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I wish there was at least a hint of "cognitive dissonance". Rather, the government seems to suffer no mental discomfort whatsoever from its blatant hypocrisy. However, like all previous governments, there is no shortage of doublespeak. | 0 | en |
How much respect can someone have for their workplace when they only show up one day a week?
But given the choice of getting a selfie and defending ones decision, I too would opt for the 1-day a week gig and 6 days of selfies. | 0 | en |
Send written invitations or emails. Give out the "house rules'. This can be done in a light handed manner such as 'please, no helping in the kitchen, I have everything organized and if you help, chances are that I will lose track of what I am doing and we will all have to go to MacDonalds as dinner will be a disaster. I appreciate your good intentions but just bring your appetite and not helping hands'.
Other problems can be covered in a similar manner. If people take umbrage, this will weed out the individuals who spoil the get-together for others. With any luck, you will end up with fewer people and have a much nicer time. | 0 | en |
Well this is rich – “Clinton said at a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa. "The American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately."”
What stunning hypocrisy. No clearer example could be made of the corrupt political class wanting to live by their own rules. She can destroy evidence even under subpoena, servers and cell phones some smashed with hammers. The corrupt political class has got to go. | 0 | en |
A policeman is there to keep us safe from people like the guy with the knife . and all others that would do us harm. If a criminal is killed , and I'm NOT saying this guy was a criminal , society is better off with that person gone vs a policeman who's ability to help others is ended. The criminal will never harm anyone again. People choose their path in life . The up side of gang shootings , is more criminals are removed from society . As long as no innocent people are hurt in the cross-fire it's a win, win situation . In Furguson is was sad that one group of people sided with the thug despite all the evidence showing he was charging the policeman. Do you have a problem with the Black Lives Matter group that they protest anyone who say's all lives matter ? People have the potential to do good or bad , but they usually make that choice by around 18 years old. Thanks for asking. | 0 | en |
Are you saying only that children, elderly and disabled people live in villages? | 0 | en |
"...and a generous offer to give Ontarians more time to pay off the massive hydro debt ineptly accumulated on their behalf..."
I really wish the Globe and Mail would stop presenting this as a good thing. There is nothing generous here. Tax payers will end up paying an additional $20 billion for this stunt. You call this generosity? This is not the first time this paper has done this. I find it misleading and irresponsible reporting. | 0 | en |
When was bill Clinton arrested? Guess his accusers were lying. | 0 | en |
It's actually more black police officers killing black people but then you already knew that right? | 1 | en |
Perhaps. But I really doubt that it is intentional. Trump is firing away any target that he sees with very little thought or planning behind the shooting rampage. If you keep your head down, he might forget that you are even there. | 0 | en |
the rise in prominence of fake news is due to the gullibility of people; if it sounds good (plausible to their thinking or non-thinking), they will accept it as fact. trumpy many times resorted to fake news in his campaign and his uneducated and biased core support bought it hook line and sinker. in order words, trumpy used deception to convince his supporter to believe in him and now it is showing that many of his promises are not being pursued. he stole the election using dirty tricks. but this is what he is a scammer and cheat. | 0 | en |
:::What would you call Indianizing articles and adding irrelevent script and vigorously resisting if corrected. | 0 | en |
I used to think that if you put thoughtless urbanites out in beautiful Nature, they would come to understand how wonderful our Earth is and want to protect it.
Instead, we too often see fools like these whose desire it is to smash the beauty around them instead of savoring it. | 0 | en |
3. I can see that you too have a condition that I refer to as Nigger Overload! I've had it for decades. | 1 | en |
The popular vote thing is a stupid argument. Have you not seen the breakdown by county, of who won each county vs who lost. It's literally all red except LA, Sanfransico, Chicago, New York. Litterially she only won an area that would fit inside the kenai peninsula. If you subtract the LA and New York City votes from both Trump and Clinton, Clinton looses the popular vote by almost 1/2 a million. So stop the ignorance wine about popular vote, unless you stand for United States of California?? | 0 | en |
Absurd concept. Suing the enemy soldier for damages. Imagine injured soldiers hobbling around battlefields throwing subpoenas at the enemy, yelling "you are served". First, it is completely specious and illegal for the US to unilaterally declare that an enemy soldier is an "unlawful combatant" and therefore not subject to any rights incl. those under the Geneva Convention. Furthermore, a soldier injured at war can't possibly claim damages against the enemy shooting back at him in the course of a war. The idea is preposterous and would turn every war, past and present, into a personal injury lawyer litigation bonanza. Finally, we wouldn't be having this contentious, "blame Trudeau" discussion if Harper hadn't shown so much opportunistic contempt for numerous court decisions on this case, and settled it several years ago. | 0 | en |
I am curious. Senators are elected for four year terms. Every two years we hold elections for every house representative and half of the senators. How many of the fourteen senators who voted to cut back on the funding for PFD checks are not up for re-election next this year? Are they sitting smug on their policy decision because they expect Alaskans to forget how they voted in two years?
If there is a voting block like that I wonder if it is a result of the recent re-districting . . . | 0 | en |
I'm sure you wouldn't mind in the spirit of transparency to name who Fusion GPS was told to look into besides Trump. Name names!! | 0 | en |
Why is Korean food so expensive in this town? I get that we are in Alaska but $20 for a small plate of pork bulgogi and 12 side dishes I don't want just makes me eat at these places very rarely. | 0 | en |
I don't know what you said in the deleted comments, but I dislike people being censored because they have a feisty way of communicating. And I think that's what happens sometimes. If you speak with passion, you're labeled as being uncivil and you're censored. We need to learn to speak like robots, Spaghetti. :) | 0 | en |
The Gospel is the parable of the rich lawyer who was satisfied with keeping the basics of the law but could not handle what it took to get treasure in Heaven by selling all he could and following Jesus. What I would say about this is what I said about August 22nd-and the eye of the needle gospel. It says nothing, by the way, about the glorification of an asexual priesthood (as opposed to celibate) and its peculiar approach to sexuality, although I am sure the saint of the day endorsed the latter. | 0 | en |
You and kurt are not exactly a overwhelming consensus if you get my drift. | 0 | en |
@USER Suddenly BozoObama is NOT politician"...& certainly NOT that HE & BillAyers &DISGRACED ErikHolder started Police brutality Antifa,BLM,OWS "movements" & didn't fund our US military as B4 for 8 yrs,but GAVE WORLD SPONSER OF TERROR IRAN $170. bil... NOOO!; not ol' ISIS-LOVER 'Bama." | 0 | en |
"Is the goal to intimidate and frighten individuals and families whose only crime was to try to make lives better for themselves and their children?
No, the goal of these "enhanced deportation techniques" is to deliver on a promise made to the Republican base, formerly known as the "Tea Party," now known by the oh-so-benign euphemism "alt-right." Since their champion, the president, is seemingly already campaigning for the next election four years from now as evidenced by his recent "campaign rally" in Florida, every action he takes is meant to shore up that base - as if it needs shoring up. As he put it long ago, he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and that wouldn't deter his die-hard fans from supporting him. But apparently after the bad week he had last week, he needed a little boost. So he gives the base the things they want and they give him the thing he wants - yet more adulation to feed his bottomless ego. If some decent people's lives get uprooted in the process, so be it. | 0 | en |
Image a car from GM built by people who have the right gender studies degree. | 0 | en |
You, Bill, are too kind. | 0 | en |
Actually, the article says there is a gap in the research, but doesn't say this has already been studied from the male perspective. I'm betting they would have mentioned those results, by way of comparison, if it had. | 0 | en |
Merhaba Khadkhall, öncelikle SM yapılmasını önermiş olduğun maddelerden Asperger sendromu bu hafta VP:İBP gündeminde. Desteklerini beklerim. Mukaddime ileti | 0 | tr |
Mr Khoikhoi, Yes I agree with you on your proposal... those three months shall be my real test and I will prove it to you that what happened yesterday was just a slip. | 0 | en |
@TheLastLeg #isitok that Nigel Farage says his 29% cannot be ignored yet the 48% remainders should be ignored?! #dickhead | 0 | en |
Figure all da ofay like to see my family pitcher http://t.co/5WXgKbCM29 | 0 | en |
Physical injury is nothing to be disappointed in. Generally happens to most who are top athlets. It is not fun to have health problems and back problems are a real pain. Now it seems that he had a combination of alcohol and pain killers. This can be a wicked combination. I think this latest accident is far different from when he was having affairs with half the women in the city.
He is still relatively young so I suspect he will still be around for years to come. Even injured and in pain, he is a far better golfer than most out there. | 0 | en |
Clinton's ability to stay vertical, engaged and energetic might bear a little watching too eh? | 0 | en |
January 1989?
Surely a set of ideas passed almost 19 years ago has very little relevance to the Internet as we know it today? To add this to the article would be OR and POV, but still... this article needs to be expanded or its significance explained more. Anyone know any more about it?'''''' s p a c e r e s e a r c h | 0 | en |
Dan has alternative facts. | 0 | en |
Canada is with the Americans. Canada is not with Donald Trump. | 0 | en |
NO - You pay for it! | 0 | en |
People selling our Canadians for China again. Pretty sick. Both coasts do not want kinder-Enron. | 0 | en |
UH should not be made an outpost of the military-industrial complex. Vietnam stole too many Vietnamese and American lives. Lee was very mild in his protests given the true treachery of Johnson and Nixon that we now know of. The joke was that today Vietnam is free of colonial rule and is a vital USA ally. They continue to hate the Chinese by the way. USA just did not understand North Vietnam or its history or culture. WE all paid a horrible price for that. | 0 | en |
kmbog: FYI -- Republicans put the moniker "obamacare" on the Affordable Care Act so they could demonize it along with President Obama. It amazes and frightens me how uninformed you Right-Wingers are! Sheesh! | 0 | en |
(i found if i tried to get through the agree/disagree part too fast, it wouldn't register) | 0 | en |
Wow - NZ play the weak fascist snowflake backwards little brother to Australia - I suspect they will not be taking refugees from the UK Caliphate - shameful! - I really hope your people get ashamed in time to save yourselves NZ! https://t.co/xbnCQihCmE | 1 | en |
Mereces ser cartonero hijo de puta jaja | 0 | es |
Shame on you Tcampbell and canoutchie for calling out eckvilles resident SJW. As an SJW, Mel has been ordained with the God-given right to determine whose outrage is real, and whose isn't. He gets to determine who gets to be outraged in the first place. We should be thanking him for his service to humanity. His brand of identity politics is truly making the world a better place. | 0 | en |
rt @user odeio quando ficam enchendo o saco cm oq eu posto, pqp | 0 | pt |
Γεροντομπεμπέκα σταχτομπούτα... #XFactorGR | 0 | el |
Should be interesting to see how long it stands unmolested.... | 0 | en |
As a Vietnam veteran and military retiree I disagree with the desertion charge for Sgt. Bergdahl. | 0 | en |
Speaking of narcissism. Maybe she was talking about Justin Trudeau. Ha. Ha. | 0 | en |
"Going your speed" is an incredibly self-centered, selfish attitude for a social activity like sharing the road. Our social contract requires you do the posted limit, no more, no less, conditions permitting. Delaying everyone behind is essentially you telling them their time has no value whatsoever. I imagine those who insist on driving below the posted limit are unhappy people satisfying an urge to exert control over others. | 0 | en |
Hampstead Garden Suburb
Hampstead Garden Suburb is an elevated suburb of London, north of Hampstead, west of Highgate and east of Golders Green. It is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations. It is an example of early twentieth-century domestic architecture and town planning in the London Borough of Barnet in northwest London.
The master plan was prepared by Barry Parker and Sir Raymond Unwin. Comprising just over 5,000 properties, and home to around 13,000 people, undivided houses with individual gardens are a key feature. The area enjoys landscaped garden squares, several communal parks and Hampstead Heath Extension.
History
Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded by Henrietta Barnett, who, with her husband Samuel, had started the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Toynbee Hall. In 1906, Barnett set up the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd, which purchased 243 acres of land from Eton College for the scheme and appointed Raymond Unwin as its architect.
Among the scheme's aims were the following:
It should cater for all classes of people and all income groups
There should be a low housing density
Roads should be wide and tree-lined
Houses should be separated by hedges, not walls
Woods and public gardens should be free to all
It should be quiet, with no church bells
This required a private bill before Parliament, as it was counter to local bylaws. The provisions of the new act, Hampstead Garden Suburb Act 1906, allowed less land to be taken up by roads and more by gardens and open spaces.
The ideas for the "Garden Suburb" were clearly based on the ideas and experience of Parker and Unwin in the planning and development of Letchworth Garden City, the first development of its kind, inspired by the work of Ebenezer Howard. Other consultant architects involved with the Hampstead development include George Lister Sutcliffe and John Soutar.
However, with no industry, no public houses and few shops or services, the suburb, unlike the garden cities, made no attempt to be self-contained. In the 1930s the "Suburb" (as it is known by locals) expanded to the north of the A1. While more characterful than most other suburban housing, some of the housing to the north is considered, overall, of less architectural value.
On Central Square, laid out by Sir Edwin Lutyens, there are two large churches, St. Jude's Church and The Free Church, as well as a Quaker Meeting House. There are two mixed state primary schools in the Suburb, Garden Suburb and Brookland. There is also a state girls' grammar school, Henrietta Barnett School. The school used to house The Institute, an adult education centre, but The Institute moved first to East Finchley, then to Kingsbury and is currently in the process of closing down altogether.
Shops and other services are provided in the shopping parade of Market Place. Shopping areas adjacent to the suburb include Temple Fortune, Golders Green and East Finchley.
Little Wood contains an open air arena, which is used for summer theatrical performances by a local amateur theatre society.
In 2015, the residents' association decided to implement a yellow and red card penalty system to discourage neighbours from using noisy lawnmowers and leafblowers.
Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust
Freehold houses, flats and commercial premises within the Suburb are subject to a scheme of management approved pursuant to the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 by an Order of the Chancery Division of the High Court, dated 17 January 1974, as amended by a further Order dated 17 February 1983.
The HGS Trust maintains the character and amenity of the Suburb and is responsible for implementing the management scheme. It has offices in Finchley Road. Freeholders are required to get the prior approval of the Trust before altering the external appearance of their properties. Consent is also required for significant changes to gardens, erection of garden sheds and felling or pruning of trees. The Trust is also the freeholder of the majority of the remaining leasehold property in the Suburb which are mostly held on very long leases.
Hampstead Garden Suburb Act 1906
Urban town planning had been restricted by the byelaws established after the 1875 Housing Act, which had de facto called for a grid iron street layout, and a minimum housing density. This had prevented Cadbury building workers houses within a city, and caused Rowntree to build his housing in rural parishes. For Unwin to design a street structure that followed the contours, and built houses in cul-de-sacs a parliamentary act was needed. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust sponsored a private bill.
The three relevant sections of the Act were
Section 2"There shall not be built in the Garden Suburb on the average throughout a greater proportion of houses to the acre than eight".
"On every road in the Garden Suburb (whatever the width of the said road) there shall be between any two houses standing on opposite sides of the road a space not less than fifty feet free of any buildings except walls, fences or gates."
Section 3"With respect to any gardens, recreation grounds or open spaces provided by the Company for the common use of the inhabitants of any dwellings in the Garden Suburb the Company may make bye-laws for the regulation thereof...."
Section 5"Any road not exceeding 500 feet in length constructed primarily for the purpose of giving access to a group of houses in the Garden Suburb and not designed for the purposes of through traffic (known as an accommodation road), may with the consent of the local authority be exempted from any operation of any bye-laws of the local authority relating to the width of new streets and footways."
Section 2, defined a low building density, and wide streets with gardens or verges where trees could be planted. Section 5 distinguished between through-roads and accommodation roads, residential cul-de-sacs under . It recognised the difference between cul-de-sac roads of limited length and other roads, and allowed the suspension of certain the operation of local planning bye-laws
Geography
Parks and nature reserves
The Suburb has large areas of open space, including Central Square; Hampstead Heath Extension; Northway Gardens; Lyttelton Playing Fields; and Big Wood and Little Wood. The southern end is close to Golders Hill Park.
Local Politics
Hampstead Garden Suburb is represented by three Councillors on Barnet Council. As of 2019, two of the Councillors are from the Conservatives, the other from the Liberal Democrats.
The local Member of Parliament is Mike Freer from the Conservatives, who has represented the seat since 2010.
Notable residents
Current residents include:
Hugh Laurie – Actor and musician.
Tom Hiddleston - actor
Sir Brian Leveson – Lord Justice of Appeal (Press ethics inquiry).
Jonathan Ross – TV and radio presenter.
Marc Sinden - Film director, actor and theatre producer.
Harry Styles – Pop singer with One Direction.
Anthony Joshua - Boxer
Richard Madeley - TV presenter
Judy Finnigan - TV presenter
See also
The Bishops Avenue
Brentham Garden Suburb
Sutton Garden Suburb
Ebenezer Howard
Garden city movement
Garden real estate
List of people from Barnet
References
Further reading
Hampstead Garden Suburb Notable Residents and where they lived compiled by Dr Eva Jacobs. Published by Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust.
External links
HGS website
HGS Trust
Famous residents
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Category:Districts of the London Borough of Barnet
Category:Garden suburbs
Category:Planned communities in England
Category:1906 establishments in England
Category:Works of Edwin Lutyens
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Category:Middlesex | 0 | en |
"Blacks?" Unbelievable. Listen, troll, African Americans are "people." Not a color. Need to throw that out there before flagging your racist lies. | 1 | en |
Outsider, I don't like corrupt politicians who profit from their position, whether or not that hurts the general public, though it often does. That corruption, of course, includes accepting campaign assistance from persons or corporations in cases where there is an expectation of payback. Unfortunately that includes almost all cases, and I don't exempt either major party from this corruption. The right to petition the government doesn't include any right to buy influence in return for money or favors (emoluments). For that reason alone, Trump's personal finances and wealth are things the public needs to know, because those debts and wealth may sway the entire nation's relations with other nations in ways harmful to the US people as a whole. Corruption is ethically and morally wrong, and economically harmful. | 0 | en |
Donald wants to 'own ' the free press. When he gets push back it's more bleating about it being unfair to Donald. Poor little Donald. In other words he's always mad at Media because they don't bow to him. Come one Motley, what kind of leadership tries to control, even intimidate the press? You want to put the power of the Presidency in this guy's hands? (His own party members have called him out more bluntly than most. SUE EM')
I believe Britain works from a 'guilty until proven innocent' assumption. That may make a difference. Either way it does not seen to have changed the character of the press much.
politics | 0 | en |
LFS, I disagree. Many, many people live up to the standard of simple human decency every single day.
And as far as I'm concerned if you're texting while sitting in a bleacher with people directly behind and over you, you should not have an expectation of privacy. | 0 | en |
Τελικός; Και ο εξώστης δίνει οδηγίες στην κατσαρίδα;wtf; Σε ποιο ουράνιο και ποιο τόξο; #MasterChefGR #masterchefgr_xeftiles | 1 | el |
FELIZ DIA DAS MULHERES PRA QUEM NASCEU HOMEM E ACHA QUE PRA SE MULHER BASTA COLOCAR UMA SAIA O SEU DIA É 1º DE ABRIL | 1 | pt |
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One group leaves another soon enters. Day begets day. Nothing ever changes. Except the broker's 10%. It's as constant as the heavens. | 0 | en |
Has Mr. McGee never heard of shadow studies? Living in downtown St. John's I got an
invitation to attend a planning meeting at City Hall for a 12 story condo building in the
vicinity. With the invitation and plans for the building were graphic results of the
shadow study that had been conducting, indicating that my house would be in the shade
from 1..30 pm to 4.13 pm during a period of January and February (with low sun). This
was one of the implication of this particular building. Which is now being built, success-
fully passing strict rules.
So I don't find it so outrageous that parents are concerned when possibly a lot of the
sun shine is gone from the children's school. They are right in complaining. | 0 | en |
Foi com anistia que o governo militar deixou o Brasil na pior | 0 | pt |
Someone surely stoked your insecurity! And you have nothing intelligent to offer, either. Just attacks on others who disagree with you. Who's sitting at a computer and spewing? I guess that applies to all of us, INCLUDING YOU. | 0 | en |
It is the bus system which costs Tri Met, not the rail system, which actually pays its own way. | 0 | en |
` Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Frozone. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. ` | 0 | en |
Hello?
Two polio vaccines were invented, by Sabin and Salk, and both were Americans.
The New Zealander you reference never claimed he flew his machine before the Wright Brothers flew theirs. And there is no compelling evidence that he did.
The Canadian Avro passenger jet came out in 1949, two weeks after the British Comet passenger jet.
Wow, lots of false claims in your post... | 0 | en |
@Blakenyblank: You must be young (no experience with gastroenterologists) and have good knees (i.e., not know any orthopedic surgeons). Paying the 20% copay of a 30K procedure tends to create resentment when one discovers the same procedure is available Outside for about the copay total. | 0 | en |
3hrs...still waiting. | 0 | en |
Certainly someone has acted dishonourably. The question is who, and when the consent is required after, as well as before and during, there is the possibility of nasty business. | 0 | en |
DPravda, don't you understand most people who would want to see him have jobs and busy lives? It's generally difficult to fill conservative events because of the audience; the opposite of some hippie bernie event. Thanks for the heads up though about the event. | 0 | en |
Which is why they hired a load of former Conservatives from Alberta and from Harpers failed government.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/b-c-liberals-hire-12-ousted-federal-and-alberta-conservatives-which-could-give-province-a-harper-tone
Everybody in BC understands that they hijacked the Liberal name when the party was in disarray. Their own Socred and Reform brands wouldn't cut it out here so they hijacked another Party. | 0 | en |
It is best to get one’s news from several different sources these days as all have their own biases and agendas.
Unfortunately, shock jock antics still draw the most eye balls in Murka.
Canada has also fallen out of the top twenty in terms of media freedom according to Reporters Without Borders so not sure that anyone should be tooting that horn too loudly | 0 | en |
Kinda like Obama and the 1000's he killed with bombs and special forces?
But never mentioned anywhere in lefty media
Obama had Korea - did nothing
Obama had Eastern Europe - did nothing
Obama had ISIS - did nothing
It goes on and on.
Or maybe the lack of engagement with ISIS and now it's explosive out of control growth which he was too afraid back then to address or maybe he had another agenda? Like being funded by his brothers in Qatar to let ISIS go batshit......
We now have to clean up this jerks mess.
It's only now when the left is threatened that it becomes something.
The never ending tiresome leftist rubbish
If we don't agree with them - they get angry and bratty
Grow up lefties
You lost | 1 | en |
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Would describing someone as a as “churlish dwarf billionaire” and someone else as a “Play-doh-faced homunculus-action toy" make it through the civil posting system?
Yet the author uses this in her first paragraph to mock those who she doesn't like. This is not satire, it is bullying, plain and simple. | 0 | en |
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A New Year
tradition in our house is a family walk with the four children in a nearby
park. I always love to do this when the weather is nice and the hike isn’t full
of snow but no matter what, we MAKE our children who range from 8-17 years of
age, to come with us. I will admit it’s not easy to get out the door with the
teens screaming, “No way,” but in the end they all have fun and it’s usually
only an hour. And in that hour I always find out something interesting either
about my children or a new story idea begins to emerge.
I hope you enjoy
my book Rapture:
Mermen aren't real. That's what biologist Jamie Winters
thinks until a gorgeous Greek god enters her life and drowns her, forcing her
to rapture into a Siren. Used to logic, she can't quite come to terms with Seth
Cutter's magical undersea realm or the fact that he's a macho Titan.
Being a Siren causes Jamie's hormones to go into overdrive,
which isn't good when she realizes that's exactly what Seth was hoping for.
Sure, the sex is out of this world, but she's not about to change her
character.
As Prince of the North Seas, Seth is used to having his
commands followed. A decade of exile on land was easier than having to deal
with the sexy-as-sin Siren who tips the scales of his existence and doesn't listen
to one word he says.
They must overcome their prejudices to recover stolen relics
that are key to the undersea kingdom, stop a deadly plague and destroy an
underwater diva who wants to rule the roost. Are they two souls destined for
each other or will the Fates decide otherwise? Seth knows firsthand, Fate can
be a bitch.
Excerpt:
After a month
working with Caskett at the Institute of Oceanography, Jamie still took the
long way to get to her desk. She didn’t care if the other researchers teased
her for avoiding the elevator, the wharf or any of the vessels berthed at the
two docks. She simply avoided the people. She had been hired because her
cutting-edge research on immunological diseases in sea mammals was excellent.
She knew that and so did the rest of the researchers.
No, there was
nothing wrong with taking the scenic route to her office. After all, it was
located on the basement level and there was no other way unless she took the
elevator, which was not going to happen. Highly claustrophobic by nature, she
avoided elevators at all costs.
At five-thirty
in the morning she wasn’t expecting anyone to greet her anyway. Sliding her
security card through the outer door’s electronic slot, she then punched in her
code and took the long corridor, which led to Caskett’s floor. She heard the
commotion long before she spotted anyone. With a swipe of her second electronic
key, she punched in another security code and waited for the small click.
Straining, she pushed open the door. Instead of the usual quiet, the place was
in chaos.
People she
didn’t know were running from one place to another. Like chickens with their heads cut off.
“Jesus Christ,
make sure those oxygen tanks are working properly. Bunch of dimwits!” screamed
Caskett, to a group of young men cowering under his gaze.
“Shit! Shit!
Shit! Why can’t things go right, just once?” he screamed again. This time the
verbal attack was aimed at Trevor, who had the nerve to blush when he spotted
her.
“Thanks for the
sleep-in tip, Trevor,” said Jamie sarcastically, trying to back out the door
she’d just sauntered in through.
“Oh no, you
don’t. I need you. Come here, Jamie!” screamed Caskett, brushing Trevor off
with a disgusted look on his face and a wave of his hand.
That should have
made her feel better but it didn’t.
In the short
time she’d been working for Caskett, she had learned to despise him. She knew
he had hired her more for her looks than her research, and she hated his habit
of reading over her shoulder as she typed in her findings. She had tried numerous
times to make it plain as day to him she wasn’t one bit interested in him, and
would never in this lifetime sleep with him. No, she knew Caskett’s reputation
for tarnishing interns, as he jokingly referred to others who had held her
illustrious position as student-in-residence.
Realizing she
hadn’t responded, Jamie looked up to catch Caskett staring at her.
Great, of all days to be caught wearing shorts and a
tank top.
Silently, she made a mental note to keep a stash of extra clothing in her car.
Her plan to go into the office early to get some work done in quiet before any
of the weekend crew arrived was now out the window. Still wearing her jogging
gear didn’t help.
“Nice of you to
join us on this luscious Saturday morning, my dear. Do come in. I have a
surprise for you,” said Caskett.
Her skin crawled
as she caught Caskett’s eyes following her every movement. At six foot one,
with long athletic legs and a slim waist, she usually went out of her way to
look demure. This morning she hadn’t even bothered putting her long black hair
into its usual no-nonsense ponytail.
Walking forward
to where Caskett was standing, she was very conscious of her waist-length curly
hair moving of its own accord. Reaching into her pocket, she thanked herself
for having put extra elastic bands from the file folders she had been reading
at one in the morning in her pocket. Slipping the elastic into her hand, she
deftly grabbed her hair and had it tied into a tight ponytail just as she
reached Caskett. She could tell by his face he wasn’t one bit pleased.
Go to hell. She bravely asked, “What’s up?”
“Um, not as much
as I’d like,” he whispered, standing on his toes to be eye-level with Jamie.
Height has its advantages. She enjoyed
seeing him squirm for a change.
“Caught a beauty
this time. A real keeper. Come and see,” said her boss as he tried without
success to steer her by the arm to another door—his private, do not enter door.
“What do you
mean?” she asked, biting her lip nervously. She wasn’t sure she wanted access
to the off-limit room. Across the room she noted Trevor’s evil glare as he
stared at her in awe, as did a few other of the weekend scientists.
If Caskett let
her in this room that would be a first. She’d be the first scientist since the
lab had opened a couple of months ago to be granted access. Why her stomach was
churning, she put down to nerves. It made her angry that Trevor’s heated gaze
was a promise of retribution but she deserved this after his lie telling her
Caskett wouldn’t be in today.
So she did what
she always did when faced with a challenge. She squared her shoulders and
followed Caskett.
“Are you going
to show me those shells now?”
Instantly,
Caskett stopped. The shells had been a sore topic of conversation ever since
she’d found out about them. No one from the institute had seen them and almost
everyone wanted an up close personal peek.
“Don’t ask me
again about those shells. They’re gone,” he said, almost grabbing her arms.
A quick movement
to the left enabled her to avoid his touch. “So what is it? Did you catch
something?”
“You bet. A
bottlenose dolphin. She’s charming. She’s got some sort of tattoo or something
on her dorsal fin, and she’s gone into shock, so I’m hoping you might take a
look at her first. I’m also arranging for a marine specialist to come and look
at her. There’s something very unusual about this dolphin, Jamie, and I want
you as my witness to help verify my findings,” he said.
The look of
disbelief on her face said it all. “Look, I’m not really qualified…my research
is on…”
Caskett turned
to look at her. She watched as his eyes narrowed. “I know all about your
research, don’t forget I hired you. I also know that you’re the only one I have
on staff that’s studied dolphins extensively, so you are going to help me. Am I
clear?”
Clear as mud, she wanted to say. Instead she meekly
nodded.
As he resumed
his walk to his private door, he continued talking. It took all of Jamie’s
concentration to follow his line of reasoning.
“When the
specialist gets here, I want you to ask him to take pictures to document that
tattoo. I also want you to ask if he’s seen anything like it before. My bet is
he hasn’t. Then in the morning we’ll start the dissection process…”
That stopped her
cold. “You mean to kill the dolphin…”
“I mean to find
the truth no matter what,” stated Caskett, as he punched in his security code
to open his private chambers.
There was an
audible creak as the large steel door slowly opened. Inside the concrete room
Jamie’s sensitive nose caught the rank odor of rotting seaweed and chlorine.
She fought the urge to gag.
“Oh my god!” she
said, her eyes adjusting to the dim light in the room.
Directly across
from her in a large, but not nearly vast enough circular tank was a small
bottlenose dolphin. The dolphin barely had room to complete a full turn. With a
quick glance she knew it was sick, as if its life force was being sucked out of
it.
“I said she was
a beauty. Now come here. Take a look at that,” said Caskett, willing her to
march up the steel ladder with him.
Towering over
the dolphin, she looked at what he was pointing at. It looks like a tattoo, but that’s ridiculous.
“Dolphins don’t
have tattoos. It’s probably a birthmark or an old wound that didn’t heal
properly,” muttered Jamie.
“It’s a goddamn
tattoo. I want to know why and how it got there! You got that? I want real
answers. Can I count on you, Jamie?” asked Caskett, marching down the ladder.
She knew she
nodded, but for the life of her she couldn’t pry her eyes away from the
sick-looking dolphin. Her gut clenched with an unfamiliar feeling. She didn’t
realize Caskett had left until the door clicked shut, breaking into her
thoughts. Still clutching the ladder’s handrail, she leaned over the aquarium.
Her heart was beating irregularly and try as she might, she wasn’t one bit
happy to see the wild, beautiful creature caged. It unnerved her.
But isn’t this my dream? The chance to study a real,
wild dolphin up close and personal. Gulping, she took another glance over
the edge. That’s definitely a tattoo.
Dangling precariously over the tank’s edge she realized what she felt for the
dolphin—sorrow. The intensity of the
emotion washed over her, causing her to tremble.
Help me.
The words
flashed hard and intensely inside her head, causing her to almost let go of the
railing. Sucking in a deep breath, she tried to gather her senses. She took a
calming breath, and slowly backed down the ladder. The uneasy feeling in her
stomach didn’t lessen even when her feet were firmly planted on the concrete
floor.
Taking another
deep breath, she tried to get a hold of her emotions. Shaking her head, she
realized how foolish she was being.
Help me, please.
Jamie almost wet
her shorts. There was no way she could mistake that. A “help me” could be a
figment of her imagination, but not a “please”.
“Wha…wh…” She couldn’t
make her tongue form the words, as she sputtered nonsense.
Please, help me. I’m dying.
She hadn’t even
realized she had moved until her legs backed up hard against the steel door.
Panic was seizing her heart, making it impossible for her to take a breath.
“Jesus, Jamie.
Get your cute behind in here now. I need you to analyze this!” came the
screaming voice of Caskett from behind the closed door.
Jamie was only
too happy to oblige. Work. The best thing
to get my mind off what most definitely did not happen in there. She yanked
the door open and took one last look at the creature as it turned in the water.
love any type of paranormal, scifi, futuristic, and romantic suspense. Anything different really gets me so. Would love to see more leaving earth for other planets.scrtsbpal at yahoo dot comThnaks for participating in the blog hop
Oh I love marine themed books! I'll admit to being a huge fan of paranormal stories of all types, for both reading and writing, but I'm really open to anything that sounds good. Thanks for the blog hop contest!
Happy New Year! Thanks for participating in the giveway! I am so lucky to have found this site! Your new book looks SOOOO good! I really want to read it!
I love paranormal romance. I also love when authors mix fairy tales and myths together with romance. I just love fairy tales or magical beings! Maybe books about the lochness "monster"? They are sightings of them all around the world so they could be a series. Maybe they are not really "monsters" but merman, people left over from Atlantis, shapeshifters, etc? Also more about the Japanese myths like Studio Ghibli does? Or other Japanese anime? They have great stories that would be good to have a grownup version.
Happy New Year! Thanks for participating in the giveway! I am so lucky to have found this site! Your new book looks SOOOO good! I really want to read it!
I love paranormal romance. I also love when authors mix fairy tales and myths together with romance. I just love fairy tales or magical beings! Maybe books about the lochness "monster"? They are sightings of them all around the world so they could be a series. Maybe they are not really "monsters" but merman, people left over from Atlantis, shapeshifters, etc? Also more about the Japanese myths like Studio Ghibli does? Or other Japanese anime? They have great stories that would be good to have a grownup version.
Ms. Field, I've never read any of your work, but the excerpt from Rapture certainly interests me. I really enjoy reading anything paranormal. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to win one of your books.
This year i plan on reading pretty much everything not limiting myself to one type of book... I love mythology and historicals but i love paranormal and erotic to so yeah little bit of everything is good. Thanks for being part of the blog hop.
I love Romance and paranormal romance which are my favorite. I read a lot of others that I enjoy too. Thank you very much for the great giveaway and fun blog hop!I wish you a very Happy New Year!Latisha Dtishajean@ charter.net
I read a lot of paranormal and fantasy, romance or no, though I like historical a lot, too. And, mmm, myths--anything and everything, really, but seeing as I've long been enchanted with mermen and selkies, I'll have to add Raptured to my TBR list.
Hi! Happy New Years! I like all romances but paranormal are my favorite! Thanks for the awesome hop and all the giveaways! This is so fun! I love these hops! I always meet new authors, reconnect with old ones and my TBR list grows by leaps and bounds! Thank you!! Have a great day! Best wishes and many blessings to you!shadowluvs2read(at)gmail(dot)com
Thanks everyone for stopping by. I will be awarding my ebooks tomorrow and contacting the winners. Love to hear that many of you want to read more paranormal and fantasy this year! All the best for 2013. | 1 | en |
While Trump may be ideologically flexible, his electoral base is not; that base fervently believes in an impossibly expensive enterprise, the rounding up, legal processing and deportation of 11 million US residents, and the walling off of the border with Mexico. Beyond the stupendous cost of such an operation, which would involve greatly expanding police and court resources for a period of years, our own economy would further suffer in a way we would feel from the loss of all that creative enterprise among those residents, the taxes they pay, and the goods and services they consume. It would be an economic disaster.
Trump may well be aware of all that, in which case he was luring bigots to his cause with a deliberate fantasy. By suddenly turning off that inflammatory rhetoric, he has hung his followers out to dry, and many are outraged. What will he do now? This may be the effective end of his campaign. | 0 | en |
Not sure what game you were watching or how much pot you smoked during it but the Buffs looked awful. Montez was bad. The defense was bad The running game was bad. The refs won the game for CU. | 0 | en |
A DNA double-strand break defective fibroblast cell line (180BR) derived from a radiosensitive patient represents a new mutant phenotype.
The 180BR cell line was derived from an acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient who overresponded to radiation therapy and died following radiation morbidity. 180BR cells are hypersensitive to the lethal effects of ionizing radiation and are defective in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). The levels and activity of the proteins of the DNA-dependent protein kinase complex are normal in 180BR cells. To facilitate a measurement of V(D)J recombination, we have characterized 180BRM, a SV40-transformed line derived from 180BR. 180BRM retains the radiosensitivity and defect in DSB repair characteristic of 180BR. The activities associated with DNA-dependent protein kinase are also normal in 180BRM cells. The ability to carry out V(D)J recombination is comparable in 180BRM and a reference control transformed human cell line, MRC5V1. These results show that 180BR and 180BRM differ from the rodent mutants belonging to ionizing radiation complementation groups 4, 5, 6, and 7 and, therefore, represent a new mutant phenotype, in which a defect in DNA DSB rejoining is not associated with defective V(D)J recombination. Furthermore, we have shown that 180BR can arrest at the G1-S and G2-M cell cycle checkpoints after irradiation. These results confirm that 180BR can be distinguished from ataxia telangiectasia. | 0 | en |
Commence par la folie dont tu es atteint. | 0 | fr |
Propos simplistes. | 0 | es |
CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a big contributor to the Hillary campaign. | 0 | en |
"
: The person we list as being x in line to the throne may in fact be x+1, x-1 or not in line at all. Our assumption is that we have complete information about all births, marriages, deaths and religious conversions and know how the laws should be applied, but that is WP:SYN: ""Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources."" It is fine to say that a person is x in line to the throne, if a reliable source says that. It is not fine to combine that information with other information to revise the list. " | 0 | en |
“If we want a different outcome, we must change the players list,” Gillibrand said. “Just imagine if Congress was 51 percent women.”
Keep in mind that some of those 51 percent women in congress would be Republican. But it will be easy to tell the difference - just look for the ones wearing the cute pink kitty hats. | 0 | en |
I was a Right Sector supporter but it starts to sound as if they are in fact just Israeli agents ...... | 0 | en |
Remember our rouge Alaska Board of Game sanctions bear baiting in Alaska while at the same moment the ADFG and some wise voices caution strictly against leaving human food and garbage around to contribute to the habituation of bears to us. | 0 | en |
"And when we rise to this challenge, and work to turn the page on the darkest of chapters in our country's history, Canada will be all the stronger for it."
One of the major challenges with coming to closure is there is a whole industry of people making their livelihood keeping the memories of those so-called darkest chapters open through constant demands for commissions and inquiries.
What's it going to take and how much is it going to cost to turn the page and stop it from flipping back over and over again? | 0 | en |
The heirs of estates worth over $11 million certainly need our succor and tender, solicitous attentions. | 0 | en |
I would hope your sister would get some help with her mental confusion Maureen. She is clearly in need of some professional help. | 0 | en |
Trump Plans To Blow Up Iran Deal Because He Really IS A Moron | 1 | en |
I see nothing wrong with being prepared to oppose any of Trump's picks. We all know the kind of men he's going to pick. And nothing - and I mean nothing - can beat what the GOP did to Merrick Garland. So don't even try to criticize opposition to Trump's nominees. You're all a bunch of swarmy hypocrites. You deserve zero respect. I don't know how you can look at yourselves. | 0 | en |
So what? The issue still comes down to responsible or irresponsible parenting. Bumper stickers have nothing to do with that. | 0 | en |
There we go again: east and west
I called a BRD on east/west separation, so let us repeat our semi-annual discussion on that. I used to want the separation, but I was convinced otherwise before. So, gentlemen, get your keyboards ready. | 0 | en |
Vous parlez sans en connaître. | 0 | fr |
"Demonstrated behaviors" from public figures can and very often are deliberate to serve a purpose. There are many examples in history to prove this. PPXII immediately comes to mind. The better psychiatrists know this. The ones that think they can do a psychiatric assessment from a TV screen are QUACKS. Why do you put your trust in QUACKS? | 0 | en |
This woman is absolutely crazy. Her Facebook is filled with obscenities and words of hate. F this, F that, the F word is everywhere on her Facebook. She appears to be an emotional basket case currently, posting rants almost every day about how miserable she is, and she states that she is drinking heavily. One of her friends appears to have committed suicide recently, after shooting a woman.
I think that people in the Santa Clara area should stay well clear of her. She is really messed up pretty bad. Take a look:
https://www.facebook.com/laura.roberts.77?fref=ts
She also has a major fascination with guns. She is a perfect example of why people should not be allowed to own guns. | 1 | en |
[So we're technically saving money, right?]
Separate sovereigns. The state and the federal government can both try them for various crimes. IIRC, if convicted the accused would serve one sentence followed by another sentence by the other. Also, that assumes the federal charges will even stick. As above, it's pretty tenuous.
Though I still scratch my head at whether the defense attorneys are going to take the federal charges to task as it is probably too much of a toss-up on how the district judge would come down on it. And I doubt the thieves have the money to run it up the appellate chain if they lose. | 0 | en |
If you're a bank and haven't made efforts to involve yourself in groups like this one and then money is stolen, what do you think your liability issues are? What do you think your reputation risk level is?
It's interesting that one of the six big banks hasn't joined. Do they think they have it all figured out? | 0 | en |
== You're a total fag. == Pokemon netbattle is some awesome fucking shit, and you're a goddamn cunt for not realizing it. You fucking chose to delete it because of some bullshit reason that it's not significant enough when compared to your high standards of significance. YOU'RE THE MOTHER FUCKER! Fuck your lame shit. My pokemon will rape you. | 1 | en |
How about the commercial fishermen Judy fishing and fishing....I realize they need to make a living but.... | 0 | en |
Good for you. Always look forward. My 84 year old mother got remarried last year and is a blissful newlywed travelling the world with her 83 year old younger man. It's never too late. | 0 | en |
I can't wait to see Trump's tantrum. It should be epic. | 0 | en |
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