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A/N: A short, cliche one-shot I was inspired to write after going to a diner with my mom and seeing an enthusiastic server. Me, being a writer with a constant stream of imagination, I pictured Len being a server. And of course, being the RinxLen shipper I am, I morphed it into a cheesy romance one-shot. XD (That, and I think I owe you guys some fluff after any frustration you may have felt with The Perfect Duet... no foul play here!) Yes, I know the title is cheesy... everything about this fan fiction is cheesy. Please review and let me know what you guys think!
The Voca-Vocaloid Diner
"Oh, my goodness, I'm so hungry!" Rin cried, shouting her voice into the night.
"Yeah, so am I." Miku groaned, getting a better grip at one of her shopping bags.
The two had gone through a night filled to the brim with complete girlishness. They had gotten their nails done, plowed through the mall, taking one clothing store after another, and sat through a chick flick at the theaters. Now as they walked out of their favorite book store, it was 10:00 PM and they had just come to a mutual realization that they had had nothing to eat since a late breakfast. Rin fished her cell phone out of her purse to peek at the time.
"Who's open this late, though?" She said, squinting her eyes at the light that suddenly attacked her eyes.
"Plenty! There's that one pancake house that's open 24 hours."
Rin laughed, "Yeah, but I want something that gives me substance. And today's been pretty epic already—why not finish it off with some place interesting to eat?"
"You're asking for a lot, girl." Miku chuckled, fingering her car keys.
The car they walked toward hollered a loud click and the two opened the doors at the same time, putting all their bags into the back seat. Miku adjusted herself in the driver's seat while next to her Rin pulled the seat belt over her. There was a moment of silence before Miku turned the key in the ignition, as if she played with a thought in her mind.
"Actually, there is one place I can think of..."
"Ooh, what is it?" Rin was open to any suggestion, as she didn't have any ideas of her own.
"There's this cool diner that's open until midnight. I've been there only once, but I remember the food was really great. And the best part is that the servers sometimes break out into song."
Rin, being interested in music herself, beamed at the idea, "Oh, cool! Let's go."
"That was quick." Miku laughed, pulling out of the parking spot.
"Well, I'm hungry—anything but pancakes!"
"Looks sort of retro." Rin said as Miku turned the car into the restaurant's parking lot.
"Well, it's supposed to be—it's all for the mood."
"Voca-Vocaloid Diner, huh?"
"Yeah, I know, the name sounds lame, but trust me, it's a cool place." Miku had pulled into a parking spot and turned off the ignition.
The two girls shouldered their purses and walked toward the restaurant. It flashed with neon signs and lights that seemed to bounce off its lustrous walls. Between its surroundings, it stuck out like a sore thumb, but Miku was right—it was kind of cool. As they approached the door, Rin caught the sight of a couple, arm-in-arm, walking out laughing and giggling, reflecting on their recently-lived experience. Rin sighed.
"Was that a sigh of discontentment, Rinny?" Miku flashed her head toward Rin.
"Huh? Oh, no! I just yawned, that's all."
"Mmmmhm..." Miku didn't seem convinced, but she had decided to let it go.
Rin was in that stage where she was ready to settle down in a relationship, but could not find the right guy. Or rather, no guy ever seemed to take a glance in her direction. All the girls around her in relationships made it seem so easy. All they'd have to do is put on a little make-up, smile, and a guy would come trotting towards them. For Rin, she could stand on a soap box in the middle of the street for the whole world to see and no man would take a second glance in her direction.
Which this was the reason why her best friend, Miku, took her out on so many girls' nights—to cheer her up.
Rin's spirits immediately lifted once they entered the restaurant, however. Everything was so vibrant in color. The lights were fluorescent, yet dim, creating the perfect mood. The exact type of music she adored was playing to serve as an ambiance and as the final, perfect touch, there was a small stage in the corner of the restaurant with a mic stand.
"How many?" A woman with long, pink hair asked. On her uniform was a name tag that read "Luka."
Even the people were interesting.
"Two." Miku smiled.
"Right this way," Luka smiled, walking off in the direction of the stage after grabbing two menus from her side.
She had brought Miku and Rin to a table with the number "3" flashing over it in a yellow neon light that sat next to the stage. Sliding the menus on the table, she waited for Miku and Rin to seat themselves.
"All right, so Len will be your server—he'll get to you shortly. Enjoy your stay." She flashed a pearly smile and walked off to the entrance to greet more customers.
"This is great." Rin said, opening her menu.
"You haven't even tried the food yet. And no one has even sung!"
"I know, but I can tell right away."
Their conversation was suddenly interrupted by a smooth, boyish voice, "Hey there, gals, my name is Len, and I'll be your server. What can I get you two this evening? Do you want water, soda, milk sha—"
At that moment, Rin had glanced up at the server who was supposedly Len and immediately caught his eyes. For a moment, he didn't even talk. He stood there, pen to a notepad, staring at Rin with his jaw dropped. Rin could see that his eyes were wide under his tossed, blonde hair that was pulled tightly back into a short pony tail—were his eyes blue? She couldn't tell under the dim light, but they seemed to be sparkling.
"I'll have a chocolate milk shake." Miku intervened—a small snicker on her face.
"Got it—" Len quickly scribbled on his notepad, then immediately turned toward Rin again, this time leaning slightly forward, "And what about you?"
"Umm..." Rin fumbled through the menu trying to find the drinks.
"Try their milkshakes—they're good." Miku whispered.
"Oh, then I'll have an orange milkshake."
"You betcha!" Len replied enthusiastically, making another note, "I'll get those ready for you and then I'll be back to take your orders, okay?"
"Okay, thank you." Rin smiled.
With that Len walked away, but not without a second glance toward their table.
"Interesting waiter, huh?" Miku laughed, leaning across the table towards Rin.
"Huh? Yeah, they all seem pretty enthusiastic here."
"That's not what I meant." Miku slapped her hand against her forehead.
A few moments had passed, and after some peeks through the menu and some intense decision making, Len had returned with a tray topped with two milkshakes. His shoulders seemed more raised now, as if a tension was present that wasn't there before. Carefully, he placed the two milkshakes in front of the girls.
"One chocolate milkshake and one orange milkshake." He moved the tray under his arm and brought out his notepad and pen again. This time he tried to glance in between the two, but he lingered more-so on Rin, who was taking her final look through the menu.
"Have we made any decisions, gals?"
"Yeah, I'll just have the original." Miku closed her menu and handed it off to Len after he had made his note. He leaned in toward Rin once more.
"I'll have the chicken club sandwich." She closed her menu, and nearly shot back in her seat when she looked up to find Len staring intently and directly at her. Something in her chest jumped.
"Of course." He scribbled once again, "And I'll be back in a few minutes, ladies."
And with that he walked away, but this time it was Rin that kept her gaze on him. The only thing that had turned her attention back, was Miku, who only started whispering when he was clear away from them. She leaned over the table again, grasping the straw of her milkshake between her finger and thumb, excitedly looking at Rin.
"He is kind of cute, huh?"
"Huh?" Rin detected a slight tremor in her voice, as she jumped back toward Miku, feeling her face flush, "Yeah, I guess he is." She glanced off in his direction where the counter under the white lights was.
Len was moving between cooks, seemingly jumping around, saying something to each of them, face beaming. Now that he was under the white light, she could make out his form more clearly. He did, in fact, have blue eyes and his hair was a caramel blonde that seemed to accent his pale skin quite nicely. Catching herself, Rin turned back toward Miku, who was now resting her chin on interlocked fingers and had an eyebrow raised.
"What?" Rin laughed.
"Oh, nothing..."
After a few songs over the speaker later and a few more minutes of painful empty stomachs, Len returned with glorious food. He gently set down the plates, Rin's mouth nearly salivating. Before Len left this time, however, he took two small paper bowls.
"I hope you gals enjoy your dinner." He took a bottle of ketchup in one hand and squirted something into the bowls. First setting one in front of Miku and then Rin, "I'll be back if you need anything." Then with a wink, he walked off toward the counter.
Rin glanced down at her ketchup. It was in the shape of a heart.
"Oo la, la." Miku teased.
"What, didn't you get one, too?"
"Hey, I just got a smiley face." Miku took the bottle of ketchup at their table and squirted some more into the small paper dish.
"Oh," Rin said staring at the heart, fingering for one of the fries and munching on it. Quickly, she thought of something to change the subject, "Oh, hey, didn't you say the servers sing here?"
"Yeah, and speak of the devil." Miku motioned towards the stage.
Rin turned around to find Len stepping toward the microphone stand. With a cough, the music playing over the restaurant hushed and the voices from the customers lowered to a whisper.
"This song is dedicated towards a very special guest at table number 3."
Rin whirled her head toward the neon number that hung over their table..."3." She could feel the blood rushing to her cheeks—thank goodness they were in dim light, it would make it that much harder for Miku to see her blushing furiously. Shortly thereafter, a beautiful, enticing voice rang through her ears.
"The number one princess in the whole entire world—I know by heart how to treat you like that...Don't I?"
Rin suddenly forgot how hungry she was. Her full attention was toward the blonde on stage, dancing and singing in her direction. Miku was trying her best to hold in boisterous chuckles, watching Rin's reactions. She didn't need white light to tell her friend was completely red in the face. Rin was turned completely around in her seat, her hand set on the back, eyes locked on Len. When the song had ended and when claps were flooding the diner, Len looked toward Rin once more and winked. As if emerging from a spell, Rin quickly turned around in her seat and set her hands on the no longer warm sandwich and quickly placed her mouth on it.
Miku, already halfway done with her meal, turned the straw in her drink, closely observing Rin, "Hey, Rinny..."
"Hmm?" Her mouth was full like a chipmunk.
"So what if your lonely status of 'single' was to be changed?"
Rin swallowed hard, "What do you mean?"
Miku threw her head back and laughed, "I mean what if you went out with that server—Len?"
"I don't know..."
"Oh, for Pete's sake, Rin!" Miku threw her hands up, "I don't know about you, but he's definitely making the moves on you! And you do think he's cute, right?"
"Well, yeah... but what if he's not the right guy?"
"Give him a chance! I don't think he's going to half-butt a relationship with you if he went out of his way to dedicate a song to you like that—oh and don't forget about the heart in your ketchup... and the starry eyes he keeps giving you."
Rin and Miku went back and forth for quite a while until they had finished their food. And like most girls would do on a girls' night, they spent a good chunk of time just talking—giggling and laughing. They didn't realize that the rest of the customers had already left and that the janitors were already mopping the floor. Their conversation went to a complete halt when they heard a squeak from a stool being scooted up to their table. Miku and Rin turned to see Len seating himself at the end of their table, setting his elbows on its surface and cupping his chin in the palm of his hand.
"Hey," he said to both of them, but mostly Rin.
"Aren't you supposed to be serving people?" Miku asked.
"It's midnight—we're pretty much closed. You two are the only ones here."
Miku looked like she had been caught in the middle of a crime at first, but quickly a devious smile crossed her face, "Oh, I'm sorry! We'll leave as soon as we can—but can I use the restroom first?"
"Yeah, sure, it's around the corner there." Len pointed off in a direction and then returned to facing Rin.
"Thank you!" Miku shouldered her purse and got up out of her seat, winking at Rin as she left.
Rin, of course, flushed.
"What's your name?" Len was smiling now. He was much more mellow now, and something in the air about him seemed to make Rin fly.
"Nice to meet you—I'm Len." He laughed, "I guess you already knew that, but I'm doing it properly this time. You know—without being in work."
Rin chuckled back at him, "You make such a nice server though—you sing so well."
"Oh, really?" Len sat up, "Oh, you've heard nothing yet... you should see me at a karaoke box."
Rin was sensing a playful challenge, "Oh, yeah? I'm pretty good, myself." She was snickering at him.
Something about him seem to make her open up.
"Maybe..." Len was a little bit more hesitant now, "Maybe we could go out sometime? Like next weekend? I'm off. Then I could show you my mad karaoke skills."
Unconsciously, a smile crept across Rin's face, "Sure thing—I'm free next weekend too."
Len fished his notepad out of his breast pocket and pulled a pen out, scribbling as he had when he was taking orders. Except this time, he tore off the paper and slid it on the table towards Rin.
"There's my number."
"Thanks." Rin smiled, taking it in her hands and folding it, "Can I see your hand for a bit?"
Len slowly held out his hand as Rin snatched the pen and began scribbling her number onto his skin. A low chuckle passed his lips.
"And there's mine."
Rin glanced at her cell phone anxiously as she waited in front of the fountain in the plaza of a very popular shopping district. She was five minutes early. She brushed her orange dress, her favorite outfit, and made sure one last time that there were no wrinkles in it. These were going to be the longest five minutes of her life—or so she thought.
"Hey, Rin!"
Off in the distance, she could see Len running toward her, waving his hand. She waved back at him, smiling, and her heart skipping a beat.


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Supporting the early use of echocardiography in blunt chest trauma
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This case reports a very unusual mechanism of cardiac rupture following an episode of multiple blunt chest trauma. The patient, a professional jockey, was trampled by horses, and although shocked on hospital admission, he did not present with signs and symptoms that were consistent with cardiogenic shock. This case highlights the difficult and subjective nature of clinical examination in emergency situations when dealing with cases of acute cardiac tamponade. It further emphasises the lack of sensitivity of traditional trauma imaging and investigative approaches such as the standard anteroposterior chest X-ray and electrocardiogram. The diagnosis of acute cardiac tamponade was not made until tertiary-care-centre arrival, when ultrasound technology in the form of bedside echocardiography was used, facilitating emergency surgery to repair a ruptured left ventricle. It is hoped that the sharing of this case will alert fellow clinicians to this uncommon but possible mechanism of cardiac rupture and subsequent tamponade, encourage the early use of echocardiography at the bedside in hypotensive blunt chest trauma cases and reinforce the principles of the Advanced Trauma Life Support course in treating trauma victims.
KeywordsBlunt chest trauma Echocardiography Ultrasound Cardiac tamponade Cardiogenic shock.
Trauma is the third leading cause of death in the under-40 age group in the United States, with blunt force trauma being a very common mechanism. For example, in the United States, 25% of all fatalities have arisen from a form of chest trauma in general [1]. More specifically, chest injury has been cited as the most important injury of polytraumas with an incidence of 45% to 65% and an associated mortality of up to 60% [2]. Blunt chest trauma is a common result of impact and deceleration injuries such as motor vehicle accidents, falls, crush injuries, occupational exposures and sporting hazards [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Incidentally, blunt chest trauma is more common than penetrating chest trauma in the United States [1]. Cardiac rupture following blunt chest trauma is an exceedingly uncommon consequence but is associated with an extremely high mortality [5].
The first repair of a cardiac rupture following blunt trauma occurred in 1955; however, only a paucity of series reviewing the outcomes post-rupture have been undertaken since this initial case [1]. Mortality from cardiac rupture following blunt chest trauma has been reported to be as high as 81.3% to 85% [6, 7]. A 5-year study of blunt cardiac rupture cases revealed that of the 32 cases reviewed, 20 presented in cardiac arrest (non-survivors), and of those who presented with vital signs, only 6 survived [5]. Another retrospective study of 160 autopsy cases showed that of the 40 fatalities from blunt chest trauma, approximately 5 % made it to the hospital alive, with the majority dying at the scene (86%) or during retrieval (approximately 8%) [4]. Similar figures of 80% early death have been reported in similar studies [1]. Shorr et al also reported a 100% (39/39) unsuccessful resuscitative thoracotomy rate in presentations without vital signs [1]. Cardiac injury distribution following blunt chest trauma was widely varied in two large retrospective studies reviewed. Right atrial rupture accounted for 5% and 40.6%, left atrial rupture 10% and 25%, right ventricular rupture 15% and 31.3% and left ventricular rupture 10% and 12.5%, respectively [4, 5]. However, the literature reviewed described only three cases of cardiac rupture involving horses, with one case being mentioned by two separate reviews [1, 5]. No outcome regarding the twice-mentioned case was described. The second report, emphasising the use of post-mortem computed tomography (CT) imaging, described the fatal case of a 13-year-old female who collapsed after being kicked by a pony. Resuscitative attempts were unsuccessful and the diagnosis was confirmed at post-mortem CT imaging, revealing a 3-cm laceration of the left ventricle causing cardiac tamponade [1, 5, 6]. The third case, a 23-year-old female, survived after suffering a 3-cm laceration to the right atrium. This patient exhibited early classic signs of cardiac tamponade and was initially treated with pericardiocentesis and pericardial catheter insertion until definitive repair with oversew via sternotomy could be performed [8].
Hence, the case described here is significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, there are only three cases of individuals suffering a cardiac rupture following horse kicks in the literature, but none from trampling. Horse riding is undoubtedly a popular recreational and occupational activity worldwide; thus, emergency medical personnel should be extremely mindful when dealing with chest injuries in these individuals. Secondly, a common misconception about the postulated mechanism for rupture is not the kinetic energy applied to the thorax per se, but the direct compression of the heart between the sternum and dorsal spine [9], hence the mechanism that occurred in this case: trampling effect of the horses [9, 10]. Thirdly, the use of chest X-rays in the diagnosis of cardiac tamponade can be extremely unreliable, especially in the acute setting. For example, a study of the diagnostic value comparing chest X-ray and echocardiography for pericardial effusions in post-operative cardiac patients showed a positive radiological diagnosis in 20 % compared to the 86 % using ultrasonography. This diagnosis rate of 20 % was also with the added benefit of previous films for comparison [11]. Fourthly, the role of electrocardiography (ECG) in blunt cardiac trauma has been reported as both non-specific and as evidence for evolving cardiac damage. ECG, therefore, is not diagnostic of acute cardiac tamponade but may be of assistance in making the diagnosis [12, 13].
Case presentation
The echocardiographic features of pericardial effusion in this case was a large volume of pericardial fluid, right atrial and ventricular diastolic collapse and a distended inferior vena cava (IVC) secondary to right-sided heart failure (IVC image not shown). Doppler features can also demonstrate changes in trans-mitral and tricuspid flows seen with inspiration and expiration and flow pattern changes in the superior and inferior vena cava [14]. Subxiphoid/subcostal and transthoracic windows are usually first obtained to demonstrate pericardial effusion size and to determine the best pericardiocentesis needle trajectory [15]. After echocardiographic diagnosis, the patient was immediately taken for bilateral salvage, anterolateral thoracotomies and exploratory laparotomy. A large haemopericardium was evacuated secondary to a ruptured left ventricle. Laparotomy (with re-look) was not significant, and the patient remained in the Intensive Care Unit for 6 days. The patient continued to improve and was discharged home soon after.
The noteworthy aspects of this case are as follows. Firstly, this case highlights the difficultly in diagnosing acute cardiac tamponade post-blunt trauma at the bedside by using conventional films. Secondly, multi-traumas may have ongoing haemorrhage from another identified or unidentified source, masking a cardiac tamponade as an injury or complimentary mechanism of shock [8]. For example, 30% of individuals who have suffered a ventricular rupture may also have a concurrent pericardial rupture causing exsanguination into the hemithorax [8]. Thirdly, this case is consistent with other blunt chest trauma reports with two-thirds of cardiac rupture cases showing no other signs of major injury [8, 9].
The initial chest X-ray(Figure 1) is also of particular interest as it shows an essentially normal anteroposterior film with perhaps a globular or enlarged cardiac silhouette, a feature noted more clearly in other reports [16]. However, the difficultly in determining acute cardiac sizing when only a single anteroposterior film is used and how the increased sensitivity of echocardiography immediately clinched the diagnosis must again be acknowledged.
Fourthly, the patient became paradoxically bradycardic with an acute cardiac tamponade. Tachycardia is the normal response to a decrease in stroke volume secondary to acute cardiac tamponade. Two postulated mechanisms may explain the findings seen in this case. It has been postulated that bradycardia can arise from direct compression of the vagus nerve or recurrent laryngeal nerves or as a direct consequence of extensive myocardial contusions [13, 17, 18]. Bradycardia in this case could have included a significant element of both postulated mechanisms. It would be reasonable to deduce that as the pericardial effusion increased in size, it caused compression of either nerve system resulting in bradycardia [18]. Improved neurological status in this patient would also have removed brainstem injury as a potential source of bradycardia [18]. Echocardiography also has the ability to identify regional cardiac wall abnormalities, further aiding the clinician in determining overall cardiac function, especially when extensive myocardial contusions are suspected [19]. However, cardiac lacerations/perforations with an intact pericardium in a patient that survives to reach the hospital are not routinely seen on echocardiography. Once again, the presence of a pericardial effusion, mechanism of injury and clinical status should suffice in aiding the clinician in making the diagnosis [20].
This case strongly supports the early use of echocardiography in blunt chest trauma with echocardiography being especially useful in the prompt and accurate diagnosis of cardiac tamponade [12, 16]. Rozycki et al. reported in a series of 1,540 patients with truncal injuries that echocardiography is most accurate when used for the evaluation of patients with precordial or transthoracic wounds with possible haemopericardium and for the immediate evaluation of hypotensive patients with blunt chest trauma [21]. In this series, echocardiography yielded a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 99.3% for patients with precordial or transthoracic wounds [21]. The use of ultrasound in the acute trauma setting may also be useful to triage patients by idenitfying intra-thoracic injuries earlier (M Kot, unpublished). Also, early combination of normal echocardiogram and ECG has been shown to reduce the number of intensive care admissions for cardiac monitoring post-blunt chest trauma. It is hoped that this case will alert fellow clinicians to maintain a high index of suspicion for cardiac tamponade in hypotensive blunt chest traumas, encourage the early use of echocardiography with these injuries and reinforce the principles of systematic evaluation and treatment as taught in the Advanced Trauma Life Support course.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this report and any accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
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Dr. Scott B Jennings, BSc MBBS (Hons), is a surgical registrar, at The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Dr. Jonathan Rice, MBBS (Adel) FRACS FRCS (Eng), is a consultant general surgeon at Moruya District Hospital, Moruya, New South Wales, Australia.
Special thanks to Dr. Marta Kot, Dr. Nick Taylor and Dr. Marie Bond for their assistance in this case.
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One of Hollywood's best known and most prolific composers, Elmer Bernstein was responsible for such landmark scores as The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Walk on the Wild Side, The Great Escape and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Elmer Bernstein, film composer: born New York 4 April 1922; twice married (two sons, two daughters); died Ojai, California 18 August 2004.
One of Hollywood's best known and most prolific composers, Elmer Bernstein was responsible for such landmark scores as The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Walk on the Wild Side, The Great Escape and To Kill a Mockingbird.
He was one of those who pioneered jazz-influenced scoring, with The Man with the Golden Arm, and in 1967 he won an Oscar for the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. Nominated for the award 14 times, his work was noted for its dynamic, full-blooded passion and melodic invention. His main theme for The Magnificent Seven is one of the most famous of movie tunes. He also composed vocal and chamber music, plus a Broadway musical, and in 1970 he succeeded David Raksin as president of the Screen Composers' Guild.
Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1922, Bernstein was the son of a high school teacher who loved jazz. He decided at the age of 12 that he wanted to be a concert pianist, although he said later, "No one thought of me as a musical prodigy, least of all me." Noting his tendency to improvise, his piano teacher took him, at the age of 13, to the composer Aaron Copland, who arranged for Bernstein to study composition formally. He later studied the piano with Henrietta Michelson at the Juilliard School of Music, then composition with Stefan Wolpe and Roger Sessions.
He gave his first piano performance at the age of 15 in Steinway Hall, New York, but a promising career as a concert pianist was interrupted when he was drafted into the US Army in 1943, although it was military service that introduced him to the art of scoring incidental music. Because he had extensive knowledge of American folk music, an early passion, Bernstein was asked to write orchestral arrangements of such folk tunes as "Blue Tail Fly" and "Sweet Betsy from Pike" for Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band. This led to his scoring dramatic radio programmes for the Armed Forces Radio Network and by the time of his discharge Bernstein had written over 80 scores for radio.
He briefly resumed his career as a concert pianist, but in 1949 he was asked to write the music for a United Nations radio documentary, narrated by Henry Fonda, about the armistice the UN had effected in Israel. Further prestigious radio work followed, leading in 1950 to offers from Hollywood. Bernstein later told the writer Tony Thomas how "exciting and intriguing" he regarded this opportunity:
Bear in mind that the veterans were still operative - [Max] Steiner, [Dmitri] Tiomkin, [Alfred] Newman, [Bernard] Herrmann and Johnny Green were there and highly productive. Alex North had made a big impression, Franz Waxman was in full flower, so to speak. It was a kind of golden age - a golden age plus. I say "plus" because we could look to the future with great hope at that time. Film music was a burgeoning art.
His first film scores were for two routine films, a football drama, Saturday's Hero, and a racetrack yarn, Boots Malone (both 1951), but he then conceived a sterling piece of dramatic scoring for David Miller's fine thriller Sudden Fear (1952) starring Joan Crawford. Bernstein's use of solo instruments like the piano and flute, and his employment of small groups of musicians rather than an accepted symphonic style, were elements that would become trademarks. The composer himself welcomed the immediacy of film composition and accepted the inherent limitations. "In the past, writing symphonies was a long, laborious process," he said,
and even if the composer was lucky enough to get a performance he might not ever hear the piece again. With film music, you can write something and quickly find out if it functions in the situation. I've always found that very stimulating. People constantly refer to the limitations of writing film music; actually the limitations are not that severe.
Temporarily "grey-listed" during the McCarthy era for his support of left-wing causes ("I wasn't important enough to be blacklisted"), he worked on low-budget movies such as Robot Monster and Cat Women of the Moon (both 1953), but he returned to the mainstream in the mid-Fifties with two films that demonstrated both his genius and his versatility.
For Otto Preminger's stark story of drug addiction The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), starring Frank Sinatra as a junkie drummer, he wrote a compelling jazz score that signalled a new era of film scoring. He followed this with a majestic, epic score in the more traditional style of Erich Wolfgang Korngold or Steiner for Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956).
Both scores became best-selling soundtrack albums, though Bernstein insisted that The Man with the Golden Arm was not a jazz score. "It is a score in which jazz elements were incorporated toward the end of creating a highly specialised atmosphere, specific to this particular film," he wrote when the film was first released,
but I never gave free rein to the players, which is the thing that becomes jazz. So it was really a score that used jazz to colour it. In this respect I was fortunate in that jazz had heretofore been used most sparingly in this manner.
He added,
I told Otto Preminger of my intentions after one quick reading of the shooting script. There is something very American and contemporary about all the characters and their problems. I wanted an element that could speak readily of hysteria and despair, an element that would localise these emotions to our country, to a large city if possible. Ergo, jazz.
The score was created in only 20 days, whereas The Ten Commandments took Bernstein a year and a half. "There were so many obstacles to overcome," he wrote.
The first was my own apprehension of scoring what amounts to the birth of civilised ethical concepts, of scoring conversation between man and God, of scoring the birth of freedom and the dignity of man as a free soul under God. I don't think that any true artist should feel equal to that task.
He described DeMille's demands as "quite Wagnerian". "He believes firmly in the use of the leitmotif and the interplays of these motifs in scenes which affect the destinies of more than one character."
The result was a score rich in stirring thematic melodies, and a mixture of symphonic grandeur (the orchestra at its greatest strength had 71 musicians) and attempts to recreate Egyptian source music by utilising facsimiles of the sort of woodwind and percussion instruments of the period. Eight horns were utilised to impart a "wild, barbaric quality" to the numerous fanfares, and Bernstein noted that two episodes were given unusual treatment. "In the burning bush sequence the string choir was reinforced by a novachord, and in the sequence of the pestilence several electronic devices were used to help impart a feeling of terror."
The following year he wrote another jazz-tinged score, for Alexander McKendrick's uncompromising film about the underbelly of Broadway, Sweet Smell of Success. Other 1956 releases included his moody, intense score for the psychological drama Fear Strikes Out, more traditional, rustic themes for the western The Tin Star and surprisingly pastoral music for the stark action drama Men in War, a score of which he was particularly proud. "It was the story of a beleagured platoon in Korea - they can't get back to their lines and they are moving through enemy territory," he said.
It was a good picture but yet another war film. What was there to say? Nothing I could write could make the danger any more obvious than it already was on film. What I decided to do was comment on the beauty of the surroundings, the hidden beauty of the woods, the birds - the pastoral feeling.
Firmly established as one of Hollywood's finest in the field, he was now in constant demand - in 1958 he scored two more Sinatra vehicles, Kings Go Forth and Some Came Running, plus the DeMille production The Buccaneer, Desire Under the Elms, starring Sophia Loren, God's Little Acre and Anna Lucasta.
In 1960 he composed what is probably his best-known score for the screen, The Magnificent Seven, with its memorably surging title theme and its expansive evocation of frontier life (one can detect the influence of his former mentor Copland in Bernstein's western scores). Comparing it later to his plaintive music for To Kill a Mockingbird (1963), which had just a wistful piano solo as its title melody, he stated,
The biggest problem is to make the initial decision about the musical evaluation of the picture. You have to decide what the music must do. Sometimes it's obvious. It was easy with The Magnificent Seven because the image was active and muscular. But Mockingbird was difficult to do, as it had a more complicated story involving two children, their attorney father, an eccentric neighbour and an isolated community that is suffering from a racial disturbance. What was the element to be discussed in the music?
I decided to focus on the kind of particular and peculiar magic that is the imaginative world of a child. There's an unsophisticated mysticism about a child's imagination and it's a marvellous thing. Simplicity was the keynote - the score starts with just the right hand playing a simple melody, and I tried to orchestrate simply, with bell-like, harp-like sounds. It was one of those cases where I was fortunate enough to hit on exactly the right thing to do.
Bernstein had another hit theme with his sinuous, poundingly rhythmic title music for the melodrama set in a Southern bordello, Walk on the Wild Side (1962), memorably accompanied by Saul Bass's photography of a prowling cat. Other notable titles among Bernstein's over 100 credits are Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Hawaii (1966) and Cast a Giant Shadow (1966). In 1967 he ventured into fresh territory, the Broadway musical, writing the songs for a show set on Wall Street titled How Now, Dow Jones. With lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, it proved a serviceable score with one show-stopper, "Step to the Rear", but the show had only a modest six-month run.
Back in Hollywood, his scores included True Grit (1969), The Gypsy Moths (1969), The Shootist (1976) and Zulu Dawn (1979). In the late 1970s his music gained a new dimension when he scored some of the era's hit comedies such as National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Airplane! (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Trading Places (1983) and Ghostbusters (1984). For Stephen Frears's superior film noir of 1990, The Grifters, Bernstein wrote a score he described as "playfully unsettling - for that is what the film is like".
He continued to do distinguished work for such films as The Age of Innocence (1993) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), also composing several works for symphony orchestras. In 2002, at the age of 80, he was feted on This Is Your Life, and energetically made the publicity rounds to promote his score for Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven, a splendid remake of the Douglas Sirk melodrama All That Heaven Allows, which Bernstein had never seen. "I went and saw it after I finished the score for Todd's film," he said.
Frank Skinner's score was very classically based - it's influenced by Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Chopin. I couldn't have written that. I consider myself musically as peculiarly American.
Bernstein's score won him his 14th Oscar nomination and much acclaim. "The critics have been very enthusiastic," he said.
I'm not sure that's all about the quality of the music - though at the moment it's my favourite of all the scores I've written - but rather that there aren't many scores these days that are so directly emotional. To Kill a Mockingbird was the link for Todd, because it covered a similar emotional terrain.
Bernstein had written a similarly romantic score for Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, but later had a bruising experience with Scorsese when the director discarded his music for Gangs of New York (2002).
I had written the score for the film almost a year before. Then, when he started editing the film, he changed his mind. He rang me and told me he was going to go for a Scorsese score, which meant that, as with Goodfellas and Casino, he was going to use recorded music on the soundtrack.
Bernstein's television scores include the music for the tough series Johnny Staccato (1959), starring John Cassavetes as a Greenwich Village jazz pianist and private detective, and the western series The Big Valley (1965). In 1963 he won an Emmy for his scoring of The Making of a President.
In 1979 Bernstein, noted for his energy and enthusiasm, told the Los Angeles Times,
I can't think of anything else that I'd rather have done with my life. It is an amazing human privilege to look back on your life and simply be able to say that you had some part in making millions and millions of people feel better, two hours at a time.
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If the Met Commissioner was informed, he will be asked why he failed to tell ministers. If he was not told about such a highly sensitive operation involving the bugging of an MP, the question is: why not.
Who authorised it and why?
The Met refuses to discuss the case and there has been no explanation as to what it was trying to discover. Jack Straw has confirmed that it was a police operation and reports suggest authorisation for the bugging of Babar Ahmad was given in 2004 by former assistant commissioner Sir David Veness.
Was Tooting MP Sadiq Khan a target?
The question is whether the police hoped that by bugging Mr Ahmad's visitors they could eavesdrop on his old friend Mr Khan, the Tooting MP. Before he became an MP in 2005, Mr Khan was a highprofile human rights lawyer with terrorist suspects as clients. His legal work made him a frequent critic of police operations.
What happened to the Davis letter?
David Davis sent a letter to No10 on 11 December warning the Prime Minister that a Labour MP had been bugged, apparently in breach of the so-called Wilson Doctrine. But No 10 insists his letter never arrived.
Why were ministers kept in the dark?
The Ministry of Justice admits that its officials were aware weeks ago what had happened but they did not inform Justice Secretary Mr Straw or Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Their conduct is more extraordinary given the likelihood that Mark Kearney, the police intelligence officer who carried out the bugging operation, would make his allegations public.
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If you look at a tree and think of it as a design assignment, it would be like asking you to make something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, provides habitat for hundreds of species, accrues solar energys fuel, makes complex sugars and food, changes colors with the seasons, creates microclimates, and self-replicates.
Life through many long periods has been manifested in a countless host of varying structures, all circumscribed by one general plan, each appointed to a definite place, and limited to an appointed duration. On the whole the earth has been thus more and more covered by the associated life of plants and animals, filling all habitable space with beings capable of enjoying their own existence or ministering to the enjoyment of others; till finally, after long preparation, a being was created capable of the wonderful power of measuring and weighing all the world of matter and space which surrounds him, of treasuring up the past history of all the forms of life, and considering his own relation to the whole. When he surveys this vast and co-ordinated system, and inquires into its history and origin, can he be at a loss to decide whether it be a work of Divine thought and wisdom, or the fortunate offspring of a few atoms of matter, warmed by the anima mundi, a spark of electricity, or an accidental ray of sunshine?
The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.
The worst thing that will probably happen—in fact is already well underway—is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
To the extent that remaining old-growth Douglas fir ecosystems possess unique structural and functional characteristics distinct from surrounding managed forests, the analogy between forest habitat islands and oceanic islands applies. Forest planning decision variables such as total acreage to be maintained, patch size frequency distribution, spatial distribution of patches, specific locations, and protective measures all need to be addressed.
We tried to transform Tarmac playgrounds into places with pools, and earth where children could grow things. Now the Government is saying we need more classroom space so the schools are building them on the very nature habitats weve been working to provide.
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. ... The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.


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I don't think it comes with the apple cable.
It is 10w total (5w per USB), I think. But you can use a jumper to bridge them and charge an iPad.
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- Produced by the legendary studio BONES! - Cowboy Bebop, Eureka Seven, Full Metal Alchemist
- English dub features voice actors Steve Blum - Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann, Code Geass
- English dub features voice actors Crispin Freeman - Eureka Seven, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain
- "It bears gorgeous character designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto." – Anime Insider
descriptionAll things have a name by which they are defined. Amongst the named are the many long-forgotten gods that dwell within the world brought about by the prayers, fears and desires of humanity. In the famine stricken and riot plagued city of Edo, alarming events are visited upon the populace by these other-worldly beasts. Descending from the mountain tops or rising from the earth are these old gods, the Youi.
For nearly twenty-five years Yukiatsu Ryuuda has wandered the countrysides of Japan posing as a bodyguard, living the life of a gambler and thief, all the while denying his name. Through a chance encounter with a Youi and the members of the Office of Barbarian Knowledge Enforcement, Yuki is forced to face the life he's been running from and rediscover his long hidden power of Ayagami, the ability to find true names and use them as a weapon to exorcise these beasts plaguing the material world.
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It was last November when we first heard about Legendary Pictures' supernatural action project Spectral from writer Ian Fried, and all has been quiet ever since. However, now some movement is under way as Jayson Rothwell has been brought in to rework the script.
Although the project doesn't have any producers lined up yet, sources told Variety that Thomas Tull, Legendary's founder and CEO, loves the concept and is very much behind getting the film up and running.
The premise of Spectral is centered on a modern-day, militaristic, and gritty approach to fighting the supernatural. It has been described as a darker and more serious take on a Ghostbusters-like story, with a plot that revolves around a special ops group formed to bring down evil ghosts that have taken over Manhattan.
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"The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind."
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"I don't want to have it connote the image that we're petrified. We want to promote an image that we are strong and stable, yet current and flexible. It's a fine balance."


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Ducati has finally staged its comeback to the Indian market, as its own subsidiary known as Ducati India Pvt. Ltd. The Italian two-wheeler manufacturer has come to India at the same time DSK-Benelli has launched their first five motorcycles.
They have inaugurated three new dealerships across India, as part of their initial phase. Mumbai, Delhi and Gurgaon are the new showroom for the iconic Italian brand of motorcycles.
Italian manufacturer will offer, after sales service to both new as well as existing owners of Ducati motorcycles. They will be also setting up their showroom in Bangalore in a few months from now.
Ducati will offer its entire range of motorcycles through their three dealerships across India. They have also provided their new pricing for their motorcycles, across all seven categories.
The Multistrada range comprises of the following:
- Multistrada 1200 costs INR 14,02,750.
- Multistrada 1200 + Pacchetto costs INR 14,93,250.
- Multistrada 1200 S costs INR 16,59,167.
- Multistrada 1200 S + Pacchetto costs INR 17,49,667.
- Multistrada 1200 S Pikes Peak costs INR 20,61,389.
Ducati Monster Range has most options and here is the breakdown:
- Monster 795 is priced at INR 6,98,861.
- Monster 796 S2R is priced at INR 7,99,417.
- Monster 796 ABS Corse Stripe is priced at INR 7,99,417.
- Monster 821 Dark is priced at INR 8,99,972.
- Monster 821 is priced at INR 9,50,250.
- Monster 1200 is priced at INR 19,85,972.
- Monster 1200 S is priced at INR 24,33,444.
- Monster 1200 S Stripe is priced at INR 25,74,222.
The Most sought after Ducati bikes in India will be their Panigale:
- 899 Panigale will cost INR 13,02,194.
- 899 Panigale White will cost INR 13,32,361.
- 1299 Panigale will cost INR 32,47,944.
- 1299 Panigale S will cost INR 40,07,139.
- Panigale R will cost INR 46,25,556.
The iconic Italian brand will offer affordable motorcycles as well in the form of its Scrambler:
- Scrambler Icon Red has a price tag of INR 6,38,528.
- Scrambler Icon Yellow has a price tag of INR 6,48,583.
- Scrambler has a price tag of INR 7,54,167.
Ducati will also offer Indians their Hypermotard and Hyperstrada models:
- Hypermotard is offered at INR 10,00,528.
- Hypermotard SP is offered at INR 19,10,556.
- Hyperstrada is offered at INR 11,01,083.
Last, yet not the least is their Diavel range of motorcycles:
- Diavel is priced at INR 13,82,639.
- Diavel Carbon Red is priced at INR 16,97,859.
- Diavel Carbon White is priced at INR 7,44,639.
- Diavel Titanium is priced at INR 37,20,556.


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The pair declined yesterday but returned to the upside after failing to breach and stabilize below 111.55; at the same time we see scattered resistance levels among 113.00 and 113.15 which are still restricting upside attempts by the pair, which is also outside the ascending channel shown above. Therefore, we expect the pair to attempt again to decline since it's unable to stabilize above the resistance area mentioned.
The trading range for today is among key support at 110.00 and key resistance now at 114.75.
The general trend over short term basis is to the downside targeting 97.90 as far as areas of 132.50 remain intact.
Support112.00111.60111.35111.05110.50Resistance112.65112.95113.15113.60114.00RecommendationBased on the charts and explanations above, our opinion is selling the pair around 112.20 targeting 110.50 and stop loss above 113.15 might be appropriate


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text: GEE, THANKS, UNCLE JOHN Photo courtesy ALK Valley News. ALK Valley News 1/4 scale Case Model H combine, 12 ft. Waukesha engine, belonging to Allen Smith of Girard, Kansas. Photo courtesy ALK Valley News ALK Valley News Don Blecha of Wichita, KS, leaning on tire of his latest found treasure-an F-20 to be at 1987 Ternings show. Dwight Rix, Tom and Lois Terning presenting Mahlon Giffin a photo at the annual exhibitors' dinner. 1/4 scale 30-60 A & T belongs to Allen Smith of Girard, KS. Mr. and Mrs. ''Avery'' Sullivan are honored on their 50th anniversary at the Ternings show. Read Article


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There are various reports that Newcastle are interested in signing 22 year-old Utrecht striker Sebastien Haller, but there are other clubs also after the impressive young French striker.
Sporting Lisbon, Monaco and Everton are the other clubs said to be interested in the player
Sebastien only joined Utrecht last summer from Auxerre on a permanent basis, but he had a great season and in 40 appearances for his Dutch club he scored 24 goals and had 6 assists.
22 year-old Utrecht striker Sebastien Haller
Rafa has said he wants to bring in a big striker and Haller seems to fit the bill at 6ft 2ins tall and he's rated at around £8M and that is well within Newcastle's budget.
The difficulty for Newcastle will be to persuade the 22 year-old that his future lies at Newcastle and initially in the English second division.
The player wants to move to the Premier League, so Newcastle's challenge is to persuade him to spend one season in the Championship first.
Tottenham were favorites to sign him earlier in the year but that deal did not go through and earlier in the summer Everton were the favorites to sign him.
L'Equipe, France Football and Voetbal International are reporting he is Newcastle's top striker target and that Newcastle are already negotiating for his transfer.
Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Monchengladbach and Schalke 04 were clubs also linked with the player earlier this year.
Haller has represented France 45 times at various youth levels and he's scored 21 goals, so he looks like a top striker in the making and exactly what Newcastle need this season.
A player who can improve under Rafa Benitez and be ready to take the Premier League by storm – hopefully next season, assuming all goes according to plan.
Newcastle beat Bristol City 1-0 yesterday on the road and that goes with the 4-1 home win against Reading on Wednesday night.
Hopefully we are now off and running in the Championship and certainly the performance yesterday was a gutsy one from the Newcastle team and just what wee needed to get our first away win since last December.
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The Ostoya Palace Hotel is a twofloor 19th century Polish palace located in the historical centre of Krakow. Meticulously restored and converted into a 4 star hotel the Ostoya Palace offers a Polish hospitality which combines elegance discretion and culture with a warm and homely atmosphere. The varied elegant and harmonious interiors as well as the comfortable and stylish airconditioned guestrooms are also sure to satisfy the needs of every tourist or business traveller. Accommodation has been designed to meet the needs
of the most demanding guest whilst keeping the classical beauty of the palace interiors as well as the spirit of history and the mood of the present. Colours are pastel upholstery is carefully matched and the furniture custommade. Every room is airconditioned and equipped with satellite TV a radio minibar safe telephone and broadband internet. The bathrooms have underfloor heating hair dryers heated towel racks bathrobes and showers whilst some have bathtubs with separate showers others Jacuzzi baths. The hotel also offers a superior gourmet experience in the pleasant ambience of the Restaurant Salon whilst the Bar with its rich wine list and and varied atmosphere is an ideal venue for a business lunch or an evening with friends.
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Wimwick over at Dungeon's Master.com recently wrote a post called "Dwarves Are the Best Race" in which he (very convincingly) explaned how Dwarves are the very best race to play in D&D 4e.
Sir, I challenge you on that point of contention.
I say, Humans are the best race!
Now, I don't have any fancy tables like Mr. Wick, but I do have a Player's Handbook at hand, and a few quick minutes.
Attribute Bonuses
Humans recieve a +2 to any one ability score of their choice. Now, you may see this as a disadvantage to the other races who recieve a +2 to two different attributes, but I don't. For the other races, you have to take the bonuses in those spots. For a human, you have much more versatility. You can choose ANYTHING!
Skill Bonuses
Humans get an additional skill from their class skill list. That's not too shoddy. When you're trying to decide which skills to take as you put together your character, you're going to get a lot more choice, and a lot more freedom to make your character to your liking.
Racial Benefits
Humans get a plethora of abilities: An extra At-Will, an extra feat, and defense bonuses to Fortitude, Reflex AND Will. That extra At-Will makes your choice of actions each round more interesting. Instead of switching between two, you've got three different actions. No more are you wringing your hands, wondering which At-Will to choose between: Cleave or Wall of Steel? Take both! Why not?
That extra feat is going to get you one step closer to the build you want to go with that requires a ton of feats, and also allows you to start of with some nice combos.
You really have any class open to you with the Attribute choice as well as the bonuses to your defenses.
More important than all this crunch is the flavor. What race are you going to be most familiar with than any other? Human. Which race is the easiest to RP? Human. What race is the most prominent in Fantasy? Human.
It bothers me a bit when I end up in a party with no humans. It doesn't feel right. In almost any fantasy book, you've got at least half the party made up of humans. But not in the case of my games. We'll have one and only one human, if we're lucky.
How about you? Do you find a lack of humans in your games? What race do you think is best?


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Horace Bones
Australian horror psych-punks Horace Bones are a four piece that play loud, liberating and belligerent rock n roll.
Born from the remnants of a house they've shared/soiled since early 2015, the band comprises of members: Christian P Fish (drums), Caz (lead guitar), Danny Cockburn (bass) and Oisin Kelly (guitar/vocals).
Since releasing their debut single Tarantula to wide spread praise and horror, their music has established extensive, national radio play and a coveted spot on the Home and Hosed, top 5 songs of the week.
Cutting their teeth on stages shared with the likes of Pulled Apart By Horses (UK), Lurch & Chief, Remi, Bad//Dreems and Money For Rope has seen each show mount with sweaty uproarious anarchy.
With their debut e.p. slated for release this September though MGM and a spot on the bill for this year's NYE On The Hill Festival, Horace Bones are making a name for themselves around Australia


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I have a dirty secret, one that is bad for both the environment
and my bank account (but good for me). I confess: I use disposable
diapers and I would NEVER use cloth diapers. Before I had kids, I
had an idealistic view on motherhood that included reusable
diapers, all organic homemade food, only "green" toys and clothing.
Now, with two kids of my own, the reality has set in that sometimes
the choice that keeps mom sane is the best choice for the
With two tiny tushes under age 2, dirty diapers are a constant
in our home. The amount of time and effort required to wash and dry
reusable diapers would be the end of my sanity. The ease of
disposable diapers is exactly why I use them. There are already
such few hours in the day once you get all the kids entertained,
the dishes washed, and the clothes cleaned, the last thing I want
to spend my little bit of free time doing is washing poop out of
Every trip to Target includes a stop in the baby aisle for the
array of diapers I purchase, from night diapers to swim diapers to
pull-ups. Obviously the cost of disposable diapers far outweighs
the cost of reusable, but I am OK with that. The extra money spent
each week on diapers is worth it and I know it's only for a limited
amount of time until we're all potty-trained and diapers are a
thing of the past for us.
One of the main perks of disposable diapers is just that-they
are disposable. When we are out and about and need a diaper change,
I want to be able to toss the stinky one and be done with it. My
diaper bag can be funky enough without having it also transport
poopy cloth diapers back home. I can only imagine the stench if I
was leaving dirty diapers in there.
I know that there is a vocal group of reusable diaper
proponents. Although some of those parents purport to make their
choice because of environmental concerns, I can't help but feel
like some people have jumped on the bandwagon because it has become
trendy. The amount of patterns and fashionable options available
now in cloth diapering is baffling to me.
A diaper is a diaper and not meant to be used as a fashion
accessory. I want my disposable diapers to do the dirty work and
then I never want to see them again!
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Dear Bloggers, due to my lack of English language skill I have encouraged myself to spend my time in reading articles in English. This activity has brought me t0 a reality that little by little has enriched my vocabulary. I don't care whether or not I understand about the whole story of the articles but still go on in reading them. Below I have an interesting article (I am sure you also have the same opinion!) that will interest you to read it. Most of us must have a wish to have a beautiful house with a beautiful interior design in it. I read an article in Readbud.com which I am sharing with you by now:
An excerption from Readbud.com -- title: Interior Design.
Everyone knows that a solid wood floor can add character, beauty and warmth to any room. Apart from its aesthetic appeal there are also quite a lot of other benefits of having a real wood floor. Although real wood floors can be quite expensive compared to the cost of the other types of flooring options, the fact is that the benefits of this type of flooring are so many that their cost is justified. Solid wood floors can increase the value of your home. Quite a lot of people who are planning to sell their property intend to fit their homes with wooden floorings before selling so that they can get a higher price for their property.
Benefits of Solid Wood Floors
Unlike the other types of flooring, the wooden floors manage to retain their value and their beauty for quite a lot of years. In fact, as they age they gain more charm because of the natural elements. Wooden floorings continue to age through time and gain more characters and it continues to evolve. This is particularly known as patina and it is one of the main benefits of a solid wooden floor.
Another major benefit of solid wood floors is that they are very easy to maintain. Today the types of wooden floorings which are available do not require any type of regimes for maintaining them and therefore nothing more than sweeping would be required in order to keep them clean. In the last few years, wooden floors have come a long way and today there are several different types of stains, grains, wood and styles available. With so much variety available, no matter what your tastes are you would be able to find the type of wood that matches your tastes. There are also quite a lot of online retailers where you would be able to find what you need for a good discount.
Wood Floors Increase the Value of Your Home
Solid wood floors can increase the value of any home. According to a particular survey which had been done with estate agents in the US, 90% of the agents said that the houses which have real wood floors tend to sell faster and for higher prices. The beauty of wooden floors is maintained for years and it would retain its value over a long period of time.
Another reason why it increases the value of your home is that real wood tends to trap air and therefore has great insulation properties. For this reason you would also be able to save a lot on the heating bills. Also, since they are completely natural they are good for health. Wood does not accumulate any dust like the other floors and therefore they are great for the families that suffer from allergies. Wooden floors have quite a lot of benefits as can be seen above. For this reason it is not surprising that they add to the value of your house.
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We should have many more like this one!
This is a discussion on Mayor Bach (Colorado Springs) REJECTS MAIG and Bloomberg! within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Bach explained that he is a concealed-carry permit holder, a Second Amendment defender, a member of the National Rifle Association and the Pikes Peak Firearms ...
Mayors' anti-gun group plays ugly (poll) | mayors, bach, heads - TOWN HALL - Colorado Springs Gazette, COBach explained that he is a concealed-carry permit holder, a Second Amendment defender, a member of the National Rifle Association and the Pikes Peak Firearms Coalition, and a man who campaigned on a pro-gun platform.The MAIG resorts to name calling, threats, innuendo and Bach does not back down.Anti-gun activists cannot win on the merits of their position. Thats why they attack their opponents, even while theyre grieving. Mayor Bach has been wise to ignore this ill-behaved organization. Mayor Bloomberg, clean up your act.
Good for Mayor Bach!!!
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We should have many more like this one!
You can educate ignorance, you can't fix stupid
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I am hoping the new Mayor of Raleigh feels the same way.
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
Hóka-héy! Crazy Horse
Bravo!!Mayor Bach (Colorado Springs) REJECTS MAIG and Bloomberg!
I just wish we could have said the same for the current Governor when he was Mayor of Denver.
Thumbs up for Mayor Bach...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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NRA Life Member
I'd like to send that man an Email,he apparently understands the constitution and IMHO is highly likely to be honest and forthright in doing his job as Mayor of Colorado Springs.People like him need to know that there are millions of Americans that stand behind them and their views and values
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
Of the perhaps 30,000 or so municipalities in the US, about 600 have mayors who belong to MAIG. About 2%. I'm trying to see their relevance, but it eludes me.
"I'm set up to play a game right now. However, I doubt most people would want to get into a gun fight with me."
Rob Leatham
Right On! Well done!
"Don't start none, won't be none!"
God bless this man...we sure do need more like him.
You're right "Mike1956" the only place they have relevance is in the media.
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it".
Thomas Jefferson
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
Hóka-héy! Crazy Horse
Mike1956 is right. All sizzle, no steak. Just a way to get their cause publicity inb the liberal media. I like the comment about the members with charges against them!!
What we tolerate today our children will embrace tomorrow
Thanks for posting this Rock and Glock, I thought about posting it when I read it, but it slipped my mind.
Now what was I doing.......
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Waterfront Bungalow on Seaway
- 2+1 Bedrooms
- 3 Bathrooms
About This Property
Bright and light open concept brick bungalow overlooking the majestic St Lawrence Seaway and next to an 18 hole Golf Club - the best of both worlds.
Two large bedrooms, plus a 3pc ensuite with granite vanity and a new 4pc bathroom on the main level. The sunroom is spacious and opens to a lovely patio and pool area practically at the water`s edge.
Downstairs is a large rec room which could easily become a 3rd bedroom. Laundry, utility and work shop are also on the lower level. A double car garage with room for a workshop completes this home.
Breath-taking with the ships gliding past mere yards away, this home would make a fantastic home or cottage. Close to all amenities including marina, local airstrip and shops. Call for your personal showing today.
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- Air Conditioning
- Backyard
- Basement - Finished
- Central Air
- Dock
- Ensuite Bathroom
- Fireplace
- Golf Community
- Lake
- Lake Access
- Lakefront
- Laundry
- Outdoor Pool
- Terrace
- Waterfront
- Workshop
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- $5,400 Taxes Municipal 2016


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Real support for the troops means helping them preserve their voting right; here's how.
Here's Paul from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, but the gist is:
Existing Ohio law allows citizens to register to vote and cast an absentee ballot on the same day, as long as it happens 30 days before the election. But a ridiculous new lawsuit brought against Ohio's Secretary of State is trying to prevent the two actions of registering to vote and submitting an absentee ballot from happening simultaneously. If the lawsuit succeeds, it could nullify the votes of potentially thousands of veterans in VA hospitals and deployed military personal that took advantage of this opportunity to register and vote at the same time.
Ohioans have made tremendous sacrifices in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since September 11th, more than 46,000 of the state's sons and daughters have deployed. We owe these veterans and all service members an absentee voting process that is fair, predictable, and clear.
This is not a partisan matter. Regardless of which candidates they cast their ballots for, servicemen and women and hospitalized veterans, who rely on absentee voting, could find their ballots thrown out.


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This shocking CCTV image shows the moment an armed robber leapt over a counter and hit a shop owner on the head with a machete.
David Ezard, 59, feared he would die in the terrifying off-licence attack.
He was left with blood pouring down his face and says he is unable to sleep since the raid.
A second thug punched his 16-year-old son in the back of the head, while a third raider searched the stockroom.
Mr Ezard said: "He could have killed me with the intensity of what he did. I'm on tenterhooks all the time, especially when it goes dark. I'm not sleeping at all."
His son escaped and ran into the street to shout for help. The robbers grabbed cash and cigarettes from behind the counter before fleeing.
"I was checking something on the till about six feet away from the door. Suddenly, I looked up and there was a big knife in front of me.
"He came running in the shop and jumped the counter, hit me over the head and knocked me to the ground. He was shouting at me to get the till open or he would do me again.
"I was struggling because there was blood running down my face and he'd knocked my glasses off."
After the attack at the Bargain Booze store in Rochdale he was taken to North Manchester General Hospital where he received 10 staples in a head wound.
The machete thug is white, between 6ft and 6ft 3in, and average build.
He was wearing a Adidas hooded zip-up top, which was grey on the top half and black on the bottom.
The other two gang members were wearing dark clothing.


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4BD/2BA home on .75acres of absolute peace and quiet! Walking distance to bay beach, great pond and Wiley Park, CCRT, Arnold's and more! Master bedroom and bath on first floor with three bedrooms, full bath, and extra family room upstairs to give everyone the ability to spread out. Sleeps 8 with two queen beds, two twin beds and a set of bunk beds in 4 bedrooms. Wi-fi and streaming tv with games and movies for any indoor days. Large deck with outdoor dining, picnic table, horseshoe pit, double hammock, yard games, and pretty gardens for those lobster boils and outdoor time! The best location in town with close proximity to one of the top 10 beaches of 2016 (coast Guard Beach) and fabulous bay beaches, drive in movie theatre, mini golf, restaurants and more. Comes well furnished (including beach chairs, toys, etc) so grab your bags and unwind. We are pet friendly.
Wiley Pond (nearest beach)
Kingsbury Beach is pristine and quiet and .8mi down the street
Hidden away for an immediate sense of a retreat from the everyday
House and front yard
.75 acres w/ample dining space, shower, gas & charcoal grills
Hydrangeas, gardens, a double hammock and horseshoe pit await
Kitchen (with dishwasher and gas oven) and mudroom
Dining area for 8
Living room area with wood fireplace
Downstairs bedroom with ensuite bathroom
Upstairs den with bookcase, large tv, Wii, DVDs and work desk
Upstairs bedroom with queen bed
Upstairs bedroom with two twin beds
Upstairs bedroom with twin bunkbed and tv/vhs player
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The Diamondbacks got to the playoffs at least a year, maybe two, ahead of schedule this season, and before they start to look forward, they will be looking back and wondering "what if" for a while.
Despite being outscored by 20 runs during the regular season, Arizona managed to put up 90 wins -- the most in the National League -- and won the National League West. Then, it was a three-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the Division Series before getting swept in four games in the NL Championship Series by the Colorado Rockies.
"Right now it's still tough to chew on," first baseman Tony Clark said as the players met for the last time and cleaned out their lockers before going their separate ways for the offseason. "But after we have a chance to reflect on the season, I'm sure we'll have more of an appreciation for what we were able to accomplish."
They got as far as they did with one of the youngest teams in baseball, a roster that in the end, featured three rookies in the starting lineup (third baseman Mark Reynolds, center fielder Chris Young and right fielder Justin Upton), and another regular (shortstop Stephen Drew) who was in his first full major league season.
They didn't feature a .300 hitter or a big bopper in the middle of the order, but the Diamondbacks were collectively scrappy enough from top to bottom to string together wins and avoid many prolonged ruts or slumps.
A major key was their success in one-run games, in which they went 32-20. Their bullpen, specifically the back end featuring closer Jose Valverde (a major league-leading 47 saves) and setup men Tony Pena and Brandon Lyon, also proved to be an essential piece to the winning formula.
Though general manager John Byrnes anticipates a relatively quiet offseason in terms of tinkering with the roster, he will be on the lookout to secure at least one new starting pitcher, as it seems likely free agent Livan Hernandez won't be offered a new deal.
Arizona could be in the market for a cleanup hitter, but it doesn't appear to be a major priority. The core players, all of them relatively young, will continue to lead a club that already has tasted success ahead of schedule.
"I think we're excited about where we could be in a couple years," starting pitcher Brandon Webb said.
Said manager Bob Melvin, who could receive a contract extension at some point this winter: "It's got the potential to be a very, very nice run."
--1B Tony Clark, who hit .249 with 17 home runs in 221 at-bats, is expected to be re-signed after finishing the second year of a two-year, $2 million contract extension.
"What he's done on the field and off the field for us has been important," GM Josh Byrnes said. "We're certainly going to make an effort (to re-sign him.)"
--The Diamondbacks hit just .148 with runners in scoring position (4-for-27) in getting swept by the Rockies in the NL Championship Series. Arizona hit just .249 in those situations all season, the worst among National League clubs.
--LF Eric Byrnes, who infuriated Rockies fans after Colorado took a 2-0 series lead by saying Arizona had outplayed the Rockies to that point, took a lot of the blame for his team's failure in the NLCS.
"One of the main reasons we didn't win this series is because I didn't hit (expletive)," said Byrnes, who was 3-for-17 with two RBIs. "It's as simple as that. And your middle-of-the-order guy has to produce. It definitely started with me."
--2B Augie Ojeda stepped up big when starter Orlando Hudson went down with a season-ending thumb injury in early September, as he battled .333 (16-for-48) after replacing the two-time Gold Glove Award winner.
"That's always been my goal, to play every day in the big leagues, and I got the chance for a little bit to show what I can do," Ojeda said. "You get that label coming up that you're a utility guy, a guy who can't play every day or whatever. I believe in my ability, and I just wanted to go out there and prove everybody wrong and show what I can do."
BY THE NUMBERS: .152 -- Combined batting average for 3B Mark Reynolds and LF Eric Byrnes in the NL Championship Series (5-for-33).
QUOTE TO NOTE: "We have talented guys that have the ability to get better," he said. "With the experience they're getting here, I think it's start of something very big for us, and we're excited about the future of the Diamondbacks." -- Manager Bob Melvin.
The Diamondbacks enter the offseason with not a lot of holes to plug, but they most certainly will be in the market for another front-end starting pitcher to compliment RHP Brandon Webb and LHP Doug Davis. They have some trade bait in a handful of quality young players, namely OFs Carlos Quentin and Carlos Gonzalez, and perhaps third baseman Chad Tracy, who is coming off knee surgery.
BIGGEST NEEDS: The Diamondbacks will be looking to replace RHP Livan Hernandez, who is set to become a free agent and likely won't be invited back, in part because of salary concerns and his penchant for putting too many men on base. They might look around for a power hitter, but with plenty of power potential in the likes of OFs Chris Young and Justin Upton, not to mention LF Eric Byrnes, that might not be such a priority.
FREE AGENTS: RHP Livan Hernandez, 1B Tony Clark.
The Diamondbacks want to bring Clark back. He is their leader in the clubhouse and one of the biggest clutch bats off the bench in the majors, averaging a home run every 13 at-bats. It will cost them more than the $2 million it took to keep him in Arizona the past two years, however. The team isn't expected to re-sign Hernandez and will look at free agency or a trade to fill his spot at the front end of the starting rotation, with RHPs Micah Owings, Edgar Gonzalez, Yusmeiro Petit and Dustin Nippert all in the mix to vie for spots behind RHP Brandon Webb and LHP Doug Davis.
ARBITRATION-ELIGIBLE: RHP Juan Cruz, RHP Robby Hammock, 2B Orlando Hudson, RHP Brandon Lyon, C Chris Snyder, RHP Jose Valverde, LHP Randy Choate.
The Diamondbacks face an interesting decision with Hudson, who has been plenty good for the organization since coming over in a trade from Toronto in 2005, but he will want a rich, multiyear deal, and Arizona may not be willing to open the vault for him just yet. The Diamondbacks also will have to pay big to Valverde, who led the majors with 47 saves and enjoyed perhaps the biggest breakout season of any player on the roster. They also may have to shell out a ton to Lyon, Valverde's primary setup man who has been fantastic the past two seasons. Snyder, meanwhile, had a huge second half and kept Miguel Montero on the bench a lot longer than most expected at the start of the season.
IN LIMBO: RF Carlos Quentin and OF Carlos Gonzalez could be trade bait, as the Diamondbacks' starting outfield in 2008 looks complete with LF Eric Byrnes, CF Chris Young and RF Justin Upton. 3B Chad Tracy underwent microfracture surgery on his right knee and may not be ready for the start of spring training, and with Mark Reynolds having established him at third following a surprise call-up straight from Class AA, Tracy could be wiggling a bit this winter.
LHP Randy Johnson (back surgery in August 2007) had the same herniated disk repaired for the second time in a year. Although he is expected to be ready when the team reports to spring training, the 44-year-old's health will always be a question.
2B Orlando Hudson (left thumb surgery in September 2007) will be completely recovered by the time the team reports to camp in February.
3B Chad Tracy (microfracture surgery on right knee in September 2007) will be unable to work out for much of the winter, which figures to hamper his readiness for next spring.
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- Jenna Lou
- Having been slightly spoiled growing up with access to digital cameras all the time, Jenna Lou has grown as an artist using photography and bringing her images to the next level with her keen eye for color, light and composition. Before her art career lead her to college, Jenna used a makeshift traveling studio that consisted of bed sheets, desk lamps, and anything she could use around the house to create a studio environment wherever she went. Now, she attends Montserrat College of Art where she will be graduating in May 2011 with her BFA. Having balance and control is important in her process when it comes to working with various subjects. Working with models is something Jenna has been doing since she first picked up a camera. With her attentiveness to the unique aspects of a model's personality, along with adding her own spice to a shoot, she creates works that evoke intense emotion and narrative qualities because of the connection she has with her subject.
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