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MBTA: Faster, Easier Parking
The MBTA has initiated a simpler system for parking lot payments that allows everyone from daily commuters to visitors to use their mobile phones and an online account to pay for parking at MBTA lots.
Weekend Farmers Markets
MassDOT's annual Farmer's Market Program continues through fall 2010.
This weekend's Farmers Markets include:
Local farmers or customers who want more information are asked to contact program coordinator Dave Fenton at firstname.lastname@example.com or 413-572-3171.
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MBTA Bus Routes Real-Time Data Major Expansion
This week, the MBTA took the next step in helping bus riders answer the question, "where's the bus?" Building on General Manager Richard Davey's commitment to unlock real-time bus information this summer, the MBTA began releasing data for 118 bus routes in addition to the 17 that already have data. Now, real-time data is available for 135 of the MBTA's 185 bus routes. The full list of routes with real-time data is after the break.
This release will allow bus riders on these routes to access real-time information on bus locations and arrival predictions for all bus stops. Data will be accessible through 3rd party applications. Popular applications include:
Many other applications can be found by searching "MBTA" in your phone's app store.
This release builds on MassDOT and the MBTA's strategy of releasing data to software developers and other 3rd parties who might interested in building applications with T data. Within just one hour of releasing data on five pilot bus routes last November, a developer had already found a way to build an application. Within two months more than one dozen applications had been created including websites, smartphone applications, SMS text message services, 617-phone numbers and even an LED sign. All of these applications were created at no cost to the MBTA.
In June, MBTA General Manager Richard Davey announced that data would be available for all routes by the end of this summer. Bus routes with real-time data have been announced in stages with the remaining routes being rolled out in the coming weeks.
If you are a software developer interested in building an app with the data please visit www.mass.gov/massdot/developers.
Billerica Bridge Naming Honors Highway Leader
Governor Deval Patrick has signed a bill into law designating the Nashua Road Bridge on Route 4 over the Concord River in Billerica as the John F. Leary Bridge.
The designation honors Leary, a Billerica resident who served for nearly 47 years as legal counsel for the Massachusetts Highway Department. Leary joined the Highway Department in 1958 and passed away in 2005. Leary's work included legal and right of way issues related to construction and expansion of such major transportation projects as I-95, Route 128, and I-495. He is credited with drafting a significant portion of the state's transportation laws, many of which exist to this day.
"John Leary was a hard worker who devoted his life to public service," said Governor Patrick. "This designation pays fitting tribute to his life and his legacy."
"John Leary's work is stamped on transportation law and important projects all across the Commonwealth," said MassDOT Secretary and CEO Jeff Mullan. "I had the privilege of working with and learning from John as a young lawyer. In dedicating 47 years of his life to public service, he was a role model for hundreds of co-workers while leaving a fabulous legacy. It is a tribute to the many contributions he left us and to the person he was that we honor him in this permanent way."
MassDOT will post a marker and sign on the Route 4 Bridge noting the designation as the John F. LearyBridge.
MBTA Accessibility Leader Marks ADA Anniversary
Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act to improve public access for people with disabilities and protect them from discrimination.
And it was a special day for Gary Talbot, MBTA's Assistant General Manager for Systemwide Accessibility, and not just because of the ADA anniversary. Gary was invited to the White House for today's celebration of the anniversary.
Before heading to Washington, D.C., Talbot joined people on Boston Common today for the local celebration. T ambassadors answered questions about accessibility, and were also available at Park Street, Chinatown, Boylston, Arlington, South Station, North Station and Back Bay Stations.
Talbot later joined the ADA celebration at the White House, seen in the yellow shirt near the President.
Talbot says significant improvements to accessibility have been made at the MBTA in the past three years, including:
According to Talbot, "management support for accessibility initiatives has never been stronger and we will have every opportunity to build on our recent successes and achieve our goal of becoming the global benchmark for accessible and inclusive public transportation."
Learn more about the MBTA commitment to system-wide accessibility.
MassDOT Supports Trooper Safety, Safe Roads Initiatives
MassDOT Highway Administrator Luisa Paiewonsky and Registrar Rachel Kaprielian joined Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray and Massachusetts State Police Colonel Marian J. McGovern as Colonel McGovern announced steps to improve traffic safety and keep state troopers safe. Five troopers have been hit, one fatally, by motor vehicles while in the line of duty.
Among the steps: increased enforcement with added patrols on weekend nights for the duration of the summer, an initiative called "Operation Lightning," that in the past two weekends already led to 24 drunk driving arrests along with more than 250 driving-related citations.
Colonel McGovern noted that preliminary statistics show that there have been 145 deaths on Massachusetts roads in 2010, compared to 184 roadway deaths in the state last year, a positive trend.
MassDOT joins the State Police in making traffic safety a top priority. Any injury or loss of life on a roadway caused by impairment, aggression, speeding, negligence or distraction is unacceptable, and any driver who engages in these unsafe behaviors will be targeted by police.
MassDOT also reminds drivers of the "Move Over" law, which took effect in March 2009, meant to help protect police, firefighters, paramedics, tow truck drivers, and all roadside emergency and maintenance workers. The law requires all drivers approaching a stationary emergency or maintenance vehicle with flashing lights to move to the next adjacent lane if it is safe to do so, and, barring that, to reduce their speed. Violating the Move Over Law could result in a fine of up to $100.
Learn more by visiting the Executive Office of Public Safety on the web here. Check MassDOT RMV Safe Driving Tips here.
MassDOT Board August Public Meeting
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board of Directors will hold its next public business meeting on Wednesday, August 11, 1:00pm, in the MBTA Board Room, Suite 3910, State Transportation Building, Boston. The MBTA Board will meet first at 1pm, followed by the MassDOT Board. All meetings are open to the public.
The meeting schedule is available on the MassDOT website.
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Forgotten Treasures 8 – The Saboteur
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The Saboteur (PS3/Xbox 360/PC)
World War II first person shooters are a dime-a-dozen. Name a battle, any battle that took place in the European campaign and it's probably already faithfully re-enacted (in video game form) in the Medal of Honors and the Call of Duties of old. That's why it was such a treat to finally play an open-world third person shooter set in a fairly overused backdrop. Read the rest of this entry

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NBA and Players Union Could Possibly Meet This Week
The NBA and NBPA met in a New York City hotel on Thursday for nearly five-hours hours. Despite gathering for three consecutive days, the sides could not agree on a new CBA. In the press conferences after the meeting, Union President Derek Fisher accused Adam Silver of lying, and union Chief Billy Hunter informed the reporters that the league said it will not schedule future meetings unless the players agree ...Read more ›


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An audit report, a year in the making, slams the NOPD for what Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux calls an institutional problem classifying rapes.
"Our public certainly needs crime data. They have a strong interest in that," said Quatrevaux.
The Inspector General's audit sampled 90 random cases between June of 2010 and May of 2013.
Of the 90 cases, Quatrevaux says 41 of them were misclassified.
He says 7 were misclassified as sexual battery, which is a charge that does not get reported to the FBI.
34 others were misclassified as miscellaneous or unfounded, but Quatrevaux says they were actual rapes.
Chief Ronal Serpas is disputing the IG's general findings.
"An unmistakable fact is that in the last 4 years of our time, we have reported 70 percent more sexual assaults to the state of Louisiana, following the rules as we believe they should be followed," Serpas said.
Serpas says internal reviews and external audits by other agencies, failed to show any pattern or practice on the part of the NOPD to downgrade the reporting of crime.
"The state experts who are charged to determine how the uniformed crime reports are submitted, supported us overwhelmingly in our classification and investigating of rapes," said Serpas.
Quatrevaux, though, believes there are a lot of violations of NOPD policies, like reports not being filled out in a timely manner or missing supplemental reports explaining why a case is re-classified.
Serpas says he knows there's room to get better but he believes the department has come a long way, pointing to extra training.
Quatrevaux says he doesn't believe the NOPD intentionally under-reported rape statistics.
"I don't really think anyone's manipulating the numbers to make them go up or go down. There's no indication of that," Quartrevaux said.
He still wants change and he vowing to conduct a thorough audit of NOPD rape cases each year moving forward.
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As for myself, I already had a 20s fuckup role model.
Claire Simone Fisher has always been and will always be favorite insanely selfish person ever. (Fictional character, whatever.)
As for myself, I already had a 20s fuckup role model.
Claire Simone Fisher has always been and will always be favorite insanely selfish person ever. (Fictional character, whatever.)
If I knew how to make GIFs I would only ever make a GIF of Nikolai beating his chest and chanting "Lord Have Mercy, Lord Have Mercy" over and over after saying grace at the dinner party where Nate is on ecstasy. It's the only GIF I'd ever need.
Don't know if this is backwards-offensive but I definitely always chose to believe that Bobby Cannavale (who, lets' be honest, is also Babely Cannavale) is a homosexual man. In my defense, this is based less on Will & Grace and more on Six Feet Under.
Up until now I've kind of managed to ignore the fact that Rachel is totally loving it up with one of my main boyfriends. Like, he is on my laminated list. That's okay Rach, do your thing, I just hope you really appreciate him.
"Pilot" | Six Feet Under | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club
One every week! Maybe I can get the noodle to watch. Probably not.
But OMG you guys! I found this completely by accident while looking for used sofas on Craigslist. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I don't think Mike would go for it.
AUTOMATIC SIX FEET UNDER RE-BLOG: I'm a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch Edition
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"[Side note: The acting from Danny Pudi here, in which the character he's playing is so unlike Abed that it's utterly unnerving, is a great example of how bad the Emmy submission system is. Actors submit and are judged on individual episodes out of context, and without having seen Pudi's week-in, week-out creation of Abed, you can't possibly appreciate how everything down to the shape of his face seemed to be different when he was at this dinner.]"
F'real. I think Community is officially my favorite. No good guys, no bad guys. It's like the Six Feet Under of Shows That Are Completely Different From Six Feet Under.
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Celeb Hairstyling With Charles Baker Strahan and Herbal Essences
Written on August 29, 2011 at 10:04 am , by Fitness Magazine
We had the pleasure of meeting with celebrity hairstylist Charles Baker Strahan at Arte Salon in New York City last week to preview the new Herbal Essences Touchably Smooth Shampoo & Conditioner. The collection is made to tame flyaways by adding softness to straight or curly hair. We put the humidity protectant that's formulated into the products to the test after our wash and style. Even when we sat outside and surrendered to the steamy New York air, sun and afternoon breeze, our silky, shiny hairstyle stood up. See the proof, below (that's Charles on the left)!
He also gave us a few pointers for styling our hair during any season:
If your flyaways continue to rise at the top of your hairline: Spray hairspray onto a makeup or small hairbrush and sweep it over the errant strands. This will ease frizz without flattening your styled hair.
If you want to add volume to flat, straight or curly hair: Use Velcro rollers along the crown of your head. This forces the hair to change directions, which will lend bounce and movement.
For a fast freshen-up: Tease hair starting at the crown and brushing in the opposite direction—the crown is where you can create the most volume.
—By Amanda Downs, beauty intern
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Tame Your Summer Mane
Written on July 13, 2011 at 9:23 am , by Fitness Magazine
The height of summer is in full swing in New York City, and our hair's been reacting in accordance (read: frizz, grease, and flyaways).
Thankfully, Herbal Essences Touchably Smooth Collection has come up with a foolproof style for your next getaway or day at the beach. Here's to good hair days ahead!
- Before heading to the beach or the pool, wash and condition your hair thoroughly.
- Towel dry and put hair in a ponytail at the top of your head.
- Twist hair around the ponytail and secure in a spiraled bun.
- Spritz strands with a soft-touch hairspray.
- After your day in the sun, let the bun fall to form smooth waves, and finish with a mist of hairspray to keep locks in place.
—By Amanda Downs, beauty intern
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Behind-the-Scenes Beauty with Leighton Meester
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Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester and celebrity hairstylist Charles Baker Strahan gave FITNESS a peak behind the scenes of their latest photo shoot for Herbal Essences. Enjoy!
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Favorite Find Friday: Herbal Essences Hydralicious Reconditioning Shampoo
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An active lifestyle can take its toll on fragile strands (hello, perpetual ponytail!), which is why we love Herbal Essences Hydralicious Reconditioning Shampoo. The thick, swirly formula not only looks (and smells) amazing, but cleans sweat and grime while targeting parched, damaged areas with reparative ingredients like shea—all for under $4. What's your go-to shampoo?
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If you're planning a summer trip, the pros at AAA say there are five travel myths you need to be aware of before you hit the road or book that airfare. And they could save you time and money.
From airport security to booking online, travel has changed considerably over the last decade.
Myth number one: using a travel agent costs more.
"They're privy to information and discounts. Industry information and discounts not open to the general public," says Stephanie Dembowski, AAA ARIZONA.
Myth number two: always purchase the insurance at the rental car counter.
"What you're paying for there is peace of mind. You really need to check your own insurance policy to see if you are going to be covered in that situation."
Agents say if you determine that before you get to the counter, you won't feel pressured to make an on the spot decision.
Myth number three: score on airfare by waiting until the last minute.
"Unfortunately those days are for the most part over. There are fewer planes in the sky and fewer seats in the air and really you're going to be paying a premium if you wait until the last minute."
Another myth: everything costs extra on a plane.
If you want the whole can of soda or the whole bottle of water, just ask. Most airlines still provide this free of charge.
Myth number five: buy foreign currency before leaving the United States.
"Actually in most cases you'll get a better rate if you exchange your money in the country that you're visiting."
Travel agents recommend taking a little bit of foreign currency with you in case you need it for a taxi ride or need to buy something when you get off the plane.
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Our experts helped us narrow down 1,465 nominated new beauty products to about 300 finalists. We distributed those selections to our team of reader testers, who scored each on such factors as effectiveness, texture, scent, and ease of use to determine the 60 first-place champions.Meet Our Beauty Experts
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Robert Aickman
|Robert Aickman
|Robert Fordyce Aickman
27 June 1914
London, England
|26 February 1981
(aged 66)
London, England
|Writer, conservationist
|Notable works
|Cold Hand in Mine
Sub Rosa
"Ringing the Changes"
The Late Breakfasters
|Richard Marsh (grandfather)
Robert Fordyce Aickman (27 June 1914 – 26 February 1981) was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a conservationist, he is notable for co-founding the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".
- 1 Life
- 2 Conservation
- 3 Writing
- 4 Career as editor
- 5 Recent interest
- 6 Adaptations
- 7 Quotations
- 8 Bibliography
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Aickman was born in London, England, the son of William Arthur Aickman and Mabel Violet Marsh. On his mother's side, Aickman was the grandson of the prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh (1857–1915), known for his occult thriller The Beetle (1897), a book as popular in its time as Bram Stoker's Dracula.[1]
He originally received his training in architecture, the profession of his father. In the opening lines of his autobiographical work The Attempted Rescue (1966), Aickman described his father as "the oddest man I have ever known".[2]
Aickman was married to Edith Ray Gregorson (1914–1983) from 1941 to 1957.
With a keen interest in the theatre, ballet, and music, Aickman also served as a chairman of the London Opera Society and was active in the London Opera Club, the Ballet Minerva, and the Mikron Theatre Company in London.
Aickman died of cancer on 26 February 1981 after refusing to have conventional treatment. His obituary appeared in The Times on 28 February.
Aickman is probably best remembered for his co-founding of the Inland Waterways Association, a group devoted to restoring and preserving England's then-neglected and largely derelict inland canal system.
The association was sparked off by a letter sent by Aickman to L. T. C. Rolt following the publication in 1944 of Rolt's highly successful book Narrow Boat, describing the declining and largely unknown world of the British canals. The inaugural meeting took place on 15 February 1946 in London, with Aickman as chairman and Rolt as honorary secretary.
The IWA organized successful campaigns and attracted notable supporters, including as president the writer and parliamentarian Sir A. P. Herbert and as vice-president the naturalist Peter Scott. Scott's wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, was part-time secretary, working in Aickman's flat in Gower Street; she had an affair with Aickman, which she describes in her autobiography Slipstream (Macmillan, 2002).
Aickman began to have policy disagreements with Rolt. Aickman wanted to campaign to keep all of the waterways open,[3] whereas Rolt had sympathies with the traditional canal workers and believed it necessary to prioritize which canals could be kept open. The disagreement became public: Aickman had organized the IWA's first boat rally and festival in August 1950 and attempted to prevent Rolt from attending and promoting his book The Inland Waterways of England; nevertheless, Rolt attended, as did his publisher, Philip Unwin. Aickman engineered a change to the rules to require all members to conform to agreed IWA principles, and in early 1951 Rolt and others were excluded from membership.[4]
Nevertheless the IWA has been one of the most successful conservation organizations in British history, succeeding in restoring and reopening much of the original canal network.
As a writer, Aickman is best known for the 48 "strange stories" which were published in eight volumes, one of them posthumous. The American collection Painted Devils consists of revised versions of stories which had previously appeared in other books.
Cold Hand in Mine and Painted Devils featured dust jacket drawings by acclaimed gothic illustrator Edward Gorey. August Derleth proposed that Arkham House should publish a book of Aickman's best stories, but was unable to meet the author's demands and withdrew the proposal. The original collections of short stories are quite scarce, though copies of the U.S. edition of Cold Hand in Mine are very plentiful.
Aickman's published novels were The Late Breakfasters (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964) and The Model: A Novel of the Fantastic (New York: Arbor House, 1987). The latter was a novella which had remained unpublished in his lifetime. Aickman had hoped to have had the latter work illustrated by Edward Gorey. Another novel, entitled Go Back at Once, remains unpublished. S. T. Joshi is at work on this and it may be published.
A previously unpublished short story, "The Fully Conducted Tour", appeared in the Tartarus Press periodical Wormwood in 2005.
In 1975, Aickman received the World Fantasy Award for short fiction for his story "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal". This story had originally appeared in February 1973 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; it was reprinted in Cold Hand in Mine.
In 1981, the year of his death, Aickman was awarded the British Fantasy Award for his story "The Stains", which had first appeared in the anthology New Terrors (London: Pan, 1980), edited by Ramsey Campbell. It subsequently appeared posthumously in Night Voices.
Aickman's autobiographical writing consists of the two memoirs The Attempted Rescue (London: Victor Gollancz, 1966) and The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure (Burton-on-Trent: Pearson, 1986). In 2001, Tartarus Press reissued the former volume in a new edition with a foreword by the writer and Aickman enthusiast Jeremy Dyson of the British comedy quartet The League of Gentlemen.
For a time, Aickman served as theatre critic for The Nineteenth Century and After. His reviews remain, to date, uncollected in book form. He also wrote two books relating to his conservation activities, Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways (both 1955).
Unpublished works[edit]
Other than Go Back at Once, mentioned above, Aickman produced a number of other works that remain unpublished. These include the plays Allowance for Error, Duty and The Golden Round. Another book, a vast philosophical work entitled Panacea: The Synthesis of an Attitude runs to over 1,000 pages in manuscript form. Copies of these items are preserved, along with all of Aickman's other remaining papers, in the Robert Aickman Collection at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.[5]
Career as editor[edit]
In addition to writing his own stories, Aickman edited the first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories between 1964 and 1972. He selected six of his own stories for inclusion over the course of the series. The fourth and sixth volumes lack one of his tales. He also supplied an introduction for every volume except the sixth.
Recent interest[edit]
The most detailed biographical and critical study is Gary William Crawford's Robert Aickman: An Introduction (Gothic Press, 2003). Crawford has also compiled an online database of works about Aickman. David Bolton's Race Against Time: How Britain's Waterways Were Saved (Methuen, 1990) contains a great deal of material about Aickman, including several photographs of him, and the final chapter is devoted to him. Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography Slipstream (Macmillan, 2002) gives an account of her relationship with him.
Philip Challinor has brought together eight critical essays on Aickman's stories in the chapbook Akin to Poetry (Gothic Press, 2010). Three further essays were collected in Gary William Crawford's Gothic Press chapbook Insufficient Answers (2012). A critical essay on Aickman's fiction appears in S.T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001). Articles, essays and papers by other authors have appeared on the website Robert Aickman: An Appreciation, and in the journals Studies in Weird Fiction (published by Necronomicon Press), All Hallows (published by the Ghost Story Society), Studies in the Fantastic, Supernatural Tales and Wormwood. Plans for an online journal of Aickman studies were announced in 2013.[6]
In 1968, a television adaptation of "Ringing the Changes", retitled "The Bells of Hell", appeared on the BBC 2 programme Late Night Horror. A radio play version based on "Ringing the Changes" was broadcast on the CBC Radio drama series Nightfall on 31 October 1980.
In 1987, HTV West produced a six-episode anthology series for television called Night Voices, of which four were based upon stories by Aickman: "The Hospice", "The Inner Room", "Hand In Glove" and "The Trains".[7][8]
A 1997 adaptation of "The Swords", directed by Tony Scott appeared as the first episode of the cable original horror anthology series The Hunger.
Jeremy Dyson has adapted Aickman's work into drama in a number of forms. A musical staging of his short story "The Same Dog", for which Dyson co-wrote the libretto with Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall. In 2000, with his League collaborator Mark Gatiss, Dyson adapted Aickman's short story "Ringing the Changes" into a BBC Radio Four radio play. This aired exactly twenty years after the CBC adaptation, on Halloween, 2000. Dyson also directed a 2002 short film based on Aickman's story "The Cicerones" with Gatiss as the principal actor.
I think that Aickman is one of those authors that you respond to on a very primal level. If you're a writer, it's a bit like being a stage magician. A stage magician produces coin, takes coin, demonstrates coin vanished... That tends to be what you do as a fiction writer, reading fiction. You'll go, "Oh look. He's setting that up."...Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully. Yes, the key vanished, but I don't know if he was holding a key in the hand to begin with. I find myself admiring everything he does from an auctorial standpoint. And I love it as a reader. He will bring on atmosphere. He will construct these perfect, dark, doomed little stories, what he called "strange stories".
His literary gifts were of an extremely high order. His prose style – supple, urbane, sophisticated, restrained, yet capable of surprisingly powerful emotive effects – never falters from the beginning to the end of his work. There are few writers who are as purely pleasurable to read, regardless of their subject matter or the success or failure of their actual work, as Robert Aickman. His major literary influences (it might be better to say analogues) appear to be M. R. James and Walter de la Mare, yet he excels the former in richness and variety of texture and the latter in the sustained intensity of all his literary work.
From the first I understood that he was a deeply original artist. This in no way implies that I understood Aickman immediately because I didn't. Sometimes I would look up at the end of a story, feeling that the whole thing had just twisted itself inside out and turned into smoke - I had blinked, and missed it all. It took me a little while to learn to accept this experience as valuable in itself and to begin to see how the real oddness of most of Aickman's work is directly related to its psychological, even psychoanalytic, acuity. Unconscious forces move the stories itself, as well as the characters, and what initially looks like a distressing randomness of detail and event is its opposite - everything is necessary, everything is logical, but not at all in a linear way. To pull off this kind of dream-like associativeness, to pack it with the menace that results from a narrative deconstruction of the notion of "ordinary reality", to demonstrate again and again in excellent prose (no dumb experimentation or affectation here) that our lives are literally shaped by what we do not understand about ourselves, requires a talent that yokes together an uncommon literary sensitivity with a lush, almost tropical inventiveness.
Robert Aickman has a gift for depicting the eerie areas of inner space, the churning storms and silent overcasts that engulf the minds of lonely and alienated people. He is a weatherman of the subconscious.
- The Late Breakfasters. London: Victor Gollancz 1964.
- The Model. New York: Arbor House 1987.
Short story collections[edit]
Original collections[edit]
- We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories, London: Jonathan Cape, 1951 (a collection containing three stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard and the following three by Aickman):
- "The Trains"
- "The Insufficient Answer"
- "The View"
- Dark Entries: Curious and Macabre Ghost Stories, London: Collins, 1964
- "The School Friend"
- "Ringing the Changes"
- "Choice of Weapons"
- "The Waiting Room"
- "Bind Your Hair"
- Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories, London: Collins, 1966
- "Your Tiny Hand is Frozen"
- "My Poor Friend"
- "The Visiting Star"
- "Larger Than Oneself"
- "A Roman Question"
- "The Wine-Dark Sea"
- Sub Rosa: Strange Tales, London: Victor Gollancz, 1968
- "Ravissante"
- "The Inner Room"
- "Never Visit Venice"
- "The Unsettled Dust"
- "The Houses of the Russians"
- "No Stronger than a Flower"
- "The Cicerones"
- "Into the Wood"
- Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories, London: Victor Gollancz, 1975
- "The Swords"
- "The Real Road to the Church"
- "Niemandswasser"
- "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal"
- "The Hospice"
- "The Same Dog"
- "Meeting Mr Millar"
- "The Clock Watcher"
- Tales of Love and Death, London: Victor Gollancz, 1977
- "Growing Boys"
- "Marriage"
- "Le Miroir"
- "Compulsory Games"
- "Raising the Wind"
- "Residents Only"
- "Wood"
- Intrusions: Strange Tales, London: Victor Gollancz, 1980
- "Hand in Glove"
- "No Time is Passing"
- "The Fetch"
- "The Breakthrough"
- "The Next Glade"
- "Letters to the Postman"
- Night Voices: Strange Stories, London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. Reprints "The Trains" and also includes:
- "The Stains"
- "Just a Song at Twilight"
- "Laura"
- "Rosamund's Bower"
- "Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale"
Reprint collections[edit]
- Painted Devils: Strange Stories, New York: Scribner's, 1979 (revised stories):
- "Ravissante"
- "The House of the Russians"
- "The View"
- "Ringing the Changes"
- "The School Friend"
- "The Waiting Room"
- "Marriage"
- "Larger Than Oneself"
- "My Poor Friend"
- The Wine-Dark Sea, New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988
- The Unsettled Dust, London: Mandarin, 1990
- The Collected Strange Stories, Carlton-in-Coverdale: Tartarus/Durtro, 1999 (two volumes)
- Know Your Waterways. London: Coram Publishers, 1955.
- The Story of Our Inland Waterways. London: Pitman, 1955.
- The Attempted Rescue. London: Victor Gollancz 1966.
- The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure. Burton on Trent: J M Pearson, 1986.
- ^ Crawford, Gary William. Robert Aickman: An Introduction, Gothic Press 2003, p.3
- ^ Aickman, Robert. The Attempted Rescue, Tartarus Press 2001, p.3
- ^ A motion passed by the council in November 1950 reads "this council confirms that the policy of the Association is to advocate the restoration to good order and maintenance in good order of every navigable waterway by both commercial and pleasure traffic." Ian Mackersey (1984). Tom Rolt and the Cressy Years. London: M&M Baldwin. p. 87.
- ^ David Bolton (1990). Race against Time. Methuen. pp. 89–91.
- ^ Crawford, Gary William. Robert Aickman: An Introduction. Gothic Press, 2003, p.71.
- ^ Aickman Studies. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- ^ IMDb entry for "The Hospice"
- ^ IMDb entry for "Hand in Glove"
- ^ Quoted in Darrell Schweitzer, ed., The Neil Gaiman Reader (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2007).[page needed]
- ^ S. T. Joshi, The Modern Weird Tale (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001), p. 218.
- ^ Quoted in Stephen Jones & Clarence Paget, eds., Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories (London: Pan Books, 1990), p. 191
- ^ Quoted in Jim Rockhill, rev. of Akin to Poetry: Observations on Some Strange Tales of Robert Aickman by Philip Challinor (Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2010).
- R. Reginald (1979). "Robert Aickman". Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, v. 2: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II 2. Gale Research Company. p. 791. ISBN 0-8103-1051-1.
External links[edit]
- Robert Aickman general information and visual bibliography at the Wayback Machine (archived March 27, 2009)
- Robert Aickman: An Appreciation at the Wayback Machine (archived January 8, 2008)
- The Works of Robert Aickman
- Robert Aickman database
- "Aickman, Robert" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
- Robert Aickman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Robert Aickman at the Internet Book List
- The Bells Of Hell – comprehensive article on this missing-believed-wiped TV adaptation (NB: PDF document)
- Robert Aickman at the Internet Movie Database


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James Blunt, the 38-year-old U.K. singer-songwriter best known for his smash single "You're Beautiful," has revealed that he is taking a break from music and has no future songwriting plans.
"I just want to take some time out for myself," Blunt told the Daily Mail at the Barbarella nightclub in West London. Blunt's most recent album, "Some Kind of Trouble," was released in 2010 and was supported with a lengthy tour that stopped in North America in spring 2011.
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For the time being, however, Blunt is enjoying his time away from music. "I haven't got any plans to do more songwriting," he says. "I have been chilling since I finished my world tour, and I've spent a lot of time in Ibiza, where I have a villa."
After serving in the British armed services for six years, Blunt turned to songwriting and scored a massive hit with "You're Beautiful," a single off his 2004 debut, "Back to Bedlam." The song topped the U.S. Hot 100 for one week in March 2006 and has sold 3 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, while "Bedlam" has moved 2.8 million units.
Blunt was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2007 Grammy Awards but lost out to Carrie Underwood. Blunt released two more albums following "Back to Bedlam" but failed to release another single as ubiquitous as "You're Beautiful." His "Some Kind of Trouble" album has sold 93,000 copies since its 2010 release according to Nielsen SoundScan, while its lead single, "Stay the Night," peaked at No. 94 on the U.S. Hot 100 and has sold 114,000 downloads.


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Akimi Village Review (PSN)
Posted by Iain MacKinnon, Jul 05, 2011 18:55
Akimi Village is a welcome change to the slew of action, shooting and fighting games which pour onto games consoles these days. For once, I didn't spend the past couple of days shooting aliens, fighting ninjas or adventuring through a tropical rainforest, instead I spent it building a village on a floating island freeing little Akimis from the evil gloom which has taken over their land.
You play either a young boy or girl who wakes up in a mysterious land and is informed by a tree-dwelling creature that you need to save the island from the evilness which has infected it before he can send you home again. The storyline is simple but the writing is cute and quirky, occasionally bringing a smile to your face. The graphics are similar; they're basic and cartoon-like, but work well with the game as a whole, amusing and interesting, although occasionally somewhat jumpy if there's lots of actions happening on the screen at once. The sounds are as would be expected, some nice background music and in general the buildings and creatures sound effects aren't too repetitive to distract from the experience, with the exception of the casino which has a somewhat distracting slot machine noise which repeats every ten seconds or so, although it's not so annoying as to detract from the overall experience.
The game relies on simple mechanics whereby your character directs small creatures, known as Akimi, telling them what resources to harvest, transport and what buildings to work in. Your character uses unlockable blueprints to build new buildings using resources gathered by your Akimi and converted in existing buildings.
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(3) insufficient resources are being devoted to both research on and development of advanced automobile propulsion system technology;
(4) an expanded research and development effort with respect to advance automobile propulsion system technology would complement and stimulate corresponding efforts by the private sector and would encourage automobile manufacturers to consider seriously the incorporation of such advanced technology into automobiles and automobile components; and
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Why the women's vote could be a deciding factor in the independence referendum
It has long been evident. It shows little sign of diminishing. And it could well determine the outcome of the independence referendum. The culprit? The gender gap in attitudes towards Scotland's constitutional future, perhaps the most formidable obstacle standing between the Yes campaign and the realisation of its ambition to make Scotland an independent country.
Poll after poll shows that women are markedly more reluctant to embrace the independence cause (just as they are also to vote for the SNP). Most recently, four polls conducted during the course of the last month have, on average, reported that just 26 per cent of women back leaving the UK, while no less than 55 per cent are opposed.
The Yes side is trailing amongst men too, but the deficit is nothing like so great. On average, 36 per cent say they are in favour of independence while 49 per cent are opposed. In short, if women were as keen on independence as men, the independence movement could at least plausibly claim that the winning post was in sight rather than, as currently appears to be the case, on the other side of the horizon.
It is thus little wonder that under the banner, Women for Independence, a campaign was launched a couple of months ago with the objective of promoting support for independence amongst women in particular. The Yes camp badly needs it to succeed.
At first glance, the existence of the gender gap appears very surprising. Women are, after all, no less likely than men to lay claim to a strong sense of Scottish identity. According to the most recent Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 31 per cent of women say they are 'Scottish, not British', a figure that is actually slightly higher than the equivalent figure, 28 per cent, amongst men.
If the demand for independence were simply about identity, about the claim that Scotland should be able to rule itself just like any other nation, then there is every reason to anticipate that women would be just as keen on independence as men. For women, however, feeling a strong sense of Scottish identity is less likely to be considered sufficient reason to back independence.
Rather, they are more concerned about its practical consequences. This becomes very apparent when people are asked whether they would support or oppose independence if they thought the standard of living would be £500 a year lower if Scotland left the UK and also what their view would be if it were £500 higher.
Unsurprisingly, many men as well as women adopt a different stance towards independence in these two contrasting, hypothetical set of circumstances. The idea of a prosperous independent Scotland is much more attractive than the image of an impoverished one. But it is for women that the issue matters most.
When presented with the scenario that independence would deliver a £500 benefit, women (63 per cent in favour) are almost as keen on independence as men (67 per cent).
But when asked to consider the possibility that they might be £500 a year worse off, only 13 per cent of women said they would still back the idea, less than half the proportion of men (29 per cent) who would do so.
In short, for women, independence is a question of practicality rather than principle.
Moreover, at the moment they are also rather less convinced of the practical merits of the proposition.
For example, women are a little less likely than men to think that independence would result in a stronger economy. While 36 per cent of men think that Scotland's economy would be better under independence, only 33 per cent of women are of that view. Women are also less convinced that an independent Scotland would have a stronger voice in the world. Just 19 per cent think the nation's voice would be 'a lot stronger' compared with 26 per cent of men.
However, what stands out from the survey data is not so much that women are rather more sceptical about the consequences of independence as the fact that they bring to the topic a greater air of hesitation and uncertainty. They are simply much more likely than men to say that they do not think independence would make much difference either way or that they just do not know what its consequences would be.
For example, as many as one in three women either say they do not know whether Scotland would have a stronger voice in the world or else that they reckon it would not make much difference either way. In contrast, only a quarter of men respond in one or other of these two ways. Similarly, 38 per cent of women give one or other response when asked about the economic consequences of independence, compared with 34 per cent of men.
In part this reflects the deeply political nature of the independence project – and that debates about politics of any kind are less likely to appeal to women. In the most recent Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, just 26 per cent of women said they had 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of interest in politics, compared with no less than 39 per cent of men. This relative lack of interest in politics is then reflected in a greater reluctance to take a clear view on what independence might bring.
But there appears to be more to this sense of hesitancy and uncertainty than merely a lack of interest in matters political amongst women. It also appears to reflect a rather different balance of psychological predispositions to the prospect of independence.
Mr Salmond frequently talks of the need for Scots to develop an air of confidence about themselves and their future, and thus develop a willingness to grab the opportunities potentially afforded by independence. He is quite right to do so; few Scots who do not feel confident about the prospect of independence are willing to back the idea.
And at the moment that sense of confidence is particularly lacking amongst women. Amongst men, 37 per cent say they feel confident about the prospect of independence, almost matching the 43 per cent who say they feel worried. In contrast, just 25 per cent of women feel confident about leaving the UK, while almost twice as many, 48 per cent say they are worried.
Perhaps in inviting us to step boldly into a bright, but as yet unfamiliar future, the rhetoric of the Yes camp is one that resonates more with the hunter-gatherer, assertive side of our natures rather than our desire for calm and security. And stereotypical though the observation might be, maybe as a result this means its message appeals to fewer women than to their male, more macho counterparts.
It is certainly interesting that the Women for Independence campaign appears to be trying to sell a rather softer message in a quieter style than the one that often emerges from the nationalist camp. The campaign emphasises its willingness to listen, a dislike of ya-boo male dominated politics, and the opportunity that independence might afford for a caring, more equal society.
What, however, remains to be seen is whether it will succeed in being heard in what in other well publicised fora is already proving to be a rather raucous and illtempered debate.
John Curtice is Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University


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FulltextSearch module
25 January 2012 at 9:50am
I just pushed my FulltextSearchable search-module to github.
Let me know if you run into any problems or have questions.
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31 January 2012 at 8:42am
Hi Sphere, thanks for sharing this module with us.
I installed it and it works fine. At the moment I just have one problem with searching DataObjects. They are found and displayed. The only thing that does not work ist the $Link, which is empty. Any ideas on that?
BTW: I am not using URLSegments, is that necessary?
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1 February 2012 at 3:34am
First, I'd like to thank Sphere for the module. I've not had an opportunity to test it, but it seems a worthy effort!
@Michito: DataObjects do not have Link() methods, you need to create them. I suggest you to follow this tutorial:
Best regards,
Re: FulltextSearch module
1 February 2012 at 4:38am
Thanks Juanitou! Took the Link-function from the Tutorial and made it work for my DataObjects. Running perfect now.
Re: FulltextSearch module
1 February 2012 at 6:22am
I got one more: How can I exclude Images from being searched (or shown in search results)?
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Re: FulltextSearch module
14 February 2012 at 4:33am Last edited: 15 February 2012 12:31am
According to my question, Juanito points me here. I wanna give the silverstripe-searcher module a try. So i downloaded it from github (repo5147578). did the usually things to get a module installed. Created a SearchResultPage in Backend and edited my _config to
//Enable Search, use $SearchForm in template
DataObject::add_extension('DownloadPage', "FulltextSearchable('TabOneContent,TabTwoContent,TabThreeContent')");
//DataObject::add_extension('AkteursPortrait',"FulltextSearchable('Name,Description')"); //Obviously a Title instead a Name is needed
..and got a sql error
518 function databaseError($msg, $errorLevel = E_USER_ERROR) {
519 // try to extract and format query
520 if(preg_match('/Couldn\'t run query: ([^\|]*)\|\s*(.*)/', $msg, $matches)) {
521 $formatter = new SQLFormatter();
522 $msg = "Couldn't run query: \n" . $formatter->formatPlain($matches[1]) . "\n\n" . $matches[2];
523 }
525 user_error($msg, $errorLevel);
526 }
528 /**
529 * Return a boolean type-formatted string
530 *
531 * @param array $values Contains a tokenised list of info about this data type
[User Error] Couldn't run query: SELECT ClassName, "SiteTree_Live".ID, ParentID, Title, MenuTitle, URLSegment, Content, LastEdited, Created, _utf8'' AS Filename, _utf8'' AS Name, MATCH (Title, MenuTitle, Content, MetaTitle, MetaDescription, MetaKeywords) AGAINST ('kontakt') + MATCH (Title, MenuTitle, Content, MetaTitle, MetaDescription, MetaKeywords) AGAINST ('kontakt') AS Relevance, CanViewType FROM "SiteTree_Live" WHERE ( MATCH (Title, MenuTitle, Content, MetaTitle, MetaDescription, MetaKeywords) AGAINST ('kontakt*' IN BOOLEAN MODE) + MATCH (Title, MenuTitle, Content, MetaTitle, MetaDescription, MetaKeywords) AGAINST ('kontakt*' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AND ShowInSearch 0) UNION SELECT ClassName, "File".ID, _utf8'' AS ParentID, Title, _utf8'' AS MenuTitle, _utf8'' AS URLSegment, Content, LastEdited, Created, Filename, Name, MATCH (Filename, Title, Content) AGAINST ('kontakt') AS Relevance, NULL AS CanViewType FROM "File" WHERE (MATCH (Filename, Title, Content) AGAINST ('kontakt*' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AND ClassName = 'File' AND ShowInSearch 0) ORDER BY "Relevance" DESC LIMIT 0, 3 Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list
Did i miss something? Whats wrong?
I use SS2.4.6 and Arams "Highlighting Query Text in Search Results" Tutorial.
Thanks for your help. Pipifix
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bump ^^
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Re: FulltextSearch module
6 August 2012 at 10:30am Last edited: 6 August 2012 11:28am
Sorry, I've been away for a while, and also, I stupidly forgot to answer.
The URLSegment-part is used to generate the link. To get the link, your DataObject needs to have the $this->Link() function.
Here's what I use:
public function Link() {
if ($Page = DataObject::get_one('SiteTree', "`ClassName` = '{ParentPageHere}'")) {
I know this is quite an old version, a modernized version should work too, but you do need to have a URLSegment. Offcourse, you can name it differently, or use the ID, that's up to you to program in your DO.
The exclude-feature is on the to-do list. The default "enable fulltextsearch" also includes files, which by default includes images.
Hello Pipifix, your problem lies in the error:
Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list
The problem here is, appearantly, the column-list generated is not the same as the column-list in MySQL.
If your MySQL structure is, for example:
"ID - Date - Title - Content"
But your FullText is:
"ID - Content - Title"
MySQL starts screaming.
Please check the sequence in which the fields are in the searchable-database created by the searcher, and see if they match the DO's table.
If you can confirm this is indeed the issue, please e-mail me with the details. I will take a look at it to fix it, or submit a patch ;)
Currently, I'm, with this module, busy updating to SS3.
I'm very sorry for not responding asap on this forum, I forgot to subscribe to the topic. My bad!
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On Saturday I had the pleasure of witnessing some backstage action at David Tlale and LEGiT's latest VDT summer launch at Parow Centre as well as organising some of the beautiful models who were chosen to showcase David Tlale's newest spectacular clothing available at all LEGiT stores.
All the girls had individual looks styled by Raazieyah Sieed and make up by Yumna Stegman
Backstage the girls chilled and got to know one another.
Beautiful Metallics and Op Art designs are all the rage in the VDT range with a hint of 1920s Flapper influence
As the girls line up ready to show off their styled outfits MC Cece Ravela pumped out the crowd with her bubbly personality and of course LEGiT giveaways.
Dj Lloyd ripped the decks as the girls modeled their fierce outfits.
Whitney shopping up a storm!
The models rubbing shoulders with Mr Tlale
Melissa with the man of the hour!
Special thanks to all the models Sasha-Lee Bastick, Whitney Petersen,Candice Daniels, Cindy Goliath, Sarah Shamley, Lauren Ashleigh Parks, Tarynne Keown. You girls rocked the runway. Thanks to the bodyguards Matthew, Wallace , Dane and Steve to keeping things under control and of course Thank you Melissa and Shelley for making sure the event went off without a hitch!
Stevie Nicks is well known for wearing Suede Platform boots almost all the time, with all sorts of dresses made out of Chiffon and Lace, and Gypsy skirts, and different types of scarves. I have been looking for a pair of Platforms like hers for a long time and I could never find a pair probably because hers is custom made.
On Saturday I walked into Legit and I was pleasant surprised by what I found! A pair of Platform boots very similar to what she wears I just had to have it besides it was only R200 and absolutely gorgeous!
These boots are perfect for Winter, Autumn, Spring and if you really want Summer, I would definitely not do that during a Cape Town Summer.
You can wear these boots with almost any outfit, dresses, flowy long skirts, jeans and you could add some stockings of your choice, and Crimp it if that's what you're into or Straighten it completely and rock it however you like.
Be careful with the Suede or Suede-like fabrics it strains easily and you can't get it out, also you can't wash fabrics like this with soap and water :)
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"And so the summer became the fall, I was not ready for the winter. It makes no difference at all. Cause I wear boots all summer long" -Stevie Nicks
So as we welcome the icy cold winter winds and the uncomfortable wet unpredictable showers of Cape Town, I know every guy is left wondering about ladies' obsession with boots … Let me share a secret with you guys, a good pair of boots can make a women feel instantly sexy and always help fight the grey depression of winter.
I went a 'mini' search for the winter essential boots and found a good selection at great retailers.
Instant sexy- The Tan ankle boot was purchased at LEGiT under the VDT brand
Who says Wellies can't be sexy?? Pick 'n Pay clothing stocks a wide variety of designer wellingtons just ready waiting for you to take them home in the rain :)
Lace up is the latest trend heating up every possible brand… these are LEGiT VDT as well
The picture is a bit dark(Curse you berry!) but this little cutie is the most comfortable alternative to Ugs and alot more fashionable with cowboy detailing. Thanks to Fashion express you can look cute in booties ,stockings and shorts, My fav!
These boots are all under R300, not bad ;) makes it easier to purchase more than one pair
And remember beauty can't be bought :) it comes from within your soul <3
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Thanks to many of you I was lucky enough to win an all expenses paid trip to Johannesburg to attend the launch of David Tlale's new exclusive ready to wear range for LEGiT.
I wanted to bring a little behind the scene action of the event and share my pamper trip with you guys…
The girls and I got to the military museum at early to have lunch and get our nails done before we hit the store to find the perfect VDT outfit at Legit.
Once we finished the most dramatic shopping spree I have ever been on, we headed back to my room at the Town Lodge in Sandton. Compliments of Legit :)
After some primping and prepping BOOOOOM we were ready to head out and attend the most amazng event of the year.
And the lights went down and David Tlale appeared on stage with several gorgeous model while DJ Black Coffee spinned some awesome beats while models showcased the clothing.
Rubbing shoulders with some of South Africas celebs.
After an spectacular Cinderella evening we headed off into Jozi to paaaarty!!!
Thanks so much for the opportunity Legit and to my girls Lynn, Yolo, Bhavna and Gugu- thanks for making it a memorable night :)
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April 26, 2012
|Michelle Dillingham '12 dives for a save. (Photo by Jim Hogue)
When Michelle Dillingham '12 was 12 years old, she thought she knew it all. In fact, she'd be the first to tell you that it probably took several years before she discovered that she might have something to learn from the people around her.
One of those people was Joe Raymond '84, the Winter Park girl's club soccer coach she met more than a decade ago and the man who eventually became one of the most influential people in her life. Dillingham went on to break every soccer record Raymond ever set in his Rollins Hall of Fame soccer career, which goes to show you that she, in fact, did learn a lot from her mentor, but it runs much deeper than simply becoming one of the College's best goalkeepers of all time.
"Sometimes people's greatest obstacle is themselves," said Dillingham, a psychology major who was raised by a single mom. In a lot of ways, Raymond filled the void of a supportive father figure. "Joe has been, more than anything, the person who has pushed me when I needed to be pushed but also the person who could be very calming and supportive."
When Dillingham was 15, Raymond assisted her through the process of gaining a scholarship to Trinity Preparatory School, a high school Raymond thought could challenge her academically as well as athletically. In her senior year, he encouraged her to pursue an academic and athletic scholarship at Rollins, where he has played the role of assistant soccer coach for more than 20 years.
What followed was a four-year college soccer career that resulted in Dillingham breaking every goal-keeping record in Rollins soccer history. While she's no doubt proud of that achievement, Dillingham knows that the real rewards haven't come in the form of trophies but in the development of her character.
"Everyone has an idea of their own limits, and questions what they are capable of," Dillingham said. "For me, sport shows you how far you think you can be pushed and then pushes you further. You can do more than you think you can. Over many, many years, the excuses started to diminish and what emerged was a happier person."
This spring, Dillingham had the honor of introducing her mentor as he was inducted into the Rollins College Sports Hall of Fame. "I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for everything you have done for me. I would not be here without the support of you and your family, your belief in my abilities on and off the field, and the occasional tough love, no matter how much I argued against it," Dillingham said in her speech. "Very rarely do you meet people who change your life, and you have done that for me."
Raymond is quick to return the accolades. "Michelle is the type of person who steps up to challenges and strives to be the best she can be," said Raymond, who has mentored many athletes in addition to Dillingham. "I can look past the B.S. and see the desire and the commitment. I'm not going to drag anything out of anyone. I give them the opportunity and they either take advantage or they don't. Michelle definitely took advantage of all the opportunities that were presented to her. We put her in an environment that gave her the opportunity to excel and she did."
In a few weeks, Dillingham will graduate, leaving Rollins and her incredible soccer career in her rear view. There's little sadness in her departure; she's ready to give up all the traveling and looking forward to feeling more grounded. But there's also the sense that she got what she needed to get from soccer, from Rollins, and from Raymond, and that she's ready to stand on her own. "Sports teaches you to just 'shut up and do it' and strangely enough, life is a lot easier when you take that approach."
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Jonjoe Kenny
- Born: 15/03/1997
- Birthplace: Kirkdale
- Nationality: English
Jonjoe Kenny became a first-year scholar at Everton on Friday 28 June 2013.
A versatile player, Kenny had already spent seven years at the Blues' Academy before signing scholarship forms alongside 13 other young Blues as part of the summer intake.
Ahead of the 2013/14 season, Jonjoe sat down with evertonfc.com to reveal a bit more about himself.
Name: Jonjoe Kenny
Nickname: Kendog
Date of birth: 15 March 1997
Place of birth: Kirkdale, Liverpool
Previous clubs: None
Nationality: English
What countries are you eligible to represent?: England
Have you made any international appearances?: Yes, three caps for England at youth level
Position: Centre-back, right-back, midfield
What player would you say you most play like?: Javi Martinez
What are your strengths: Tackling, passing
What aspect of your game do you need to improve most?: My left peg
What age were you when you joined Everton?: 9
Favourite artist/band: Kings of Leon
Favourite film: Friends With Benefits
Favourite video game: FIFA 13
Favourite place in the world: Kirkdale
Pre-match meal of choice: Pasta
Best stadium you've played at: St. Mary's Stadium
Dream job if you weren't a footballer: Singer
Favourite Everton first-team player: Leighton Baines
Boots: Adidas Nitros
Aims for the year: To win the FA Youth Cup
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KENOSHA, WISC. - The University of Findlay wrestling team, ranked eighth nationally, went 2-1 at the Wisconsin-Parkside Ranger Duals on Saturday, Jan. 19 win Kenosha, Wis. The Roughnecks came away with a 30-13 victory over McKendree, a 31-7 loss to top-ranked St. Cloud State and a 27-10 win over #5 Wisconsin-Parkside.
Mason True went 3-0 in the 174-pound weight class to lead the Roughnecks. He won 17-5 over McKendree's Isaiah Gonzalez, 1-0 over St. Cloud State's Kurt Salmen and 5-0 against Josh Anthony of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Andrew Tumlin, Ashton Brown, Jordan Cowell, Jan Ulinski and Joey White all posted 2-1 records at the meet to aid the Roughnecks.
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Green Movement Founder Opposes Wind Turbines in His Backyard
February 7, 2013 | Filed Under Britain, Budget, Business, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Electric, Energy, Europe, Government, Jobs, Liberals, Nuclear Power, Progressives, Solar, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
One of the world's premiere environmentalists, credited as a founder of the green movement, is fighting plans to erect wind turbines in his own village.
Professor James Lovelock, 93, is renowned for having created the "Gaia Theory" and becoming one of the World's earliest and most active modern environmentalists. He is also known for predicting global warming and saying that by the year 2100 warming would kill off four fifths of the world's population.
Lovelock has, however, has lately come at odds to the movement he helped foster angering the environmental movement by becoming a recent advocate of nuclear power and for opposing wind energy.
It's a case of NIMBY (not in my back yard) for the professor as he has joined local activists in Broadwoodwidger, Devon, who are trying to stop the erection of wind turbines. Lovelock says wind turbines are "monuments of a failed civilization."
"I am an environmentalist and founder member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood," Lovelock recently wrote.
"We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs."
Lovelock especially stands against greenism via certain acts of government fiat legislation calling it something akin to "fascism."
"Although well-intentioned it is an erosion of our freedom and draws near to what I see as fascism," he said.
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It is hard to believe we have been in space more than 50 years, and 41 years since Neil Armstrong took that memorable "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." – and became the first human to set foot on another body in our solar system. How many people remember the heady excitement and thrill we all felt, as friends and families from all over the world gathered round their TVs to watch the momentous event?.
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Check out the site games.yahoo.com or FreeArcade.com to see a whole mess-o-games in a range of categories. Here is a list of some of the types of games available on FreeArcade, for instance. Just don't forget that if you're at the library, you'll need to play games that don't have to be downloaded. -Multiplayer Games
Now, I know Halloween is over, but every year around this time I start thinking about how Halloween became Halloween. I feel like there is more to the date than costumes, candy, and trick-or-treating. I began my research on our MCPL list of history databases. Searching individual databases was not providing me with a ton of general information, so I decided to do a cross search on multiple databases (top of the page). This search brought plenty of results, including a rather interesting tale from Ireland.
While working at the circulation desk, I am frequently asked by customers for a "good book." We do have several resources available to help in this search. My favorite is the "author read-alike" featured of NovelList Plus. This feature of the database will give suggestions of writers to try based on my current favorite authors.
It is an adventure everytime I go to one of our local daycare facilities to present a storytime for the preschoolers. Every group of children is unique, a wonderful yet challenging reality. They love the rhymes, finger plays, songs, coloring sheets, and the many picture books, pop-up books, and lift-the-flap books that I get to share with them. Successful storytimes play a crucial part in making MCPL compelling; and MCPL has an amazing collection of resources for planning winning storytimes that will engage, entertain, and educate young readers.
Have you found the huge selection of databases available on the MCPL website? There are wonderful resources right at your fingertips. From the Homepage, click on Kids at the top. On the left side of the screen, you will see Teachers. Click on this, and then click Web Resources: Teaching Resources. You will find excellent resources on this page. Be sure to click Home Schooling at the top of the page for additional resources specifically for homeschoolers!
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The library has just finished editing their publication, Christian Fiction Authors. You can pick up a copy at your local branch. It lists hundreds of Christian fiction authors and the series of books they have written. Series are listed by name, and the titles are in order so you can follow the story from beginning to end. The catalog is so nice because you can mark what books you have read and make notes about your favorites.
I am a big fan of the Antiques Road Show. Once in a while I take a look at the things that I have collected over the years and wonder if anything may be of value to someone one day. Well, the Antiques Road Show has only been to town a few times, and who knows when they'll be back. However, there are other sources at the library to tell me how much I can hope to see from Great Aunt Edna's Pickle Castor.
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Most of us have at least heard parts of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. We might even have read its chiseled words on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is a memorable speech to be sure. However, I believe Lincoln's greatest speech, only 703 words long, is his Second Inaugural Address.
The pundits of Lincoln's time gave the speech mixed reviews. But, Lincoln's words have stood the test of time. Its final paragraph inspires me in today's circumstances:
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The Newton County Sheriff's Office provides School Resource Officers to each high school and middle school in Newton County. The following is a list of reports filed by these officers that have been received by the Newton Citizen:
A Newton County Sheriff's Office deputy was dispatched to a home address on April 19 regarding a hit and run accident that had occurred earlier in the day at Alcovy High School.
An employee with Eastside High School called the NCSO on April 27 after someone broke into her automobile and stole her purse while parked in the school parking lot.
Around 9:15 a.m. on April 29 a 19-year-old female student at Mainstay Academy became disruptive, cursing and talking loudly in the hallway and entering classrooms she wasn't assigned to. Despite repeated warnings to calm down, she continued her unruly behavior and was ultimately arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, obstruction of a law enforcement officer and disrupting a public school.
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NORCROSS - A 2-year-old Norcross girl was airlifted to an Atlanta hospital Monday for burns she received while frying chicken with her mother.The child remained in a Grady Memorial Hospital burn unit Monday with "significant burns" caused by hot cooking oil, an official said. Gwinnett fire spokesman Capt. Thomas Rutledge said the child's mother was cooking chicken in a Jerry Way home in Norcross, then called 911 about 11 a.m. to report her child's injuries. Rutledge was unsure how the child came into contact with the scalding substance. Firefighters had difficulty communicating with the mother, who spoke Spanish, he said. "We believe it to be an accident," he said. The child's mother received less severe burns and was transported by ambulance to Grady. Both the mother and child were conscious and alert during transport, Rutledge said.
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A Short History of the Program
Gary J. Sbona Honors Program is the Honors Practicum for the Lucas College of Business. It was started in 2006 to best prepare our top students for the world of global work by providing them with an opportunity to get real on the job experience as part of their college curriculum. In the best of alumni traditions, Gary J. Sbona, a San Jose State College of Business Alum and successful businessman, agreed to sponsor the program and has committed a substantial amount of money to support the program and promote its expansion to global dimensions.
Student and Business Win-Win
Participating companies/organizations get our best and brightest students to do much needed projects at no cost to them. Because we have honors students from every undergraduate concentration, we have the flexibility of providing student teams from multiple cross-functional disciplines as well as more department/function specific. The program also provides firms with the opportunity to preview our best students for possible future employment.
Our Honors students also win. In addition to having gained significant real world experience and enhanced employment opportunities, they also have the opportunity to be admitted directly into the SJSU MBAprogram, thus waiving the GMAT requirement. Many of our Sbona Honors Program students also become eligible for university-wide honors such as President's Scholars and graduation Cum Laude.
Student Selection
To insure the quality of our student participants we employ a selection process which includes a review of academic transcripts, resumes, and a written essay followed by a face to face interview. Students are evaluated for their academic results in key courses as well as prior work experience, school activities, and their ability to communicate both orally and written. The typical student in this program has a 3.5 GPA or above, over two years of work experience, and are involved in at least one or more significant extracurricular activities.
How the Program Works
Students selected for the Honors Program are provided to companies/organizations in teams of at least 3 or more and are expected to work approximately 8 hours each per week on the project. The projects are two semesters long providing sufficient time to successfully complete complex real projects.
Ideally, projects require students to use their critical thinking, technical skills, research, diversity and teamwork to mutual advantage. This allows them to apply what they have learned in the classroom to real business problems and to come up with an innovative solutions. The advising professors and the student teams review the proposed projects with the project sponsors to clarify issues and come to mutual agreement on expected outcomes. Then they plan and execute the project. And, just like at the completion of any business project, deliverables are presented to the project sponsors and the project is implemented.
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Past projects have been diverse and challenging including: value chain analyses, product to market timing and issues, benchmarking procedures and reporting, Sarbanes Oxley implementation, manufacturing efficiency studies, market research, impact of social responsibility on stock price and trading, new employee training module, automated loan screening and approval tool, internal audit procedure evaluation, cost accounting system analysis and recommendations, Customer Relationship Management systems, smartphone applications, database applications and the like.
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If you have a passion for science and the outdoors along with desire to become engaged with other students and faculty in high-quality research in the geosciences, you will be right at home as a geology major at UW-Eau Claire!
Research alongside faculty
The Geology Department prides itself on engaging students in and out of the classroom. Every geology class includes hands-on learning and field trips. In addition, about 60% of the students are engaged in faculty/student collaborative research which enhances your skill set and provides a strong addition to your resume. Students frequently present their research (which is often award-winning) at regional, state and national venues.
Outstanding field opportunities
A nationally recognized strength of this program is the emphasis in field skills. We provide 3-week immersion field courses in New Mexico and Montana. In addition, summer field experiences have been offered
in British Columbia, Maine and Wisconsin; and international coursework has been offered in Costa Rica, West Indies and Argentina.
Great facilities
The Geology Department at UW-Eau Claire, along with the Material Science Center, houses state-of-the-art analytical equipment that is rarely found at undergraduate institutions. Students gain hands-on experience with professional techniques — a unique opportunity that enhances future employment or graduate school opportunities.
Growing career field
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job opportunities for geoscientists are expected to grow by 22 % between 2006 and 2016, much higher than the average in most fields. The integration of observational skills with GIS experience provides a strong base for future job opportunities.
Areas of concentration:
Students may choose to specialize in general geology, hydrogeology and water chemistry, environmental science, geological engineering or earth and space science.
Suggested freshman curriculum
- Physical Geology
- Environmental Geology
- Calculus I or II
- University Writing
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Career paths
Four major career paths are available in geology:
Industry and consulting:
Most geologists are employed by engineering and environmental consulting firms or oil and mining companies. Many students are gaining employment in the new frac sand industry in Wisconsin.
Many geologists work at government agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Natural Resources, geological surveys of individual states, and various research laboratories and museums in the country.
Teaching and research positions generally require a doctorate degree in the related field.
Special noteThe department has a dual degree program with the University of Minnesota in geology and engineering and in five years a student can graduate with a degree in both geology and an engineering discipline.
Through the College of Education and Human Sciences, geology graduates can qualify to teach earth science and related science subjects to junior high and high school students.
Our graduates
Typical positions held by geology graduates include four major paths: Industry and consulting, government agencies, research and teaching. Approximately 1/3 of our students go on to grad school.
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