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Whilst Evan faces a deathly trial to advance further in his training, Brooke embarks on her very first mission, which sees her embroiled in a war between the vampires and werewolves of London. If the werewolves and shifters baying for her blood wasn't enough, Brooke also has to face a starkly changed Arantay.
Meanwhile the Dark-Venator forces are rising, whilst Evan and his friends contend with the mysterious disappearances of several Venators. Could they have been kidnapped? Evan also faces backlash from many of his fellow trainees, who hate or fear him. Evan thinks their reactions are bad now, but it would be nothing if they discovered his secret. His peers may even try to kill him if they learned the truth.
Evan knows he has to pass his trial to gain his first mission as a Venator, but he may never make it that far if his hidden powers aren't controlled. Across the realms, a terribly malignant force has learned of Evan and Brooke, and plans to strike.
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William Collins delivers an action packed novel in Moonlight War - Act 1, the sequel to A Darker Shade of Sorcery. The attack on Veneseron has just ended and the chaos is over, but the war has just begun. This book picks up exactly where the first left off, allowing readers to refresh their minds and re-align themselves with the characters.
Brooke and Evan are still the main characters, but more of the supporting cast is included and even focused on in this sequel. After Brooke and Evan learned they were half-demon, they were sent back to their studies, filled with worry, guilt, and fear. Readers can understand, and witness, that Evan and Brooke are terrified they'll hurt someone and that their friends will turn against them if they know the truth. The backlash carries throughout Veneseron, as fellow students blame Evan for the attack.
Whereas the first book was focused on introducing the world of Veneseron and the training for demon hunting, this book is nearly all action. From trials to first mission, missing venators and dark-realmers, Moonlight War - Act 1 sets up many combustible situations.
Readers will build on their relationship with Evan as he attempts to become a Mid-Realmer and handle the dirty looks and mean spirited whispers of his fellow students. The fears of rejection and uncontrollable powers that Evan has is understandable and readers will undoubtedly support him. Readers watched as Evan found his place in this new world and they'll push for him to keep it.
The relationship readers have with Brooke will also flourish, as she prepares for her first mission as a Mid-Realmer. Just before the assignment comes in, Brooke and Arantay share a moment of raw emotion. Brooke's feelings of rejection cloud her sunny disposition. It doesn't get easier as her mission partner is revealed as Arantay. They're assigned to locate an insane werewolf and try to heal him before he kills anyone else. If they can't succeed, then they'll be forced to kill him, an act that will surely ignite a war between the wolves and the Venators.
On top of the action with Brooke and Evan, there are Venators disappearing and more demon-spawn being discovered. There's also another dread lord/disciple trying to locate Evan and Brooke, which brings a certain evil someone from Brooke's past into the present. The one downside of this book is it's the first act. It creates and shares a lot of problem situations, but it doesn't solve any of them. It's a book that promises entertaining and exciting conclusions with an often disliked phrase, 'To Be Continued.'
Rating: 3/5 Cups
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The Bishop Gorman High defense was struggling.
Arbor View received the ball first Friday in the Sunset Regional semifinals, easily picking up three first downs with its misdirection rushing attack out of the double-wing formation.
Gorman, which has recorded eight shutouts and only surrendered 12 points to local opponents, couldn't have asked for a better fate.
The host Gaels eventually figured out how to stop the double-wing in recording another lopsided victory, receiving five touchdown passes from sophomore quarterback Anu Solomon in a 49-14 win to advance to next Saturday's Sunset championship game.
They'll play nearby rival Palo Verde in the finals for the third time in four years. The game is arguably the most anticipated contest of the season in Las Vegas.
Thanks to its early struggles against Arbor View, Gorman has a leg up its in preparations for the showdown. Palo Verde also operates out of the double-wing, giving the Gaels valuable experience.
"It took us some time to settle in, but all in all, the defense did a good job," Gorman coach Tony Sanchez said.
Gorman didn't hit its stride until the middle of the second quarter, surviving several uncharacteristic mistakes — such as star running back Shaquille Powell fumbling three times — in advancing to the Sunset finals for the fourth straight year.
Only leading 7-0 late in the first half, Gorman put the game out of reach with a pair of touchdowns in the final two minutes of the half. Solomon connected with tight end Trey Perry for a 29-yard scoring strike with 1:53 remaining in the half for a two-touchdown lead.
After a three-and-out and a long punt return from sophomore Ryan Smith, Solomon and Smith connected for a 13-yard scoring strike for a 21-0 halftime lead.
"They are a good team. They have good players. They were 10-1 for a reason," Sanchez said.
Solomon and Smith weren't finished.
On the first play of the second half, the duo hooked up for an 80-yard touchdown, as Smith found an opening in the Arbor View secondary and Solomon threw a perfect strike for a score.
"We saw something (with their coverage) on film during the week and knew that play would work," Smith said.
Jamir Tillman and Jalen Grimble added scoring receptions to cap another solid performance for Solomon. He's passed for more than 2,000 yards with 36 touchdowns and only three interceptions.
Solomon, who is one of 10 players in contention for National Sophomore of the Year, credited his teammates for making plays
"I'm proud of the hard work everyone is putting in," he said. "The defense is our best offense when they get a three-and-out. And the wide receivers and my offensive line are definitely playing with more confidence."
Jordan Welte, who had two touchdowns for Gorman, started the scoring with a 3-yard run in the first quarter.
Arbor View's 14 points was two more than the Gaels had surrendered to nine local opponents combined. Coach Dan Barnson told his players they had nothing to hang their heads about.
Arbor View made the playoffs for the first time in school history, beating Durango last week for the program's first playoff win.
Henry Hoffend and Donnie Gaskin each had touchdowns for the Aggies, which finished 10-2 overall and will return several of its top performers next fall. They only started three seniors.
"We are only going one way, and that is up," Barnson said.
Arbor View's other loss was against Palo Verde, which is the state's lone undefeated large-school classification team.
The game between Gorman and Palo Verde typically attracts a standing room-only crowd. The schools are located seven miles apart in Summerlin and have a rivalry in every sport.
Two days after Thanksgiving, it will be the only game in town. It's the type of contest players wait their entire careers to play in.
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ERE faculty, in collaboration with ERE student-club leaders, coordinated an orientation retreat for freshman at ESF property in the Adirondacks, along Rich Lake near Newcomb, NY. The students spent the weekend in October engaging in a variety of activities, including bonfire games, a hike up Goodnow Mountain, canoe voyages across Rich Lake, visits to the Adirondack Ecological Center, and homework sessions on the beach. Faculty and instructors in attendance included Chuck Kroll, Chris Somerlot, Lindi Quackenbush, and Ted Endreny. Students who represented the ERE Club and coordinated many of the activities were led by Maria Scicchitano and Ben Taylor, Emma Averse, Amanda Chudow, Ariel Roy, Haley Canham, and Nidhi Baid.
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Written by the author of the bestselling Welsh learners' novel Coed y Brenin, this book should help you expand and improve your Welsh, while being both interesting and entertaining.
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As a candidate for the NRA Board of Directors, I feel strongly that the Directors should always remember they represent the individuals who elected them and are ultimately accountable to them. To ensure that it is never forgotten, I have drafted a series of proposed bylaw amendments which would impose term limits and mandatory attendance to the Board's Regular Meetings. I've additionally drafted proposed change which would create an Honorary Board for members who bring value to the Board as a whole, but are unable to contribute as much time as the position demands.
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The proposed amendment would create an Honorary Board which would be composed of individuals who wield significant public influence, harbor business or political acumen, have significant personal achievements in preserving the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and/or have made significant financial contributions to the Association to help guide the Board of Directors by sharing their knowledge and wisdom in Board deliberations and public outreach.
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Welcome to another edition of Destructoid's Friday Night Fights!
Like many others, I walked away from Sony's PlayStation 4 reveal event impressed, but not exactly ready to drop any money on the thing. I mean, everything I saw looked great, but I haven't been convinced that I "need" to make the plunge at launch. That said, the new Killzone: Shadow Fall gameplay demonstration made me way more excited than I thought it would. I mean, just look at those colors! I'm particularly excited to see what they end up doing with the multiplayer side of things, as that's always been a strength of the Killzone series.
What about you? Which game from the conference are you looking forward to the most? In the meantime, why not hop into this week's match of the week, hosted by Epic-Kx? He's playing Killzone 3 starting at 6 PM Pacific!
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Friday, 24 March 2017
Facial Asymmetry - Mayor of London
A game we used to play when bored was to 'split' on Photoshop the full face photographs of convicts in US jails (many American states publish mugshots of their jailbirds on the web) to find the greatest degree of asymmetry. Convicts gave good results because they generally have the most asymmetric faces - balanced, sober, law abiding college football players tend to have very symmetrical faces.
Watching London's Mayor yesterday I was struck by the thought that he would also give a good result. Of course there's absolutely no suggestion whatever that Mr Khan is criminally inclined, but the two composites perhaps suggest that there is more than one side to the Mayor.
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Is it just me or does the picture on the right show Mr Bean?
- 24 March 2017 at 10:00
- barnacle bill said...
I listened to Emir Khan's weazel response on R4 yesterday morning to the Westminster attack. He was nearly tying himself in knots not to bring the "I" word into it. Eventually it did come out but by that time he was on full blown auto-pilot. So it got skated over very quickly.
- 24 March 2017 at 10:48
If practiced long enough formalized lying (taqiyya) can permanently affect facial expression. Muhammadans like Khan are allowed to lie to unbelievers in order to defeat them. There are several forms:
Taqiyya - Saying something that isn't true as it relates to the Muslim identity.
Also favoured by the BBC this next one is used extensively in infidel homelands:
Kitman - Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills "it shall be as if he had killed all mankind") while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of "corruption" and "mischief."
Tawriya - Intentionally creating a false impression.
Muruna - 'Blending in' by setting aside some practices of Islam or Sharia in order to advance others.
Though not called taqiyya by name, Muhammad clearly used deception when he signed a 10-year treaty with the Meccans that allowed him access to their city while he secretly prepared his own forces for a takeover. The unsuspecting residents were conquered in easy fashion after he broke the treaty two years later. Some of the people in the city who had trusted him at his word were executed.
Another example of lying is when Muhammad used deception to trick his personal enemies into letting down their guard and exposing themselves to slaughter by pretending to seek peace. This happened in the case of Ka'b bin al-Ashraf and again later against Usayr ibn Zarim, a surviving leader of the Banu Nadir tribe, which had been evicted from their home in Medina by the Muslims.
At the time, Usayr ibn Zarim was attempting to gather an armed force against the Muhammadans from among a tribe allied with the Quraish (against which Muhammad had already declared war). Muhammad's "emissaries" went to ibn Zarim and persuaded him to leave his safe haven on the pretext of meeting with the prophet of Islam in Medina to discuss peace. Once vulnerable, the leader and his thirty companions were massacred by the Muhammadans with ease, probably because they were unarmed - having been given a guarantee of safe passage (Ibn Ishaq 981).
Islam's greatest scholar, Sahih Bukhari (49:857):
"He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar."
So lying is permitted when the end justifies the means and for those who notice these things it is the same ruse used by socialists to achieve their aims.
- 24 March 2017 at 14:44
- Nick Drew said...
- 24 March 2017 at 15:28
- DeeDee99 said...
Can't help thinking that if you applied this to every member of Parliament (yes I know Khan is no longer an MP) you'd find that most of them have asymmetric faces.
- 25 March 2017 at 07:06
- Nick Drew said...
Carswell's quite extreme
if you see what I mean
- 25 March 2017 at 13:02
- formertory said...
Looking at the right-most (can I say that, of Khan?) of your three images, I wondered if the immigration problem wasn't a little wider than we'd supposed.
A phrenologist might conclude that there seems to be a Venusian bloodline in there somewhere.....
The Mekon
Where's Dan Dare when you need him?
- 26 March 2017 at 09:58
Try David Miliband? I would think his brother Ed would be a more interesting.
- 26 March 2017 at 14:53


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Survivor Man Lets His Faith Help Him Through a Shark Attack
Well, it is Shark Week. So, here is the perfect story for this amazing week. Erik Norrie is a real life survivor man. He is adding his recent shark attack to the long list of life threats his faith has led him to over come. You will not believe what this guy has lived through!
Let me introduce you all to Mr. Erik Norrie, the man that can survive anything with the help of his faith, it seems.
Norrie recently landed himself in the hospital after a shark took a chunk of his leg in an attack. Though, he looks as though he will be able to completely recover, this was a very dangerous and scary experience for he and his family. How did they get through this horrible attack?
Their faith guided them and as Norrie stated, "God helped me keep a cool head."
They have been needing a lot of God's help as it seems Mr. Norrie can't seem to stay out of trouble.
This man has survived more than just this shark attack. The leg left untasted by the shark was once bitten by a rattle snake. He has been struck by lightening. He has been punched in the face by a monkey, TWICE.
Norrie needs his faith to get through these crazy experiences, but it sounds like he might need to give himself and God a rest for a while.
Want to know a bit more about this survivor man? Watch his news interview right here.


text: Recipe for success - DSV USA If the transport and logistics industry had an Oscar award, the nominees would surely include DSV Air & Sea, USA. The 48 American sales managers sell the goods better than anywhere else. We try to understand why... 05.05.17 President, DSV Air & Sea US, Niels Larsen's recipe for success: Go face to face with your customers as often as possible When the figures are added up each quarter, the results in the US evoke the biggest smiles among our shareholders. For good reason, too, because the 36 offices (as well as 4 in Canada) are among the very best in terms of DSV earnings, and they increase their financial performance almost every single quarter. This is how it has been for the past many years under changing "presidents" all of whom cultivate the same culture and recipe for progress: complete transparency for each individual's performance data and meeting as frequently as possible with new and existing customers. The 48 sales managers are monitored in terms of their performance data, which includes the following: •financial status on new and existing customers; •number of sales meetings and customer visits; •number of new accounts in the pipeline. Getting a competitive edge All sales managers and branch managers have complete access to performance data for all colleagues throughout the US, so they can keep track of exactly how they are doing in the nationwide ranking. "Sharing this in-your-face data is indeed one of the reasons why I believe our sales force is doing such a good job. It keeps them on their toes," Niels Larsen says. Niels has been president of DSV Air & Sea in the US and Canada since 2014. At the same time, he emphasises freight forwarders' efforts to pass on good sales tips to sales agents as a way of generating more business from each customer. Also, many freight forwarders attend sales visits where they also get to see the customer in person and this helps increase customer loyalty to DSV. "Granted, we can always do better, but based on the criteria we have set for our sales managers in DSV US/Canada, we're at a level where very few sales managers do not achieve their goals," says Niels Larsen, who opened DSV's Los Angeles office in 1985. Decentralisation – as long as it makes sense Then as now, the corporate culture was decidedly decentralised, and it was and still is the branch manager who is responsible for the sales managers working at the office. There is no national sales manager, as is often the case in other DSV countries, and this model has worked well in the US where the 48 sales managers generated a "very satisfactory" financial performance from new and existing customers alike in 2016. "This model has worked perfectly for us," Niels says. Even so, over the past year, he took the initiative to centralise parts of the organisation to enable the US organisation to be more flexible in serving global customers together with the rest of the network: "We're ardent supporters of decentralised management, but naturally we have to adapt to the rest of the organisation so we can better exploit our global power and target our efforts," he says. Everyone has to get out and visit customers A branch manager in the US does not just sit back and make sure his/her sales manager is doing a good job. In the US and Canada, it is equally important for other managers to meet customers face to face, and, according to Niels Larsen, it is actually this involvement at all levels that makes the difference. "Many of our key accounts were landed through the efforts and often direct involvement of our branch managers, just like I like to be in front of as many customers as possible," says Niels Larsen. He estimates that he spends roughly half his time (as President of Air & Sea USA) on direct sales and customer visits."I love selling, and although we've had our share of challenges in the US over the past year, while implementing a massive integration, by and large, I have only met satisfied customers," he says. Running a flexible operation In order for branch managers and other managerial layers to maximise the time spent on sales and customer visits, day-to-day operations must run as smoothly as possible. Integration was the order of the day in 2016, but even so, US branch managers and sales managers managed to carry out no less than 15,000 sales visits with new and existing customers alike. "They deserve great appreciation and recognition for their efforts and for giving sales such a high priority," Niels says, singling out five of the most successful sales managers who are jointly responsible for generating about one-quarter of the turnover: "They did a fantastic job," he says. Bigger global customers The future for sales managers in DSV includes bigger global customers who have different demands to the typical small or medium-sized customers, which have mostly made up DSV's customer base till now. "We don't just contact one person now. We meet quarterly with the entire logistics department at the companies to review our services, discussing data quality, future strategies, new markets, IT interfaces and much more. It's a new world - one that is very different from the old one - and it is very exciting," Niels says. He encourages everyone to not forget the small and medium-sized customers after all, because they are still "crucial" for DSV – all over the world. "Sales managers must keep focusing on small and medium-sized customers, but they must also be familiar with the skills required for serving global customers. You have to know what DSV stands for, know our tools and our overseas colleagues. And don't forget that more than ever, we need to cooperate closely with colleagues in operations, so we can deliver the quality expected of us and promised to our customers," he says. Can make quick decisions And to the branch manager and managers above that (himself included): "Work hard at operational excellence to allow yourself time to continue maximising your face-to-face contact with your customers. From a management point of view, face-to-face contact with a customer has become a huge and important skill for DSV and something we must continue to thrive on, as it is something the competition is greatly lacking," Niels says, adding: "More and more customers like the fact that, when dealing with DSV, we can make fast decisions, we know our products and we are quick to react when things need to change. We cannot lose that edge, cannot!" he says. Niels Larsen encourages his DSV colleagues to become thoroughly familiar with the products, including the IT solutions, and stay open to all the opportunities that are emerging. And not get wrapped up in internal discussion about "this and that". "We need to see ourselves as a customer-driven company, and we need to take ownership of the tasks ahead of us. If we can manage all this, I do believe we have a bright future ahead of us," he says.


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NaNoWriMo 29
Today was a significant day. Firstly it was the last day of my family thanksgivings for the year. Secondly I came home and wrote the final chapter to the novel. The other night when I wrote the last bit to get over the finish line, I simply was not in the right frame of mind to write the closing chapter. Today however after spending the day with family, I decided it was as good a time as any to write the "happy ending". The novel has come to a conclusion, but the story is far from over.
If you are feeling like you want to catch up, here is the story that has gone before. I have edited nothing.
- Shadowed Stone
- Little Giant Girl
- Birthday Wishes
- The Gifts
- The Incursion
- The Watch
- Rough Landing
- Dragon Bone
- People of the Storm
- The Lady
- Cambridge Beneath
- Prisoner of War
- Woodbinding
- Parting the Veil
- People of the Earth
- The Pack
- Brittagus Escape
- The Lightskimmer
- The Nightlords
- Hagengarde
- Homecoming
- Reckoning
- Best Laid Plans
- The Siege
- Serendipity
- Betrayed
- Rising Light
- The Puppeteer
29 – New Beginnings
Bethilda stepped through the threshold of the waygate station deep below the streets of avalon. Stepping out into the platform she joined Pico and Berrol who were saying goodbye to Bemel. In the weeks after her rescue she had watched as Bemel took a shining to the young boy, much the same as Pico had apparently done not long beforehand. The boy was very special, and in him rested the hopes of better times. Bethilda had reached out to her connections in Brittagus but the news was not good at all. It seems as though shortly after her escape from the island city, Astanax was publicly beheaded as a warning to any other dissenters. With him died the access to the hidden waygate, as well as the hopes of the Order of Merlin.
Pico had confessed that she was the creator of the weapons that the humans used to attack the members of the Elfen court. There were a few shouts and harsh words back and forth, but they had all come to a point of understanding. Things were changing in the shadowlands and Bethilda felt that new and greater threats were on the rise from the forces of winter. As a result she had proposed the founding of the Summer Alliance, and with Pico representing humanity they worked through the details of a treaty. The Ward Watch, now would protect not only humanity but the forces of good in the shadowlands.
After the events leading to Pico's rapid exit, no one was really certain where Brittagus stood on these matters. They remained as isolated and xenophobic as ever, and in the past weeks managed to close the borders to even the Valkore traders who freely entered and exited the ports before. Battle lines were being drawn, but Bethilda was not concerned. The combined forces of the Elfen, Valkore, Wildfae and Sasquatch came back from the fields of battle victorious. With the addition of the humans, she knew they were as strong as any standing alliance had ever been in the nightlands.
As Bethilda stepped forward towards the trio they turned to face her, stopping their conversation. "No need to stop on my accord." She said with a smile on her face. "It is nothing, Bemel was just saying goodbye" Pico said reaching down and ruffling Berrol's hair. "I do hate to see you leaving, I feel there is much we can learn from each other." Bethilda responded reaching out her hand to the shorter human. "Commander Farragut will be wanting a debriefing, and I am sure he will scold me for entering into this agreement without his consent. I am sure after he has heard all the details, and especially after you provided me my sample of dragon bone…" she said while lifting up the metal case at her side ".. I am sure he will come to see it my way as well."
"You are welcome in Avalon at any time, and I look forward to reading your reports." Bethilda knelt down "You too are welcome anytime you wish to come back Berrol." The little boy ran over and gave her a hug turning around to look at Pico "We can come back to visit Aunt Beth can't we Pico?" Pico shook her head "I am sure we can, I will want to study their library for information about the original Order of Merlin and scour it for any information about the wards after all" she said winking at Bemel. Was it Bethilda's imagination or were the two of them flirting? Bemel was afterall a handsome man, but had never really shown interest in a particular woman. She thought to herself that it was probably good for him after recent events.
Pico took Berrol in hands, and Bemel walked over to the wall, placing his palm on a cyan stone embedded there. There was a purple mist that formed in the center of the chamber and within seconds it had condensed into a crack. From the edges of the crack poured a bright purple light before it finally opened into a oval shape, showing the corresponding chamber in the other world. Standing there was a man who Bethilda assumed was Commander Farragut. Pico said her final goodbyes and together she stepped with Berrol through the opening. The fissure sparkled and then she was standing on the other side conversing with the man. Bemel removed his hand and the way began to close eventually sputtering out in a puff of purple mist.
"I never took you for the ambassador Bemel" she said as she winked at him. Bemel blushed brightly for a moment and then simply responded "I have no idea what you are talking about, I was just showing Pico around our fair city." Beth nodded as she grabbed his arm and proceeded down the corridor, and back into the main palace complex. The walked through a long shaft with Elfen Pikemen posted in pairs every few feet. As they passed the pair would straighten up and bring their spear across their chest in a salute. Bethilda realized that it would be disrespectful for them to not do it, but she always found the pomp of being the Queen intolerable. She missed the times she would sneak away to visit Jace at the farm, but she realized that the danger it posed would no longer be allowed.
Similarly it was no longer safe for Jace to return to the world of the humans either. Now that it was known he was the prince, others would be trying to get to him as well… and that was something she simply could not allow. The events had brought more than a few harsh realities to bear. She was however thankful that Kayle had decided to stay with him here in Avalon. Over the weeks spent rescuing her, it seems as though their friendship had blossomed into something more. For as brutish and unrefined as Kale could be, the girl had a softness to her, especially when it came to Jace or Dimcy. As far as the firesprite was concerned they were not inseparable as Kale had a permanent resident of her shoulder.
As they walked together through the corridor she turned to look at Bemel. "I will not be joining you in the audience chamber, I am stopping off at the infirmary first." Bemel looked at Bethilda and nodded. "I assumed you might, do you want me to come with you?" He said grasping his sisters arm, giving it a gentle squeeze. "No I will be fine" Bemel shoot her a look of incredulity for a moment but Bethilda shook her head. "No really, I will be fine… I just need to see him." Bemel nodded again letting go of her arm. They passed through an archway, and to the left the path split, and Bethilda turned down it. Bemel continued on towards the audience chamber hoping she would find some peace.
Bethilda walked down a dim corridor, there were no guards along this one, and she was actually thankful for the quiet. It seemed as though almost everyone was doing better after the events at Fort Kraken, but there was one glaring exception. While she had been rushed out of the Fort in an attempt to protect her and her son, the Summer Alliance crawled over the keep leaving no stone unturned. Deep within the basement they found a chamber filled with a myriad of cruel instruments, all designed to torture both the body and the mind. It was within this chamber that they found him, half dead, slumping against the chains that bound him to the wall. The best healers the court had to offer tried their best to bring him back. Even the Sasquatch shaman healer Torklah failed to improve his condition.
Bethilda had ordered a room for him here in the infirmary, and she tried to make it as comfortable as she could. As she stood at the doorway to the chamber she looked at the once proud man now laying broken on the bed. She felt a tear sliding down her cheek as walked through through the doorway. She took a seat on the bed beside him as he lie there perfectly still other than the slow labored breaths. She took his hand in hers and squeezed it tight. "Benj my love, I am here… can you hear me?" she pleaded as she peered down into his glassy stare. She began to weep softly as she waited as always for a response, only to hear nothing but his ragged breaths.
She laid down across his chest, wrapping her arms around him. "Please come back to me…" she said softly. She had always regretted their decision, and never did more than now. She wanted to protect her son, and she felt the only way to do this was to disguise who he was. While she would work to repair the relationship between them, she could never buy back the days she lost with her beloved. "You just have to come back… I need you" she wept into his chest. She laid there like this for a good amount of time sobbing when she felt something she did not expect. She looked down to her side to see Benj's hand had moved up slightly to rest upon her, with his fingertips spread out grasping her.
She exclaimed "You are still in there aren't you!" She reached down grasping the hand and slowly his fingers grasped around hers. He was recovering slowly, she was certain of it. Benj had always been resilient, and he was trying desperately to come back to her. She looked up at his face and his eyes were closed with his mouth fixed in an expression of determination. "I will wait however long it takes" she said softly as his expression relaxed a bit and his hand fell loose at his side. She lay there listening to his heart beat with renewed strength. She would wait for eternity for him to be back at her side. They could be a real family this time, like she had always wanted them to be. Even if it meant war, she would do anything to protect them and keep him safe.


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OAKLAND, Calif. � Bob Melvin is bringing back a familiar face to guide the Athletics� pitchers.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Bob Melvin is bringing back a familiar face to
guide the Athletics' pitchers.
Pitching coach Curt Young is leaving the Boston Red Sox to
return to Oakland and work under Melvin, who received a three-year
deal in September to be the club's permanent manager.
The A's announced Friday that Young had signed a one-year deal
to rejoin the club that originally drafted him in the fourth round
in 1981.
Melvin won't have to worry one bit about Young getting up to
speed with the staff. The A's figured the timing was right to reach
out to Young with the uncertainty of Boston's field staff after
manager Terry Francona was let go last month.
"It's great for a number of reasons," Melvin said in a phone
interview Friday. "One, his history with the organization and he is
one of the more respected pitching coaches in the game. We knew it
would be difficult to get him but we thought it was a good time to
ask. We're thrilled to get him. His familiarity with the
organization and the pitchers was a comfort for me."
The 51-year-old Young, who pitched 10 of his 11 big league
seasons for the A's, left Oakland last year for a stint in Boston
after spending 23 years in the A's organization. He guided the 2010
group that had an AL-best 3.56 ERA and a league-leading 17 shutouts
while holding opponents to a .245 batting average.
During Young's tenure from 2004-2010, A's pitchers led the
American League with a 4.03 ERA and held opponents to an AL-low
.257 average while allowing the fewest home runs (1,062) in the
league. Young spent four years as a minor league coach in the
organization before becoming pitching coach.
Melvin and Young spent a short time as teammates during the 1992
season with Kansas City. They have golfed together, too.
"This move provides Bob with not only an experienced pitching
coach on his staff but also someone who has a lot of experience
specifically with the organization and with the pitchers on this
team," A's assistant general manager David Forst said. "On a
personal level, Curt has always been well-liked by everyone in
Oakland, and it'll be nice to have him back on our side this
Also Friday, the A's said they named Mike Henriques strength and
conditioning coach for 2012.


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4 days ago - no more drug, period. So this is a very typical profile of a person who has had NO other addictions to any drugs and does not have any chronic pain problems that requires continual usage of oxycodone. I have endured the typical withdrawal symptoms - shivers, sweating, anxiety, tingling, and depression - as reported by many others.
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It's generally not a good idea to quit any SSRI
, because the
symptoms can be really severe. I had a period of time last year when I was citalopram (Celexa) 20mg and my prescription ran out, and I was unable to get it refilled because of insurance issues. I had the lightheadedness, the dizzniess, the nausea, brain zaps, and the worst mood swings ever. It lasted for 10 days, and probably would have gone longer if I hadn't gotten a new prescription at that time.
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Hi Everyone, Welcome to Part 9.
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I have seen even the youngest healthiest people have seizures and stroke in the fist week of stopping xanax
just b/c they didn't know and doctors did not inform them, making the doctor liable for whatever happened to them.
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Hi, yes, withdrawal can be very brutal for some people, myself included, but I have read that some people do not have a rough time like most people. I went
once and another time I was put on Prozac. The prozac helped tremendously. It takes a couple of weeks to really get thru it. I am back on Effexor and citalopram combined and having success. I hate the withdrawl of Effexor but it is a wonderful medication for deep depression.
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Call your doctor immediately, explain why you had to stop and ask for one to be prescribed for you. He knows you're not to stop this medication
, and doctors have become very understanding with today's economy that a lot of us cannot afford the brand names. I take a generic and it's works great! A month's worth will cost between $8 and $10. Take care.
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I know that it is horrible for the baby so I really want to stop, but I am not sure whether it would be better to do it over a couple of weeks or go
? I personally have been of stable mental health for 7 months and, according to the doctor and my own personal feeling, am ready to cease taking it.
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Hi Sounds like your still having withdrawals from
because they actually cause anxiety and depression as a
symptom these are not nice tablets to come off. If I were you I'd go and ask to change to Prozac as these are much easier to get off than effexor I should know as ive gone cold turkey coming off effexor and boy have I suffered.
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I was recently on
20 mg and went a week on 10mg and then went
turkey and now i have so many side effects i just want it to go away! I am dizzy all the time my legs keep me awake at night and my emotions are off the scale right now! i cant afford the medication any more and have none and now i dont know what to do??? Can anyone help me????
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In reading your 'plight' it's answered my own - I didn't think about the way that I feel as being '
' - at least I know now. My quick
was via a consultant - maybe they don't always know best - and if they know the side-effects should at least tell us! So here's to you and me feeling better very quickly!
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My mother gave Rio a bicycle for her birthday. A purple bicycle covered with Disney Princess decals. Safe to say, this was her dream bike, long awaited. She spent many winter afternoons sitting on Nana's lap fantasizing about the bike that would magically appear to her when she turned five. So of course my mom made it happen. It's in her grandmother contract, I'm sure.
Since I sent "Santa" a letter last Christmas asking "him" to go easy on the beeping, blinking Stuff, we have received nothing battery operated for the kids. Instead, the bike came with a bright pink, princess-logo-sporting, made-in-china air horn. It might be the loudest thing either kid has ever owned. Conveniently, it was not attached to the bike, so the kids were able to bring it in the house and blare it at the breakfast table for a few days.
A word about my mother. When Rio entered the world, I laid down the law: give nothing to this child that you would not give to a child of the opposite sex/gender. Ah, that was the sweet, naive week when I imagined that child was mine, not a free agent in the world. My mom's response was to show up at my house the day we brought Rio home with about ten pounds of pink lace and an innocent look. "What?" she said, before I could mention the dresses. "I would have bought these for a boy!"
Of course you would, Mom. And you were surely powerless against the waiter who gave eight-month-old Rio her first Oreo cookie while I was in the bathroom. I love you. Never, ever start listening to me about my kids. You totally know better than I do.
I actually do love that my mom gives the girls Disney schwag, and jelly beans and access to cable TV. That's a huge part of the world they're growing in, and they get none of it at home. Somebody has to do it, and Nana is the perfect choice. (She also taught Rio how to slide down staircase bannisters, but that's another story…)
Most recently, she gave Rio this bike. The bike has a row of princess faces emblazoned on the handlebars. As she climbed onto the bike, Rio looked thoughtfully at the princesses, and pointed to Belle.
"Belle looks very princessy there, Mama," she said. "This must be after. You know, after those photos we saw yesterday."
Not sure what to make of that, except to say that I'm grateful to Ms. Dina Goldstein for inviting my daughter to think about the prettiness of her princesses.
So all the discussion of biking with kids has given me some exciting new options to consider. Right now, I have a two-seater Burley trailer that I use almost every day to haul my kids around, and a tag-along tandem attachement for Rio. I think these two things will get us through the summer. But then what? I doubt that Rio, at 6, will be able to bike independently for long rides, and Serena at 3 will probably not be *quite* ready for the trail-a-bike.
Some cool options I've encountered:
- The Xtracycle, which is an add-on kit to transform your regular bike into a cargo bike, or a "family van" with two kids' seats on the back. Very cool, cheap as these things go, and apparently available locally. The link above is to a blog written by a Cambridge couple who use one with their kids, and they give much more detail about it than I could. One clear advantage to this is that you get to keep riding your own bike, which you presumably like.
- Dutch Cargo Bicycles, which allow you to carry some large number of kids, grocery bags or circus animals in their amazing and sturdy construction. These things cost more than my car, but are apparently a dream to ride and very sturdy.
- MADSEN Cargo Bikes, might be my favorite of the batch. They put the cargo bucket behind the adult rider instead of in front the way the Dutch bikes do. They look like they can hold a fair amount of cargo, and provide a pleasant ride for the adults as well.
A couple of people mentioned that bikes built from the ground up to be cargo bikes might be safer and more durable than a standard bike that you adapt with a kit, because they were designed to hold the weight of three people. That might be true. On the other hand, I'm fairly small. My kids and I together weigh just a little more than my (very tall-n-skinny) spouse, and he rides a bike every day. I doubt the weight of me+kids or me+cargo is really going to strain the brakes or wheels on my bike to the breaking point.
Regular readers of this journal know that I bike with my kids. A lot. In traffic.
This is a more controversial subject than I would ever have imagined. I have spent a lot of the past 24 hours discussing it politely.
At the end of all that polite discussion, I took my five-year-old to pick up our farm share in the bike trailer.
As usual, we got heckled on our way to the Growing Center by some fool who felt the need to shout "That is SO dangerous" at us.
This time, that fool was a ten-year-old kid riding a skateboard down the middle of the street, going the wrong way on a one-way street, with no helmet or pads. Seriously.
I laughed so hard I might have fallen off my bike if I were a less skilled rider.
A friend just posted a link to a great site about bicycle safety. I can't recommend strongly enough giving this clear, simple page a read. Especially if, like me, you have a crazy habit of
putting your kids in harms way, er, riding your bike with your kids.
To my knowledge, there are two basic camps of bicycle safety: those that advocate treating your bicycle like any other vehicle on the road, and those who advocate theory of invisibility: assume the cars won't see you, and stay out of their way at all costs.
This page falls more into the former camp, which as a driver I endorse. My life is much better when cyclists behave like cars behave, and stay highly visible. It's a little scary to ride in traffic, and sometimes people get angry (especially if you are *gasp* riding with a child in tow), but I still think it's the safest course of action. I can't really speak about the invisibility option, because I have never tried it. It seems dangerous to me.
If you want more good info about safe, effective riding on city streets, I suggest The Art of Urban Cycling, by Robert Hurst. This book teaches a medley of vehicle-style cycling and using intuition to know when to break the rules. I read it when I was getting back on the road this past fall and found it extremely helpful.
Even more helpful than a book or a good website when you're starting out riding is a more experienced cycling buddy. See if you can find someone who's been doing it awhile to go for a few rides with you. There is no replacement for a live teacher.
(ps. the photo is of course not what it appears to be. my daughter is testing the size of her brand-new birthday bike in her grandmother's driveway. she is not actually even riding, let alone riding on a busy street in traffic with no helmet.)
Dear Concerned Citizens,
Please do not shout insults or parenting advice at me as I am biking past your car on a city street with my kids in tow. Your fear for my children's safety is truly touching. However, if you pause for a moment, you may realize that taking your own attention away from the vehicle you are driving to startle, alarm and anger the rider of the bicycle does not make my kids safer.
In fact, were you to cause an accident with this behavior, you can be fairly sure I would not be blaming myself for the harm that befell my babies. I would blame you, and your self-righteous idiocy.
Perhaps next time, instead of screaming, "You're going to die!" or "That is so dangerous!!!" out your car window, you might want to focus on taking special care that you'd don't became the agent of our apparently inevitable destruction.
A very good way to do this is to get on a bike yourself. If more people tried that, my kids and I would be a lot safer on the roads.
Your friendly neighborhood cyclist
Weather warm enough to ride,
brings Rio and I flying
on our shiny-not-shiny-now-its-muddy
three-wheeled bicycle-train
The sun is bright and she's singing
A lot of people, people who don't know us,
Stare like something unusual is happening
Like my whole life is not accompanied by her
Wild voice lifted up in song
"Little birds, come out of the trees
Come out to the air
Don't say a word
Little birds"
This is her song today
Her creation and she's belting it out
At the top of her lungs
Oblivious to stares
"Little birds, come out of the trees
Come out to the air
Don't say a word
Little birds, did you know my toe hurts?"
And then in a spoken aside, voice low
conspiratorial, even,
"Mama, did you know that is actually true?
My toe does hurt."
"Little birds, come out of the trees
Come out to the air
Don't say a word
Little birds"
Lilting, laughing, almost tipping
Our bike wobbles through slushy side roads
Home, the song falls to speech,
Poetry gives way to prose.
"Mama, do you know what I am doing?
I am waking all the springtime animals up.
I am telling them, don't be afraid
Come back!
Spring is almost here!"
"That's nice," I say, distracted
by the buckles on our helmets, the lock on the bike
"My song is floating away in little bubbles!
It's going to other countries!"
"Little birds, come out of the trees
Come out to the air
Don't say a word
Little birds"
Today came home from work around 5. We hung out for twenty minutes, and as we started planning dinner, I realized I'd forgotten to pick up our farm share. So I threw the baby in the trailer and biked over to Fresh Pond to get it. We made it there just in time, and got our last farm share box and a loaf of fresh bread.
Then I biked over to Sandro's house, stole his toothpaste and petted his dog, and rode home by way of The Dairy Bar and yet more fresh bread. By the time I got home, I had a week's worth of fresh food in the back of my bike trailer.
Rio, meanwhile, had spent the time alone with her dad making "math cards" out of brightly colored felt, helping him cook dinner, and learning to wash the dishes.
Can I say how much better this is than dragging two tired, hungry children in my car, on the highway, to a HUGE grocery store of infinite fluorescent-lit doom and then home again to try to cook dinner alone before their dad gets back from work at 7:30? There are no words.


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|That is Mount Everest seen from my bedroom window.
|What can be more joyful than folding and sorting vintage sheets?
This week I added another year to my life. I think this year's birthday is one of the best ones I have ever had. The best one in years. The views of the mountains were sharp and clear, the sun rising in softest apricot.
I was incredibly celebrated on Facebook (which I really don't like to be honest but in hind sight this is where we are in today's technology cluttered society and can't help but smiling from ear to ear reading all the sweet messages from near and far on my Facebook page. So, that is great!) and the kids had wrapped my gifts so nicely and written cute messages like "The best Mama ever!" "Love you forever and ever!" and so on. They woke me up with Happy Birthday in a choir and lovely Jay had purchased the best of gifts. Spot on my love! Not too much - just perfect!
Later I went to CrossFit and declared my whopping 45th birthday which resulted in collective burpee making as the tradition in our gym enquire this. Dare to hate burpees! It is one of the most exhausting exercises, a push up - jump up and clap your hands above your head before going down to do the next push up... You get it. I didn't turn 22... No, we did 45 burpees and it felt very special that all these gym mates did this to honer me. With pain, sweat and tears they went through this dreadful exercise with smiles on there faces.
After the workout I was asked to come a long for coffee at the cafe next door and not less than 5 people showed up to chat and cheer in a well deserved coffee. We sat there in our training outfits and exchanged conversations, getting to know each other a bit more and I suddenly felt a feeling of belonging. I have missed that.
Since moving abroad 14 years ago I have lost that sense of belonging in a group of friends. You make new friends of course, but it is on a different level. This get together at the coffee reminded me of those get together's I used to have with my dear friends a long time ago, simple and spontaneous. Just chatting about this and that before moving on with our days. It was really, really nice.
The rest of the day I spent folding and sorting fabric in my studio. I will make some vintage sheet packs and add to my ETSY shop so give me a shout if you have any special wishes. I listening to my favorite tunes while organizing and tidying my crafty space. Because I can't ignore that anymore. It needs to get in order. And it needs some order now. (You can see my progress on Instagram @myrosevalley)
I couldn't have had a better day. I'm over the moon and I am a very very happy and lucky 45 year old woman having such great friends and family.


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Featured November Author Dixie Lynn Dwyer is a busy, busy woman. Yet somehow, someway, we got this creative literary genius (seriously, I'd personally buy her grocery list, written on toilet paper, if she was so inclined to publish it) to sit down and answer some pretty personal questions with as much flair and sass as we've come to expect from her books. So sit back and swallow whatever is in your mouth (naughty, naughty, that's NOT what I meant but hey, whatever your pleasure) and get to know Dixie….Dixie Style!
1. Boxers, Briefs, OR Bare?Dixie: BARE!!!
2. Manscaping…leave the hair there because you needed to floss anyways OR clean-it-up, just don't use my razor?
Dixie: Clean it up, and I don't care whose razor you use.
3. Best End To A Date….get down and dirty OR thank goodness, I'm ready for my sweats and socks.
Dixie: Get down and dirty, come on and make me sweat.
4. Out With Your Bestie…..She started it OR you were totally the ringleader?
Dixie: I was totally the ring leader. I admit it!
5. OMG….My First Book Was Accepted!!!! Piss my pants with excitement OR just piss my pants because I aged 10 years waiting for that damn acceptance letter and my bladder ain't as young as it used to be.
Dixie: OMG my first book was accepted, why do I feel ready for wild sex?
6. In 10 years….eating cavier, escargot, and drinking champagne because you are a huge, NYT best-selling, movie-rights selling successful author OR if success means I gotta eat fish egss and snails I'd rather publish my grocery list and see if it sells.
Dixie: If my success means I have to eat fish eggs and snails then hell yeah, I'd rather publish my grocery list and see if it sells.
7. Real Life Menage….more meat for me, I will live on Red Bull and take my vitamins OR holy hell I can barely roll out of bed for coffee and you want me to wake up with what going where at the same time while not worrying about morning breath and how bad I gotta pee, and how am I supposed to say I think my laxative is finally working, hold that thought?
Dixie: More meat for me, I will live on Red Bull, Take my vitamins, put aside a couple of hours for the laxatives to kick in, and shows these two what a real woman is made of. Bring it on.
8. Bad Reviews….wow, I guess I should think about how my work makes other people feel and try to do better next time because every review is a learning experience making me wiser and more mature OR find their house and put a paper bag full of dog crap set on fire by their front door then ring the doorbell and watch them put out the flames with their bare feet.
Dixie: You can't please everyone, the bag full of shit sounds like it would get the point across, but instead I would take out any extra frustration with exercise, specifically in bed. That way all negative thoughts are erased due to mind blowing sex,and my last thoughts will be to lay on my belly with my ass in the air for that negative reviewer to kiss it. (Grins the satisfied woman) What else really matters??? (Ummm, NLNB would like to remind her that if she ALSO does the dog crap trick and gets caught by her man, she could probably get a really great spanking for pulling that stunt…so the dog crap could really be a two-for-one deal)
9. Facebook Generation….freaking genius and awesome and the best way to promote my work OR seriously, you had to tell me what color your poop was and what you ate to make it look like that?
Dixie: Freaking genius, awesome and the best way to promote my work and meet loyal reading fans who support hard working authors.
10. Answering Stupid Questions at the mercy of a ruthless blogger….I love questions and she's an angel OR damn it woman, do you WANT me to finish my WIP or not since you are like nagging me constantly on Twitter, Facebook, and your Blog for updates and when will it be out and oh, can I have an excerpt, and promo, and an ARC?
Dixie: I love her questions, she's half angel, half devil, and if you fuck with her you fuck with me. Don't mess with this woman. It's like waking a sleeping lion! That's how we roll! Hugs Doll!!! (*BIG SIGH* She TOTALLY just melted my naughty little heart)
Learn more about Dixie, read excerpts, find buy links to her devilishly-dirty and absolutely decadent books and buy some Dixie Style Swag Here:
Website: www.Dixielynndwyer.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/dixielynn.dwyer
Siren Book Strand: http://www.bookstrand.com/dixie-lynn-dwyer
AND….Up Next From Dixie…Releasing Friday (so come back because we are totally giving away a copy)Blurb:
Tia Rose Richman embraces the new woman she's become after finally sticking up for herself in front of her coworkers. Giving in to her newfound sexuality and confidence while in Paris, she spends the weekend in the arms of a man she just met. When she returns to his hotel room, by request, she decides to put her new confidence to use, and climbs into bed with him. But the man is not Hudson Ross. It's his twin brother, and she just allowed him to have his way with her most intimate parts.
She embraces the weekend in the arms of two brothers who make her feel beautiful despite her own negativity. Her last boyfriend complained about her weight and her insecurities. So when she returns to New York, why can't she get Jagger and Hudson Ross out of her head? Can she survive the threat in the shadows and the persistence of two men who always get what they want?
Siren: http://www.bookstrand.com/journey-to-fortune