time to either help or hinder it. The vocal work here is okay, but I'm not going to list everyone or single out anyone for praise... Instruction: Next. Output: Nobody really stands out. It's competent stuff. The animation is, likewise, competent. Crude at times, and many scenes are just far too busy, but... Instruction: More. Output: it puts onscreen what is needed (well, needed by this particular storyline). Director Hideki Takayama, working from a screenplay by Sho Aikawa, does a... Instruction: Continue. Output: good job, and it's impressive that neither writer nor director stayed away from the more extreme aspects of the material. But the most praised... Instruction: More. Output: must be given to Maeda, who had the warped and brilliant imagination... Instruction: More. Output: to come up with the whole thing in the first place. Okay, it's often juvenile stuff (especially in the first half hour), but it's also enjoyably insane, full to the brim with nastiness, and the kind of epic tale that can often only be given justice in comic/animated form. I don't really understand the appeal of hentai, but I do sometimes enjoy demonic beings... Instruction: Continue. Output: fighting one another, and plenty of blood 'n' guts. Which this delivers... Instruction: Next. Output: in abundance.

Human: What could be the completion of this text: We go backstage to the Hangman 3. Pearce says that he knows what we want. Pearce says that Delirious wants to wear the clown face he can wear it permanently. Crowd is hot for both teams as they make their way out to the ring. Stevens and Quackenbush lock up and Stevens shoves Quackenbush down to the mat. Stevens wants a knuckle lock and Quackenbush outsmarts Stevens and takes him to the mat and sweeps the leg and lands a big double stomp. Stevens sends Quackenbush in to the ropes and goes for a big headscissors rolls all the way around and goes in to the octopus and Stevens forces Quackenbush in to the corner and both men tag out. Jigsaw lands a series of arm drags and rolls through and goes in to the pin attempt for a near fall. Jigsaw comes off the ropes and goes for the headscissors but Cross reverses and takes him down face first. Stevens gets the tag in and lands a series of shots and forearms to the back. Cross comes back in and Stevens sends holds Jigsaw in to the turnbuckle face first and Cross comes out of the turnbuckle and they do the Beverly Brothers spot except this time Cross leaps over with double knees to the back. Cross whips Jigsaw in to the ropes and lands a big dropkick for a near fall. Cross goes to pick up Jigsaw for a suplex but Jigsaw gets the quick roll up but Cross fires back with a clothesline and tags back out to Stevens. Stevens does some stuff and then tags back out and sends Jigsaw in to the ropes and gets Jigsaw in a sidewalk slam followed by a big dropkick from Jigsaw. Jigsaw climbs the ropes and goes for a big split legged moonsault but Jigsaw gets the knees up and both men make the tag out to their respective partners. Quackenbush comes in and lands a big shot on Stevens and a big flying forearm. Quack and Jigsaw get both their opponents in neutral corners and land big knee strikes. Jigsaw climbs the ropes and lands a big frankensteiner followed by a Swanton Bomb from Quackenbush for a near fall. More spots this time from Stevens and Cross as Stevens whips Jigsaw in to a big back elbow from Cross followed by a back suplex from Stevens and a corkscrew moonsault for a near fall. Quackenbush picks up Cross and lands a big face first slam and goes in to an armbar but Cross escapes. Finish sees Stevens block a superkick from Jigsaw and land an elevated clothesline followed by the Doctor Bomb for the win. Winners: The Resilience - Erick Stevens and Matt Cross. Solid and very hot opener as always the Manhattan crowd was in to the whole match and seemed to be split between both teams. This is Jacobs' second match back from an injury that he suffered in the incredible cage match with BJ Whitmer back at Supercard of Honor 2. Jacobs came back the previous night in Hartford with a win over Rhett Titus. Jacobs of course gets the huge reaction and welcome back chants from the Manhattan Crowd. Jacobs and Franklin lock up. Franklin wrenches the arm and goes in to a side headlock and is able to take Jacobs off of his feet with a nice arm drag and Jacobs rolls to the floor. Jacobs forces Franklin in to the ropes and lands a big uppercut but Franklin ducks a clothesline and dropkicks Jacobs in the knee and Jacobs again rolls out of the ring. Jacobs comes back and sets up Franklin against the ring post and lands a big dropkick and then hooks the arms of Franklin and just drives him face first in to the mat. Franklin ducks a shot and lands a quick crucifix on Jacobs for a near fall. Franklin catches Jacobs coming in to the corner with a big back elbow and a frankensteiner in to the ring post and quickly rolls up Jacobs for a near fall. Jacobs comes back and ties Franklin to the tree of woe lands the Kevin Sullivan-esque Double Knee and then comes off the second rope with a dropkick. Jacobs climbs the ropes and lands a big senton bomb and then locks in the End Time and gets the easy submission on Franklin. We go backstage to Jack Evans. Evans says that tonight ROH is blessed to have three founding members of Generation Next. Evans says that he has found someone to Psych him up and motivate him and we hear a very familiar voice in the background making vulture sounds, "And you know this. man! "The Hangmen 3 come to the ring. Pearce gets the microphone and tells the NYC crowd to shut up and basically shits on some of the ringside fans. Pearce says that the previous night in Hartford BJ Whitmer saw the light and figured out that pandering to the fans wouldn't help him. Pearce says last night they stapled the mask to Delirious' face and now he can wear it permanently. Delirious charges the ring and goes right after The Hangmen and as they start to get the advantage Nigel and Pelle come to the ring and help Delirious clean house to start this special 6 man tag. Delirious sends Pearce in to the corner and lands a series of shots. Nigel and Delirious whip in to the ropes and lands a big back elbow and Pearce who rolls out. Nigel sends Pearce in to the barricade and lands a big running uppercut and sends him in to a big double stomp off the apron from Pelle. Pelle gets the tag in and Pearce sends him in to the ropes and Pelle catches him with a spinning swinging DDT on Pearce and tags out. Delirious goes for the Cobra Stretch but Pearce reverses and lands a big choke slam and then uses the mask of Delirious to make sure that Delirious can't tag out. Whitmer gets the tag in and lands a big suplex and then tags to Albright. Albright comes in and lands a big suplex and then tags back to Whitmer. Whitmer lands another big suplex and locks in a big chinlock which Delirious attempts to fight out of but Whitmer uses the mask the pull Delirious down to the mat. Albright comes in and locks in another chinlock and Delirious is able to escape and land a sunset flip for a near fall. Delirious goes for a tag but Albright knocks both Nigel and Pelle off the apron with a huge forearm shot. Albright then lands a big belly to belly suplex and tags to Pearce. Pearce locks in a nerve hold. Delirious makes it to his feet and forces Pearce in the corner and tags out but the referee doesn't catch it which allows Pearce to make a fake tag and Whitmer kicks down Delirious. Whitmer whips Delirious in to the corner but Delirious lands a big shot on Whitmer coming in followed by a frankensteiner and finally tags out. Nigel comes in and cleans house of everybody including many Lariats for everyone including Shane Hagadorn who tried to get involved. There was a nice spot where Nigel had Whitmer set up on the ropes and at the same time as he hit the Tower of London Pelle came off with the double stomp. Albright comes in and just nails Pelle with a vicious forearm shot sending Pelle down and then ducks a lariat from Nigel and lands a big Half Nelson Suplex taking Nigel out of the picture. Delirious drop toeholds Albright in to the middle turnbuckle and lands the panic attack but turns around and gets a rack bomb from Pearce. Pelle sets up Pearce and comes off with a nice double stomp but then gets nailed with a big boot from Whitmer. Whitmer then picks up Pelle and lands a sick spinning tombstone the Adrenaline Spike is what Lenny Leonard called it and scores the pin. PAC gets a nice response from the fans in Manhattan. Richards and PAC lock up. Richards hooks the arm and forces Pac to the mat but Pac escapes. PAC comes back and takes down PAC but Richards reverses with a nice headscissors. Richards hooks the arm but this time takes PAC down and lands several shots to the back of PAC who rolls to the apron to get away from Richards. Richards knuckle locks PAC and forces him down and rolls him over but PAC counters the front chancery and Richards gets to the ropes and bails to the floor. PAC sends Davey in to the ropes and leaps over and lands a big dropkick and again Davey rolls out. PAC goes for a big dive but instead catches Davey walking away and just launches himself back in to the ring and gets a nice response from the crowd. Davey wants a knuckle lock with PAC but catches him with a shot to the gut instead. Later on PAC is able to send Davey to the floor and Davey hits his head on the barricade and then PAC comes off the top rope with a big shooting star press. PAC rolls Davey in to the ring. PAC whips Davey in to the ropes but Davey catches him coming in with a big spin kick and sends PAC in to the ropes but PAC is able to rebound and lands a nice victory roll for a near fall. Davey waistlocks PAC and lands a German Suplex for a near fall and then holds on wraps up the arms and lands a huge straight jacket suplex for a near fall. Davey whips PAC in to the corner and lands a big forearm strike followed by a clothesline nearly knocking PAC out of his boots. PAC comes back and lands a big shooting star press on Davey while Davey is still on his feet. PAC went for a big flip off the ropes but Davey catches him and goes for a powerbomb which PAC counters in to a pin attempt for a near fall. PAC climbs the ropes from the inside but Davey catches him and goes for a back suplex and PAC fights him off. Davey scales the ropes but PAC is able to counter a top rope German Suplex by landing on his feet. PAC charges at Richards but Richards sidesteps him sending him shoulder first in to the middle turnbuckle. Davey gets Pac up and turns a back suplex in to a Tombstone Piledriver and then locks in the kimura armlock for the win. Winner: Davey Richards. Good little match between these two. Lots of high spots to make the crowd pop and unfortunately for PAC he is unable to win and get a roster spot. Jack Evans comes out and cuts a promo saying that he said back at the Fifth Year Festival in NYC that he was going to form a stable. But he doesn't have a good work ethic and he needs someone to hype him up and motivate him. Evans brings out his new manager Julius Smokes who christens the group the Vulture Squad and Evans seems very excited now as was the crowd who went crazy for this. Strong lands a quick kick to the gut on Evans and throws Aries to the floor. Strong lands some chops and forearms on Evans and sends Evans in to the ropes but Aries trips up Evans and Aries launches back in with the Eddie Guerrero-esque leaping headbutt on Evans and then ducks a clothesline and takes out Strong with a quebrada. Aries and Evans double team Strong and land a double arm drag and then a dropkick from Evans and the powerdrive elbow from Aries. Aries lands a big shin breaker and goes for the back suplex but Evans escapes and then avoids the figure four and Evans kicks him out of the ring. Evans goes for the frankensteiner but ... Assistant: Strong catches him and drops him with a powerbomb. Strong gets a table and wedges it between the ring apron and the barricade. Strong tries to suplex Aries through the table but Aries avoids in and both men Strong lands a big spinning slam on Aries but Evans stops the cover. Aries tries to superplex Evans but Strong comes up from behind and lands a big back suplex taking Aries off of the middle rope. Aries tries to suplex Strong back in and ends up just bringing him back in to the ring and Strong lands a big inverted brainbuster but Evans saves Aries. Strong picks up Aries and lands the double knees and goes for the Stronghold but Evans catches him and lands the reverse frankensteiner. Aries goes for a suplex on Evans but Evans escapes and then ducks a clothesline and Aries takes out referee Paul Turner. Aries lands a brainbuster from the top rope but as he goes for the 450 Splash Strong shoves him through the table to the floor. Strong waves to Davey Richards who comes out and they begin to beat down Evans. Smokes gets the microphone and says now it's time to meet the chocolate vulture. Out comes Ruckus who cleans house and takes out Davey on the floor with a big dive. Aries recovers and seems a bit confused and ends up getting beat down by the Vulture Squad. The rest of the Resilience come out to the ring and they brawl with the Vulture Squad which ends with Ruckus taking everyone out with a huge dive to the floor. Back in the ring Strong blasts Aries with a chair shot to the back and a big boot. Finish sees Erick Stevens come in to the ring and nail Strong with a chair which leads to the brainbuster and the 450 Splash on Strong to gain the win. Winner: Austin Aries. Fantastic 3 way match lots of excitement and electricity from the NYC Crowd and a whole lot of cool spots. For now Austin Aries has the top faction in ROH but of course the whole balance is going to shift. We go backstage to Rebecca Bayless who is with Jimmy Jacobs. Jacobs says today was a good day and he hasn't had a whole lot of those in the last 5 months of rehab. Jacobs also says that he's found a new purpose in ROH and soon enough the fans will now what that new purpose is. Another tease for the Age of the Fall. We go backstage to the Resilience. Aries says that all bets are off. Aries says that Strong has forgotten that he was the Champion he was the dirtiest player in ROH. Aries says that weather it be the the Vulture Squad or the NRC he will prove that the Resilience is the best faction in ROH. This match was apparently thrown on the show during the intermission because neither Ruckus or Edwards were scheduled for matches and we have a match. Edwards lands a kick to the gut and a big forearm. Edwards whips Ruckus in to the ropes but Ruckus slides through the legs and Edwards blocks a boot but Ruckus back flips and lands a headscissors sending Edwards to the floor. Ruckus goes for a dive but instead just lands on his feet and catches Edwards with a big boot and lands a big shooting star press off the apron. Edwards sends Ruckus in to the corner but Ruckus catches him with a big boot to the face and goes for the Tornado DDT but Edwards counters and places Ruckus on the ropes and lands the back pack stunner for a near fall. Ruckus escapes and lands a big flip kick sending both men to the mat. Ruckus and Edwards trade forearms. Ruckus whips Edwards in to the ropes and ducks his head and Edwards leaps over Ruckus but Ruckus rolls through and lands a big double stomp and then lands a twisting splash for a near fall. Ruckus picks up and slams Edwards and goes for a moonsault leg drop but as he comes down and Edwards rolls up Ruckus for a near fall. Ruckus whips Edwards in to the corner and lands the big double knees and then a rolling fisherman's suplex for a near fall. Edwards goes for a suplex but gets stopped and Ruckus lands a sweet flip in to a corkscrew dive for the win. This is built up from what happened at Final Battle 2006 when Hero chose Larry Sweeney over Claudio. Then at Death Before Dishonor V Night 2 in Philadelphia it was Hero not only defeating Claudio in a tag match and then attacked him and busted up the Race to the Top Trophy and busted up Claudio's eye. Hero stalls on the floor and Claudio chases Sweeney to the back. Hero catches Claudio coming in to the ring with a series of shots but Claudio takes him down with a shoulder tackle sending Hero to the floor. Hero stalls more but Claudio pulls him back on to the apron and then stretches him out and drops Hero face first to the mat. Hero lands a basement dropkick sending Claudio to the floor but gets to doing all his stupid poses and turns right in to an uppercut from Claudio and Hero rolls to the floor. Claudio sets Hero in to the barricade and lands the big uppercut. Claudio goes to whip Hero in to the barricade but Hero just runs in to Bobby Dempsey and then kicks Claudio in to the crowd. Claudio attempts to get back in to the ring but Sweeney and Del Rey way get involved form the outside the ring which brings out Daizee Haze to neutralize Sweeney and Del Rey. Hero rolls Claudio in to ring and lands a big series of shots and Claudio tries to go for a whip but Hero reverses and lands a quick roaring elbow and lands a big running kick to the head. Hero locks in a front facelock and as Claudio tries to fight out of it but gets thrown to the floor and Hero comes off the apron with a big elbow off the apron and drops him throat first in to the barricade. Hero sends Claudio back in to the ring and lands a series of shots. Claudio comes back and sends Hero to the floor with a big dropkick and takes Hero out with a big dive to the floor. Claudio avoids a springboard double Ax Handle from Hero and scoops the legs and lands the Giant Swing and lands a running uppercut. Claudio goes for the Alpamare Waterslide but Hero blocks with a few shots. Claudio lands a beautiful springboard uppercut followed by the Match Killer and lands a big bicycle kick for a near fall. Hero sidesteps a charging Claudio lands a roaring elbow followed by a German Suplex and a drop suplex for a near fall. Hero climbs the ropes but Claudio catches him and lands a big headscissors. Claudio and Hero exchange forearms for a bit. Claudio sends Hero in to the corner but Hero catches him and lands a big neckbreaker off the ropes for a near fall. Hero goes for the Hero's Welcome but Claudio escapes. Claudio lands a springboard uppercut and the Ricola Bomb for the win. ## Winner: Claudio Castagnoli. Good match between these two. Crowd loves Claudio and crowd hated Hero as to be expected. Claudio gets the big win proving he was the better man in this match. This is Danielson's first title match since losing the belt at Final Battle 2006 ironically enough in the same venue. Morishima and Danielson lock up. Danielson forces Morishima in to the corner and lands a series of kicks to the leg of Shima. Morishima and Danielson lock up in a knuckle lock and Morishima forces Danielson in to the ropes and goes for several shots and again Danielson just kicks him in the leg. The first several minutes of the match were basically a game of cat and mouse as Morishima would try to get his hands on Danielson but Danielson would find some way out of it. Morishima finally and quite literally corners Danielson and just unloads with several punches and kicks and somewhere during this Danielson suffered a serious eye injury that the commentary team mentioned that Danielson was grabbing at his eye. Match spills to the floor and Morishima sends Danielson in to the barricade. Morishima seats Danielson and lands the big running ass bump to Danielson. Morishima seats Danielson in another chair on the opposite side but Danielson avoids it dumps Morishima in to the crowd and then lands a big dive in to the crowd taking out Morishima. Danielson then wrapped the leg of Morishima on the barricade and picks up a chair and just nails Morishima in the leg with the steel chair. Danielson rolls Morishima in o the ring and lands a big dropkick off the top rope but Morishima catches Danielson coming off the ropes with a big clothesline. Morishima goes for the Backdrop Driver but Danielson counters and ends up on top for a near fall. Morishima went for the big butt butt but Danielson kicks out the leg and locks in a leglock but Morishima gets back to his feet and escapes via use of a German Suplex awesome spot. Danielson goes back to the leg and locks in an ankle lock but Morishima gets to the ropes to break the hold. Morishima sends Danielson in to the ropes and lands a Thesz Press but Danielson hooks on to the leg and floats over in to a nice half grab but Danielson gets to the ropes. Danielson is able to catch Morishima charging and small package him for a near fall and then lands a big roaring elbow and a forearm and rolls up Morishima for another near fall. Morishima whips Danielson in to the ropes and Danielson attempts to sit down on the chest and scores a near fall. Danielson comes back and lands the big series of elbows to the head and the collapses Morishima and then hooks the arms and just bounces Morishima's head off the mat like it was a basketball being pounced on the floor of Madison Square Garden. Danielson then locks in the cattle mutilation but is unable to get the submission due to Morishima reaching the ropes. Danielson props Morishima on the ropes and goes for a back suplex but Morishima blocks and lands on top of Danielson. Morishima lands a big lariat on Danielson but only scores a near fall. Morishima picks up Danielson and this time lands the backdrop driver and this time to the shock of the Manhattan Crowd keeps Danielson down and scores the fall. Winner and Still ROH World Champion: Takeshi Morishima. Fantastic Title Match between these two. Both men took everything that the other had to offer but in the end Morishima walks out still the ROH World Champion. This is the continuation of the issue between Steenerico and The Briscoes. Steenerico was able to take three straight matches in 2 straight nights from The Briscoes during Death Before Dishonor V Weekend winning a Street Fight in Boston. Then Generico won a falls count anywhere over Mark while Steen won a lights out match over Jay in Philadelphia. Briscoes were able to sort of avenge that the previous night at Caged Rage in Hartford by retaining the titles in a Steel Cage Match. Match starts off with all four men brawling on the floor. Mark suplexes Generico on a steel chair but on the other side of the ring Steen sends Jay in to the barricade and then lands a big plancha on Jay. Match finally gets in the ring where the Briscoes take over and land a double side slam on Generico Jay forces Generico in to the corner and lands a big chop and tags in to Mark. Human: Fill in spans: Mark forces Generico in to the corner and lands a series of shoulder blocks. Mark lands a nice big gut wrench suplex for a big knee drop for a near fall. Jay comes in and lands a [spans 1] disrespect. Steen and Jay trade shots until Steen is able to force Jay in to the corner and lands a series of chops. [spans 2] fall. Generico tags out and whip Mark [spans 3] fall. Steen whips Jay in to the corner but Jay catches Steen coming in with a big boot and lands a neckbreaker off of the ropes and tags to Mark. Mark cleans house of both Steen and Generico. Mark springs off one side of the ring and lands a big double stomp followed by springboarding off the other side of the ropes and landing a corkscrew splash. Mark gets Steen up in a big sidewalk slam with Jay coming off with the leg drop off the ropes for a near fall. Briscoes whip Steen in to the ropes but Steen holds on and drops Jay on top of Mark with a spinebuster for a near fall. Generico gets the tag and lands a big crossbody off the ropes for a near fall. Finish of the first fall sees Mark landing an Arabian Press on Generico and then taking out Steen on the floor and Jay landing the big frog splash for the win in the first fall. Second fall begins with a very dangerous spot as The Briscoes clubbered Generico and just double hip tossed him over the top rope to the floor. Steen is in the ring and doesn't realize that both Briscoes are in there with him and blows snot at Mark and slaps Jay. Brisoces attack him and land a big double [spans 4] him. First several minutes of the second fall are comprised of The Briscoes basically taking their turns beating up Steen with chops and forearms. Steen and Jay traded forearms at one point which led [spans 5] stomp. Mark gets a head of steam which leads to Generico pulling down the ropes and Mark going to the floor. Steen gets [spans 6] floor. Steen and Jay trade shots until Jay lands a wicked Death Valley Driver on Steen on the apron. Generico recovers and dives through the bottom rope and lands a spinning DDT on Mark. Jay comes back while Generico is pandering to the crowd and takes Generico out with a nice frankensteiner to the floor to a big pop as all four men are laid out. Steen and Mark trade forearms and eventually take each other out with clotheslines before both making the tags to their respective partners. Jay and Generico trade shots and Jay lands a big Gordbuster. Generico attempts a brainbuster off the ropes but Jay blocks and Mark lands a big Diamond Cutter off the ropes followed by a big leg drop from Jay for a near fall. Briscoes goes for the springboard doomsday device but Steen pulls Mark off the apron and Generico rolls up Jay for a near fall. Mark goes for a dive off the apron but Steen catches him coming off the apron and [spans 7] Jay. Generico rolls Jay in to the ring and lands a big splash followed by a big swanton from Steen for a near fall. Mark goes for a big moonsault but Steen [spans 8] dropkick. Steen lands the package piledriver on Mark and tries [spans 9] ring. Jay does the same spot that Steenerico as Jay lands the Jay Driller followed by rolling Steen in to the Cut Throat Driver from Mark for the win. Winners 2 falls to none and Still ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jay and Mark Briscoe. Great main event tag match here especially the last 10 minutes of just all spots from all four men in the [spans 10] falls. After the match, Steen pulls a ladder out from underneath the ring and waffles both Briscoes with it and Steenerico leave with the belts to end the show. Just about everything had a purpose and there were several matches that range from good to great. The opener was a fun little tag match. A great mid card match with Davey-Pac and [spans 11] hype. Morishima-Danielson was a fantastic title match and of course the main event of Briscoes-Steenerico was an awesome main event and this show is a must buy in my opinion. It's a new year with an old familiar friend as Frank Vaughn returns to AMPN alongside co-host and producer C. Smith to cover WWE Raw on February 5th, 2018 - a show where Braun Strowman stood tall and mighty at the end! How did we get there though? Listen and find out. Don't miss AMP Raw Reaction courtesy of The AngryMarks Podcast Network!. 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Input: how to fill in the missing spans: Cash-secured equity puts (CSEPs) are a popular options strategy and can be an effective way to acquire a stock you would like to own. Whenever I talk about the potential benefits of cash-secured equity puts (CSEPs), the question I'm asked most often is, "How do I find good candidates? "There's no single answer, but let me walk you through the five-step process I've used for many years, which might make your search for quality candidates a little easier. As I've written previously, the profit-and-loss characteristics of a CSEP are very similar to those of a buy/write (covered call), and the ideal scenario is one where you are bullish on the underlying stock in the long term, but you are neutral to slightly bearish about the market in the near term. The strategy can still be profitable in a slightly bullish market, or even an extremely [spans 1] potential. It's also important to look at market volatility because CSEPs typically perform best when volatility is stable or declining. However, when the market is slightly bearish, volatility is often rising. The most common method for gauging market volatility is the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). You can get quotes using ticker symbol $VIX on any Schwab trading platform. While the VIX measures implied volatility on the S&P 500® index, it's also considered a proxy for market volatility overall. As you get a read on [spans 2] profitably. In a slightly bearish market, it's important that the volatility be relatively high from a historical perspective. Under these circumstances, consider choosing a strike [spans 3] money. When volatility is relatively high options prices will usually [spans 4] volatility. This will provide further room for the stock to fall before being assigned, and in a moderately bearish market this is a key consideration. While options that are 5-10% out of the money will have [spans 5] worthwhile. By selling options that are significantly out of the money, you greatly reduce your potential profit [spans 6] worthless. However, if you are assigned you will end up paying a much lower [spans 7] market. During a flat market in which volatility may be average from a historical perspective, consider choosing a strike price for your put options that is approximately 1-5% out of the money. When volatility is average, options prices will typically be a little lower than during a bearish market and that might cause options that are farther out of the money to be priced so low that the risks involved outweigh the profit potential. When the market is relatively stable or flat, the downside protection provided by lower-strike puts may be considered less important. By selling just slightly out of the money puts, you not only increase the premium you receive, [spans 8] worthless. In a bullish market, when volatility may be below average from a historical perspective, consider choosing [spans 9] money. When volatility is below average, option prices will typically be lower than during a flat or bearish market, so choosing a strike price very close to the money will usually result in a large enough option premium to make the strategy worthwhile. While at the [spans 10] market. Additionally, by choosing a strike price that is approximately at the money, you increase your chances of being assigned, but you also increase the option premium you receive the day you sell the puts. Take a look at the table below, which shows hypothetical examples of how different strike prices and volatilities could affect CSEPs under various market conditions. Notice that during a bearish market, when downside protection is a big concern, you would typically select a strike price for your puts that is 5-10% out of the money. In our example, the stock is trading at $44.05 and the proposed strike price of the puts is $40. Since the implied volatility is relatively high at 50%, this trade has a maximum profit of only 0.9% if the puts expire worthless, but it provides a downside hedge of 10.1% if the puts are assigned. (After assignment, all the normal risks of stock ownership begin. In other words, while the options would be assigned if the stock dropped below $40 at expiration, you wouldn't incur losses unless the stock fell below $39.60—a drop of more than 10% from the day the puts were sold. [spans 11] expiration. During a flat market, when downside protection is of moderate concern, it usually makes sense to select a strike price for your puts that is 1-5% out of the money. The stock in our example is trading at $44.05 and the strike price of the puts is $42. Since the implied volatility is a little lower at 44%, this trade has a maximum profit of only 1.8% if the puts expire worthless, and it provides a downside hedge of 6.5% if the puts are assigned. In other words, while [spans 12] expiration. During a bullish market, downside protection is of less concern, and you would typically select a strike price for your puts that is approximately at the money. In the example, the stock is trading at $44.05 and the strike price of the puts is $44. Since the implied volatility is relatively low at 38%, this trade has a maximum profit of only 3.3% if the puts expire worthless, and it only provides a [spans 13] assigned. In other words, while the options would be assigned if the stock dropped below $44 at expiration, you wouldn't incur losses unless the stock was below $42.55—a drop of more than 3% from the day the puts were sold.05 would only have been a better trade if XYZ exceeds $45.50 at expiration. Now that you've assessed the mood of the overall market, the next step in identifying good CSEP candidates is to create a screener (or screeners) to help find potential stocks or ETFs. Options-approved clients can do this using Schwab's Customizable Options Screener. While this [spans 14] CSEPs. In my opinion, you should avoid low-volume stocks because illiquid stocks almost always have illiquid options. Consider setting the minimum average daily volume (over the last 20 days) to at least 100,000 to 200,000 shares. Put options on stocks whose implied volatility is too high will bring in much larger premiums when sold, but that's because such trades are often excessively risky and generally not worth the modest profits that might be generated. Consider setting this parameter to a maximum implied volatility of 50% in low-volatility markets. In high-volatility markets, you may want to consider going as high as 75%. As a secondary measure to ensure that you don't end up selling options that have low liquidity, I think it's a good idea to set the minimum "Open Interest" value to 500 contracts. This should increase the likelihood that you'll be trading with another individual investor rather than a market maker, and that usually translates into tighter bid/ask spreads and greater size at each quote. The simplest way to isolate at the money and out of the money puts at the same time is [spans 15] value. This is a little trickier. As an active options trader myself, I've always felt that one of the most important measures of the merit of any CSEP is how much profit I'll earn if the stock goes sideways. If you follow the guidelines I've listed above and the CSEPs you sell are always either at the money or out of the money, you may find that you rarely get assigned in a [spans 16] market. Here are some realistic guidelines to consider:Unfortunately, if there would be no assignment when the stock moves sideways, the Customizable Options Screener can only measure static rate of return on the actual option being sold. Therefore all CSEPs that are initially at the money or out of the money will show a static rate of return of 100%. While these calculations are accurate for the option itself, [spans 17] screener. Once you have created options screeners that have the settings you want (as in the example below) be sure to name them so you can save them for future use. For example, I call this one "20-40 1month CSEP. " This particular screen isolates short puts only on stocks priced from $20 to $40 per share. Once you get your output screen (example below) you can sort by any of the column headers, obtain detailed quotes of individual options or option chains, and even enter an order directly by clicking on the "Open/Close" buttons. Stock and option symbols, prices and volume data shown for illustrative purposes only. After you get your output list from the screener using [spans 18] Rating. I suggest only trading CSEPs on stocks with a Schwab Equity Rating of A or B and a Market Edge rating of [spans 19] -1. Both of these ratings are available by clicking on the stock symbol from the output list of your screener. To obtain the Market Edge [spans 20] rating. Similarly, Market Edge provides a detailed explanation of their ratings system—click Second Opinion Weekly Quick Start on the Ratings page. For a CSEP, as with most strategies, you usually don't have to accept the market bid price for execution. For an option priced in pennies, when the spread is more than a few cents consider entering a limit order between the bid and ask price. To help maximize your chances of getting an execution, but at a favorable price, consider entering the order slightly on the low side of the midpoint. For an option priced in nickels that has a spread wider than five cents, such as in the example below, consider entering your order in the middle at 3. Once your order is executed, the goal is typically to hold it until expiration. However, if the stock moves higher or lower faster than you expect it to, you may decide that you want to close out your position in the market prior to expiration. Keep in mind however, that you'll never hit your maximum profit unless the option expires worthless, and when that happens, you don't have to pay a commission charge. If technical [spans 21] trade. Remember, you should only consider a CSEP on a stock you want to own. You can apply for approval to trade options at Schwab by completing an options trading application here, in a branch or over the phone at 800-435-9050. Options carry a high level of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Certain requirements must be met to trade options through Schwab. Covered calls provide downside protection only to the extent of the premium received and limit upside potential to the strike price plus premium received. ## Please read the options disclosure document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. Schwab Equity Ratings use a scale of A, B, C, D [spans 22] reasons. Investors and clients should consider Schwab Equity Ratings as only a single factor in making their investment decision while taking into account the current market environment. The information provided here is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered an individualized recommendation or personalized investment advice. The investment strategies mentioned here may not be suitable for everyone. Each trader needs to review an investment strategy for his or her own particular situation before making any investment decision. Any strategies discussed, including examples using actual securities and price data, are strictly for illustrative purposes. They may be not reflect results [spans 23] securities. Please consult a tax advisor [spans 24]. 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User: Fill in words: The paper assessed the effect of variability of climatic elements on Agulu lake, Anambra State, Nigeria. Data for the work were acquired from Landsat website (landsat.org) for 35 years. Monthly records of the elements were collected from [words 1] at Amawbia in Awka urban area. The penman model was used in the [words 2] the lake. Statistical analysis of satellite [words 3] trends and relationships. Result shows that the trend is positive and significant at 95% confidence level. Fluctuations in the value of temperature and other variables were removed by 5-year moving average. The Agulu lake surface area was found to have contracted from 0.6177 km2 in 1978 to 0.3583 km2 in 2013. Recommendations on how to ameliorate the problem were made. Lakes are major repositories of biodiversity and provide multiple ecosystem services (1) . They are vital resources for aquatic wildlife and [words 4] needs and any alteration of their environmental quality and water renewal rates has wide-ranging ecological and societal implications (2) . Lakes are widely recognized as key indicators of environmental change. They show remarkable variability with time in their morphometry, physical, chemical and biological characteristics (3) . Such variations are mainly induced by climatic changes and anthropogenic activities in their catchment area. Lakes are strongly influenced by long and short term regional and global climate change. Their water level varies depending on the ratio of precipitation to evaporation, groundwater input, rate of water abstraction and other factors. Therefore, [words 5] of change, they are capable of integrating the effects of human activities in their catchment and the added perturbations from climate warming (4) . A critical and perhaps the dominant global environmental problem in the last three decades is global warming resulting in global climate change (5) . Climate change refers to any change in climate overtime whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity (6) . The global climate has remarkably changed from a climate system dominated by natural influences to one dominated by anthropogenic activities (7) . This realization [words 6] the relative effects of shifts in climate conditions on natural ecosystems. Two primary hydro-meteorological variables affecting the lake ecosystem are precipitation and air temperature (4) . Changes in air temperature and precipitation have direct effects on the physical, chemical and biological features of lakes. Studies have shown that climate change can affect water temperature, surface water elevation and alter the structures of lakes (9) (10) (11) , enhance eutrophication by affecting the external and internal nutrient loading, evaporation rates and further decrease the supply of dissolved oxygen causing increase in biological oxygen demand (12) . Accompanying these abiotic changes would be a general shift in the biotic characterization of lakes. Hydrological systems are potentially very sensitive to climate change (13) and can influence many aspects of lake and stream ecosystems such as hydrological flows into and out of lakes, net basin water supply and water levels of lakes. Over long-term periods, lakes have changed repeatedly in their volume and extent because of climatic variability (14) . For example, the Lake Chad has been reported to have recorded a precipitous decrease both [words 7] and depth (15) (16) . In this regard, (17) further stressed that an accurate assessment of the water resources of any area requires knowledge not only of [words 8] and temporal distribution but also the nature and magnitude of water losses by evaporation. This change in precipitation and temperature that accompany climate change has the potential to cause shifts in the connectivity of lakes with biological implications (e. for migratory fish species), changes in lake volume, surface area and depth, and other related limnological properties. For example, in the Experimental Lake Area in NW Ontario, (18) observed [words 9] suckers (Catostomus commersonii) move from Experimental lake 239 to Experimental lake 240 during spring spawning due to increased flow whereas, in some years, flow between the lakes are zero thereby impairing migration. This could lead to loss of some endemic organisms from lakes as with the case of Lake Akşehir in Turkey where three species of fishes were lost [words 10] . This, however, necessitated the need for studies to examine how changes in lake size as a result of shifts in water balance due to climatic change are capable of making the lacustrine ecosystem vulnerable to climate change, while these changes are likely to affect the species composition (20) . Of aquatic macrophyte communities in the littoral zone of lakes (21) (22) concluded that with decreasing lake surface area, the ratio of littoral to pelagic habitat increases. Studies have shown that variations in surface area of [words 11] water by humans or climate change is accountable for variations in the abundance of fisheries (23) , diversity and richness of fish fauna in lakes [words 12] and food chain length both increased with lake size (26) [words 13] . Climate effects have been compounded by the increasing need to irrigate farmlands, for [words 14] etc. In all scenarios, the capacity of African countries to cope with the potential effects of change in climatic variables on the freshwater ecosystem is expected to be significantly challenged and potentially overwhelmed by the magnitude of such impacts. The aim of this paper is therefore to assess the effect of variations in climatic elements of temperature, rainfall, sunshine duration, relative humidity and wind speed over 35 years on the lake and recommend measures to ameliorate it. It is the largest lacustrine ecosystem in Anambra state. Agulu lake is located within latitudes 6˚07' and 6˚09'N and longitudes 7˚01' and 7˚03'E (Figure 1). The lake has a mean depth of 5.2 m and maximum water depth of 11.2 m. The lake has a catchment area of 32 km2 while its surface area has varied over time. The annual rainfall of the study area ranges from 1383 mm to 2090 mm while the mean annual rainfall is about 1851.9 mm. The mean maximum and minimum temperatures are 32.1˚C and 23.5˚C. Rainfall constitutes the main source of precipitation to the lake. The Nanka sands (the main aquifer of Agulu lake hydrological system) measures 5000 m × 100 m × 30 m (29) , giving an aquifer [words 15] of 1.5 × 107 m3 (30) . (29) showed that the average annual groundwater discharge from bordering aquifers into the lake is 7.4 × 107 m3/yr. an input into the lake. The lake isthe source of Idemili River which drains different communities in Anambra state before emptying into the River Niger. The Landsat data were acquired from the Landsat.org which comprised of the Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS), [words 16] (ETM+) image and the Operational land Imager (OLI). The images were acquired to cover 36 years period. The satellite data have 30m spatial resolutions and the TM, ETM and ETM+ images have spectral range of 0.45 - 2.35 μm with bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 while the [words 17] band 12. For extracting water surface feature, data from the available bands 2, 3 and 4 of the Landsat imagery of the study area were used due to its higher ability to discriminate water and land area. The penman model was used in this regard. Bot: words 1: the synoptic meteorological station words 2: estimation of open water vapour from words 3: imagery was further employed to analyse words 4: human words 5: as sensitive indicators words 6: has led to questions about words 7: in surface area, water volume words 8: the magnitude of rainfall and its spatial words 9: that white words 10: (19) words 11: lakes either due to abstraction of words 12: (24) (25) and that species richness words 13: (27) words 14: municipal water supply, industrial uses, power generation words 15: potential words 16: thematic mapper (TM), Enhance Thematic Mapper plus words 17: Operational Land Imager (OLI) extends to User: Fill in spans: ANOVA table was used to determine the significance of the regression equation between dependent and independent variables while the assessment indices used in this work such as RMSE, PBIAS, NSE and SE indicate that the model represents the observed data quite well. Annual mean temperature data for a period of 36 years between 1978 and 2013 shown in Figure 2 indicates that the trend is positive and significant given that, at 95% (0.05) confidence level, the calculated value of t = 1.88 was found to be less than the critical value of t = 1. The fluctuations in the value of temperature in the study area such that, in order to easily determine the general trend of these values, we employed a 5 year moving average to smoothen these fluctuations (Figure 3). The general direction of the time series for the 36 year period was determined. Dividing the study period in to three decades, it appears that, in support of the result shown above, temperature is truly increasing. From 1978 to 1987, an increasing trend in temperature was observed such that by 1987, it has exceeded the mean temperature for the decade (27.5˚C) and that of the 36-year period under study. Thus, between 1978 and 1987, temperature increased by 1.3˚C. From 1988 to 1997, there was less fluctuations in temperature value while the mean temperature for this period is 27.9˚C. In 1998, an all-time high temperature (28.9˚C) for the 36-year period was recorded for the study area and also, highest temperature values throughout the period were maintained from 1998 to 2007. The mean temperature for this third decade is 28.24˚C. The overall mean temperature as shown in the trend plot above is 27. However, temperature is generally on the increase in the study area and this appears to be in agreement with the study by (31) where it was reiterated that temperature trend in Nigeria has shown increasing pattern; that since 1970s, there has been a sharp rise in air temperature which continued [spans 1] 2005. Prior to 1970s, temperature increase was more gradual and this was also emphasized in (32) . Although the temperature increase within the study period is statistically significant, the [spans 2] . In addition, monthly mean for temperature was calculated for the period of study and the [spans 3] 4. The result shows that there is marked change in the magnitude and seasonal temperature pattern. ## The temperature pattern shows that temperature, during the months of January-May, October-December, has increased. The months of June, July, August and September have no marked change in temperature. Evaporation values for the lake were estimated at monthly time step using Penman equation from1978 to 2013. The monthly values of each year were summed for the 36-year period to generate the annual time series data for lake evaporation. Annual fluctuations of the estimated open water evaporation are shown in Figure 5. We applied [spans 4] 6. The general direction of the trend is positive as it is shown to be increasing though the strength of this is low. The significance ofthis trend was tested using “t” test and was found not to be statistically significant at 0.05 confidence level. The observed increase in evaporation coupled with the observed change in temperature pattern as depicted in Figure 2 and Figure 5 is shown later to affect the size of Agulu Lake. We performed a correlation analysis to examine the relationship between variations observed [spans 5] temperature. The result of the analysis (Table 1) shows that 37% of the variations in evaporation rate observed in Figure 5 are accounted for by temperature or energy. Furthermore, monthly mean for evaporation was calculated for the period of study and a graphical interpretation of the variation is shown in Figure 6. The precipitation data were summed anually to generate annual time series of rainfall from 1978-2013. The trend plot of rainfall achieved is shown in Figure 7, indicating that the movement of the time series is sporadic. The high irregular nature of the plot demanded the application of a smoothening function which is the moving average. The plot of a 5-year movingTable 1. PPMC coefficient between Temperature and evaporation for the period 1978 to 2013 (p = 0. average of rainfall is shown in Figure 8. The least square method was used to determine the trend in the tme series of rainfall shown below. While the trend is [spans 6] 4.9142). The trend plot of rainfall shows that at the start of the climatic period (1978-2013), rainfall decline was recorded for the first decade (1978-1987) after which increasing rainfall has been noticed for the lake area with intermittent decrease in some years. However, the former was found to be more pronounced after 1988 till date than the latter. A similar increasing trend in rainfall was recorded, but for the southern part of Nigeria, by (33) but a decreasing trend in the northern part. The mean annual rainfall for the 36year period is 1851.9mm. A graph of rainfall anomaly (Figure 9) was also shown to give a clearer picture on rainfall [spans 7] area. The rainfall anomalies relative to 1978-2013 normal bear evidence to a more recent increase in [spans 8] 1980s. Agulu lake surface area data were extracted from Landsat imageries from 1978 to 2013 at interval of 5years. Data [spans 9] 2013. By means of linear interpolation, we estimated for missing data on lake surface area for the years for which they are not available. The trend plot of the values is shown in Figure 10. The general direction of the trend is negative showing a decline over the years. The rate of this decline is shown by the slope of the regression, b = −0.0074 while the trend is statistically [spans 10] confidence. The statistical results showed that the surface area of the lake was about 0.6177 km2 in 1978, 0.3746 km2 in 2008 and 0.3583 km2 in 2013 (Figures 11-13). The most intense change occurred between 1983 and 1988 during which the lake lost about 0.1065 km2, approximately 17%, of its surface area. On a general note, between 1978 and 2013, the lake lost 42% of its surface area. However, the change in surface area of the lake for the years 1978 to 2013 is shown in Figure 14. Multiple correlation and regression was performed to examine the extent of relationships between surface area of agulu lake and climatic variables namely: rainfall, evaporation and temperature in the past 36 years. The multiple correlation analysis yielded a correlation coefficient of r = 0.685. This implies that the combined degree or strength of relationship between surface area of Agulu lake and the sets of independent variable of rainfall, temperature and open water evaporation is 0. The coefficient of multiple determination, R2, is given as R2 = 0. However, it showed that other factors such as anthropogenic activities (34) . [spans 11] variations. The multple regressive equation developed from this relationship is given below as follows:The regressive model was further used to predict for surface area for the period, 1978 to 2013. Table 2 shows the values of predicted surface area for the lake. The significance of the regression equation was tested by means of analysis of variance test. A null hypothesis is posited as: “there is no significant linear relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables”.05 level of confidence, the critical value of F from SNEDECOR's table is 2. Since F of 9.436 > 2.90, there is a significant linear relationship between surface area and the three independent variables. There was a good correlation between the predicted values and the original lake area data (r = 0.68) (Table 3). The accuracy measure of this model was evaluated using the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) ratio (35) . This study has assessed [spans 12] resort. A multiple regression model for the surface area change was derived using recent climate data. These anthropogenic influences and some other climatic variables have not been considered for this lake and so many other lakes and reservoirs in the country. Therefore, effort in this direction is encouraged by this paper. However, this work concludes that Agulu lake has decreased by 42% in its surface area between 1978-2013 and 47% of this reduction is accounted for by variations in temperature, precipitation and evaporation. The unexplained 53% is believed to be as a result of some other factors not taken into account in this research work.1) This paper has provided preliminary information on the current state of the lake and its potential response to changes in climate. The model gives a general behaviour of the lake's surface area to changes in climatic variables. This will ensure accurate forecasting of the quantity and quality of these water resources. 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<human>: Finish this: While You Were Sleeping Starts Off with Fantastic Storyline and Acting From Leads Lee Jong Seok and Suzy | A Koala's PlaygroundSorry for the late post on newly arrived SBS Wed-Thurs drama While You Were Sleeping but in between watching the first episode and then having tickets to Hamilton last night, it was a sensory and entertainment awesomeness overload. I love While You Were Sleeping, love love love it! This is the first drama since Goblin that has roped my excitement and dug its claws into me to want more. The first two episodes that aired on Wednesday was almost a self-contained story on its own, with the beginning and final moments of the episode bookending an emotional and cathartic payoff already. I ship the OTP so badly, with both Lee Jong Seok and Suzy delivering in spades in terms of acting and chemistry. This is what I wanted Uncontrollably Fond to deliver and it couldn't until the last two episodes, and here it's happening right off the bat with even more excitement than Park Hye Ryun‘s last drama Pinocchio. The ratings for the night came in with MBC‘s Hospital Ship still in the lead midway through airing at 9.8% and 10.6%, Sleeping second with 7.2% and 9.2%, and poor Manhole with 1.9% heading into the final episode. While You Were Sleeping Starts Off with Fantastic Storyline and Acting From Leads Lee Jong Seok and Suzy — 66 Comments WYWS rating will surely increase in coming weeks. The first episode got overwhelming positive response from knetz. Suzy's acting got better. Her acting is actually better than LJS's. Lee Sang Yeob's acting is really great. The first episode had me thinking about the drama the whooooole day. It's been awhile since I've been this excited to watch a drama. Suzy'acting has improved and thank Goodness bc I don't think my girl could continue riding on the architecture movie's success. Her chemistry with her mom is very fun and she sold it well. In fact it was because of her scenes with mom that she sold me as her character. I am very proud of her. She definitely still has room for improvement but let's celebrate the improvement that she has made this far. Suzy and LJS are so cute, I love their chemistry in the second episode which imo was less exciting, I'm hoping they bring the exciting fast paced plot from the first episode back in episode 3. Kudos to the writer, the story is very captivating. Hope it won't turn out like W which confused me heck at the end. Since this drama is pre-produced, I hope the flow of story will be smooth. I also like the episode ends with completeness 👍🏻Suzy is awesome in this she really fits the character . and LJS is not playing a genius but a kind slow guy lol. I guess the director did a good job in guiding Suzy in this drama . they were skeptical of him when he was on the helm of Doctor Crush, being it was his first major production. Happy for fans of Suzy, loved her in Dream High! One drama I enjoy watching over again and again . show I discovered how good a singer KSH besides being an excellent actor! I plan on giving this a go and am glad for the positive response. I'm the rare person who has never seen Suzy in a drama so she has a clean slate as ... <assistant>: Here you go: far as I'm concerned. I will say that I also loved the first episode of Goblin . and dropped it at episode 9. I so want a drama to have staying power through its run, and I know it is hard with the demands of the live shoot etc. It seems I'm the only on who didn't love it. For me the story was very confused, the character of LSY was disapointing and it's too soon to judge the characters of Suzy and LJS but I didn't see any chemistry for now but as actors they weren't bad. I love the cinematography but it always was the case for preproduced dramas. Suzy's actually the best actor in this entire drama and the whole timeslot actually. Never thought I'd ever say that in my entire life, LOL. Exactly, Lee Sang Yeob too. Guess this is Park Hye Ryun's effect. All of her female characters have been awesome. Last time Suzy was okay to look at was Dream High, which was quite incidentally also PHR's work. For those who didn't know, this drama was written especially for Suzy from the very beginning. And the same with Dream High. So as many loved her character in DH, many will love her here. i am surprise about the rating of the 1st episode. with the star power of the cast and the star writer and also heavily promoted i was expecting more atleast 10% which could have affirmed the top star status of the cast to me since first episode ratings is really about the star power of the cast but alas it was not to be but since they are koala favs she has not hinted on the underwhelming 1st episode rating so far but kept hating on hospital ship and temperature of love ratings. what is good for the goose is good for the gander. it is inevitable that ratings increase from 2nd episode going because of positive feedback. i really like the series so far and suzy surprisingly kills it, hoping it continues as i didnt really like the writers last drama pinocchio. Very few dramas have huge premiere numbers though. Even the popular Moonlight last year only had 8%, and it had arguably bigger stars. I can only think of LOBTS, Doctors, Saimdang and Descendants which had over 15%, and these are headlined by huge stars which are beloved in Korea. I can see While You Were Sleeping surpassing Hospital Ship, but HS is still going to hold its own. It's going to be a challenge for WYWS to surpass the 20% mark because of HS. @Danik But Park Bo Gum and Kim Yoo Jung from Moonlight Drawn By Clouds aren't as big stars as Lee Jong Suk and Suzy, in fact these two are bigger. PBG is a new comer who got into spotlight because of Reply 88 and while KYj is beloved child actress, MDBC is her first 'adult' role. Also, DOTS and Doctors started with 12 % ratings, while Saimdang and LOTBS started both with over 16%. @alexghana really? Was it that low? I thought with LJS and Suzy and the writer and that pre-production and all those teasers and promotion and of course that hype, they were at least going to get 11-12% rating. Also, all the hyping by i-fans, I thought they were going to knock Hospital Ship off. Ha Ji Won is doing great work in HS and hard carrying that drama though. <human>: Finish this: I was confused between Nationwide and Seoul ratings lol. True, I keep forgetting that Moonlight was what brought PBG and KYJ to top star status. I am surprised DOTs' premiere number wasn't higher, but this must mean that high premiere numbers are more of a rarity. But Lee Jongsuk does not have a record of high ratings though? Pinocchio and W, despite being coined as hits, had average ratings of less than 15%. If that is true then Kim So Hyun and Yoo Seung Ho must be bigger stars than both LJS & Suzy. Ruler started at first place and with double digits and stayed the most watched Wed-Thurs drama during its entire run. I'm not sure it works that way. WYWS will eventually break 20% I feel and the low ratings might be because the current audience is basically teenagers and they don't watch TV but instead stream online. Moonlight had 16-17% ratings by its second week though, people were shocked because it literally doubled its first-week ratings. Doctors started at 12.9 percent but by week 2 had 15 percent and week 3 had 18 percent Nielsen ratings. The challenge is for WYWS to build up its numbers, because no one thought Hospital Ship would get first place in ratings at all, forget getting it when there's a huge competitor like WYWS on air even if it's only for one week. Yoo Seungho and Kim Sohyun are indeed bigger stars in dramaland though? If I recall, their drama was one of the most anticipated ones because people were expecting it to be the 2nd Moonlight. Lee Jongsuk and Suzy are probably more popular among international fans but in Korea, YSH and KSH are slightly more respected for their acting skills. I think people are underestimating Hospital Ship because the reviews didn't seem good, but looking at its ratings, it is emerging as the underdog of the time slot. I don't think WYWS will reach 20%, unless HS' ratings drop. This reminds me of Moon Lovers vs Love in the Moonlight last year, where people expected ML to win by a large margin. I also think timing plays an important part. Moonlight premiered just as Doctors was ending, which was why it was able to double its ratings. If not, I think both will end up being neck-to-neck like UF and W last year. @Joan – not really re: YSH and KSH, Ruler was only YSH's second drama as leading man while it was KSH's first adult leading role that didn't involve her playing a high school kid. Ruler did get hype but Unfortunately Fond and this drama have had equal hype too. And YSH/KSH are much loved in Korea but LJS and Suzy are considered slightly more established stars/bigger in the advertisement scene, which indicates domestic popularity (I know, it's an awful system and leads to far too many people who can't act getting roles for no other reason than because they book ads)KSH & YSH are extremely well loved in SoKo and their popularity is big but LJS & Suzy are more well known than either. In fact going to a grocery store in Korea is known as a Suzy Tour because of the huge number of products she endorses. In addition, Saeguks generally fair better than modern dramas because more old people watch it, the important 40+ crowd that doesn't use internet but uses television unlike the younger crowd that records shows and watches it the next day or streams it online. That's the general problem with the figures. Unless its a drama that becomes a family event like DOTS or Goblin generally different age groups watch dramas on different platforms. Ratings get Lowe and lower each year, people barely watch primetime tv anyomore. So with the current trend i would say this is doing pretty goodit's not that people aren't watching primetime tv. it's that they're not going home to watch the series when it's airing. it's readily available to be re-watched. I don't know, in the last year alone SBS had Doctors, Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim, Defendant and Falsify all cracking 20 percent. Not to mention Moonlight and Chief Kim on KBS. It's not that people don't watch, it's just that it takes the right kind of drama to cross 14-15 percent. Finally saw the first episode. I can see why everybody is speaking about suzy acting. I haven't seen any of her previous drama so won't judge her skill based on her earlier work. But she managed to shined in this episode. Cinematography was beautiful to look at. Ljs was good but suzy outshines him. I like the first episode hope the show won't disappoint. I like the writer of this drama and at least Suzy improving. Lee Jong Suk can make even the bad drama a watchable one so I have faith in him since then 😀Right from the moment she stares at him all dreamy-eyed as she realizes what he has done for her and runs to him, she had me, really, that scene was lovely. I'm glad Suzy was able to capture the emotions her character was going through, you can almost tell the exact moment she falls head over hills with him. The second episode cemented my love for her with all baggage and weirdness,but it was LJS's character who threw me off guard, I kind of knew I'd like her (if Suzy did a somewhat decent job) and it's not like I doubt his skill, it's just that I was ready for another genius, or secret genius, or stand-offish character but . he just seems so normal, really the “good guy” label he was given, and sort of awkward but not overly so and just so damn nice, it's hatd not to feel for him but at the same time not chuckle at his haplessness. One thing I really love about this writer is not only her characters but that she doesn't drag the whole “do I love this person, do I not? ” very long. Couples may get together even before the last episode. Also, I haven't watched the show yet but LJS sounds just like the lawyer guy second lead from IHYV. LJS even has one of those finger cap thingies that Lawyer Cha in IHYV had . I guess he passed it on to JS? LJS even has one of those finger cap thingies for turning pages easily that Lawyer Cha in IHYV had . I guess he passed it on to JS? Meh, it wasn't terrible but it still wasn't enough to keep me from falling asleep. Acting and chemistry was subpar for both main leads. Might just read the recaps from now on rather than ending up fast forwarding through most of the scenes. I happened to check it out since nothing interesting to watch that night and WYWS is being simultaneously broadcast with Korea in my country. I fell asleep halfway, though. Suzy showed not much improvement with her acting while LJS still bringing the same game, kinda stale tbh. I don't feel the urge to follow up. Ayere I guess y'all tastes happen to be superior than most. While it's too bad that you dislike the drama, you should stop torturing yourselves of the acting of trying to stay awake and just move on to a different drama. ha ji won star power alone helps hospital ship to attain 10% just last month for first episode yet lee jong suk and suzy couldnt why? . koala keeps insisting that koreans dont like the noona romance in hospital ship and TOL when clearly it is nothing but her bias talking. their ratings keeps increasing and hospital ship was even able to withstood whiles you are sleeping in first place when there is soo much more star power and hype going for WYAS and HS being the underdog. well that also happened in pinocchio for the first 7 episodes they got the 2nd on the timeslot after that they won the mass. wyws episode 2 is confusing maybe they will establish relationship next week. I don't why ur putting words into her mouth when all koala said was she enjoyed the drama and then gave the tv ratings for them, she didn't even say that Sleeping was going to pass or anything ... <assistant>: Here you go: like that. She didn't even say anything about general public or star power. What is with your rant? ! I am a massive Ha Ji Won fan and have watched all her work, even that extremely difficult one to find from her early career where she was the main villian (not Secret). But I don't like noona romance and don't like her partner in Hospital Ship and find HS boring, if it wasn't for HJW I would have dropped it. People have preferences and unfortunately some will not be of taste to you or her. Her calling out the noona romance not reeling in the crowd waa due to the stagnant ratings of both shows, I thought that was a fair call, same as any other drama that has its based viwers but doesn't increase. Its her blog she should be able to state if she likes or dislikes a drama. In this case she didnt even trash Hospital ship. I dont thk we should expect supreme fairness in evy article, there will always be some biasness and diff ppl feel differeñtly about a drama or an actor. For me as long as koala doesnt misreport. Because sometimes there were some errors in the facts or errors in ratings. I love it too! So relieved that Suzy is actually pretty good in the drama, the director sure did a good job directing her 🙂 Lee Jong Seok is great as always and the writer is totally delivering! Everything works for me, from the storyline and characters to the acting and chemistry between the leads. Finally a new kdrama crack has surfaced ❤️❤️❤️the acting fr Suzy has improved since UF . But still the acting fr both leads are lacking, lack sincerity. Melo need good acting to make it engaging for me because melo is rely on sincerity. the pilot episode is abit too fast, like want to tell all good stuff in one episode. I think Park Hye Ryun is really good at creating a character that is within Suzy's range. Seeing as how the only role I liked of hers was during Dream High. Suzy is doing quite well here. There is a bit of awkwardness here and there but its barely noticeable. I believe she has improved quite a bit. I'm loving the chemistry so far. Last night's episode was a bit disorientating. Too many time lines and characters all switching back and forth between what was and what could have been leaves little time for the audience to emotionally immerse and feel for the characters. The light-hearted interaction between the two leads was more interesting. The director/writer aims high, what with the postmodern timescales and multiple story-lines and divided screens, and I hope that all this attempts at auteurism will not prevent from the telling of a really touching story, which should be all that a drama is about. I have a feeling this drama may haunt me like W again . it's hard to keep up unless I pay much attention which I don't intend to because I like to be entertained . It is funny how some praises Suzy for her good acting. I find her ok, she pass as an actress which should be expected. She is still a long way from being labeled “good” 😏People are just saying she improved no one is really calling her a master actress or anything like that. Sometimes the kind thing to do is give credit when it's duehmmm . I did not quote people using the term “master actress”. I read some comments describing her as “awesome” “outshines” “pretty good”. I can read English you know, I do not like you twisting my words. And I certainly do not need your explanation! ! Ummm if It's called a hyperbole, I wasn't quoting you. Clearly the comment rubbed you off the wrong way, my bad. She is bad in a fluffy scene. Doing aegyo too much. But when the character have something to work with, she start to give an effort. But still she is confuse carrying her character here since the psychology of her character is confusing and at times she doesn't know what to doShe's still awkward but you can really tell the writer+PD made an almost superhuman effort to cover up her awkwardness and they almost pull it off. UF made the mistake of expecting her to play a character with complex emotions, while also trying to write the role down to her level of ability. Here it's quite straightforward, present her as weird and quirky/likable, she doesn't have as much to do. It's just that when it comes to Suzy, expectations are so low that the kind of performance that would get any other young actress dragged, is proclaimed to be ‘good'. It's probably worthwhile to remember that Suzy is expected to meet much lower standards than those applying to other actresses, so by that standard, yeah, she's ‘good'. As i'am a stupid woman, i still don't understand W's story. I like what i saw from the first épisodes of WYWS, and it's not complicated at all not when you are a viewer of dramas like “How to get away with a murder”, as you said @Candycane Suzy is finally acting Like it's expected from an actress who has a few lead roles Under her belt. And Lee Jong Suk ‘s acting is similar of his previous roles. I think the issue with Suzy is you often hear the words improved. But when you are cast in a lead role in a major drama such as this one, it shouldn't be improved because excellence should already be expected. Suzy should already be excellent as other actresses in her generation already are. As for this drama, I hope the writer can maintain the pacing. W had a great start but it seems like all the most interesting parts that hooked viewers came at the beginning half. The 2nd part started fizzling out – especially toward the last episodes. I was going to watch anyway for LJS, but it turned out that the story is really good and Suzy is also quite decent to watch. I'm already hooked, and fingers crossed it will stay this good. I can only compare Suzy's acting with her own past projects since I don't think she has reached the level of brilliant actresses around in k-industry. But I would say I like her more in this drama than in UF. The PD really knows how to control her, even though in some scenes she doesn't convince me and comes across as awkward. But I liked the scene in which she cut her hair . So yes, compared to her past projects she is better but a lot of work needs to be done on her part to become as good as other actors and actresses. Even the slightest improvement for Suzy can make her look like she became a good actress. The standards are just that low for her lolSuzy is more tone down her acting alot in this drama, and her aegyo is not as extragerated as in UF. so might be that's why her acting look better. But At times her character is confusing me here. What she is trying to potray anyway. One think is for sure she act better than lee Jong suk who is awkward in alot of scene. I agree with this, she is still a long way from good but thank god not as blank as in UF. Like someone said above, this drama doesn't make the mistake of giving her a complex character, they wrote the role down to the level of what she can manage. I do still see that slightly blank wall-eyed look she has even in WYWS, but overall she's better than in past dramas even if she's still only getting roles because she has CF contracts. enjoy the drama ~ it's interesting, fun, exciting, beautiful ~ all actors n actresses acted well ~ believe it will get more fun n interesting as the story develop so would the characters ~ happyI love the refreshing premise of this drama and the casting did not disappoint! I was hesitant on Suzy's acting but this drama changed my opinion! Great start! Hope it stays on the same trajectory!.

<prompter> The rest of this: Scenario: You place a banana peel on the ground with the intention to decide at a later time whether or not you want someone to slip and fall and die because of it. You later decide mentally that yes you do want someone to die because of it. Someone later slips and falls and dies because of that banana. Would this count as a ... <assistant> Here you go: breach of the precept? Ah but maybe not because the person who did this may have gone bananas. I think mental health is considered as far as precepts are concernedthe length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually incomprehensibly long, from hundreds of millions to quintillions of yearsThe Buddha said that the Enlightened Ones were far from... <prompter> More. <assistant> defilements. This doesn't mean that they ran away from defilements. Defilements were there. He compared it to a lotus leaf in a pond of water. The leaf and the water exist together... <prompter> More. <assistant> They are in contact but the leaf doesn't become wet. The water can be compared to defilements and the lotus leaf to the enlightened... <prompter> More. <assistant> mind. The mind of one who practices doesn't run anywhere. It stays right where it is. Good and evil, happiness and unhappiness right and wrong they all arise, and he knows them... <prompter> Next. <assistant> all. The meditator simply knows them, but does not allow them to wet his mind. In other words, he does not cling to any of them. In 1979, Luang Pu Dune went to Chantaburi to rest and to visit with Ajaan Somchai. On that occasion, a senior monk from Bangkok — Phra Dhammavaralankan of Wat Buppharam, the ecclesiastical head of the southern region of the country — was also there, practicing meditation in his old age, being only one year younger than Luang Pu. When he learned that Luang Pu was a meditation monk, he became interested and engaged Luang Pu in a long conversation on the results of meditation. He mentioned his responsibilities, saying that he had wasted a lot of his life engaged in study and... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> administration work well into his old age. He discussed different points of meditation practice with Luang Pu, finally asking him, "Do you still have any anger? "When Luang Pu Dune was undergoing... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> treatment at Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok, large numbers of people came to pay their respects and listen to his Dhamma. Bamrungsak Kongsuk was among those who were interested in the practice of... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> meditation. He was a student of Ajaan Sanawng of Wat Sanghadana in Nonthaburi province, one of the strict meditation centers of our day and... <prompter> More. <assistant> time. He broached the topic of the practice of the Dhamma by... <prompter> More. <assistant> asking, "Luang Pu, how does one cut off anger? "Luang Pu answered, "There's nobody who cuts it off. There's only being aware of it in time. When you're aware of it in time, it disappears on its own. "Recalling the anecdote of Ajahn Chah's interaction with a palm reader who read his palm and said: "You have a lot of anger! " to which Ajahn Chah replied: "Yes, but I don't use it. "(Some Western monks asked Luang Por Piak about this passage. His reply was along these lines: "Luang Por Chah was very creative with his use of language, he wanted to shake people up sometimes. The mind of an arahant is totally free from defilements. What he was referring to was the results of past kamma... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> that were still present. ")Ajahn Anan once asked Ajahn Chah what is the most direct way of practice. He replied: "Not to do anything at all is the most direct way. " Ajahn Anan further explained what Ajahn Chah meant by that: The mind is like pure water and the various defilements are like colours mixed in with it. If we are able to... <prompter> Next. <assistant> maintain constant mindfulness and to observe these defilements come and go without letting the mind become soiled by them, then we don't need to... <prompter> Next. <assistant> do anything else. This is the shortest path of practice. This means... <prompter> Next. <assistant> that when the mind is calm, all the mind-objects you experience bring you knowledge and understanding. Because there is awareness, you are no longer... <prompter> More. <assistant> creating or proliferating around these things. Success and failure, good reputation and bad reputation, praise and criticism, happiness and suffering, all come and go by themselves. With a clear, still mind that is endowed with insight, it's interesting to sift through them and sort them out. All these mind-objects which you experience – whether it's the praise, criticism or things that you hear from... <prompter> Next. <assistant> other people, or any of the other kinds of happiness and suffering which you experience – become a source of benefit for you. Because... <prompter> More. <assistant> someone else has climbed up the mango tree and is shaking it to make the mangoes fall down to you. You can gather them up at leisure. You don't have to fear anything – why should you fear anything when it's someone else who is up the tree, shaking the mangoes down for you? All forms of gain and loss, good reputation and bad... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> reputation, praise and criticism, happiness and suffering, are like the mangoes which fall down on you. The calm mind forms the basis for your contemplation, as you gather them up. With mindfulness, you know which fruits are good and which are rotten. This practice of reflection, based on the foundation of calm, is what gives rise to pañña and vipassana. It's not something that has to be created or concocted – if there is genuine insight, then the practice of vipassana will follow automatically, without you having to invent names or labels for it. The most important point in developing right exertion is to realize that the effort to abandon unskillful qualities and to develop skillful qualities must be skillful itself. Unskillful efforts at eradicating unskillful states, even... <prompter> More. <assistant> if well intended, can often exacerbate problems instead of solving them. Treating hatred with hatred, for instance, is less effective than treating it with the kind of understanding developed in the second stage of frames-of-reference meditation (II/B), which sees into causes and effects, and learns how to manipulate causes properly so as to get the desired effects. The same point applies to the question... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> of how much effort must be applied to the practice. The Buddha notes that some meditators will have to undergo painful and slow practice, while others will find that their practice is painful and quick, pleasant and slow, or pleasant and quick (§§84-85). Thus each has to adjust the effort applied to the practice accordingly. This need for differing levels of effort depends not only on the individual, but also on the situation. In some cases, simply watching an unskillful quality with equanimity will be enough to make it go away; in other cases, one has to exert a conscious effort to get rid of it (§§58-59). Thus, through observation, one will realize that skillful effort has no room for doctrinaire approaches. The polar extremes of constant exertion... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> to the point of exhaustion and its opposite, a knee-jerk fear of... <prompter> More. <assistant> "efforting," are both misguided here, as is the seemingly "middle" way of moderation in all things. The true middle way means tuning one's efforts... <prompter> More. <assistant> to one's abilities and to the task at hand (§86). In some cases, this entails an all-out effort; in others, simple watchfulness. The ability to sense what kind and what level of effort is appropriate in any given situation is an important element in developing the basic requirements for skill — mindfulness and discernment — by putting them to use. 'And how is striving... <prompter> More. <assistant> fruitful, how is exertion fruitful? There is the case where a monk, when not loaded down, does not load himself down with pain, nor... <prompter> Next. <assistant> does he reject pleasure that accords with the Dhamma, although he is not infatuated with that pleasure. He discerns that "When I exert a... <prompter> Next. <assistant> (bodily, verbal, or mental) fabrication against this cause of stress (§223), then from the fabrication of exertion there is dispassion (fading away). When I look on with equanimity at that cause of stress, then from the development of equanimity there is dispassion. " So he exerts a fabrication against the (first) cause of stress. and develops equanimity with regard to the (second) cause of... <prompter> Next. <assistant> stress. Thus the stress (coming from the first cause) is exhausted. the stress (coming the second cause) is exhausted. 'Furthermore, the monk notices this: "When I live according to my pleasure, unskillful... <prompter> More. <assistant> mental qualities increase in me & skillful qualities decline. When I exert myself with stress & pain, though, unskillful qualities decline in me & skillful qualities increase. Why don't I exert myself... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> with stress & pain? " So he exerts himself with stress & pain, and while he is exerting himself with stress & pain, unskillful... <prompter> Next. <assistant> qualities decline in him, & skillful qualities increase. Then at a later time he would no longer exert himself with stress & pain. Why is that? Because he has attained the goal... <prompter> Next. <assistant> for which he was exerting himself with stress & pain. 'Suppose that a fletcher were to heat & warm an arrow shaft between two flames, making it straight & pliable. Then at a later time he would no longer heat & warm the shaft between two flames, making it straight & pliable. Why is that? Because he has attained the goal for which he... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> was heating & warming the shaft. In the same way, the monk. no longer exerts himself with stress & pain. ' (MN 101)Some commentators have suggested that, in practice, this fivefold perspective... <prompter> More. <assistant> can be gained simply by focusing on the arising and passing away of these aggregates in the present moment; if one's focus is relentless enough, it will lead naturally to a knowledge... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> of drawbacks, allure, and escape, sufficient for total release. The texts, however,... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> don't support this reading, and practical experience would seem to back them up. As MN 101 points out, individual meditators will discover that, in some cases, they can develop dispassion for a particular cause of stress simply by watching it with equanimity; but in other cases, they will need to make a conscious exertion to develop the dispassion that will provide an escape. The discourse is vague — perhaps deliberately so — as to which approach will work where. This is something each meditator must test for him or herself in practice. The overall point is that the ways of the mind are varied and complex. ## Different fermentations can come bubbling up in different guises and respond to different approaches. One's skill as a meditator lies in... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> mastering a variety of approaches and developing the sensitivity to know which approach will work best in which situation. When you listen to Dhamma talks in Thailand, it's rare to hear one... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> in which there's no mention of defilements. The fact that greed, aversion, delusion defile the mind is a constant theme, and that the practice... <prompter> More. <assistant> is all about cleansing the mind of those defilements, doing battle with the defilements, finding ways to not fall for their tricks. As Ajahn Lee says, "To study is to know the texts, but to practice is to know your defilements," the purpose of which is to know them and let them go, eventually, go beyond them. But if you listen to Dhamma talks... <prompter> Next. <assistant> in the West you never hear about this, the word is never mentioned. There's some aspects of the traditional teachings that modern Western teachers like to brag about, saying that they're going to drop this or drop that, they're gonna drop karma, they're gonna drop rebirth, they don't even mention the word defilement. You would never know that it was part of the Buddha's... <prompter> More. <assistant> teachings. There's a passage that they like to quote which says that the mind is luminous, and they stop there; to give the impression... <prompter> More. <assistant> that your mind is basically pure and clean and there's no real problem there; just realize that you're already pure and clean, and that's it. But the whole passage says a lot more. It says the mind is luminous, but it is defiled by visiting defilements. And if you don't notice, there's no training of the mind. Then you look at the Buddha's teachings,... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> and one of the basic analogies that he uses is that the practice is a kind of cleansing, it's a kind of purification. So if you don't appreciate the importance of the... <prompter> Next. <assistant> defilements, you can't really train the mind. So when you look at the way the Buddha talks about cleansing, he's not saying the mind is basically defiled in its nature. He's saying... <prompter> Next. <assistant> it's the actions that are defiled. And what's defilement? It's this ability to cause affliction. It's even though you should be acting for the purposes of happiness, you turn around and act for the affliction of yourself or others or both. That's the defilement. And as for the luminosity of the mind, it's your ability to see that. OK, you have caused affliction and you can do something about it. It's not that there's an innate bad nature to the mind or an innate good nature. As the Buddha said, thinking "I am bad" or "I am good", either one of those is simply and expression of craving or clinging. You want to look at your actions. And he's right, if your actions are causing this kind of... <prompter> More. <assistant> affliction, the actions are dark and they darken the mind. They make... <prompter> More. <assistant> it more difficult to see what you're doing, and if you do... <prompter> More. <assistant> see what you're doing and you try to pretend that you didn't cause any affliction, that's darkness as well, that's denial. The most basic of the Buddha's teaching, which is the four noble truths, when he talks about the fact that it's not the innate nature of your mind, but your actions, he's talking about the second noble truth. The fact that defilement is... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> affliction relates to the first noble truth. The luminosity of the mind is that your able to see there is affliction and that it... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> is related to your actions. That's what enables you to follow the path. So if you can't admit these things, it's not healthy. ## It's narcissism and it's repression. So it's important that you learn to keep this concept in mind, and realize that what we are doing is a kind of cleansing. There is this darkness in the mind. Fortunately it's not innate... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> to the mind, it can be cleansed. And we can cleanse it away ourselves. That's what the luminosity is all about. For instance in the Majjhima Nikāya (I.280) it is said that... <prompter> Next. <assistant> an arahant is so called because all sinful evil things are remote (āraka) from him. The Vimanavatthu Atthakatha (105-6) defines the term in the following words: "An arahant is so called because... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> he is remote (ārake) from sinful things;"“Bhikkhus, it is through one's remoteness... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> (ārakattā) from seven things that one is a worthy one (arahā). It is through the remoteness of these seven things that one is a... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> worthy one.”The wordplay is well-known in Thailand because the standard Thai translation of 'arahant' (based on one of the Visuddhimagga's niruktis) means 'one far... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> from defilement'. How fortunate this forum is to have these two venerables to expound on what was said in brief! Thank you Ajahn Gavesako and Bhante Dhammanando! This is an unfortunate title... <prompter> More. <assistant> as it appears to support the 'bare attention' view of mindfulness that is already wrongly held by many beginners here. The right approach is... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> that given by Thanissaro as expounded in MN 101, a response of equanimity is effective in removing defilements in some cases, but not in all. In many situations the more active approach of exerting fabrications is needed. There are no specific guidelines as to when equanimity is needed or when exertion is necessary, that must be a matter of personal investigation and experience. Even when equanimity is an appropriate response, it still has an agenda: the removal of defilements. Not only that, but 'bare attention' is a simplistic view of what mindfulness comprises, as well as attention there are also memory and effort. Thanissaro, Bodhi and Analayo have all written extensively on this. An arahant is able to remain detached from defilements by virtue of the capacity they... <prompter> Next. <assistant> have developed precisely by strengthening the fabrications that enable this. The view from enlightenment ‘watching defilements come and go', is different than the view and priorities from the gradual path, and in this DW context that difference must always be made abundantly clear. As There is no mention of bare attention in the OP and the fact that it is a hot topic of debate and are already many existing threads to be found on the topic of bare attention, it might be better if you present your ideas in one of those threads. Let me know if you want me to split this post off in a new one to avoid going off topic. I remember somewhere in the suttas it was stated that hatred/anger is a... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> great evil, but easy to let go, while greed is a comparably lesser evil, but hard and difficult to let go. (If anyone, by chance, knows the exact source, I would be interested in that. Yes, anger, when acted upon can be extremely harmful. And when not acted upon it can often evaporate quickly. But sometimes it does stick for a longer time. Maybe that is when it is mingled with greed: something one does not want to let go. Something that one thinks one deserves better. Something that should have been different. When these things fall away, then anger can also evaporate. But it is not easy to get over it sometimes. Anger seems to make sense as a response to existential threats. One has to look... <prompter> More. <assistant> at what the perveiced existential threats are and see how to lose one's fear about them. "The Blessed One said, "Monks, if you are... <prompter> Next. <assistant> asked by wanderers of other sects, 'Friends, there are these three qualities. Which three? Passion, aversion, & delusion. These are the three qualities. Now what is the difference, what the distinction, what the distinguishing factor among these three qualities? ' — when thus asked, you should answer those wanderers of other sects in this way, 'Friends, passion carries little blame and is slow to... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> fade. Aversion carries great blame and is quick to fade. Delusion carries great blame and is slow to fade. "Removed is what it means, but expressed in an idiomatic way. Sutta referrence... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> or even a Tipitaka referrence for this? It does not even matter if he talks about Ariya in general or Arahant in particular, you might see why. The Buddha said that the Enlightened Ones were far from defilements. And what is more funny is the reason for why X is still with Y, according to this commentary, it is because X did not run... <prompter> More. <assistant> away from Y, which is a non-answer of course, it is just a random statement. It is like (whilst being far away from work)... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> telling your boss that you are at work when he asks why you are not at work, when he asks why are you not... <prompter> More. <assistant> there; you tell him that he might think that you ran away from work but actually you did not run away, therefore you assure him that you are at work and it... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> is all good. Believe it or not, Linux kernel 4.14 is here only two days after the December 8 release of Linux kernel 4.13, which wasn't a big patch. However, it looks like today's update brings some more improvements, and according to the appended short leg and the diff since the previous version, it changes a total of 56 files, with 388 insertions and 164 deletions. “Turns out I'm going to be on a very long flight early tomorrow morning, so I figured it would be good to get this kernel out now, instead of delaying it by an extra day. So, I'm announcing the release of the 4.14 kernel,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman in today's mailing list announcement. “All users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade.”Linux kernel... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> 4.14 is now available for download from kernel.org or via our web portal. Also today, Greg Kroah-Hartman released the thirty-eighth maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel series, so if you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by that kernel, you are urged to update as soon as possible to Linux kernel 4.38 LTS. We arrived in Battambang around 1pm. Dave had a hard time finding our hotel. We went up and down side streets filled with water and huge pot holes. He finally stopped and asked someone and it was actually very close by. We were used to such a grand hotel in Seam Reap that we couldn't help being a bit disappointed in the Bambu. Although, it was suppose to be a 4 and a... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> half star hotel, it was more like a 2. We decided to... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> go to the hotel dining room and get something to eat. The... <prompter> More. <assistant> guide, Mr Tiens was coming around 2:30 to take us to see... <prompter> More. <assistant> the town. There was no air conditioning so we sat under a ceiling fan and ordered our meal. I decided to have tea and ordered a ginger and green tea. It was... <prompter> More. <assistant> funny because the waitress brought me the tea plus a dish of shredded ginger. That was great as I love ginger and it is good for you. I just put the whole dish in the teapot and had a delicious and healthy drink. The Cambodians drink a lot of tea and it was always offered on the menu. I can't quite remember what we... <prompter> Next. <assistant> ate but I usually chose a fish dish and Shawn usually chose... <prompter> Next. <assistant> fried rice. We returned to our room which did have air conditioning and organized our things and got ready for the afternoon excursion. The hotel was an outdoor concept. Our room was on the ground level and across from Dave's room. There was a huge pool and an outdoor bar and the enclosed dining room across from the bar. We walked out and saw Dave talking to the guide. Tiens was very pleasant and his English was extremely good. Our first stop was the governor's house. It was in a nice area with very wide streets. You could really see the influence of the 20th century French colonial architecture. The quaint and charming provincial town sits beside the Sangker River. As Dave mentioned several times, it is not... <prompter> More. <assistant> the usual tourist destination but does give you an opportunity to see rural Cambodia. We ended up taking a look at one of the market places in central Battambang. Afterwards, Dave drove... <prompter> Next. <assistant> us out into the countryside toward Sampeu Mountain. At the summit, we saw a complex of Buddhist temples It was very quiet with few visitors. One of the interesting and eerie parts... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> was a cave-like memorial to the people killed by the Khmer Rouge. The steep staircase leads into a cavern where a golden reclining Buddha... <prompter> Next. <assistant> lies peacefully next to a glass-walled memorial filled with bones and skulls. These are the remains of people killed and thrown through the skylight above the cavern.

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This is my 4th time to order from Bakers Maison via Foodpanda delivery, unlike other... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> bakeries offering online deliveries, all breads are available upon orderThis exciting video streaming company is making a few Fools put an asterisk on their “stay away from fresh IPOs” rule. Video streaming company iQiyi (NASDAQ:IQ) recently spun off from Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), and the market is taking notice. In this week's episode of Industry Focus: Tech, host Dylan Lewis and Motley Fool contributor Danny Vena explain why iQiyi is so exciting and what investors should know about the company before digging in. Press play and find out how huge Baidu is already, what their revenue and growth numbers look like, how the company has been so wildly successful so far, the biggest competitive threats in the Chinese video streaming space, how the stock has performed since its IPO, and... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> why the Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) of China has the hosts considering an exception... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> to their "no investing in recent IPOs" rule. It's Friday, May 11th, and we're talking about the Netflix of China. I'm your host, Dylan... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> Lewis, and I'm joined on Skype by Fool.com's Danny Vena. Danny, we both love Netflix - you as a shareholder, me as a binger. It seems like the streaming subscription model is... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> something a lot of people can get behind. Today, we're going to be talking about a company in China that has taken note. You want to tee up what we're going to... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> be discussing today? Danny Vena: Absolutely. iQiyi, which was a spin-off from... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> the Chinese Google, Baidu, they started off strictly following the Hulu model. They began as a company that used strictly advertising to generate their... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> revenue, get as many subscribers in the door as they could, but these people were not paying anything. And it was fairly successful. But about 2015 or so, Baidu recognized just how successful Netflix was becoming, and as it has been the case with so many Chinese companies, they saw a model that they liked, and they copied it. So, they generated some new exclusive content, they stuck it behind a paywall, they encouraged users to sign up and pay, in their case, about $3 a month, and they've gone from there. I'm sure that iQiyi appreciates the "Netflix of China" parallels. Certainly, when Matt Argersinger was first talking about this company, that's how I first got wind of it, and he used that as the pitch. I... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> was immediately ears perked up just because, one, the subscription model has been so strong for Netflix, retention has been so good; and two, it's just such a scalable model. You have... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> something that serves people well, and if you do it right and build out your content library, you can really scale your costs pretty quickly and enjoy some nice margins. iQiyi is... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> a business that operates somewhat like Netflix, somewhat like Hulu. And this really plays out in how they make their money and in their financials, right? Vena: It does. iQiyi still generates... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> the majority of their revenue from advertising. When they filed for their IPO, the information that they provided to the SEC essentially was that 47% of their revenue was still generated from advertising. They also earned some money from this subscription revenue. And then, they also have a bucket called Other. Some of that is a product of content distribution. It's not entirely like Netflix or Hulu, because they sell merchandise that are tied to some of their original content. ## They have video games, they have content distribution. So, they also have another growing bucket of revenue, which is unlike what we're used to seeing. Lewis: And as for what growth looks like for that revenue base, in the most recent quarter, iQiyi produced revenue in the... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> high $700 million range. There are some fluctuations, depending on the period you're looking at, due to currency, because this is a Chinese business. But, that was up 57% year over year. While that's pretty good growth, this was actually something that the market was a little disappointed in, Danny. Vena:​ And I think the market got that wrong, personally, because this is on... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> top of 55% growth in the prior year. So, having several years in a row of exceeding 50% growth for any company is pretty laudable. I think you have to be pretty thrilled with that kind of growth. This is kind of like the Facebook thing, where it defies logic that a company can continue to put up 40% or 50% growth year over... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> year on top of 40% or 50% year over year growth. But when you have a product that's that attractive, they just manage to do it. Vena:​ And I think, one of... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> the things that's going to serve them well in the future - I'm jumping ahead a little bit here - if you look at... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> the fact that they have more than 400 million monthly active users on PC, they have more than 400 million monthly active users on mobile, and that provides them a big pool of potential paying subscribers. I think the actual subscriber number is somewhere around 60 million. I think, you can look at this business a lot of the same ways that you would look at a Spotify. You have this free product that's available that gets people in the door. It's an introduction. Then, they have this content wall, and you can pay to see all of this exclusive stuff and these originals. That's been a really successful model for a lot of these content companies, and it proves to be really great for customer acquisition. Vena:​... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> And I think that also gives them a funnel, because they have all these people, like you said, they're trying out the free service. But in the meantime, they're still earning advertising dollars off of those customers, even though they're free. Then, when those customers decide they want in on some of that higher-quality original content, they'll pony up the few dollars a month... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> to be able to view that original content. ​Lewis:​ Perhaps not surprisingly for a high-growth business, this is not a profitable company. And I think, for the foreseeable future, this is going to be a business, much like Netflix was and continues to be, that trades based on what subscriber counts look like. People are going to use that as the baseline for what, long-term, the business can project out to, and so long as they continue to grow that subscriber count and maybe convert some more monthly actives to paid subscribers, then I think they're going to see a lot of success. Vena:​ That's true, Dylan. Looking at their most recent full fiscal year, and 2017 was probably pretty representative of what you'll see going forward, they... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> generated a loss of $500-600 million, and primarily because they just keep forking over money for more and more new original exclusive content that they're putting behind a paywall. And they've been pretty successful at doing that. They're following the Netflix model in that way, almost to the letter. Lewis: Yeah, and they've seen a ton of success with this. A lot of their original programming seems to really land with Chinese consumers, very much the same way that a lot of Netflix programming - your House of Cards, your reboots of Arrested Development, a lot of their movie Originals - seem to be huge drivers of customer acquisition here in the U. and in some of the new territories for Netflix. iQiyi, when they started developing this... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> original content, keep in mind that they were still owned by Baidu, which spun them off earlier this year. Now, Baidu has a lot of similarities to Google. They are the major search engine in China. They have a lot of data. They've been at the forefront of artificial intelligence. So, one of the things that iQiyi said in their IPO filing with the... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> SEC is that they view that data and their ability to analyze that data using artificial intelligence as one of their competitive advantages. So, they have used that to generate shows that... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> Chinese consumers just really love. And I want to read a bit here about one of their shows. Their most successful show to date has been something called The Rap of China... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> That show debuted last summer, and it's been called the most profitable TV show in China ever. It was a 12-episode music competition, similar to a lot of the reality shows that you've seen here. It had 2.68 billion viewers on the season finale in September. The total cost to develop that program was right around $38 million. They had earned more money than... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> that in advertising in the last 60 seconds of the final season's show. So, all of the rest of the advertising for the whole rest of the season was on top of... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> that. It already had paid for itself many times over. Lewis: I think I've made the point here that the model is very successful. What makes this particularly enticing is, we look at the streaming market in the U. and in some ways it's mature, at least on a relative basis. There are still a lot of households that are on the traditional cable... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> model. But, to go over to China, the penetration is so much lower, both from a connectivity standpoint and from an adoption standpoint. So,... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> the growth runway in front of a business like this, I think it's a lot larger than the growth runway in front of a Netflix right now. Vena: We don't know exactly how many people in China actually use streaming video on demand services, but estimates are somewhere around a 3% penetration rate for paying subscribers to these streaming video on-demand services like iQiyi. So, when you look at it from that perspective, there are just so many more subscribers to be had. I think the runway is incredible. I saw an estimate from Statista basically saying that the compound annual growth rate is expected to be somewhere around 16-17% annually over the next five or six years in China, the streaming video market. Of course, numbers that... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> are that big entice a lot of other players into the space, and I think that this is something that people need to keep... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> in mind with iQiyi. You have a business that's backed by the Google of China, but you also have a lot of other deep-pocketed tech companies that are interested in streaming video there. Vena: There's some big competition. We can talk about two of the other biggest players in China. By now, everybody has heard of Alibaba. They're a combination of so many U.companies, but they're most often compared to Amazon. But there's so much more going on there. One of the things that Alibaba has is a video streaming service called Youku Tudou, which is also one of the big players. Then, Tencent Video, from the video game company in China, although they're also into a lot of different areas. Those are the two main competitors, and... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> they have very deep pockets. They have a lot of money. And those two companies are second and third in the number of video streaming customers. I think Tencent Video said they... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> have about 450 million monthly active users under an advertising model. Alibaba has about 325 million. Alibaba has about 30 million paying subscribers, and Tencent has about 43 million, compared to iQiyi's... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> 60 million. So, there's a lot of competition there. All three of these companies are trying to develop original content. They're all going after those China consumer dollars pretty hard. Lewis: I think another point to note with this business is that the economics are slightly different on a per-user basis. Subscribers for iQiyi pay somewhere in the neighborhood of around $2.50 a month... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> for the service. Or, I think, ultimately, it might boil up to about $30 per year, depending on what they decide to opt in to. But, the value of those users is quite a bit different than the value of a Netflix subscriber, because Netflix subscribers are paying $11-12 a month. So, when you're thinking about valuing those subscribers, that's something to walk back... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> a little bit. We see that they have 60 million paying, Netflix has over 100 million paying at this point, and I think that's an important thing to keep in mind. <|prompter|> Finish this: I've seen a couple of commentators who've said, you really can't compare them to Netflix on an apples-to-apples basis for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is related to the fact that they have the hybrid model between Netflix and Hulu, so they're not a pure subscriber-based business. Then, on the other hand, when they do get paid by those subscribers, those dollars don't go nearly as far. I don't know what the economics are for a company in China that's going to a studio and saying, "I want to use this content, how much do I have to pay for it? " But, you can imagine that it's still going to be pretty expensive for them. So, I don't think they're going to get the same economics out of it that a Netflix does. Lewis: As we mentioned, this property just got spun out of Baidu fairly recently. Shares have not been trading all that long. And in that time, we've seen the usual fluctuations that you might expect from a new issuance hitting the public markets. Some of that is due to some recent developments that are helping the company out. Vena: Personally, when I see a company IPO, I like to watch it for a little bit, see what's happening, get a feel for how the financials are doing. Everybody puts their best foot forward in their SEC filings, not that they're being dishonest, but they want you to see the metrics that put them in the best light. So, you want to watch them for a couple of quarters and see what's going on. But even in the last week alone, there's been a couple of major announcement. There's a company in China called JD.com, which is fairly ubiquitous. It's one of the big e-commerce players in China.com and iQiyi announced a partnership whereby their premium members of each company would be able to use the services of each without paying a separate fee. They put out a press release within the last couple of days that said, in the first week alone, they had generated interest from more than a million new customers. Which, we talk about the difference giants in the Chinese tech space, given how competitive that space can be, I think these partnerships are valuable. This is also similar to what we've seen with Netflix and some of the other music streaming options out there. The non-conventional, non-cable companies have done quite a bit to bundle services or offer promotional offers. You see Spotify deciding to team up with Hulu recently to make their offering a little bit more appealing. Netflix has done some work in the past with cable companies. It seems like another situation where iQiyi is borrowing from Netflix's playbook a little bit. Netflix, it's going to be hard for any company to duplicate that kind of success, but that certainly doesn't stop them from borrowing from the model. The model is wildly successful, so it makes a lot of sense that they would go that route. Now, one other thing I wanted to mention, one of the other recent press releases came about the fact that iQiyi is the first internet streaming service in China to be certified in digital rights management. That has to do with protecting copyrights of the shows that they use. That's something we take for granted here in the United States. It's something that's been going on here for at least a decade. You remember, there was a lot of issues with pirated shows before Netflix started streaming, and the more Netflix got out there with their inexpensive monthly subscriber rates, the more pirating dropped. But pirating in China is still fairly widespread. One of the things that iQiyi did was, they went to a company in China that's been certified by Hollywood studios, a lot of worldwide movie producers, and they got themselves certified as being a protector of digital rights. So, with this situation, that now makes them more attractive to these Hollywood studios, because they feel like, when they let iQiyi use their content, it's going to be protected, it's not going to be out there in the hands of pirates, and their investment there is protected. Lewis: We talked about our inclination to have a couple of quarters of results and see how management handles being a publicly traded company before getting too, too interested in an IPO. These two news items alone, I think, have shares up about 20% this past week. That's kind of a testament to how much things can move around early on when you get a lot of excitement about a new business. I have gone on the record in the past in talking about how I do not like buying into recent IPOs. I think, even in the Never Will I Ever week, I said that I'd never buy shares of anything that hadn't been trading for at least six months, just because I like seeing that extended period of results and a longer track record, let some of the hype die down a little bit. I think this might be one that I asterisk, Danny. (laughs) I did say never will I ever, but I think there's a lot of really interesting stuff going on here, and I think there are some things that make this somewhat outside of the standard IPO for me. This is something that has been spun out of a large and successful business. If you're a Peter Lynch follower at all and you enjoy his investing philosophy, he loves the idea of a company being spun out, because you allow that company to have their growth and their value realized in a way that maybe it wouldn't be when it's umbrella-ed under a larger business. I also look at that IPO slightly differently than I would a standard one because it's not as much of a cash-out for early investors. You look at Baidu, and they're still maintaining a very large stake in this company, and they're maintaining the controlling interest in this company. Baidu is still the majority shareholder. I looked at some numbers yesterday, and if memory serves, they're still somewhere around a 60% owner of iQiyi, and they're also still mentoring them, they're still providing them with the artificial intelligence that they need to decide what their subscribers want to watch. There's a lot to be said about a smaller company having a really large, successful business - I mean, there's really not many businesses in China that are more successful than Baidu - but, having that company as a mentor, as a guide, supporting them, providing them data, I think that's a lot different than a company that's just a start-up that's gone out to an IPO. They get particularly attractive to me, too, because as it stands, they're roughly a $14-15 billion business. You look at Netflix as a $150 billion business, and it's easy to extrapolate that out. You have to do some puts and takes there, because this is a company that only operates in China, whereas Netflix is in 190 countries at this point. I think it just demonstrates that there's a lot of growth in this space. And, as someone that's kind of a pure-play, it's a super interesting company, certainly one that's on my short-term watch list. A couple of the other names that we talked about today, Tencent in particular is another company that I'm watching. But, the streaming video space in China just seems so poised for growth right now. I think the consumers in China are a few years behind us in terms of, Netflix started their streaming video back in 2007. iQiyi started their business in about 2010. And the modeling of Netflix only started in mid-2015. So, they're several years behind, I think there's still a lot of growth there. The runway is pretty incredible. It's never going to reach the scale of a Netflix. China has about 1.3 billion people, compared to the seven billion in the world that Netflix has as potential customers. Obviously, there are going to be some places where you're not going to have the availability of fixed broadband, where data rates on cellphones are not going to be conducive to streaming video. But, when you take those out, you take out the consumers that really couldn't afford a service like that, the poverty-level consumers, you still have a really huge runway. I've read some estimates that said that potential for the streaming market in China right now is somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 to 700 million. And, it's climbing, as you have a growing middle class in China, you have more urban millennials who are tech-savvy and who are making enough money to afford these services. So, I think the runway is pretty large. Lewis: That's all to say, there are a lot of megatrends that are pushing this company. It's something that I'm probably going to look to opportunistically start a small position in and maybe add to over the next couple of months. Danny, is this something that you're interested in as a stock to own? Vena: It's a company that . again, my inclination at first is to not go at a fresh IPO, having been burned in the past. But looking at this company, there are a lot of outlying factors. There are a lot of asterisks, as you put it. I was actually looking to make an investment in this company in the last week or two. I think that's firmed up in my mind a little bit. I'll probably be doing the same thing as you some time in the coming weeks or months, I'll be looking to establish a position. Lewis: Credit where credit is due on this-like I said, Matt Argersinger put this company on our radar, so thanks to him for tipping us off. And thanks to you, Danny, for hopping on the show and talking about it with me. Lewis: Listeners, that does it for this episode of Industry Focus. If you have any questions or if you just want to reach out and say hey, you can shoot us an email over at industryfocus@fool.com, or you can tweet us @MFIndustryFocus. If you're looking for more of our stuff, you can subscribe on iTunes or check out The Fool's family of shows over at fool. As always, people on the program may own companies discussed on the show, and The Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against stocks mentioned, so don't buy or sell anything based solely on what you hear. Thanks to Austin Morgan for all his work behind the glass. For Danny Vena, I'm Dylan Lewis. Thanks for listening and Fool on! John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Danny Vena owns shares of Alphabet (A shares), Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, and Netflix. 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But if you're not a Bank of America customer (or aren't planning to become one), don't spend heavily on gas or groceries, or are looking for more than just a sign-up bonus, I'd advise looking at the other top cash-back cards for your primary cash-back card. Neil Taylor has been one of Aston Villa's most consistent performers in 2017 following a January transfer window deadline day move from Swansea City. The left-back made the switch to Villa Park with Jordan Ayew going the other way, and he quickly established himself in the team under Steve Bruce with Jordan Amavi dropping to the substitutes' bench. While the Frenchman, who is on loan with Marseille with a view to making a permanent move next summer, was recently called into the France squad following an injury to Layvin Kurzuwa, he struggled to rediscover the early form he showed having signed for Aston Villa in the summer of 2015 last season. The full-back suffered an ACL tear in his right leg while on international duty with the Under-21s in November 2015, and he looked a shadow of his former self having made his return to action in the Championship. His dip in form meant that Bruce looked to bring in a new left-back at the start of 2017, and he would have been delighted to take the experienced Taylor from Swansea as part of the Ayew deal. While the Wales international doesn't often do the spectacular from an attacking sense, he is a solid and reliable performer and a good defender first and foremost. The 28-year-old played the full 90 minutes in 12 of Aston Villa's last 15 Championship fixtures last term – which included a run where they conceded one goal in eight matches – while he had also featured in every minute of their league campaign this term, until the remaining seconds of their fourth league win in a row against Bolton Wanderers last time out that is. Taylor was shown a red card for a challenge on Trotters striker Adam Le Fondre, and after the club failed with an appeal to overturn the decision it means that the left-back will be absent for the trip to face second-place Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux this weekend. With Amavi joining Marseille on loan during the summer and Bruce failing to bring in a cover and competition for Taylor during the same period, he must decide who will fill in for the Welshman on Saturday. There are certainly plenty of candidates, with right-backs Alan Hutton and James Bree able to cover there if required and Ritchie De Laet, Birkir Bjarnason and Mitch Clark starting the club's three EFL Cup fixtures this season in that position. Youngsters Oscar Borg and Jack Bedeau could be outside bets to start, although the calibre and danger of the player they are likely to come up against could see Bruce choose to go with a more experienced head. Helder Costa showed the ability he has in his first season with Wolves when he scored 12 goals and provided a further 11 assists in 40 appearances in all competitions last term. Not only did the speedy right winger show that he was a huge danger in the Championship, but he also put in a standout performance in the 2-0 win against Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup at Anfield in January, picking up two assists. As well as netting nine goals in 34 league games, the Portuguese wide man showed that he can provide for his teammates too after creating 57 chances, while he also successfully completed 48 of the 80 take-ons he attempted. While he was in such good form last season, the 23-year-old has been hampered by an ankle injury this term and he only made his first appearance of the campaign as a late substitute in the 2-0 defeat to Sheffield United late last month. The winger then made his first start against Burton Albion three days later but was taken off in the 51st minute, and he will have been working hard to boost his fitness over the international break to ensure that he is raring to go against Villa. While the Midlands outfit will certainly be pleased that Costa doesn't appear to be back to his best just yet, they must also be aware of the dangers that he will bring and Bruce must select a left-back to face up against him accordingly. Villa supporters would probably prefer Alan Hutton to start at right-back unless Ahmed Elmohamady is going to having played the last two matches there, while playing a youngster like Mitch Clark would be a risk. The Villa Park faithful certainly won't fancy Bjarnason to start either considering he has struggled to make an impact following his January move to the club as well as the lack of pace that he has shown, meaning that Hutton, Bree and De Laet look to be best options for the job. You would think that Bruce would select either the former or the latter because of the experience they have, as the former Hull City boss looks to ensure that Costa has an ineffectual evening at Molineux. De Laet certainly has the speed to get the nod but considering he has made just four appearances this season following his return to action following a knee injury in July, it remains to be seen whether he will start. Whoever Bruce does pick will know the job that they have to do throughout the 90 minutes, and that individual will be looking to fill the massive Taylor-sized hole that has been left ahead of this Championship clash between two in-form clubs.

<human>: Fill in words: Been missing this status since Maldini & Nesta so badly. These guys in our new ultra sexy kits. I love this club so much. From what I have read about him, he seems like a good defender. Good at defending, fast, strong, good passing, good with the ball at his feet, likes slide tackling BUT gets injured a lot. So we will need backup. Author Topic: Dukedoms of the realms of England, Scotland, GB, Ireland and the UK. (Read 63242 times)I have spent years collecting together a personal library of books relating ... dynasties of the five peerages of creation set out above. The present holders of such non royal Dukedoms number just twenty four individuals, which makes them an extraordinarily elite social group. I have long been fascinated by the families that have or had a Duke as their dynastic head, and have spent quite a lot of time and resources ... as much data as I can on these rare creatures and their progeny. I even contemplated setting up my own website dedicated ... as much data as I could about the Ducal families, and acquired a suitable domain name etc, but I am not into IT and website creating, so this project never got very far! But, I was wondering whether or not, there would enough people here on this marvelous forum, who would like me to start a thread about these families. I envisage that it would have to be limited to just Dukes from the above realms, otherwise it would become a monolith if all of Burkes was included, and other European Ducal Houses were included likewise. I could have simply started individual topic threads for each of the twenty four extant Ducal families and others for the extinct variety, but I thought it may be quite a good idea, considering the amount of data I, and (hopefully) ... to contribute , to create a seperate thread all together with individual topic threads within. so to speak! Any thoughts would be very appreciated and I would be happy to start off at the beginning with a 'Norfolk' thread followed by 'Somerset' and so on. if enough people would like me to and if the powers that be feel it may be positive and of use! It's definitely an interesting subject Toots! Norfolk ... oldest one, if I remember right, followed by Somerset and then . one of the one's created by Charles II? Grafton or Beaufort or St Albans? The dukedoms of England come first in precedence, followed by Scotland, Great Britain, the UK, then Ireland, I think . correct me if I'm wrong Toots. There's only two Irish dukedoms left - Leinster and Abercorn. There's a new book about the Howard family (dukes of Norfolk) at the moment called 'House of Treason' ... think). They definitely had quite a chequered history, especially with the Tudors . the dukedom was attainted and re-instated several times I think! The Dukes of Norfolk of Tudor times seemed to personify the 'over mighty subject' that was so abhorrent to ... once they'd gained a strain of Plantagenet blood (through Eleanor Stafford, wife of the ... Edward III). Great family to start the discussion with! Here is a taster about the Norfolks. I have heaps of stuff I could post. but thought best to just throw in a tit bit! The Dukes of Norfolk ... of non Royal origin in existence in Britain. The Howards were modest landowners until one Sir Robert Howard of ... dynastic marriage to Lady Margaret Mowbray, daughter of the 1st Duke of Norfolk of the first creation. The Mowbrays were by this time one of the most illustrious dynasties in all England, having made brilliant marriages in turn to grand daughters of both Edward I and Henry III. It was with Sir Robert's marriage to Lady Margaret, that the Howards really emerged from the modesty of the landed gentry and began their rise to the very apex of society. In due course, Sir Robert and ... would benefit greatly from the deaths of his maternal first and second cousins once removed, John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk and his only child Lady Anne Mowbray. Howard had, no doubt been made ... and dangers that went with such power and wealth as ... from the example of his Mowbray kin. His grandfather the Mowbray 1st Duke had been metaphorically taken down a peg or two and was stripped of the Dukedom and Earl Marshalship, when he took the losing side in the feud between Richard II, the Duke of Gloucester and the future Henry IV. ... to Earl Marshalship in 1412 and in 1425 was restored to the Dukedom of Norfolk. John Howard's first cousin, the son and successor of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk, perhaps influenced his cousin to join the Yorkist cause during the Wars of the Roses thus providing Howard with a lucrative link to the court of Edward IV. The Mowbray 3rd Duke was a staunch supporter of Edward IV as was his only child and successor, the 4th and last Mowbray Duke of Norfolk. His ... in 1476 brought the Mowbray Dukedom to an end, but his only child Lady Anne Mowbray was subsequently a great heiress, having inherited the vast Mowbray patrimony, and she was swiftly married off aged five, to Edward IV's second son, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, then aged four. Anne died in 1481 and her widower was made Duke of Norfolk of the 2nd creation. In 1483 Richard, Duke of York ... was confirmed by Act of Parliament as legal successor to his dead wife's estates, to the detriment and exclusion of her rightful heirs John Howard and William, Viscount Berkeley. This legislation probably lead Howard to subsequently support Richard III's move to have himself proclaimed King after the disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York and Norfolk. It is interesting to note that at the time that Edward V and his brother were conveyed to the Tower of London on May 19th and June 16th 1483 respectively, the Constable of the Tower was none ... John Howard. On 28th June following, three days after Richard took the throne, John Howard was created 1st Duke of Norfolk of the third creation and given a sizable portion of the Mowbray patrimony with which to support his new status. On three occasions 1485, 1547 and 1572 the Howards have lost the Dukedom of Norfolk, but they have successfully regained this illustrious peerage thrice more in 1514, 1553 and 1660 through sheer labour, chicanery, shrewdness and dogged determination. The Howards have proved to be one of the most tenacious and enduring families in British ... have held 'twenty five different patents of creation ... peerages. ' Which in itself is a remarkable feat. With two Queen Consorts of England, both grand daughters of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk and a canonized saint, the son and heir of the 4th Duke amongst their ranks, and generations of other colourful and fascinating personages to learn about, the Dukes of Norfolk ... day. Fascinating stuff, Toots! Am I right in thinking they're also the only ducal family to remain Catholic? I think they've been nominally Anglican in the past, for political purposes, but have aways been regarded as an old, Catholic family. They were definitely a family of limitless ambition - as you mention, they've produced ... of England (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, nieces of the 3rd duke) and there were even plots to marry the 4th duke to Mary, Queen of Scots, and put them both on the throne of England. The duke remains Earl Marshall to this day, I believe? Nowadays they have the double-barrel surname of 'Fitzalan-Howard', reflecting their acquisition of the earldom of Arundel, one of the oldest in England. In 1842 the 13th Duke of Norfolk encouraged his sons to add the name of Fitzalan to their surname. This was inspired by the pseudo-feudalism that was proving highly popular at the time! During the nineteenth century many patrician families employed genealogists to enhance their rolls of pedigree. It was fashionable to dig out links to Normans who came over with Conqueror or arrived in the century following, no matter how tenuous the evidence in some cases. The Russell Dukes of Bedford and the Seymour/St Maur Dukes of Somerset were amongst the Ducal Houses who ... noticeably culprits in this fad. In the case of the Howards, such dexterous and questionable genealogical practices were wholly unnecessary, as they were lineal female line descendants not only of the Bigods, de Veres, Staffords and Mowbrays to name but a few, but also of the equally illustrious and impressively antique Fitzalans, Earl of Arundel. Further motivation was no doubt the Norfolks decision to establish Arundel, the ancient seat of their Fitzalan ancestors, as the principal ducal seat after the sale of Worksop in the famed Dukeries of Nottinghamshire. Fot the sake of continuity I shall now return to the 1st Duke and his successor, and their places in the annals of this illustrious family:-John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk proved himself a loyal supporter of Richard III. Even in light of his possible involvement in the disappearance of Edward V and Richard Duke of York, Norfolk's adherence to Richard III's cause did much to motivate a remarkable amount of damage limitation to his reputation after the Battle of Bosworth. Where the 1st Earl of Derby is regarded as a treacherous turncoat to this day, and the 4th Earl of Northumberland's hesitation during the battle still provokes raised eyebrows as to his loyalty to Richard III, Norfolk stood firm and perished along with his King on the field, but whilst the King's body was treated with relative ignominy, the Duke's body was conveyed back to Norfolk and interred with appropriate to his rank. Even though Norfolk died in the cause of the losing King, ... a key note to his future reputation as ducal progenitor of the Howards. He was posthumously attainted but only after his son and heir the Earl of Surrey, had held the Dukedom briefly, the latter, after several years in the Tower was released the attainder against him and his father reversed, and he was restored to ... his wife's estates, during a period when the pragmatic Henry VII began to consolidate his position by actively winning over former opponents. But the Dukedom and the Howard-Mowbray estates continued to be withheld, probably in a bid to encourage a 'stick and carrot' incentive for Surrey, who subsequently continued his obeisance to Henry Tudor as he strove methodically and ably in his mission to restore his family's fortunes. Over the following three decades, Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey de jure 2nd Duke of Norfolk, worked tirelessly and shrewdly to regain his alienated patrimony, finally achieving this goal in 1509. Thereafter, he worked industriously to enhance and consolidate the restoration and furtherance of his family's fortunes. He served Henry VII with a loyalty akin to that of his father to Richard III. From 1489, shortly after his release he was appointed Chief Justice in Eyre North of the Trent and in 1490 became Vice Warden of the East and Middle Marches. His duties in the North saw him successfully quell revolts inspired by increased taxes and in 1500 he returned south and to court were he was admitted to the Privy Council and subsequently appointed Lord Treasurer, a position he held for ... years. With the accession of the young Henry VIII, Lord Treasurer Surrey continued in office and was appointed Earl Marshal for the coronation. Surrey was primarily a Knight and soldier, having grown up during the darkest days of the Wars of the Roses, but he nonetheless possessed a more rounded character than that of a mere military commander, as proven ... Lord Treasurer. According to John Martin Robinson, the author of the ... Wolsey a rival, who resented Surrey's increasing prominence at court and began to use his machiavellian ... to the King in the years following. In 1513 as Lord Treasurer, Surrey was apparently prevented from accompany Henry VIII on campaign to France, due to the devious designs of Wolsey, who wished to keep the war mongering King and Surrey apart at the time. Left behind in England to assist Queen Katherine in the governance of the realm, Surrey was thus able to rush north with his sons Thomas and Edmund in his retinue and resoundingly defeat James IV and the Scots at Flodden in the most spectacular triumph of his career and led to his restoration as 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Even this, the epoch of his career was to be clouded for Norfolk by Wolsey's ever increasing pre-eminence at court. In 1521 at the age of nearly eighty, Norfolk was appointed 'Guardian of the Realm' when Henry and Wolsey ... the Channel to attend the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Soon afterwards, probably at Wolsey's instigation Norfolk's old friend and the father of his elder son and heir's wife, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham was arrested on charges of treasonous acts. Forced ... act as Lord High Steward during the trial, Norfolk oversaw the downfall of Buckingham and apparently 'burst into tears' when the verdict was reached by his peers and he was required to pronounce sentence. Now, ... Norfolk withdrew from court, he resigned all his appointments, retaining only that of Earl Marshal and he retired to Norfolk, where he lived on in splendid dotage at Framlingham, the great seat of his Bigod and Mowbray forefathers, dying in 1524 having succeeded in leaving his successor the great patrimony regained through tireless and admirable labour. He was twelve years old when his grand father was slain at Bosworth and subsequently attainted. Yet, young Thomas would no doubt have learned the arts of self preservation, pragmatism and the rewards of methodical labour from the example of his remarkable father. As uncle of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard,and as a son in law through his first wife, of Edward IV and then of the tragic 3rd Duke of Buckingham through his second marriage, ... Norfolk is a figure who saw his family rise ever further to the very apex of preeminence and power during his tenure as Duke and also saw it sink into the very darkest nadir of ruin. He saw his own father pronounce the death sentence against his hapless father in law, ... prepared and hardened the 3rd Duke for when it came to the fate of his two nieces in the future. He watched and encouraged those nieces, pawns in a greater dynastic scheme, rise to the most exalted of all positions, and he then took part in their respective downfalls as well as witnessing ... foolish son and heir. He himself, came to ... hair's breadth of feeling the caress of the axe blade upon his own neck, saved only by the timely death of his King and former nephew by marriage, Henry VIII. Only with the death of Henry's Protestant son and successor, Edward VI and the Catholic Mary Tudor's accession after Lady Jane Grey's nine day tenure of the throne, did the eighty year old 3rd Duke reemerge from the Tower, where his father had also once languished, and where his grandfather as Constable had 'welcomed' ... York some seventy years earlier. Such was the nature of life during the uncertain and often dangerous times during which the ... Norfolk lived and survived. At the ... twenty two as his father was rebuilding the family fortunes, Thomas future ... a spectacular marriage that eclipsed that of his great grandfather to Lady Margaret Mowbray, ... he married Henry VII's sister in law Princess Anne of York. Although this marriage proved fruitless and Anne brought no dowry into the marriage, it established a familial link between the Tudor and Howard dynasties that was perhaps the catalyst for what would in time become something of a 'pet project' to reestablish, maintain and nurture for Thomas and his siblings. In 1512, the widowed Thomas married for ... again a bride of impeccable pedigree with plenty of blue blood coursing through her veins. This marriage produced the requisite heir and spare as well as a daughter, but eventually the couple lived apart, due in part to the future 3rd Duke's rather public attachment to the daughter of the Steward at his ... Norfolk. Like his father, Thomas came from from 'an hereditary military caste,' but he did not emerge to the fore until after the accession of Henry VIII, who was keen to achieve military glory, particularly during the early years of his reign. In the ... part in the disastrous Guienne campaign whilst his younger brother Lord Edward as Lord Admiral commanded the Channel Fleet. In the following year, Lord Edward perished in a skirmish off Brest and Thomas took his place. He was subsequently prevented from securing the Channel for the crossing of a great expeditionary force by prevailing winds and incurred the King's ire for his troubles. Inauspiciously, he remained behind with his father and younger surviving brother when Henry crossed and took part in the Battles of the Spurs and the capture of Tournai. Therefore, fate allowed Thomas to be present to take an active role in implementing the strategy that saw the English under his father's command defeat the Scots at Flodden and see his father restored to the Dukedom of Norfolk in the following year, Thomas consequently gained his own reward as he became ... Surrey. Until his accession to the Dukedom, Thomas continued as Lord Admiral and served on occasion as Lord Deputy of Ireland amongst other appointments. With his accession to the Dukedom in 1524, Thomas really came into his own as a man of extraordinary ambition, who would ... act so ruthlessly, that today his reputation is permanently tainted. The scheming began in earnest with the onset of the difficulties that Wolsey experienced during Henry VIII's moves to have his marriage to Katherine of Aragon annulled. In ... surprising that Norfolk would not look upon his father's arch rival's gradual fall from grace with some semblance of satisfaction. But in that heated and precarious climate of opportunity and change, Norfolk began to hone his own statecraft, and is believed to have been privy if not responsible for hatching the plans to encourage his nieces, Mary and Anne Boleyn into the ... arms. As is well documented elsewhere, Norfolk was to see Anne triumph and marry their King, and at this time, it is supposed that Norfolk hoped to use his ... to marry his heir, Surrey to Anne's new step daughter the future Mary I. In ... a match between his own daughter and the King's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond thus establishing another tentacle like familial link between the King and his family. It ... seemed at this time as though Norfolk and the Howards were unassailable. But Norfolk came to realize that he could not rely on ... role in his grand designs. Anne Boleyn drew away from her uncle and a family fracture began to grow, a fracture that would eventually fester into a wound that would scupper many of Norfolk's future designs and divide his House. I am unsure about the direction in which ... go here, as this is a thread about the Dukes of all twenty four extant house et al. and not just about the Norfolks? I fear that the ties that bound the Norfolks and the Somersets to the Tudors, ... and in the case of the Seymours in particular, James VI and I, may bog this thread down and I will try not to delve too deeply into the mire of intrigues that followed. This is why I was wondering whether this should be sub divided into separate threads or ... of direction we wish to travel. I guess that there will be heaps of members who will like the Tudor period ... and ancestors of extant ducal families, and that others will not be so enthused, but the latter members will no doubt find their interests fired by the ducal personalities of the following centuries. I dare say, many will love learning and sharing anecdotes about those characters who figured during the Belle epoch in particular! I mean I could easily and quite happily sit here for hours on end writing up bios, thoughts and stats about the each Duke of each 'House' in turn, which seems frightfully self indulgent to me! ! ! Sorry Prince Lieven. yes the Norfolks are the only ducal dynasty ... have remained faithful to Rome, with the odd conformity on the part of a couple of members of the family, including the notorious 'Jockey' Norfolk, boon companion of ... IV when he was Prince Regent! The present Duke retains his seat in the Lords by virtue of his position as Hereditary Earl Marshal. David, 7th and present Marquess ... of his position as Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain. Neither Norfolk nor Cholmondely required election to remain in the Lords. The Dukes of Norfolk in their capacity as Earl Marshal were and are ... manner of state occasions, from state funerals to 'state' Royal Weddings, to the state opening of Parliament. In the past, Dukes as hereditary Earls Marshal have on occasion, incited ... carry out such complicated and painstaking duties, but in the last hundred years, successive Dukes have gained enormous respect for their finite knowledge and abilities. A further duty as Earl Marshal is to oversee the College of Arms which is the only body in Britain permitted to legally grant armorials. I believe that Bernard Duke was very keen to make sure his successor learnt from experience as well as form his example in carrying out his duties! He arranged the coronation of 1937 when he was just twenty nine and was responsible thereafter for arranging all public state occasions until his death. When it became apparent he would not have a son of his own, Bernard Duke made sure his heir assumptive until 1972, heir presumptive thereafter, his second cousin once removed, Miles, Lord Beaumont and Howard of Glossop was suitably well groomed for the job he would eventually inherit with the Dukedom in 1975. I am so tempted to roll on to another dynasty, such as the St Albans clan (my favourite family descended from Charles II), the Osborne Dukes of Leeds (My absolute favourite ducal family of all! ) or the Churchill Dukes of Marlborough (IMHO the ducal dynasty that has produced a line of ... but all the more interesting characters with 'remarkabe' consistency over the last three centuries, as well as the 'Greatest Briton' of them all! ! ! ! ! )I note that I have not provided any information ... 1st and 2nd Dukes, so will do so here. John 1st Duke (c.1424 - killed at Bosworh 1485) married twice. His first wife was Katherine de Moleyns, whose family were another of impeccable Norman descent and were I believe, Shire Knights of Buckinghamshire. This marriage produced the 2nd Duke. Until 1461 Katherine's married name would have been Mistress Howard, thereafter when her husband was Knighted she became Katherine, Lady Howard. John married 2ndly, one Margaret Chedworth (1436 - 1494) who appears to have had at least one child with Howard, a daughter, Katherine who married and had issue. I should have added that as a interesting footnote, in Shakespeare's 'Richard III', on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth the character of the 1st Duke receives an anonymous note warning him that Richard III was being betrayed, ... 1524) married cousins, firstly Elizabeth (c.1445 - 1497) and then Agnes Tylney (1477 - 1545). Elizabeth, Countess of Surrey produced several surviving children. including her eldest son, who succeeded as 3rd ... - 1554), a younger son Lord Edward (1476/77 - 1513) who perished during a skirmish with the French fleet off Brest, when he threw himself into the sea rather than be taken alive! ... Lord Edmund Howard (? - 1538) was father of ... Howard. One of Elizabeth's daughters, her namesake, (c.1480 - 1438) married the ambitious Sr Thomas Boleyn, who would later become Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde. Of their numerous children, only three survived to adulthood, Mary, Anne who preceded her cousin Katherine as Henry VIII's second Queen, and George, Viscount Rochford. Agnes, Duchess of Norfolk, who married her cousin's ... Elizabeth's death produced several more children for her aging husband. William (c.1510 - 1573) who was implicated in helping his half niece, Katherine Howard in her purported 'adulterous' affairs and was subsequently arrested but later pardoned. He gradually returned to royal favour over time. In 1554 he successfully held London during the Wyatt rebellion and was rewarded when ... of Effingham and became Lord High Admiral. It was through his descendants that the Howard dynasty acquired the Earldom of Notingham cr.1597 ext.1681 and the Earldom of Effingham cr. Williams younger brother Lord Thomas ... as rash as his half great nephew, the future 4th Duke in his lofty matrimonial ambitions. Lord Thomas incurred the wrath of Henry VIII when he embarked on a ... with the King's niece Lady Margaret Douglas, the future mother of Lord Henry Darnley! Lord Thomas was thrown into the Tower and died there for this misdemeanor. ## Several of Agnes' daughters made marriages of considerable dynastic importance. Agnes is well known to historians for her role in the upbringing and fate of her step grand daughter, Katherine Howard, who lived with her for periods of her life. There, I hope I have provided enough data about these early chatelaines of the House of Howard and younger children too? ! ? Though, I am sure other members with firmer knowledge of this particular period in British History will be able to flesh out my rather scant tit bits here! ! ! ! Now I can bring in the next Ducal dynasty, as I carry on babbling about the ruthless 3rd Duke of Norfolk and his seemingly tireless schemes to bind his progeny to the Crown of England. It seems to have been a bit of ... with the Howards during this period in History. Starting ... first marriage to Henry VII's sister in law, Anne, then the marriage of Anne Boleyn, her uncle's increasingly inflated ambition to see his heir married to Mary Tudor, when this came to nothing he then brokered marriage between his daughter Mary to the King's bastard. Then there is the purported marriage between Lord Thomas Howard and Margaret Tudor's daughter. The ultimate matrimonial prize was to be coveted by the 4th Duke, who thought himself worthy of the hand of Mary, Queen of Scots! For this and suspected plots against his cousin, Elizabeth I, the 4th Duke not only lost his head but ... the House of Howard to the brink of ruin, through his folly and grandiose ambitions. The example set by Anne Boleyn and her family in securing for her the consort's crown paved the way for others to begin to nurture similar aspirations as Anne's star began to wane. At this juncture, as the 3rd Duke of Norfolk first tried to breach the gulf between himself and his increasingly distant and beleaguered niece, and Thomas Cromwell, the man who replaced Wolsey, as the King's principal adviser, other figures at court began to jostle for position, ready to take advantage of a weakening in the power base that was the House of Howard. Into ... and religious upheaval, stepped the Seymours, a family of Shire knights of Wiltshire. They were akin to the gentry of the 'military caste' from which the Howards themselves had emerged less then a century before with the Mowbray marriage. The ... in much shorter time, as they did not marry into the aristocracy as an entree into that rarefied world of coronets and great landed interests, but instead vaulted straight to the top of the greasy pole by managing to marry one of their lasses to the King himself. Where the Howards had set the example over several generation, by winning, losing and then winning back their coronet and position through a series of carefully planned dynastic unions, a painstaking strategy of craft and a proven track record of loyal service to three successive monarchs over three generations, the Seymours must ... relative 'upstart' nobodies, from the very moment Jane Seymour daughter of Sir John Seymour of Wolfhall and her brothers began to draw attention to themselves at court. At this time, the 3rd Duke of Norfolk was finding his position increasingly difficult to maintain. In a repeat of the rivalry that had fermented between his father and Wolsey, the 3rd Duke found in Thomas Cromwell, his own nemesis. Having succeeded in orchestrating Wolsey's downfall,Norfolk had failed to capitalize on his promotion as the Cardinal's replacement as Henry's chief adviser, due to his lack of ability as a statesman. His own lack ... success in the protracted divorce proceedings of the King and Katherine of Aragon, probably led to his ... allowed for the rise to prominence of the brilliantly crafty and able lawyer, Cromwell. Perhaps because of these shifting sands of power at court, Norfolk instead began his campaign to bind his family to ... ways. Hence he encouraged his niece in her relationship with the King and she in ... initially prove a highly useful ally in his schemes to enhance the Howard name. Apparently, relations between uncle and niece were volatile, she finding him selfish and untrustworthy and he in turn finding her use of colourful language in heated exchanges, shocking on one particular occasion! As relations between Henry and Anne became increasingly strained, I dare say Norofolk, ever the pragmatist stood back and reappraised his niece's position and his own! Anne's more radical views on the issue of religion is purported to have put a particularly severe strain on their relationship in later years, and knowing Norfolk, Anne's inability to produce a healthy male heir after nearly three years of marriage, probably hastened his decision to drop any remaining support for her that their familial links may have previously maintained. His subsequent callousness during ... as Lord High Steward, is one of the first tangible examples of just how ruthless the 3rd Duke of Norfolk could be, when the preservation of his own position was at stake. Thinking about things generally, it seems rather fortuitous to me, that perhaps some of these ramblings, may have been covered in the miniseries 'The ... yet to see series three, but hope ... the liberties taken for purposes of so called artistic license very annoying in the earlier series! ! ! ! Anyway, back to Norfolk after the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Now his rivalry with Cromwell really heated ... The Seymours had won the prize and were in the ascent. With the birth of a male heir, Jane Seymour ... for her kin at court. Here began the greatest of rivalries ... occur in English History, between non Royal ducal Houses. Whilst the Seymour brothers, Edward and Thomas strutted about, albeit for a while in mourning, at their brother-in-law's court, the latter by now Earl of Hertford, Norfolk tenaciously maintained ... own place at court and during the period 1536 and 1540 he worked hard to continue to keep the King's favour. Although a reactionary, Norfolk's role in the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace in the North is seen as further evidence of his ruthless self serving character. ... the Seymour brothers appeared to cosy up to Cromwell, enough to actually marry ... heir in 1538, Norfolk carried out his duties assiduously, and with typical Howard ... waited and watched as Cromwell embarked on the road that would end in his downfall. It is interesting to note that amongst Gardiner's state papers, and dated to around 1538 is a commentary which describes almost all of the incumbent Dukes, Marquesses and Earls of the realm, Norfolk is described as:'72 years, the chief and best captain. The Earl of Oxford, of 66 years, a man of great power and little experience. The Earl of Arundel, 60, a man of great power, little wit and less experience. The Earl of ... land, young, and a child in wisdom and half a fool. The Earl of Essex (Thomas Cromwell), an old man, of little wit and less experience, without power. The Earl of Sussex, 50, of small power and little discretion. The Earl of Bath, old and foolish. The Earl of Hertford (Edward Seymour), young and wise, of small power. 'I've been to Arundel Castle once in 1958 and our group spotted a man walking in the garden, whom our guide told us was the Duke of Norfolk. He could have been for all I know, or he could have been just the gardiner! ! Alix, just keep on ... the Norfolks or another, as long as they're identified in bold as you've been doing at the top of each posting. It's good to have a new topic, as is this one; and I'm very happy with the one on the Queens of Bohemia by another contributor also. Personally, I have overdosed on the Tudor period, starting decades ago in childhood, in a relatively good old fashioned prep school where, the Tudors were the favoured area of study to really try and capture the interest of us wee ones and snare us into lifelong interests in History generally! ... case it worked, but I eventually discovered following eras which have become much more piquant pet interests to me! Anyway, back to the grindstone so to speak! To any kind readers here, remember this is a very 'potted' version of events! ! ! ... join in with more 'insightfull' textual contributions too if possible! So by 1538 Norfolk was still teetering on the summit of his powers against all the odds. He loyalty may have been suspected by both his King and Cromwell, yet Norfolk managed to cling on to his position. His activities during the Pilgrimage of Grace requires deeper analysis. 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I have words 83: to soon! Although I did find words 84: up! words 85: secured positions of enviable intimacy and influence words 86: ever to words 87: his words 88: Whilst words 89: a sister, Elizabeth to Cromwell's words 90: guile he words 91: Derby, the greatest of power and words 92: whatever choice you make, whether words 93: In my words 94: I would love others to words 95: that Norfolk chose to see the rising <human>: What could be the completion of this text: Empathetic though he may have been to the people, in such matters relating to the Reformation, Norfolk chose the crown over either the church ... <assistant>: Rest of text: or the People. In remaining loyal to the King, Norfolk escaped censure at the time, or at least that is what historians have hypothesized... <human>: More. <assistant>: But another less palatable but equally realistic motivation behind his part in the suppression of the Pilgrimage, is possible. It is speculated that Norfolk,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: when his own position was in jeopardy, demonstrated once again his instinct for consummate self preservation, with what some regard as another glaring example of his putting his temporal powers before his... <human>: More. <assistant>: personal, spiritual and moral scruples. It is interesting to speculate that Henry VIII had no real desire to neuter Norfolk at this time. Politically, as the Reformation proceeded, it would have been natural for the King to wish to maintain some semblance of the status quo within the ranks of his court. Perhaps it was a case of tolerating an able Norfolk as nominal... <human>: Next. <assistant>: leader of reactionary court faction, rather than to risk creating a dangerous... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: void which would have left Cromwell, Cranmer, and their acolytes, the Seymours amongst them to reap the benefits. Henry VIII may have broken with Rome, but it appears he was not prepared to embrace what were still regarded at that time as heretic practices at the time. 'The failure of a grand Lutheran alliance envisaged through marriage to Anne of Cleves, led Norfolk to personally arrest the author of this disastrous opus at the Council table in June 1540. ## With Cromwell's subsequent execution, Norfolk's position appeared secure. He was once again the King's most trusted adviser, the only fly in the ointment being the continued presence of the Prince of Wales' maternal uncles, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and Sir Thomas Seymour. These two young men were... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: contemporaries of Norfolk's son and heir, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. During the following six years, Surrey would become Hertford's principal rival in a dangerous struggle to secure power in the event of the King's death and the prospect of a Regency. Surrey, a man born with a multitude of gifts dazzled like a modern day 'bright young thing' for a time. He wrote... <human>: More. <assistant>: poetry, was a patron of the arts, went on campaign as a soldier, in fact he was the quintessential Renaissance 'Earl' who promised to... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: gild his illustrious inheritance with the trappings of leaning and culture, that his predecessors had had little time for in their quest to establish the foundations upon which their house had risen. Norfolk meantime had discovered another dynastic project. His niece, Catherine Howard, by all accounts, pretty, acquiescent and good natured had inflamed the ardour of the King, when she had been pressed into... <human>: More. <assistant>: waiting to his brief fourth consort, Anne of Cleves. Apparently, Catherine's own family privately doubted her ability to deal with so august and unpredictable a mate. Nevertheless, the King was determined and young Catherine became Norfolk's second niece to sit upon the consort's throne. Although at the time, Norfolk's only real rival for power was Cranmer, the Duke appears to have had little direct... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: influence in the the King's fifth marriage. Perhaps Norfolk was hedging his bets, until his niece produced a spare male heir, after which he may have become enthusiastic in cultivating and nurturing relations with the charming but rather naive young Queen. With his almost prescient ability for self preservation, Norfolk was able to remain aloof from his niece's subsequent downfall, and is said to have actually cried tears of sympathy for the King when Catherine's adultery was unearthed. Apparently Norfolk was also heard to laugh when sentence was passed upon the former Queen. (I find this shocking. and wonder whether it is perhaps merely propaganda inspired folk lore developed to blacken Norfolk's name in the years following? ) Norfolk and the rest of his brood were lucky to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: have escaped unharmed in the aftermath of Catherine's disgrace and execution. Over the closing years of the increasingly tyrannical King's reign, Norfolk acted as Captain General of the Army and lad a... <human>: More. <assistant>: lucrative raid in the eastern Border. The flare up hostilities with France led Norfolk and Surrey over the Channel and whilst Surrey, young and enthusiastically supportive of the defence of Bolougne, Norfolk... <human>: More. <assistant>: advocated relinquishing the port, with his usual shrewd assessment, being proved right when a treaty was negotiated for England by none other that Edward Seymour Earl of Hertford. In the last month... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: of 1546 Surrey was arrested and charged with high treason, for rashly quartering the arms of Edward the Confessor with his own. In itself this was a crime, insinuating that Surrey was heralding his own place in the succession to the throne, but to gravely ill King, a hulk of flesh closeted in his bed, no doubt acutely aware of his own ebbing mortality,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: as he languished in agony from his putrefying leg and struggled to... <human>: More. <assistant>: endure, this folly probably incited a rally of wrath. Hertford probably took full advantage of Surry's impetuousness and was perhaps instrumental in setting in motion the arrest of his most dangerous rival Norfolk. The Duke, now approaching his seventy fourth year was subsequently arrested, attainted and charged with treason. It appears that Hertford and his followers, fearing Norfolk's power, wished to remove him once and for all from the theatre of government, and to be seen to do so with the assent of the King, rather during a ensuing Regency. Politically it was a highly shrewd move by Somerset, in his scheme to end the Howards run of luck. I exceeded the 7500 characters in my last post by heaps! ! ! ! Very annoying as I can... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: see no way to save 'exceeding' blurb! On a happier note. many... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: thanks Larry for you kind words of encouragement! It was lovely to read when I finally emerged from my previous post! I will try... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: to make things a bit less wordy. as I guess it may be a little daunting otherwise! But I must confess that I find myself getting completely carried away here. Even banging on about the Howards, a dynasty which I have never really warmed to, if the truth be told! Never mind! I finally finished my waffle about the 3rd Duke of Norfolk and... <human>: More. <assistant>: will dash it off here from memory. then I may take a wee break and think about the 4th of this illustrious line and... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: how best to make his story fun to read as well as hopefully useful! ! ! Surrey was executed on 19th January 1547. His father was languishing nearby in his own cell,... <human>: More. <assistant>: awaiting a similar ignoble end. But miraculously it was the King who drew his last breath first, some nine days later. Norfolk was apparently due to be executed the following day, but fate intervened in this instance. Hertford, who would soon become the Premier and only Duke of realm when he made himself Duke of Somerset, with rare political shrewdness and perhaps recognizing the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: positive impression a semblance of leniency toward an aging broken man, would... <human>: Next. <assistant>: convey as he took up the reins of power, preferred to put off executing Norfolk. In consequence, the old man was left to mull over his shattered ambitions and broken patrimony and spent the following six years incarcerated in the Tower of London, during the reigns of Edward VI and his successor the nine days Queen, Lady Jane Grey. Perhaps Norfolk actually heard the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: hammering outside, as scaffolds were erected for the executions of Thomas Seymour in 1549 and of Somerset in 1552. Perhaps he regarded the fates of these two young men with rueful pity, but then again perhaps he cared not to! In July 1553 with the accession of Mary I, a devout Catholic, Norfolk was released from the Tower restored to all his estates and the attainder against him reversed. Even at the great age of eighty, his duties began anew. He was also appointed Lord High Steward to preside over the trial of Lady Jane Grey's father in law, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and in the following year he was Lieutenant General of the Army during the Wyatt rebellion. He died shortly afterwards. It is a remarkable... <human>: More. <assistant>: fact that Norfolk who was born during the reign of Edward IV and was once married to that King's daughter, lived long enough to... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: preside over the coronation as Earl Marshal, of the eighth monarch to reign during his long and eventful life. It must have been highly gratifying to the Catholic Norfolk to preside over... <human>: Next. <assistant>: the anointing of a sovereign loyal to the old religion. Once again his House was in order, his coronet buffed anew, his fortunes restored. I am most embarrassed as I wrote lustrous instead of lustre! ! ! ! Am red faced at my carelessness! ! ! ! Sorry! Some wonderful informaion there Toots, thanks so much! Interesting that both the 2nd and 3rd dukes... <human>: Next. <assistant>: lived to such a great age, perhaps it was in the blood! It is indeed fascinating to think that the 3rd duke presided over the coronation of Mary I, having once been... <human>: More. <assistant>: married to her great-grand-aunt, Anne of York! I eagerly await some info about the later Howards, since I don't know much about them!.

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Given the pace of innovation, today's plum post is almost always one shift away from becoming tomorrow's pink slip. But the trends currently taking hold of [spans 4] years. Job titles that were once considered secure are suddenly on the verge of extinction. Call it the new IT ice age. And tech pros who don't evolve with the times risk joining the T-Rex and the triceratops in the tar pits. We spoke with IT pros about the jobs they see going away in the years ahead. Here are nine of the most endangered species in IT, along with advice on how you can avoid becoming one of them. Darwinism is no stranger to IT. [spans 5] years. For decades, the Naysayer held sway over all tech decisions, wielding the word "no" like a razor-sharp claw to slash all requests, citing security or budget concerns. But the BYOD revolution and the universe of public cloud services available to users have rendered the Naysayer as harmless as a newborn kitten. 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Input: Find the missing words: In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the [words 1] to that date. Victory for the Luftwaffe in the air battle would have exposed Great Britain to invasion by the German army, which was then in control of the ports of France only a few miles away [words 2] Channel. In the event, the battle was won by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fighter Command, whose victory not only blocked the possibility of invasion but also created the conditions for Great Britain's survival, for the extension of the war, and for the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. On July 16, 1940, Hitler issued a directive ordering the preparation and, if necessary, the execution of a plan for the invasion of Great Britain. But an amphibious [words 3] of Britain would only be possible, given Britain's large navy, if Germany could establish control of the air in the battle zone. To this end, the Luftwaffe chief, Göring, on August 2 issued the “Eagle Day” directive, [words 4] a plan of attack in which a [words 5] from the air were to destroy British air power and so open the way for the amphibious invasion, termed Operation “Sea Lion”. Paul's Cathedral (undamaged) stands out among the flames and smoke of surrounding buildings during heavy attacks of the German Luftwaffe on December 29, 1940 in London, England. Three anti-aircraft guns flash in the dark in London, on September 20, 1940, throwing shells at raiding German planes. Shells in stacked rows behind the guns leap about as the concussions from the firing loosen them. These London [words 6] midst of an air raid drill ordered by the London Board of Education as a precaution in case an air raid comes too fast to give the youngsters a chance to leave the building for special shelters, on [words 7] 1940. They were ordered to go to [words 8] windows, and hold their hands over the backs of their necks. The condensation trails from German and British fighter planes engaged in an aerial battle appear in the sky over Kent, along the southeastern coast of England, on September 3, 1940. The tail and part of the fuselage of a German Dornier plane landed on a London rooftop shown Sept.21, 1940, after British fighter planes shot it down on September 15. [words 9] of the raiding plane crashed near Victoria Station. The force of a bomb blast in London piled these furniture vans atop one another in a street after [words 10] December 5, 1940. Hundreds of people, many of whom have lost their homes through [words 11] a south-east English town as their nightly refuge. Special sections are reserved for games and recreation, and several people have “set up house”, bringing their own furniture and sleeping on their own beds. Photo taken on December 12, 1940Soldiers carrying off the tail of a Messerschmitt 110, which was shot down by fighter planes in Essex, England, on September 3, 1940. Posted on July 10, 2017 by dirkdeklein under Battle of Britain, Great Britain, History, RAF, World War 2 The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). The British officially recognise its duration as from 10 July until 31 October 1940, which overlaps with the period of [words 12] as the Blitz,while German historians do not accept this subdivision and regard it as a campaign lasting from July 1940 to June 1941. But rather then going into too much detail, [words 13] mainly consist of photographs. I couldn't possibly add anything more then what is already written about this. Not all of the pilots were British .310 Squadron at RAF Duxford in September 1940. The RAF was organised into different ‘Commands' based on function or role, including Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands. While victory in the Battle of Britain was decisively gained by Fighter Command, defence was carried out by the whole of the Royal Air Force. During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe was dealt an almost lethal blow from which it never fully recovered. Although Fighter Command suffered heavy losses and was often outnumbered [words 14] engagements, the British outproduced the Germans and maintained a level of aircraft production [words 15] losses. Although not a major contributor to the [words 16] against Britain, Italy did volunteer as many [words 17] the effort. In fact, more than five [words 18] the 2,500 Axis aircraft committed to the battle were ItalianGood morning people! Here's our interview with international DIY magazine Maximum Rocknroll, issue #402 November 2016. Enjoy the readingWe strive to be an open and accepting community for people who enjoy anime, hentai and LGBT+ content. Our main purpose [words 19] like traps/femboys together. This server is for you to express your kinks and find other people with the same kinks [words 20] simply talk to people we also have roles for people looking for relationships since we're new we'll be developing and of course we'll have events but just join and check it outWe are playing good footy. If we win tomorrow we'll be even on the ledger. Why the hell cant we make it? Note: my optimism has nothing to do with the fact that I backed us to make the 8 a while back at 16-1We shed a lot of age & experience last year: Watson Kelly Stanton Hocking Bird & Howlett add up to 1000+ games. Four of the players you mentioned played 18 senior games between them last year, so . not a massive year-to-year loss of experience there. We were up in the top 4 for list age, list experience, and (regularly) 22 age & experience last year. I think, like most stats, it's a number which means something, but not everything: can't ignore it completely, can't let it define you. If we were (like last year) picking old, experienced sides which weren't doing much, it's a worry. I was very [words 21] sides we were picking last year. I guess [words 22] wondering how our starting 22 generally rated, both against our opponents at the time and as compared [words 23] starting 22 this week. I'm not fussed either way whether we make finals or not, for me [words 24] play the rest of the season that's most important. If we [words 25] of the last six weeks, it's going to be positive for next season, but it [words 26] for finals this year by virtue of our fixture. The next four probably determine this years fate. I think the media going on about 14 wins for finals is an exaggeration, history shows that not to be the case. Granted, the two bottom sides only have one win a piece, I think we can all agree they're not one win a season teams. I think they'll pick up more wins and be much more competitive. Look at the Bulldogs, a much improved outfit [words 27] list. The GWS were cooked three weeks ago, [words 28] 8 controlling their own fate. They did us a favour by beating hawthorn last night who have a much more comfortable fixture. So long as we beat the teams we should (Freo, GC, StK) and beat the teams around us Roos, Hawks, Port & Collingwood we will make it. If we can keep playing the way we have recently, we're a big chance. It all rests on the next four though IMO. I haven't done the sums at all, but that would be highly unusual wouldn't it? I can't remember a year where 13 wins didn't [words 29] win today there are 5 sides on 8 wins(us 7) going for 3 spots. The odds are pretty high that 3 of them will go 5-3 in the run home. If we were only competeting agains 1 side it would be us go good [words 30] over. We are banking on 3 sides capitulating, they all won't. There will be injuries, upsets and teams in the top 4 will rest players to give some game time to their bench and emergencies. The later rounds also become interesting as the players in the bottom teams try to show something for the coach and next season and the players with September action already booked back off to avoid injury. To be in the game we need to win today, next week against Collingwood (and we usually win the return match) and go to Carrara and play [words 31] against Gold Coast and win by plenty ( The predictor only goes to 60 . that said it has been decades since we smashed someone by 100+)The fixture is as such that some of the teams above us play each other too. Provided we win the ones we should (and yes, % would be nice in those), and the games vs the teams around us, we should make it. GWS & Geelong in particular have tricky runs home. NM do too from memory. There's [words 32] chance. Irrespective, if we keep playing the way we have recently, we can go into 2019 with positivity. We will have had some time to gain cohesion and [words 33] on how we wanna play with and [words 34] ball. We will get Joe back and proper pre seasons [words 35] like Fantasia for the year after. We will also fall into a middle bracket fixture for next season and have gained some belief playing on the road having won our last 3 interstate. Positives to take away regardless IMO. It may actually be better to miss out as strange as that may sound, will add pre season motivation and improved draft position (in a supposed super draft) and more favourable fixture in 2019. It really is down to how we play over the remaining games in a consistency sense. I understand all this but I just don't think it's ever happened before that 13 won't get you in. I'm not sure what's happened this year to make that any different (possibly Carlton and Bris only winning a game each, but even that's happened before? Hi We are travelling to WDW in August this year and planning our trip now. Which nights from mid August is Fantasmic on? Thanks”Hi Allison! Fantasmic is such a stunning show - it's definitely not to be missed, so you're smart to be planning to see it during your August Disney vacation! The Hollywood Studios park calendars for August have not been posted yet so we don't know for sure the showtimes for Fantasmic. However, in the busy summer months, Fantasmic is often scheduled just about [words 36] good chance you'll be able to catch it on most nights of your vacation. The August calendar should come online within the next few weeks, so you'll be able to see the showtimes soon if [words 37] eye on the Hollywood Studios calendar page. How positively exciting that you're planning a trip to Walt Disney World Resort. Kindly take a look at all the Disney Resort hotel Guest amenities that will ensure a comfortable, convenient and unique vacation. May I suggest you [words 38] Vacation Package that will include your Disney Resort hotel, Theme Park Tickets, and one of many Disney Dining packages suited to your travel style, needs, preferences and budget. Don't forget to select Disney's Magical Express complimentary transportation to and from your Disney Resort hotel and Orlando International Airport, during your online booking process. Crystal, Walt Disney World Resort continually strives to afford all Guests an inclusive and memorable vacation experience. May I direct you to Disney's Planning for Pre-School Children an informative planning tool containing:I encourage [words 39] Baby Care Centers in each Theme Park offering feeding, changing, kitchen and play areas, as well as food, basic medications, and diapers. I hope this information is helpful, Crystal and look forward to assisting you further in the near future. If you are eligible to receive a new MagicBand by staying at a Disney Resort hotel or purchasing one, you can customize and order a new MagicBand. If you like your current MagicBand, you can continue to use it along with your new MagicBand. In the UK, traditional rail services have hit a crisis point. Passenger numbers are no longer rising, and it's not difficult to work out why. Congestion, delays, and high ticket prices are just a few of the potential factors. Those who are not eligible for discounts, or don't buy their tickets weeks in advance, can pay extortionate prices to get from A to B. In fact, it can be cheaper to fly from one city to another than to take the train. Traditional train travel is in dire need of transformation . But how, and by whom? Rail services, particularly in the UK, don't have the best track record. In response, the EU has asked countries to open up their commercial services to competition, creating a huge opportunity for challengers. [words 40] rail incumbents have been forced to make way for cheaper challengers like Flixtrain [words 41] SpA. These companies are mirroring the impact that discount airlines [words 42] have had previously on air transport behemoths, driving down prices and increasing passenger numbers. Italo SpA has had an especially successful journey, growing from a single service between Milan and Rome to a transport giant with control of 30 per cent of Italy's high speed rail market. Last year, the company carried an estimated 13 million passengers. Italo has partly been able to offer such low prices due to a strategy of outsourcing train maintenance. This has had a knock on effect in the areas they serve, where fares have dropped by 41 per cent. It's not just incumbents that have been derailed by affordable alternatives – governments also stand to face losses if they fail to adapt. For example, SNCF, France's state owned railway company, has set up its own discount service [words 43] Ouigo. A similar situation is unfolding outside Europe in China, where Hong Kong's transport minister has called for discounted tickets and the close collaboration of rail service providers with the government. In other words, there is a struggle for control, and consumers will decide who wins. Lower rail fares are likely to attract more passengers, increasing [words 44] services. Luckily, digitalisation could help to meet this demand. Automated ticket machines are easing the burden on staff while easy to use, online services are gradually replacing the ticket booths themselves. These comprehensive screens are just one example of automation in the sector. Eventually, having your tickets checked and ordering food may also become part of an automated process. Rail services are transitioning to become mobile first, as more people opt to use on-screen ticket barcodes instead of waiting to print out physical copies. Connecting with customers in the digital sphere will improve the capacity of service providers to collect travel data. Rail companies could then send personalised offers based on historical data, working out where passengers travel most and targeting them with those areas in mind. They could present perks or rewards that suit the passenger's individual needs [words 45] the easy one, which is already pushed by most train companies, is free WiFi. Throw in a free coffee and a croissant and suddenly you're playing to [words 46] railway commuters. Of course, attracting customers is not [words 47] simple. Sooner or later, rail companies won't just be competing with cars and buses. [words 48] with disruptive travel options – think autonomous vehicle [words 49] fast underground network proposed by Elon Musk's The Boring Company. The global railway industry will be disrupted . Disenchanted with inadequate services at extortionate costs, customers are seeking a better way to travel. In Europe, cheaper, user friendly alternatives have championed change throughout the industry. The presence of startups and the wider availability of new business structures and systems has already had an impact on existing rail giants. Incumbents can either fix their own infrastructural issues, build their own competitive rail companies (like SNCF's Ouigo), or face the rejection of their customers. Hopefully they can make these changes before the industry leaves them stranded on the platform. A dissertation abstract or thesis abstract should be between 150-300 words, as you should be precise and articulate only the main points. The length of [words 50] the length and nature of your thesis or dissertation assignment. ## There are hundreds of dissertation service/ thesis service, dissertation help/ thesis help, and . ABC Company is a solution provider for the market entrants. Your client XYZ wants to introduce his product in the market. [words 51] analyse the various forces of Micro Environment so that it could help his client to identify all possible threats and opportunities in the market. The five forces Model by Porter is a vital tool for analysing the industry in which it operates. You are required to analyse how it has aimed to examine the five key forces of competition in case of Apple Inc. ## American multinational Technology giant. [words 52] reputed market Research Company. You are asked by your senior [words 53] your clients explaining them the importance of Market research in today's Era and also how the company will help the Client to have a better Business Opportunity. B)Enumerate the various steps/Process to effective Market Research that can be carried out for an Organisation. (5 Marks)Providence- A Diversicare Transitional Care Community provides a [words 54] trained caregivers, We offer a number of features for the convenience and comfort of our residents. Output: words 1: largest sustained bombing campaign words 2: across the English words 3: invasion words 4: laying down words 5: few massive blows words 6: schoolchildren are in the words 7: July 20, words 8: the middle of the room, away from words 9: The rest words 10: a raid on words 11: bombing, now use the caves in Hastings, words 12: large-scale night attacks known words 13: thus article will words 14: during actual words 15: that helped them withstand their words 16: 1940 air campaign words 17: as 170 planes to words 18: per cent of words 19: is to bring people who words 20: or you can words 21: critical of the words 22: I'm just words 23: to our words 24: it's the way we words 25: continue down the recent path words 26: also gives us a chance words 27: over the past few weeks despite their injury words 28: yet sit in the words 29: get you in? Even if we words 30: and the other fall words 31: a totally dominate match words 32: always a words 33: identity words 34: without the words 35: into some prime movers words 36: every night, so there's a words 37: you keep an words 38: consider a Magic Your Way words 39: you to utilize the convenient words 40: Across Europe, words 41: and Italo words 42: like Ryanair and EasyJet words 43: called words 44: the strain on words 45: – words 46: the masses of words 47: quite that words 48: They will also have to contend words 49: fleets or even eventually the super words 50: the abstract may however vary based on words 51: As a Service provider words 52: A) You are working in a words 53: to prepare a short presentation for words 54: welcoming, supportive environment, staffed with highly

Human: What are the missing words: First, I left the post rather open. Somehow and at some point in the evening, Khamir and Beloan announce to everyone about the plans, which of course will never come to fruition - but, it means the slave camp will be a little more prepared when the slavers all ... to get them! To Nogrod in particular - I left it open in particular for Adnan and Hadith's conversation, as the announcement and my entire ... their conversation is over, or, Khamir and Beloan start to pass the word ... the two after their conversation is ... least, over to us. That should have been a post for Vror, but, I found myself traveling today, and though I printed ... post, Hilde, my printer messed it up and made numerous parts of ... unreadable. I'll be working on a post for him tomorrow, though, hopefully. I don't have too ... that I can recall atm. Vrór and ... I confess I have mercilessly used your ... knee deep water responsible for the detection ... by the owl and then by the guard. If this ... understanding of the scene, please let me know and I will edit and come up with something else to attract the guards. ... time understanding exactly how the hole, tunnel, and creek bank physically fit together. I ... this so please correct me if I have misrepresented something. My understanding of these things isn't that ... (I am never that good at reading maps and having some sense of ... being able to imagine a situation ... some sense of direction and positioning and the like), so I also ask that anyone who notices anything off ... speak up. I apologize for not having my save filled yet (especially since it has been up for at least 24 hours, I think). I felt that a post for Vrór was a little more pressing, but also did not want Hadith and Adnan's conversation to get lost in everything that is going on. I will start to work on a post for Adnan immediately, and will hopefully get it filled later this evening. And (I forgot to note this. Hilde and Folwren - I am sorry for ... let me know if it is a problem, and I can change and/or move my post accordingly. No! Oh, no, it's absolutely fine that Vror interrupted things. Kwell wasn't getting very far anyway. And would any of us, I wonder? All of a sudden, two little men come popping up out ... any one would be surprised! lol! Just posted for Athwen. May or may not write another, short post of even more surprise for Kwell. Don't wait ... feel like writing a post first, go ahead. I ... it's best the word reaches Hadith and Adnan only after their discussion. ... try to wrap that discussion up with a short post tomorrow or the day after - the discussion might even end with ... coming to them? Or would you like to ... hear the news? That's possible also, I think. And sorry all you in the fellowship itself! (I'm kind of ashamed to confess this) I just haven't had time to dive in to your adventure so far, ... posts not included. In the beginnig I thought that I ... different parties meet up. Today I ... looking. and there surely is a lot of it! ... myself on it in the days to come to be at the state of things as a ... actually happens (my characters surely will be ... need be )! I did my best to leave it open in my last post for Adnan (the ... with) for the conversation to continue, ... up to leave being interrupted, either by Hadith or by Beloan/someone informing them of the decision. Perhaps it should be ... full on *announcement*? Perhaps Hadith and/or Adnan could be interrupted, hearing shouts, and they gather around with the others, while Khamir ... speech? Haha! Don't apologize. I haven't been reading more than ... of the slave's posts. I glance over most of them, but don't read them all. not even close to read them. I'm afriad ... either of you because I haven't read any of the posts on either side of ... story. I am going to try and catch up with ... a post. OK - Rôg has ... Lindir and Tevildo with his version of a ... rising fastball . The save for Carl is filled in. Folwen, Tevildo & Durelin please let ... characters alright. If not, I will amend. Sorry ... been mostly lurking about. Time is still tight, but I have managed to stay fairly current with the 3 groups. Names of characters are still a bit of a problem though! Certainly with the orcs! One, I can post for Vror with his suggestions for how to get all of them out successfully - in particular, how to get Azhar out. He'll have ... Carl going through first, and waiting to help them ... the second that has Vror going first to help on the ... side. I'll leave the post as that, and then you can have Carl ... to go with. Or, we can go ahead and decide which ... with before I post, and I can wrap things up with getting Vror, Carl, and the kiddies out of the pit. What would ... how much time you have available for posting, so I definitely wanted to ask. (And with 'plan,' I'm not talking ... one. Basically I'm talking about Kwell and either Vror or Carl almost. Azhar ... the Dwarf or the Hobbit leading the way (since they know the way), and one on ... help hoist the girl out (and the others, hehe). Durelin, you can place what you were planning on posting for Vror pretty easily, I thinks, as ... going to suggest a way of escaping. Kwell's not very much convinced right now of ... through the water. And I don't, either, to be honest. He voiced my thoughts exactly. An unconscience person breaths ... when someone breaths underwater, he dies. ... somehow get her under and stop her ... and mouth, then possibly. just possibly she'd make it. But the opening ... small. My thought had been that the hole was sufficiently large enough to ... enough that a muscle bound slaver wouldn't fit easily. After all it is big enough for a hobbit with room to spare. It is also not that long of a trip under water. Straight down then ... of rock to travel under. (Hilde pulls out her handy tape measure. As for the plan, I had imagined that Vror and his axe might go first, just incase some baddies made it into the cave from ... side. Carl could get in the water to guide Azhar through while keeping her nose and mouth shut or maybe holding something over her face that would trap air. ... do). Vror might need to pull ... them out. Kwell could go last to help lower Azhar into ... and also so that any guards peeking in might not notice the mischief. ... trust them. But this all isn't the way it has ... means. Just what I had pictured. After she is out of the water though, is problematic to me. How will our three carry her? As a joint ... one strong enough to carry her ... own. I know Carl couldn't, and I do hope Kwell might decide to ... in. I also thought that the water bath might help rouse Azhar or cool ... fever. or make her worse off. Tevildo, how do you think Azhar would react, once ... posting. Durelin, I will have some time to write ... it will be back to 15 or 30 minutes here and there. I'm up for any senerio really, but might have to ... save if my turn at bat comes up after tomorrow. Remember that you have a good sized Elf waiting at the entrance to the tunnel. I really don't think it would be too much of a problem for Lindir to grab the girl, ... her in his arms, and make his way across the plains. It will slow down the speed of their exit, however. There is another possibility. As I will post this morning, there are now a lot ... horses running loose on the plains. ... at least Lindir could do what Tevildo had Dorran do- grab at least one of ... up. He could race off and head for the meeting ... Azhar needs medical help. Getting out ... and through the water is another ... my character can't get through the hole. I think I have a solution no one could possibly argue with. Just give me a few minutes and I will return. Azhar ... of moving. Let's get out of the pit! You are welcome to use my character in your posts ... surface. Azhar will be insistent she ... is really pretty weak and wobbly, and is still burning up with fever. she will definitely need some help. Okay, Tevildo, good job. Her being ... problem. The rest can be solved ... her. All she'll have to do is hold her breath and not panic as we push and pull ... hole. One thing that may be interesting in the story - Kwell and Azhar ... completely in water. I have heard of five year old kids (much less 12 or ... being terrified of baths, much less being put under water, under rock, in cold, unknown water. Is this going to be an ... want to ignore the fact that realistically, either ... terrified to death, and just go over it without comment? EDIT: Never mind. Azhar apparently has been swimming. Well, Kwell probably hasn't. ... it's quite in his character to ... water. Though I can still see ... that goes underneath rock for a little way. Azar really did get away with murder while she was a slave because of her ... for the guards. Yes, she does know how to swim. And wouldn't ... if the weakened girl was more adept ... frightened male companion? But that is up to Folwren. My earlier save is filled. Imak is having the men round up the horses and says he plans for them all to ride out tonight and tonight. In actuality, ... time herding in those animals. Imak will have to be content with mounting up a smaller group to ... have a look at things and then ... night (as we already decided). For the moment, however, the ... immediate problem. Imak and three slavers are on foot running towards the slave pit. You guys had better get a move on. I do expect a brief skirmish as you get away, unless someone objects. Does anyone have something that could be used as a weapon in a pinch, maybe from those tools you're carrying? Perhaps Kwell will want to fight back against the brutes who've captured him? BTW, Aiwendil has returned and will be waiting with Lindir and Rôg at the mouth of the tunnel. You're welcome to mention him when you emerge from the pit. I just didn't want to do a separate post. Posted! Please of course let me know if anything needs to be changed. I do hope it is alright that I had Lindir peeking in to see what on Middle-earth was taking them so long, Child. I guess Carl is stuck trying to get out of there before Imak and his gang show up at the pit. And then I suppose they will all run into the baddies on the escape out of the tunnel with Lindir? Vror had to take his axe with him, and he has his hammer, as well. Surely one of them has a small pick axe type deal (chisel, maybe, but that seems the wrong word. so I think Carl and Kwell could be armed at least, probably Azhar too. Vrór's nerves have been stretched a little too far. the inevitable battle will be difficult for him. I hope everything in my post is alright. Let me know if anything needs to be changed, and/or if I should add to it and bring them into the battle. What exactly is happening next? Are we going to be sticking around the embankment there or make as quick a dash as we can back to the horses to ride off? I have basically written an answer to both Hadith (to Adnan) and Gwerr (to Ishkur). I just have to get to sleep about now. I will try to send my posts in 24 hours to both of them. though in our attempt to make a break for it, I believe Imak and the men with him will catch up to us, or we will run into them. Looks fine! I've sent you a question or two in a pm. I don't plan to fill my save till late tonight. If I don't get an answer by then, I'll do the best I can and edit later as needed. Brinniel, feel free to use my character as needed to get the two of us back to where the fellowship is (unless you decide I should just crawl back by myself - ) and join in the fighting and the flight. I'm not sure if I'll be able to fill the save tonight, as I have my first four page paper due tomorrow. But I will try my hardest to get it filled within a day or two. Regin - I have answered your post somewhat along the lines we discussed. Hopefully in a way that is okay with you. Sorry it took more time I initially thought it would take. And slave-escapees in the camp. Just too full days right now to be active enough. I try to get my "Hadith answers Adnan" -post up asap (possibly in just an hour, or then tomorrow), but don't wait for it if you wish to move things forwards. But he feels compelled by duty to try. There is a personal reason why he is so anxious to get back. If he does not do so, Athwen may be a bit worried when the other members of the fellowship show up minus Dorran. Assistant: words 1: of a sudden come words 2: post could occur after words 3: around and it only reaches Hadith and words 4: over, or at words 5: out your words 6: it completely words 7: much homework, at least words 8: Carl - words 9: characters, making your "hurried sloshing" through words 10: first words 11: doesn't fit in with your words 12: I am having a tough words 13: am always bad visualizing things like words 14: great as well words 15: direction, much less words 16: and have words 17: in my post for Vrór just words 18: having Vrór interrupt things! Just words 19: of the ground! ! I think words 20: for me, though, Hilde, if you words 21: guess words 22: I might words 23: the word words 24: continue it after they words 25: a couple of occasional words 26: would read them conveniently just before the words 27: thought of words 28: I'll update words 29: co-writer when the meeting words 30: totally ignorant of their personalities, as they words 31: one I filled the save words 32: and for Adnan's getting words 33: a words 34: gives a (very) brief words 35: half words 36: I am worse than words 37: the words 38: the reading and then do words 39: attempted to assist words 40: rocky, words 41: me know if I handled your words 42: that I have words 43: two suggestions: one that has words 44: on the other side; and words 45: other words 46: decide which plan words 47: plan the two will go words 48: you prefer? 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Instruction: More of this please: A new care management app has already raised 45% of the money needed for it to enter into the market having only recently launched ... Output: Rest of text: its crowdfund campaign. StoriiCare, a technology system designed to evidence care and remove paper from care businesses, has raised £134,000 as it seeks to... Instruction: Next. Output: become ‘the Facebook for care'. Through the system, staff have access to service user profiles that relatives populate with memories, photographs, videos and life... Instruction: Continue. Output: stories, allowing relatives to connect with loved ones in care from anywhere in the world. The staff can use this content for person-centred reminiscence therapy. StoriiCare was founded in 2014 and has been designed to fulfil the demand for technology that aids the keeping of good records in the care sector. The app digitises paperwork and reduces repetition, claiming to save care staff around six hours a week on average. The system was initially intended to be a life story app solely for reminiscence but has now been adapted to improve the quality of care in the care sector. StoriiCare has established relationships with firms in Silicon Valley and is due to enter the US market this year. Whenever you are suffering an illness or undergoing surgery, a... Instruction: More. Output: therapeutica pillow will help you recuperate. This is a soft cushion that will help to relieve stress so that you can get a good night's sleep. For this reason, some doctors also suggest that people who do not sleep well at night use these pillows. A therapeutic pillow will give your head the good support that it needs while you sleep at night. It... Instruction: Continue. Output: will also help to relieve any strain or pain in your head or neck, as well as headaches. This is because it supports the... Instruction: Next. Output: natural curvature of your head, neck and spine as you sleep. Water based therapeutic pillows are made from hypoallergenic fiber. There is also a water pouch that you will need to fill with water. Usually these pillows have three layers. The first layer is made from polyester fiber to give you a lot of comfort as you sleep. The second layer is made of... Instruction: Next. Output: a thermal insulating material to keep you from losing heat through your head, neck, spine and shoulders like you would with other pillows. The third and final layer is the water pouch, which is placed at the bottom where it is able to support your neck. The other type of therapeutic pillow is the one that is made out of latex. This type of... Instruction: Continue. Output: therapeutic pillow is ideal for anyone who suffers from dust allergies since allergens and mildew do not thrive on latex. These pillows are actually able to efficiently ward off dust mites, which is something that a lot of other pillows cannot do. Of course, these pillows are also able to adjust to your body's position and thus relieve any high-pressure spots, which can be... Instruction: More. Output: found in your neck, shoulders and back. While these pillows are somewhat costly in comparison to regular pillows, the expense is worth it whenever you experience the great amount of comfort that... Instruction: Next. Output: they are able to provide you with. So, if you want to have a really good, really refreshing sleep, you should opt for a therapeutic pillow. This is true whether or not you have a medical condition that has led your doctor to recommend that you use one of these pillows. The bottom line is that no matter who you are, you will still... Instruction: More. Output: benefit. ## © 2011 Medical Supply Blog – Medical Supplies Information – Medical Supply News. My grandfather's brother-in-law showed up 71 years ago on... Instruction: Continue. Output: the eve of the Battle of the Bulge in need of clean clothes and a haircut. Grandpa's Command Post was the perfect pit-stop for... Instruction: Continue. Output: the buck private to get a little special treatment. There he is below, Private John Bauknecht, smoking a cigarette and and wisecracking with Matt Konop, his brother-in-law married to his little sister,... Instruction: More. Output: Eunice Bauknecht. The two hadn't seen each other since before Omaha Beach, and the so-called "Ghost Front" of the Ardennes Forest was quiet enough... Instruction: More. Output: for them to goof around at the Command Post. For weeks the war in this sector had days of dullness. So they got a kick out of running into each other just as autumn was changing to winter. Note the little bit of snow in the film below. The depth of the snow and the boredom were about to change, but the two of... Instruction: Next. Output: them don't know that. In the clip, John shows off his new haircut and clean clothes for the camera. Grandpa happily used his rank... Instruction: More. Output: to pass along a favor to a friendly face from home. Private John Bauknecht shows up unexpectedly at his brother-in-law Lt. Colonel Matt Konop's command post in the Ardennes Forest. Private John Bauknecht bumming a cigaratte and a few favors at the 2nd Infantry Command Post of his high-ranking brother-in-law, Lt. It's a long-shot to catch up with your brother-in-law during war, but grandpa... Instruction: Continue. Output: had a few things going for him. First, all had been quiet on what was was called the "Ghost Front" of the Ardennes Forest of Belgium. There simply wasn't much going on... Instruction: Continue. Output: (boy, was that about to change). Secondly, five of grandpa's six brothers-in-law... Instruction: More. Output: were fighting in the war. So even if the odds were long of running into a brother-in-law, grandpa had five Lotto tickets. Back home in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, six blue stars were displayed in the front window of the Bauknecht family home, one for grandpa, and five for the Bauknecht brothers. And lastly, strange coincidences had a way of finding grandpa throughout the war. Grandpa was a quirk magnet. That's a big reason why his story makes for a great one-man show. This particular coincidence with John Bauknecht didn't make it in "The Accidental Hero," nor did the story of the two of them running into each other again and shooting down a plane from the wrong air force. After his December 14, 1944 haircut, John stayed over... Instruction: More. Output: night at grandpa's command post in a large farmhouse just outside of the village of Wirtzfeld, Belgium. Then the snow started falling and by the next morning the Ardennes Forest looked like... Instruction: Next. Output: a Christmas card. In the film clip below grandpa plays with a... Instruction: Continue. Output: little dog as John stands next to him and the snow flies. The big steaming barrel next to him washes another load of clothing, a wood-fire heated wash machine unlike anything they'd sell at Sears. As the snow flies, Matt Konop plays with a dog on the "Ghost Front" of the Ardennes Forest. Winter was on its way. So was the German Army. The... Instruction: Next. Output: film came from grandpa's 8 mm Kodak hand-held camera. He obviously had no idea the next day the German army would launch the largest... Instruction: Continue. Output: battle in US Army history. The Battle of the Bulge was a surprise on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9-11. Over 19,000 American... Instruction: Next. Output: men would be killed, 23,000 missing or captured, and over 54,000 wounded. The day before the battle, grandpa and his brother-in-law were just killing time, catching up on the news from Two Rivers, wondering what the folks back home were doing for Christmas. Grandpa gave John a ride back to his unit, the 99th Infantry Division, where John was in artillery. Instruction: are the missing words: Unlike grandpa's Division, the 99th had seen very little combat. As grandpa drove him back to the village of Muringen, 250,000 German troops and hundreds of tanks and artillery pieces waited just a few miles across the border to attack. Muringen would be hit so hard that later my grandfather assumed John was either killed or missing in action. And then on December 19, after three days of terrible fighting, John showed up again. He was fine, and the two men picked up their conversation about Christmas and life back in Two Rivers. Brother-in-law [words 1] about to take a jeep ride back to his 99th Infantry post near Muringen, Belgium. Most of grandpa's unit, the 2nd Infantry Division, was several miles to the north attacking into Germany. It'd been six months since their landing on Omaha Beach and they'd finally penetrated the Hitler's heavily fortified German border. Most Americans, from high command down to the fox holes, thought the war nearly over. Grandpa held his position at the command post without his defense platoon. His boss had just assigned them up to the front to carry stretchers where [words 2] waist-high. So grandpa's command post stood unguarded precisely as the Germans were about to attack. [words 3] in the beautiful snowy woods of the Ardennes Forest. Christmas was ten days away; Hitler's massive sneak attack less that 24 hours from starting. Grandpa hadn't seen any real fighting in weeks. Everyone believed the Germans were nearly vanquished as they prepared for a White Christmas. Grandpa on a walk in the peaceful woods of the Ardennes Forest of Belgium, a day before it turned to hell. [words 4] Americans would die in the battle. I am delighted to announce I have engaged a Czech film crew and an internet distributor for a May, 2017 live webcast of my show in the Czech Republic. I've worked with this Detroit-based distributor twice before. The first time was six years ago years for my show and the webcast was viewed by over 14,000 people worldwide. In fact, that webcast prompted [words 5] engagement; and this year will be my SIXTH ANNUAL tour of the Czech Republic! [words 6] hardly overstate the impact that webcast had on the show, on me, and on my Czech friends. I would appricate your help. If you would like to help fund my Czech webcast please email me at accidentalhero1@gmail.comI am still amazed my grandfather filmed the clips above and others while he was in war. My Czech webcast is in the spirit of his filming in Belgium, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. If you support the webcast I will give you a live credit during the webcast, A DVD of the performance, a signed show poster from my Czech tour. I grew up eating kolaches. I assumed everyone else in the country knew about these delicious pastries. Kubsch's restaurant of Kewaunee, Wisconsin made them, so did Muench's of Alverno, where dinner was all-you-can-eat family style chicken, stuffing, green beans, and hand-mashed potatoes. Kubsch's, Muench's and the other Bohemian country restaurants of my youth have all closed; yet Hruska's Kolaches of Etinger, Texas is thriving. Its central location in the triangle of Houston, San Antonio, and Austin draws customers from all directions. Although for a few years in the 1990s Hruska's stopped selling kolaches, they now proudly offers 16 varieties. Their website warns the city folks the kolaches often sell out by the afternoon. Take a half day off work if you really [words 7] choice. My great great grandmother, Mary Hruska, left Bohemia for America back in 1867, settling not in Texas but in Wisconsin. Her departure drove Joseph Konop crazy; he couldn't live without her. So he hopped ox carts and walked from Domazlice, Bohemia to the North Sea port of Bremen, Germany where he boarded a sailing ship that took several weeks to arrive in New York. From there he hopped a train to Chicago and another to Milwaukee where he embarked on a steam ship that plied 75 miles up the eastern shore of Lake Michigan to the town of Manitowoc where he got off and walked the final 23 miles to the budding New Bohemia settlement of Stangelville, Wisconsin. Once [words 8] courting Mary Hruska and they finally married in St. Lawrence Church, Stangelville, Wisconsin, named after the St. Lawrence Church back in Mrakov, Bohemia. That's the love story that started our family in the New [words 9] chasing a Hruska across two continents and an ocean. Back in the Old Country, Mary Hruska's family didn't like him as he was 12 years her senior and illiterate. Plus Mary Hruska was beautiful, with the high cheekbones of a Slavic princess. The Hruska [words 10] the old and very-ordinary Joseph Konop. That didn't stop him. And without Joseph's persistence I wouldn't exist. [words 11] his jeep in the main square of the town of Domazlice, Czechoslovakia, looked up, and saw the building in front of him was named "Hruska," same as his grandmother, Mary Hruska. Of this unexpected experience, grandpa wrote, "Now I knew my past was really catching up with me, but I had [words 12] unknown relatives so I walked around town to see what was happening. "It was the end of World War Two, and in an unlikely string of coincidences my grandfather was liberating the Bohemian villages of his grandparents. Mary Hruska's kolache recipe had come from this same little pocket of Central Europe, and the word "hruska" is Czech for pear. Grandpa's General Patton/Forest Gump/Luke Skywalker adventure in Czechoslovakia is the heart of [words 13] him, "The Accidental Hero. "I didn't have enough [words 14] Hruska's Kolaches in Etinger on my tour to Texas, but I [words 15] a bit about the Czech-Tex culture. Many of the Czechs who settled in Texas crossed the Atlantic to the port of Galveston, Texas and headed inland to chase the American Dream. The audience after my show at Texas A&M University stuck around for about 45 minutes to ask questions and tell me about the Czechs of the region. I was there [words 16] sponsored by the George H. Bush Museum and Library. Since no one in the audience brought any Hruska's Kolaches I [words 17] very good reason to return. I am picturing a meal of barbecue brisket followed by [words 18] or three Hruska's Kolache, a Texas version of my boyhood dinners of family style chicken cooked so tender it fell off the bone at Kubsch's of Kewaunee and Muench's of Alverno. After the end of the war in May, 1945 grandpa made a trip back to Domazlice to talk to Arnost Hruska, the owner of the Hruska building. Granpa's unexpected encounter with the land of his grandparents ignited a life-long passion for his Czech heritage. As an old man in 1979, grandpa made a final trip back to Domazlice. The Czechs were under the oppression of Russian Communism and the terrible conditions broke his heart. When grandpa died [words 19] 1983 the Czechs were still under the thumb of Moscow. The freedom he helped bring in May of 1945 at the end of World War Two had lasted a [words 20] years. He watched his people go from Hitler to Stalin. Of course, the Czech story ends sweetly with the Velvet Revolution of 1989. They have been free ever since. And last May the Czechs of Domazlice made grandpa an honorary citizen. Plus, the Hruska building in Domazlice now sports a plaque honoring my grandfather and his special connection to the area. The plaque includes a bronze relief of him being carried on the shoulders of the Domazlice townspeople on May 4, 1945 shortly after he had parked his jeep in front of the Hruska building. He didn't live to see [words 21] back, but they welcomed him home posthumously anyway. I got to stand in for him, an honor I did not deserve at all. Below is the only picture I have of Joseph Konop and Mary Hruska. The illiterate, former-peasant Joseph wed his princess, Mary, and saved his money to buy sixty acres of swampy and forested Wisconsin land he transformed into a dairy farm. So far eight [words 22] tour of the Czech Republic. If you are interested, please [words 23] me. I will have a live webcast of my August 4 show in Domazlice. My last webcast was seen by more than 14,000 people worldwide. More details to follow. The flowers are always in bloom the first week of May, [words 24] Army liberated Southern Czechoslovakia in May, 1945. My Czech friends are eager to become your friends. They will never forget who brought their freedom at the end of World War Two. It is always magical that first week of May in the Czech Republic. This will be my sixth [words 25] a row. November 11, 2016 is the fourth Veterans Day I will bring my show to the Reif Center for the Performing Arts in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The public performance is November 10, then I have a student performance and a senior center engagement on November 11. My last trip included a surprise at the senior center. Resident James Trembath had earned a Bronze Star medal for heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima in March, 1945. However, Trembath's son told me there had never been a public ceremony for his father's Bronze Star. The award citation arrived in the mail seventy years ago and sat in a file in his [words 26] house. So the son asked if I would read it aloud at the Senior Center. I said of course, and [words 27] citation. Everyone in the room welled with tears as I read the description of the actions of the modest old man they [words 28] well. Jima Trembeth spent three hours running through enemy bullets, hopping from one wounded soldier to another to bring relief. Amidst the hell fire of the raging battled he'd land in a fox hole with his medic's kit and ask, "what happened? I'm here to help you. "As I read the description of his actions I didn't dare make eye contact with James Trembeth, his son, or anyone else. He'd waited seventy years to have his actions finally recognized in public, [words 29] screw up his moment. The citation is below. Please take a couple seconds to read it. James Trembeth's Bronze Medal Citation. When I read it aloud at his Senior Center two years ago it was the first public acknowledgement of his medal. Three of the widows at the Senior Center had husbands who served in World War Two. One of the husbands spent months in a German prison camp. As we talked more, the seniors opened up and shared many stories, including how the nearby mines of the Minnesota Iron Range worked round-the-clock to supply the war effort with its essential commodity, steel. Many of the residents spoke fondly of how united the country was during the war, and how they missed that. I asked if they felt united by our conversation. They laughed and agreed, were we united. I told them I feel the same every time I talk to people who lived through the war. Frankly, I feel it whenever I do the show. The first time went to Grand Rapids the show was still called "The Mushroom Picker" (seemed like a brilliant title at the time) and the Reif Center's director, David Marty, had to be talked into bringing me. The quote I've been told is, "some guy telling war stories about his grandfather - I fall asleep just thinking about it! " Against David's better judgement, he booked me. Then he and his staff sold out their 400-seat house and the audience response was electric. Just amazing, a high point of my first tour. After the show, David came on stage and we chatted for over an hour. He strongly encouraged me to make the show a priority in my life because it is an important story for people to hear. He thought the show [words 30] to tour nationally. He encouraged me to dream [words 31] I've been running on that encouragement ever since. In a few days, I'll be back on David's stage. The second time David had me to Grand Rapids I met a WWII vet who knew my grandfather. They were both stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX before the war. And like my grandfather, the Grand Rapids veteran made it through 11 months of combat with just a few minor injuries. He brought books from the Second Infantry Division, including a roster that showed the division had as many casualties as men serving, 15,000. That is a 100% casualty rate; only constant reinforcements kept their numbers up. He [words 32] I traded stories, laughed a lot, and then he saw the show with his daughter and grandchildren. David Marty made sure that he and all local veterans attended for free. This next Grand Rapids gig is sandwiched between trips to Rochester, NY, New Orleans, and a gig at the George H. Bush Museum and Library in College Station, TX. It will be a return engagement to the Bush Museum and Library, as that organization has also become a champion of my show. Bush was the Navy's youngest pilot in WWII, and then was president when Soviet Communism fell. Veteran's Day this year falls just three days after the election. James Trembeth didn't care whether a foxhole was Republic [words 33] liberal. Those men crying for help were simply Americans. And when I visit the Grand Rapids senior center this Friday I am certain the residents will comment on how united the country was back during the war. And when we talk about our country's shining moment of the 20th Century, we again will be united. ## Grandpa filmed the joy of the liberation of the Holysov Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia. The women in the striped uniforms in the clip below are Jews from Belgium and France, [words 34] 1945. Grandpa arrived at the Holysov camp as [words 35] liberated. My grandfather's ability to speak Czech was his passport into a wide range of adventures in the last week of the war. The US Army desperately needed translators as they liberated Southern Czechoslovakia, and Czech was grandpa's first language. What had made him odd within his division - the only officer whose native tongue was Czech - suddenly made him quite valuable. Above, grandpa looks like a rooster in a hen house as the freed female prisoners crowd around him, vying for his attention. He also wrote that the women in the Czech towns he helped liberate kissed and hugged him. I chuckle at the thought of my grandpa as a George-Clooney-in-combat-boots, but apparently it happened. Holysov [words 36] 80 sub-camps of the Flossenburg Concentration Camp in Germany. Over 30,000 people died in the Flossenburg camps. I visited both Holysov and Flossenburg with my guide and dear friend, Amar Ibrahim, on my recent research trip. The final weeks of the war, Flossenburg's crematorium burned all-day to keep pace with the Nazi's accelerated kill-rate. As Allied troops approached, the SS officers running Flossenburg evacuated many of the prisoners in a [words 37] toward the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich, 140 miles away. My grandfather unexpectedly discovered dead bodies and escapees from the Flossenburg death march as he and his driver crossed alone into Czechoslovakia on the morning of May 2, 1945. He wrote:As we drove along I began to notice dead bodies on the right and left of the highway. [words 38] knew of no battles in this area. I [words 39] all wore the same uniform, all were above apparent military age, and all shot through the head; some with one and some with two bullet holes. After a few stops to take pictures, my driver called my attention to some men [words 40] a hill from the woods, waving their hands. I asked them (in Czech) who they were and what they were doing in this area. They told me that they were escapees from a column of thousands being moved from concentration camps in Germany and that the tail end of that column passed the point we were at not more than fifteen minutes ago. Three days before, [words 41] camp were told to assemble to move out of the camps. With little food and water the prisoners were formed as a road march unit and, guarded by SS German prison guards who road vehicles, put on the road. Their marches were mostly during the night as they did not want to [words 42] during the day. I asked them about those dead along the road and how they happened to be shot. They told me that these dead were members of the prison camps and march unit. They said that the gruesome march in the warm spring days caused many to fall out only to be shot as the German SS came upon them as he road in his car. They said [words 43] exhausted and about to fall, his buddies on the right and left of him would take the exhausted under their arms and just about carry him until all three became exhausted and all three fell out of formation on the road and then all three [words 44] the ditch. This explained to me why I saw a single body here and there and then again I saw three in one pile dead. My grandfather got the men food and water. [words 45] building of about 100 other escapees, many sick and dying in front of him. He noticed dogs in the building and asked why they kept dogs if they had no food for themselves. This scene was a pathetic one and I was helpless. The answer I got was unexpected; they said they ate the dogs. I noticed a little dog and went over to pet him, much to the delight of the many in the camp. This little dog was picked up along the road and carried as he was too small to walk too far. They told me they were saving this special pet for the day they would have to eat him as a last resort after all other dog meat was gone. Now that I came there, they told me that [words 46] life. I arranged to have farmers get whatever potatoes, beets, or bread and bring it to the se people along with water. I asked two medics to get medical supplies to the escapees. I bid goodbye and proceeded to the next village, Klenci. From that horror scene, my grandfather and his [words 47] village of his grandmother, Mary Hruska (my great great grandmother). While snooping around town he stumbled upon a meeting of the Klenci resistance. As he walked into their secret meeting, the men were surprised to see an America officer, and then shocked when he spoke Czech. When he told them in Czech they were now free the men burst into joy, hugging and kissing him. They also marveled at the good fortune to be, as they said, "liberated by one of our own," as all four of grandpa's grandparents had immigrated to America from this little area of Czechoslovakia. The men made him a folk hero, less than an hour after he had left the hell scene of the dog meat. Grandpa never spoke of the death march, but he did yell [words 48] house who threw away food. I learned that the hard way. He did write about his experiences, including what is quoted above. He also filmed the liberation of the Holysov Concentration Camp, and the disturbing scene below of German citizens forced to exhume dead bodies in shallow graves outside the Czech town of Volary. [words 49] the Flossenburg death march passed through Volary and the dead were just piled in a mass grave. They were like the fallen death marchers my grandfather found after crossing into Czechoslovakia. I wonder what my grandfather thought as he filmed it, bodies like the ones he saw as he crossed into the land of his grandparents. I [words 50] and was a pallbearer at his funeral in 1983. But it has only been in the last two years that I've discovered what I've written about here. In fact, up until a few years ago I did not include the Holocaust in my show, The Accidental Hero, because I wasn't certain if grandpa's description was accurate. I discovered the movie clips two years ago in a canister of film that sat unwatched in my aunt Jean's basement for decades. Then my Czech friend Amar Ibrahim unlocked for the meaning of the clips for me. I had my proof and changed the show. On my recent trip [words 51] Amar took me to the Flossenburg Concentration Camp. His grandfather, Arnost Hruska, had been imprisoned in Flossenburg during the war. [words 52] Arnost and 150 other men from Domazlice, Czechoslovakia in 1940 and threw them into Flossenburg in retribution for the resistance activities of a local native, Jan Smudek. Arnost Hruska was a successful businessman in Domazlice, his stately building on the main square sits just five doors down from City Hall. The Nazis made an example of [words 53] that no Czech regardless of position in life was safe. Lucky to survive hard labor [words 54] and the daily presence of death, Arnost returned to his family weighing eighty pounds. Today, Arnost Hruska's white and salmon building on the main square sports a bronze plaque dedicated to my grandfather. Grandpa had parked his jeep in front of Arnost's building on May 4, 1945, his first visit to Domazlice. Grandpa looked up and saw his grandmother's name, Hruska, on the side of the building. Now my grandfather's name is on the side of that building, along with a bronze relief of [words 55] by the people of Domazlice. Amar and I are [words 56] friends. He lives in the Hruska building where he keeps a museum to my grandfather on the second floor. If you visit Domazlice he'd be happy to show it to you. These war stories are personal. Amar's grandfather and family were victims of the Nazi terror reign, while my grandfather's story has connected me to my Czech roots. On the train ride from Domazlice back to Prague after spending a few days with Amar, I re-read my grandfather's writings. I discovered, with the Czech scenery passing by the train window, that our grandfather's had met. Yes, these stories are personal, often terrible, and sometimes magical. I managed to drive to [words 57] Domazlice to see what I could discover as to my forefathers. The first place I stopped in Domazlice was the Hruska building where I met Arnost Hruska, operator of a general store. Matt Konop carried [words 58] Domazlice, Czechoslovakia on May 4, 1945. The [words 59] taken a few meters from Arnost Hruska's building. Note the movie camera in my grandfather's left hand. Highlights included my grandfather being made an honorary citizen of the Czech Republic, two sold-out student shows, the Czechs of the [words 60] Domazlice surprising me with a pewter copy of the bronze plaque of my grandfather, my second engagement in the town of Klatovy, and new revelations about my grandfather's time in Cold War Czechoslovakia. A commemorative coin was also created in honor of my grandfather's extraordinary experience at the end of WWII when he helped liberate the same villages his grandparents came from. Plans are already being made for the May 2017 tour. It is a great time to go to the Czech Republic, as they have many celebrations honoring the US Army's liberation of a portion of the country. If you are interested in coming along, please let me know! A [words 61] Jones of upstate New York, came along this year and had so much fun he'll be coming again in 2017. Matt Konop and his brother-in-law, John Bauknecht, find each other in a clearing during the Battle of the Bulge. On day four of The [words 62] again ran into his brother-in-law, John Bauknecht. Konop had feared him dead. Instead, there they were in a Belgian clearing, sharing news about Two Rivers, Wisconsin. A British Spitfire plane overhead suddenly dove [words 63] blazing. Those pesky Germans! First they're dressing in American uniforms, now they're flying British planes. With Konop guiding the [words 64] of fire, Bauknecht machine-gunned the plane until it began to smoke [words 65] burst into flames. The pilot ejected and parachuted, the plane then crashing a few hundred yards from the clearing. Konop and Bauknecht then returned to the latest gossip from Two Rivers. When Konop arrived back at the Command Post, General Robertson was yelling about a British [words 66] said he had been shot down by two Americans. Robertson was determined to find and prosecute the two idiots responsible. They had shot down an ally, not an enemy. Konop slipped out of the Command Post, found his brother-in-law and told him to keep his big mouth shut. The British pilot might have lost his plane, but Konop and Bauknecht kept their silenceHe disliked sports and wasn't amused by the stupid question. In the chaos of his division's retreat, he was in the woods searching for places to store artillery and found himself under suspicion of being a German spy. Konop's odd accent [words 67] of his native Czech and a Wisconsin farmer dialect - had the checkpoint MPs thinking he was one of the hundreds of German spies that had snuck in the night before wearing American uniforms. When Konop pulled a knife on his interrogators - a German knife no less - that settled it, he was German. Off to the stockade! German spies caught that day in American uniforms were shot, in accordance with the rules of war - you can't dress in the other side's uniform. Seventy-one years ago today, Konop had no idea how close he was to the firing squad. He also didn't know that the dark humor of his predicament was classic Czech comedy, echoing a scene from “The Good Soldier Svejk,” the most translated novel in Czech literature. In the novel, the main character, Svejk, is an Inspector Clouseau/Mr. Magoo-like Czech soldier who bumbles his way through World [words 68] One. Like Konop, Svejk was captured by his own army under suspicion of being the enemy. Matt Konop, who the day before held off a German attack with cooks and drivers, had gotten himself Svejk-ed. Finally, after a series of record checking, the US Army determined Matt Konop was an [words 69] him go. Then at the next checkpoint he was captured all over again. Still speaking in his Czech accent (he didn't learn English until he was six), still unaware of the new password, still not knowing who won the 1944 World Series (it was the St. Colonel Matt Konop filmed the Distinguished Service Cross being [words 70] M. Robertson for his leadership in the Battle of the Bulge. Before dawn, December 17, 1944: "Konop! Organize a last-ditch defense of the Command Post! Enemy tanks have broken through and are coming your way! " Matt Konop didn't [words 71] the other end of the phone, that's how hysterical his boss, General Walter Robertson, was. The unthinkable was happening: the Germans were attacking with a massive force and Konop's rear-guard Command Post was now facing the point of the German spear. Plus the Command Post was sitting virtually unguarded, as Robertson had just reassigned Konop's defense platoon to carry stretchers for the wounded. And now Konop and a few cooks, drivers [words 72] MPs were all that stood between the German SS and a massive breakthrough that would lead the enemy to their goal: the sea. General Walter Lauer of the 99th Division later commented that at this Belgian crossroads the enemy had the key to success in its grasp but failed to realize it. Instead, Konop and his improv troops knocked [words 73] the Germans to pull back and search for a softer route. Total disaster avoided. The [words 74] rage for weeks, the largest battle in US Army history. Most of the 15,000 men in 106th Infantry Division were killed or captured on December 17, but my grandfather's division retreated to higher ground where they wouldn't give another inch to Hitler. General Robertson, for his leadership in the Battle of the Bulge, was given the military's second-highest honor, The Distinguished Service Cross. Here is film footage shot by Matt Konop [words 75] being awarded his Distinguished Service Cross. Colonel Matt [words 76] diary, December 16, 1944: "What an awakening! The sky was red as the heavy enemy guns shelled our division area, including our Command Post at Wirtzfeld. " They all wanted to believe it was just a retaliation for the 2nd Infantry Divison's attack on the German border. But what about those rumors German tanks roaming in the woods? Nonsense. That was just the 106th Division seeing ghosts. Those green horns of [words 77] the US, a division that included high-IQ [words 78] Vonnegut. What did they know about combat? It was just another Saturday with the Germans on the run. [words 79] a wedding in France, Hemmingway was drinking in Paris and actress Marlene Dietrich was entertaining the troops just a short drive from Matt Konop's sleepy Command Post. And when he turned in that night, all seemed calm. I used to beg my grandfather to tell me about World War Two, but he wasn't talking. I'd learn about the war in school from nuns who had to try to imagine what had happened, yet my grandfather - someone [words 80] was an officer in the war but wouldn't say a word. It didn't make any sense to me why grandpa wouldn't talk. The woman's father had been in the war and he, too, didn't talk about it. She wasn't even sure where he had served, a fact [words 81] quite sad. My grandfather might not have talked about it, but he did write about his experiences. Although even that was strained, as nobody in the family knew what he was doing. He had no plans to publish his writings and didn't tell anyone what he wanted done with them. They sat in my aunt's basement for [words 82] after he died. My sister stumbled upon [words 83] copies for family members. I was shocked with what I read. Shocked, and then obsessed. The obsession led to my one-man show, which has taken me and grandpa's story across the country and to Europe. And when I do the show, I always get asked this question about why he didn't talk. [words 84] months straight, with but a few breaks. My aunt told me a story of a family vacation [words 85] the 1960s. It was a beautiful summer day and the family was walking along the shore of Lake Michigan right near the Shedd Aquarium. At the time, a [words 86] and when a single engine plane made its landing approach my grandfather jumped under a park bench and started yelling at the family, "get down! Get down! " Traumatized? I think so. Why anyone want to talk about something that dark? Even if you did want to talk about it, how do you have such a conversation? Someone who has been in combat knows that no matter how well they describe it, a person who hasn't been there will never understand. [words 87] much about such things, any more than women of that era would [words 88] birth in mixed company. And many of [words 89] to have said to me things like, "we fought the war so we could live in the peace," and "that was then and this is now. " My sense is they didn't want to get stuck reliving the war. At the same time, many do want to [words 90] die. I think this was part of [words 91] impulse to write about his war experience. He wanted someone to know. So he told his typewriter. And his typewriter never asked stupid questions or made eye contact. [words 92] believe how close we came to never finding out about his story. In fact, the woman last night after the show pointed out how lucky I am to have his writings. Patrick Dewane with US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Andrew Schapiro at the 2015 Domazlice, Czech Republic liberation celebration. We also have his film footage, which might even be crazier than discovering his long-forgotten writings. Above is some of what [words 93] when he and his young family were stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. My mom is the youngest of the three children in the video. Clearly, grandpa liked to document things, even if he didn't talk much about them. I get to hear a lot of stories after I do the show. ## And sometimes horrific, heart-breaking stories. I heard a WWII veteran in my hometown tell of a kamikaze dive that exploded on the deck of his ship, right in front of him. I [words 94] later that day that the man who told the story had worked at my high school when I was growing up. None of us at the time had a clue as to the trauma he'd experienced. He didn't talk about it. But he paid one hell of a price and finally later [words 95] treatment for his trauma. I don't presume to be an expert on war trauma. But it was interesting last night that the woman asking the question went right to that answer. For my grandfather, I'm pretty sure his trauma was a major factor in his silence. For the veteran I mentioned above who survived the kamikaze attack, he told me as much. Ultimately, my grandfather did tell me about the war. He did so in a way that was comfortable for him, and has changed my life incredibly. My grandfather, Matt Konop, did! In his left hand above is a Kodak 8 mm [words 96] Omaha Beach all the way to the end of the war in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. He's carrying a camera, while the newly-liberated people of Domazlice are carrying him. In the clip above are scenes he shot in and around the town of Domazlice, Czechoslovakia right before the end of WW II. Konop's grandparents had grown up in the same countryside that their [words 97] now improbably liberating. A string of [words 98] face-to-face with the truth of his obscured identity. Colonel of the US Army and commander of the Advance Party freeing Czechoslovakia for [words 99] his roots. Only eleven villages, barely 10,000 people, comprise the Czech district of Chodsko where Konop's four grandparents, my great great grandparents, were born and raised. They all left Chodsko for America in the 1860s, settling near Stangelville, Wisconsin, about 15 miles outside of Green Bay. Konop's grandfather, Joseph Konop, couldn't read. He bought his first 20 acres of Wisconsin frontier land by signing an "X" for his name. My lineage is not royalty! But when Matt Konop entered Domazlice, Czechoslovakia on May 4, 1945 he was treated like a king. Arriving in the main square by himself and ahead of the rest of the division, he was greeted with banners in Czech with his name. Konop's first language was Czech, and the banners stated "Matt Konop - we are liberated by one of our own! ". The people hoisted him on their shoulders and shouted in Czech the same thing, parading an American Lt. Colonel who had returned to the land of his ancestors. As he was being carried, the Czech national anthem, "Where Is My Home," played over and over from loudspeakers in the main square. Konop knew the song from his Czech-American upbringing, and that day was the first time in six years that the song was played in public. The Nazis had finally be quelled. And it was quite a homecoming for my grandfather, paraded on the same cobblestones where his grandparents had begun their journey to America some 80 years earlier. My grandfather never talked about it. I only found out about it when we found his forgotten manuscript. So let the film from his camera do his talking. The music that kicks in is the Czech national anthem, and the main square is indeed Domazlice on May 4, 1945, the day that changed my grandfather's entire conception of who he was. He had spent the first 38 years of his life trying to run from his poor Czech background. He desperately wanted to "become American. Colonel in the American army at the end of the war, he discovered what it meant to be Czech. Movie camera in hand, Matt Konop experiences a surreal homecoming at the end of WWII in Czechoslovakia, the land of his ancestors. Output: words 1: John Bauknecht on December 15, 1945 words 2: the snow was words 3: Below, grandpa walks alone words 4: Over 19,000 words 5: my first Czech words 6: I can words 7: want your words 8: there, he resumed words 9: World - a crazy Konop words 10: family thought Mary could do better than words 11: On May 4, 1945 my grandfather parked words 12: no time to go hunting for distant and words 13: my show about words 14: time to get to words 15: learned quite words 16: on a repeat engagement words 17: have a words 18: two words 19: four years later in words 20: scant three words 21: his tribe get its freedom words 22: people are coming on my May, 2017 words 23: contact words 24: just as they were when the US words 25: year in words 26: father's words 27: the son handed me the words 28: thought they knew words 29: so I didn't want my emotions to words 30: had the chops words 31: of what might be possible, and words 32: and words 33: or Democrat, conservative or words 34: slave labor finally freed in May, words 35: they were words 36: was one of words 37: death march words 38: This puzzled me as I words 39: noticed they words 40: coming down words 41: the inmates of the words 42: be spotted by American airplanes words 43: that when a man became words 44: were shot and dumped in words 45: They took him to a words 46: I saved his words 47: driver entered Klenci, coincidentally the home words 48: at anyone in his words 49: A column of words 50: knew my grandfather well words 51: to the Czech Republic words 52: The Nazis rounded up words 53: him, a display words 54: in the Flossenburg granite quarry words 55: him being carried as a hero words 56: good words 57: Klenci and words 58: in the main square of words 59: photo was words 60: town of words 61: fan of my show, Ben words 62: Battle of the Bulge Matt Konop words 63: toward them, machine guns words 64: line words 65: and words 66: pilot who words 67: - a mix words 68: War words 69: American and they let words 70: given to General Walter words 71: recognize the voice on words 72: and words 73: out enough SS tanks for words 74: Battle of the Bulge would words 75: of Robertson words 76: Konop's words 77: the 106th were fresh from words 78: intellectuals and artists like Kurt words 79: General Eisenhower was at words 80: I'd known my entire life - words 81: that made her words 82: 20 years words 83: his memoir about ten years ago and made words 84: My grandfather was in combat for eleven words 85: to Chicago in words 86: small airstrip was next to the aquarium words 87: Plus, culturally the WWII generation just didn't say words 88: talk about the details of child words 89: the WWII veterans I've talked words 90: talk about it before they words 91: my grandfather's words 92: I still can't words 93: he shot words 94: realized words 95: in life received words 96: camera he had from words 97: grandson was words 98: jaw-dropping coincidences brought him words 99: him to discover

<human>: Find the missing words: Yes, a very exciting poetry contest is coming up in November, but before giving you the low-down, let's not forget what a fantastic reading we [words 1] month. Good friends Penn Kemp and Sharon Thesen delivered the goods to a packed house. Penn read from Fox Haunts, one of her two just-launched volumes and further wowed us with an audience-participation sound poem. Sharon read from her last release, TheReceiver, and the evening ended with her reading a poem inspired (very tongue-in-cheek, mind you) by leafing through People magazine that she had then sent to Penn, followed by Penn stepping up to the mic and reading her poetic response. A wonderful evening, all round. November's reading won't be a reading at all. Instead, it's a contest. Our very first Open Mic contest is taking place on Wednesday, November 21. Read one of your finest poems and you could win the top prize of $100 cash. There is a total of $225 in prizes ($50 for second and three runners-up prizes of $25 each). Your poem can be published or unpublished but you are restricted to just one. You will have a maximum of two minutes to deliver your potential prizewinning poem. And who decides on the winners? The audience does. Everyone in attendance will be given a ballot to vote on each contestant. Those with the most votes win. It's simple; it's fair, and it's going to be a whole heap of fun. There won't be any featured poets for November's reading, just you with [words 2] you consider to be your best effort to win our inaugural Open Mic Contest. Doors open at 6:40pm. To get through the evening in our allotted time, [words 3] have to cut off participants at some point. The sooner you get there, the better your chances of getting into the lineup. See you all at November's Poets Corner reading on Wednesday, November 21. We're underway at 7:00 p. sharp (and don't forget your poem)! Before telling you about next month's poetry reading, a little more about this month's event that took place on Wednesday, September 19 at our wonderful host venue, Massy Books. We had an exceptionally [words 4] who once shared a life as teacher and student. Onjana Yawnghwe was a graduate student at UBC in [words 5] class of esteemed scholar, writer, and professor, William New. Poets Corner brought them together once again and they gave us a reading to remember. Onjana read from her just-released The Small Way, a touching and at times heart-wrenching volume dealing with a life partner who is transitioning. And Bill read from his recent volume Neighbours, taking us on a journey of emotions from sombre reflection to light-hearted banter. October's featured poets are both out-of-towners, though one will be traveling a much further distance than the other to join us. No stranger to the West Coast poetry scene, prolific poet, playwright, performance artist, and novelist Penn Kemp will be coming in from London, ON. Joining her is Sharon Thesen from Kelowna. Together they are incendiary — in a good way. Here is a little more about each of them . Penn Kemp, poet, performer and playwright, has been celebrated as a trailblazer since her first publication [words 6] by Coach House Press in 1972. ## A “one-woman literary industry”, she [words 7] Western University's Writer-in-Residence. The League of Canadian Poets' 2015 Spoken Word Artist, Kemp is a keen participant in Canada's cultural life with multimedia releases and thirty books of poetry, prose and drama to her name. New poetry books are Fox Haunts (Aeolus House) and Local Heroes (Insomniac). Her latest collaboration is up on https:/riverrevery. Sharon Thesen is a BC-based poet, editor, critic, and professor who has published nine books of poetry, most recently The Good Bacteria (2009) and Oyama Pink Shale (2011) with House of Anansi Press, and The Receiver [words 8] Star Books. She has also edited two editions of The New Long Poem Anthology and has been an editor of The [words 9] of Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment. A winner of the Pat Lowther Award, she has also been a three-time finalist for the Governor-General's Award and twice [words 10] Award. Sharon currently writes journalistic essays on poetry and poetics and teaches poetry workshops in Lake Country, where she lives in the north Okanagan. There will be an Open Mic segment for this reading, so if you want a chance to deliver one of your best poems, get there early. See you all at October's Poets Corner reading on Wednesday, October 17. Fall is on its way, or so it seems. And up until now we've handled it all: searing heat, threatening wildfires and smoke-filled skies. Surely we can handle some sizzling poetry too. Our readers this month [words 11] experience, but the one thing they have in common is that both are incredibly talented poets. Onjana Yawnghwe and William H. New share another connection, but you'll have to come to their reading this month to find out what the other mysterious connection is. Here's a short bio on each [words 12] . Onjana Yawnghwe is Shan-Canadian and was born in Thailand but grew up in B. She is the author of the poetry books Fragments, Desire (Oolichan, 2017), and [words 13] Press, Fall 2018). She was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2018. She has an MA in English and currently works as a nurse in Vancouver. (Bill) New, a native of Vancouver, is the author and editor of over 50 books, including Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, A History of Canadian Literature, and Grandchild of Empire, as well as five books for children and a dozen collections of poetry. For his creative and critical writing, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006. The Year I Was Grounded was named a Lion & Unicorn Honour Book (for North American children's poetry), Underwood Log was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, and YVR won the City of Vancouver Award. His most recent book, Neighbours, asks what it means to live near and what it means if a neighbourhood dies—Starting this month, our reading series kicks off at 7:00 p. a half-hour earlier than before. Yes, we will have the Open Mic segment for this reading, so if you want a [words 14] deliver one of your best poems, get there early. See you all at this month's Poets Corner reading on Wednesday, September 19. Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on [words 15] Poetry Reading on Wed Sep 19 at 7:00 p. (note new time)Before sharing about this month's fabulous reading, this is a reminder we are taking a [words 16] not be a reading in August. Simply put, July's reading was mesmerizing. One poet held [words 17] we were together. After a lengthy absence from Vancouver (after all, she lives in Denmark! ), Heather Spears charmed, joked and left us reeling with emotional upheaval. This is someone who will always have a reserved spot at the mic every time she's in town. With our recent hot weather, it's the perfect reminder that some of us may be lying in a hammock somewhere, slowly sipping a [words 18] monthly gathering at Massy Books. Please don't show up on the third Wednesday of August as [words 19] there. We're holding back for now on who will be reading in September. But hone a good poem or two of your own, as there will be an Open Mic segment at this reading. June's reading brought us two very different yet very powerful readings. Daniela Elza (accompanied by her bassist [words 20] served up a compelling evening of [words 21] poems. This is the first time in a long time that we have had a musical accompaniment to a poetry reading. The verdict? It was the perfect dance of words and strings. Between them, our next two featured poets have published over 30(! ) volumes of poetry. Both are out-of-towners (though one's coming a considerably longer distance than the other). [words 22] a Canadian poet who has been living in Denmark since 1962 and Stephen Scobie, a Scottish-born poet who now lives in Victoria, are coming to town to share a drop or two of their massive poetic output. [words 23] to each other's mutual admiration society and you're in for an evening of rich, well-crafted writing. Stephen Scobie was born in Scotland, but has lived in Canada since 1965, [words 24] Victoria since 1981. He is now happily retired after teaching stints at the University of Alberta in Edmonton as well as at the University of Victoria. He has published over 20 volumes of poetry, including McAlmon's Chinese Opera (Quadrant Editions, 1980) which won the Governor-General's Award that year. He has also had critical studies published of [words 25] Dylan, Leonard Cohen, bpNichol, and the Scottish poet and artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay. <assistant>: words 1: had this words 2: with what words 3: we will words 4: talented duo words 5: the words 6: of poetry words 7: was London's inaugural Poet Laureate and words 8: (2017), with New words 9: Capilano Review and co-editor words 10: a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry words 11: are contrasts in age and words 12: of them words 13: the forthcoming The Small Way (Caitlin words 14: chance to words 15: FINISHED! words 16: summer break, so there will words 17: us captive for the entire time words 18: refreshing Moscow Mule, instead of our usual words 19: Poets Corner won't be words 20: friend, Clyde Reed) and Jami Macarty words 21: crisp, well-wrought words 22: Heather Spears, words 23: They belong words 24: and most recently in words 25: Bob <human>: Find the missing words: In 1995, Stephen was elected a Fellow of the [words 1] Canada. Heather Spears, Vancouver-born writer and artist, [words 2] 1962. Among her published work are 14 collections of poetry, five novels, four books [words 3] work. She has been the recipient of several [words 4] the least of which are a Governor-General's Award for Poetry, three Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, and a CBC [words 5] Prize. A book of translations of her poems into Danish is forthcoming this year. As an artist she teaches drawing and writes about drawing and the brain (The Creative Eye: Drawing, Vision and the Brain (2012). Heather specializes in drawing premature infants [words 6] hospitals, and war zones. She has held close to 100 [words 7] work in Europe and America. Doors open at 7:10pm. See you [words 8] Wednesday, July 18. We're underway at 7:30 p. Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off [words 9] Wednesday July 18 at 7:30 p. What [words 10] had last month. With just over 50 in attendance, we had our biggest crowd [words 11] fabulous new ‘home'. It was a special celebration for a special duo. Richard Olafson and Carol Ann Sokoloff were honoured as Ekstasis Editions turned 35 years old. Ekstasis Editions' Carol Ann Sokoloff and Richard Olafson were presented with a commemorative poster signed by all the Ekstasis writers who came to honour them. Doing the presenting are Franci Louann (left) and James Felton [words 12] Corner. Tributes poured in from many who attended (including those who couldn't make it) and short readings were [words 13] more. It proved to be a memorable evening and a deserving tribute. This month we are back [words 14] two featured poets along with an Open [words 15] segment. Mark your calendars now, before you forget: it's on Wednesday June 20, again at 7:30pm. Daniela Elza has lived on three continents and crossed numerous geographic, cultural [words 16] borders. Her poetry collections are the weight of dew, the book of It, and milk tooth bane bone, of which David Abram says: “Out of the ache of [words 17] moment, Daniela Elza has crafted something spare and irresistible, an open armature for wonder.” Daniela earned [words 18] Philosophy of Education from Simon Fraser University. Her next book will be published the Spring of 2020 by [words 19] Publishing. She has two more manuscripts looking for homes amidst the growing housing crises and skyrocketing rents of Vancouver. Jami Macarty is the author [words 20] from Nomados Literary Publishers in 2018, Mind of Spring, which [words 21] 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award (Vallum, 2017) and Landscape of The Wait [words 22] series of poems focusing on her nephew William's car accident and year-long coma. She teaches contemporary poetry and creative writing at Simon Fraser University, edits [words 23] poetry journal The Maynard, and writes Peerings & Hearings–Occasional Musings on Arts in the City of [words 24] a blog series for Anomaly/Anomalous Press. She is the recipient of grants [words 25] and B. Arts Council, among others; several times a Pushcart Prize [words 26] the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award. Her poems have appeared in over 50 American and [words 27] journals. Remember, the Open Mic segment is back on [words 28] so if you want a chance to deliver [words 29] early. See you all at this month's Poets Corner [words 30] 20. Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on FINISHED! ! [words 31] 7:30 p. Before telling you about May's [words 32] me briefly tell you about our last reading on Wednesday, April 18. What a trio of talent! E. Blodgett, Terry Ann Carter, and Rhonda Ganz [words 33] that spanned the spectrum of poetic styles and subjects. The audience topped out at 40 and the comments [words 34] you told me you were blown away. Our standard format at Poets Corner is to have two featured poets preceded [words 35] segment. However, this month will be different. In fact, it's so different we're calling it a celebration. In [words 36] a B. publishing house that has nurtured and lauded many creative writers [words 37] history. Ekstasis Editions is an independent literary press that has steadfastly supported not only British [words 38] but many other Canadian writers for [words 39] years. It is time to celebrate a literary press [words 40] Olafson started in 1982 and continues to run today. Owned and operated by Richard and his partner, Carol Ann Sokoloff, the [words 41] writers, especially those in this province. Richard's years at the helm of Ekstasis can be summed up as a stellar example of a creative, prolific, and dedicated career. There were many boulder-sized roadblocks that seemed determined to thwart [words 42] mark. But here they are today, proudly standing next [words 43] marker along the long and winding (and enduring) road. Originally, Ekstasis [words 44] almost exclusively, but it has since diversified and branched out into related forms such as literary fiction, metaphysics, theatre and, most recently, Children's [words 45] Adult books under the Cherubim Books imprint. Aside from the obvious camaraderie that will be aided by all sorts of libations, a special evening of readings and tributes is planned. Invitations are being sent to every writer ever published by Ekstasis. And that's quite a few! We realize not everyone is close enough to our host venue in Vancouver's Chinatown to be there in person, but all [words 46] invited no matter where they live. Who knows? You may [words 47] to make a point of being in town around [words 48] honour and celebrate this special indie press and the people that [words 49] many of you on the literary map. [words 50] would love each and every Ekstasis writer who is there the evening of the [words 51] or a short excerpt from their published work. Obviously that's not possible. Instead you are being asked to bring your Ekstasis publication in case your your name is drawn from the hat; those selected will [words 52] reading. Because of this special celebration to honour [words 53] be our usual Open Mic segment on May 16th. But there will be a helluva lot of published Ekstasis writers at the mic! Make sure you've signed up to receive our twice-monthly newsletter (the form's to the right) for more details of this very [words 54] reading. It's April already and it's STILL winter outside. What's with that? ! I think it's best to have some fine poetry to warm up our souls. Before I share what's happening for April's [words 55] I want to let all of you who couldn't make our inaugural reading [words 56] what a wonderful evening we had. And what a lovely venue! Massy Books went all out to make us feel welcome, especially with the cash bar! Carl Hare and Marguerite Pigeon will now go down in history as our very first readers at Poets Corner (formerly Poetic Justice). Some fine voices were also heard during the Open Mic segment, too. Our normal format is to have two featured poets preceded by an open mic segment. This month, however, we're having three talented poets. We'll still have open mic, but it will be shorter than normal. Mark the date before you forget: Wed Apr 18 at 7:30pm. Here's a little more about our April featured poets. Blodgett is a literary historian, translator, and poet. He has [words 57] poetry, of which 2 were awarded the Governor General's Award. His most recent book is Songs for Dead Children (University of Alberta Press). Translations of his poetry have appeared in French, Serbian, and [words 58] languages. He was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, a former Writer-in-Residence at Grant MacEwan University (2004), and past poet [words 59] (2007-09). He is currently involved in writing a bilingual renga with a Francophone poet from Winnipeg. Terry Ann Carter is the author of On the Road to Naropa: My Love [words 60] and TOKAIDO (Red Moon Press). She is also co-editor (with George Swede) of Erotic Haiku: Of Skin on Skin, (Black Moss Press), president of [words 61] and founder of Haiku Arbutus in Victoria. As a “community fellow” at the University of Victoria (2017), Terry Ann had an opportunity to examine the Buddhist influence on classical Japanese haiku. [words 62] to call Vancouver home. Her debut collection, Frequent, small loads of laundry (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2017) was just shortlisted for the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. A devotee [words 63] mines nightmare and reality TV for material. Her work has appeared the The [words 64] and in the anthologies Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry (Mother Tongue Publishing), Poems from Planet Earth (Leaf Press), Poet to Poet (Guernica Editions) and Force Field: 77 Women Poets of BC (Mother Tongue Publishing). Yes, we will have our Open Mic segment at this [words 65] but because we have three featured poets we will have to [words 66] Mic. So if you want a chance to deliver one of [words 67] get there early. See as many of you as possible at Poets Corner [words 68] 21. Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on FINISHED! Poetry Reading on Wednesday April [words 69] p. If you are not on our newsletter subscribers' list, you missed an important update on what's been happening with our poetry reading series. Poetic Justice has morphed [words 70] LOTS has happened. If you're not already on [words 71] newsletter through the box on the right, and we'll send you the most recent issue. Before we share more [words 72] a quick word about the hugely successful themed reading that took place last October. That 70s Show featured five very [words 73] in 2017. Each was asked to read one poem [words 74] of their five decades of writing. Wow, [words 75] Sixty-five poetry fans got to enjoy the depth and breadth of a combined 250 years of writing. Now that we're back on [words 76] reading under our new name and equally new host venue is only days away. And we're delighted to have two very [words 77] joining us. Here's a little more about each of them. In his long career, Carl Hare has been a professor, actor, director, playwright, and poet. Spenser, Book Two of On the River of [words 78] being launched and copies will be available at the reading. Marguerite Pigeon is the author of three books. Her first poetry [words 79] the Gerald Lampert Award, and her short story collection, Some Extremely Boring Drives, was nominated for a ReLit Award. Marguerite is currently at work completing [words 80] called The Endless Garment: A pocket epic, from which she [words 81] three chapbooks. These include My Model [words 82] What I'm Wearing Now, from the Alfred [words 83] Press. Originally from Blind River, Ontario, Marguerite currently lives in Vancouver. Oh, there will be an Open [words 84] this reading, so if you want a chance to deliver [words 85] there early. And thank you for bearing with us [words 86] change-over! See you all at the Poets [words 87] Wednesday, March 21. Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on FINISHED! Poetry Reading on Wednesday March 21 at 7:30 p. Before we share more [words 88] news, let us not forget what a fine reading we enjoyed at this month's reading. ## Husband and [words 89] Pass and Theresa Kishkan, both delivered emotionally charged and thought-provoking readings. What has turned out to be our last [words 90] a fitting tribute by two talented writers. [words 91] Royal City, the Poetic Justice poetry reading [words 92] is relocating to the Central Branch of the [words 93] Library. The news is exciting, but it is also tinged with [words 94] note of sadness' (thanks, Matthew Arnold). [words 95] series in Metro Vancouver brings more poets to the microphone than Poetic Justice. Since 2010, emerging and established poets from [words 96] as far south as California have appeared [words 97] series. Venues have changed over the years but the [words 98] vibrant. And now the tradition of showcasing the best poets moves [words 99] and most prestigious venue. For more details on the relocation, check out our press release. The VPL would like to see some themed readings mixed in with the series' regular format. Normally two featured poets are preceded by an open mic segment . But the timing of the request is perfect. Poetic Justice had been planning to host a few themed readings in the next few months. So to kick off our inaugural reading at the Central Branch, Poetic Justice is presenting That 70s Show. This will be a themed reading where five much-loved B. poets celebrate turning 70 this year. Here's the very first poster of what we hope will be many more that publicize our readings at the VPL. Please do your best to spread the news about our inaugural reading in downtown Vancouver! And don't forget to circle the date on your calendar. 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Trust me posting free classifieds also gives you good visitors for you created hubs. If you have learned computer you should be reading this post. But there are many benefits of this post. You can refer the source to other people who have very basic knowledge of computer. If you have very basic knowledge you also can improve your knowledge and learn it. Meaning of learning computer is now changed from its previous meaning. Computerseekho is a website available in Hindi to teach you computer in easy to understand manner and in native Hindi language. All the tutorials are in video, videos are in good quality voce is even better. Here is a glimpse of what you will learn on the website. I get lot of mails asking me how to start typing in Gujarati on computer. Here I will show you, step by step, how to start writing in Gujarati on your computer/pc. Actually, it is very easy to start writing in Gujarati on your computer. Only about 10 minutes worth of setup and you are ready to start writing in Gujarati. I am going to presume that you use Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. Download Indic Input IME from BhashaIndia.com (IME or Input Method Editor is a piece of software that lets you input different languages. Windows XP has inbuilt support for Indian languages. ( Bill Gates is doing something right ! ) But the indian language support is not activated by default. You need to activate it by installing additional components of Windows from the installation disk. Here is how to do it:4. Check (click) the box marked Install files for complex scripts and right to left languages (including Thai). When you check this line, a new window will appear. It will ‘warn' you that you need at least 10 MB of hard disk space and it will prompt you to putWindows XP install disk in your CD drive. Next, you need to download Indic Input IME from Bhashaindia. Unzip the downloaded file and install it on your computer. The installation is simple and the details are in the text file that comes with it. Click Add under “Installed Services”, and then choose the the language you want to add (in you case “Gujarati” and the keyboard layout ( in your case “Gujarati Indic IME 1′) you want to use for that language. On the same page, click “advanced” tab on the top which wold open another box. Make sure that check box against “extend advanced text services to all programs” is checked. Now you will have language bar on the desktop. It looks like a small blue strip on the Desktop, usually in the upper right corner. Lets try using the language bar. Open any program like Wordpad, Internet Explorer or Outlook express. Clicking on “EN” on the language bar will let you switch the language to Gujarati. (You can do the same by pressing Alt-Shift also) Changing language to Gujarati would open another bar – IME bar on the lower right corner of the screen with big “G” on it. ( I know that there are far too many bars to deal with but you will soon get familiar with it ! )Indic IME gives you an option of typing in several ways, one I like is called ‘transliteration', which means you type phonetically in English. ( like ‘gujaratee' etc. You can choose the ‘transliteration' from the list by pressing on the little keyboard like icon on theIME bar. I would also advise you to turn the on-the-fly help from the IME bar by pressing the box with little table icon, which would constantly advise you regarding which keys to press. The phonetic or ‘transliteration' method is very intuitive and easy. Type in Gujarati to your heart's content – write mails, create documents, name files in Gujarati or start a Gujarati blog. Anytime you want to write Gujarati, choose it from the language bar and you can start typing. 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The tree, Copaifera multijuga, can be NationalGeographic,December 1984The Regional Center for the Collection, Synthesis, and Dissemination of Career Information for Schools in San Diego County was established as a pilot project (VIEW) in 1965. The present paper gives a history of VIEW through its pilot, developmental, and demonstration phases. ## Evaluation procedures and results involving students and counselors are presented. A junior college follow-up study and summer training workshop are discussed, with evaluations [spans 5] included. A discussion of limitations and an outline of 1968-69 operations follow. (BP)ONE man was detained and other two teenagers sent to asylum for alleged burglary, Putuo District police said yesterday. Officers caught the suspects Saturday about 5:45pm in a residential community and recovered a laptop as well as 5,000 yuan (US$730) in cash. Welcome to Archives Africa, enabling online access [spans 6] Madagascar. Archives Africa is modelled on the successful AIM25 initiative, which [spans 7] government. It has supported new research, learning and understanding of diverse records such as diaries, administrative papers, film and photography spanning more than 500 years of history. It is the ambition of Archives Africa to do the same, linking the archives of every country in Africa beginning with Madagascar. Web links accessed in December 2005. Biography & Genealogy: Born September 14, 1860 in Christiansburg, Virginia. ## Matriculated August 1, 1878 from Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. Dropped from Rolls circa 1880. Methods 400 disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD)-naive patients with eRA were recruited and stratified into high risk or low risk according to classical prognostic markers. Treatment modifications to target low-disease activity were mandatory from W8, if desirable and feasible according to the rheumatologist. The primary outcome was remission (28 joint disease activity score calculated with C-reactive protein <2.6) at W16 (intention-to-treat analysis). Secondary endpoints were good European League Against Rheumatism response, clinically meaningful health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) response [spans 8] zero. Adverse events (AEs) were registered. Results Data from 98 Classic, 98 Slim and 94 Avant-Garde patients were analysed. At W16, remission was reached in 70.4% Classic, 73.6% Slim and 68.1% Avant-Garde patients (p=0.713). Likewise, no significant differences were shown in other secondary endpoints. However, therapy-related AEs were reported in 61.2% of Classic, in 46.9% of Slim and in 69.1% of Avant-Garde patients (p=0.006). Conclusions For high-risk eRA, MTX associated with a moderate step-down dose of GCs was as effective in inducing remission at W16 as DMARD combination therapies with moderate or high step-down GC doses and it showed a more favourable short-term safety profile. Some patients might do equally well on methotrexate (MTX) monotherapy, and even in case of insufficient response, intensifying to triple DMARD therapy or a combination with a biological can rescue patients later on.17 A delay in optimal disease control might indeed not necessarily result [spans 9] endpoints. This illustrates that the patient perspective is still understudied in traditional eRA trials. Guidelines suggest adapting treatment according to prognostic factors.1–3 Unfortunately, this does not guarantee a favourable outcome in daily practice.18 Until better prediction models become available, the most effective approach to use the window of opportunity is to combine classical DMARDs with rapid remission inducing agents like GCs or biologicals. The perception on GCs, however, remains ambiguous in both the patient's and the physician's mind. Thus many rheumatologists hesitate to prescribe GCs due to fear for side effects.22 ,23 Little is yet known about the optimal initial [spans 10] eRA. The aim of the current study was to compare in high-risk patients with eRA the efficacy and safety of different initial DMARD combinations [spans 11] initiation. The trial is conducted in 13 Flemish rheumatology centres: two academic centres, seven general hospitals and four private practices. Patients with RA, as defined by the American College of Rheumatology 1987 revised criteria, were recruited between January 2009 and May 2013. The main inclusion criteria were having a disease duration ≤1 year and being DMARD and GCs treatment naive. Disease duration was defined as time elapsed between RA diagnosis and treatment initiation. Patients having contraindications for intensive treatment combinations with GCs as judged by the treating rheumatologist were excluded. See online supplement 1 for a full list of exclusion criteria. Patients were allocated to a high-risk group based on an algorithm constructed with classical RA prognostic factors: erosions, rheumatoid factor (RF) and/or anticitrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) and disease activity score based on C-reactive protein (CRP) status (DAS28 (CRP)) at screening (figure 1). Classification of patients in high or low risk according to classic prognostic factors. ACPA, anticitrullinated protein antibody; DAS28 (CRP), 28 joint disease activity score calculated with C-reactive protein; RF, rheumatoid factor. COBRA Classic: 15 mg MTX weekly, [spans 12] prednisone). This scheme has a higher dose of MTX than the original cobra schedule, based on experience in daily clinical practice.5 ,35The GC dose was tapered down weekly except for the lowest dose (7.5 mg in COBRA Classic and 5 mg in the other arms), which was maintained until week (W) 28. Then, GCs were tapered on a weekly basis by leaving out one daily dose each week over a period of 6 weeks until complete discontinuation. Prophylactic treatment including oral folic acid, calcium and vitamin D supplements was prescribed to all patients. Furthermore, all patients received face-to-face education and info-material (leaflet, DVD and website) about the disease as well as on the proposed treatment at screening. Additional information was given on demand. A treat-to-target approach was used in a tight control setting,38 aiming for a DAS28(CRP) ≤3.39 If patients failed to reach this target, treatment adjustments were made according to protocol from W8 onwards. Treating rheumatologists had the option not to adapt treatment, but in that case they had to motivate their decision based on a predefined list of specific clinical conditions. Other treatment adjustments not stated in the protocol could not be implemented by the treating physician. The first adjustment in all treatment arms was a weekly increase in MTX dose to 20 mg. If necessary a second adjustment could be made from 8 weeks after the first adjustment. The second adjustment depended on the treatment arm: an SSZ dose increase to 3 g daily in COBRA Classic, an LEF addition of 10 mg daily in COBRA Slim or an LEF dose increase to 20 mg daily in COBRA Avant-Garde. If patients did not reach the target after two predefined treatment adjustments during the first year, this was considered a strategy failure for efficacy reasons. Intramuscular and intra-articular GC injections were allowed maximally every 8 weeks, but not within 4 weeks preceding W16. ## Concomitant therapy with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics [spans 13] registered. Patients were assessed at screening, baseline, W4, W8 and W16. A maximum of 4 weeks were allowed between screening and baseline. In case a [spans 14] W12. ## Demographics were registered at screening and clinical parameters, DAS28(CRP) and health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) at every visit (table 1). At each visit, patients were asked about any adverse events (AE) and medication changes. Each reported AE was registered and evaluated in relation to therapy, seriousness and severity by the treating rheumatologist. ## In case of toxicity, the protocol predefined schemes for tapering/interrupting the assigned treatment strategy. If toxicity was persistent, this was considered a strategy failure for safety reasons. The primary outcome of this study was the proportion of patients in remission (DAS28(CRP)<2.6) at W16. The study was designed as a superiority analysis of Classic versus [spans 15] Slim. Sample-size calculation was based upon the proportion of patients in remission at W16. Eighty-five patients per treatment arm were required for a power [spans 16] 20%. All patients starting treatment were analysed. Missing data were handled as follows. Screening variables were used [spans 17] versa. A maximum likelihood model (by the Expectation–Maximisation algorithm) was applied to impute missing data needed to calculate the DAS28(CRP) at W4, W8 and W16. An intention-to-treat analysis was performed by χ2 or Kruskal–Wallis test, when appropriate. Area under the curve (AUC) analysis was used to evaluate the DAS28(CRP) over time. All statistical analyses were carried out using the Statistical [spans 18] V. A total of 400 patients were screened and 380 patients were included in CareRA. Seventy-five per cent of these patients were included in non-university centres. ## No differences in demographic and clinical characteristics were observed between screened and included patients. In total, 290 patients were allocated to the high-risk group and randomly assigned to treatment in the COBRA Classic (98), COBRA Slim (98) and COBRA Avant-Garde [spans 19] arm. Randomisation resulted in similar baseline characteristics between groups (table 1). Remission was achieved in 70.4% (68/98) COBRA Classic patients, 73.5% (72/98) COBRA Slim patients and 68.1% (64/94) COBRA Avant-Garde patients (p=0.713) at W16 (figure 3A). Remission and disease activity over 16 weeks. (A) The proportion of patients in remission per treatment arm at weeks 4, 8 and 16. (B) The area under the curve of DAS28(CRP) per treatment arm during 16 weeks of treatment. DAS28(CRP), 28 joint disease activity score calculated with C-reactive protein. At W16, a good EULAR response was reached in 79.6% of Classic patients, 79.6% of Slim patients and 76.6% of Avant-Garde patients (p=0.844). A clinically meaningful HAQ response was reached in 84.7% of Classic patients, 86.7% of Slim patients and 76. HAQ was equal to zero in 45.9% of Classic patients, 42.9% of Slim patients and 48.9% of Avant-Garde patients (p=0.700) (table 2). Likewise, complete case analysis (without missing data imputation) of the primary and secondary outcomes revealed no significant differences between the three treatment arms (data not shown). The mean±SD AUC for DAS28(CRP) from baseline to W16 was 10.66±3.41, 11.05±3.39 and 10.72±2.96 for the Classic, Slim and Avant-Garde, respectively (p=0.521) (figure 3B). During the first 16 weeks of therapy, treatment adaptations were performed in 19.4%, 22.4% and 14.9% in the Classic, Slim and Avant-Garde arm, respectively (p=0.407). Of these patients requiring treatment adaptations at W8, 50.0%, 87.5% and 60.0% in the Classic, Slim and Avant-Garde arm, respectively, reached the low-disease activity target at W16 (p=0.086). Of 61 patients requiring per protocol treatment adaptation at W8, 39% (24/61) had no change in therapy because of contraindications or because the treating physician judged the disease sufficiently controlled. These 24 patients received no other medication and stayed on the initial strategy without treatment adaptation. Intra-articular GC injections were given in 3.1% of Classic patients, 5.1% of Slim patients and 5.703). Therapy-related AEs were registered in 171 out of the 290 patients (59%) during the first 16 weeks of treatment. These were reported in 61. The total number of AEs related to Classic, Slim and Avant-Garde treatment was 148, 70 and 130, respectively, with a similar distribution for discomfort and toxicity (table 3). In patients with eRA with unfavourable classical prognostic factors such as RF, ACPA, erosions and/or high-disease activity, MTX associated with a moderate step-down dose of GCs was as effective as DMARD combination therapies with moderate or high step-down GC doses, for remission induction at 16 weeks. Furthermore, the short-term safety profile of MTX associated with a moderate step-down dose of GCs was more favourable. This finding has two implications. First, in association with a moderate or high GC dose, [spans 20] stage. Until now only a few studies have addressed the question whether DMARD combinations are superior to MTX monotherapy independent from additional GC bridging in eRA.7 ,32–34 The tREACH trial showed that DMARD combination was better than MTX monotherapy, both in association with low-dose GC bridging. In our trial, the COBRA-like moderate-dose or high-dose GC scheme bridged the time lag before full DMARD efficacy, probably erasing any difference between the different DMARD schedules. As a consequence, less medication is needed over time, which might impact AE and possibly also patients' adherence to treatment. The tight control setting could also correct swiftly [spans 21] Slim. However, only MTX dose adjustment and no step up to combination therapy could be implemented before W16. Furthermore, the proportion of treatment adjustments between the three arms was not significantly different. Second, a high-dose GC scheme starting at 60 mg prednisone does not seem to improve early clinical outcomes compared with a moderate-dose scheme starting at 30 mg prednisone, regardless of the DMARD strategy used. Thus, a lower cumulative GC dose is still equally effective, perhaps avoiding long-term AEs. Furthermore, the possibility to use a lower dose of GCs, while having the same efficacy, could benefit the implementation of COBRA-like strategies. Rheumatologists appear more reluctant to [spans 22] population. Many rheumatologists use low-dose GCs in association with DMARDS for eRA in daily practice, much to their own and their patients' satisfaction. They have, however, doubts about the need for higher GC dosages and prolonged use. The potential advantage of a COBRA-like schedule over low-dose GCs is two-sided. A delayed targeted therapy as proposed by others17 would result in a much higher cumulative disease activity. This study only presents the first 16 weeks of the CareRA trial, but this initial treatment period, the so-called ‘window of opportunity', is crucial for longer-term outcome at the biological and probably also at a psychosocial level.15 ,49 Long-term disease control and patient-reported outcomes after 1 and 2 years are awaited in CareRA. ## The safety analysis strengthened the efficacy outcomes further. The proportion and number of related AEs was comparable in Classic and Avant-Garde, while Slim patients had half the related AEs. GC dosage does not make any difference in the frequency or type of related AEs at this stage. 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First, medication adherence was not measured. However, if adherence was lower in a certain trial arm, the same could be expected from this treatment regimen in daily ... <bot>: spans 1: clinical practice <user>: More spans: Second, no blinding was implemented. Rheumatologists could have been biased towards a certain therapy and therefore report less therapy-related AEs. Certain patients could also be more motivated for certain treatment regimens than for others. Another limitation was the superiority design of this study. We opted for this design because in a non-inferiority trial the number of patients needed would be doubled. Hence, we can only state that COBRA Classic and COBRA Avant-Garde are non-superior to COBRA Slim, which is not the same as claiming non-inferiority. In conclusion, the data presented are positioning classical MTX therapy with bridging GCs at a lower dose than in the original COBRA study as a highly effective and safe remission induction therapy in more than 70% of high-risk patients with eRA and this in a close to daily practice setting applying a treat-to-target strategy. Predictors of remission, normalized physical [spans 1] study. Scand J Rheumatol 2009;38:166–72. Two-year clinical and radiologic follow-up of early RA patients treated with initial step up monotherapy or initial step down therapy with glucocorticoids, followed by a tight control approach: lessons from a cohort study in daily practice. ## Clin Rheumatol 2014;33:125–30. Five-year favorable outcome of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis in the 2000s: data from the ESPOIR cohort. ## J Rheumatol 2013;40:1650–7. ## International Conference for Rheumatology Nurses; 11–12 October 2013; Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2013. 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<prompter> Find the missing spans: This past Friday evening, I attended Diaries and Dissent in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood. Organized by Rebecca Cuneo Keenan, it was a refreshing gathering of (almost all women) bloggers for an open-mic night in ... restaurants. The event was a most-welcome ... writing. What I didn't realize until the next day is that the theme was Love – so, my reading about a silly car I used to own was, perhaps, a tad out of place. But, I really did love that car. Ten years old when we bought her, she was a 1991 black convertible Lebaron. Eventually, we nicknamed her The Enchilada – more than just a car, she really felt like a member of the family. She ... ghost. It was a typical Saturday in May 2007; warmish, sunny, perfect for taking The Enchilada out to run errands. I was 6 months pregnant, and quite frankly, tired of my man's shit for the day. I sat crammed into the front passenger seat. Due to the large amount of supplies from Home Depot that stuffed the car, my seat was pushed all the way forward, knees around my chin. Over my right shoulder, sticking out my window were several 8-foot lengths of wooden boards for a garden project. We pulled into the grocery store parking lot. Somehow, I extricated my girth from the car. For obvious reasons, we couldn't leave the window down, so my man pulled out the boards and placed them on the ground underneath the car. He put up ... inside. This, of course, was my fault. (Insert the special type of vicious banter that only long-term couples expecting their first baby engage in without breaking up here. While mansplaining why it was my fault that he didn't take the keys out of the ignition, my husband retrieved the hide-a-kay from the wheel well, got the keys from the ignition, locked the car, put the hide-a-key back in the wheel well, and we went about ... business. So wrapped up up in our own bullshit that we didn't notice we were being watched. By a dangerous offender. We did our groceries. When we returned to the parking lot, we found the wood where my man had placed it on the ground. This is not fucking happening. ... was. Undeniably not where we left it. Pregnant, cranky and no way to get my groceries home. It was awhile ago now, so some details are fuzzy – running in circles, hyperventilation, friends and neighbours trying to calm my pregnant ass down, a store manager that really just wanted me to go away. Somehow my best friend ended up at my side talking to the police who were called to the store. She was right, of course. ## The thief chose to steal a one-of-a-kind, stand-out, people-stare-when-you-drive-by-because-it-looks-like-a-piece-of-shit kind of car. I went home, allowed friends friends to calm my pregnant hysteria and eventually went to bed, tired, sad and worried. At 4 in the morning, I was awakened by a call from Vaughan police saying they had recovered the car, exactly 12 hours after it was stolen. The next morning, my best friend drove me to Vaughan to reunite me with The Enchilada. One hundred seventeen of my own dollars later, I got her out of the impound. She had to be towed, you see, because the thief (who was a 21-year-old violent offender wanted by the ... fight. Police had to ram my beloved, unique little baby when he wouldn't pull over. The driver's side was fucked – dented, scratched – plenty new scars. The muddy footprints on the driver's door also told a story of the thief being forcibly removed from the car through the window. There was a hole in the passenger seat where he had stabbed the Swiss Army knife he found in the console. He got a weapons charge for the Swiss Army knife that belonged to us. He also left his cell phone in the car along with a huuuge NY Giants ball cap and one leather glove. (OJ much? )She had more wrinkles, more scratches and dents, but she was alive and we got her back along ... story. For that, I am thankful. A little while back I wrote about my boy's awesome idea for this year's Halloween costume. I am pleased to report that, through a collaborative process, his idea developed from conception to the real thing. You may recall the anecdote about the squirrel who occupied the Enchilada for a week while my man and I froze our soggy butts off in the wilderness. You may further recall that said squirrel gained access to its vacation home through a small tear in the ragtop. It was a tight fit, but the squirrel remedied the problem by making the hole bigger. ## Resourceful little asshole. I will never forget the day my man came home with silver ... wide. I can say with only a little exaggeration that I have never seen him happier. Winter was coming and he was over being cold and wet in his car. By this time, she had lost all four hubcaps and was sporting an impressive collection of dings. The most impressive of all came from being pinned in by two police cars on the day she was stolen. I was pregnant and we had been doing groceries–The silver duct tape roof got us through ... winters. And then I found something on the internet that I couldn't put out of my mind. ... tape. I really wanted black and purple or lime green, but I wasn't the one who had to drive the car and I really wanted to live another day. Recipe for stupid shit: two crazy women, one sunny day, 32 rolls of duct tape, a case of beer ... do. I just got my very first eReader. It arrived at my office in the mail a day early. I was in the weeds at work, but I paused long enough to plug it in so it would be ... it. There was something I wanted to try. So, I waded through the rest of my day ... shore. Winding everything down for the evening, gathering my things, answering the last few emails, I reached for my Kindle. Oh, and the screen had a picture on it. A stylish word scramble? How appropriate! I'll buy a pint for the person who gets the most words out of this image. The first person within a reasonable proximity who can get their own ass to my local, that is. If I don't personally know you, in lieu of a sit-down pint, I will send you a free copy of my first novel. (Coming to Amazon June 1, 2012! I told you there was something I wanted to try with my new Kindle. You have until Tuesday, March 6, 2012 to submit your answers in the comments section on this post. The winner will be declared shortly afterwards. My man was attending a training session one beautiful spring afternoon. From what I recall him telling me, the session was the type where the material is rote, boring and not at all in touch with the reality of the job. So, it was a pretty typical training session. Guffaws from the back row occasionally sent the room into restrained giggles. In my mind's ... spit-ball. Some time after lunch when the food comas ... up. “Does anyone here drive a black Lebaron? ”It's never good to hear that. Especially when the car so-named is nearing extinction. As was repeatedly pointed out to my man as he made his way to the door to check on his baby. It turns out that during the regular course of business, a really large and pushy recycling truck got randy with the Enchilada and gave her a bumper-to-bumper hickey. And looking pretty ravaged. Around this time, we had had to admit that she was starting to look older than she felt. It became obvious when her body started turning on her. The hubcaps had hurled themselves into ditches just to get a few moments of peace and quiet. The paint had begun to fade in odd patches. The hole in the roof and the resulting musty smell were getting hard to ignore. She returned to us from her convalescence at the auto body shop half a block away. The passenger side looked just like the Enchilada we knew and loved anyway: fading paint, a couple of parking lot dings, missing hubcaps, but with the essential curves still where they should be. The driver's side was another story altogether. The whole side of the car had been smoothed, painted and buffed. The driver's ... gleamed. The door emitted a disturbing crunch when opened all the way, ... half-lovely. The insurance paid for the damaged panels. She came home to us with more personality than we ever suspected. Two of them, in fact, split ... side. I'd never owned a car before that had even a little personality, let alone two of them. I think I fell in love with ... day. At any rate, I started sitting in the driver's seat more. My man has a few specialties that have been and/or are likely to be documented in this blog. Cryptic wiring ranks among them. The other day, my boy asked politely for a movie and I set about it only to find that my man had left the computer connected to the big screen. Now, I know how to get the TV to switch from the computer ... efficiently. It's not exactly rocket science, but it is most definitely weird science. What I really do is look around, get my hands in there and follow cords to see where they're connected. Then I reconnect them where it makes sense to do so. My man will expound ... nonetheless. And if he isn't cryptic from top to bottom in every project he takes on, from wiring to masonry to figuring out the international manufacturing industry, then I just don't ... is. When we first bought our house in 1999, I was on my way out ... morning. In the excitement of being a new homeowner, my man had enthusiastically taken on the persona of in-house electrician. (Google had not yet been invented, but the library had all kinds of books on wiring. I had a hand on the door knob and my lips ready for a meet-you-back-here-at-the-end-of-the-day kiss when there was a literal 8-inch arc of electricity from a switch plate beside my head to the plyers in my man's hand. I went to work with my fingers crossed. Happily, my man wasn't well-done when I returned home, the house was still standing, and all the lights worked. About a year later, I inquired about a mysterious switch in the kitchen that didn't seem to be connected to anything. Its strategic location was begging for a toaster and a coffee maker. My man rose to the challenge and proudly called me into the dark kitchen for a demonstration. And nothing happened. Then I heard a click in the darkness as he pressed down the toaster button. The circuit was complete and we were bathed in the light from the ceiling fixture. Until the toast was done. Life with a self-taught DIYer is part Zen, part Fonzie and part hold-your-breath. It almost always works and so far nothing has exploded, so I figure it's a good system. I find it helps to mutter. There's a Hollywood feel to flying into town top-down, with your hair flapping and your cheeks tingling from the combination wind-sun burn that has been ravaging your face for a whole day. The drive from Toronto to Thunder Bay on a beautiful August day is twenty-two hours of fresh, fast, bright ... village. Eventually, it's just rocks and trees and roadside motels. You can`t really talk because the wind steals your hearing. But that's okay because human beings travelling at that speed in a fun car on a sunny day will always smile. I don't know if you've had a chance to do this, but convertibles are romanticized for a reason. It was 2002 and we were ... extravaganza. During our stopovers, our little beauty was the topic of conversation. She was still in her prime: about 11 years old, but with low mileage, her ... shiny. We asked a few locals for survival advice and heard a series of stories about all the convertibles that had been to Thunder Bay. Undeniably great, but not extremely helpful. Sure, cars get demonized, but I can't afford to fly for vacation, the train is almost as expensive and I'd rather have my soul violently sucked out than take the bus (never mind, it's the same thing). Travelling in a convertible to northern Ontario, you can lay your ... stature. And you whizz by knowing that bigger rocks and slower days are in the very near future. Three hours north of Thunder Bay you'll find Armstrong (make sure to fill the tank before leaving T-Bay because there are no gas stations in between). Armstrong is where the OPP get sent when they really mess up. Or so my dad tells me. There is an outfitter with a beautiful lodge who knows everyone who has anything to do with Wabakimi Wilderness Park. Bruce is an amiable guy: children's folk singer, Raffi, was sleeping on his couch when we swung by to plan our trip. We stayed in a trailer away from the main lodge for the night before our trip, finished packing our bags, had a few a drinks and set the alarm to meet the bush plane that would take us to the first lake. Once the clouds had cleared, away we went on one of the most challenging canoe trips I've ever experienced. We encountered low water and water rushing faster than adrenaline, and came face-to-face with the primal. Wit and charm kept us from killing each other during the three days of rain, and we had a wicked good time complete with a near-death experience. We made it back, wet, chilled, cold and generally miserable – but we also managed to make last call in Armstrong. The next morning, I glanced at the car and queried about a small tear in the seam of the ragtop. “Does that look bigger to you? ” I ... shrugged. The outfitter later told us that a squirrel had ... larger. The squirrel had squeezed its girth through it repeatedly for 10 days. It was the beginning of the end of the Enchilada, but throughout its long life, that car illustrated that if you look like hell and feel like a million bucks, it's better than just looking like hell. February 7, 2011 at 3:34 pm (Flashback, Home and Garden, Projects, The Enchilada, Uncategorized, Weirdness)It was my turn to drive to baseball. I had just picked up my teammates Rob and Shaun and was turning onto Dundas. The two of them were having a whale of time making fun of the car. At one point, a truck pulled out of a parking space on our right and made a U-turn in front of us, blocking traffic in the process. Rob was indignant about the manoeuvre, then realized the guy was ... us. I waved and smiled at the truck driver as he passed by. To Rob, I said, “The car, Rob. He's looking at the car.”The car was a 1991 black convertible Lebaron. It was dented, the finish on the hood and trunk were gone, like someone had poured acid on it, and the hubcaps had, one by one, run for freedom the previous summer. The convertible roof, having rotted at the seams, was now entirely composed of duct tape. And it had recently been given a make-over: the tape, black and white, was woven in a very large houndstooth pattern. Rob and Shaun dissolved into laughter that lasted until we hit the highway. As I accelerated to merge, Shaun leaned ... dash. Last summer, in the middle of a backyard renovation, my man found a door. Just when we thought we had all the doors we needed, there it was, hiding between pine panelling inside and truly ugly siding outside. ... window. Our three-year-old was over the moon. “The wall is in the way,” he said after going inside to inspect the kitchen. “Daddy needs to move the wall.” When I explained to him that the door wouldn't open, he wanted to try every key in the house to unlock it. But, locked or not, it's ugly and extremely creepy in a portal-to-hell sort of way. I'm still not sure what we're going to do with it, but I have a few ideas. Each member of the family dresses up as something from a previous "Treehouse of Horror" special, save for Lisa, who is an axe victim. "Treehouse ... episode. The episode aired on October 31, 1999. "In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" The family (with Marge driving) runs over and believes that they've killed Ned Flanders, in "Desperately Xeeking Xena" Bart and Lisa become super-heroes and in "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die" Y2K destroys the ... Springfield. "Kang and Kodos open the show in front of an alien audience, in the style of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In". No one laughs, and canned laughter is played instead. The Simpsons (in various TOH attire) witness the whole thing on TV. On a foggy evening with a full moon, The Simpsons are driving ... him. The next day, Homer climbs to the top of his house with Ned's body, calling down to Maude in her front yard and Maude is relieved, as she is always worried when he goes on one of here late night fog-walks. Homer voices Ned, moving him like a puppet saying he's fine, but when he does die, he doesn't want any autopsies. Maude then goes indoors when her pies are finally done. ... house. Homer dumps Ned's corpse in his house, waiting to hear Maude's horrified scream. Shortly after Ned's funeral, the Simpsons return home, ... him. The family then discovers that someone knows that they murdered Ned, writing "I know what you did" on their front door. Late at night, the Simpsons are sitting on the couch, when the phone rings. Homer answers it and a male voice says "I know you're alone. ... Homer. A thunderclap fills the their living room with light, showing that the inside of the house is covered in the phrase "I know what you did". After a confrontation with a mysterious cloaked figure wielding a butcher's hook, the Simpsons flee their house. They get into the car but discover that its covered in the same phrase. They escape the figure but the car runs out of gas after Homer prays for God to save his life. As the figure closes in ... places. He tells Marge to hide in an old abandoned amusement park, Lisa to hide in the pet cemetery, Bart to hide in the spooky roller disco, and that he will skinny-dip in the lake where sexy teenagers were killed exactly one hundred years ago. And the figure catches them. They then discover that Ned Flanders was their assailant. Ned was not killed by the accident and he tells them, by an incredibly coincidence, he had been bitten by a werewolf moments before Marge hit him, and werewolves are near impossible to kill (with the exception of silver bullets). Lisa then puts together that Ned was going to kill them, and they all laugh. As the clouds drift past the moon, ... Flanders. The family flees down the street while Ned mauls Homer to death, with Homer still mocking him. Marge takes Bart and Lisa to Springfield Elementary, where Chief Wiggum is running a portable X-ray machine to inspect children's candy. Whilst inspecting his son Ralph's candy, he tells them what the candy really contains "safe, safe, razor blade, syringe, oh white chocolate! " As ... explodes. Before the explosion, Bart does not duck down to avoid it, and only stares in awe. Lisa stands up to try to get him to get down. The machine explodes, knocking Bart into a gym wall and Lisa into a book case, which collapses ... grants. The subsequent exposure to radiation gives Lisa extraordinary strength, ... case. Bart gains the ability to stretch any part of his body. They become a superhero duo, calling themselves "Stretch Dude" and "Clobber Girl". In their first "adventure" (presented as if they had their own television series), Lucy Lawless (dressed as Xena) addresses fans at a science fiction convention. Comic Book Guy, who has styled himself as a villain called "The Collector", kidnaps her using a magnet to attract her metal breast plate. Lawless goes to remove the breastplate, but when hundreds of fans raise their camera's to photograph her breasts she stops with a statement of "Maybe later. " He ... Baker. Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl burst into The Collector's hideout, but he manages to knock Clobber Girl out with a working phaser gun that was ... album. He wastes all his remaining shots on Stretch Dude, who splits in half and does somersaults to avoid the rays. The Collector hurls his empty raygun at Stretch Dude, hitting him on the forehead and knocking him out as well. He suspends the drowsy duo over a vat of bubbling Lucite, slowly lowering them towards certain doom and mocks them "Goodnight Retch Dude & Slobber Girl. Lucy Lawless, still in her plastic restraint, lures the Collector over by pretending to ... him. When he's close enough she grabs his lips and then attacks him with Kung Fu moves. Stating that he fell for a "ruse so hackneyed, it would make Stan Lee blush! ", the Collector grabs his limited edition double-bladed lightsaber from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and ignites the blades. Lucy reminds him that he has removed it from its original packaging and it is now no longer a collectible. He backs away in horror and plummets into the vat, eventually emerging to strike a dramatic death pose (imitating a Lorne Greene pose from Battlestar Galactica) before the plastic hardens around him. Lawless flies Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl home to safety on her back. Clobber Girl is confused, and points out that Xena can't fly. Lucy responds that she isn't Xena; she's Lucy Lawless. This explanation satisfies Clobber Girl and the trio fly away to a reprise of the Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl theme tune. On December 31, 1999, Dick Clark celebrates his New Year's Rockin' Eve in Springfield instead of Times Square. Homer, the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's Y2K compliance officer, confidently declares that he fixed every computer at the plant. Unfortunately, Homer didn't fix his own computer, which creates the computer virus that spreads rapidly to other systems all over the world. As Dick Clark's New Year's ball drops and hits "2000", the computer display reads "1900". Within minutes, Dick melts to death (he is shown to be a robot) and chaos breaks out as ... space. A widespread looting soon begins and as the family roams the streets observing the damage (including traffic lights that shoot multi-colored beam blasts), Krusty's pacemaker sets itself to hummingbird speed and he collapses in front of them. A letter in Krusty's pocket states that a rocket is being populated with humanity's "best & brightest" and will be launched shortly in an effort to preserve human civilization on Mars. When they reach the shuttle, Homer unsuccessfully attempts to bluff his way on board (claiming to be the piano genius from the movie Shine), but the armed guard recognizes Lisa as having a seat reserved on the craft, knowing that she's the ship's proofreader. Lisa is only able to take one parent with her, and she quickly chooses Marge, who then takes Maggie along. Homer and Bart soon find a second, unguarded rocket nearby and climb on board just before it launches. However, they quickly notice that this ship is filled with Ross Perot, Dan Quayle, Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Courtney Love, Spike Lee, Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore, Rosie O'Donnell and Dr. ... sun. 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What else would the AMP's pilot be listening to on Christmas Eve but heavy metal? A wind blew by, chilling Warne enough that he considered activating his force-field. Instead, he simply pulled his jacket tighter around his body. Lonely Point was true to its name, being a largely desolate peninsula unburdened by things like enough trees to dull the knife's edge of winter cold. Home to the Lonely Point Naval Station, it also housed the maintenance bay of the Armored Mobility Platform, the incalculably expensive and oft-malfunctioning vehicle piloted by his AEGIS-assigned partner, Ethan Stone. Stone was employed at the Naval Station as a ‘consultant,' on the AMP project, a convenient cover that was lent credibility by his former Air Force service and time spent as a MAX-armor pilot for the clandestine organization. Unbeknownst to his wife, Ethan flew the AMP and served his country as Upgrade, a bipedal jet-tank designed to showcase the United State's expanding arsenal of experimental weapons technology. Ethan had accomplished what no other agent or soldier ever managed: drag Warne to a family dinner over the holidays. The pilot deserved some kind of medal for it. For his part, Warne scoffed at the distant music, but lacked his usual scowl. Tonight he appeared, if anything, just a little squeamish. This really, really wasn't his scene. Still, Upgrade saved his life, and as far as partners went, the man wasn't so terrible. Often infuriating, but Warne thought that about everybody. He adjusted the items in his arms to acquire a free hand; he'd brought a bottle of wine and a wrapped gift for the child. The idea troubled him as he knocked on the door. Warne's knocking echoed throughout the interior of the house. The music was interrupted by the momentary sound of muffled conversation before padded footsteps made their way towards the opposite side of the door. "Ho-ho-hold on! " boomed Ethan, as he turned the knob and pulled the door in. The pilot stood in the doorway dressed in fuzzy socks colored like an elf's pointed green shoes, well-worn bluejeans, a black undershirt, and a white apron emblazoned with a blood-red target and the words MISS THE COOK printed across the chest. A smear of fresh dough dotted the tip of his nose, the result of an absentminded itch. He smiled widely and stepped aside, using one arm to usher his friend in out of the cold. "Warne! " he bellowed. "You made it! Come in, man, take a load off. "It was like walking into a schmaltzy movie. Christmas lights were suspended from the walls, up where they met the ceiling, and a sprig of mistletoe hung from the door-frame, thankfully ignored by Warne's beaming host. The lights were red, white, and blue of course, in that order, casting a patriotic glow on the many pictures suspended beneath them. They all portrayed people - never just one - grinning whether they were aware of the camera or not. As Ethan took him inside, Warne bore witness to a lifetime's worth of past events: birthdays, graduations, celebrations, days at the park, vacations at the beach. Smiles, fun, laughter, family. Ethan was talking, though it took Warne a moment to divorce the words from his own internal monologue. "-glad you could make it. I wasn't sure, but the wife and I made enough for an army just in case. You won't believe how the missus can cook; sometimes I think she's a robot, but then I remember the baby. ""Da-ad! " objected a voice, drawing the word out into two outraged syllables. "I'm already six! I'm not a baby anymore! " There, at the end of the short hall separating the entrance from the kitchen, stood Lilly. No taller than Warne's thigh, she had both hands balled up into fists and pressed into either side of her waist. Her face betrayed her false anger; it was cherubic, perhaps with the slightest whiff of mischief, but not at all upset. Ethan knelt, arms outstretched, and the girl ran up and wrapped her father in a hug, giggling as she burrowed her face in his shoulder. "Don't I know it? " he asked, then looked up at Warne. "I swear, she's more mature than I am. She gets that from her mother. "Everything about this home made Warne uncomfortable. He followed Ethan with his hands in his pockets, the gifts underneath one arm. Faced with such a wholesome place and people to match, mostly deprived of his usual suspicions that let him keep outsiders at a distance, he just wasn't sure how to react. Then Lilly appeared, and Warne's uneasiness intensified. He could understand the general use of children, as they applied to the continuation of humanity, but the same could be said of dentists and tax agencies. small human," he told her awkwardly. Warne touched the wrapped box that he held against his side; was now the right time to offer it? What was the procedure for this sort of thing? Come to think of it, when was his last real Christmas, given that he never went to the office parties at the end of the year? He. ## honestly couldn't remember. Lilly giggled into Ethan's shoulder and raised her head to look at the visiting stranger. "You're silly! " she said, and then attempted to mimic his tone. big human! " she said, and her smile was like a glowing crescent. It reminded Warne of Ethan's perpetually goofy grin, but the dimples it dug into her cheeks came either from her mother or were uniquely her own. Ethan laughed, a muted huffing that he tried to hide from Warne, and then disentangled himself from Lilly's embrace. The little girl obliged, then saw the box beneath Warne's arm. "Daddy! " she yelped. "Present! "Ethan looked, saw the box, and quirked an eyebrow. "Hey, you didn't have to do that, man. It's good enough just having you here. " Then, he winked and leaned in so that only Warne could hear him. "It's cool you did, though. She's gonna love you. " Then, he reached up and gave the other agent a soft pat on the shoulder. "Come on into the kitchen, I want you to meet my wife. You aren't going to believe what she's whipped up in there. I try to help, but I'm really only good at the baking. Yyyyes, alright," Warne agreed hesitantly. Having successfully navigated the perils of talking to a child, the hardened agent began to relax a bit. He felt slightly less anxiety over meeting the wife of the family, who was at least an adult, but he also might have to lie to her, given the secrets Ethan kept. Not that dishonesty was new to Warne. He followed his partner as requested. "About the only thing I can make is whiskey over ice, so you're still ahead of me," he said with dry humor. Small talk achieved! Ethan laugh, a warm fearless sound that echoed slightly from the walls of the hallway. "Remind me to tell you about the time I screwed up boiling water," he told his fellow agent, and his daughter giggled in response, remembering the story. She bounced alongside them as they walked, sometimes nearer to Warne than she was to her father, but eventually entered the kitchen behind them. "That was with the gas stove, right? " asked a voice, and Warne looked away from Ethan to see a woman, all five feet and four inches of her, standing at the counter chopping a cucumber for the salad. Lilly, the daughter, had inherited her father's black, black hair but it was clear that she'd gotten her green, green eyes from Meryl Stone. Said eyes twinkled merrily on the face of the mother, who set aside the knife and dusted her hands on a floral-print apron. She extended one of them, the fingers dainty, the nails painted pink, towards the senior agent. "Merry Christmas, Agent Warne," she said. "My husband's told me so much about you; it's nice to finally meet you face to face. "After a low chuckle at the story, Warne unconsciously slipped into old habits and shook Meryl's hand with professional stiffness. "Merry Christmas, ma'am," he said in the same voice he had used for years now when meeting new people, the humorless FBI monotone that came so naturally to this man of stone. At least tonight he realized afterward how he likely appeared, and tried to follow up with another joke. " Well, only one of those two can possibly be true," he added. Privately, Warne wondered what his partner had said about him; he suspected little, or at least little of it true, which was probably for the best. Meryl laughed, and it filled the room like the tinkling of a silver bell. There was no wonder, now, why Ethan had fallen for the woman that stood before them. Even if she'd been homely instead of comely. with a laugh like that, love was the inevitable result. "Don't be like that," she told the senior agent. "My husband's an excellent judge of character; that's why he married me. " As she spoke, Ethan stepped to the side. "Introductions are in order," he said. "Meryl, this is Agent James Warne, my associate at the L-P-N base. He and I collaborate now and again on, eh. " He raised his shoulders in a shrug. "Classified stuff, honey; you know how it is. Mostly, he helps the brass field-test the newly developed technology that I consult on. " He turned to Adept. "Warne, this is my wife, Meryl. My daughter, Lilly, you've already met. " The girl, who had been pilfering a treat from a Santa-shaped cookie jar on the counter, smiled with crumb-dusted lips at the mention of her name. Ethan turned and strode towards a locked cabinet tucked into a corner, opposite the refrigerator. He reached into his pocket, withdrew a keyring, and said "Can I get you anything, Warne? I've been nursing a bourbon, but I've got wine, vodka, even a brandy in here if that's more your speed. " He opened the doors and started shifting bottles. "Oh, cognac! How long have you been hiding there? ""The bourbon sounds nice," Warne accepted truthfully. He wasn't big on drinking more than a glass or two when around other people-downing entire bottles was for lone nights in his hotel rooms, musing darkly on the past-but a little social alcohol seemed appropriate, and might help him relax. While he waited, he considered the unexpected ease with which Ethan had lied. The pilot continued to surprise him; he noted the specifics of their story for future reference. After all these years of official cover stories, it came easily. "Good choice! " Ethan said, and there was the brief clinking of glassware while he poured his guest a drink. He locked up the cabinet and then handed it over. "This'll warm you up, huh? " he asked, and laughed a bit. After dinner, we'll relax with some of Grandma Stone's patented eggnog recipe. May God rest that woman, she knew how to have a holly-jolly Christmas. " He grinned, and his wife giggled at the oven. "It's too strong," she complained, with only partial seriousness. "I think granny might have had a problem. " She turned to face Warne and wagged a finger in his direction. "And, no, you can't help. You're a guest! Your only job is to sit down, snack while dinner's finishing up, and enjoy yourself. It'll be just a few more minutes. " She waved a hand at the counter, which was laden down with cookies, some fudge, and a largely untouched vegetable platter. "Ethan, you're cluttering up my kitchen. Why not take mister Warne to the living room? You can put that present under the tree while you're there. ""Oh boy," said her husband, snapping to attention. He threw her a rapid salute and clicked his heels together. "Yes, sir! Right away, sir! " He reached over, grabbed himself a cookie - chocolate chip, never oatmeal raisin - and motioned for his partner to do the same. We might as well get out of her way. Lilly, you're with me! Come along, doll. " His daughter nodded, grabbed herself a square of fudge, and then slipped down off the chair. Warne watched their cheerful exchange, feeling a little more anxious again; he wasn't at all accustomed to the level of goodwill in the room. He sipped his drink to occupy himself more than anything, and when directed to the snacks, he may've surprised the Stones by taking the veggie plate. With it in one hand and the glass in his other-tempted but resisting the impulse to use his mind too-he followed his partner into the next room. Warne at least understood the idea of Christmas trees, although he'd never put one up himself, much less decorated such a thing. It wasn't just a Christmas tree - it was the Christmas tree, the one you picture when you read those words and your brain fills up with the remembered scent of pine. Tall, ... Output: The completion of this text could be: green, festooned with tinsel and those multi-chromatic metallic baubles, it dominated a corner of the room. and was completely empty underneath. Santa hadn't arrived yet, you see, and so the presents were as of yet undelivered. This was a mass-produced home, created to house those who lived and worked on or nearby the Lonely Point Naval Base, and so there was no fireplace, nor a chimney. Instead, stockings were hung - with care - from a coat-rack mounted on the wall. There were five pegs, but only three stockings, hung with a spare peg between them. These, too, were as empty as the floor beneath the tree and for the very same reason. There was a cabinet in the corner dedicated to celebrating the Stone family's accomplishments. Spelling bee championships were arranged alongside college diplomas earned by Lilly and athletic trophies earned by Ethan, who had opted to forgo higher education in lieu of pursuing his dreams of flight. The pilot stood behind Warne and pointed to a diploma commemorating Meryl's MAeD. "She keeps telling me to go back to school on the G. "But I just don't have the time. Besides, could you picture me doing homework? I barely made it through through school the first time! Thank God for sports. " He coughed, catching himself, as Lilly glanced over. "Don't you go getting any ideas, now; it's the goal of a parent to have their children surpass them, which means you've got to be smarter than you mom and cooler than me. " Then, a moment later, he realized the jibe. "Hey! " Lilly giggled, then took a seat on the easy-chair, which left the couch for the two AEGIS agents. "Want to take a seat while we wait? It shouldn't be long, but maybe we could find something on the tube. "I was always more of a Santa Claus Conquers the Martians kind of kid, but sure; we'll try to find the Grinch. That okay with you, Warne? "The agent spent a long moment looking over the family trophies, feeling a little odd in the process. He had never taken even a casual interest in the personal lives of his colleagues before; it was an odd experience, especially for a household so unlike his own. Part of him wondered what could've been, in a different world. But mostly he thought, with amusement, about whether Ethan had underlying motives in the movie choice. Warne wouldn't put it past anybody to prompt a child to "accidentally" set up the situation, because he wouldn't put it past himself. The Grinch, a misanthropic loner who just wants his neighbors to turn down the music so he can get some sleep, damn it. Warne only remembered the old, original cartoon, but he certainly saw a kindred spirit there. When he last watched it, he rooted for the titular character: you go, Grinch! Make those inconsiderate Whos give you a little peace and quiet! Sure, you should've first complained to the local authorities about noise regulations, but assuming that happened off-screen, his response was perfectly reasonable. He went to the couch and sat the vegetable platter on one knee to watch the show, while he continued to sip his bourbon. The Narrator spoke, drawing the three once again into the story of the Grinch on Mount Crumpit and the Whos down in Whoville, detailing their ongoing rivalry, clash, and eventual reconciliation. It's a touching story, as it was made to be, and interrupted only rarely by the occasional clattering sound from the kitchen and once, towards the end of the film, by a muffled thump on the roof. Ethan lifts his gaze from the television and looks up, chewing on the interior of his lip. His brows knit together in a look of confusion, and he's about to turn to Warne and ask if he'd heard it when his daughter speaks up. Her father glances down at her, his look of concern replaced by an easy smile. "It's probably just some snow shifting, doll. You know Santa won't even leave the North Pole until after you're in bed. "Warne did his absolute best not to roll his eyes-his parents, if you could call them such, never bothered with the Santa business-and to his credit, he at least turned his head away when he couldn't resist. Under any other circumstance, he would've gone outside to investigate, but tonight had lulled him into a very thin measure of security. Besides, the couch was comfortable, the bourbon was good, and the house was Stone's. If Ethan didn't want to take a look, then he wasn't about to go flying around in the freezing winds for nothing. The pilot was probably right, anyway; Warne agreed it was surely just the snow. Apart from a vague nod to Lilly, as though to assure her that he, too, knew the rules of the mythical, fat home-invader, he merely settled back against the cushions. Maybe Christmas wasn't so terrible after all. Moments passed - during which the Grinch finished tying an antler to the head of Max the dog - before there was another sound. The crunch of fresh snow, once and then twice. A thump, and the creak of something settling on the roof. Ethan's eyes flicked skyward, his brows furrowed, and his thumb depressed the remote control's 'pause' button. The movie halted and Lilly looked at him, her face scrunched with concern. "What's wrong? " Her father looked down at her, smiling, but Warne could see his associate's eyes strained with the unusual presence of concern. "Nothing, doll," he told her. "Do me a favor, okay? Go tell mommy to meet Buck in the basement, all right? I want you two to play hide-and-seek for a bit; I'm it, okay? I'll come find you in a bit. " His daughter looked up at him, mouth twisting to speak, but he held up a finger. Don't make me get to two. " She nodded, slid from the couch, and dashed towards the kitchen. The moment she was out of site, Ethan stood and strode for the door. "Come with me," he told the other agent. "There's someone on the roof. "Warne didn't need much prodding. He put down his empty glass and grabbed his coat on the way to the door. This wasn't a bad change of pace, following up on someone else's paranoia for once. Getting to pummel a home invader sounded like his kind of Christmas present, anyway. Although being in the middle of a military base, if someone was creeping around on the roof, they probably had more in mind than stealing pricey electronics. "I wasn't sure if you had hired your own Santa for the evening," Warne said dryly. He thought about the oddness throughout Freedom City and added, "If that really is the fat man up there, you get to explain to your kid why we arrested him. actually a good idea," Ethan mused. " He took his coat from the hook and slid it on before opening the door and ushering Warne back out into the cold. It was bitter and biting, with a low wind that tossed flakes hither and yon. The pilot trudged through the snow and stood in the yard to stare up at the roof. He squinted into the dark and shook his head. "I can't see anything," he admitted. "Do you mind, ah, checking? " He looked around, saw that there was nobody around, and nodded. "I know it's probably not a sanctioned use of your power and normally I wouldn't ask, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't a squirrel, you know? "He pulled his coat more tightly around himself and rose through the cold night air. The agent flew to the roof's edge, his polished shoe-tips almost touching the gutters. He cast his gaze around in a thorough, professional search. A voice hissed in the darkness, the sound of it like a snake working its way through tall grass. " Something shifted in the dark. A man, clad in metal, stood from a crouch. He stood tall, at least seven feet and maybe more. His face was a gruesome mask, all edges and planes, with a visor where the eyes should be. The visor glowed a dark and baleful red. His shoulders were broad, his arms covered in thick, overlapping plates of armor that dripped with melting snow. Something about the design, the tooling of the metal, struck a chord with the agent. It was the familiar unfamiliar, the sense of someone's hand at work. Today he wants Stone. " His arm twitched, the wrist bent forward, and a blade emerged from the armored plating. Segmented, it snapped into place piece by piece and began to glow, heating in seconds until it was red-hot and sparking. "Today, you can live, if you run. "For a moment, in the dark, Warne's face betrayed rare fear as he made the connection. If this person was associated with Mantis. that last encounter hardly went well for him. But then, duty more than courage flooded back into his heart-two sizes too small! -and a different sort of feeling filled his brain. He gathered that power like a deep breath. "You have termites in your smile," he answered, his lingering nervousness manifesting as frivolity. Whether or not this new villain understood the reference, he would definitely notice the unseen force that slammed into him. "INTRUDER! " Warne then screamed as loudly as he could, flying up higher above the house in the hopes of at least staying beyond the range of that heated weapon. The mental assault took the interloper by surprise, bashing into him with unimaginable force. He was pushed backwards across the roof, leaving furrows in the snow as he approached the edge, but planted his feet at the last moment and held what was left of his tenuous position. Warne, who had seen his mind tear even the most durable of things apart with the greatest of ease, is mildly unnerved to see that not occur here. The segmented armor plating that adorned the assassin's body, protecting what remained of the flesh beneath, functioned as intended. It folded beneath the assault, pressing close to the body, and weathered Adept's psionic attack. He looked at Warne, his placid mask of a face unreadable, and spread his arms so that the burning blades hissed in the snow. "Unwise," he growled. You could have stopped this, Warne. It could have been clean. " With that, the assailant raised one of his arms, pointed the smoldering blade at Warne, and tilted his wrist. The red-hot knife launched from its housing in a blazing streak; if Warne didn't move, it would be a most uncomfortable impalement. Down below, Ethan started at Warne's shout. That word, 'intruder,' sent a spark of cold fire sizzling down his back. He threw the door back open and dashed back into the house, already dialing his cellphone as he went. His daughter stood in the foyer, her eyes wide, and he scooped her up with his free hand, hoisting the giggling child over one shoulder like a sack of presents. "Meryl! " he called, trying to keep his daughter calm. "Meryl, I need you to take Lilly to the basement, okay? Get Buck and wait for me to come back. " Meryl's face went white, and she took her daughter from her husband and thinned her lips. "I don't know, but I'm going to take care of it, okay? Warne's already up there; I'm going to call the base and let them know what's happening. I just want you safe, okay? "Warne only barely sidestepped the knife, using his mind to fly as much as his feet. He nonetheless watched the blade scrape his force field's edge, and to his dismay, his protective bubble failed to stop or deflect this attack. Shouts from down in the house further raised his adrenaline; he reminded himself that civilians were right below his feet, and if he couldn't hold back this madman with telekinetic power that often stood up to bullets and bombs, then a mundane roof had no chance. "I can still stop this," he growled. His brain flared for a second time; now the psychic waves didn't try to slam or squeeze, but simply contain. If he could just take this fight away from the Stone house. "Littering is illegal in this country," he indicated the fallen knife with a jut of his chin. "If Warne could maintain his grip-a big if-then he flung his enemy through the air in the same path as his heated weapon. The armored plates compressed, syncing down into a tight sheath of protective metal that spared the intruder the bulk of Adept's psionic force. But there was little they could do to prevent the telekinetic lift, or the subsequent throw. Servos whined and micro-thrusters fired in a futile attempt to escape. If Adept could feel through his telekinetic power, he would note the armored man was much stronger than his build would indicate. It was for nothing, though, as he was hoisted into the air and thrown in the direction of his discarded blade. He was"Going to reactivate your nervous system now," said the doctor. "There might be some momentary discomfort while the system calibrates. " A switch was flipped, and agony tore through his frame like cold fire, arcing from one artificial nerve to the next in a cascading current of pain. He shrieked into the gag and thrashed his ruined body against the operating table, tearing free the IV that fed him saline and nutrients in such a way that the hole wept blood. The doctor sniffed and deactivated the machine. "Really, I thought you were a soldier," he scoffed. "If you can't handle a little pain then this was all for nothing. "falling, his thrusters unable to cope with the force of the telekinetic throw, and landed in a snowbank with a cushioned thud. He rolled, took to his feet, and snarled. "Not for nothing," he told himself. "Not ever again! " He lifted himself into the air and kicked the boosters, jet engines screaming into the night as he flew back to the house. There was no time to waste; he had people to kill and a debt to repay. The garage door opened and Ethan reappeared, leather jacket warn over his tee-shirt and a helmet held in the crook of one arm. "Warne? " he called, and kicked the engine of his bike. "Warne, where are you? Is it taken care of? 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Human: Complete this text: Members of the Heavy Arm-Her Roller Derby team take a break from skating, during the team's third-annual Skate-a-Thon held April 1. Pictured from left to right: Jodi Waters “PAINapple Express,” Lacey Nelson “SinTilly Lace,” Melissa Okpokwasili “Bang Bang,” Beth Kernaghan “Killer Bee,” Jeannie Hansen “Tap N Die,” Ashley Pulbrook “Bashin Robin,” Robyn Villalpando “Lieutenant Jan,” Molly Shaughnessy “Mauly Mudblood” and Stephanie Godman “Sapper Nova.”The crash and bash of the Heavy Arm-Her Roller Derby (HARD) Team could be heard for miles, during the third-annual Skate-a-Thon held April 1 at the basketball court near the skate park on Fort Irwin. “Our annual Skate-a-Thon is the only fundraiser we put on all year,” said Molly Shaughnessy, who goes by derby name “Mauly Mudblood,” president of the team. “We invite friends and family to the free event to enjoy free food (donated by USO), games, bounce house, bake sale, silent auction and so much more.”Funds raised during the event will go to cover team expenses including insurance, equipment and equipment maintenance, and travel expenses. “Our goal is to raise $9,000,” said Shaughnessy, who went on to say she was encouraged by the large community turn-out and was hopeful they would reach their goal. Individual skaters were also raising money, through a per-lap donation, to help cover their own expenses. A portion of the profits raised during the event also went to a $500 scholarship, which is awarded annually to a Silver Valley High School student who is affiliated with the military. This year's winner was Cora Mitchell, who wrote an essay describing a strong woman in her life. The Roller Derby team is open to all women and promotes strength, both individually and as a team. “The greatest thing about derby is that there is no one size, one shape, one strength. Derby accepts and needs women of all different physical attributes and from all walks of life,” said Melissa Okpokwasili, who goes by derby name “Bang Bang” and served as president of the team last year. “Derby is about inner strength that naturally comes out of each individual when she sees her potential, she achieves personal goals and she has her teammates helping to push past boundaries,” said Okpokwasili. This year marks the first that the team is participating in bouts with teams from around the southern California area. The first bout was held April 29 against the Dirt City Roller Rats, at Holiday Skate in Victorville, California. Irwin Roller Derby team resoundingly beat the Victorville team with a score of 215 to 154. The first home bout will be held May 13 at the basketball court near the skate park, at 6:00 p. tickets are $5 each, children five and under are free. Beth Kernaghan, who has been a part of the roller derby team for over two years and goes by derby name “Killer Bee,” spoke of the many changes the team has seen over the years, from continuously changing members do to moving to changing practice locations. “This is the first year of bouting as a competitive team. I never thought it was possible with all the turnover,” said Kernaghan. “It's been an amazing journey to where we are now.”“As a team, we are constantly trying to be part of the community as volunteers and a positive presence,” said Shaughnessy. The team attends and volunteers at many events, including recently volunteering at the Vietnam Veterans 50th Anniversary Commemoration held February 11 at Fort Irwin. “It's so important to be surrounded by positive people and progressive energy when located at a post so isolated as Fort Irwin,” said Shaughnessy. “We are trying to do our part to make Fort Irwin as welcoming as possible.”“Roller Derby is a female-driven sport,” said Shaughnessy. “We welcome any female over age 18, no matter the skill level, to join us and learn how to play Roller Derby.”Blanca was glad she had asked Elvia to bring her fancy dress and shoes when the rest of the family came to the Coliseum for the wedding. She hadn't quite imagined the immensity of the structure her brother had tried to describe. Sure, the wedding was going to be on the arena floor. She thought that was strange, despite Pablo's assurance that she needn't worry. However, once she had arrived with Andrea's cousins, Blanca began to worry. And that was peculiar because she wasn't usually the one who did the worrying in the family. She let Momma and her two older sisters take up that tub full of water, as Abuela Garcia liked to say. This place was huge! Because the rest of her family wasn't supposed to arrive for another couple of hours, the door on the groom's side of the arena was still locked. Billy had offered to walk her around the outer corridor to meet up with Pablo, but with the looks his abuela — Tita; she insisted that everyone call her Tita — had given him, she had just laughed and said something about Pablo never being hard to find. She knew that Andi's brother and cousins and brothers-in-law and uncles and probably even her Papa were going to build the wedding hogan. Pablo's car was parked outside. She knew he was here. But Andi was downright giddy and said that she had banished Pablo to the other side of the arena. So Blanca began the long, lonely trek around the building. It was a little spooky with only the emergency lighting on in the corridor. As she neared the front entrance and the box office, the dim light of a late December early morning filtered through the wall of glass; the primary access to the floor of the arena was shrouded in shadows. The little daylight that had come through the entrance faded quickly as she continued along the west side of the structure toward the northern perimeter. As she turned into the darker northern corridor, Blanca knew Pablo had to be nearby — their family was to enter the arena from the center north side portico. The information Andi had sent wasn't as good about explaining the reasons for some things, and they'd arrived too late last night to have much of a chance to ask her about the ceremony. Blanca hoped that everything would make more sense as the ritual progressed. If not? Well, she'd just wing it. She might not understand what all the pieces of the ceremony meant, but when it was over? Well, Pablo would be married to Andrea, and they could live happily ever after! It would be good to see her brother happy again. Finally, Blanca could hear sounds coming from one of the rooms up ahead. Fortunately, one of the voices belonged to her brother. As she neared the doorway, Pablo was laughing. "First all, I don't lurk. Secondly, until this ceremony is over, as far as the family is concerned, I am your brother. I'm unclear on whether that pertains to the entire family or just your part of it. "The other man's voice sounded a lot like Justin's did when he was pretending to be overly dramatic about something. Blanca stopped walking and just listened. "Your beautiful bride has banished me to this side of the arena. They won't even let me help build your little house. But I'm the one who gets banished. "There was definitely a hint of laughter in the voice, as though the man was smiling at Pablo as he spoke. Blanca couldn't decide if she should continue listening to more of the conversation or just go in. "I'm pretty sure Andi explained that to you, Brother," Pablo said as he laughed. "Either you weren't paying attention, or you've decided to complain merely for the sake of complaining in all this spare time that we have. ""Oh, definitely the latter. I've been banished by Maddie, too. Can you believe it? She called me a pest! " There was a sigh of great theatrical proportions. "I've never been called a pest. And a pest is definitely not as delightful as a scamp. just whose wife is doing the corrupting? "Pablo snickered. "I'm still blaming Madeline for every little thing that has turned my sweet librarian into a bloodthirsty, snarky badass. ""And you, my friend, need to give up your delusions in that area before that badass tosses you into next month. I heard from Cat about the excellent tale she spun for her brother's friend yesterday. She's been taking names and kicking ass since she took up the staff. Who's the one who hasn't been paying attention? "I can't stop smiling. Mama is radiant in her joy, and for once I think I might be getting close to matching her. She just shakes her head. Well, she doesn't know about my little game either. I just need to slip on my leggings and boots. not the usual boots I wear but beaded white calf-high boots. In deference to my preference to having as little as possible between my feet and Mother Earth, these boots are as thin-soled as my uniform boots. Well, when Mama and Aunt Alicia started the beading, how were they to know Mother would be able to reach me through several levels of a building? Mama chuckles. "It would do no good, Madeline. I'm surprised she's still walking on the ground, so we should be grateful for that. "I look at my mother and sister. Of course, the only reason I'm walking on the ground is that Mother is holding me. And what's the hurry? They've hardly got a quarter of the hogan put together, and Pablo's family won't be here for another hour or so. "Blanca crept forward and peeked into the room. Pablo was sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on another chair; his fingers were intertwined behind his head as he leaned back slightly. The last time he looked this happy was right after Juan was born. The other man — the unknown Rene — leaned against the wall opposite the door, ankles crossed casually; his crossed arms, however, made him look slightly threatening. Very sexy, but definitely not someone she'd want to meet in an alley. even wearing that nice suit. She wasn't sure how Pablo knew she was there. He'd been looking at Rene. But he suddenly turned and tensed when he saw her. Blanca felt like she'd done something wrong. "Blanca," Pablo said calmly in his cop tone as he lowered his feet to the floor and his hands to his knees. "What are you doing here? "She looked from Pablo to the other guy, eyeing him suspiciously. Then she looked at her brother as she entered the room. "Well, you know, my brother's getting married today. Haven't seen him in a while. Thought we could catch up. " She stood just inside the doorway with her hands on her hips. "Either of you two tontos seen him? "The guy against the wall just blinked. After a couple of seconds, he said, "Pablo, did this lovely young lady just call us fools? ""Shut up, Rene," Pablo said without looking away from his sister. "Why are you here so early, Blanca? Shouldn't you be helping your sisters? ""No, I should not be helping my sisters because my sisters don't need my help. " She glared at her brother. "In fact, it was Elvia's idea for me to hitch a ride with Andi's cousins. You gonna tell me what's going on here? Who's your friend? ""You wouldn't remember because you were so young. It's my friend Carlos. " Pablo had the decency to look uneasy. "I already don't believe you, Pablo. I never believe you when you lie. I thought you said you'd stop pulling that crap on us. "She was starting to get angry. This was just the kind of behavior Pablo exhibited when he went undercover. He couldn't tell them the truth and, to a certain extent, she understood that. But there wasn't any reason to make up lies. How many times had Elvia and Ladonna asked him to just let them know when he was going to be doing undercover work? More than Blanca could count, that was for sure. "I'm not working undercover, Blanca. " Pablo relaxed slightly and gestured to one of the chairs. "I still can't tell you anything. It's not my place to tell a story that isn't mine. Never once in my entire life did you lie to me, Pablo, except for the times you were working undercover. So if you're telling the truth about being on the up and up, then you've decided that it's okay to start lying to me. "She was hurt, and she was angry. Suddenly, it no longer seemed like a good idea to spend some time with her brother before he got married. Maybe she could just sit up in the stadium and watch Andi's relatives build the hogan. She wondered if Pablo was lying to Andi about anything, too. Maybe she should just go talk to Andi. Technically, she was supposed to be over here, but Andi had a pretty fluid idea of the whole 'family' concept. Rene or Carlos or whatever the hell his name was pushed himself off the wall and took a step toward Pablo. Blanca looked daggers at him, and he stood still. "Ah, Pablo, maybe you should just tell your sister the truth. She's got a look in her eyes right now that reminds me a little too much of my wife's less calm but thoroughly sane moments. ""Isn't that what I said? At least neither one of them has eyes that glow in broad daylight when they're angry. ""Didn't I mention that I heard about yesterday's meeting? That part where Andi talked about honesty was especially stirring, at least according to Cat. ""Mon Dieu, Pablo! You are here, your sister is here! I'll leave you two alone if that's what you need. "Blanca stomped over to Pablo and punched his shoulder. "Do not ever say that Pablo Diego Tomas Garcia! Never! Do you hear me? "Pablo stood quickly, knocking the chair back and looking down. no, at his little sister as his hands curled into fists. Fingernails dug deeply into his palms; he concentrated on the pain. Blanca was as tall as Andi. when had that happened? "No! " Blanca turned her fiery eyes on him and jabbed a finger in his direction. "No, you are part of this lie. You are going nowhere. "Blanca stabbed her brother's chest with that same finger. "And you! How dare you lie to me? How dare you say there is anything about your life that shames you so much that you must hide it from your family! ""Oh? Really, Pablo? Because I might not remember Poppa, but I remember all the things that Momma says that were his words. Do you know what I remember right now, Pablo? ""He said if you're doing something you can't tell your family about, you shouldn't be doing whatever that thing is. So what is it that you shouldn't be doing, Pablo? Huh? "Yes. I think his sister is a bit more upset about Pablo's lack of open and honest communication than Andrea's brother was. Cat stared up at Rene, its rainbow eyes whirling quickly. Rene shrugged to himself. Someday he'd understand these Spirits. Cat walks through the door, something that would be ordinary enough if we weren't at the Coliseum. Mama looks intrigued. I look at Cat, and then Mama, and then Maddie before I shrug. "From what he's said, she's more stubborn than he is, although not as stubborn as I am. What are they fighting about, Cat? "Maddie looks at me with an all too Ninja-like grin. "What are you planning to do? You are the one with all the plans, after all. ""Not a darn thing, Maddie. After my conversation with Justin the other day, I realized I was an idiot for trying to protect him by not sharing some of the details of my life as the Warrior with him. And since he was getting partial information second and third hand, he had some funny ideas about my life. ""I don't distort the truth you tell your father and me, Andrea. I understand that you don't feel comfortable telling us everything, but as long as you are happy and I know you are well. " Mama smiles her beatific smile and shrugs. I will trust that you have a good reason not to share everything. Your brother, though? He looks up to you, and is far more curious. "I take the few steps necessary to the chair where my mother is patiently waiting with my wedding finery and bend down to hug her. I don't tell you everything because I think only Papa would understand a lot of the things I need to do as the Warrior. " Then I kiss her cheek. "But I do tell you all about the good things! ""I know, dear, and you make me very proud. To serve your community — however you define your community — is a great calling. ""Stop trying to make me weepy from happiness, Mama. If I start crying, my sister will have to knock me over the head with my own stick. But I just spent two days with a couple of teenagers making cow eyes at each other. You're just as bad right now. "Meanwhile, Pablo stood looking at Blanca. What could he possibly say that would make sense to her? How could he tell her, the whole family the truth about Andrea and himself? About Madeline and Logan and Rene? It still seemed too strange to him sometimes. "No, damn it, Blanca! That's not it! " He turned on his heel and took a few steps so he could lean against the wall, palms flat against the cool paint and hung his head between his shoulders. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive," Rene murmured even more softly. On the other hand, maybe I am. " Rene glanced at Blanca then took a step closer to Pablo. "Brother, can you honestly say that your sister is less deserving of the truth than all of Andrea's family, including the sister who is not yet a sister and the distant cousin who has no relationship but friendship with her brother? And if you say that's different, I'll slug you myself. "Blanca watched her brother struggling with some immense burden, refusing the help of his family, ignoring the advice of this apparent friend of his who called him 'brother' and she started getting scared. She wasn't frightened enough for it to be visible to anyone — not even Pablo — especially when she was still so angry and worried. "If Andi's family knows about whatever the hell is going on with you, Pablo, and your own family doesn't. " She couldn't think of any threats to make, mostly because she'd never been good at threatening him. Instead, she took a deep breath, letting it out slowly and silently. "Why don't you start with why you want people to think your friend's name is Carlos instead of Rene? And what's wrong with Andi that you have to call her a bloodthirsty, snarky badass? She's nothing like I remember Rosalia to be and every bit as nice. She went out of her way to put me in touch with Justin so I could pick his brain about different Master's programs. She's funny, and I don't believe she would put up with your bullshit. So why won't you tell me what's wrong? ""Listen, Pablo," Rene said as he took another step closer to Pablo, "I know you don't want my advice, but I'm going to give it to you anyway. Tell your sister the truth. It's a kinder one than Andi's — well, except for that part about your crazy ancestral demigod's idea of a training camp. "Pablo turned and leaned against the wall, head back, eyes closed, arms hanging at his side. "God, where do I start? "Blanca could see his pain and didn't understand it. It was the same kind of pain — well, very similar anyway — that he showed them when he came out from being undercover, only this was less potent. Pablo sighed but didn't move. Your first point was about Rene. He's Madeline's husband and died ten years ago. To put it in the context of our family's beliefs, he spent those years a kind of in Limbo. Andi rescued him, and now he spends most of his time — when he's not taking on his physical form — in a part of Heaven, I guess. Andi calls it the realm of the Benevolent Spirits. Rene is Madeline's guardian angel. "Blanca watched her brother as he spoke, although she could see Rene out of the corner of her eye. As fantastical as it sounded, she could tell from the way Pablo almost relaxed that he believed what he said to be the truth. She raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms as she shifted her weight. It was what her Momma called her "sassy pose. And I'm in what Andi would call a neighborhood that consists just of the guardian Spirits of some of the indigenous people of the world. Only the Spirits who take the forms of birds get wings. "Rene glanced at Pablo and then shrugged. Although I suppose it depends on how you want to define the word ghost. Andi's relations will tell you no. If I punched your brother in the head, he'd definitely tell you no. invisible, I guess, to most folks, though Andi can still see me. Pablo can too, sometimes. Is that being a ghost? I don't know. " Blanca was pretty sure she was missing a lot of information to properly get Rene's existence to make any sense. "So why pose as some friend of Pablo's? ""Have you noticed that my wife has a new love in her life? While the five of us have a rather interesting relationship that doesn't bother us, we didn't want to advertise it to the whole world. Some people wouldn't understand. ""Oh yeah? Well, I'm making it my business because I'm your sister. If Andi's told Justin what's up with you guys, then I think you can tell me. I'm smarter than you are, Pablo. And I know what's best for me. So your friend is going to make innuendos about whatever you have going on, and it's personal. so you're not going to talk about it. So I should go back and ask Andi about it? " She tilted her head for a second, and then raised one hand, indicating he should wait a minute while she reached into her pocket for her phone. You know what? I'll just call her. "Pablo turned and moved a little more quickly than she realized he could, taking the few steps to her and wrapping a hand around her wrist before she could dial Andi's number. Blanca looked at Pablo's hand that was wrapped around her wrist. It wasn't surprising that he was stopping her from calling Andi. The truth was that she had no intention of calling Andi. She was only surprised by how tightly he held her wrist. What kind of shit was he into now? It was disturbing on more than one level. But she didn't bother to think things through; she just acted impulsively and grabbed his wrist with her free hand. Her newly manicured nails dug into the soft tissues of his inner wrist. She was rewarded with a sharp inhale of breath — almost as though Pablo didn't remember it was something she'd been doing since she was little, or maybe he didn't think she'd still resort to using her nails. The schoolyard taunts of "you fight like a girl" never bothered her. And if biting, kicking, and scratching got her away from the bullies, that's what she had used. Of course, Pablo had insisted they all learn to fight a little more. formally? Yeah, more formally than that. there had been the self-defense class at the Y after school. There had been all the little tests he'd devised when he learned the classes only met once a week. You're starting to scare me, and when I tell Elvia and Ladonna about this, they're going to be so pissed at you that you'll start married life with two black eyes and a torso full of bruises. "The Rene guy actually laughed. "I like your sister," he said. "Listen, Pablo, there isn't anything you're going to tell your sister that Andrea hasn't told her brother. It would make me a lot more comfortable if the two of you would sit the hell down and start talking. "Pablo sighed and released Blanca's wrist. In return, she let go of his and returned the phone to her pocket. Instead, Pablo walked to the far side of the room and leaned against the wall, and stood with his arms crossed much like Rene had been standing earlier. Except that it was a completely different attitude — Pablo was defensive and looked angry instead of relaxed and vaguely dangerous. Of course, Pablo could be dangerous when he was angry, but that was usually just a time when he was a danger to himself. Blanca stared at him as her mind raced. First and foremost was the thought, what the hell does that have to do with anything? But there were also some scary thoughts in the back of her mind where she didn't really want to examine them. People got scared when the most powerful ones started bashing things up. ## Segregation, the assassination of the President and attempted assassination a Congresswoman, the Mutant Registration Act, the ghettos. Things died down after a while and eventually the Mutant Registration Act was repealed, but the ghettos still exist. People still get scared. People fear what they don't understand. What's that got to do with you? "Rene was watching Pablo closely. That in itself was an interesting thing to Blanca. But he was some kind of ghost or spirit or angel or something; maybe humans who were still alive were fascinating to him. She'd find out eventually, even if it meant hitting her brother over the head with a chair. Well, hitting him over the head with something. She eyed him suspiciously. "What is this? A history test? " He didn't answer; in fact, he just stared at her. Blanca sighed and rolled her eyes. It depends on who you ask and what books you read. How's that for an answer? No one really knows. As far as anyone knows, there have always been superhuman people among us. Like, the heroes of mythology were mutants, and maybe even the prophets and Jesus and Buddha and Mohammed. ""Oh, I'm not going to speak to the topic of mythological heroes or the prophets — who knows about them? " Rene replied casually. "I think the topic of Buddha and Mohammed is one you and Andi could discuss at great length. But I know for a fact that Jesus is definitely one of us, one of the Beneficent Spirits. He outranks us, by the way. " He smiled at her expression of disbelief. "From what Andi said about her experience of his. he and Deer share a lot of traits, compassion being the most prominent. "Blanca started at Rene. "You got some really strange friends, Pablo. But to continue with your question about how they've become so numerous? Well, discounting any of the really whacked out conspiracy theories, different branches of the sciences see it in a variety of ways. Some think that humanity has reached a point in our evolution that previously recessive genes are becoming increasingly more dominant. That's the least popular theory, even though it's probably the most sensible from an evolutionary biology point of view. "Most scientists will admit that there may have been experiments that went wrong, although that's also a favorite explanation for the conspiracy theorists. So it's important to check your sources, you know? And there's a coalition of biologists, geologists, and climatologists who credit environmental factors. But these days, the most common explanation is the Virus. "Some people claim there are alien possessions, but I'm a lot more skeptical about that one. But no one answer fits everyone, and some folks don't fit into any of those pigeonholes. Again, what's that got to do with anything? "She paused for a few moments to superimpose the map of the Navajo reservation over what she knew from her history books to be the worst areas of infection, as some people called it. "Okay, I can see that. The Hopi reservation and the Pueblo reservations are part of the area with the highest rates of genetic mutations in the population, too. It probably affects some of the tribes in those areas whose names I don't remember right now. The Southern Ute, the Arapaho and Cheyenne, the Northern Paiute are some of the others hardest hit. But the Navajos have the largest Nation. Plus they have most of the uranium mines. I hadn't realized that. I know Justin's focus for his research is trying to find ways of mitigating the effects of the Virus, but I'm not sure there's anything we — scientists, I mean — can do to reverse mutations caused by environmental factors. Well, not that Justin is actually working on a cure or anything. He's just trying to keep people from dying. "Pablo looked surprised. He hadn't realized that was Justin's project. and it still shocked him that his baby sister was a scientist. Was on her way to becoming a scientist? "Well, I wish him luck. Too many people come out of that experience with. ""Oh, nice way of putting it, Pablo. That's an asshole's way of describing some of the unique abilities people gain from surviving the Virus. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Some of those special abilities can be a challenge. But calling them 'issues' implies you think there's something wrong with either the people who survived or the talents they developed. You can't paint with such broad strokes, and you know it. ""Yo, sexy man," Blanca said, giving Rene a dirty look, "you can keep out of this, okay? I'll tell you when I want your opinion. "I'm trying to explain that Andi's people have been affected by the mutations at a higher percentage than the majority of the population. " He paused then, not sure exactly where he was going with this tale. "Okay, so what? If you're trying to imply that some of Andi's relatives have genetic mutations, I'm going to ask why that's relevant. Damn it, Pablo, you've haven't been this happy in over a decade! " She threw her hands in the air with exasperation. "Who the fuck cares if her old Tio Fernando has an extra arm hanging off his neck or whatever? She makes you happy! "Pablo leaned his head back against the wall and stifled a groan. It was better to look at the ceiling than his sister. "That's not it, Blanca. First, she doesn't have an Uncle Fernando. Second, some of them have. ""Oh, big deal! Do you know how many people with so-called gifts live in L. You couldn't count that high even if you took off your shoes. And you stop snickering over there, Mr. I got no time for you right now. "Some of those folks with abilities are respectable people, some are not very nice people, some are those Sponsored Supers, and some are more the independent type. " Blanca rolled her eyes again as she crossed her arms and leaned against the only table in the room. "Pablo, you've been in this small town for too long. Living in the big city, I see things. I'm not someone who needs to be sheltered, big brother. "Still looking up at the ceiling, Pablo said, "Andi has abilities. " He said it quietly, almost as though it was something better left unsaid. "Okay," Blanca said in a tone that would have been just as appropriate if Pablo had announced Andi sometimes curled her hair or preferred skirts over pants. "I hope these abilities include being able to kick your ass when you get stupid like this. Oh, wait! " She brightened considerably. "She's a martial artist, isn't she? With two black belts? She can kick your ass without any special abilities! And I hope she does it, too. " That was all Blanca said for a minute, waiting for Pablo to continue. When he didn't, she shook her head. Her brother could be such a pigheaded idiot sometimes. "Now, are you going to tell me about Andi's abilities? Because — unless she's a criminal, which I have to doubt because you're a cop — I don't care what they are other than she has the ability to make you happy again. "Rene raised an eyebrow, looking between brother and sister. It was never a good idea to get in the middle of a family fight. On the other hand, Pablo was being an idiot. and for some inexplicable reason, the coward Blanca just called him. Well, I'm not sure quite how Andi explains all of it, but I guess her most. powerful? Potent? Annoying? Let's go with annoying. Her most annoying talent is manipulating and controlling the energy of the universe. She calls it qi; some folks call it the life force. Whatever you want to call it, she's the master. I think reaching through the walls between dimensions is part of it and not something separate. It gives her the ability to see and interact with those of us who are Spirits. I can't tell if her cousin the Shaman is actually distressed by that or if he's just pretending to be unnerved. I don't know if she can see actual ghosts, though, except maybe on Halloween. You'll have to ask her about that. "He paused to rub his shoulder, the last place Andi had zapped him. "She can smack anyone — including those of us who are Spirits, much to my eternal dismay and that of my Siblings — with bolts of energy. She's powerful enough that, for a while, she thought she was going crazy. Her power worries the Sibling Spirits but not Great Spirit, and it scares your brother, which is probably why he doesn't want to talk about it. "Rene shrugged and studied Blanca's expression. She merely looked interested. He had to admire the way she was taking everything in stride. "She's got a pretty high healing factor. I'm not sure what can kill her, other than old age. And thanks to the connection the five of us formed, and the ... Bot: Here you go: work she and Maddie did to balance their souls. well, old age for her is going to be really old. ""But that's awful! Poor Andi! How can she stand it? " She turned on Pablo again. "And how can you be such a jerk about all of this, knowing that someday you're going to break Andrea's heart and rip up her soul? I remember what you were like after Rosalia and Juan died, so you stop this stupid shit you're doing, Pablo! Just be good to her for every minute of your life! "The once-human, now-Spirit Rene stepped away from the wall and stood a single pace away from Blanca. "I can reassure you that it won't be as bad for Andrea as it was for Pablo when his first wife died," he said in a calm and soothing tone. "Obviously, it's still going to be hard, but she'll have the knowledge that once he gets the hang of this alternate version of life, he'll never be more than a thought away. I'm where I am, here with the Benevolent and Beneficent Spirits and able to be Maddie's guardian angel, because of Andi. I owe her more than I can express in words. and Logan, too, for that matter. "He smiled, although he didn't turn up the full force of his charm. All he wanted to do was bring a measure of peace to Pablo's sister. Besides, he was reasonably confident the two of them — Pablo and Andi — would try to beat the snot out of him if he started flirting with Pablo's little sister. "Because Pablo and Andrea have a metaphysical connection of intertwined qi — what the Spirits call the marriage bond — Pablo will probably live longer than he ordinarily would have, sharing that portion of her gift. And because the five of us have a similar connection, when it's time for Pablo to walk on, he'll join me with the Spirits, as I said. Andi will be able to Gibbs slap him for a good long time. To some extent, the two of them can tap into one another's gifts, which is a pretty nifty thing. "There's a lot more to it but other than mentioning your idiot brother's newfound abilities, I think the rest of it is above my pay grade. It's definitely too complicated and bizarre for me, what with Andi being a magnet for weird. Pablo has abilities, too? ? " She looked at her brother again. "You got caught by the Virus, and you didn't tell us? I'm gonna definitely have Andi kick your ass now. What the hell is wrong with you, Pablo? ? ""Asshole! What's not to understand? You're our brother. In fact, we've worried about you a lot. Now that you're marrying Andrea, we're going to worry less. All this other stuff? Who cares? "Pablo finally stopped inspecting the ceiling to look at his little sister again. The realization that his admittedly not normal life was being accepted as perfectly ordinary by Blanca caused more confusion than everything Andi had put him through since that evening back in August when he had told her about Rosalia and Juan, and she had told him about her abilities. He shook his head — trying to clear it, trying to reset the brain cells, trying to make sense of this moment. "Don't worry about that," Rene said in a stage whisper. "He's not the sharpest tack in the box, but I think he's coming around. ""Uh huh," Blanca replied doubtfully. "There's a lot of space between those ears of his. " She waited on Pablo again, but he still didn't want to have this conversation. "So how did you get these abilities? And what are they? "Pablo shrugged. "Power over wind and light — flying, light blasts, and light refraction. Higher tolerance to pain. How? " He scrubbed his face with his hands then jammed them in his pockets. "The short answer is 'Quetzalcoatl. ' The long answer doesn't even make sense to me. Well, you might need to get the story from Andrea. She was at the center of the whole thing. ""You're still sore that she made you sit out the excursion to rescue Logan," Rene said. "How many times do I need to tell you that you should be grateful to have been doing ordinary detective things? ""We could argue about this for the rest of eternity, Rene. I don't think it was right to let her go into that situation all alone. ""Alone? ! " Maybe the man had lost his mind. "Pablo, she had Maddie and Logan and me with her. She had the entire pantheon of her People with her. She had the damn United States Army Special Forces with her! You're just jealous that you got left out. And for the record, I agree with Andi's decision to keep you out of Stryker's reach. He could have done to you what he did to Logan, with a hell of a lot less trouble. Andi wasn't as powerful then; you even less so. The Pentad hadn't been formed. Both of you probably would have died that day, and the shit would still be rolling off the mountain. Just get over it, will you? You don't have to be Mr. Macho Man and lead every charge. " He paused as he studied Pablo for a few seconds. "And on top of all that, you know damn well it was Maddie calling the shots. Andi was there in a backup role, using the talents only she possessed to make sure the mission was a success. Or as much of a success as it could have been, all things considered. ""You're both hilarious. " Blanca looked at Rene. "Do you have a better story than just 'Quetzalcoatl'? Because that's not a very good one. "Rene graced her with a charming grin before taking his spot against the wall again. "Do you know anything about our common ancestral heritage? "She shrugged. Mostly just what they teach in school, but I did a semester project on Aztec culture for one of my elective sociology classes. It's a pretty extensive topic, so I stuck with the contemporary descendants of the ancient Aztec Empire and how they keep connected to their past while living in the modern world. You keep surprising me. You really are a lot smarter than your brother," he said with a grin. "So you know that the twin gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca were kind of big news back in their day. There's a theory that gods lose their power when people stop worshiping them, and maybe that's what happened to the Aztec deities. Apparently, they didn't actually fade away to nothing but instead fell asleep. "Pablo really should be telling this story because it starts a couple of months before I ever got involved. As I understand it, the family had gathered to do some kind of healing ceremony for Tita in Flagstaff. Andi inadvertently woke Quetzalcoatl from his nap — something about her power called to its power. That's something she'd have to explain. Rene shrugged and continued. "—his Chosen One, gave some sort of warning about a malevolent force it called the Shadow and gave Andi the impression that she was going to stand at the head of some army that would defeat it, while Pablo was going to be her lieutenant. ## "Actually, that's my interpretation. Andi would probably tell you that she'd been tapped to stand at the mouth of Hell to hold back the tide of evil pouring out, that Pablo would be at her side, and that there probably would be others to help. Given how much she trusted Quetzalcoatl, she probably felt like she and Pablo would be facing the nightmare alone. "He looked over at Pablo — who gave no indication that he had any interest in contributing to the tale — and shook his head. "Your brother really ought to be the one telling the story, or even Andrea, but. " Rene gave Pablo another glare, which he ignored. you see how he's being. "Her brother just stared at her, looking grim. but he also had that sense about him that he had from going undercover. "Okay," Blanca said calmly. Something bad happened. You're blaming the 'Coatl. And you never want to talk about the bad stuff. ""In this case, I'm actually going to side with Pablo. Even though Andi mentioned it to Justin — her experience of Pablo's training with Quetzalcoatl anyway — I don't think she went into much detail. Of the five of us, I think only Maddie has had a worse experience. ""I'll accept that there are things I don't need to know in detail because they're still painful for you to talk about, Pablo. You were supposed to save the world with Andi, right? And it seems like you did that. ""No, I actually didn't. That's the point of my whole argument with Rene. Andi went off and saved the world by herself. ""Yeah? That isn't what I heard just a couple of minutes ago. I heard that she followed Madeline into the lion's den — along with Logan and Mr. Sexy here, and the freakin' Army. What I heard is that you being there might have gotten everyone killed because you didn't have the training for the job. Where's the problem with that? Admit that other people could do that job, that you do your own job better than anyone else. God, Pablo, it's not like you have to be the best at everything! ""Fine. So you got your powers because one of the ancient gods of our ancestors woke up and slapped you upside your head. is that it? " She shrugged. "It sounds like the fever dreams people have when the Virus hits, but if other folks are going to verify your version, I suppose that's the one I'll accept. And I'm going to guess that this awful stuff that's still eating at you had to do with learning to use all that magic juju you got, right? So I ain't gonna ask about that. You have these abilities, you don't want to talk about how you got them. ""It's possible someone could consider these gifts Quetzalcoatl gave me and his method of teaching them to be an actual 'gift' — but only if you believe the Four Horsemen are coming to bring gifts during the Apocalypse. "Blanca looked puzzled again. "But if you have abilities others don't have, and you're using them to help people, doesn't that make them gifts? "Pablo closed his eyes and swallowed hard. "Blanca, that's a discussion that Andi and I have been having for months. Her people call the genetic mutations 'the Curse of the White Man' or simply 'the Curse. ' But they all seem to make the best of a bad situation and turn it to good. " He opened his eyes and looked at his sister; he was solemn and looked more scared than uncomfortable. "It's still too new for me, despite the fact that, yes, I have managed to do some good. I'm not sure yet that it's sufficient good to balance the hell I went through, though. "You've been through so much, Pablo. This is why we need to know about what's happening with you. How can we help you, how can we support you, how can we love you enough to ease your suffering if you don't tell us about it? I'm sure Andi does the very best she can. But one person can't be everything, can't do everything. "He smiled more hopefully. "I haven't been reminded enough, I suppose, that you're very wise and my family is very loving. ""So just what the hell have you been doing the last few months that you don't want to share? And what about this lie you're telling about Rene? What's this Pentad that you mentioned? ""What have I been doing? Oh, not much," Pablo replied, going back to being testy. "Andi saved the world, then she saved my ass, and then she made sure the world was safe from those particular assholes for few thousand years. "Blanca stepped forward and jabbed his shoulder. "If you resent her so much, then why are you marrying her? Huh? You're an idiot, Pablo. "Rene cleared his throat. "It's really a much more entertaining story than Pablo makes it out to be, and I think he's just pretending to be an asshole right now. " He peered at Pablo. I'm not sure I've ever seen him quite like this. It could be wedding day jitters. It's more important to keep secrets from the people who love you. " Rene leaned against the wall again and looked at Blanca. "The only person I've met who's as stubborn as Andi is my wife. And even Andi has finally figured out that keeping secrets from the people you love isn't a good idea. On occasion, it's necessary. but it's never the best option. Your brother hasn't figured that out yet. "Now, Andrea could probably tell the story better than I could, but since your brother is uncharacteristically obtuse today, I'll see if I can at least give you some theoretical background. Clearly, Pablo is even more idiotic than Andi ever was about not sharing anything with their respective family members but to be fair, Andi's family is at least used to this sort of thing. Not our particular situation, precisely. Even their senior medicine man was surprised by what we'd done, though I'll give him a lot of credit for hiding it well. "You've got the basics with Andrea's power zapping Quetzalcoatl awake during the healing ceremony for Tita. Pablo was trained to use his new abilities by the ancestral asshole, as Andi calls him; the experience was not pleasant for either Pablo or Andrea. But they managed to get through it. it was a trial by fire, in a way, and they came out of it stronger for it — they are stronger together, they are stronger individually. "Rene paused, watching Blanca and trying to figure out where to start and how much to tell. He mentally shrugged and decided she could ask questions if she needed more information. "Some of this is information that I learned later because I didn't know these crazy people at the time. "Anyway, after Quetzalcoatl showed up in the human realm and then took Pablo off to be trained in one of his own dimensions, I guess they had a few weeks of relative peace and quiet before Andi met me up in Golden near the cabin Maddie and I own. I say 'relative' because, having met Quetzalcoatl and being continually subjected to Raven, I'm surprised either of them is sane. ""Today? Probably not. As recently as a month ago? She certainly thought so. " He looked at Pablo. "Are you sure you don't want to tell this story? It is yours, after all. "Rather than glaring at Rene, Pablo merely shook his head. "Tell it from your point of view. I'm still too close to it all, and I'm not sure I trust my emotions right now. "You know that thing Andi does with her eyes when she gets very emotional? ""And here I figured it was part of her energy manipulation. "The way abilities have cross-pollinated in this group and even mutated, if you'll pardon the pun, may never cease to amaze me. "Blanca hitched herself up on the table and sat cross-legged. "Stop trying to change the subject. I want to know what's been going on that Pablo won't tell me about. "Pablo and I do tend to bicker like a couple of old fishwives sometimes. " He thought it was particularly amusing, at least until either Maddie or Andrea showed up. "More like Cliff Notes," Pablo said. "Your story isn't going to be as coherent as anything in Reader's Digest. " Rene pointedly looked at Blanca. Now the short version is that Andrea in her guise as Ninja — that's the name she goes by when she's working the superhero gig — rescued me from the dimension I got thrown into when I died. And the upshot of that, of course, was being reunited with Maddie and my son, Leon. Then, to use Andi's analogy, we packed up the moving van and hauled my stuff off to the realm of the Benevolent Spirits. I couldn't stick around long, but I guess Maddie and Andi chatted for a while, and during that chat, Andi mentioned that one of her people had been murdered and two others were still missing. Maddie offered Logan's services as a tracker because. He didn't want to think about that day when he finally died. Despite their promises to ease up on the guilt, he still had moments when he felt as though he could have been stronger, could have done more to resist It, resist the Darkness. There wasn't anything he could have done. There wasn't even anything Maddie could have done differently to change things. He almost chuckled as one of Andi's favorite sayings nagged in the back of his mind. Everything happens exactly when it should happen, how it should happen for the greatest good of all. He didn't believe in that sort of destiny, but for some reason, when Andi said it, the sentiment was at least somewhat comforting. " because it's how she is. And because she didn't want to see the Darkness try to get into our world again. So while Pablo here was doing his super detective work, trying to solve the murder of Andi's friend, Ninja, La Loup Noir — Black Wolf, Maddie's name while she doing that job — and Wolverine — that's Logan — went looking for clues. I don't know that they came up with much other than the murder was definitely connected to the kidnapping of the old man who ran the halfway house. sometime in the evening, the three of them met with Pablo's boss to get some information about the Aryan Knighthood. "Rene stopped again, this time to study Pablo. "Your boss is damn lucky," he said finally. "And a hell of a cop. " Looking back at Blanca, he continued the story. "I was introduced to the insanity that is Quetzalcoatl as well as a display of Raven's lunacy that only seemed to come out when it's around Andi. The next day, Ninja, Black Wolf, Wolverine, and one of Ninja's contacts checked out a warehouse in the LEO's county that seemed suspicious. What did she call it? Google Fu? " Rene shrugged. we found the two missing men, as well as two low-level members of the Knighthood. "I told her the only way to save the man who was a mutant was to kill him. He had been infected with the Shadowkin. Damn, I had never met Maddie's match when it came to stubbornness until that day with Ninja. Quetzalcoatl showed up, probably because Raven called him, and agreed to keep the guy safe. "Never trust a snake, but that part of the story comes later. The officer from the Sheriff's Office made sure the old man got to the hospital. questioned the brighter of the two Knighthood peons. "He was quiet for some time, keeping his own counsel, knowing there had been things that happened that day that he wouldn't tell anyone. "You mean she tortured him. " Blanca's voice was flat. It would be challenging for anyone to know just what she was thinking and feeling right then merely from the sound of her voice. However, her eyes showed the conflict of her mind and soul. "She didn't want Ninja to stick around, but she did anyway. 'Bearing witness' is what she called it. said it was part of the Warrior's duties. I wasn't about to argue with her when she had that particular look on her face. It would have been as effective as arguing with Maddie. Well, some things you just have to accept. And Ninja being a stubborn, crazy woman was one of them. "They sent the dimmer bulb off with a message for the higher ups; Logan followed him. Maddie and Ninja started working out this ludicrous idea to evacuate Commerce City and use it as a trap for the Knighthood. "Rene's eyes focus more on the here and now again, glancing at Pablo before giving his sister a half-smile. "Maddie can do crazy. She comes up with ideas that are usually suicidal. But with Ninja added to the mix? Dear gods, you don't ever want to be on their wrong side. Ninja's ideas are bizarre because she combines metaphysical elements to them that Maddie would never have considered. Ninja is meticulous with planning, despite understanding that the Plan is generally the first casualty of any engagement. She just rearranged the pieces on the chessboard on the fly. Just like Maddie does. Those two women scare me. "Blanca tilted her head with brows furrowed, studying Rene for a moment. "But isn't it a good thing that they mesh so well together? ""Oh, hell, yes! I almost feel sorry for anyone who gets in both their crosshairs at the same time. because if both of them have the same target, it's going to be someone who really, really needs to be taken down. "Blanca nodded her understanding. "I notice you pretty easily switch back and forth between 'Andi' and 'Ninja,' but you almost always refer to Maddie as just Maddie. You don't need to tell me why. You know, I hadn't noticed that. I suppose it's because I've always known Maddie to be Maddie. She's only been doing this thing as La Loup Noir for. I think she said three years. Long after I died, anyway. When I met Andi, she was working. It wasn't until after we had formed the Pentad, I think, that the names became interchangeable. "They evacuated Commerce City, of course! Nearly twelve hundred people were removed from the city. The young kids and high-level telepaths were taken out to the school in New York where Leon is studying. The people who are Normal or can at least pass for Normal just spread out to the neighboring communities. Everyone else was bussed down to one of the neighborhoods Ninja is especially protective of. "Then we waited for the Knighthood to attack. "Pablo glared at him. "Yes, and at some point in there, I was placed under house arrest while my boss started eating antacids like they were candy. "Blanca stared at him for a minute, maybe two minutes, before she got up and walked over to him. She barely needed to look up at him anymore. She knew how much he had endured in his life before meeting Andi and, as she scrutinized his features, it struck her that he didn't look as old as he did the last time she saw him. He looked so healthy and yet. and yet he acted so much like the old Pablo. Taking one more step forward, she wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him tightly as she rested her cheek on his shoulder. Pablo returned the hug, closing his eyes and just remembering all the times he had comforted Blanca when she was younger, remembering all the nights he sat with her and sang her back to sleep after nightmares woke her up. He was so proud of the woman she had become and terrified of the world into which she was stepping. He wanted to protect her from the evil he and Andi saw all too frequently. "It's not your fault, Blanca. I know I can't protect you from the world; it wouldn't be right for me to try. But I can't help it — you're my baby sister and my instincts say to protect you. "Rene watched the two of them, wondering if he should leave. He had tried to disappear a couple of times, but Blanca made it pretty damn clear that he ought to stay. The only problem with sticking around was that she wanted answers to her questions. And those questions upset his Brother. "Come on, man, I'm all grown up. I love you dearly, Pablo, but you can't spend your whole life protecting me. You're getting married. That means your wife is your number one priority now. And even if she saves the world from weird shit, you're still a freakin' amazing detective! ""We all know what she told Elvie about having bambinos, Pablo. And I know that's gotta be hard for you. you love kids so much! But we all believe in miracles, including that miracle called adoption. So I have faith that someday you'll have children to protect, and you don't need to be worrying about their Tia Blanca. ""Ha! See? Your eyes say you believe in miracles, too. that you still have faith. And after I finish my Master's program, who knows? Maybe I'll come out to Colorado! " She grinned at him. "Justin said the University of Colorado has an excellent Ph. ## program and incredible research opportunities. "I'm glad that Justin and Nicole are so happy together or I might have to start worrying about the two of you. "She pulled back and unwrapped one arm so she could lightly slap his shoulder. "Now you're just being silly. Justin is a wonderful friend, and he's madly in love with Nicole. " She smiled slyly and took a step back. "Their cousin Billy is incredibly adorable, though. You think he has a girlfriend? ""Uh huh. " At least Pablo was smiling again. "Considering that you're a big city, genius biologist and Billy is a small town, lunatic computer nerd, I can't imagine you'd have much in common. Or that either of you would be comfortable living in the other's natural habitat. ""Oh, I don't know, Pablo," Rene said as he leaned against the wall perpendicular to them, practically smirking. "Billy's going to be spending some time at Charles' school after the beginning of the year. He might find he likes it there. I'm sure Hank would love to have a research assistant once Blanca has finished school. "Pablo opened his mouth to object, but then stopped and merely narrowed his eyes as he looked at Rene. "Other than ruining your ability to appreciate any coffee that doesn't come from her father's plantation," Rene said, attempting to look innocent, "I don't see how she's been a bad influence on any of us. ""It's a school for gifted kids out in New York, Charles is the headmaster, Hank is a brilliant doctor, and yes. Madeline owns a coffee plantation. But you shouldn't drink coffee. It will stunt your growth. "Blanca snickered as the patted the top of her head. "Hasn't done much to stunt my growth so far, has it? I'm nearly as tall as you are. And that doesn't explain how you know these guys, although I'm going to take a wild guess and say it has something to do with Madeline. ""My son attends the school," Rene said softly. "Madeline and I have. a complicated relationship with it. "Pablo watched Rene for a moment, knowing there was yet one more story he didn't know about his Brother and Sister. though he suspected Andi knew more than he wanted to know. She collected memories; not all of them were pleasant. "And the twins have apparently been doing their best to torment Madeline and Logan into attending, at least from what I hear," Pablo said, nodding to Rene. I think Em has a crush on him. ""I didn't get to meet them last night, but everyone in Andi's family gushes about them. " Blanca smiled at her brother. "You'd think they're as wonderful as I am! "She snickered. "Who can compete with generally well-behaved ten year olds? I'm still your favorite, so it's all good. " She leaned a shoulder against the wall near Pablo so she could still watch both men. "Have you met these guys, Pablo? "He noted Rene's raised eyebrow and shrugged. But if Andi is to be believed, if he weren't paralyzed and needed that wheelchair to get around, he'd probably be able to walk on water. "Pablo smiled as he stared into the distance. Andi had told him about the man and why she wanted him to help them celebrate their wedding. Given everything that he had done not only for the children of Commerce City but also the children rescued from Stryker, her respect for Hank McCoy was understandable. And a little white lie to explain his presence at the reception was worth the falsehood they were going to allow people to believe. However, Pablo wasn't going to lie to his sister. Yazzie asked me to let you know that I've unlocked the northeast door. " The twenty-something young man pointed down the hall to the entrance in question. He was dressed in the uniform of Denver's Theatres and Arenas maintenance staff, his dark hair was neat, his dark eyes friendly. He looked like he was happy to be at work today. "You've got these six rooms here available — this one, the four between here and the door, and the one on the other side of this one. " He nodded in that direction. "If you want to move chairs and tables around between the rooms, that's fine. Need any help with it, there's an intercom two rooms down. Just call out for Jason — that's me — or Joey. Right now, Joey is arguing with some plumbing, but he should win pretty soon. "Pablo had pushed himself off the wall at the first interruption; Rene didn't move, but Pablo could tell he was ready to fight to fetch the others if necessary. The way the last few months had gone, Pablo didn't think paranoia on his wedding day was unwarranted. But as the young man talked and offered his assistance, Pablo relaxed as he walked toward the doorway. "Thanks, Jason," he said, holding out a hand. "I'm Pablo Garcia, and I can only hope my part of the family will decide major furniture rearrangement will not be on the agenda today. Sorry that we made you come in for work, though. ""The groom! Cool, great to meet you, man," Jason said, shaking Pablo's hand. "Oh, we'd be working today anyway, and you've got something amazing and happy going on, so that makes it a good day to be at work. I asked your lady about the little house they're building out there and, I swear to God, I thought she was trying to download a whole library into my brain! " He laughed. "You know how folks get snatched in movies. someone coming up from behind 'em, putting a hand over their mouth, and dragging 'em off? I swear her sister was going to do that, all the while their mom was laughing up a storm. Joey's mom is from the Laguna Pueblo — doesn't know anything about his dad, but his stepdad is a mutt like me — and says it's a big deal for the Navajo. Gave the whole thing two thumbs up. ""Yep, I can see that. Congratulations and all that. I've got the back end locked off, but you folks might want to stay in this area anyway. It's pretty dark when the lights are off, and we've only got four banks lit up in the corridors. "Jason's radio squawked then. I could use another set of hands here to help choke out this sink. Where are you? ""Hey, gotta go. Congrats again," he said reaching for the radio clipped to his belt. As he headed back up the corridor — now much more illuminated than when Blanca had arrived — they could hear him responding to his coworker. "Closing in on one eleven; be there in a sec. ""Well, he sure is a chatterbox," Blanca said with a chuckle in her voice as Pablo returned to his spot on the wall. "I'm the best homicide detective in Denver. I've been told I can't be the best at everything. ""Damn straight," Blanca agreed. "And you still owe me more stories, big brother. " She leaned over and stood on tiptoes to kiss his cheek. "I hold still long enough to hug Mama. "Of course not, Mama! He probably is floating. That's his gift, you know. Well, I don't think he mentioned all of that to his family, so he's probably still walking on the ground. "I kiss Mama's forehead before I start bouncing around the room again. ## "He has his Momma and his beloved sisters and his brother-in-law and all his nieces and nephews. His grandparents are here. two uncles and an aunt! And he decided his friend Carlos was family, too. "I stop moving and glance at Maddie. I don't know whose idea it was for "Carlos" to attend the actual wedding, but I'm happy Rene can be here and substantial. Ecstatic might not be too strong a word for it. Then I look at Mama again. "And Rosalia's father came to give his blessing, too. Her mom died before I knew about them, but. Oh! You should have seen Pablo's face when Señor Delgado asked if he could be allowed to stand as Pablo's own father. my dear, tough cop actually cried. And I think Lorenzo did too when Pablo called him. I am so happy to hold the memories of Rosalia and Juan for them because they were all such a treasure to one another. I wish I could have met Gloria, but it had only taken a few minutes of listening to Lorenzo talk about his wife for me to find I had so many beautiful memories of her, too. I peek out the door and look down the corridor into the arena of the Coliseum. I can see Daddy directing Logan and Uncle Junior on the proper placement of the last bough on the hogan. Inspired by the house and studio spaces of Luis Barragan, and Ricardo Bofill's La Muralla Roja, Massimo Colonna's intriguing photographs provide an arena for uncanny gravitational movement. Natural shadows are heightened by their place within the compositions; mirroring and reflecting the wider structures. Colonna's ( n o n ) g r a v i t à series is a beautiful reflection upon serenity and contemporary image-making; digitally enhanced photographs offer a journey into a pastel utopia, where inanimate products become active characters within the everyday. Set against linear, minimalistic architecture, balls, balloons, plastic bags and paper planes are transfixed in a moment of stillness. As the artist notes: “The objects are immortalised when they don't gravitate.”Cerith Wyn Evans' installation evokes a playful manipulation of space and time through a spectacle of light. Human: What style of text is the above text? Bot: It appears to be a NSFW style.

<human>: Find the missing words: Among all the hullabaloo from last week, Apple quietly slipped in an extra present for Mac Pro users. As spotted by MacRumors' Arnold Kim, the version of Boot Camp shipping with new Mac Pros now supports 64-bit Windows Vista. But it's not just new Mac Pros that [words 1] in "2007 or later" are eligible for the upgraded drivers, according to Apple's notes. The new [words 2] by a number of readers, with one MacRumors forum member pointing out that the drivers also contained support for the MacBook Air's multi-touch trackpad. Because this update comes with a copy of Leopard on Mac Pros, though, other users have yet to get access to these new drivers. We hope that [words 3] the anticipated 10.2 update, but that's just an assumption at this point (and we all know what people say about assumptions). If you're looking to maximize the power behind Vista on your new Mac Pro, though, and want to do it now, go at it. Let's [words 4] of the computer: with a suitably-sized chunk of flash memory, you can instantly boot a stateless, safe machine that connects directly to a network and provides a fixed suite of task-specific functions—web browsing, media playback, VoIP, or even the execution of a specific HPC kernel. So you could say that in the recent rash of embedded hypervisor announcements we're [words 5] revisit the widget vs. platform dichotomy that I developed in the last page of a recent article on the future of smartphones. And it's not just laptops that are becoming wigified—as I'll describe in a moment, servers are also undergoing the same transformation, and for some of the same reasons. ## But this flash-enabled widgetification isn't causing the death of the general-purpose computing platform. In other words, sometimes it's a thin widget, and sometimes its a fat platform. Let's take [words 6] flash-based products—one from Phoenix and one from Intel—that illustrate this trend in action. Phoenix's November 5 announcement that it will be bundling into the flash portion [words 7] quickly load a small selection of Linux-based applications (Firefox and Skype, to start with) is just the laptop's latest move in the widgetification direction. Instead of waiting for Windows to boot, Phoenix's "HyperSpace" technology can boot right into stripped down execution environment after the BIOS loads so that you can start using Firefox or making VoIP calls. The advantages of this approach are primarily convenience (you don't have to wait for Windows to load) and security (the stateless nature of the software stack [words 8] to leave its payload). If you do find that you need to launch Excel, you can always just tell the hypervisor to load Windows. Ultimately, a laptop that can boot into either embedded Linux or Windows is a device with two "personalities," one of which is lightweight, widget-like, and task-oriented, and the other of which is just a traditional, platform-style "fat client. " Which personality you choose depends entirely on the context in which you're using the device—the airport, the coffee shop, or at home on your own network. As we reported a while back, Dell is looking to bundle a hypervisor on the motherboard using flash, so that the hypervisor loads first and then loads the OS. Even more importantly, Intel itself headed in this direction with their line of server boards that use the company's Rapid Boot Toolkit. Both of [words 9] bring lightweight, task-specific, widget-like personalities to high-powered server hardware. Intel's Rapid Boot Toolkit is basically the same [words 10] planning (i. a pool of embedded flash boots a hypervisor, which then loads the OS), but Intel is already there with a line of server motherboards. Furthermore, the [words 11] that the hypervisor can pull an OS image from over the network and load the image on the system without ever [words 12] drive. This functionality replaces the standard Linux PXE boot, and it can be done with Windows, as well. This past summer when I was out in the Bay Area, I got a demo of Windows booting over the fiberchannel and running in a completely stateless fashion. The demo was at Intel's Milpitas office, and it was put [words 13] two-man startup that writes open-source hypervisor payloads for the Toolkit. The company's first product, Warewulf, is a cluster provisioning tool that has seen widespread use in HPC environments. Warewulf's successor is a project called Perceus, and it's what I saw do the stateless networked Windows boot. Here's a good explanation of what Perceus does, from the manual:Perceus functions like a two stage rocket. In the first stage, the computer is booted into the (flash-based) Perceus OS. The Perceus OS interacts with Perceus daemon on the master node to make preparations for the second (and [words 14] OS. Perceus downloads, configures, and customizes the image of this second OS. At this stage, Perceus can set the hostname and the IP address and perform other customizations. When the preparations are complete, Perceus enters the second stage by spawning the [words 15] kexec. So the Perceus + Rapid Boot [words 16] have multiple personalities, where one personality is picked at boot time. A server could first boot as a bare-bones compute node in a Linux-based HPC cluster, where it would never need to access the hard drive; after running that way for a while, it can be reprovisioned as a regular Linux or Windows server by having the hypervisor grab a new image from the network and load it. ## The similarities between what Perceus does for servers and what HyperSpace does for laptops—i. And as that happens, the personality that has its origins in Redmond will become just one of many. President Donald Trump has nominated Democrat Geoffrey [words 17] open seat on the Federal Communications Commission. Starks, assistant chief of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, was recommended by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. By tradition, the president appoints opposite-party commissioners based on recommendations from the opposing party, and Trump has kept up that practice. The White House confirmed Trump's nomination of Starks on Friday. If approved by the Senate for a term [words 18] Starks will replace recently departed Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. Republicans will maintain a 3-2 majority led by Chairman Ajit Pai, with Starks and Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel representing the minority party. Trump would not have been allowed to nominate a Republican because US law requires a 3-2 split when the FCC has five members. Starks hasn't advocated political positions as an FCC staffer. But given his endorsement from Democratic leadership, it's a safe bet that he'll oppose much of Pai's deregulatory agenda. Starks is an attorney with degrees from Harvard University and Yale Law School. According to his LinkedIn profile, he has worked in government for most of his career and joined the FCC in November 2015. Starks worked for the Justice Department before taking his current job at the FCC, which hired him to address "waste, fraud, and abuse in Universal Service Fund programs," according to Politico. "It's complicated and he deeply believes in the program," former Enforcement Bureau chief Travis LeBlanc told Politico. ## "He believes it is designed to connect historically vulnerable communities to communications. Every one of those dollars, he wants to make sure goes to that purpose. "Rosenworcel tweeted [words 19] forward to calling Geoffrey Starks a colleague at the FCC. " Pai said that Starks "has a distinguished record of public service," and wished him "all the best" in the Senate confirmation process. Its good there is some balance here but it still seems odd these are even partisan positions at all. I can't think of other high level positions where that is taken into account (other than the obvious caveat that presidents tend to pick people who agree with them)Federal Election Commission is one that comes to mind. By law, the body of six can't have more than three members from the same party. Enlarge / Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg (left) and Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. In the wake of a Senate committee hearing in which top officials from Facebook and Twitter testified, the Department of Justice issued a statement saying that it would be investigating social media firms. "We listened to today's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Foreign Influence Operations' Use of Social Media Platforms closely," Devin O'Malley, a DOJ spokesman, said in a statement released to reporters on Wednesday morning. "The Attorney General has convened a meeting with a number of state attorneys general this month to discuss a growing concern that these companies may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms. "Google did not to send a representative to Capitol Hill in person, instead choosing to submit written testimony. However, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the committee that the company was continuing to fight misinformation, fake news, and foreign interference. Similarly, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dismissed any allegations of his company's bias during his testimony. "Looking at the data, we analyzed tweets sent by all members of the House and Senate and found no statistically significant difference between the number of times a tweet by a Democrat is viewed versus a Republican, even after our ranking and filtering of [words 20] he said. For weeks now, some conservatives lead by President Donald Trump have claimed with scant evidence that tech companies are plotting against them. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), recently encouraged the Federal Trade Commission to re-examine Google's dominance in search and advertising. Trump, in an interview with The Daily Caller also [words 21] that he believed tech firms "already" had interfered with the 2016 and 2018 elections. Given that Trump obviously won the 2016 election, it is hard to [words 22] what exactly is meant by this claim. "I mean the true interference in the last election was that—if you look at all, virtually all of those companies are super-liberal companies in favor of Hillary Clinton," Trump said. "Maybe I did a better job because I'm good with the Twitter and I'm good at social media, but the truth is they were all on Hillary Clinton's side, and if you [words 23] on with Facebook and with Google and all of it, they were very much on her side. "The president reiterated his claim that "Google and Facebook and Twitter" all "treat conservatives and Republicans unfairly. "“Search is not used to set a political agenda, and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology," Google has previously said. I'm guessing that [words 24] reasons why we aren't concerned at all about ISPs; but the plight of the refugees of gab demands urgent congressional action? "I mean the true interference in the last election was that—if you [words 25] those companies are super liberal companies in favor of Hillary Clinton," Trump said. It's 2018 and you guys still think there is [words 26] made from the shite that comes out of these peoples mouths? How much more does Trump and friends get to say before these "biased" tech giants can start suing people for libel and slander. At some point, I [words 27] things or shut up. It's getting ridiculous. [words 28] take a guess the recent article from the NYT might have been more responsible for the President's incoherent blathering this time. "Given how much money and market share Google and Facebook have, I think they'd be perfectly [words 29] the Orangeutan to just shut the fuck up. The president reiterated his claim that "Google and Facebook and Twitter," all "treat [words 30] unfairly. "Well maybe Twitter should show Il Douche the true meaning of treating conservatives and Republicans unfairly by yanking his account. even if these companies have bias in filtering or generating search results, I fail to see how that would be illegal. The 1st Amendment applies to the government, not to private companies. Could have an impact on their immunity under the Communications Decency Act though. So, just another day in 2018. Everyone go wash the fire out of your hair and [words 31] tomorrow. You're missing the point. This comment is for his base, and a prelude to enact laws to severely curtail the ability of Google, Twitter, and Facebook to control what people say on their platform. Or, to just fine them into oblivion for "tax" reasons. Kinda how Putin handles his oligarchs who cross him. He comments and sometime he even acts, as POTUS, on distorted facts [words 32] News. Like he gets news about himself from TV and then he. No I can't finish that thought. My brain can't process it. The pro business party everyone. They'll change their tune when the fat lobbying checks begin rolling in. And I've said it before and I will say it again: these hypocrites fought tooth and nail to kill the fairness doctrine when right wing lunatics began broadcasting. Even a hint of that swinging against them and suddenly we have to treat the internet differently. Private business doesn't have to host your ideas. That said, social media needs to decide if they are publishers [words 33] pipes. Yeah, he's very proud of that. Almost like a 2 year old saying, "I'm a big [words 34] now. I don't shit in my pants anymore. "The whole notion that they CAN'T stifle free exchange of ideas is bullshit. ## They're fucking COMPANIES. Stifling ideas is what corporations do all the fucking time! Personally, I call this whole thing more bullshit smokescreens to draw attention away from the fetid dumpster fire in the Oval Office. Unless Trump's SCOTUS appointee is all in favor of fascism, any legal action brought here will be [words 35] under no legal obligation to do anything to enforce a "free exchange of ideas" in the first place. I mean, wouldn't claiming that they're "censoring" conservative voices mean that they're admitting that bigotry, homophobia, sexism, [words 36] white supremacy are core conservative tenets? I mean, nobody on these platforms is having posts pulled because of their stance on tax policy, for instance. The local volume of space-time can only hold so much intelligence. The problem is that there are more and more people - there is less and less intelligence to go around. Trumptardicus and his mob of Homostupidicus Republicantardi are all the proof needed. I'm actually surprised they haven't. They have banned regular citizen's accounts for breaking far fewer Terms of Service than he has. Hey, these places have rules against obvious hate-speech, trolling, and harassing, and conservatives just happen to keep running afoul of the rules and getting banned (after way too fucking long)? You're assuming some kind of ideological consistency beyond the preservation of particular social and power dynamics at all cost. 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I could never agree with some ... were women of strong convictions and the determination and courage to stand ... them. The more I learn more about them, the more grateful I am for their examples and humbled by the ... they lived their difficult lives. So the next time I'm ... go rogue over some minor discomfort, I plan to stop and consider what my grandmothers' response might be. Posted in BlogTagged Aging, childhood memories, grandmothers, Louisiana, southern life, southern women, Women's HistoryLeave a comment My mother and I weren't close. But we never fought, not overtly. She ... and mild-mannered to a fault. Mother didn't raise her voice ... punishment. She had very few rules but her “no” meant no and there was no ... in challenging her. Her tastes were simple and her needs modest. Frugality was a way of life. We ... could make, grow or barter for. Collars were turned, ... out. We sewed our clothes, ate leftovers. Nothing went to waste, nothing was ... show. 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After all, where had that hokey countryfied attitude got me but broke, belittled and marginalized. “Smart” people put themselves first and if that caused problems for someone else, well, that's life. And this attitude was not limited to California; it was my experience of metropolitan life in general. This “me first” philosophy seemed to work well for a while. I did, in fact, “get ahead.” My standard of living greatly improved. I had the latest appliances; services and conveniences my mother could never have imagined. My clothing came from “the right” stores, I drove an expensive car, my dog came from championship lines. But the more “stuff” I got, the longer my list of “must haves” grew. Neither was I expecting that this way of doing business would leave me increasingly lonely and isolated. I was sure I would attract an adoring crowd once I was “successful.” But of course, the people around me we all just like me . expecting me to be part of their adoring crowd. This kind of success had brought anything but happiness. And eventually, the pains of chasing mirages disappearing over the horizon became greater than the challenge of living out my own truth. I knew better, had always known better. Because of time and distance, trips to the lake were infrequent during these years, but we managed two or three a year. And on each visit, as I reflected more deeply about this community, I saw truths I hadn't seen growing up, truths only visible through the lens of age and experience. I saw how a sense of place grounds the soul. How immutable our symbiosis with the earth and its creatures. How the soul of the community is continuously formed and re-shaped by the spirits of each of its members. And I get it, all communities have their problems. But paradoxically, it is when the community thrives, that its members are nourished. Not, as I had been led to believe, the other way round. I might have learned these lessons elsewhere. But it is here that I feel most grounded. It is here that I learned that true success comes only to the soul at peace. A stranger strikes up a conversation with you at the produce counter and you don't look for the manager. Men look forward all year to a weekend on a freezing lake in an outrageous contraption hoping to bag a duck or two. Especially we love those community gatherings where everyone brings their favorite dish and we all sample “just a bite” of everyone's. My earliest memories of this were “Dinner on the Ground,” and it literally was on the ground. Thinking about it now, I'm amazed we kept the kids from stumbling into the spread – and maybe we didn't. I have such wonderful memories of that food – and no matter how many times I try recreating their recipes, they just don't come out the same. Uncle Henry's fried chicken, Miss Nina's coconut cake,Eventually we graduated to folding tables and chairs and finally to a real Fellowship Hall equipped with all the modern conveniences. Much more comfortable but in nostalgic moods, I wonder if we were better off in those days. We were blissfully unaware of the dangers of sugar, gluten, lactose, saturated fat, cholesterol, and vegetarians were, well, just weird. There was no guilt associated with a hamburger and a coke for lunch. My rational self remembers how it was to lose relatives to diet-related disease, especially heart disease and diabetes. These could be devastating for a family, since health insurance was essentially non-existent in those days; health care was pay-as-you-go. Southerners will always love our community food get-togethers, although today we make at least a token effort to prepare healthful food . However, if the occasional slice of coconut cake happened to sneak in, well. just a bite couldn't hurt. 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<human>: The rest of this: “The play is dynamically staged with constant movement, exciting fight scenes, and nary a dull moment, even scene changes are accomplished fluidly without pause. A rotating mini stage allows for quick transitions between locations, . considerable credit should go to Doug Scholz-Carlson, whose choreography of the big fight scene looked surprisingly realistic with just a touch of the Sharks and the Jets from “West Side Story. '” -Michael Anthony, Minneapolis StarTribuneStart at 1:30 to see fight video “(The) conception of the fight scene in act three was excitingly gritty, .” –Palm Beach Daily News “ . the knife fights carry an edge of genuine menace and violence.” –South . Perhaps Mary Oliver's most well-known poem and the one that I read somewhere a few years ago and so ... <assistant>: Here you go: it all began. But the more I read by Mary Oliver the more I have to have everything else she has written. And I need it yesterday. All I can think of is what is out there as yet unread by me, so when I came across a couple of more recent collections which didn't seem to feature in the two editions I already have I had ordered in a nano-second. A Thousand Mornings and Blue Horses recently published for the first time in the UK (how has it taken so long) along with Upstream, a collection of essays. An intensely private person who prefers to allow her work to speak for itself, there is not a lot to find out about Mary Oliver beyond the usual details... <human>: Next. <assistant>: of birth ( 10th September 1935) home ( Provincetown, Mass. and now Florida) love ( a partner of forty years Molly Malone Cook who died in 2005. Oliver's footsteps is not to power walk, but to stroll and stop often to take in sights and sounds and feelings. As she told an interviewer 15 years ago: “When things are going well, you know, the... <human>: More. <assistant>: walk does not get rapid or get anywhere: I finally just stop, and write. That's a successful walk! ”and somehow it is that intense feeling of 'taking in the sights' that shines... <human>: More. <assistant>: through all the way to Devon as I open A Thousand Mornings and read the poem of the title. I pick up one or other of the Mary Oliver books each day and always but always she has something to say of relevance and meaning. If poetry's purpose is, amongst other very worthy things, to teach, to console and to warn, then Mary Oliver... <human>: Next. <assistant>: is winning the game in the consolation category. But she is not without her critics, indeed some of them may be among you, but for me Mary Oliver and my love for... <human>: Next. <assistant>: her writing transcends any concerns that others may have about her work. For me she says what I wish I could say but so often can't or for some reason don't. I have long been a fan of poet Wendy Cope, so much so that I have Upstairs and Downstairs copies of her previous collections. Bearing in mind that it is less than a... <human>: Next. <assistant>: week since I bought a copy of her new collection Anecdotal Evidence,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: it is very early for me to presenting it for your delectation. It normally takes me weeks and months and repeated readings to absorb and consider what I have read. Often I... <human>: More. <assistant>: will do a quick scan through and then return in instalments according to mood, but Anecdotal Evidence has been very different. it is my... <human>: Next. <assistant>: new Best Friend. One of things I hadn't anticipated about heading into my mid-sixties were the funny little anxieties that would creep into my... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: mind; things that I barely gave a moment's thought to in my fifties, but suddenly there they loomed. Not even things I would voice to anyone else for fear of sounding morbid,... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: or tempting fate, but they hover and I ponder for a while and then file them back in the Pending Department. I wonder if it's something about preparing for the inevitable and mortality and things. anyway I don't get depressed about it, just wonder. maybe at 5am, what's in store and from whence might cometh the consolation before carrying on carpe-ing the diemWell, I... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: have a funny feeling that Wendy Cope might have done this too because Anecdotal Evidence reflects me. The book is dedicated to the lovely Adele Geras and her daughter Sophie (Hannah) but these poems are all about me in fact. About reunions of colleagues from long ago, and how so often you now have very little in common. Those halcyon days can never be... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: recaptured. It was over long ago. ' says Wendy Cope and I thought ' Yes, I've been there. 'Remembering a day when your parents came to visit you in your student (in my case student nurse's) room because they were nearby. And how you never told them how fed up you were feeling, but how much good it did you to see them. '... <human>: Next. <assistant>: I never loved them more than on that day' says Wendy and I thought, 'Blimey Wendy, I'd forgotten all about that but by jove you are right. 'The flat in Islington, London... <human>: More. <assistant>: in 1972 ( Haringey,1975 for me) and the boyfriends. least said, but Wendy Cope and I could have been flatmates. In fact one of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: my flatmates was called Wendy and. well something like this did happen. The fears that you have about losing a partner, about one of you 'disappearing to the eternal yonder'. Yes, Wendy Cope, I would want to make me and mine immortal too. And if immortality is not to be and stuff happens, then 'One Day' says everything I would want and more, truly consoling. There is a fine sequence of poems about Shakespeare, and some wonderful responses to individual sonnets. ‘My glass can't quite persuade me I am old - in that respect my ageing eyes are kind. ' and Wendy had my full attention and complete agreement. And I'm going to be hard put not to giggle the next time I see the Archbishop of Canterbury... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: but I won't spoil that one. If it is consolation I am seeking the collection has it on almost every page. Chances to smile, to laugh at myself, to think ‘I must... <human>: More. <assistant>: read that again when (insert here wherever it is ) happens, but... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: above all to feel reassured. I have purposely included only brief quotes... <human>: Next. <assistant>: because I remember reading something by Wendy Cope a few years ago,... <human>: More. <assistant>: about the unfairness of people just grabbing a poet's work and plastering it around the internet without permission. I'm going off to do some... <human>: Next. <assistant>: sackcloth and ashes because, I may have occasional sins to answer for on here. After a week I feel I have barely scraped the surface of this collection of fifty-two or so poems, it has much more to give me so I will be back writing more about it dreckly I feel sure. And it is on that basis I commend Anecdotal Evidence to... <human>: More. <assistant>: the house because I would love to discuss it with you all. More evidence, were it needed, that poetry has to be the very best value for money going. My mum's family were of the Welsh 'Griffiths' clan, settled in the Dingle in Liverpool, so a happy St David's Day (Bookhound's name day too) one and all, and here's sending you a great big... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: bunch of virtual daffodils to cheer your day, and how about the first stanza of Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas, which features in Ten... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Poems From Wales published by Candlestick Press. It's a beautiful poem, speaking as it does of childhood innocence and those endless carefree days, something of a lament for what used to be perhaps. But what alchemy with words, I've read it over and again and always see something new. I've tried to find a recording of it being read to share with you but... <human>: More. <assistant>: nothing matches up to the reading I give it in my head (Richard Burton. too much deliberation and drama. posh) so maybe best read it for yourselves and give it your own... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: meaning and emphasis. I had this bright idea that we would go to Cotehele House for coffee and cake yesterday because as our daffodils are almost out surely theirs would be too... <human>: More. <assistant>: Give it a week or so and the display will be spectacular. The consolation was that there were March hares bounding all over the place. JLS's essay is preceded by a short poem called "Seven Words for Winter" by Nancy Campbell, using Greenlandic words to describe "winter" in the past and present (https://arcticjournal.com/culture/2157/hymns-language ). The last item in the collection is a poem called... <human>: More. <assistant>: "Winter Heart" by Jackie Kay which reads a like a big warm hug. There was an e mail doing the rounds last week and plenty of people were moaning about it. A sort of online chain letter; send a poem to the first name, make yours the second name and send it around to twenty friends. With the threat of eternal damnation if you didn't do it, send a picture postcard to the first name on the list, remove their name, copy out six letters to friends adding yours as the sixth name and address at the bottom of the list and eventually you'd receive however many cards it was supposed to be (someone else please do the maths). I spent a month's pocket money on cards, stamps... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: etc and of course never received a single card in return. This is why I never do chain letters, let alone emails, but in the wake of more terrorist attacks in Europe... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: and with Easter approaching I decided I would. what harm could a poem do, and if people didn't feel able to join in, well... <human>: More. <assistant>: no problem. and the next morning my inbox had a soul-nourishing clutch of carefully chosen poems in return which really made my day. And in that funny roundabout way that the internet sets trails and makes unexpected connections, quite by coincidence did I hear about the collection of poems Washing Lines published by Lautus Press. I had draped the washed shibori over the garden... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: fence and the Kayaker happened to be on hand with his camera. It was one of those beautiful days, just enough breeze to add a little billow rather than send it all... <human>: More. <assistant>: flying back off to Cornwall, and it was nice to stand back and admire the handiwork. Meanwhile, over on Instagram Barbara from Lautus Press asked if I had heard of Washing Lines which I hadn't but soon had, and I instantly bought a copy. 'All the poems in this anthology are about laundry and washing reflecting many human emotions to do with family, relationships... <human>: More. <assistant>: and memory. So whether it is the joy of washing blowing on the line, the smell of clean linen or the rhythmic dance of two people folding sheets together, this revised collection... <human>: More. <assistant>: is a continued celebration. 'I was in just the right mood for some new poems, always a good investment and I particularly liked the... <human>: More. <assistant>: reasoning behind Lautus Press from its founders Janie Hextall and Barbara McNaught. 'A shared love of poetry had already made us friends but then the happy discovery that we also shared a... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: love of washing lines and all things to do with laundry led... <human>: More. <assistant>: eventually to the formation of Lautus Press (Lautus (Latin) : washed, clean... <human>: More. <assistant>: or refined, elegant ). We both prefer travelling by train because from trains you can see washing lines in back gardens. 'I was born in a house in Priory Road in Exeter that backed onto the main London railway line and can just imagine the view of the nappies out on the line from the London express. And whilst I would love a long overhead washing line again, with pulleys and a clothes prop made out of a forked branch, I have to settle for a bog-standard rotary thing anchored in a massive piece of concrete here because it is the only thing that can cope with the south-westerly winds, but I still view hanging out the washing as a bit of a work of art, an installation... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: I think I might even be a bit obsessive about it, and... <human>: More. <assistant>: I always turn and admire the handiwork as I walk away. I do like a nice billow and things to be evenly spaced and I even bought some new windproof pegs back with me from New Zealand. that's how seriously I take my display of washing. The poems are a wonderful mix, varied and full of surprises. Who could know how far or where... <human>: Next. <assistant>: a line of washing can lead the imagination, and how many of... <human>: More. <assistant>: these poems I would identify with. This extract from Domestic by Katrina Porteous could easily be me because I have some right old tussles out there on what I call 'a good day for drying' when I can't resist washing everything that catches my eye. Many are the days the duvet cover has somehow mummified itself around me and the line, and many are... <human>: Next. <assistant>: the days the thing gets a major spin on and has nearly taken an eye out, but it is rare for anything to escape,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: and obviously my new pink pegs will make doubly sure of that. The selected poets are an eclectic mix and include Louisa May Alcott, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Gillian Clark, Maura Dooley, Helen... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Dunmore, Vicki Feaver, Seamus Heaney, Pablo Neruda, Marge Piercey, Walt Whitman and many others all with something to say about laundry, whilst a nice inclusion are some of those traditional rhymes that many of us grew up with. The collection is interspersed with some beautiful and atmospheric woodcuts, this one September Morning by Anne HaywardBut perhaps the painting that resonated most with me as... <human>: Next. <assistant>: I read Washing Lines has to be Washing Day, my favourite by... <human>: Next. <assistant>: local Tavistock artist Dorothy Ward. If you know Tavistock you will recognise this loosely as nearby Whitchurch. Well, that's my latest foray into poetry and if you know of this collection I... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: would love to know your thoughts. I am assuming they might not want to share ours any more, even though Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow. The Scots already have their equivalent, the Makar, in Liz Lochhead, but anyway this month has seen the opening, at Holyrood in Edinburgh, of what looks like a wonderful exhibition on the history of the laureateship. Poetry... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: for the Palace: Poets Laureate from Dryden to Duffy The Queen's Gallery, Palace of HolyroodhouseThe office of Poet Laureate is a special honour awarded by the Sovereign to a poet whose work is of national significance. This exhibition celebrates the work of the current Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, at the half-way point in her laureateship. It explores the role of the Poet Laureate, and the close relationship between poet and monarch over the last three and a half centuries. Carol Ann Duffy's poetry is also represented by the work of the textual artist Stephen Raw, who has created several pieces for the exhibition. And to celebrate the half way point in Carol Ann Duffy's tenure a very beautiful book of her Laureate poems has been published to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: coincide with the exhibition, and with the most beautiful illustrations by Stephen Raw. Scroll down for gifts, and a waiting cat eager to see you after his summer sojourn out in the... <human>: More. <assistant>: fields. I'm not sure how I discovered that Alice Oswald would be doing a poetry reading at the Peninsular Arts in Plymouth last week,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: but once I knew I was onto two tickets in a flash. Peninsular Arts is part of Plymouth University which is slowly building up its Arts study programme after years of being a predominantly science-based institution, and before that, in the days when I did my health visitor training there, a Polytechnic. The place has come a long way since then, with massive new... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: building projects, a medical school with an outstanding vision for training doctors slightly differently, and for the arts the Roland Levinsky building. Interestingly I... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: knew of Roland Levinsky in my Great Ormond Street days, originally a professor of immunology before eventually moving to Plymouth to be Vice Chancellor of the university, and to steer through this... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: blending of arts and science in a faculty more famed for its oceanography than its poetry readings. Sadly Roland Levinsky was killed in a tragic accident on New Year's Day some years ago, walking into some fallen electricity cables, and so he didn't live to see the vision now taking shape. So anyway I booked two tickets, taking full advantage of the senior concessions,... <human>: More. <assistant>: especially given that I turned up for something about eight years ago, handed over the full cost for my ticket and was given £2 back 'because I was over sixty,'. when I was actually fifty two. Bookhound is not famed for his love of poetry and may never have been to a poetry reading before, but he gamely said he'd come along and, given... <human>: More. <assistant>: that is was a 7pm start, we had agreed that we would sit in the back row and I would nudge him if he looked like he was dropping off, or worse started snoring. The lights dimmed in the lecture theatre and Alice Oswald, once introduced, leant forward on the lectern and proceeded to read some short poems. except she didn't have a book... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: or any words to hand. Short poems and longer extracts from Dart and Memorial and we were completely spell-bound. absolutely no chance of Bookhound falling asleep, he was transfixed. And I cast... <human>: Next. <assistant>: another quick glance behind me. surely there had to be a screen projecting the words for her, this was truly remarkable. Asked afterwards how she committed the poetry to memory Alice Oswald... <human>: More. <assistant>: said the short poems had involved so much careful work, word by word work, that they were readily embedded. Memorial was memorised on a daily circuitous estuary walk ( Alice lives in... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: nearby Totnes) and it was that walk that she had envisaged in her mind as she spoke. It was a lovely thought that explained the pacing and the flow which created the powerful atmosphere of the delivery right down to the final words. I'm not a classicist, and if I am honest I am not that familar with Homer's Iliad, so I hadn't really... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: grasped Memorial. I somehow couldn't connect with it in the same enthused way that I have with Dart and the other collections, even though I have the CD of Alice Oswald reading it. I hadn't listened to it properly. To my unexpected delight listening to it in performance has opened the whole book up to me and I shall embark on it properly now... <human>: More. <assistant>: Like the geek that I am I had taken all my books along and Alice very kindly signed them before Bookhound and I headed... <human>: More. <assistant>: off to drive home across Dartmoor marvelling at what we has just experienced. My last post on Sleeping Keys for now, and today the title poem of Jean Sprackland's collection, and yet... <human>: Next. <assistant>: another one that resonated with one of the most embarrassingly untidy, yet forever useful corners of our house. Showing you the workings of the... <human>: More. <assistant>: fuse cupboard felt bad enough, so the innards of the third drawer along from the left in the kitchen might all be Too Much Information, anyway I'm just going to bravely fling it open, take a tiny pic and slam it shut again. Of course it needs sorting, clearing out and tidying, but funnily enough, whenever we want something, it is always in there... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: a tap washer, an exact sized rubber band, a fuse, a car lightbulb, the insect repellent, a golf ball. As for the keys, well I did sort those out a while back... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: and whittled them down to this from hundreds. Now jangling on the back of the larder door for that moment when someone says 'I wonder where the key to such-and-such is. ' and of course it will be one of those I have thrown away. Meanwhile, Australia please do note the keyrack. But who knows where any of them belong. They were just the... <human>: More. <assistant>: best of the batch, the important-looking ones that seemed as if they might fit somewhere. and then there was this giant key. I can't... <human>: Next. <assistant>: remember where it came from or why we have it. you'd think I would remember if we had been given a castle or something... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: wouldn't you, but every time I see it I also think of this. 'Mary looked at it, not really knowing why the hole was there, and as she looked she saw something almost buried in the newly-turned soil. It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass, and when the robin flew up into a tree near by, she put out her hand and picked the ring up. It was more than a rign, however; it was an old key which looked as if it had been buried a long time. 'Perhaps it is the key to the garden! 'The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett of course, and it is a strange and beguiling thought that somewhere there is a lock for this key. As... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Jean Sprackland explores the sleeping keys in her poem she also explores their origins, their places (at least she knows what hers are for) and their history with all the associated memories,... <human>: More. <assistant>: before scooping the lot into the bin,I have now moved onto Tilt, Jean Sprackland's Costa-winning collection and judging on previous form I doubt I... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: will have anything to report before . oh May-June time, but I have almost finished some very welcome winter beachcombing with Jean's book of... <human>: More. <assistant>: essays Strand - A Year of Discoveries on the Beach so my thoughts on that soon. There are many joys to be had from the splendid isolation of rural life but the fickle nature of the electricity supply is not one of them. Here's the power hub of our home. It has a brain of its own and will selectively and randomly decide when... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: it needs a break. Major faults can be down to something as interesting as a cow rubbing against a pole in a distant field, or a hefty bolt of lightning which seems... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: to give the fuseboard a fright and it just needs a little rest. But mercifully these outages are few and far between, because without power we have no bore-hole pump, and with no pump we have no water. No, this is just a flurry of trip switch moments for which we can find no rhyme nor reason beyond 'gremlins. ' The electrician has been... <human>: More. <assistant>: in and checked everything, tested everything, rummaged through the cables in the loft, isolated bits that might be a problem and turn out not to be (that plug on the right) and when we thought we had narrowed it down to the kitchen ring main being overloaded, and spread the load around other circuits 'twas to no avail. Now we just live with it,... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: keeping torches everywhere and the steps at the ready underneath the fusebox, it will be fine for months and then the gremlins start dancing again. But the more I read the more I saw the analogy in this sequence of poems that describe the pain of a marriage break-up and a divorce. When one fuse blows the rest won't work, that sense of inter-connectedness and the single malfunction that can impede the whole, maybe the trip switch in any relationship. In fact this is a final switching off of the electricity before leaving the house for the last time. The poem before this one Taking Down the Scaffolding a seemingly straightforward account of de-constructing poles and couplers and pulleys, until the final line. and then I realise that... <human>: More. <assistant>: poem after poem shines a light, often into places it might be easier not to look, searching out the obscure, the forgotten or the neglected, dusting it off and making it fit for perusal and then triggering a memory or a moment, one that connects however remotely with something else, a tiny spark ignites another, and I have loved it. Built in alongside is a sure and steady sense of catharsis, of release and freedom. or progress towards something new and better. A few poems further on is Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia. The human electricity of the heart going off on a frolic of its own. If you have ever experienced it you will know of this. Our electric gremlins have been back recently, not surprising given our weather, and... <human>: More. <assistant>: we are up and down to the fusebox like yo-yos and I think of this sequence of poems every time I climb the steps and switch the power back on. To my... <human>: More. <assistant>: knowledge Sleeping Keys hasn't won any prizes yet, I wish it would,... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: but maybe that's because judges don't have six months in which to allow a collection to do its work. There were moments as I read Sleeping Keys, and this poem was one, when I suspected Jean Sprackland might have been to our house and had a look round, and if you have a piano, an old creaking one like ours that weighs a ton, then the opening to the poem Moving the Piano will resonate with you too. A family friend went out to buy Brillo pads many years ago and came home having bought a grand piano. We were much more organised, having planned for and bought this one about twenty five years ago for £100 thinking we had three children who would go for lessons and... <human>: More. <assistant>: be doing Grade Eight. As it is only Offspringette expressed an interest in learning and then didn't want to take any exams, how people tiger-mother and cajole their children into doing things... <human>: Next. <assistant>: they don't want to do I really don't know. I think the piano had seen a few years in a pub and it cost... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: as much again to have five men collect and deliver it, but it is a good quality Bluthner upright and yes, as solid as an elephant. Our elephantine-mouthed dust-harbourer is firmly ensconced in what was the sitting room, but which is now Bookhound's study. I say ensconced to give it a sense of permanence because if we ever need to move it we need... <human>: More. <assistant>: to summon the strength of youth to assist. Worse is moving it to a new place, a decision never to be taken hurriedly or lightly, and then realising that it looked better where it was. another decision that obversely has to be made on the spot while the 'help' is still around. We had a lot of repair work done to the hammers and... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: pads back in 2001 but it hasn't been tuned for a few years now, on the basis that we aren't perfectly pitched or musical enough to tell the difference when it has... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Bookhound is the only one to caress thump a tune out of it and by a musical method uniquely his own; the piano seems... <human>: More. <assistant>: to have a memory of its pub years and reverts to type, being much happier with beer tunes than Bach. I wrote to Bluthner some years ago because it has labels and serial numbers. Back in 1993 they held index card records for every piano imported in the previous 120 years and Bluthner were able to locate the record for this very elephant, number... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: 39813. It was manufactured in 1894 in a Rosewood case, and supplied to a distributor, Stockley & Sabin who we think were in Birmingham. Imagine how many lumbar discs might have been slipped down the years getting it as far as the Shire. Bluthner very kindly sent along some history including an original catalogue entry for our Overstrung Upright Grand, and its Compass of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: 7 octaves, along with a quote from Sir Henry Wood. " The Bluthner Pianofortes realize my ideal. Every nuance of emotion felt by an artist can be expressed on these unique and... <human>: More. <assistant>: sympathetic instruments. 'They also included a list of esteemed people (as well as us) who owned a Bluthner. note the (Late) Czar and Czarina... <human>: More. <assistant>: of Russia. And each time we do move the piano. yes it does, as Jean Sprackland suggests, 'stink of old felt and lamentations. 'By this time I am feeling bad about cursing our piano for harbouring so much dust, and for the day it conspired to conceal a live mouse brought in by Rocky, and for regularly losing the veneers on its 'teeth', and... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: so I take out the duster and the polish and I smarten it up. and Bookhound comes in and plays a 'version'. maybe let's call it a 'likeness' of Moon River, and I love the Bluthner all over again. I've said it before I think, if I am reading a poetry collection I will be gone some time. In the case of Sleeping Keys by Jean Sprackland it has taken me from August 2013 through to last week to read and inwardly digest about forty poems. Last summer I had a complete rethink about how I would read poetry, starting with Her Birth by Rebecca Goss. For a start no more underlining or marginalia. It is an ingrained habit born of study and exams, no longer required but... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: one that had stuck, and the easiest way to ruin a collection forever if I want to keep coming back to it, and re-reading... <human>: More. <assistant>: and finding new layers that I might have missed before. I no longer wanted to be assailed by my own assertive first opinions, interpretations that might close doors on that subsequent visit. Cue the Poetry Notebook which you may recall I had adorned with a little collage of my Eric Ravilious favourites. and what a huge success it has been. I allow a seperate... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: page for each poem, scribble down a few thoughts, read it again... <human>: More. <assistant>: a few days later. look at those first thoughts and see that... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: I have read it entirely differently, so I add those second and... <human>: More. <assistant>: third thoughts to the page. None of it will make much sense to anyone else, but reading back it all makes perfect sense to... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: me. No more butterfly flitting from one poet to the next. I would stay with one collection and read it start to finish, really... <human>: More. <assistant>: get to know the poet's voice, and I would take my time over it. Interestingly the strategy was put to the test when Michael Symmonds Roberts won the Forward Prize for Drysalter... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Oh that looks interesting, just one or two I thought. but it was no good, I was far too in tune with Jean Sprackland... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: and I headed back to Sleeping Keys. Drysalter's moment will come. I don't think I can better the publisher's introduction to Sleeping Keys by way of explaining the collection. Jean Sprackland looks back at endings and beginnings: the end of a life, or of a marriage; old homes lived in and left, new homes discovered. There are poems that speak of the paralysis and... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: bewilderment of knowing something is over, and of the strangely significant, almost votive nature of the things that are left behind: the biscuit tin... <human>: More. <assistant>: 'of old keys, decommissioned and sleeping', the empty room fading 'to a tinnitus of dust and dead wasps'. Now in the past I might have read that and thought do me a favour. bet I don't see anything like, and the fault would have been all mine. Rushed reading, distractions of work and life getting in the way and it might all pass me... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: by. and the significance of those opening words were not lost on me. The way that a chimney amplifies sound, bringing what is with-out within and a perfect poem to open the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: voices in the book. Those voices emanate from everywhere as Jean Sprackland draws attention to the everyday, the unobtrusive things so easily taken for granted, making disparate connections that resonated constantly in... <human>: More. <assistant>: my mind. The all-seeing gaze of the CCTV cameras. the Recording Angels likened to birds of prey with their equally all-seeing gaze, and I was immediately reminded of Ted Hughes's peom Hawk in the Rain, the bird's eye view that misses nothing. Poems arced and sparked across each other rewarding this one-collection-one-voice approach, 'Clearing the Drains' connected with 'Opening a Chimney' for its analogies... <human>: Next. <assistant>: of shifting blockages and gaining new understandings. I always remember hearing a Reasonably Well-Known Poet at a literary event, pouring derision and scorn on a reader (not present) who had invested one of his poems with meanings many miles from the base camp at which he had written it. and I thought, that's your lot mate, and I haven't read a word he has written since. A poem comes to me as a gift, and it is mine to read as I wish, and I feel sure much can and will emerge from Sleeping Keys for every reader, different and all dependent upon own life experiences and mood. and each reader's own personal reminders. I'm going to stay with Jean Sprackland's voice for this week, in that way... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: I often do, where one thing leads to another and reminds me of something else, so expect a gallimaufry week (more so than usual) and if you think poetry may not be for you, or perhaps you feel a bit out of step with it and can't think how or where to begin again (I realised I was very out of practice) then Sleeping Keys might be the way back in. It is the stuff of the everyday layered with what lies beneath, and though I don't want to teach anyone to suck eggs here's what has worked for me. Read one poem, read the top layer. read it again a day or so later, scratch the surface, dive into the cracks and see another world. Keep the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: notebook (good excuse for new notebook) alongside the collection, title of the poem at the top with page number, and some of my notes are just a list of single words that sprung to mind. Read those notes again and make some more, and slowly the connections are made, a current really does oscillate though this collection and when read in this way I... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: couldn't help but feel it. Revisiting the notes has been a joy. So coming up this week . the piano, the messy drawer in... <human>: More. <assistant>: the kitchen, the fuseboard. the fuseboard, palpitations and who knows what else. If there is one place I might choose to be this Christmas (it's December, we can say it now) apart from being at home, which I love, it would be Orkney, to see and hear the traditional service of Nine Lessons and Carols at St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. Having thought the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: tradition of those nine lessons and carols could only have emanated from King's College, Cambridge, I am pleasantly surprised to discover that it actually has its origins at Truro Cathedral in Cornwall,... <human>: More. <assistant>: thought up in 1880 (according to Wikipaedia supposedly as a means of keeping the men out of the pubs on Christmas Eve. The original... <human>: More. <assistant>: service will be recreated this year in Truro on December 17th and available to see as a webcast soon afterwards. But of all the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: cathedrals I have visited St Magnus has to be one of my favourites for its warmth, because it is actually very well-heated and the... <human>: More. <assistant>: sandstone somehow doubles the effect, but I also love it for its atmosphere. I can only begin to imagine how it would resound to... <human>: More. <assistant>: Hark the Herald Angels Sing at the end of the service. But never mind, it's time for another Christmas tradition, the annual poem from Carol Ann Duffy, and if you have this collection you will most certainly want to add Bethlehem. "Bethlehem is normally a quiet little town on the edge of the desert. But tonight, as dusk falls, there is a sense of something special in the air. An inn packed with revellers, shepherds sprawled on the grass, animals in their stables: everything will be changed when a bright star bearing news arrives in the sky. Carol Ann Duffy's evocative new poem will transport you to Bethlehem, capturing the sights, the sounds and the atmosphere of this ancient and magical place. "Nor will the portents of what... <human>: Next. <assistant>: it is to come for this baby pass you by, cocks crowing three times, blood on pale palms, even a 'donkey's slow, deliberate hooves... <human>: Next. <assistant>: on the stones,' with its echoes of Palm Sunday. But for now... <human>: Next. <assistant>: all is joy and celebration in the town, the 'moon stoops low to gape at the world,' and the night echoes to the 'small,... <human>: More. <assistant>: raw cry of a new life. 'Even the animals join in the celebrations which can only mean one thing. please scroll down for gifts where Magnus is waiting. (From A Force That... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Takes published by Cinnamon Press and included as a Highly Commended poem in The Forward Book of Poetry 2014. Whilst much contemporary fiction just... <human>: More. <assistant>: hasn't cut it for me this summer, other books have and so I have gone with the flow, and that flow has included several excellent poetry collections. Now I find good poetry collections an absolute pleasure to read, and to then write about here, but that writing and thinking about what to write, takes an extraordinary amount of time to happen. None of this... <human>: More. <assistant>: read-it-over-a-weekend-and-on-the-blog-on-Monday sort of thing, it can be weeks if not months before I have finished reading, and then maybe longer for a re-read and for thoughts to surface. I am a good girl now too because I am no longer writing in poetry books. Blame the Open University for starting that one, but though I have been reading for pleasure not pain for years now, old habits and securities die hard. From now on I have decided poems must remain unmarked, unlined, unannotated in the original so that I can come to them time and again, and with a mind open to finding new meanings, rather than dotting my thoughts around amongst the poet's words. To this end I have draughted in a poetry notebook, the 'customised with... <human>: More. <assistant>: a homemade Ravilious collage on the cover' one, allowing a page per poem that I can return to and add more notes on subsequent... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: reading, it's a huge success and I love it. The first collection,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Her Birth by Rebecca Goss, and how grateful I am to Susannah Herbert of The Forward Arts Foundation for bringing this one to my attention, and to Carcanet Press for then sending... <human>: Next. <assistant>: me a copy, along with Parallax by Sinead Morrissey, both shortlisted for this year's Forward Prize for Best Collection to be announced tomorrow, October 1st. Now when you learn of the subject matter you might think this collection would be far too sad to read and maybe pass it by for those reasons . "In 2007 Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with... <human>: More. <assistant>: Severe Ebstein's Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella's birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child. Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting:... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: ‘Going home, back down / the river road, will be a foreign route without her. " and I'll admit that reluctance was my first... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: thought, quickly followed by my second thought. After my release from thirty years on the health visiting frontline, followed by four years of working... <human>: More. <assistant>: across the loss and bereavement forums as on online health visitor for that Biggest UK Parenting Website . and having only just emerged from the stresses and demands of all that, well... <human>: More. <assistant>: did I really want to read more of the same? ? All... <human>: More. <assistant>: this until I opened and started reading what I think maybe one of the most beautiful, tender and lovingly written poetry collections I have... <human>: Next. <assistant>: read in a very long time. Though unflinching and courageously honest in her observations, Rebecca Goss never slips into self-pity. As a reader I was alongside her but still watching from afar. somehow she created that distance for me, or maybe I am too well practised at boundaries. This wasn't my grief or my sadness it was Rebecca's, but I was witness to it,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: every facet and nuance shared and revealed, the unsayable frequently voiced, but... <human>: More. <assistant>: often in a very new way. And instantly, after all those years... <human>: Next. <assistant>: of nursing, I saw something about that room which I had never... <human>: More. <assistant>: noticed before either. There are fresh new interpretations of the familiar, the happy things, but expressed in terms of loss rather than the more customary joy and frivolity. The moment when, during... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: an echocardiogram bubbles are wafted around the room to distract Ella. and with those few lines I felt I understood something of the desperation of a parent willing the results to be... <human>: More. <assistant>: optimistic, willing their child to live. Rebecca is no stranger to denial. The bare facts have been explained, spelt out, drawn in diagrams, cannot be avoided, but that won't stop a mother... <human>: More. <assistant>: swathing herself in hope, reading meaning into the words in the dictionary, turning to the word 'palliative' and then shaping that meaning into something she would prefer to hear. And then the dreams, I defy anyone not to be moved or comforted by Rebecca's A Dream of Heart Babies ( a poem for their mothers) as gathered on the deck of a ship 'a... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: shoal of heart babies' slip into the seaI gasped and blinked back tears and knew that Her Birth is a poetry collection freighted with riches; insight and understanding to those of us who may not have been through this experience, congruence and comfort to those who have, but ultimately I suspect every reader will also emerge uplifted, lighter of step and filled with bright... <human>: Next. <assistant>: hope for tomorrow. This is not a book that weighs you down. Rebecca Goss makes sure of that with her final section entitled Welcome. It begins with a poem that explains why... <human>: Next. <assistant>: she and her husband decide to try for another baby, before going on to catalogue the realities of the next pregnancy with all its memories of the past. Along with the fears... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: that I remember so many mothers expressing so often after the loss of a baby, there is another one, of how to love the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: next baby as much. The clothes, the birth, the shadows of Ella as Rebecca cradles Molly, how to eventually tell Molly about her sister... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: the true pleasures and delights of a child who is well, the pilgrimage to the seashore, wading into the sea where Ella's ashes were scattered, but ultimately how time, though it's considered... <human>: More. <assistant>: the worst thing to say to anyone, does do its work, and heals. Though I haven't read the other collections on the short list... <human>: Next. <assistant>: as thoroughly (this one at least three times) so I shouldn't really declare, but I want to wish Rebecca Goss much good fortune with... <human>: More. <assistant>: Her Birth in the Forward Poetry Prize announcements tomorrow, it would be a very worthy winner indeed. Such sad, sad news, just minutes after... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: I posted the Friday Pleasings yesterday. the announcement of the death of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Seamus Heaney, and I couldn't let the days pass without mention of it here. Perhaps I take their presence for granted, may never meet them, indeed may never even set eyes on them, but just to know the great poets are out there watching and translating so much that passes me by feels comforting, capturing it in words, pinning it on the page for me to read. ## and notice and understand. Strangely, I had thought of Seamus Heaney only this week. We happened to catch a fascinating TV programme about The Tollund Man and it was enough to make me seek out his poem of the same name, so I have had the books off the shelf again. and in particular have been reading Stepping Stones -... <human>: More. <assistant>: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis Driscoll. This is a wonderful, very readable insight into the poet in conversation, his life and and his... <human>: More. <assistant>: inspirations, and with the love of fishing that abounds in this house, Seamus Heaney's own recollections about never quite mastering the art, despite the best efforts of good friend Ted Hughes, made me smile. 'The trouble then was that I wanted to learn to fish with a fly and just never stayed at it long enough to learn to cast, so that effort fizzled... <human>: More. <assistant>: out too. But inside my sixty-eight-year-old arm there's a totally enlivened twelve-year-old one, feeling the bite. And that's enough for a lifetime of poems. ## fleetness of water, stillness of air, stealthiness... <human>: More. <assistant>: of action. 'Instead it was his pen that Seamus Heaney cast about... <human>: More. <assistant>: for the catch of words passing upriver through those spots of time, as in the much-quoted Digging. And for those of us who love our fountain pens what better poem than this, the pen a gift from his parents, the parting. a young Seamus Heaney leaving home for boarding school. What a legacy of the written word Seamus Heaney has left us and a... <human>: More. <assistant>: chance to hear him read some of his work on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 4. Drawers, cupboards, bookshelves, entire rooms, nothing is spared my de-cluttering eye, and I came across a letter from C, an elderly neighbour of years gone by. She had kept in touch with us since moving to Wales with her little dog Spring, leaving the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: row of terraced cottages in Tavistock where we had been at No 6 and she had been at No 2, and though her writing had become increasingly illegible, and the thoughts very stream of consciousness so quite hard to follow, it was always good to hear from her. C was a true country woman, born and bred in Cornwall, tall and slender with a bronzed and weather-beaten face, and I have vivid memories of her waving to me as I pegged the nappies out on the line and she would be setting off on her old push bike, with Spring trotting alongside, for day long cycle rides along the lanes and across the Moors. Back she would come with the basket full of 'things' she had picked up... <human>: More. <assistant>: along the way, an interesting stone, some flower seed heads, a giant puffball. We moved here and C eventually moved back to her homeland... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: of Cornwall, and in one of those chance encounters life throws your way we bumped into her down in Truro a couple of years ago celebrating her ninetieth birthday with her family... <human>: More. <assistant>: She didn't really recognise or remember us, even though she still wrote, and we haven't heard in a while so I fear the worst. But back in 1995 C had written to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: us, as was her wont, on a piece of scrap paper with a reminder to herself about something crossed out, something else about compassion and cruelty to turkeys scribbled through, and a poem printed on the back. We had been in this house about a year and C had come from her home in Wales to visit that Summer. We had taken her for... <human>: Next. <assistant>: a walk up Rocky's field to the back of the house, though all the extra bits hadn't been built then, but this is the... <human>: More. <assistant>: view she would have seen . and looking at the letter again... <human>: More. <assistant>: I feel sure she had meant for us to read the poem on the reverse, and ashamedly I am not sure that I had... <human>: Next. <assistant>: paid much attention at the time. I have done now, and, thanks to C have discovered Ruth Bidgood, a Welsh poet I think I will enjoy and must explore. One London doctor (in the nineteenth century) writes that female patients might be allowed fiction but should be carefully watched. If a novel seemed to worsen their condition, it should be taken aways and replaced... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: by a book 'upon some practical subject; such, for instance, as beekeeping. 'I am always very grateful to Erika in Delaware who regularly snippateers on my behalf sending me an envelope of newspaper and magazine cuttings and cartoons every so often from the other side of the pond. One of these was a piece entitled Turning the Page - How women became readers by... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Joan Acocella, published in the The New Yorker (October 25, 2012). The New Yorker is hard to come by in the village shop, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a copy in Tavistock either, so I am always very grateful to be kept in contact with life out there, and that quote reminded me. as these things do of one of my favourite books this year. I wrote about Bee Journal by Sean Borodale some time ago and have been slowly walking out to Sean's hive with him on a regular basis through the year to check on the bees. Virtually that is, but with a sense that I am really there watching, because. These poems were written at the hive wearing a veil and gloves, and... <human>: More. <assistant>: the journal is an intrinsic part of the kinetic activity of keeping bees: making 'tiny, regular checks' in the turn around the central figure... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: of the sun, and minute exploratory interventions through the round of the year. The book is full of moments of revelation - particularly of the relationship between the domestic and the wild... <human>: More. <assistant>: Because of its genesis as a working journal, there is here an unusual intimacy and deep scrutiny of life and death in nature. The... <human>: More. <assistant>: language itself is dense and clotted, the imagery thrillingly fresh, and the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: observing eye close, scrupulous and full of wonder. And in that strange tennis-elbow-foot way that my reading so often joins up with itself, Roger Deakin writing in Wildwood had reminded me of a Ted Hughes' poetry collection Moortown Diary. I had somehow forgotten about it, but this is a series of poems written through the year on the farm on the northern edge of... <human>: More. <assistant>: Dartmoor where Ted Hughes lived later in his life, so I am going to make that one of my year-long reads for 2013. I was reminded that here too is a collection that had also been written very much on the hoof as Ted Hughes' notes confirm. 'In making a note about anything, if I wish to look closely I find I can move closer, and stay closer, if I phrase my observations about it in rough lines. my way of getting reasonably close to what is going on, and staying close, and of excluding everything else that might be pressing to interfere with the watching eye. In a sense the method excludes the poetic process as well. ''This sort of thing had to be set down soon... <human>: Next. <assistant>: after the event. If I missed the moment - which meant letting a night's sleep intervene before I took up the pen - I... <human>: Next. <assistant>: could always see quite clearly what had been lost. By the next day the processes of 'memory', the poetic process had already started. 'When... <human>: Next. <assistant>: he decided to revisit those notes and leave the words as they were Ted Hughes calls their strength a 'souvenir bloom' . There is... <human>: More. <assistant>: that same sense of 'souvenir bloom' to Sean Borodale's writing in Bee... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Journal, so if you are looking for a year-long read, a short meaningful piece every so often, then either of these would be ideal. I'd give my eye teeth to be able... <human>: More. <assistant>: to capture the things that I see in this way. not that I have really tried that hard. There is an immediacy that captures and seals those moments of approach and arrival,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: of standing and watching, the sense of perhaps surprise, maybe pleasure, sometimes shock at what is waiting to be discovered there, and I can't tell you how much pleasure it has given... <human>: Next. <assistant>: me to be alongside Sean Borodale's hive. and without all the worry of being stung. I have known of Scars Upon My Heart, a collection of women's poetry and verse of the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: First World War for years, but for some reason had never bought it. Last Sunday, with this week's spotlight on Women in War, it seemed like a good moment to invest, and I am very grateful to goldengrove books on Amazon who responded to my plea to send the book asap by sending it first class on Monday to arrive here on Tuesday. Thus... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: I have had a few days, whilst my mind has been in the zone, to read the poetic perspective of the women of the... <human>: More. <assistant>: Great War. During my OU degree I had an inspiring tutor, utterly devoted to Gerard Manley Hopkins, who assured us all that the purpose of poetry per se was to teach, to console and to warn, and I have never forgotten the passion with which she delivered that idea or the lecture that followed it. Nor have I forgotten, from that same degree, the preface of Anna Akhmatova's poem Requiem 1935-1940. In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd indentified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she started out of the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there):And suddenly poetry was like joined-up writing for me, and with... <human>: More. <assistant>: it has come an understanding of its vital importance to bear witness, and to say the unsayable. Scars Upon My Heart (and its companion Second World War volume which I don't have yet, Chaos of the Night) is a revelation, quieter, lesser-known voices given their moment to speak. 'We know of the male agony of the trenches from the poetry of soldiers like Sassoon and Owen. We know little of the poetry of what that agony and its millions of deaths meant to the millions of English women who had to endure them - to learn to survive survival. much more modestly yet still truly, these women poets speak for the women whose lives were often blighted by that miserable loss. Laments in the truest sense, a passionate... <human>: Next. <assistant>: expression of grief. Some of the women I had heard of, but many more I had not, for example Aimee Byng Scott. That lecturer also urged us always to take note of... <human>: Next. <assistant>: the layout of the poem on the page, and I have represented that exactly here. and that poem by Vera Brittain in full, also writing of that fateful day in 1916, The Battle of the Somme. Vera Brittain wrote this poem four days before the death of her brother Captain E. Brittain in the Austrian offensive on the Italian Front, June 15th, 1918. Commissioned... <human>: Next. <assistant>: to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the collection features a dazzling array of contemporary poets, each writing about one of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign, and addressing... <human>: Next. <assistant>: a moment or event from their chosen year, be it of personal or political significance or both. The result is a unique portrayal of... <human>: More. <assistant>: the country and times in which we have lived since 1953, and an essential portrait of today. Recorded for interactive poetry experience jubileelines.com the poems have been read by distinguished actors Dan... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Stevens, Samantha Bond, Lyndsey Marshal and Alex Lanipekun. and my apologies, I have only just opened my e mails today so I hope this... <human>: More. <assistant>: is available for a while longer. Here are our back garden Tamar Valley stars, (spot the Plough) and a poem to accompany that somehow touched a chord with me when I read it for the first time last week. My thanks to Susannah Herbert, the new executive director of the Forward Arts Foundation who will be busy furthering the cause of poetry, and who... <human>: Next. <assistant>: did just that by posting this one on her Facebook timeline. It's been a terrible year for bees here in the UK. I know this, firstly because there was a news report last week on the impact of our very wet summer on the poor little drenched bees who just couldn't get out and about to collect the pollen, so the keepers are having... <human>: Next. <assistant>: to feed them sugar supplements already. That's a winter task, virtually unheard of in summer, yet the bees are starving, but it was the local vicar who imparted worse news back in May. The parish vicar has been the main beekeeper in these parts for years, and when I pitched up at the village church to catch sight of the Gamekeeper who was on... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Best Man duties . and I just wanted to see how well... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: the GK had scrubbed up and to take some pics. you can see for yourself, the boy done good and quite different to his usual attire. Well the vicar and I got... <human>: Next. <assistant>: talking while we waited for the bride to arrive, and my first question whenever I see him is always 'How are the bees doing?... <human>: More. <assistant>: ' . Now that our nearest neighbour has had to give up beekeeping after a massive anaphylactic reaction to stings, the Vicar's are almost certainly the bees that pollinate our middle-of-nowhere garden. But, remember that unseasonally hot spell back in March which brought all the bees out early and was then quickly followed by the prolonged cold spell. well the bees didn't survive, every... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: colony lost, at which point the vicar finally decided to give up his hives and call it a day. Very few bees sighted in our garden all summer apart from one sweltering... <human>: More. <assistant>: day back in July when a huge black buzzing fast-moving cloud swept across the garden; a swarm on the loose, and the classic time of year for them to be so, but... <human>: More. <assistant>: heaven knows where they ended up. So all that is by way of a bit of a protracted introduction (with extraneous context) to Bee... <human>: More. <assistant>: Journal by Sean Borodale. It is a while since I have read... <human>: More. <assistant>: 'His' and 'Hers' books but I happen to have done so at... <human>: Next. <assistant>: the moment. Sean and his wife Jane stopped by to say hello at the dovegreyreader tent at Port Eliot Festival, and we had a great chat. All enough to prompt me to open Jane's latest novel The Knot which had been sitting here unread and waiting and which I have just finished (more of which soon but I highly recommend) and also to revisit... <human>: More. <assistant>: Bee Journal in its new paperback edition. Sean sent me Pages From Bee Journal last autumn and I wrote about it here. A hand stitched (he did 400 of them) pamphlet sized collection of poems begun two years previously when Sean took up beekeeping for the first time, chronicling the life and work of the bees along with the relationship between 'keeper' and 'kept'. In his letter Sean wrote that the writing had become an intrinsic part of the keeping of the bees and I was bowled over by it and said so. and apparently we might have done our little bit to help the pamphlet on its way, and into the publication of this new and expanded volume from Jonathan Cape. Having loved the first batch of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: poems I was delighted to find more, and also in sufficient number that Bee Journal can be read chronologically, almost like a seasonal diary... <human>: More. <assistant>: (my favourite format) through the year. This makes it a book to savour and reserve for treat reading, a bit like the best honey (which will be scarce this year) . so on 27th August this. The next poem is dated 29th September and I won't read it until then because I want to be seeing and feeling that day as it happens in the book, but sneaking a preview and glancing ahead I see the first lines. And oh, oh, oh I can't wait. after that 7th October.11th October.16th October.17th October and I can go on and on keeping bees vicariously without having to bother with the suit, the smoker, the veil. It's several years since I did the bee-keeping course and got that certificate to prove... <human>: More. <assistant>: it, but I have never forgotten how fascinating it all was, or how much I enjoyed it. The book is a kind of uncut... <human>: Next. <assistant>: home-movie of bees. I like it oddness and hurriedness, its way of catching thw world exactly as it happens in the split-second before it sets into poetry. These are pre-poems, note-poems dictated by phenomena. Their context is bees, but their subject (intriguingly) is Time. That in itself is like having a poem on the cover of a book, this one really is a word-filled jar of golden treasure. Thinking I had finished with all things Titanic, as well as putting the lid on my Scott of the Antarctic reading with a read of Mrs Chippy's Last Voyage, it felt like time to tuck it all back on the winter shelves and move onto the next nice summery thing, except I had to wake it all up again with... <human>: Next. <assistant>: the arrival of Impact - The Titanic Poems by Canadian poet Billeh Nickerson. As Billeh Nickerson reveals, Canada was not writ large in the Titanic story he knew as a child, beyond... <human>: Next. <assistant>: providing water cold enough to prolong the life of the iceberg, much less well-known ( and to me not really) the fact that many of the victims were buried in Halifax, Nova... <human>: More. <assistant>: Scotia, their bodies left unclaimed after the tragedy by families unable to afford to bring their loved one home. Impact is published by Arsenal Pulp Press who I see are a small,... <human>: More. <assistant>: independent Vancouver-based publisher with big and succesful ideas, having won and been nominated for various industry prizes, and the reach of the blogosphere never ceases to amaze me. How in heaven's name would I have heard about this book if not for Kerry mentioning this book in comments and Cynara from Arsenal Pulp reading that blog post and making contact with me. Billeh Nickerson's book is readable in one sitting, but I have now read it three times at three sittings, and at risk of a terrible pun there really are hidden depths here. Impact is the most perfect title for a series of poems that explore the many unseen facets of the disaster and I can't recommend it highly enough. Just thinking about the multiple meanings of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: the word 'impact' as noun, verb and adjective had my mind spinning... <human>: More. <assistant>: with connotations. collision, effect, impacted meaning to fill up, congest, throng, to be densely packed, impact as the force exerted by a new idea. and these poems filled my head with even more new thinking. The poems begin in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and 'it's true' says Billeh Nickerson in his notes on the text, ' she was alright when she... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: left there. ' Perhaps indeed the building of the Titanic should, though I know it all went wrong, be a cause for the celebration of magnificent structural achievement too, and not only be remembered for the tragedy of the sinking. Many men worked many, many hours putting heart and soul into the construction, and who can know the impact of the disaster on them and their damaged sense of pride in their work that must have followed. Billeh Nickerson focuses on aspects of the ship's building that have come under close scrutiny in recent years, and five poems about the rivets might seem excessive until you actually read them and understand the process and the number of men that must have been involved in making and hammering in... <human>: Next. <assistant>: three million of them. and if poetry is sometimes about giving voice to the unsayable, and if its purpose may be to teach, to console and to warn, then Impact has done all this and more for me. I never knew that micro-organisms 'disliked the tannic acid that finished brown leather' and whilst they would work their way through everything else, and had done... <human>: Next. <assistant>: in the one hundred years since the sinking. That one pulled me... <human>: More. <assistant>: up short and I had to sit and think about it for a very long time before I could move on to the next poem. And who had ever given thought to the piano player whose instrument could not be moved onto the deck, watching as the band played on. Or the wife who had handed her glasses to her husband for safe-keeping as... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: she got into the lifeboat only to have them returned with his effects when his body was recovered. This gathering of poems creates a form of lamentation both heart-breaking and immediate, working as they do to reduce the tragedy down from flabby myth and sensation to its very essence, the lives of the people and their escape, or their sad and harrowing demise, and... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Billeh Nickerson doesn't flinch from the detail. It is a winner and... <human>: Next. <assistant>: it's free, and having discovered it thanks to some retweet of a retweet I had to share it with those with an iPad, and with sincere apologies to those who are without... <human>: Next. <assistant>: The website offers this description of Josephine Hart's unique contribution to live poetry reading, and though it hasn't been updated since her death it... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: gives a good idea of the treasures concealed within this app. Since January 2004, Josephine Hart has been hosting The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour... <human>: More. <assistant>: at monthly readings at the British Library in London. Ralph Fiennes, Brian Cox, Roger Moore, Edward Fox, Eileen Aitkens, Grey Gowrie, Dominic West, Tom Hollander, Edna O'Brien, Harold Pinter, Harriet Walter, Bob... <human>: More. <assistant>: Geldof, Juliet Stephenson and Elizabeth McGovern have read the work of the great poets to spell-bound audiences. Josephine Hart devotes each evening to one or two poets, introducing and setting their poems in the context of their life. `The idea is simple', she says ` An understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry and therefore makes the experience of... <human>: More. <assistant>: reading or listening to each poem more intense. ' The readings by some of our finest actors then ignite the poems. They have become a ‘hot ticket' in London and plans are... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: afoot for taking the poetry overseas. I have to add Dan Stevens to that list. many of you will know him from Downton Abbey. You know the one who was paralysed from... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: the waist down after being gunned down in the trenches, and then by a miracle was transferred to Hospital Downton to convalesce. Then Mary ministered to him and lo he felt a-tingling in his . I'll stop there because I really don't want to spoil it if you haven't seen the series, and I'm sure you won't be able to guess a thing from that. Drownton is the popular name for the Julian Fellowes (of Downton fame) re- telling of the Titanic story and it's all a bit odd. Before we knew it the ship was holed in Episode One, the lifeboats were filling fast and we just couldn't see how the ship was going to stay afloat for three more episodes. In fact the trailer suggests it... <human>: Next. <assistant>: might be un-iceberged next week and a new load of passengers will come on board, so we are going to give it another chance,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: but things will need to improve if our boat is to be... <human>: Next. <assistant>: floated (sorry couldn't resist) sufficiently to see us clinging on for Episode Three. Right, so filmed readings of great actors reading great poems, that... <human>: More. <assistant>: fire crackles nicely in the grate, you can spin the the globe on the floor and get a very satisfying whirring sound and Dan Stevens is winning for the voice so far... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: We thought we'd give that a go too as Bookhound (who may kill me for this) is a closet Tom Jones fan after stumbling across a concert at Edinburgh Castle (as you do) en route to picking Offspringette up from university at Stirling one summer. He got swept up in a mosh of fans waving knickers and had a lovely time. We were pleasantly... <human>: Next. <assistant>: surprised by The Voice, yes I know it's all a bit sad but I heart the principle of judging on voice not looks, with the judges listening with their backs to the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: performers. You just know the gawky, nervous ones are going to have voices made in heaven and pull it off, so good enough Saturday night entertainment for an hour's relaxation. I'm not... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: sure, but it's sort of normal. I switch off through affected poetry reading where there's all this lilting ethereal dreamy stuff going on. Just... <human>: Next. <assistant>: give me the poem, perfectly pitched and down-to-earth normal, and Dan Stevens's intonation and expression is exquisite. He is reading the War Poems and his rendition of Rupert Brooke's The Soldier gives... <human>: More. <assistant>: renewed expression to the familiar words, and if you touch that skull on the mantlepiece (on the app. sorry if you were about to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: touch your screen there) up they all come. I'm not sure I ever elaborated on the launch party I attended in London, and as... <human>: More. <assistant>: I very kindly get invited to a great number of these, and probably manage about one a year, I really should tell you more because if there is one thing I like... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: to do it is share the bounty and the good times with you all. Carol Ann Duffy's most recent collection The Bees released into the world via a wonderfully warm and vibrant (oh alright then, buzzing) event at Goldsboro Books in Cecil Court, just off Charing Cross Road in London. If you know the area then you will know those little walk-throughs lined with... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: bookshops on either side, and I don't know about you but I tend to window shop and browse the tables outside whilst feeling a bit nervous about going in, knowing that I am unlikely to be able to afford what I find. Such a warm welcome, the most fantastic selection of beautiful books, and a bookseller who didn't flip and panic when it transpired... <human>: More. <assistant>: that a bowl of olives had somehow upended itself and drizzled best oil over best books. The rest of us meanwhile were having kittens and using the nearest posh frock to mop... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: it up. Carol Ann Duffy was in fine form, talking to everyone... <human>: More. <assistant>: and generously sharing bottle after bottle of her stipend, the Laureate's Choice sherry. I was given a full bottle to bring home for Bookhound... <human>: Next. <assistant>: (now slightly less full) and an empty as a souvenir of a really enjoyable evening with plenty of great conversation. I clunked them home in one piece on a packed train and... <human>: More. <assistant>: they now have pride of place in the Poet's Corner of my... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Bookroom. 'From 1619 the Poet Laureate received as payment a Butt (720... <human>: Next. <assistant>: bottles) of Sherry from the Crown. The custom ceased from 1790 until 1986 when the Sherry Shippers of Spain revived the custom for Ted Hughes, to mark the centuries old link between Sherry and the United Kingdom. Carol Ann Duffy, 22nd Poet Laureate and first woman to hold the title, was invited to sign her Butt of Sherry in Jerez, where she wrote this... <human>: Next. <assistant>: poem. And finally I have heard and seen Carol Ann Duffy doing... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: a live poetry reading, because most appropriately she read At Jerez, and the Spanish Ambassador was there too, equally proud of his country's contribution to the evening because Carol Ann had actually had to do two tasting trips to Spain before she could make her final decision about her choice. Meanwhile The Bees my runaway favourite poetry collection of the year. This is the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: poetic equivalent of a honey-laden hive stacked out with supers, and I feel sure I will never reach the limits of my understanding or my interest . there will always be more to find here. If I was only allowed one book this might be it at the moment. I've had it months, been reading it frequently in that time and I'm barely a third of the way through. Once a poet offers me the gift I grab it with both hands. It becomes mine to invest in as I please, and with each read of The Bees. perhaps only one poem repeated many times over several days, I accrue a little more interest and can withdraw some of the benefits, but so much left in reserve waiting... <human>: Next. <assistant>: for when I may need it. Each time I return I take away a little bit more as the poem yields its secrets. and it was only as I read the poem... <human>: More. <assistant>: Hive aloud to myself this week that I became acutely aware of the carefulness (please can I have that word. it fits) of Carol Ann Duffy's choice of words. The 'v's that... <human>: More. <assistant>: rushed me through the busy-ness of the work of the hive, then the long lazy 'nectar-slurred, pollen furred' and the 'milky, waxy caves' that slowed me down to a langorous, sleepy pace, me as drunken on the words as the bees were on their pollen. And then there's Achilles and I have dwelt long on the mix of contemporary and mythical themes here whilst... <human>: Next. <assistant>: wondering what readers will make of this one in a hundred years time. and there are copies of this out there online so I'm... <human>: Next. <assistant>: hoping it's alright to snaffle it for here today. an overt reference to the fact that the England football team, without their star player nursing his injured achilles tendon, probably wouldn't stand an earthly in last year's World Cup. The nation mourned what might have been before it had even begun and not happened (rightly as it turned out of course). What will Class... <human>: Next. <assistant>: of 2111 make of that little reference to the 'sarong' which he once wore, or the 'days of sweetmeats, spices, silver song. ' which harks of his marriage to Victoria Beckham, Posh Spice of the Spice Girls. And whilst I can't really share the Sherry with you unless you come to visit, I have managed to secure something a little less likely to break... <human>: More. <assistant>: in the post, and it marks a celebration of our own of sorts and one worth toasting. Now I just sit here in my slippers and write this, it's you who all... <human>: Next. <assistant>: have to commute your way across the crowded interwebs to read it and leave comments, and some time today one of you will take the dovegreyreader stats counter past the 1.5 million page view mark since it all began. So please accept that every single one of you is a very special 'one in one and a half million', thank you for reading and... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: visiting, and what better way to mark a golden day at the end of a golden week than with gifts of honey-laden poetic nectar, so please do scroll down. Five copies of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy which can go worldwide to... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: very lucky homes. Names in comments as usual and we'll draw the winners on Thursday evening.

Instruction: More of this please: In heavy saucepan over low heat, combine sweetened condensed milk, chips and salt. Cook and stir until chips melt. This can be served warm over ice cream and made several weeks in advance. Store tightly covered in the refrigerator. We owe much of our success to being good listeners and good advisers. One of our listening/advice platforms is a series of webinars conducted by Chris Nunn, our director of veteran and community engagement and a veteran of the United States Army; see Chris's article, “How to Work a RecruitMilitary Webinar”. During the webinar sessions, job seekers frequently ask Chris a common series of questions; and many of those FAQ's are about our job fairs. After discussing the webinars with Chris, I concluded that presenting the best of the questions and answering them would help readers of Search & Employ®. A Q&A article would help many active/transitioning/veteran readers understand why they should attend our events; and it would promote more meaningful connections between attendees and employers at the events. To answer the questions, I assembled a panel of my RecruitMilitary colleagues. These are people we call our event directors or “travelers”. They travel to the city where a job fair will be held – usually a day or so prior to the event. They confirm that all event-oriented logistics and other details are in line, conduct promotional efforts to support the event, and help with the physical set-up of the exhibitor booths. Before the doors open to begin the job fair, one of the travelers delivers to the assembled job seekers a kick-off speech offering best-practices guidance on how to work the event. During the event, the travelers troubleshoot exhibitor problems and help match job seekers with employers. In many cases, they introduce specific job seekers to selected employers. Adam: No, you do not need it. Some employers may not even know exactly what that is. That being said, a lot of companies now employ veterans to do their veteran recruiting, so it doesn't hurt to have one on hand. You could bring one for reference, just in case. But I would not hand it out. Doug: I would bring one copy. Every now and then a company might want to see what, specifically, you did in the military and if you qualify for the positions they have available. Not every company will ask to see it, but some might. Rob: Since your DD214 has your social security number and a lot of personal information, you definitely want to be careful where you bring it and who you give it to. When you're doing the onboarding process, it might be requested, but it's not required at any of our job fairs. Adam: No, cover letters are designed for a specific opening at a specific company, and you alter the letter to reflect what they are looking for. When you're at a job fair with 50-plus companies, no one expects you to bring a cover letter. However, if you've looked at the exhibitor list ahead of time and have a few specific opportunities at certain companies you'd like to apply to, then you will definitely want to take those cover letters with you. Chris: When you're at a career fair, you're going to be talking to recruiters who are talking to dozens of candidates. A cover letter, in this situation, isn't really going to help since they just want to get to the “guts” – which is your resume. Doug: I would not bring a cover letter. The purpose of a cover letter is for a specific job. Just bring your resume to the event. Chris: The recruiters at this event understand that we welcome military spouses. Some recruiters are there specifically looking for spouses. Introduce yourself as a spouse. That's probably the easiest way to go about it. Doug: The companies won't ask if you're a spouse, so you will probably need to tell them. But just make it part of your introduction or elevator pitch. Rob: The fact that you are a military spouse will most likely come up naturally in the conversation. For example, if they asked what branch of service you were in, you could tell the recruiter that you are a spouse. But these events are for the spouses, too, so there is nothing to worry about if it comes up. Chris: No, but it should be well groomed. Consider our grooming standards that we had in the military. As a civilian, things are more lax, but you can definitely still apply similar standards to your appearance. It's 2016, and a lot of executive-level professionals have beards, too. Just as long as it isn't shaggy or unkempt, you should be fine. Doug: The recruiters aren't going to care about your facial hair unless it looks sloppy. If you have a beard, and it's trimmed and you look sharp, that makes a good first impression. Chris: This is subjective to the individual. Perhaps you have gaps because you were in school or were in a training program. Those are very easy to explain to a recruiter. Perhaps it was because of unemployment. In that case, certainly lead with your best foot forward, and that is to be honest. Keep in mind, many recruiters will understand that there was a stretch of rampant unemployment, especially among the military/veteran community. If you are currently unemployed, that can actually work to your benefit because hiring you can make your new employer eligible for certain tax benefits. Doug: If they ask about it, be upfront about it. But I wouldn't mention it unless it's brought up by the recruiter. Robert: Give a clear explanation on why there are gaps and what those gaps were. You may have been deployed, you might have been in school. So just make sure to be specific on what you were doing in that gap time. Adam: No, but some definitely will be. That will just be a conversation to have with the recruiter. It's easy to find out what jobs the employers have available before you go to an event. To see who will be exhibiting, go to our website. There is a separate page for every event, and all of those pages have exhibitors tabs. Just pick out a company, then look on our job board and check out that company's job portal and see what they have available. That way, when you come to the job fair, you'll already know if that company is only offering entry-level positions. Chris: Employers at our events can be looking for anything from entry-level to executive-level hires. Some are looking for management, and some employers have programs that will fast-track you because of your military experience. I always just encourage candidates to go and introduce yourself to the recruiter and showcase yourself. Know what you are looking for and what you qualify for, and ask if they have anything along those lines. If they don't say yes right away, ask them what they are hiring for. But don't be discouraged if the first few booths you hit don't have what you want. If there are 40 booths in that room and you only talk to 3 and they're all looking for entry-level positions, don't get discouraged. You still have 37 booths that could have your dream job. You need to talk to everybody. Use your time as wisely as possible. ## Doug: There are entry-level jobs, and there are upper-management jobs and everything in between. I get recruiters telling me what they're looking for all the time; and usually those requests are for a specific, higher-level position. Sometimes, recruiters will come up to me and say “I'm looking for an operations chief today. Can you assist me? ” In cases like that, I keep my eyes open as I meet the candidates at the event. If I find someone who might qualify, I'll bring them over to that booth and introduce them. If candidates stop and talk at every booth, I think they'll be pleasantly surprised at how many different types of jobs are available for them. Robert: There is a wide variety of jobs at our events. I know people who have found jobs like project manager or senior-level management positions at our job fairs. Plus, there are a bunch of companies who have training programs. So you could get into a management training program and move up in the company from there. Chris: Yes, you absolutely should. I always recommend that to candidates after they have had a conversation with a recruiter. A lot of times, even if that isn't the individual who will follow up with you directly for an interview, they can act as a conduit into that organization. Don't constantly ask them where you stand in terms of getting the job. But, yes, connecting with them on LinkedIn is a good idea. Rob: I would recommend that for sure. It's all about who you know. I tell people to even connect with other veterans who work at that company. Then ask that person how they got their foot in the door, and pick their brain about it. But absolutely connect, and make sure there's a personal touch. That will separate you from the rest of the applicants. They can make the judgment whether they're accepting your request or not, but in this case it's a good way to reach out. Robert: That depends. If you've talked to them in depth about a specific position and they've brought up “next steps,” then I would definitely send a request as well as thank them for their time though LinkedIn. Tell them you appreciate them meeting with you, and that you're interested in talking to them more about the next step you will need to do to work for their company. Those kinds of things are impactful. If you send a request with no personal note, they might not accept it. Adam: Since our events are on Thursdays, I would follow up on Friday. Keep in mind that many recruiters might be traveling on Friday, so you might not hear back right away. If you don't get to it on Friday, definitely do it by Monday. Doug: Send a follow-up email right when you get home or the next day. Thank them for their time at the event, and bring up specific things you talked about at the job fair to keep yourself fresh in their mind. Follow-up is a huge thing that people often overlook, but it makes a really big difference in how you are perceived by the company. It's professional and courteous. Rob: I would say between 24 to 48 hours after. Just send them an email thanking them for their time. It will make you stand out from the rest of the pack who have not followed up, and it shows that you are serious about that position. Robert: It depends on what the next steps were. Make sure you are clear, when you talk to the recruiter, on what you need to do next. It may be that they aren't doing interviews until a week after the event. So you wouldn't do your follow-up right away; you'd want to wait until after you went in for your interview. You can even ask the recruiter at the event, “What are the next steps, and when should I follow up? ”Chris: Yes, they absolutely are. RecruitMilitary job fairs are private events, which means the companies that are there paid to have a booth to talk to you, the veterans. That is not money well spent if they are only there in a public- relations capacity, and not actually doing any hiring. Every now and then, you'll get a company that is in a hiring freeze but is still collecting resumes for when that is lifted or when their busy season picks up. Doug: Yes, they really are hiring. I got hired at a RecruitMilitary job fair. It might not happen right on the spot and you may have to go through a hiring process, but these companies are at the event because they really want to hire veterans and their spouses. Rob: They are hiring, but certain government contractors have to meet compliance requirements of the OFCCP, which is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a part of the U. This means that there are protocols in the hiring process. If they tell you to apply online, it's not that they aren't excited about you as a candidate. It's because they have to go through certain steps before having a formal conversation with you. I often communicate with the companies at the event to get a feel for what they're looking for, and I try to send candidates their way if I can. But these companies definitely want to connect with the military talent pool, especially from a hiring standpoint. Adam: Some might hire on the spot if they find the right candidate at the right time, but I wouldn't recommend going into the event expecting that. Chris: Each company is different, and every company has their own hiring process. Many organizations have what is called an “applicant tracking system,” where the applicant must apply online. They may take your resume at the job fair, and then still ask you to apply online. Don't let that discourage you. They have met you, and they have your resume, which means you will likely go to the top of the pile. But you have to go through the correct procedure to be considered for an official conversation about the position. There's a process, and there are steps in place that go beyond the personal preference of the recruiter on site. Some recruiters will do on-the-spot hiring. From what I have seen, this is usually for entry-level positions. But there are certain companies who will do interviews and on-the-spot hiring for more advanced positions, so don't completely rule it out. Rob: It really depends on the company and what their HR process is. I've seen companies ask to use the venue's fax machine to send a hiring package back to headquarters, and I've also seen some where you have to go through a bunch of different steps for federal employment protocol. So yes, there are employers hiring on the spot, but you will have to talk to them yourself to find out which ones are actually doing that. Robert: I've been to many events where companies are doing interviews right on site. I've seen companies doing preliminary interviews with everybody they thought could be a good fit. I've also seen companies offer as many as eight contingent offers at an event. Of course, all of those would depend on the candidate passing a background screening and drug test. And most companies, if they find a superstar, aren't going to let them get away. Adam: I wouldn't resort to jeans and a T-shirt. Wear khakis and a button-up shirt. There are actually a lot of companies out there that will rent out suits for the day, if you're a veteran. So make sure to look into those resources. But come in the best attire that you can. Chris: No one is going to judge you for not owning a suit. If you have a Men's Wearhouse near you, they have a program where they are donating suits to individuals who are re-entering the workforce. You more than likely qualify for that program. That is something you will want to check in on. Also, Farmers Insurance has a Suits for Soldiers program for its agents, employees, and customers to collect and donate suits to men and women who are transitioning to civilian careers. If you don't want to wear a suit, then go for business casual. Your attire isn't everything, but you want to leave a good first impression. Doug: Just do the best you can. I don't even own a suit. But wear a button-up shirt and a tie or a nice dress, and look presentable. When I was hired for my job here at RecruitMilitary, I wore a long-sleeve shirt and a tie to the job fair. If you feel comfortable and look professional, you will do fine. Rob: You just want to look like a serious job seeker. Do the best you can with what you have. A polo shirt with khakis is fine if that is the closest thing you have to business attire. Just don't show up in jeans and a Bon Jovi T-shirt. Robert: If you don't own a suit, please don't let ... Output: The completion of this text could be: that be a deterrent from participating in the job fair. ## Dressing appropriately is important. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to be wearing a suit. Wear a collared shirt, polish your shoes, look squared away. A suit is not the end-all. These events aren't just for finding a job, they're about networking, too. And if you aren't sure about going to the event, you have the tools to find out if the companies there are going to be a fit for you and your work experience. Once again, I am going to plug our website and job board, because you can look ahead of time and see who's going to be there and what they have to offer. Plus, most companies don't really advertise the higher-level positions that they have open at the job fair. If they find the right candidate, they might bring it up, but usually the recruiters are looking to fill a number of specific slots, and that is where they focus. Do your homework before the event and you will know who to talk to at the job fair. Chris: This event is for anybody and everybody who has served, or is currently serving. If you've been out for 20 years, that tells me that you have a wealth of civilian job experience. The recruiters are looking for a wide variety of candidates. You being out for 20 years might mean that you are of higher caliber in their eyes. So definitely come, and be able to highlight what you did in the service. But also be able to show what you've done since. Your civilian work experience will speak for itself. Rob: If you have industry experience, use it to your advantage. If you've been out of work for 20 years – as a homemaker, for example – you will want to think about what, ideally, you wouldn't mind doing. Obviously the way business works and technology changes in 20 years might mean you have to start at the bottom of the ladder and work your way back up. But there are employers here that are looking for intangible skills, like leadership and the ability to be part of a team. These are skills you learned in the military, and they don't necessarily go away with time. So focus on things like that. Adam: If it's a disability that will hinder your work, yes, you should disclose that. But if your disability won't hinder your ability to work, it's up to you whether or not you tell them. I wouldn't go out of my way to tell them. There are certain tax credits companies can get for hiring disabled veterans, but I wouldn't mention that at the job fair. That's more of a topic to cover in follow-up conversations. Having your disability on your resume or somewhere in your paperwork can open the door to that conversation as well. Chris: It's not necessary. If it is a visible disability, you can assume that they know already, so you don't need to mention it. If it's not a visible disability, they might want to know because it's part of their diversity hiring strategy. If they're a government contractor, they need to comply with OFCCP regulations. They also determine whether contractors are taking affirmative action to employ, promote, train, retain and provide reasonable accommodation to certain protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, respectively.”If your disability stems from PTSD or something along those lines, you certainly don't have to tell them. It's always up to you whether you disclose your disability or not. Just know that your disability won't act as a hindrance at our events. It's not going to be a barrier for you to obtain employment, just because you're disabled. Doug: I wouldn't enter the conversation with talking about things you are unable to do because of a disability. However, because of the tax credits that are available to companies who hire disabled veterans, it might be worthwhile to mention that you qualify as a hire that would make them eligible for those credits. But I wouldn't lead off on that. Start with your skills and what you bring to the table. Rob: It's not mandatory for you to divulge. So if you don't want to let someone know about your disability status or don't think that it would enhance chances of you getting the job, then I recommend just keeping that to yourself. If you have any other questions about our job fairs, or any questions about our job board, Search & Employ®, or any other RecruitMilitary product or service, just send them to Chris Nunn at chris. He will get them answered for you. From all of us here at RecruitMilitary, best of luck in your job search, and thank you for service in the armed forces of the United States. Elizabeth Stetler is associate editor and production/circulation manager of Search & Employ® and a veteran of the United States Army. ## Contact her at estetler@recruitmilitary. These two young elephant seals are engaging in behavior that for now is just play, learning the skills needed as adults. But as adults, this behavior is quite serious. Large male seals have been seriously injured as males challenge each other for access to the adult females. My friend Scott makes telescopes, for fun and profit. He works at Tele Vue, a company that makes high end refractors and eye pieces. His passion is astronomy and he has made a number of scopes including this one. This is a one of a kind scope assembled from surplus Tele Vue parts. It looks good and it gives good looks. Products of the Batsto iron works during the War for Independence. Not only were the iron workers exempt form military service during the Revolutionary War, but there was company of fifty men, with two lieutenants and John Cox, then owner of the iron works, as captain of the unit, authorized to defend the ironworks. As befits a bird nest built in the Pinelands National Reserve, this one in made with twigs, leaves, and pine needles. This nest was above my car in the Batsto visitors center parking lot. Thanks to Lorrie (see Challengers sidebar on the right) as it was her needlework theme image that made me look at the theme in a different light. If you look closely, you'll see that this map depicts the vision of Joseph Wharton, Esq. Wharton was a Philadelphia businessman who attempted to buy up much of what is now the Pinelands National Reserve with the idea to sell the water in the Pinelands to his home city. Eventually Wharton would amass holdings of 112,000 acres within the Pine Barrens. The New Jersey legislature got wind of Wharton's plan to sell water and passed a law banning the sale of water out of state. Wharton then turned to farming. In 1912 Wharton's heirs attempted to sell the land to New Jersey, but a referendum to do so was defeated. They state would later reconsider and in two separate deals would acquire 96,000 acres by 1956. Continuing with the "show me the money" themes, here we have coins typically used in everyday life in a town like Batsto. The larger ones are pennies. The two out of focus smaller ones are, I think, a two cent piece and a half dime. Another exhibit at the Batsto visitors center, of the day to day currency used in the town. Bank notes used to be just that, notes for payment upon presentation issued by a bank. The total face value shown here is sixty cents. Half a day's pay for working in the iron works. A display in the visitors center at Batsto Village. The Miller family and its descendants worked at Batsto for three different owners of the town. Batsto was a company town, with the workers all living in company owned homes, being paid in company script, and shopping at the company store. For 92 years the owners were a different family, the Richards family. Building # 4 in the model was the Richard's mansion. The smaller brown buildings were the workers homes. In 1876 Joseph Wharton purchased the property. More about him in a future post. Prior to the formation of the Batsto ironworks and the production of metal tools, stone was was used, as with this axe head. Before European settlers came to Batsto it was used by Native Americans beginning around 3000 BCE (and perhaps as far back as 9000 BCE). By the time of the first settlers it was the Lenni-Lenape tribe who were resident throughout the area. And this image shows an example of their technology. My next stop was Batsto Village, part of which is shown in the model above. The "You Are Here" sign refers to building # 1, the visitors center, in which I shot this, and several other, challenge images. The industrial village at Batsto was founded in the 18th century as a iron works. With the collapse of the bog iron industry it became a center of glass production in the 19th century. Today it, like Harrisville, is part of the Wharton State Forest. But unlike Harrisville many of the buildings are still standing and in working order. And now the village is a state historic site. While wandering about the Harrisville site as described in the prior post, I came upon this rusted and bent horseshoe. I've no idea if it is from two years or two centuries ago. And I wonder how it came to be bent. A friend turned me on to the book, Ghost Towns and Other Quirky Places in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, by Barbara Solem-Stull. And I decided to visit some today. The first was Harrisville which for much of the 1800's was a thriving paper mill town. Today all that is left, except for a few other crumbling walls, is shown in the image above, of the lone remaining wall of the paper mill. The book gives excellent directions on how to find the site. If it hadn't I would not have. I followed the route described, pulled on to the sand road, and parked facing the ruins. And I didn't see them, so thick was the vegetation. After checking the site map in the book I looked up and saw the fence around the ruins, almost completely obscured by trees, shrubs and vines. I followed the fence around to the end and found a spot where I could take this shot. Alas, actually wandering about the ruins is not allowed, so this is the only angle to shoot from. On the north end of the Point Reyes National Seashore is the Tule Elk Reserve. September is mating season and the male here is sniffing about his harem searching for willing females. I don't know if he found any, as moments after I took this shot very thick fog rolled in completely obscuring the elk. This would be the only good image of the elk I was able to capture. Heavy fog would be a recurring theme all along the coast, from Point Reyes all the way to Los Angeles. Perched well above the Pacific ocean on the cliffs overlooking the lighthouse at Point Reyes National Seashore, this peregrine falcon looked very small and lonely. But appearances can be deceiving, as its mate came into view as I walked a bit farther along the trail. A park ranger would later inform me that they are a resident pair, nesting in the cliffs here. A pair of young northern elephant seals. This is another shot taken on my California trip. Their parents, and the rest of the adult seals, have already headed out to sea to feeding grounds. The young remain behind on the beaches feeding in the relatively protected coves. But eventually they too will leave the nursery and make their way in the world. The royalty of the butterfly world, the monarch. This particular butterfly was imaged along the California coast in September and was probably migrating to its winter home. Monarchs have an incredible life cycle. They leave their wintering grounds in Mexico or in southern California in the spring and over several generations they migrate throughout the US and into southern Canada. Each generation pushing a bit farther north. Then in the fall the last generation migrates all the way back to the wintering grounds, a place they've never been and was last seen by their great great great great great grandparents. They can be seen in large numbers in the fall in Cape May, NJ as they pass through heading south. Imagine, these fragile creates, some starting out as far north Maine, traveling down the east coast as they fly on to Mexico, congregating in the millions in a remote fifty acres in the Transverse Neovolcanic Mountains in Mexico. The butterfly in the image wasn't heading to those mountains, as only butterflies living east of the rockies wind up there. Southern California or Baja Mexico was the more likely destination. This set of shots was taken at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. And the idea of using a sequence of sunset images for the theme was stolen inspired by LawGirl (see Other Challengers list on the right). When you emerge from the tunnel on the ocean side you're greeted with this view of a pocket beach and waterfall. My friend and colleague Rob is shooting the last rays of the sunset from a tunnel under the Pacific Coast Highway at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, in the Big Sur region. The pacific ocean from the Pacific Coast Highway south of Monterey and north of Big Sur. Most of the time the view of the ocean was shrouded in fog. Here the fog lifted, literally, off the ground to become low clouds. Apparently this is not uncommon. At Point Reyes National Seashore you need to go down 30 stories of stairs to get to the lighthouse, because this allows the light to be seen under the fog. Contrast this with lighthouses on the east coast of the US, where I live, which are often set at the high points along the coast. So there are two openings here, the lifting of the fog to open the view and the openings in the clouds, which are the obvious theme of the image. The NJ Audubon Society's Rancocas Nature Center is a mere eight miles from my home and over the years I've wandered the trails and taken my share of images. This month they are having a photo exhibition and they asked their visitors to submit up to five images. These are the five I chose. NJ is the most densely populated state in the US. Most people are familiar with the industrial corridor of the NJ Turnpike, which connects Philadelphia and New York City. But if you cross the state in the other direction, from the Delaware Water Gap in the highlands, through the Pinelands and on down to Cape May, you'll learn why NJ is called the Garden State. But there are many pressures on these undeveloped spaces. The NJ Audubon Society is one of a number of groups dedicated to preserving what is left of the wilderness in NJ. And I am glad to support them with both as a volunteer and as a member. This fence is at one of the retired ranches at Point Reyes, which has now been turned into a historic site. There were over a hundred meters of this fence, all of it covered with lichens. This was the normal state of the wood fences throughout the park. This is the first of a couple of images made at Point Reyes National Seashore, which is north of San Francisco, California. I was staying in San Mateo, which is south of San Francisco and when I started out that morning the weather was perfect. When I arrived at the visitor's center at Point Reyes the sun was shining. But as I drove toward the shoreline the fog rolled in, greatly limiting photo ops. There are a number of working cattle ranches in Point Reyes, grandfathered in when the National Seashore was created. In fact it was a joint effort of the Sierra Club and the ranchers to preserve the land and the two groups asked the National Park Service for help. I had expected to see wildlife and my mammal list included coyote, elk, squirrels, and deer at Point Reyes. But I hadn't expected to see cows on the hillsides.

Instruction: Finish this: Jacobson, MD is a practicing Anesthesiologist in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Jacobson graduated from Autonomous University of Guadalajara Faculty of Medicine in 1989 and has ... Output: Completed pargraph(s): been in practice for 28 years. He completed a residency at Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center. Jacobson also practices at Pharmasouth Research in... Instruction: Next. Output: Miami, FL. In the days leading up to the Super Bowl 52, pop star Pink, who was scheduled to perform the national anthem at... Instruction: Next. Output: the event, shared an Instagram post in which she came clean about battling the flu. The mother-of-two revealed that she had contracted the virus from her children, and that she was bummed because she had "been waiting to sing this song since 1991 when I saw my idol, Whitney Houston, own this song. "She continued, "And now, my chance has finally come. And it just so happens that this chance comes when I have two small Petri dish kids who literally cough INTO MY MOUTH and rub their snot on my cheek. You can't write this stuff I swear! And here we are. I've arrived at another one of my dreams which is slowly becoming a sort of nightmare. I will tell you, this is one of the... Instruction: Next. Output: biggest honors of my life, singing this song in front of my family, my military family, my dad and brother and step mama and... Instruction: Next. Output: family and the world. And the EAGLES! ? ! ? ! "The "Perfect" singer then promised to "do my best, as I always do,"... Instruction: More. Output: and she's definitely a woman of her word. On Sunday, Pink, whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore, stood on a football shaped podium at the U. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota... Instruction: Continue. Output: and delivered a fantastic performance of the patriotic song. Had she not disclosed that she was suffering from the flu, we wouldn't have guessed... Instruction: Continue. Output: People, including celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, immediately took to social media to weigh in on the singer's version of the "Star Spangled Banner. "Sheryl Crow called the performance "best I've ever heard!... Instruction: Continue. Output: " while singer Josh Groban quipped that "Pink singing that well with the flu is goals. "However, there was one person who wasn't impressed with Pink's performance, and they were very vocal... Instruction: Next. Output: about their dissatisfaction. But Pink wasn't about to let them get away with bashing her rendition of the anthem. "If I've said it once, I've said it 1000 times. Pink sucks and if you like her singing you're dumb #SuperBowl. "As soon as Pink saw the mean tweet, she stood up to the cyber bully with the best response. She tweeted, "Yeah but at... Instruction: Continue. Output: least I suck while singing our countries national anthem, and you just suck by yourself on a dirty couch. ""All of your prayers and... Instruction: More. Output: well wishes and candles got me through," the singer captioned a photo of herself and her daughter. "Thank you for all of your love... Instruction: More. Output: and support. We *heart emoji* you. "All of your prayers and well wishes and candles got me through. Thankyou for all of your love and support. #SuperBowl2018 pic.com/x9M6XYV3NyPink was also at the... Instruction: Continue. Output: center of another controversy last night. Right before anthem, the cameras were on her while she removed what many thought was gum out of her mouth. After much speculation, the woman of the hour herself cleared up the confusion. Considering she has the flu, we can see why she'd want to keep the lozange in her mouth for as long as possible to soothe... Instruction: More. Output: her throat before belting out all those high notes. Regardless of what the critics say, Pink showed up and didn't falter, and for that she deserves to be praised, not bashed. If... Instruction: More. Output: Evening Star Church of Ashley County, Arkansas is your church, tell us more! Click here and email a detailed description of all the great things your church has to offer and we'll include it here. The Gap's sequined mesh tote is no more – not a big surprise since the bag is so on-trend and so affordable. Is Woodstock being revived? Here's a trivia question for you. What's one event that transformed a nature and became kinda iconic yet you never sit around wondering if anything will be done for its fortieth anniversary. Give up? Woodstock! The legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival is apparently seeking sponsors for get this – a re-enactment in Manhattan. Here at SheKnows the buzz is that Woodstock promoters think it's completely feasible and do-able... Instruction: More. Output: As for the secret location? Perhaps Central Park, perhaps not. The really cool thing is The Who played at the original concert in Bethel... Instruction: Continue. Output: (upstate New York for all the non-New Yorkers keeping score). We wonder if The Who will reprise their role at the newly minted Woodstock? And how about other acts? We can imagine... Instruction: Continue. Output: it will be green-friendly as they hope the concert is a free event and leaves as small a carbon imprint as possible. Here's the kicker: it all boils down to money. If the Woodstock organizers are successful in raising funds via sponsors, it will determine if there is an event and also, how big the Woodstock reprisal is done up. We hear they would... Instruction: More. Output: be totally jazzed if Santana, Joe Cocker and Crosby Stills and Nash performed at the newly minted Woodstock. Ten years ago for the thirtieth... Instruction: More. Output: anniversary the Red Hot Chili Peppers (not to be confused with a... Instruction: Continue. Output: Scottish band, the Red Hot Chili Pipers – so not kidding! ), so we also hear the Woodstock promoters are considering them as well... Instruction: Next. Output: Obviously, there are more than 5 great Marvel graphic novels, but here's... Instruction: Continue. Output: a small selection of the very finest. The quintet I've chosen are all accessible to anyone, really, and don't require a PhD in Marvel chronology to appreciate. Marvels Kurt Busiek's take on... Instruction: Continue. Output: the Marvel Universe's New York through the eyes of Daily Bugle (... Instruction: More. Output: . Credit to Capcom, they know how to build anticipation amongst gamers and comic fans alike. The developer has been slowly revealing its roster for Marvel vs. Capcom 3, released next month, for what seems like several years now. And it's definitely an eclectic cast, that features mainstays Ryu, Spider-man and Wolverine amongst such bizarre choices ( . Marvel Jan 10, $3.99 Story: Paul... Instruction: Continue. Output: Cornell Art: Tom Raney, Scott Hanna, John Paul Leon, Matt Milla The upcoming Iron Man sequel has seen renewed interest in Natasha Romanova, and this quality origin story is definitely the way to go about promoting the super-spy to a new generation of comic readers. Paul Cornell, whose recent ( . Writer: Daniel Way Pencils: Doug Braithwaite Inks: Bill Reinhold, Cam Smith, Paul Neary Colours: Art Lyon, Andy Troy I'd hardly be going out on a limb to say that Daken isn't quite the fan favourite his father is, or the antagonist Marvel wishes for. We've yet to see the character do or say one remotely ( . In a hastily called special session of the State House of Representatives convened with only one day's notice, State Representatives... Instruction: Next. Output: Jason Perillo (R-113) and Ben McGorty (R-122) criticized House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz (D-Berlin) for his attempt to kill the bipartisan budget passed by the legislature in September, but vetoed by Governor Malloy... Instruction: Next. Output: Firmly aware that there would not be the necessary 101 votes to override the veto, the session was called by the Speaker to quickly defeat the bipartisan budget – but that's not... Instruction: Continue. Output: how it played out. House rules require the bill to be recalled by a member on the prevailing side of the bill, and none who voted in favor of the budget called the bill to assure its defeat. The Shelton legislators joined with supporters of the bipartisan budget, both Republicans and Democrats, in preventing action from being taken, thwarting the Speaker's attempt to kill the budget bill. Having not taken action on it, the budget remains on the table, though both Shelton legislators recognize that getting an additional 24 Democrats to support the budget is a tall task. “The Speaker meant it when he said he didn't want to override the budget we passed here last month, and this slick attempt to hastily call us in when he... Instruction: Continue. Output: knows many supporters of the budget won't be her shows the lengths he will go to,” said Rep. “His actions today directly place our communities in jeopardy with the loss of essential... Instruction: More. Output: education funds, and critical support for mental health and addiction services to... Instruction: Continue. Output: name a few, by continuing us under the governor's executive orders. By refusing to take a vote today, we defeated his intent to kill this bipartisan budget, and ensured it remains as a viable alternative on the table for the time being. I remain absolutely committed to working for a budget solution that does not rely on the $1.5 billion in tax hikes, and... Instruction: More. Output: restores the vital services our budget preserves and the governor intends to slash.”“As long as we are in special session we can recall the bipartisan budget that Governor Malloy vetoed,” said Rep. “Ours is the only budget on the table right now that has the support to pass both chambers, and it should stand. Today the leaders of the majority essentially declared that they... Instruction: Next. Output: would prefer communities across the state like Shelton to lose their education funding and see critical services gutted over passage of this bipartisan agreement. They are trying to start over from the... Instruction: Continue. Output: beginning as if it were six months ago, meanwhile we are the lone state in the U. S that remains without a budget.”The General... Instruction: More. Output: Assembly would need 101 votes in the House and 24 in the... Instruction: Next. Output: Senate to override Governor Malloy's veto. A date for the next session has not been set as of today. Men pump a Falcon hand... Instruction: Next. Output: tub, used to battle fires in the 1800s, at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. Firefighters will receive half-price admission to Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) on Saturday, July 20 for the museum's annual... Instruction: Continue. Output: vintage fireman's muster, “Fire & Ice Day.”Antique fire trucks, including early hand-pumpers and a rare 1921 Stutz firetruck, will parade around the Village Common... Instruction: Next. Output: and will be on display throughout the day at the Sturbridge, Mass. Visitors can join in bucket brigades and pumping contests, and watch old-fashioned ice cream-making using 19th century recipes. They can also taste entries in the third annual Best Chili in History Contest and vote for the winner. Antique “hand tubs” were pulled by firefighters rather than horses, and were operated by pumping... Instruction: Next. Output: the long handles on each side, drawing water from the machine's tub and spraying it onto the fire. First developed in the 1700s, these... Instruction: Continue. Output: hand tubs were a huge improvement over the bucket brigade method of firefighting and were used for nearly 100 years. It took many volunteers to pump the wooden side handles, which were... Instruction: Continue. Output: called “brakes.” The phrase “take a brake” comes from the call for fresh volunteers to take a turn pumping in order to give tired firefighters a rest (or, to “take a brake”). The OSV's fourth annual Best Chili in History Contest will enable visitors to sample the entries from local restaurants and vote for the winner. Entrants include the Publick House, B. 's Smokehouse, Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center, Veritas, and OSV's own Bullard Tavern. Junior Fire Explorers from several towns will compete in pumping contests and bucket brigades on Fire & Ice Day. These groups of young people volunteer with their towns' fire departments to learn firefighting skills. OSV historians will demonstrate both 18th- and 19th-century ice cream making techniques during the day as well as highlight... Instruction: Next. Output: ice cream's rich history. OSV celebrates New England life in the 1830s and is one of the largest living history museums in the country. The museum is open daily 9:30 a. Admission... Instruction: More. Output: is $24; seniors $22; children 3-17, $8; and children 2 and younger, free. Parking is free as is a return visit within 10 days. Previous Post Protect your family: Five killer outdoor power equipment-related dangers Next Post PHOTOS OF PEOPLE AT THE SHELTON FIREWORKSSnow total amounts continue to increase around Connecticut, based on state Department of Transportation (DOT) figures. The DOT releases snow total... Instruction: Continue. Output: amounts every few hours. Here are some of the figures from the DOT report based on measurements made at 6 a,m. The highest amount... Instruction: Next. Output: was reported in Putnam, a small town in the Northeast Corner that borders northern Rhode Island. Parts of Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts received large amounts of snow. Previous Post Lauretti: City may start building new Constitution Blvd. section Next Post Shelton schools have a delayed opening Wednesday; See the specific timesAntonio's plans to expand its current building into the outdoor front porch area at the Italian eatery on Bridgeport Avenue. Owner Antonio Xhokola plans to enclose the front porch area to enlarge his kitchen and create an upgraded entryway to Antonio's Italian Style Pizza on Bridgeport Avenue. The new interior space would enable the kitchen to be enlarged and create a nicer entrance, restaurant owner Antonio Xhokola told the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z). Antonio's Italian Style... Instruction: Continue. Output: Pizza moved to its current leased location at 12-A Bridgeport Avenue in August 2014. It previously had operated at another rented downtown location, just down the road on Center Street, for 13 years. By expanding the enclosed space and kitchen, Antonio's should be able to shorten the waiting time during its busiest times, such as Friday nights, Xhokola said. “We'll be able to serve... Instruction: Continue. Output: people faster,” he said. He said the outdoor porch doesn't serve a functional purpose and more space is needed in the kitchen, including for storage. Xhokola also said the current main entrance opens directly from the porch to the dining area, and this allows cold air to get inside. The new, enclosed area should include a vestibule, with a double set of doors, to... Instruction: Continue. Output: prevent that problem. The P&Z unanimously approved the plans for Antonio's. Xhokola said he expects to complete the work this summer. Xhokola and his... Instruction: More. Output: wife, Eda, own and operate the pizzeria and eatery. They opened it in 2001, sold it a few years later, and then purchased it back in 2010. The new location had led to a definite increase in business, with more parking space and a larger kitchen than the old site, said Xhokola, who was born in Albania and grew up in Italy. Magnetic backed... Instruction: Next. Output: numerical tiles supplied on an A4 sheet for use in warehouse and rack identification. Ideal for quick and easy application to any steel surface,Get... Instruction: More. Output: ready to dance the night away in these Shyanne Floral Festival Western Boots. These stunning boots feature a floral embroidered design with a studded collar and an array of decorative boot straps. They feature a striking pointed toe with a classic cowboy heel. Dress up a pair of denim or a dress with these fun Shyanne Festival Western Boots! Communication, scheduling, and accessibility were... Instruction: Continue. Output: the three main points of interest discussed at the open forum sponsored by the Sheridan County Fair Board last night at the Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall. Communication is the key as close to... Instruction: Next. Output: 30 people attended the forum which gave them the opportunity to express both what they felt was good and bad at the fairgrounds. With the limited number of summer weekends and the growing number of fairgrounds users, scheduling can become difficult. Vice chair of the fairgrounds board, James ‘Hoot' Bohnsack said that they try to schedule on a first come, first serve basis and... Instruction: More. Output: try to be as flexible and fair to the community as a whole as they possibly can. He added that if it's an annual... Instruction: Continue. Output: event, they try to pencil them in if it looks like organizers are planning to have the event again, but it's a "scheduling nightmare.”Bohnsack emphasized that the board needs immediate feedback and... Instruction: More. Output: encouraged the public to attend the monthly fair board meetings, held the... Instruction: Continue. Output: third Thursday of each month in the Fairgrounds main office. Major events held at the fairgrounds are the high school rodeo; several team roping events; the carnival, the WYO, Sheridan County, Elk's Youth, Sheridan College, and Young Riders Rodeos, the Silver Bullet roping event, plus the Sheridan County Fair. These will floss your teeth but are kind of flimsy. I much prefer the Plackers... Instruction: Continue. Output: brand. They work better than regular floss, but they aren't the best dental picks out there. I love these, I carry them around in... Instruction: Continue. Output: my purse and I use them after every meal and even when... Instruction: Continue. Output: I have a sore tooth they help to ease the pain just from using one. Way easier and more convenient than regular dental floss. And feels like a good price for how many you're getting. This product is so much easier than regular dental floss. I feel like it really cleans in between my teeth.16222003 in Polished Brass by Phylrich in Philadelphia, PA -... Instruction: Continue. Output: Pressure Balance Shower Set Lever Handle - Polished Brass.

<human>: What are the missing words: Every Tuesday and Saturday we leave Windhoek in [words 1] direction. We visit the famous Sossusvlei, Dune 45 and all the beauty around it. If you would like to see the oldest desert and highest dune in the world, then this is the tour for you. After you have been picked up from your accommodation in Windhoek the awesomeness starts. On your way southwest you drive over scenic routes passing the Eros Mountains, Naukluft Mountains and the Remhoogte Pass before arriving at Solitaire, a small settlement. After Solitaire, the savanah landscapes make room for the red sand of the Sossusvlei desert. From here on the tour is filled with beautiful sand filled landscapes. With visits to [words 2] Sossusvlei and Sesriem Canyon these are going to be 3 great days of exploring. No reason not to book now! We travel out over the ErosMountains and along scenic roads on our way south-west to the desert. We also pass over part of the Naukluft Mountains, which are of particular interest for the ancient geological history of this part of the country. Heading down from Namibia's central plateau by way of the beautiful Remhoogte Pass, we reach open plains and the tiny settlement of Solitaire. After breakfast, we begin our journey back to Windhoek following a different route, ascending the massive Gamsberg Pass in the Khomas Hochland Mountain Range on our way back to civilization. souvenirs, any extra activities, sleeping bag & pillow (camping only), alcoholic beverages, soft drinks & bottled water, personal travel insuranceToday is the 6th anniversary of my blog. I would like to thank everyone from bottom of my heart for supporting me in this journey. I will write and write till my last breath. 🙂 Thanks again for all the support and love which I have received from all of you. Keep visiting and motivating me with your valuable views. General Enquiry - Financial advisers, investment, wealth management and pensions advice - Ashley Phillips LtdWearing Indian clothes definitely is one of the most exciting situations for all ethnic girls. You can surely count me in that list. It's surprising to me, how many endless beautiful options one has while thinking about Indian wear. The most appreciable aspect about Indian accouterments is, even the simplest elements create undefinable elegance to a woman. Personally, I adore the glam Indian apparel add to me. Residing [words 3] to the casual and western style of dressing. There were lesser than few opportunities which required wearing Indian outfits. Comfort in clothing always comes first in the order of elements for designing. Beyond the shadow of doubt, I cherish every spec of detail in the Indian garments, for sometimes too much of good can get heavy. I love to slip in the most comfy pair of denims and hop into a tee, but on those days when the call for Indian; let it be festivals, parties, weddings, sangeets, I go gaga O_o. Over the last year, I've found the cheesiest hacks and to handle a crew of heavy Indian outfits is a frame I do not fit into. This is the most intricate affair for me and I only leave myself startled with the contemporary- chic looks you can create. Combined a simple cropped blouse with printed culottes. I wore some bling slip-ons to add the glit of Indian, [words 4] comfy. I personally love this look. Slipping into a pair of denim shorts and dropping a kurti on, this is love. Calling for the most effortlessly chic outfits of all. Paired a Phulkari Jacket with white pants and a tank top. Well I can never get enough of this attire. You can create several different looks just by doing the mix-n-match game. January 18, 2017 [words 5] basics, closet, fashionblog, featured, indian, indianoutfits, lifestyleblog, max, maxfasions, nykaa, ootw, outfits, w, wertern, whatiwore 9 Comments I was reading a book, when I came across a point where [words 6] protagonist goes to a church and heads to the confession box. That's when I kept thinking how easy things are for those who go to churches. Not that we can do anything and then confess about it, but there are certain things, which might seem trivial, which are better off shared with someone rather than keeping it to ourselves. But there is a problem here, whom do [words 7] might wonder why this such a [words 8] deal. We have friends and family and there will be at least one person with whom we share a good rapport and a comfortable equation. But the problem is, people judge us or we are scared that people will [words 9] us. Not in the wrong way, but we've come to a point where people around keep evaluating us. We are aware that the moment we open our eyes and take a step forward, people keep watching us. This includes our close family members and friends too. Sometimes we might not want to, but inadvertently and subconsciously we end up judging others. Not for each and every simple thing, but you never know. For instance, when I told a friend that I refused to help someone (it wasn't a life-threatening situation, and I'm stating this clearly because I don't want you to judge me) because the said person was mean to me, I did notice an expression in the face which did convey [words 10] intended to. I explained that the person behaved unprofessionally and spoke behind my back. My mom always says it's ok if I don't help but I shouldn't be a nuisance. Well I took her words seriously this time and refused to help and still tried not to be a nuisance. So coming back to the [words 11] be really nice if we had the chance to talk to someone (probably who doesn't know us or about us), pour our heart out and get rid of all those heavy thoughts which keep burdening us (Never underestimate the power of a simple thought). If only we had the option of identifying someone, speaking with them and then using a reset button, to erase any traces of information that the other person might have held on to. This way I can have the satisfaction of having shared something that kept bothering me, and I wouldn't have to worry about the other person judging me. If you have any such person in your life, please hold on to them and don't ever let them run away from you. But if you're like me, and you don't want to burden anyone (read trust) with your stories, we need to wait for intelligent people to pull of something using technology. Till such time the world comes up with a solution for this, I'll go back to talking with [words 12] pillows. “Sharing is caring” 😉 I guess I remember reading you once [words 13] then that someone going and asking you to do trivial things like search and get back which could have been done easily? (Please do ignore if it isn't you. Pillows used to be my companion few years ago. Then one day I did find someone with whom I can truly be myself. But now I'm afraid that I have to [words 14] it go. Nice write up Ashwini. One can always share with a trusted friend the hurting problems so long they are not very seriously personal. Forget [words 15] their judging. All of us always judge others unconsciously though we may not express openly. For serious issue,silence is the best course. I have one such person in my life. Actually I have three. One is friend and 2 are family. And you are right, hold such people tight. Having a journal and writing really helps because unlike talking to pillows one needs to focus and organize one's thoughts . And a journal has no brain to judge you 🙂I think there is a mix up here. Confession (like [words 16] to have the intention of returning to God and [words 17] sorrow. I think what you mean is confiding. Confiding is to tell someone (trusted relative/friend) something that is secret or private. This is only to get things off our chest. We may not acknowledge our “sin” with true sorrow. Very valid observation, Ash. If one could confide in someone and share one's deepest darkest secrets without hesitation then it would be [words 18] wonderful. I have a few in my family and friends who listen without judging, and I hope that I provide them the same. Hmmm very hard to find . but I do have very close friends with who I can vent out anything at any point without being judged. Like Rachna said, I also try to be the same with them. I am not sure if I will vent out with a person I don't know. I feel that we ourselves are our best listeners. We can confess everything to ourselves without being afraid of being judged or betrayed. I often find confessing to one self gives the most freeing feeling, and we also get resolutions for our problems, for as we all know, we know everything. so true THAT ELUSIVE button the reset button . and hey you wanna talk you can always talk to me , [words 19] and listen to everything or anything you have to say . 🙂Take care and you are right we do need that person who will not judge us and just listen to us [words 20] empathize with you, Ash. Whether you are going through a very lean phase in your life, or whether you're doing extremely well, people will always talk behind your back and they will always judge you. And, yes it would be great if we have someone in our life with whom we can share anything without the fear of being judged. But sadly, humans don't come with a reset button. 🙂You [words 21] say no and need not have to explain or try and justify why you did! Yes, it would [words 22] were not so judgy all the time! ! If only they did more introspection then they would know not to cast the first stone! ! Isn't life difficult [words 23] gives us what exactly we want, and makes us give it up after a while. Some things can be shared, but [words 24] some things close to the heart is best left for the walls/pillows to hear. I had this habit of writing a journal, but I was scared when I thought about the consequences of what would happen if someone 'accidentally' read it. So stopped writing ever since. But I miss how consoling it used to me after I write. Yes, I was trying to draw a parallel here with [words 25] Confession process, but yes I did talk more about confiding. The reason I spoke [words 26] was how you can share thoughts to some random person and not be bothered about the confidentiality. In an ideal world, yes. If we have such wonderful people around us, it's really fine. What if some people aren't that lucky enough? In that case, I felt it would be better to vent feelings with someone who is not associated with the event. Sometimes when I'm troubled with something, I try to talk to myself or write about it to find out what is bothering me and whether my current course of action is good enough. But doesn't the human heart long for some works of consolation? 🙂Thank you so much Bikram. Thank you for the kind words 🙂 I now definitely know that I can trust one person here 🙂Surprisingly, we need more people around us when we're [words 27] the fake ones stay away from us (out of jealousy ) may be. And more than the sorrow, we do need people to share happiness 🙂Very very well said. The more you have to justify, the more you regret having confessed something to the person in question. Ash not everyone is judgmental. Perhaps some experiences shook your faith but it will help if you learn to trust people once again. You are smart-you will not trust the wrong persons i think. These days [words 28] that role, sometimes. In fact, confessions boards had become very popular sometime back. Maybe its in our nature to be judgemental about any communication that comes our way. Maybe, its human nature, I dont know. But I dont think we need another “person” for confessions [words 29] out (better half could be one such [words 30] though). Your option of pillows is good, even closing the door and talking in front of the mirror is worth exploring. 🙂Not everyone is, but sometimes I feel I cannot be sure how people would react. And thats when I'm doubtful. More than the [words 31] is the anonymity that it offers made it popular I guess. Confessions indeed makes living life easy and light. 'Whom to confess' is the [words 32] the answer to that, as you pointed out rightly, doesn't come easy 😦Confiding in someone is so therapeutic but that someone has to be chosen with care! I agree with you, Pillows work [words 33] a piece of paper helps too! I used to try writing in a paper and then got scared wondering what would happen if someone read it by mistake. In the blogisphere it is the convention to shape a post as a short, ad hoc comment on something just then crossing the author's mind. It is a page in a diary of disconnected aperçus, so organized (by category or channel) as to allow both writer and reader to reassociate or glean a larger idea by pasting them together. Or, perhaps more often, even if reassembled, will provoke no larger insight, only a feel for the way the author's mind (personality) is shaped, operates; thus a way of handshaking with an invisible readership. (The one very important exception is of course the unifocal blog, most often one exploring or updating or contexting events in the world of politics). My personal preference is to regard a post as a long essay or even [words 34] a book. Perhaps a meander, in the blog tradition, but one that I try to follow until it takes us somewhere new, a place them worth pausing at. That in turn means that published posts will often be incomplete, missing transitions that are needed to make the text logically coherent, and/or ending with a falling off the cliff – that is, a long pause . Often they will stay that way for weeks, until inspiration of new material arrives that will encourage completion. I suppose it would be easier on my potential readers to keep such meanders under a blanket, as drafts, until they approach something like coherence and conclusiveness. But I have chosen to make such in-progress long-breath essays “published” even before they are publishable. In the long run, perhaps, there will be feedback medias res that will spur progress. But in the real world, few but politics/news blogs exact true start-to-end reading, so I use the feedback process internally. as a way of delayed self-editing. It is my hope that this does not make the posts read as sleep-walking. But because blogs are best when and if constantly expanded (the reason for the “posting” process), I have decided to use Youtube Uploads' “Description” box to serve that daily update function. (Channel: Supershanghai2010, so named because the Shanghai 2010 [words 35] of the events that provoked this blogsite's creation). That format will, I hope, give the blog-taster a [words 36] they attach to are meant as ease-of-access exposures to one or another topic enfolded in an essay in progress. Graze [words 37] if they and the title intrigue you, watch what I have video-scripted; then if the description [words 38] in-progress “post” that they elaborate. I hope this format or formula will provide a happier experience. Who doesn't like watching documentary movies or MTV clips so long as they get beyond trashy promotions of trashy performers? I really love Chick-fil-A's [words 39] biscuits. I had one this morning for the first time in months, and I was struck by the magnificent [words 40] engaging my taste buds. Overwhelmed with the greatness of the moment, I texted three of my best friends to express the bounty of grace I was experiencing, noting that it stirred my heart in love of Christ. That might sound a bit overdramatic when talking about a chicken biscuit (though, if you've ever had one, you know the beauty of which I speak), but I genuinely felt a bit overwhelmed with joy in that moment. Continue reading →The winners will receive winner's badges and will be [words 41] our blog and in our December online magazine. Also will be promoted by the Author Gang on our Facebook page, Facebook group, on Google+, and on our Twitter page. 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Self help books stress management books the dont sweat guide for moms being more relaxed and peaceful so your kids are tooLiving for 8 months in Beijing studying Chinese & Acting while performing live theater deeply impacted and enhanced the passion of living Sean Hill wishes to share with the world. He has written poetry since [words 3] has professionally performed for over a decade. His artistry embraces all while reminding us why we are beautifully fun beings regardless of what we go through or what we confront inside or out. He is inspired by his family who has made the toughest things imaginable seem easy and enjoyable. A recycler of inspiration from friends, teachers, and artists from Whitman to Denzel, Robin Williams to Plato, Ellen to Jack Johnson, Immortal Technique to Gandhi. You all have made this world easier [words 4] in. As a SAG actor, poet or human [words 5] 3 youth movement: Team Inspire, his first open mic of a home: Soapbox Sessions which went on for ten beautiful years, Doctors without Borders, National Animal Rights Day, BuildOn, Chris Beat Cancer, & the UN Women's Dept. Greater Los Angeles Chapter. Helping to build a school in Malawi, Africa and Dhangadhi, Nepal were easily life shaping and heart impacting experiences that made him solidify the clarity of his mission statement as an artist and [words 6] this planet:He is doing his best to eventually leave this world in a much better place than he was fortunate enough to enter it and would love your support to make his mission statement of universal inner & outer realistic, fun, and loving world peace happen as soon as possible. There are so many organizations and events that he enjoys sharing and supporting that are already making impactful progress and he says this with experience in working with them. Performing with and being invited on stage by artists like Andy Grammer and Grammy Award Winner Dave Yaden has been more evidence of how when you set [words 7] for people, you meet more people that love to do the same. [words 8] experience has been performing spoken word at CSUN's BIG SHOW where Big Sean and Diplo headlined for over 10,000 people. As a host, his most meaningful event has been the UN Women's LA Chapter #HeForShe LA [words 9] LA where Sean kept the energy positive and all things possible in regards to gender equality and fully realizing women's rights for the world. Joss Whedon and [words 10] being honored for the deeply impactful work for gender equality in the entertainment field and they shared personal stories that impacted us all. He has currently been hosting college open mics keeping spaces energetic and authentic, upbeat and hilarious. While acting in films and TV shows he still will teach private poetry lessons and public ones as well anywhere from a school campus to a corporate function. Lastly, he makes sure to reconnect with community locally and hosts a Monday night open mic event called, “Monday Night DeLight” at Au Lac DTLA, a fine dining restaurant in the heart of downtown LA that CBS [words 11] he also provides a one hour workshop before the event for anyone looking to creatively express themselves for the first time or fine tune their craft and delivery. Self-expression is a vital tool for anyone and [words 12] by Hill and his desire for world peace through inner peace. Sean absolutely loves multiple perspectives, fun storytelling, healing music, and community gathering events. He is happy [words 13] affirmational poetry, inspirational talks, and fun poetry workshop services to all those who are ask for the uplifting, healing, and transformative powers of the arts. Lastly, feel free to also join his worldwide #ArtisticCampaign that started as #SeanOnEllen and has transformed into #BendRealityPoem, where you can create an positive affirmation poem to manifest the life you want with a passion you may have never known you've always had add it to the collective consciousness of this planet in a web series he will be creating. The link will help you overcome your doubts of self with instant creative action. If you need further help making [words 14] here for. I will always reach out and be there best I can be for you if you ever need someone. That's what I'm thinking we're all here for. and let me know if it's more effective for you to talk about myself in the third person or if I should [words 15] again. Thank you, sincerely, for your beauty & actions in however you light up the dark with the compassionate light of your love of LIFE. Hux Profile / Online drawing games - Guess and [words 16] #LetsDrawItLast year Daniel had just turned one so we didn't really [words 17] stuff for Christmas, he had so much already from his birthday that we wanted to see what he was most enjoying. This year we have bought Daniel and Emma a play kitchen. I picked up one from a charity shop as it is in excellent condition and looks brand new. Had I not spotted this bargain then I would have been buying [words 18] a company called Kids Play Kit. I spotted these in my twitter timeline a few weeks ago and I love their stuff. Even better they have free next day delivery! I adore the washing machine too that [words 19] like this always last really well. We bought Daniel a wooden market stall for his birthday which is already well loved. Any good play kitchen or market stall needs food to go with it! We have some of the Tidlo wooden food and these are great. I have a few more sets on Daniel and Emma's wish lists so I am hoping some of those arrive on Santa's sleigh. We have Eggs and Dairy set [words 20] we get some of the Meat and Fish and fruit as both Daniel and Emma love playing with the bits we already have. Last year we bought Daniel this wooden easel . It has been well used and loved. What I love about it is that it is height adjustable so that it [words 21] Daniel and Emma do. It is magnetic on one side and we bought some animal and alphabet magnets to go with it which are still in fantastic condition. It really is a great item that has been really good for Daniel in terms of mark making with chalk on the blackboard side, and learning animals with his animal magnets. It is a little pricier than some others out there but it is height adjustable and very colourful which I liked. Other bits and pieces that have proven popular include this Playmobil Ark , these Melissa & Doug Chunky Puzzle are great. The pieces are perfect for small children to handle and Emma loves these. They are [words 22] too. Other items that I have always appreciated being bought for Emma and Daniel includes sticker books (I like the Little Tiger Press and Usborne ones) craft items and Playdoh stuff. Always handy to have and always gets used. If you're still searching for stocking fillers for kids then you could always try the stocking fillers site. I came across this when I googled ‘stocking fillers' when thinking about writing this post. I'm not really into separating things into for girls and for boys, but there are lots of neat ideas on here to suit any budget. I haven't recieved any compensation for anything in this post. These are all items that Daniel and Emma have loved, or are things I think they would enjoy*Some lovely ideas, thanks so much for linking up to #ToddlerApprovedTuesday. 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<user>: The rest of this: Write a Review and Rating for Suryamukhi Resorts Private Limited | Share Experiences , Feedback and ComplaintsThe year of reading more and writing better is well underway with writing advice the likes of David Ogilvy's 10 no-bullshit tips, Henry Miller's 11 commandments, Jack Kerouac's 30 beliefs and techniques, John Steinbeck's 6 pointers, and various invaluable insight from other great writers. Now comes Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007) — anarchist, Second Life dweller, imaginary interviewer of the dead, sad soul — with eight tips on how to write a good short story, narrated by the author himself. Complement with Vonnegut on the shapes of stories, the secret of happiness, his daily routine, and his life-advice to his children, then dive into this evolving omnibus of famous writers' collected advice on the craft. One July morning during a research trip to the small New England island of Nantucket, home to pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, I had a most unusual experience. Midway through my daily swim in the ocean, my peripheral vision was drawn to what at first appeared to be a snorkel. But as I looked directly at the curious protrusion, I realized it was the long glistening neck of a stately bird, gliding over the nearly waveless surface a few away. By some irresistible instinct, I began swimming gently toward the bird, assuming it would fly away whenever my proximity became too uncomfortable. Instead, it allowed my approach — for it was deliberate permission that this majestic bird gave me, first assessing me with a calm but cautious eye, then choosing not to lift off or even change course as this large ungraceful mammal drew near. I came so close that I could see my own reflection in the bird's eye, now regarding me with what I took to be — or, perhaps, projected to be — a silent benevolence. We began swimming side by side, no more than a wingspan away from one another, and I found myself awash in awe amid the gentle waves, entranced in what could best be described as a transcendent experience — the kind that calls to mind, and called to mind in that very moment in the water, Alan Lightman's moving encounter with the ospreys. In this small act ablaze with absolute presence, I felt I had been granted access to something enormous and eternal. The experience was so intensely invigorating in part because it was wholly new to me, but it is far from uncommon. We long for its heights, which some people often visit and others must learn to find, but everyone experiences as replenishing. Opportunities for deep play abound. In its thrall we become ideal versions of ourselves . (Its) many moods and varieties help to define who we are and all we wish to be. Art by Sydney Smith from The White Cat and the Monk, a 9th-century ode to the diversity of transcendent experiencesBefore diving into the psychological and spiritual dimensions of deep play, Ackerman examines play itself and its evolutionary function as an indelible part of sentience and a measure of the evolution of consciousness perhaps more accurate than what we refer to as intelligence. She writes:Why play at all? Every element of the human saga requires play. We evolved through play. Our culture thrives on play. Courtship includes high theater, rituals, and ceremonies of play. Ideas are playful reverberations of the mind. Language is a playing with words until they can impersonate physical objects and abstract ideas. It's so familiar to us, so deeply ingrained in the matrix of our childhood, that we take it for granted. But consider this: ants don't play. Programmed for certain behaviors, they automatically perform them from birth. Learning through repetition, honed skills, and ingenuity isn't required in their heritage. The more an animal needs to learn in order to survive, the more it needs to play . What we call intelligence . may not be life's pinnacle at all, but simply one mode of knowing, one we happen to master and cherish. Play is widespread among animals because it invites problem-solving, allowing a creature to test its limits and develop strategies. In a dangerous world, where dramas change daily, survival belongs to the agile not the idle. We may think of play as optional, a casual activity. But play is fundamental to evolution. Without play, humans and many other animals would perish. It is hardly happenstance that the word “play” was central to how Einstein thought of the secret to his genius — he used the term “combinatory play” to describe how his mind works. Ackerman considers what it is that makes play so psychologically fruitful and alluring to us, plunging into its ancient cultural history:Above all, play requires freedom. Play's rules may be enforced, but play is not like life's other dramas. It happens outside ordinary life, and it requires freedom. Most forms of play involve competition, against oneself or others, and test one's skills, cunning, or courage. One might even argue that all play is a contest of one sort or another. The adversary may be a mountain, a chess-playing computer, or an incarnation of evil. To play is to risk: to risk is to play. The word fight derives from the word play. Medieval tournaments were ritualized battles that followed strict rules. So are wrestling, boxing, and fencing matches. Ceremonial violence — at a sacred place, in which special clothes are worn, time limits must be obeyed, rules are followed, rituals are performed, the action is alarmingly tense, and the outcome is unknown — is elemental to play. Festive dancing may seem peaceful by comparison, and indeed in Anglo-Saxon, play was plega, which meant singing or dancing gestures, clapping, quick movements. But when we peer even farther back into its origins, we discover that play's original meaning was quite different, something altogether more urgent and abstract. In Indo-European, plegan meant to risk, chance, expose oneself to hazard. A pledge was integral to the act of play, as was danger (cognate words are peril and plight). Play's original purpose was to make a pledge to someone or something by risking one's life. Who or what might that someone or something be? Possibilities abound, including a relative, a tribal leader, a god, or a moral trait such as honor or courage. At its heart, plegan reverberated with ethical or religious values. It also contained the idea of being tightly fastened or engaged. Soon plegan became associated with performing a sacred act or administering justice, and it often appeared in ceremonies. But while simple play may have its timeless appeal, Ackerman focuses on a deeper and more transcendent kind of play — something more rapturous and closer to ecstasy, something that helps us contact our hidden wholeness and is perhaps even required for us to feel whole. She explores the essential point of difference:Deep play is the ecstatic form of play. In its thrall, all the play elements are visible, but they're taken to intense and transcendent heights. Thus, ... <bot>: Rest of text: deep play should really be classified by mood, not activity. It testifies to how something happens, not what happens. Games don't guarantee deep play, but some activities are prone to it: art, religion, risk-taking, and some sports — especially those that take place in relatively remote, silent, and floaty environments, such as scuba diving, parachuting, hang gliding, mountain climbing. Deep play always involves the sacred and holy, sometimes hidden in the most unlikely or humble places — amid towering shelves of rock in Nepal; crouched over print in a dimly lit room; slipping on AstroTurf; wearing a coconut-shell mask. We spend our lives in pursuit of moments that will allow these altered states to happen. Ackerman narrows in on the seemingly subtle yet monumental difference between the two states most closely associated with deep play, rapture and ecstasy:Rapture means, literally, being “seized by force,” as if one were a prey animal who is carried away. Caught in the talons of a transcendent rapture, one is gripped, elevated, and trapped at a fearsome height. To the ancient Greeks, this feeling often foretold malevolence and danger — other words that drink from the same rapturous source are rapacious, rabid, ravenous, ravage, rape, usurp, surreptitious. Birds of prey that plunge from the skies to gore their victims are known as raptors. Seized by a jagged and violent force, the enraptured are carried aloft to their ultimate doom. Ecstasy also means to be gripped by passion, but from a slightly different perspective: rapture is vertical, ecstasy horizontal. Rapture is high-flying, ecstasy occurs on the ground. For some reason, the ancient Greeks were obsessed with the symbol of standing, and relied on that one image for countless ideas, feelings, and objects. As a result, a great many of our words today simply reflect where or how things stand: stanchion, status, stare, staunch, steadfast, statute, and constant. But there are also hundreds of unexpected ones, such as stank (standing water), stallion (standing in a stall), star (standing in the sky), restaurant (standing place for the wanderer), prostate (standing in front of the bladder), and so on. To the Greeks, ecstasy meant to stand outside oneself. How is that possible? Through existential engineering. “Give me a place to stand,” Archimedes proclaimed in the third century B. “and I will move the earth.” Levered by ecstasy, one springs out of one's mind. Thrown free of one's normal self, a person stands in another place, on the limits of body, society, and reason, watching the known world dwindle in the distance (a spot standing far away). The euphoria of flying in dreams, or the longing to fly through the ocean with dolphins, fills us with rapture. It is hardly any surprise that elements of deep play can be found in most of our major efforts to make sense of the human experience, from Ancient Greek philosophy to Freud's notion of “oceanic feeling” to Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's concept of “flow.” Turning once again to the lens of language — for, lest we forget, language is our mightiest vehicle for the self — Ackerman contemplates deep play's singular quality of being:Deep play is a fascinating hallmark of being human; it reveals our need to seek a special brand of transcendence, with a passion that makes thrill-seeking explicable, creativity possible, and religion inevitable. Perhaps religion seems an unlikely example of playing, but if you look at religious rites and festivals, you'll see all the play elements, and also how deep that play can become. Religious rituals usually include dance, worship, music, and decoration. ## They are ecstatic, absorbing, rejuvenating. The word “prayer” derives from the Latin precarius, and contains the idea of uncertainty and risk. Will the entreaty be answered? Life or death may depend on the outcome. Reading over a journal entry from her own youth, in which her long-ago self describes the transcendence of travel in a way that calls to mind Albert Camus's longer-ago meditation on why we voyage, Ackerman extrapolates a common root of deep play across its many guises:One enters into an alternate reality with its own rules, values, and expectations. One sheds much of one's culture, with its countless technical and moral demands, as one draws on a wholly new and sense-ravishing way of life . One chooses to divest oneself of preconceptions, hand-me-down ideas, and shopworn opinions, chooses to wipe the mental slate clean, chooses to be naive and wholly open to the world, as one once was as a child. If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again. As the world reduces to a small brilliant space, where every thought and move is vital to one's salvation, one's scattered energy suddenly has a center. Only then do all of our senses spring alert, and every sensation matters. At the same time, the rest of the world recedes. One is temporarily unshackled from life's chains — the family ones, the work ones, the ones we wear as self-imposed weights. But perhaps the single most perceptible characteristic of deep play is the way in which it alters our already warped experience of time by summoning us to that place where impulsivity and control intersect to grant us absolute access to presence. In a passage that calls to mind Kafka's assertion that “reality is never and nowhere more accessible than in the immediate moment of one's own life,” Ackerman considers the reality-concentrating power of deep play through the prism of time:We want to muscle into life and feel its real power and sweep. We want to drink from the source. In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles . When it happens we experience a sense of revelation and gratitude. Nothing need be thought or said. There is a way of beholding that is a form of prayer. When one enters the realm of deep play, the sacred playground where only the present moment matters, one's history and future vanish. One doesn't remember one's past, needs, expectations, worries, real or imaginary sins. The deep-play world is fresh, wholly absorbing, and full of its own unique wisdom and demands. Being able to temporarily step outside of normal life—while keeping one's senses alert — is indeed like being reborn. To erase all memories and yearnings — to be vigorously alive without self-awareness — can provide a brief return to innocence. In the remainder of the wholly enchanting Deep Play, Ackerman goes on to explore the types of experiences that grant us entry into this sacred world and the moods, mental states, and orientations of spirit that make us better able to conjure up the temperament of receptivity needed to experience deep play. Complement with Ackerman on the science of smell, what Earth's nocturnal portrait from space reveals about who we are, and her beautiful poems for the planets.

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Tags: The Belt Makers, TBM, Classic, Sedgwick, English, bridle, butt, leather, belt, belts, keepers, buckle, brass, stainless steel, hand made, handmade, hand stitched, black, brown, red, green, blue, burgundy, leather beltsWhen I started to train, back in 1999, I was told that Stopping Smoking would always be the number one enquiry, followed by Weight Loss. This has been the case for most of my practice. However, in 2017 we only treated 85 smokers. But we also treated 92 cocaine addicts. This makes cocaine our number one treatment. Donkey rides on the Heath by the main Greenwich Royal Park gates. Rides normally available during school/bank holidays & at weekends; 10am-5pm. Strawberry Queen is a top tier e-liquid handcrafted in California. From start to finish, our line delivers strawberry perfection on every note. The Strawberry Queen range screams perfection, with the fruitiest and truest strawberry flavour you'll ever find in an e liquid. 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I've spent the last five years searching for her, clinging to the hope that one day I will find out what happened to her, but every lead has ended up at a dead end. He took me because he thinks I'm Her. My instinct is to run. I want to fight my way out of there, but I can't. This man is my only connection to my sister. I'll do whatever it takes to uncover the truth. Even if it means falling right into the arms of a psychopath. C Jackson is a wife, mother, reader and author. Her debut release, Mistaken Identity is a psychological romantic suspense full of twists that you won't see coming. When she's not writing or reading, you'll find her spending time with her husband and kids. (one_half)The EVO Signature Series will be integrated into Ross news, live event, playout, and asset management solutions to provide better integration with editing platforms, as well as improving archival workflows. 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With shops in Surrey, Kent and Sussex there are many locations where you can donate your unwanted items or pick up a bargain. Our well-stocked Sevenoaks shop is a great place to buy clothes at bargain prices for all the family. Look out for designer treasures and bric a brac treats. Value and bargain describe our busy shop. Huge amounts of stock arrive daily and sell at great prices. Bring a bag and get the team to help you stock up on some real treasures at affordable prices. Right in the middle of the High Street, close to the traffic lights and opposite boots, The shop is directly opposite the Bus station. To drop off donations, you can park in the pay and display Town's car parks allowing you time to shop. Head towards the Leisure centre via Suffolk Way or the pay and display car park on Pembroke Road or London Road. All are just a short walk on to the high street. I have taken to buying books–lots of books. I buy literature from a local used bookstore and lots of resource books from mega-bookstores and my local used homeschool store. I like to buy books that I can refer to over and over for ideas and inspiration. I need to jazz up my lessons but I'm not always sure how to do it. Once I have the basic lesson planned, I need to provide a create outlet for expressing the principles we learn, and I have many books on my shelf that do not ascribe to a Biblical Principle Approach philosophy but are terrific nonetheless. These resources are for elementary ages. Alternatives to Worksheets (and More Alternatives to Worksheets) has such great ideas for things we can put in our notebooks that aren't worksheets. This is very easy to use in our studies because there's nothing to change at all. It is simply fun projects that don't involve a worksheet. The ideas work for any subject any time of the year. I have used their projects in math, Bible, literature and history. (The also have Better than Book Reports, which is great too. Big Book of Books by Dinah Zike is also great. We make many little books for our notebooks with ideas from Dinah. She has books on many school subjects that you can also use to add to your lessons. How to Get Your Child off the Refrigerator and Onto Learning by Carol Barnier is another highly recommended resource for any parent struggling with high energy children. She is a homeschool mom who developed all sorts of strategies while home schooling her busy son. There are tons of high energy ideas for every subject and lots of practical advice on dealing with field trips and church. I can't say enough about this great book. Princess G loves every idea I have ever tried from this book. It gets us up from the desk and moving and learning.365 Reading Activities from Backpack Books has a year's worth of great activities. They also make one for phonics and crafts (which I also have). They are all good for quick ideas to add to your lessons. I can't believe the stuff I have at my fingertips. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, crafts, and lots more at the click of a mouse. Yesterday Princess G saw a flip book and thought that would be a fun thing to try. In less than 5 minutes I googled one and printed out a neat running dinosaur flip book. That's just almost too easy! Daily Grams are an easy way to keep up the grammar skills. Each exercise takes only 5 minutes or so and Princess G really likes them. They begin at 2nd grade (the pink book). Math Art is also filled with fun ideas to spice up math time with a place value snake, fraction flags and quilts, multiplication house, tesselations and weaving number patterns. The teens, ever a fickle bunch, have now decided to forgo one of their favorite rites of passage. According to Nick Bilton's reporting at the New York Times, the teens aren't that into getting driver's licenses anymore. The number of American 16-year-olds with driver's licenses is down to 28 percent as of 2010, which is down from 46 percent in 1983. Now, they are just happy to be registered for an Uber account. This is not, in any way, surprising. Cars involve responsibility (ew), a test (ew), training (ew), and driving relatives (ew). Uber accounts involve a phone app (chill), ordering something to come to you (chill), a star-rating system (ew), and avoiding conversations by staring at a screen (triple chill). But what about all the tangential qualities that come with having cars! How will teens fight with their parents, if they never drive the family car too late at night on that road to Lauren's, where everyone knows the visibility is really tricky? Oh, don't worry about that, says the interviewed family: They can fight over surge pricing. All is well! Dynamics never change! Over the past six years, Colorado has proved that giving teens free IUDs can, miraculously, dramatically reduce teen pregnancy. Since 2009, the state has provided more than 300,000 free long-action reversible contraceptives — like IUDS and under-the-skin implants — at 68 family-planning clinics across the state. In the first four years of the program, teen pregnancy rates in the state dropped by 40 percent; since 2009, the teen abortion rate has declined by 42 percent. The six-year initiative to provide LARCs to low-income women was made possible with a $23.5 million grant from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation — which ran out this June. Earlier this spring, Colorado's Republican-controlled Senate rejected a bill that would have allocated $5 million to the program, arguing that it could promote promiscuity. Fortunately, KUNC reports that, with the help of a dozen health and community foundations, the program will be funded for another year — meaning that, for the next 12 months at least, Colorado will remain a pretty good place to be a teen with a uterus. Losemore of lousy presidents, George W. Bush would be on it twice. No one in the last century even comes close. So it was politically wise for Bush to announce he is skipping the GOP convention. Lord knows the people of Tampa have suffered enough. Bush is no genius, but he is politically astute enough to know he is still toxic. He keeps a low profile, and a grateful nation sends its thanks for that. But wait: a sighting. Perhaps to show he has a sense of humor, Bush has something called The Bush Institute. (Insert joke about Dubya needing to be institutionalized here. The Institute has a new book out, and the former president is out promoting it. The book is titled The Four Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs. You gotta hand it to Bush. Either he was born without the moral compass that engenders humility or he has one sick sense of humor. To start with, let the record show that George W. Bush was in fact president of the United States for eight years. And for those eight years economic growth averaged not four percent, but 2. For Bush to attach his name to a book claiming to be a recipe for economic growth is what we Texans call chutzpah. What's next? Charlie Sheen as spokesperson for Just Say No? Chris Christie's fitness video? Kim Kardashian's tips for a long and happy marriage? The mind boggles. Where Dubya is concerned I have tried so hard to be Elvis Costello, who famously sang, “I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.” But I just can't get past the retching revulsion I feel about what this man and his policies did to our nation and the world. We will set aside the legacy of lost blood and treasure caused by his unwarranted invasion of Iraq for another day—perhaps when His Airheadedness decides to publish a book on national security. For now let us focus on the economy and the Bush Institute's book. The institute's executive director, James K. Glassman, who also wrote the introduction, is no stranger to failed economic prophecy. In 1999 he co-authored (with current Romney adviser Kevin Hassett) a book with the unintentionally hilarious title “Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market.” They almost got it right. Instead of a rise in the stock market there was a crash. The Dow went to 6,500, and 13 years after their book was published it is around 13,000. So they were only off by 23,000 points. In promoting the book, the former president gave an interview to the Hoover Institute—fitting, since both Presidents Hoover and Bush presided over economic policies that led to depressions. The beginning of the interview showcases Dubya at his best: he chats amiably and knowledgeably about the Texas Rangers (Lord, why didn't you make Dubya Baseball Commissioner instead of president? He would have been a great Commissioner; he believes baseball should be played on real grass, with pitchers batting, and no interleague play. ## He is as right about everything baseball-oriented as he is wrong about everything presidentially oriented. After baseball, the former president reflects on his time in the Oval Office—the most solemn, difficult job on earth—and summarizes it thus: “Eight years was awesome. And I was famous and I was powerful.” Oh my God. For the better part of a decade, the greatest nation on earth was led by a four-year-old. Although I have not yet begun to tap the depth of my disdain for Bush, intellectual honesty compels to admit that he is right to focus on growth. Too many liberals focus exclusively on fairness; as if everyone drowning in a sinking ship would be okay. And too many conservatives focus only on deficits - although their hawkishness seems to extend only to hammering the middle class and the poor, never to paying their own fair share for a debt caused in great part by tax breaks for the rich. Growth is the secret sauce. For all their supposed hatred of Europe, it is the Republicans who are proposing the solution that has failed in Europe: austerity. If the problem is a lack of growth, the answer cannot be to reduce demand even further. If unemployment is too high, layoffs won't help. The key to growth is the middle class. The economic elitists on the right seem to think that if we coddle a privileged class of elite investors, prosperity will, as they say, trickle down to the rest of us. If that were true, the Bush economy would have produced a boom rather than a depression. A middle-class-focused economy like, say, the one Bill Clinton gave us and Barack Obama is fighting for, would invest in people, in education, in infrastructure, in technology, in science and green jobs. And here's the cool part: it works for everyone. President Clinton used to say he hoped his ... <|assistant|> Rest of text: economic policies would create more millionaires and billionaires than Ronald Reagan could have dreamed of. Because it is the middle class that drives our economy. When middle class people have more money, they can buy more stuff. And when they buy more stuff the rich people who own the companies that make stuff get richer still. The wealthiest family in America is not the Zuckerbergs or the Buffetts or even the Gateses. It is the Walton family. Sam Walton started Wal-Mart on the principle that middle class and poor people were the country's economic engine. He focused on them, and today the six people who inherited his fortune are worth an estimated $89. That one family of six is wealthier than 48.8 million lower—and middle—income families combined. If you want to give those 48.8 million lower-income families a shot at becoming the next Walton family, ignore Bush's book. Instead, go read It's the Middle Class, Stupid, by my old runnin' buddies James Carville and Stan Greenberg. They give voice to the folks Bill Clinton used to call “the forgotten middle class.” Their book gives clear, compelling policy prescriptions to rescue the middle class, and save the American Dream. My political advice may surprise you: as much as I enjoy bashing Bush (and will till my dying day), the Democrats' better course would be to focus, as President Obama has, on reviving the middle class. Because if we save the middle class, we will restore growth, and make the poor, beleaguered top one percent richer still. For their LGBT travel show Gaycation, Ellen Page and Ian Daniel visited Orlando in the aftermath of the mass shooting at gay nightclub Pulse. ## It's important television. It's been five days since his friends Juan Guerrero and Christopher Andrew Leinonen were killed during a friend's 21st birthday party at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, two of the 49 people killed during the worst incident of violence against LGBT people in United States history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the country since 9/11. Eddie is straightening his tie and getting ready to attend Juan and Drew's funeral. The boyfriends will be mourned together. “I already did my crying in the morning,” Eddie tells Page and Daniel, the hosts of Viceland's Emmy-nominated docuseries Gaycation. I'm feeling very hopeful. I went to the viewing yesterday. It's very hard to see the body of someone you love in a casket.”Page cuts in to make sure he's not late for the services. When they catch up with him at his house later that day he's fixing that tie again, this time because he's is heading to the wedding of his two gay friends. In the span of an hour, bookended with Eddie's story, we have relived fear, grieved loss, re-examined hatred and bravery, explored the idea of hope, and, coming full circle, celebrated the kind of love that abounded from the men and women who were reveling at Pulse that night. It's ambitious breadth pulled off by Gaycation Presents: Orlando, a special episode of the series that aired Wednesday night on Viceland, in which the Oscar-nominated actress and LGBT activist and her filmmaker best friend traveled to the community in the aftermath of the mass shooting to parcel out portraits of grief, pride, and maybe even lessons learned. Two and a half months after the June 12 massacre, Gaycation is one of two docuseries (following MTV's excellent True Life earlier this month) doing the admirable work of ensuring that the victims' stories and the conversations the tragedy sparked remain in the spotlight after a fleeting news cycle has potentially moved on. Over the course of the special, Page and Daniel interview Angel Santiago, a survivor of the shooting while he's still in the hospital recovering from gunshot wounds. Two women shed light on the essential role the nightclub and its patrons served for members of the community who had been shunned by their own families. A vigil is visited, as well as one of the area's only LGBT-friendly churches. Through it all, Page and Daniel wear their emotions on their sleeve: heartbreak, fear, anger, confusion, extreme empathy. It's an unorthodox style of reporting a documentary, but it's a crucial and effective one in this case. Activist Nancy Rosado, who works for the nonprofit Misión Boricua, remembers the chaos at the hospital the morning after the shooting, with families crowded around trying to find out if their loved ones were among the victims being treated, or, worse, deceased. When a hospital worker read out the names of those being treated—all Latino names, read before their Latino families—the pronunciations were so mangled that the families couldn't understand, heightening their worry and confusion. “When you have to stand in a puddle of someone's blood to fight for your people, you realize how marginalized you really are,” Rosado says, choking back tears. Page begins full-on weeping, and the three eventually envelop each other a long group hug, sobbing. Page and Daniel are effective because they are conduits for the audience, who are both voyeuristically curious about what the experience of living through this tragedy has been like for this community but also still experiencing heightened emotions about its scope. For the people they are interviewing, there's something about them that radiates compassion and an open heart—a friendly ear for a message that needs to be heard, and for people to feel comfortable enough to share it. Angel Santiago recalls the night of the massacre in harrowing detail, from dancing with his friend Jeff to hearing the gunshots to hiding from the shooter in the handicap stall of the bathroom. “We were all very quiet in there, everyone was, ‘Shh . “And that's when in our bathroom the shots started coming at us through the stall wall.”Santiago got shot in his foot and his knee. Jeff was shot in the collarbone and was bleeding profusely. Little by little, Santiago managed to army crawl his way out into the hallway, where a member of the SWAT team shouted at him to put his hands up. When he replied that he couldn't stand because he's been shot, he was instructed to drag himself over, after which to SWAT men quickly dragged him out of the club and into an ambulance. “Several people have said to me that I was brave, I was strong,” Santiago said. “I guess I was strong. But in terms of bravery, I was scared.”He talked about growing up religious, and trying desperately to convince himself he wasn't gay. That it took him until he was 26 to accept his sexuality. That when he gave an interview on TV after Pulse, in which he had to admit he was a gay man, it was something he could never imagine having done five years before. This whole event awoke something in him. The rawness of these emotions is key in telegraphing to viewers the pain of a tragedy like this, from all different facets. But the special wisely steers clear of victim exploitation or tragedy porn. Stories like Santiago's are effective, and as captivating as they are hard to watch. But equally valuable in the special are segments devoted to the conversation the shooting started. The scramble to find out who the shooter was is revisited: his motive, whether he was attached to a terrorist group, whether he was gay and closeted. “In one dark night, the Pulse shooter brought to light some of America's most divisive issues: intolerance for the LGBTQ community, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and gun violence,” Page says. “We may never know of his motives, or if his loathing was for himself or others. But the tragic outcome has left 49 dead and forced Orlando to grieve and process hate.”There's Fahad, who moved to Orlando from Pakistan after his family disapproved of his sexuality. He is no longer a devout Muslim, but he worries how having a Muslim name might affect his life in Orlando. Had he been at Pulse during the shooting, he admits, he would've been considered a suspect. “People need to understand that it wasn't a religion that pulled the trigger that day. It was more of an ideology. An ideology of hate,” he says. “The ideology could come from anywhere, that has nothing to do with any religion. It's ignorance, intolerance, and when you just cannot respond to somebody, you bring in religion.”Then there's Patty Sheehan, the first openly gay commissioner in Orlando, who shepherded Page and Daniel around the makeshift memorials that were erected outside the hospital where the victims were shuttled and the city council building. Visibly moved by the gestures on display at the memorials, she hopes there's a deeper action taking place. “You can't just say the murder's wrong,” she said. “You have to say all the discrimination, all the hatred, everything that happens is wrong.” She and Page break down in tears again. The special ends with Page and Daniel exploring the idea of the gay bar as a safe space, a place of refuge and acceptance for the community. The sacredness of that haven has been violated, its role as a space for freedom and celebration tarnished. For any gay person who has not just internalized what happened at Pulse, but who also has now been subjected to bag and security checks when entering their favorite neighborhood gay bar in the months since, this is a painful truth. Still, when Page and Daniel make their way to Parliament House, Orlando's oldest gay bar, the encounter a dance floor teeming with the LGBTQ community, even though it's been just days since the attack. “In this moment, under the dim light, it becomes clear,” Page said. “We are not just dancing together. We are standing together.”INGLE: Getting out of PARCC tests only a first step Parents and those who want to see kids get an education have to insist on more changes. ## Check out this story on thedailyjournal.com: http://vineland. dj/1CnL4i7People aiming to take public schools back from the education bureaucracy's grand poohbahs have won a round in the state Assembly. A good first step, but it shouldn't stop there. Legislation so popular it had 28 sponsors that establishes a process for opting out of standardized testing in New Jersey schools was passed unanimously Thursday. It allows parents or guardians of students to provide written notification to the school district that the students will not take part in PARCC testing, short for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Parents would have until 14 days before the test to opt out. Schools would have to alert parents to the testing each year by Sept.30 and explain how the results will be used. A growing number of parents and others interested in putting education under the direction of teachers and local school boards are unhappy with the emphasis and influence of standardized tests. Teachers say they are forced to teach to the tests and innovation and individuality suffers. Parents say kids come home exhausted and hate school. “This bill removes confusion about parents' rights to withdraw from testing, and addresses inconsistencies in the options between schools and between districts,” said Assemblyman David Rible, R-Monmouth. “Parents have serious concerns about the impact the test will have on their children. If they don't want their children subject to the tests, parents will have a clear understanding of what they can do, and how to do it.”“Testing can show us how well students are doing in the classroom, but with so much doubt about the PARCC's ability to do this, we should allow parents who are not comfortable with the test to allow their children to sit it out until we know for sure that it works,” said Assemblywoman Nancy Pinkin, D-Middlesex. Getting out of the tests is not enough. Parents and those who want to see kids get an education have to insist on more changes. They need to remind the unelected bureaucrats their paychecks come from tax money. The chorus of concern grew louder when it was revealed Gov. Chris Christie's education bureaucracy is spending almost $100,000 for a third-party company to monitor social media to see what students are saying about the tests. Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan, chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, says hiring a company to scour the Internet for PARCC questions and test topics is “unacceptable.”The recent column on testing resulted in an unusually high number of responses from readers. One insightful one came from Jack, who said he was a career teacher. “The conflict of interest between (testing) contractors and representatives of the NJDOE are unsavory and not in the public interest. But then what is the public interest today? I think education is reflective of the larger society in these ways. “Policy is being controlled by the very rich, the people we used to call plutocrats or malefactors of great wealth. Now we use ‘The 1 percent' — same group. The very object of PARCC, to prepare our students for college and careers, represents a viewpoint of education deliberately narrow. This goal benefits the corporate owners' desire for a compliant workforce. Where are the arts, civics and exploration? I am certain the 1%'s children do not take the PARCC tests.”Jack thinks what's happening with the education bureaucracy is a mirror of what's happening in society in general. “The idea of a community providing services for all citizens has fallen by the wayside, replaced by a more selfish individualistic outlook. Historically this represents a move away from the New England village system to the Southern system of aristocratic hierarchy. Both systems are rooted in English history. It won't get any better, however, until the self-centered, self-important education bureaucrats are shown the door or at least put in their place. They tend to think they're smarter than the rest of us. Senior political columnist Bob Ingle can be reached via e-mail at bingle@app.com or @bobingle99 on Twitter. Arabella is a washed-rind cheese made by the husband-and-wife duo of Leslie Jacobs and Matthew Brichford, who run Jacobs and Brichford Cheese in Connersville, Ind. It's inspired by the classic Italian cheese Taleggio, the gem of the Northern Italian grassland. It's a raw-milk cheese that comes in a rectangular brick, has a rind ranging from cream to light-brown-colored, is aged for one or two months, and if you're into earthy, barnyard-forward cheeses, this is one worth seeking out. "This cheese is pungent, earthy, mushroomy, and extremely well-crafted," according to Hook. "The rind is slightly sticky, and it has a great texture. " He also advises leaving the cheese out at room temperature for an hour before eating to let all the flavors open up. The paste itself is buttery and dense, ideal for spreading onto a baguette or a sandwich (or if you're feeling particularly fiendish, a burger). It oozes out as it melts, and is salty, slightly fruity, and has a mellow aftertaste. Cheese of the Week: AppenzellerCheese of the Week: La TurCheese of the Week: Cypress Grove's Truffle TremorHook recommends pairing it with an equally earthy wine, such as a chianti or san giovese. He also has a word of warning for those who go down the Arabella road: "A little of this cheese goes a long way. You'd be surprised by how much of this you can eat in one sitting! "Carbohydrates seem to be on so many people's food blacklists lately. Who hasn't heard a story from a friend or co-worker who credits a low-to-no-carb diet as the catalyst for dropping those hard-to-lose pounds, clearing up persistent acne, or revitalizing lagging energy? But health professionals are cautioning people to not be so quick to ditch the carbs. “With the frenzy of low-carb diets such as paleo and ketogenic diets being all the rage, it's no wonder everyone is getting the message to cut back on carbs, but to avoid them completely is a very bad mistake,” Cheryl Mussatto, MS, RD, LD, tells The Daily Meal. “Not all carbohydrates are created equal,” adds Dana Harrison, MS, nutritionist, and educator at Eats 2 Know, LLC. Just like other macronutrients, carbohydrates vary greatly in their nutrient profile. Refined carbohydrates tend to be nutrient-poor but calorically dense. Yet many carb-heavy foods are full of the good things your body needs. Complex carbohydrates like those found in vegetables (yes, vegetables have carbs! ), whole grains, and legumes come packaged alongside nutrients, fiber, and satiating protein, and a well-balanced diet is the best way to achieve optimal nutrition. And completely cutting out any food type can cause problems. “Elimination of a food group that you enjoy, i. carbs, can only lead to feelings of deprivation, causing you perhaps to overeat and surrender to an unhealthy style of eating,” explains Keri Gans, MS, RDN, CDN and author of “The Small Change Diet.”20 Reasons You Should Eat Dark Chocolate Every Day GallerySigns You May Have Developed a Food Allergy as an Adult Gallery25 Recipes No One Makes Anymore – But Should GalleryUnless your doctor has recommended a specific eating plan for medical reasons, there's no need to give up an entire food group, but that doesn't seem to stop some people from going to dieting extremes. If you do choose to drastically (or entirely) cut carbs out of your diet, read on to find out some of the things that might happen to your body. As part of our Where to Shop for Your Home series, we head to the contemporary and smart world of West ElmOwned by Williams-Sonoma, West Elm was born after the brand's success with Pottery Barn Kids in 2002. West Elm embodies the practical, affordable, and contemporary style of home décor. With its recent addition West Elm Market, the brand exercises the importance of care and repair in your life — from grooming to gardening to cooking and cleaning. They consider it their "general store. "With a heavy emphasis on design, West Elm's consistent roster of collaborations from season to season keeps its customers on their toes and up with the trends. From stressing confetti and glitter with the Confetti System to everyday entertaining with Cake Vintage to the art of coffee roasting with La Colombe, West Elm has all of the bases covered. As far as the store's furnishings are concerned, a very evident clean and neutral lifestyle is expressed with room for accents and bold add-ons for every room in the house. Shop everything from couches and bedroom sets to kitchen tables and lamps in store, online, or via catalog, but our favorite way is through their "color crush" and "we love" sections that blend trends and products together based on color palettes and trends — because every shopper needs a bit of guidance, right? Beautiful Location! Nearby CSU,Stanislaus & Pitman HS. Enjoy the Many Perks w/ Master Bdrm & Bthrm Downstairs, Indoor Laundy, 4 Bdrms, 2.5 Bthrms, Spacious Kitchen w/ Granite Counter-tops, Built-in Appliances, Self-Cleaning Range, Ceiling Fans,3 Family Rms with 1 upstairs, 2 Dining Rms, 3 Car Garage, Spacious Backyd on a pool size lot, Many Fruit Trees, & Beautifully Landscaped. Nearby: Parks, Schools & Shopping Ctrs. Home is on a Cul-de-Sac. Friendly Neighborhood! A Desirable Home. Call today! 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