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U.S. Budget Vote, Fed, Tankan, BlackBerry: Week Ahead Dec. 14-21James Amott, Greg Miles and Jim McDonald
The U.S. Senate will vote in the coming week on a bipartisan committee's $1.01 trillion budget agreement following its approval by the House. The proposal doesn't touch Democrat-favored entitlement programs or corporate-tax breaks that Republicans want to protect.
The Federal Open Market Committee will release its policy statement.
The Bank of Japan quarterly Tankan index will probably show a growing economy and weaker yen improved business sentiment.
A third round of trade talks between the U.S. and European Union will be held in Washington.
BlackBerry Ltd. will update analysts on its strategy and structure after reporting earnings.
The life of former South African President Nelson Mandela will be celebrated at his funeral in Qunu, the village where he spent part of his childhood.
-Kerry's Southeast Asia diplomacy. After meetings in the Middle East, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry visits leaders in Vietnam and the Philippines as part of a strategy to expand U.S. influence in Asia. Kerry's stops will include the Philippine city of Tacloban to review recovery efforts after Typhoon Haiyan. Through Dec. 18
-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hosts leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to commemorate 40 years of diplomatic relations. Japan is seeking to strengthen ties with countries in the region to counter China's growing military and economic muscle. 09:45 in Tokyo (12/13 19:45 EST).
-German Social Democratic Party Chairman Sigmar Gabriel announces results of a ballot of almost 500,000 party members on entering into a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic bloc. The SPD leadership has said it's confident of a "yes" vote, clearing the way to form a new government next week. After 16:00 in Berlin (10:00 EST).
-European Central Bank Executive Board member Benoit Coeure speaks during a finance workshop at the World Policy Conference along with former ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet and Marek Belka, president of the National Bank of Poland. 16:30 in Monaco (10:30 EST).
-The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party will end its three-day annual conference, with President Robert Mugabe due to speak at about 15:00 local time (08:00 EST).
-English soccer's Premier League schedule includes leader Arsenal playing away at 2012 champion Manchester City. 12:45 local time (07:45 EST).
-Australia and England resume play in day 2 of the third Ashes cricket Test in Perth. Australia leads the five-game series 2-0 and can regain the Ashes trophy with a victory in this match. Play starts at 10:30 local time (12/13 21:30 EST).
-Heisman Trophy. The winner of the trophy for U.S. college football's best player will be announced in New York City. Jameis Winston, quarterback at No. 1-ranked Florida State University, is the favorite to win among six finalists. Texas A&M University's Johnny Manziel won last year as a freshman and is a finalist this year. 20:00 EST.
-ECONOMY: China foreign direct investment (Nov.)
-The funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela takes place in Qunu, a village in Eastern Cape province. About 5,000 people are expected to attend the three-hour service, which begins at 09:00 local time (02:00 EST).
-NSA eavesdropping. Deadline for President Barack Obama's advisory panel on government eavesdropping to deliver its classified report to the White House, which may lead to an overhaul of U.S. surveillance programs and how they are regulated. Obama appointed the review board following leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In Washington. A declassified summary may be released at a time yet to be determined.
-European Central Bank Executive Board member Benoit Coeure speaks in Monaco. 09:30 CET (03:30 EST).
-German Chancellor Angela Merkel may announce her new cabinet. Time TBA.
-Chile holds presidential elections, its second round of voting. Former President Michelle Bachelet is the favorite after winning almost twice as many votes as her closest rival in November's first round. Bachelet has pledged to raise corporate taxes and spending, while maintaining fiscal stability, a promise that may prove hard to fulfill if copper prices fall further. Chile is the world's largest copper-mining country. Polls close at 18:00 (16:00 EST).
-Three Libyan oil ports may reopen. Their closure for more than four months curbed the OPEC country's crude exports and pushed international prices higher. The eastern ports, with about half the country's export capacity, have been disrupted by militia action and demands by former petroleum-facility guards for regional self rule and a share of oil output. Time TBA.
-Mali will hold a legislative runoff election after candidates in some districts failed to win an absolute majority in the Nov. 24 first round. The elections are the first for legislative positions since a 2012 coup. Time TBA.
-English soccer's Premier League schedule includes Tottenham Hotspur hosting Liverpool. 16.00 local time (11.00 EST).
-Day 3 of the third Ashes cricket Test between Australia and England at Perth. From 10:30 local time (12/14 21:30 EST).
-ECONOMY: Israel consumer price index (Nov.)
-U.S. budget vote. The Senate plans to vote this week on a bipartisan committee's budget agreement reached Dec. 10 that would set U.S. spending at about $1.01 trillion for this fiscal year, reduce the budget deficit by $23 billion, and ease automatic spending cuts by $63 billion over two years. The House passed the bill 332-94 on Dec. 12 after Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor voiced their support. Day and time to be determined. In Washington.
-U.S. industrial production probably rose in November as manufacturing bolstered the economy, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists. The Federal Reserve releases the data at 09:15 in Washington.
-U.S.-EU trade negotiations. The third round of talks with the 28-nation European Union will be held in Washington as both sides aim to harmonize rules on autos, chemicals and other products. Agriculture and Internet privacy may be the biggest areas of contention. Negotiators seek to complete a deal, covering an area with $32 trillion in annual output, by the end of 2014. Companies, unions and other groups with a stake in the outcome will brief negotiators and reporters on Dec. 18. Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Dan Mullaney and his EU counterpart, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, will hold a press conference on Dec. 20. Times to be determined.
-European Banking Authority to release data on bank capital levels and assets. The EU regulator, which isn't conducting stress tests this year, will disclose more than 2,500 data points on each financial institution on subjects including sovereign-debt holdings and risk-weighted asset calculation. 17:00 in London (12:00 EST)
-European Central Bank President Mario Draghi speaks to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Brussels 15:00 (09:00 EST)
-German coalition agreement due to be signed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, Social Democratic Party Chairman Sigmar Gabriel and Horst Seehofer of Bavaria's Christian Social Union. Ceremony at 13:15 in Berlin (07:15 EST).
-Swiss National Bank board member Fritz Zurbruegg gives speech in Zurich on "Asset management at the SNB: What makes the difference?" 18:00 CET (12:00 EST)
-The Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan index is forecast to show the growing economy and weaker yen improved sentiment across Japan's business community. Large manufacturers' sentiment will rise for a fourth quarter, and the index for small non-manufacturers will turn positive for the first time since 1992, according to a survey by Bloomberg News. 08:50 in Tokyo (12/15 18:50 EST)
-HSBC and Markit announce a preliminary reading of their China manufacturing purchasing managers' index for December. November's final reading was 50.8, indicating the nation's economic recovery is sustaining momentum amid government efforts to rein in credit growth. 09:45 in Beijing (12/15 20:45 EST).
-General Motors Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson speaks about the automaker's U.S. investment plans a week after the Treasury announced it fully divested its GM shares, ending the government's bailout. Mary Barra, head of product development, will succeed Akerson as CEO in January. 13:00, National Press Club, in Washington.
-Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq's deputy prime minister for energy affairs, and Youcef Yousfi, Algeria's energy minister, are among officials scheduled to attend the Japan-Arab Economic Forum. 09:00 in Tokyo (19:00 EST on Dec. 15) through Dec. 17
-EU crop development may have improved in November after planting was helped by good weather in October. 12:00 in London (07:00 EST)
-U.S. Supreme Court is in session for 2013-14 period. Click this line for weekly schedule.
-The draw for soccer's Champions League round of 16 takes place in Nyon, Switzerland. Clubs that have advanced from the group stage include defending champion Bayern Munich and record nine-time European champion Real Madrid. 12:00 local time (06:00 EST).
-Day 4 of the third Ashes cricket Test between Australia and England at Perth. From 10:30 local time (12/15 21:30 EST).
-ECONOMY: Empire manufacturing (Dec.), U.S. capital flows (Oct.), euro-area PMIs (December), euro-area trade balance (Oct.), U.K. Rightmove house prices (Dec.), Italy trade balance (Oct.), Spain house-price index (3Q), Turkey unemployment rate (Sept.)
-Australia is expected to forecast a wider budget deficit for the first six months and slower economic growth due to the sustained strength of the nation's currency. The Liberal-National coalition government has pledged to return the budget to surplus within a decade and this month struck a deal to remove the A$300 billion ($271 billion) debt ceiling. 12:30 in Sydney (12/16 20:30 EST).
-AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., the U.S. movie chain controlled by China's richest man, plans to raise as much as $368 million in an initial public offering. At the high end, AMC would have an enterprise value of $3.64 billion including debt. Dalian Wanda Group, China's largest entertainment company led by Wang Jianlin, acquired AMC last year for $2.6 billion, including debt. Dalian Wanda will retain an 80 percent stake. The stock is expected to start trading Dec. 18, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
-U.S. consumer prices probably increased 0.1 percent in November, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists, showing inflation remains tame. The Labor Department reports at 08:30 in Washington.
-Euro-area finance ministers will convene to discuss a single resolution mechanism for the currency bloc's banks. In Brussels, 19:30 (13:30 EST).
-U.S. Patent lawsuits. The Senate Judiciary Committee, lead by Democratic Chairman Patrick Leahy, holds a hearing on legislation to rein in patent lawsuits. Leahy's bill would have to be merged with a similar measure passed Dec. 5 by the House that would limit some patent lawsuits and possibly reduce the time companies spend fighting them in court. 10:00 in Washington.
-German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be formally elected and sworn in, along with the new cabinet. 09:00 CET (03:00 EST)
-Bank of England Governor Mark Carney testifies to the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords. 15:30 in London (10:30 EST).
-The Reserve Bank of Australia will release minutes of this month's policy meeting, at which it kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low of 2.5 percent. 11:30 in Sydney (12/16 19:30 EST).
-Day 5 of the third Ashes cricket Test between Australia and England at Perth. From 10:30 local time (12/16 21:30 EST).
-ECONOMY: Hong Kong unemployment (Nov.), euro-area inflation (Nov.), euro-area labor costs (3Q), euro-area car registrations (Nov.), German ZEW investor confidence (Dec.), U.K. inflation (Nov.), Spain labor costs (3Q), Nigeria consumer price inflation (Nov.)
-CENTRAL BANKS: Turkey rate decision, Sweden rate decision, Hungary rate decision
-EARNINGS: Jefferies Group LLC.
-The Federal Open Market Committee meets for a second day and releases its policy statement after U.S. payrolls rose more than projected in November, pushing down the unemployment rate to 7 percent from 7.3 percent. The central bank has pledged to continue buying bonds until the labor market has "improved substantially," and will probably begin tapering its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases, according to 34 percent of economists surveyed this month by Bloomberg, an increase from 17 percent last month. The FOMC releases its policy statement and forecasts for economic growth, inflation and unemployment at 14:00. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will give a press conference in Washington at 14:30.
-U.S. housing starts, the pace of ground-breaking on new homes, probably exceeded the average for 2013 in November as construction continued to contribute to economic growth. The Commerce Department will release numbers for November, and also for the months of October and September, which were delayed by the 16-day partial federal government shutdown. 08:30 in Washington.
-The Bank of England publishes the minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee's Dec. 4-5 meeting, when it left the benchmark interest rate at a record low of 0.5 percent and held its asset purchase plan at 375 billion ($612 billion). Governor Mark Carney reinforced his message in New York on Dec. 9, saying that while recent U.K. news has been positive, he won't tighten policy prematurely. London 09:30 (04:30 EST)
-European Union finance ministers hold an emergency meeting to strike an agreement on a planned single resolution mechanism for euro-area banks. Time TBA in Brussels.
-Ifo index: German business confidence rose to 109.3 in November, the highest level in more than 1 1/2 years, and the reading for December will give an indication as to whether Europe's largest economy will continue to drive growth in the euro area. The Bundesbank this month lifted its growth forecasts for this year and next. Munich 10:00 (04:00 EST)
-Japan's Ministry of Finance will report data on imports of oil and liquefied natural gas during November. 08:50 in Tokyo (18:50 EST on Dec. 17)
-China will announce November property prices after new home prices in October in its four major cities rose the most since January 2011, raising concerns of a bubble as buyers were emboldened by a lack of new nationwide property curbs. 09:30 in Beijing (12/17 20:30 EST).
-The Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics publishes forecasts for mining and energy export earnings and the outlook for global metals markets. 09:30 in Melbourne (17:30 EST on Dec. 17)
-ECONOMY: U.S. building permits (Nov.), Japan Trade Balance (Nov.), Euro-area construction output (Oct.), U.K. ILO unemployment (Aug.-Sept), Italy current-account balance (Oct.), Swiss Credit Suisse ZEW survey (Dec.), Israel current account balance (third quarter)
-CENTRAL BANKS: India rate decision
-EARNINGS: Oracle Corp., FedEx Corp., General Mills Inc.
-U.S. existing home sales, or sales of previously owned homes, probably declined for a third month in November, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists, as limited supply and higher mortgage rates affected the housing market. The National Association of Realtors reports at 10:00 in Washington.
-European Union leaders meet to discuss defense and economic policy. Agreement on a bank-failure plan for the euro area is a top priority for the summit "because we would like to see whole banking union before the European Parliament recess" ahead of elections in May, Maros Sefcovic, the EU's inter-institutional relations commissioner, said Nov. 19. 15:00 in Brussels (09:00 EST)
-ECONOMY: U.S. initial jobless claims (weekly), Philadelphia Fed survey (Dec.), U.S. leading indicators (Nov.), Brazil mid-month inflation (Dec.), Brazil unemployment rate (Nov.), Mexico retail sales (Oct.), Colombia GDP (third quarter), New Zealand GDP (3Q), Japan Industrial Activity (Oct.), Euro-area current account (Oct.), U.K. retail sales (Nov.), Swiss SECO 2013 economic forecasts (Dec.), Netherlands consumer confidence (Dec.), Netherlands unemployment (Nov.), Swiss trade balance (Nov.), Greek unemployment (third quarter)
-EARNINGS: Nike Inc.
-BlackBerry Ltd. earnings. The smartphone maker will probably report a fiscal third-quarter loss as sales plunged. John Chen, executive chairman and chief executive officer since November, will provide an update on BlackBerry's strategy and organizational structure after the company's marketing and operations chiefs left last month. About 7:00 EST in Waterloo, Ontario, followed by conference call at 08:00 EST.
-Default risk at Eike Batista's OSX. Shipbuilder OSX Brasil SA has said it plans to miss the payment due today on $500 million of secured bonds. Unless creditors agree to a standstill, the shipbuilder may follow sister company OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes SA into default, prompting bondholders to take steps to assume control of an OSX-owned $1.1 billion offshore oil-production ship. The default would be the latest setback for Batista, whose wealth has plummeted after peaking at more than $34 billion last year.
-EU leaders begin the second day of a summit at 09:30 in Brussels (03:30 EST)
-Madagascar holds presidential runoff election. Jean Louis Robinson will compete in a runoff against former Finance Minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina after no candidate won sufficient votes for an outright majority in October's first round. Time TBA.
-ECONOMY: U.S. GDP (third quarter-final), Canada consumer prices (Nov.), Brazil bank lending (Nov.), Mexico unemployment rate (Nov.), Argentina GDP (third quarter), Taiwan export orders (Nov.), German GfK consumer confidence (Jan.); France business confidence (Dec.), Italy industrial orders (Oct.), Spain mortgage lending (Oct.), U.K. GfK consumer confidence (Dec.), U.K. budget balance (Nov.), U.K. GDP (third quarter - final)
-CENTRAL BANKS: Mexico meeting minutes, Colombia rate decision, Japan Policy Statement
-EARNINGS: Walgreen Co.
-The final of soccer's Club World Cup takes place in Marrakech, Morocco. Competitors come from governing body FIFA's six international confederations, and include European champion Bayern Munich. The two finalists have yet to be determined. 19:30 local time (14.30 EST).
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White House Down (2013) is a Action, Drama, Thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich – Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country. IMDB
Directed By – Roland Emmerich
Genre – Action, Drama, Thriller
Cast – Channing Tatum , Richard Jenkins , Jamie Foxx , James Woods , Matt Craven , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Jason Clarke , Jimmi Simpson , Jake Weber , Peter Jacobson , Joey King , Nicolas Wright , Michael Murphy , Lance Reddick , Rachelle Lefevre
In Theaters – 28 June 2013
Duration – 131 Minutes
MPAA Rating : PG-13
Taglines : It Will Start Like Any Other Day.
Story Writers: James Vanderbilt
Country: USA
Language: English
Production Company : Columbia Pictures , Iron Horse Entertainment (II) , Mythology Entertainment (II) , Mel's Cite du Cinema , Centropolis Entertainment
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Frank Lampard's new book is definitely a work of fiction.
5 February sees the release of "Frankie's New York Adventure", the ninth book in his "Frankie's Magic Football" series for children.
The midfielder was, of course, set to move to MLS side New York FC this month, but instead has extended his stay at New York's parent club Manchester City until the end of the season, after it was announced that he had never actually signed for the Major League Soccer side.
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1/9 Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina)
Linked with: Chelsea, Manchester United
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2/9 Mohamed Salah (Chelsea)
Linked with: Roma, Besiktas, Hull
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3/9 Andre Schurrle (Chelsea)
Linked with: Wolfsburg, Borussia Dortmund
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4/9 Paul Pogba (Juventus)
Linked with: Chelsea, manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, PSG, Real Madrid
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5/9 James Milner (Manchester City)
Linked with: Liverpool, Arsenal, Valencia
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6/9 Anderson (Manchester United)
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7/9 Jordan Rhodes (Blackburn)
Linked with: Swansea
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8/9 Dani Osvaldo (Southampton - on-loan at Inter Milan)
Linked with: QPR
9/9 Gabriel Paulista (Villarreal)
Linked with: Arsenal, Manchester United
The 36-year-old had, however, only agreed a non-binding commitment to play for New York after leaving Chelsea, creating an embarrassing situation for both club and player.
He will finally move to New York on a two-year deal in the summer.
This will surely not be sold in New York FC's club shop any time soon.
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A High Old Time
Attending a Bush rally and trying not to drink the Kool-Aid
By Steven Robert Allen and Gwyneth Doland
First impression: Heather Wilson should star in her own soap opera. It could be called "As The World Turns ... to Crap." Our Congresswoman is truly a miracle of modern science. We say bravo to the engineers who installed the WilsonBot's automatic tear-duct emptying function. And, thankfully, unlike the previous version of this monster—Tammy Faye Bakker—Wilson does not leak dark fluid from her eye holes during the performance.
Thin Line
By Tim McGivern
Theater of the absurd. It's funny how enlightening a brief encounter with a stranger can be.
News Feature
Suspicious Activity
How many terror alerts does it take to elect a president?
By Tim McGivern
It's become a familiar routine. First the terror alert originates somewhere in the halls of the federal government, then it gets filtered to the mainstream media, which passes the information on to the public. The public puts on its collective "Code Orange" game face, while terror alert banners scroll across the 24/7 cable news screens and each network's security experts analyze the latest threat on the talk shows.
Ortiz y Pino
Filling the Trough for Our Corporate Piggies
Privatizing the state's behavioral health services another bad idea
By Jerry Ortiz y Pino
After putting it at the bottom of my stack of books to read for over a year, I recently began reading Edmund Morris' wonderful biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Once I'd actually turned a few pages, it was hard to put down. Not the least of its pleasures for a contemporary liberal Democrat is the recognition that T.R., a maverick Republican, was warning us 100 years ago about the "unnatural alliance of politics and corporations."
Payne's World
I Told You So ...
And other news worthy of the conspiracy theory hall of fame
By Greg Payne
Since the Democrat National Convention in Boston, "Payne's World" readers have had the inside track on the tactical mistakes of the Kerry campaign—and they are legion. A month ago (Aug. 5-11 "Too Conventional"), the following appeared in this column and looks now like it could have been written by Nostradamus.
Odds & Ends
By Devin D. O'Leary
Dateline: England—A man has admitted to endangering passengers on a 737 flight from Norway by setting fire to a pornographic magazine under his seat. David Mason used a cigarette lighter to ignite torn-out pages from the magazine, which he had purchased earlier. The charges came to light in Lewes Crown Court in southeast England last Tuesday. Prosecutor Roger Booth said stewardesses on the Norwegian national airline Braathens became suspicious when Mason asked if he could burn some paper in the plane's galley oven. They refused and sent him back to his seat. Soon afterwards, two passengers complained of a burning smell. Crew members found Mason had started a small fire under his seat. The blaze was extinguished with water. Booth said that Mason, who was receiving treatment for mental illness, had "been offended" by some of the pictures in the magazine, one of several he had bought. "He said that on the plane he had become overcome, and felt the desire to destroy them there and then," the prosecutor said. Mason is scheduled to be sentenced next month.
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Annual Plant Sale
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Browse various plants at reasonable prices. Proceeds support the educational efforts of the council of the Albuquerque Garden Center.
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A park-wide game of hide and seek, camouflage, deer and wolf and other outdoor games.
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Kids identify their skills while learning about themselves, how to approach different activities with an economic mindset and find hobbies that are inherently valuable.
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Three Dumb Kids
by kellyofsmeg
Summary: It's summertime, and the Winchesters are in-between hunts when Sammy finds himself facing a different sort of monster. Weechester! fic, Nice!John. A fluffy one shot fic.
Pairings: Dean/some random OC (mention of)
Disclaimer: Supernatural and all of its characters are not mine.
"Hey, Dean!" Sammy greeted spiritedly, flinging the door open and bursting into their shared bedroom. The nine-year old energetically ping-ponged around the room like a fly trapped in a jar. He loved sharing a room with his big brother—not a shared living space in a motel that functioned as bedroom, kitchen and living area—their own room. He wanted to stay in this rental house forever!
Sammy finally settled enough to drop down on his knees by Dean's bed, where the teenager was curled up in a ball, sheets pulled up over his head, facing the wall. "Hey, Dean!" Sammy tried again. Dean barely grunted in response.
"Come outside with me," said Sammy, giving his brother's shoulder a shake.
"No, Sammy," Dean mumbled into his pillow.
"Come on—please?" Sammy whined, "Are you really gonna spend all summer sleeping?"
Sammy sighed dramatically. "But that's boring, Dean!"
"Says the kid who does book reports for fun," Dean muttered.
Sammy grabbed hold of the end of Dean's sheets and yanked them off him like he'd seen his dad do countless times when Dean wouldn't get out of bed for school. "Sammy!" Dean grabbed clumps of the pale blue sheets, dragging them back up over him.
"Come on, Dean—it's really nice outside...we can play catch—or hunt for bugs!"
"Hunting for bugs is stupid," Dean grumbled.
"...you thought it was fun last summer," said Sammy, confused.
"Yeah, well, I was still a dumb kid last summer."
Sammy shoved his brother's arm, indignant that his brother had just insulted him in a round-about way. "You still are a dumb kid."
Dean didn't respond, just curled in deeper into himself. "Go away, Sammy."
"You can't tell me to go away," said Sammy defiantly, climbing up onto Dean's bed and jumping up and down on the mattress. "This is my room, too!"
"Stop jumping, Sammy. I mean it," Dean warned through gritted teeth.
Sammy jumped higher. "If I stop, will you come play with me?"
"Why not?" Sammy watched with delight as his brother's prone body was forced to bounce with his motion. He'd make Dean play with him, whether he liked it or not.
"Because I don't feel like it, okay?" Dean snapped at his pesky little brother. "Now leave me alone, you're annoying me."
Sammy kept jumping. Dean couldn't be serious—he was just messing around with him, like big brothers are supposed to. And Dean was the best big brother ever. He was just playing being annoyed at him, because he was trying to sleep. All he wanted to do these days was sleep or stare at the wall. The bouncing would wake Dean up, and he'd join right in like always.
What he didn't expect was for Dean to untangle himself from his blankets, jump out of bed and yell, "Dammit, Sammy—I said to leave me alone!"
Sammy froze in mid-jump, falling back onto the bed in a heap, stunned at the outburst of the brother he so idolized. He could tell from Dean's stern expression that he wasn't playing around this time. He really wanted him to go away. And Sammy was so stunned that he did. He fled the room on the verge of tears, rushing for the last person he could turn to now for comfort.
John looked up from cleaning his handgun with a bore brush when he felt something wrap around his forearm. He didn't look at surprised to have Sammy standing beside his chair, hugging his arm with all his might. "Something wrong, pal?"
"I don't think Dean likes me anymore," Sammy informed his father with a pout.
"Sure he does," said John, who'd had no choice but to hear the tail end of his sons' conversation. "Dean's just going through some stuff right now," he nodded to one of the empty chairs at the table.
"What kinda stuff?" asked Sammy, sitting down in the chair adjacent to his father. "Is he sick? Is that why he's been sleeping all day lately?"
"No, I wouldn't say he's sick, exactly," said John, choosing his words carefully. "Dean's just going through a rough patch, and it's totally normal—it's just...some stuff you're not old enough to understand yet."
"You mean like when you and Dean didn't tell me about monsters being real for a long time?" Sammy asked. He was still guilt-tripping them about that one.
"Yeah, sort of," John said, refusing to be baited into that one again. "I guess you could say Dean's battling a monster of his own right now."
Sammy's interest was piqued—he knew Dean had seemed different lately. He must not be anything too dangerous, since he still poured salt all over his food and when Sam spilled holy water on him the other day, he didn't burn.
"What kind of monster?" Sammy asked, leaning forward on his elbows.
"Puberty," John answered simply.
"What's that?" said Sammy, his nose wrinkling. He didn't know what a Puberty was, but he didn't like the sound of it.
"Dean's thirteen," said John, "He's becoming a man."
Sammy took a moment to consider the implications of what his father had said. "You mean like, he's gonna get taller and need to start shaving, like you do?"
"He won't have a full beard for awhile yet, but yeah," said John, setting down his .44 Desert Eagle. He rubbed a hand over his own beard, perturbed to imagine his son's still baby-smooth face beginning to bristle. He wasn't sure he was ready for that yet, now he came to think of it.
"Is puberty also why Dean's voice keeps squeaking when he talks?" Sammy asked. He thought it was pretty hysterical every time it happened—asked Dean if he swallowed a chew toy on more than one occasion. But, failing to see the humor Sammy saw, Dean's face would go red and he'd sulk, not saying a word for hours afterward.
"About that," said John, considering Sammy. "Try not to tease Dean when his voice cracks, Sammy. Just ignore it. Your brother...he's kinda self-conscious right now. Not to mention in a few years it'll be your voice changing, Sammy, and you won't want Dean repaying the favor, will you?"
"No, sir," said Sammy solemnly. "I'll try not to laugh at Dean when he squeaks anymore."
"That also means you'll stop asking him why he's got chicken pox on his face," said John sternly.
"Yes, sir," Sammy agreed. "Dad, is puberty also why Dean doesn't think girls are gross anymore?"
John paused in running solvent-soaked cotton through the bore. He tried to keep his tone light and indifferent, like anything Sammy spilled about his brother was of no consequence to him. "What do you mean, Sammy?"
Sammy considered telling his dad about the time his brother had dumped him off at Plucky Pennywhistle's after school so he could go "trolling for chicks." Knowing such an admission would undeniably get his brother in trouble, he halted that thought the second he had it.
Still, he knew his father expected an answer. "I saw..." he faltered, biting his lip. He was afraid of saying anything to incriminate his beloved brother, even if he was being a jerk.
"You saw what, Sammy?" John asked, with slightly more urgency than his first inquiry into Dean's love life. His mind had immediately jumped to what he considered the worst case scenario, and he desperately wanted reassurance that he was wrong. "Whatever it is, you can tell me. I won't get mad at you or Dean, I just want to know what you saw. Okay?"
"You promise you won't get mad at Dean?" Sammy asked. Dean hadn't made him promise not to tell. He hadn't even known Sammy had seen...
"I give you my word," said John, sincerely hoping he wouldn't have to go back on it.
Sammy took a deep breath. "When we went to the lake last week...when were were packing up to leave and you told me to go find Dean...I saw him behind a shed, kissing a girl."
John chuckled, letting out a sigh of relief—kissing he could live with. He even felt oddly proud of his eldest. "Wait a minute—it wasn't that girl who'd been swimming near you two the whole time—the one who's parents let her strap on a couple pieces of dental floss and call it a swimsuit?"
Sammy nodded, "Yep—that's her. It looked like they were eating each others face's dad—it was gross! And their hands were all over each other and..." Sammy broke off, shuddering at the memory.
John knuckled his forehead. Dean's kiss behind the utilities shed didn't seem nearly as innocent now. He'd have to have a talk with Dean unless he wanted to be a grandpa before he was fifty. He'd always known Dean was going to be a lady's man, ever since that Sunday picnic in the park when one-year-old Dean had squirmed out of his mother's arms when he saw a pretty blonde in Osh Kosh B'gosh totter by, pulling himself to his feet and taking his very first steps to chase her down. He didn't get a number, but he had been awarded a sloppy kiss on the cheek for his efforts. Him and Mary had swore Dean had been smirking for the rest of that day.
Pulling himself out of the memory, John said, "Don't worry about your brother, Sammy. All of his behavior is completely normal for a boy his age. You've just got to remember to give Dean his space. He's going to want to be alone a lot more. He's also going to seem more annoyed at everyone and everything, so don't take it personally if he doesn't want to play with you right now. He's just going through some changes, and that can be hard."
Sammy knew that change was hard better than anyone; they moved all the time, but far from getting used to it, Sammy hated each move more. Change was something to be avoided at all costs. "But I don't want Dean to change! I like him the way he is—was!" he amended, thinking of the cranky Dean-monster he'd just encountered.
"You mean you want Dean to stay thirteen forever?" John questioned. "You never want to let him grow up?"
Sammy shook his head fervently. "I want him to stay the same forever."
John smirked. His eyes flickered over Sammy's shoulder. "I think you just want Dean to stay the same so you can get taller than him."
"Yeah!" Sammy giggled at the absurd thought.
"Not gonna happen, squirt," said a voice in Sammy's ear, making him jump. "Dean!" he whirled around in his chair, saw his older brother standing over him.
"Sammy..." Dean stared guiltily down at his shoes. "I'm sorry for yelling at you. I can't always seem to...control me right now," he admitted. "Just know that I didn't mean anything I said, okay, little brother?"
"Okay," said Sammy quietly. "I guess I already kinda knew that. And I'm going to try to—" he searched his brain for the phrase his dad had used, "give you your space. I'm sorry too, for being annoying."
"It's alright, Sammy—it's your job. Besides, how can anyone stay mad at that face?" Dean teased, pinching Sammy's cheek. Sammy batted his hand away, grinning. John watched their exchange with an endearing smile, wondering how he could feel an irreconcilable desire to hug his boys and knock their heads together at the same time.
"Still up for hunting bugs, Sammy?" Dean smiled down at his little brother.
Sammy frowned. "But Dean, I thought you said that was for dumb little kids."
"I said it was for dumb kids," said Dean. "Not dumb little kids. You're never too old to hunt for bugs, Sammy. So are you up for it or not?"
"Let's go!" said Sammy enthusiastically, jumping to his feet, grabbing his bug jar and racing Dean over to the sliding glass door leading out to their small enclosed backyard, overgrown and lined with trees and blackberry bushes.
"Ladies first," said Sammy cheekily, sliding the glass door open.
"Bitch," said Dean, giving Sammy a light shove out the door.
"Jerk!" Sammy countered, though he was beaming. He was just glad to have his brother back.
"Stay in the yard, boys!" John called before Dean slid the door shut. "No crawling under that hole in the fence."
"Yes, sir!" the boys chorused. The door closed and John watched their retreating backs, traipsing off through the tall grass.
There was no denying that his boys were growing up; every time he returned from a hunt, they looked older and more mature than when he'd left them. After his last hunt, he'd measured them to check his theory and found they had both indeed grown since he last saw them. It made his heart ache to know how much of his sons' growing up they were doing without him. He knew that when these days were gone, they were gone—Sam and Dean wouldn't be his baby boys forever. In fact, even now they'd no doubt cringe if he was to ever use that term of endearment.
John picked up his gun again, getting back to work. The laughter of his boys carried in from outside, stopping John in his tracks. They sounded so happy, so carefree—so young. He put his gun down and said aloud, "What am I doing?"
John pushed back from the table, rising to his feet.
Now, when he wasn't on a case—he had to make the most of the time with his boys. The life they had been thrust into was demanding, but he didn't want to look back one day and have any regrets when it came to his boys. He knew that was a foolish wish—the decisions he'd already made that haunted him were enough to fill up a phone book. But maybe there was still time to try to fix things; neither of his boys were completely lost to him yet. He still had time.
And Dean was right; you're never too old to hunt for bugs—or to play with your kids, for that matter.
John slid open the glass door, stepping out into the blinding sunlight. "What're we hunting today, boys?"
And that is how on a sunny July afternoon, three dumb kids came to collect twenty-three stick bugs.
The End
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Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Lifeby Elizabeth George
Bestelling author Elizabeth George has spent years teaching writing, and in Write Away she shares her knowledge of the creative process. George combines clear, intelligent, and functional advice on fiction writing with anecdotes from her own life, the story of her journey to publication, and inside information on how she meticulously researches and writes her novels. George's solid understanding of craft is conveyed in the enticing manner of a true storyteller, making Write Away not only a marvelous, interesting, and informative book but also a glimpse inside the world of a beloved writer.
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Write Away
One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life
Chapter One
Story Is Character
Am I kidding myself about being a "creative artist"? Can I possibly be a creative artist if I approach this effort in so methodical and left-brained a fashion?
Journal of a Novel,
June 25,1997
A large piece of Plexiglas covers the top of my desk. Beneath this shield, I keep bits and pieces to serve as inspiration or to cheer me up in those moments of bleak despair when I'm wondering why I've taken on one difficult project or another. Among these items I have a copy of John Steinbeck's letter to Herbert Sturz on the subject of The Grapes of Wrath -- I find his comments about critics particularly smile-producing -- as well as pictures of my dog, of myself grinning inanely alongside a wax effigy of Richard III from Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London, and several quotations from writers on one subject or another. One of those writers is Isaac Bashevis Singer who, in an interview with Richard Burgis in 1978, said the following:
When people come together -- let's say they come to a little party or something -- you always hear them discuss character. They will say this one has a bad character, this one has a good character, this one is a fool, this one is a miser. Gossip makes the conversation. They all analyze character. It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.
The writers who don't discuss character but problems -- social problems or any problems -- take away from literature its very essence. They stop being entertaining. We, for some reason, always love to discuss and discover character. This is because each character is different and human character is the greatest of puzzles.
That's where I want to begin, then, in laying the foundation for my exploration of craft: with character.
Not with idea? you may ask, aghast. Not with where a writer gets ideas? What a writer does with ideas? How a writer molds ideas into prose?
We will get to that. But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.
What we take away from our reading of a good novel mainly is the memory of character. This is because events -- both in real life and in fiction -- take on greater meaning once we know the people who are involved in them. Put a human face on a disaster and you touch people more deeply; you may even move them inexorably toward taking an action they might have only idly contemplated before that disaster was given a human face. Munich '72, the Achille Lauro, Pan Am 103, Oklahoma City, 9/11 ... When these tragedies become human by connecting them to the real people who lived through them or died in them, they become imprinted indelibly on the collective consciousness of a society. We start with an event as news, but we almost immediately begin asking Who? about it.
It's no different with fiction. The trial of Tom Robinson is maddening, disturbing, and heartbreaking in its injustice, but we remember the trial long after it's over because of Tom Robinson's quiet dignity and because of Atticus Finch's heroic representation of the man, knowing all along that his client is doomed because of the time, the place, and the society in which they both live. To Kill a Mockingbird thus rises to the level of timeless, classic literature not because of its idea -- the innocence of childhood set into an ugly landscape of prejudice and brutality -- but because of its characters. This is true of every great book, and the names of those men, women, and children shine more brightly in the firmament of literary history than do the stories in which they operated. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, Jem and Scout Finch, Captain Ahab, Hester Prynne, Sherlock Holmes, Heathcliff, Ebenezer Scrooge, Huckleberry Finn, Jack-Ralph-and-Piggy, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Morse, George Smiley, Anne Shirley, Laura Ingalls ... The list can stretch from here to forever. With the exception of the last, not a single character is a real person. Yet all of them are, because the writers made them so.
Once we have begun it, we continue reading a novel largely because we care about what happens to the characters. But for us actually to care about these actors in the drama on those printed pages, they must become real people to us. An event alone cannot hold a story together. Nor can a series of events. Only characters effecting events and events affecting characters can do that.
I try to keep some basic guidelines in mind when I'm creating my characters. First, I try to remember that real people have flaws. We're all works in progress on planet Earth, and not one of us possesses physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological perfection. This should be true of our characters as well. No one wants to read about perfect characters. Since no reader is perfect, there is nothing more disagreeable than spending free time immersed in a story about an individual who leaps tall buildings of emotion, psyche, body, and spirit in a single bound. Would anyone want a person like that as a friend, tediously perfect in every way? Probably not. Thus, a character possessing perfection in one area should possess imperfection in another area.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle understood this, which is one of the reasons that his Sherlock Holmes has stood the test of time for more than one hundred years and counting. Holmes has the perfect intellect. The man is a virtual machine of cogitation. But he's an emotional black hole incapable of a sustained relationship with anyone except Dr. Watson, and on top of that, he abuses drugs ...Write Away
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Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and two short story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the MIMI, Germany's prestigious prize for suspense fiction. She lives in Washington State.
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As a writer with an MFA in creative writing, I found this a great refresher for myself as to the elements of composing a long work, whether fiction or nonfiction. The author does more prep work than I could ever do, but for her, it clearly pays off. Elizabeth George is my favorite mystery writer, and now I know why!!
She really does through HER process of writing and it is very detailed. However, when she does show samples of her texts, you can see her fiction isn't as strong as her nonfiction, which is interesting and does hurt the text some.
Thie book offered an exceptionally detailed, inspiring look at one very hard working author's process. What impressed me most is the insecurity George still so often feels (when she is SO talented and successful) and the exceptional lengths she goes to in meticulously planning out her novels. It is not the kind of thing I could or would want to do because I go more by creative inspiration, but it was very helpful in showing her ideas on how to plot a novel and develop the characters. I thought it was more interesting in terms of the insight into her as a person and a writer than it was an insight into the craft of writing, though.


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Welcome again friends and newcomers to A Writer's Journey at Staten Island, NY!! Today's post will give you an even better understanding of my two books.
Today, until midnight, there will be time to enter the contest by leaving a comment. Two winners, randomly selected, will win either . . . And the Whippoorwill Sang or The Cat Who Wanted a Dog. For Those already having these books, I will substitute another ebook I think you will like. This contest for Rave Review Book Club runs through April ending with a super grand prize. Go to the site and browse other author's as well.
I hope you will enjoy this interview of Noelle by Nancy Jardine. I have written the answers to Nancy's questions based upon things that Noelle said while alive. Her ending statements are what I believe she would have said and felt, using author intrusion and also things she said to her nieces and nephews after passing on from this realm.
How does a mother explain love?
How does a mother let her child go?
A child so beautiful, funny and bright
Who breathes life into every moment,
Draws bird pictures
Does cartwheels in autumn leaves
Sings down country lanes
There is no explanation
...And The Whippoorwill Sang Interview By Nancy Jardine
On Welcome Wednesday I have opened my blog to many different sorts of writing. Sometimes it has been my own, sometimes guest posts from an author, and at other times it has been an author interview.
Today, I have a friend visiting from the US who has brought along a character from her memoir...And The Whippoorwill Sang. So, in a sense, it's a character interview. But it is a poignantly different type of investigation.
Today, I have a friend visiting from the US who has brought along a character from her memoir...And The Whippoorwill Sang. So, in a sense, it's a character interview. But it is a poignantly different type of investigation.
Micki Peluso's account is a recreation of her own experience, the loss of a young teenage daughter a main theme of the writing. It demonstrates how Micki, and her family, have dealt with such sad bereavement.
Doing a character interview can be a fun thing to do that's, often, only vaguely challenging. When the character is from a story that happened in real life, and died in tragic circumstances, it's quite another kind of test for the author to recreate.
I'm so pleased that Micki Peluso has allowed us to have a little glimpse of her daughter, Noelle Marie Peluso. As such, Noelle is not really speaking in the present; more like how her life was many years ago before her time on earth was abruptly and shockingly ended and how she connects to her family situation now. Think of the answers being given for both a time in the past, and from a perspective of present interaction.
Welcome to my part of the world, Noelle. Let's get to know you a little bit.
Welcome to my part of the world, Noelle. Let's get to know you a little bit.
Can you describe yourself in only six words for my readers, please, Noelle?
I am 14 and in love.
That is quite a description and you seem to be having a fun time! Where are you currently living?
I live in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in this great haunted 100-year-old farmhouse with my parents, five brothers and sisters and ghosts. I love it here, except for the bats that single me out.
Had you been there all your life?
No, it seems all my life we just keep moving. I even wrote a poem about it. Each time a new baby arrives we must move to a bigger house, and then mom insisted we leave our house and friends in Long Island, New York and move to Las Vegas, Nevada because of the drug situation. My little sister, Nicole called it 'Lost Vegas,' but me and Kelly, my sister and best friend, hated it there. My oldest sister, Kimber, was seventeen and loved it. Mike, sixteen and Dante, fifteen liked to explore the desert and their high school was cool. My school was in a trailer and I hated it. We were younger then: Nicole only four, me eight, Kelly, eleven. Mom kinda liked Las Vegas because her best friend lived there, but daddy, like me, also hated it because he couldn't find a high paying job like in New York.
How do you mainly spend your days just now?
Well, we all have chores but I usually skip out on mine. I'm the clown of the family, tricking my brothers and sisters to do my jobs while I keep them laughing at my TV imitations. I do a great Groucho Marx. Kelly got me a job with her, babysitting for a bunch of kids. Course I got Kelly to do the work while I played with the little toddlers and babies. I earned money to buy my new school clothes. Mom sews a lot of our clothes and Kim, Kelly, and I love them, but Nicole wants 'store bought' clothes. Mom says someone must've switched babies at birth. Nicole agrees with her.
You're only barely into your teens but what career path do you think would be a good one to follow?
At 14 there's not much else besides babysitting to do to make money, but I want to be a lawyer when I grow up and have six kids just like my mother. She's the best mom a girl could have and I want to be just like her. She never got to go to college but I will – I have great dreams for my life especially since I fell in love with Chuck. I feel he's my soul mate.
What's your favorite reading material?
I love to go to the park down the country road from our house and read Harlequin romance books. Sometimes I meet Chuck there and we talk. He kissed me for the first time the other day and it was heaven! We know we're meant for each other.
Young love, indeed! That sounds very mature in some ways, quite sure and definite a statement, and yet at 14 there's still a lot to learn about relationships with boys. If you had to change things. What would you do first?
Well, I had a rough time when we first moved here and I went to junior high school. I got depressed because the snotty girls who come from rich families ignored me. I convinced mom I was sick a lot and missed school. She'd make me scrambled eggs and we'd hang out together. She had a similar time in high school and gave me good advice. When kids make fun of you, make them laugh with you and not at you. I realized I was a bit of a comic and took her advice. Soon I was accepted and made many good friends. I became a star basketball player and joined the band, which helped. Mom asked me if I knew the song 'Long Long Ago, Far Far Away.' We had just learned it and mom said, then go play that trumpet far far away. Guess you know where I get my sense of humor.
Those are very positive approaches to tackling what can be a very nasty problem. If not Chuck, who or what else would be the love of your life?
I love life. I enjoy each moment. Kelly thought I was nuts one day when we bought new school clothes and then decided to go for a bike ride. I couldn't decide what to wear so I put on layers of my entire new clothes at once. Kelly's a little too organized and rigid and said she was saving her clothes for a special occasion. I told her I thought a bike ride was special enough. After all, you only live once. I love my family more than anything, but my love for Chuck is new and different and I've never been so happy.
What is your favorite way to travel?
Certainly not traveling in our station wagon, all six of us and our huge St. Bernard, Luna, who upchucks, making everybody else throw up except Dante. Dad gets furious, but mom brings bags for us. Course Luna didn't know how to use them. Mom always looked out the window so dad wouldn't see her grin. But traveling out West in a dilapidated camper built for four was so fun-- at least for me and my brothers. Kelly kept asking if we'd left the country and Nicole cried, wanting to go home. Kim loved it, until we forgot her and left her in the desert at a gas station. Mike laughed but Kim looked shook up even as she claimed she knew we'd come back for her. When I was 12, Grandma took Kelly and me by bus to Canada to visit a Catholic shrine and that was a blast. Lucky for me, Grandma and Kelly had a sense of humor, as well as a lot of shock over my shenanigans.
What is your biggest goal?
My goals were violently taken away from me on August 23, 1981. My friend and I were walking to the park to hear a concert. I begged mom to let me go and paid her a dollar to do the dishes for me. She laughed and finally gave in. The last words I said to her as I ran out the front door, was, 'Bye Mom.' I was telling my friend as we walked that I hoped Chuck would be there. That's all I remember. The next 10 days I was between two worlds. I could not move and I heard the doctors say I wouldn't live. Mom and my family were with me day and night and mom told me I was in an accident but would be all right. I fought to live for my mom and dad and family and began communicating by blinking my eyes for yes and no. I heard the doctors try to convince my parents take me off life support, but they refused. I'd always said if I was paralyzed I would not want to live, but I couldn't let my family down.
On one visit, after seeing tears running down my cheeks, mom whispered in my ear that it was okay if I wanted to go Home and followed the light to Heaven's realm. I felt free at last . . . And soon after I left my body. I know now my goals were met, according to God's will, in my short life. Now my goal is to remain close to my family, appearing to those, especially my 10 nieces and nephews, who can see, hear or sense my presence. I told the little ones who could see and hear me the clearest that mom would survive her heart attacks. And she did. Now my goal is to wait for my loved ones to come home to me. Time doesn't exist here as it does on Earth. Years are but a second and then we'll all be together again. And so I wait.
Beautiful answers, Noelle, thank you.
Beautiful answers, Noelle, thank you.
A little fun now for the readers, Noelle. Which do you like best?
Candy or fruit? Candy
City or countryside? Countryside
Reading or walking? Reading
Thank you very much indeed, Noelle, for being interviewed today.
The Cat Who Wanted a Dog
True story of a cat who wants his own little dog but is in for a big surprise Hi boys and girls, I'm Toby, a handsome cat if I say so myself. I do whatever I want but Grandma and Grandpa think they own me! My favorite thing is to take Grandma's shiny jewelry and hide it. Grandpa is still looking for his favorite pen. I have one friend, Casey, a wild cat who lives outside but she tells me through the screen door about the outside world. I was a happy, cool cat until---well, read what I wrote about the day Grandma invited the 'Monster' to visit. Yikes!
And Kids, please try to color in the lines when you color me. I am a bit fussy about my hair. When you read the book you'll find out why!!!
Here's what I look like in real life. I'm also a doctor. Cat's purring causes sound waves that heal us and our human and animal friends. I even make house calls. I can sense when an animal or dog is sick. Grandma things that's pretty cool but Granpa says we are both crazy.
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Jose - I assume you're asking about UBC 1612.4 (Special Load Combinations)? These are applied just as with any other LRFD/ASD load combination: Factor your loads according to the equation, then examine what this means for demand in the structure. This may mean increased vertical and/or lateral demand in some places, and potentially reduced demand in others. I don't understand how this would be applied any differently from the load combinations in 1612.2/1612.3. Charley -- Charles Hamilton, PhD EIT Faculty Fellow Department of Civil and Phone: 949.824.3752 Environmental Engineering FAX: 949.824.2117 University of California, Irvine Email: chamilto(--nospam--at)uci.edu ******* ****** ******* ******** ******* ******* ******* *** * Read list FAQ at: http://www.seaint.org/list_FAQ.asp* * This email was sent to you via Structural Engineers * Association of Southern California (SEAOSC) server. To * subscribe (no fee) or UnSubscribe, please go to:
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