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Embassy Suites Logan Airport Hotel, Boston
Rooms: 273
Reviews - Embassy Suites Logan Airport Hotel
- Age Group: 26 - 30
- From: United States
- Traveller type: Special Interest/Event
- Age Group: 41 - 50
- From: United States
- Traveller type: Family Traveller
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Historical Traveller Reviews of Embassy Suites Logan Airport Hotel
The Hotel Food should be in conde nast!from A TripAdvisor Member
and that restaurant Jose is warm and friendly...keep up the good work, I made my switch to your hotel just for the dining!
An Excellent Hotelfrom Gezza-K
Perfect if you arrive late and want to pick up a rental car in the morning.from A TripAdvisor Member
This place is SWANK!from SugarWahine
Very nice hotel , not snobs like airports can befrom travelducky87
Liked the extrasfrom kenai_gal
Not the same as other Embassies...from SpoiledTraveler
Embassy @ the airportfrom A TripAdvisor Member
The hotel was about a 7 or 8 minutes walk to the Airport T station, although the staff was not very helpful in locating it. It's down a path which runs by a soccer field & was very easy to use after the 1st time.
It was so convenient getting around via T & not worrying about a car. In addition, I thought the hotel might be noisy due to planes flying overhead, but the hotel must be well insulated because we rarely heard a thing.
I would definitely recommend this hotel to families. My kids enjoyed having their own TV & so did their parents!
Okay, Some Pitfallsfrom A TripAdvisor Member
There are some pitfalls to watch for.
1. The hotel is isolated. You have to take the T to get anywhere.
2. This is not your normal Embassy Suites. It looks like they took over an old hotel and remodeled.
3. No one has a sense of temperature. Air conditioning runs full blast day and night. The pool is too cold. You can cook pasta in the jacuzzi.
On the other hand, the staff is friendly and the shuttle drivers are great. Usual good breakfast, but the afternoon snack left a lot to be desired.
Concerning the walk to the T station, it's not far and is plenty safe during the day. Absolutely do not try to walk the route at night, however. Shuttle ride sometimes means a swing to an airport terminal to drop someone off/pick someone up.
We would stay there again. Just keep these issues in mind.
Excellent!from A TripAdvisor Member
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- Address: 207 Porter Street - Boston - Massachusetts - 02128 - United States
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- Hilton Logan Airport Hotel Boston, Massachusetts Distance: 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
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- Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel Boston, Massachusetts Distance: 1.7 km / 1 mi
- The Constitution Inn and Fitness Center Hotel Charlestown, Massachusetts Distance: 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
- Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel Boston, Massachusetts Distance: 2 km / 1.2 mi
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- Courtyard Boston Logan Airport Hotel Boston, Massachusetts Distance: 2.2 km / 1.4 mi
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TV-industry pundits are already expressing dismay over the new fall season, mourning a lack of imagination and the absence of an obvious ground-breaker like last year's Twin Peaks. As usual, however, the pundits are, if not all wet, at least quite damp. This season features amusing actors with promising premises (Evening Shade, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Lenny) and inventive new twists on such creaky genres as the police show (Cop Rock), the lawyer show (The Trials of Rosie O'Neill), and the TV-show-about-TV (WIOU). Far more encouraging, the four commercial networks, having been badly shaken by shrinking audiences, are now programming to compete not merely with each other but with cable and video rentals, too. As a result, they've gone for more eccentricity and even a little risk-taking.
The outcome will be higher highs and lower lows, and that's much, much better than the blandness that was beginning to seem the networks' final doom. In short, it's a season to look forward to.

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Burkhart lived in Anniston most of his life, growing up in the area known as Oxanna. He retired from Monsanto Chemical Company after 33 years, 19 of those as chairman.
Burkhart loved being around people and had a special gift for communicating and leadership.
He loved history and often entertained friends and family with stories of memorable events in his life. He was fond of trains and had a vast collection of model trains and train memorabilia. Anyone who has visited Jacksonville's train depot on the Chief Ladiga Trail has undoubtedly seen some of Burhart's collection, as he donated model trains to display, as well as an antique trolley car bench.
He and his wife Lynne spent the last couple of years of his life in Jacksonville to be closer to family, after moving from Anniston. He continued to enjoy traveling to Anniston two or three times a week to share coffee and stories with old friends, and could always be seen at Parker Memorial Baptist Church on Sunday mornings for Sunday School, where his tan Tahoe with the phrase "We Love Oxanna, AL." on the back window was a familiar sight.
Tommy, Dad, Mr. Burkhart, Paw-Paw…He was known by different names to different people, but his impact on the lives of those around him was all the same.
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H4+/CIDA workshop, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
This video shows the first planning workshop with the aim to fight against maternal and neonatal mortality, which was organized by CIDA and H4+ in Ouagadougou, Burkina, October 2011.
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One of the things I had noticed while cooking in the kitchen with my mother was that she was using olive oil to cook and grease the pan. Not only that, but she was cooking the oil on a high heat temperature. When olive oil is cooked at a high temperature, the oil becomes acidic and pretty much poisonous. So, I showed my mother how to cook smart and which oils could be used for what. She took this healthy cooking tip to heart and I felt our mother-and-daughter relationship became healthier at the same time. Now, she loves cooking with coconut oil. She also loves the smell of it and adds it to almost everything that she eats.
On another day, cooking in the kitchen, I was making oatmeal for my mother and I had used coconut oil for flavoring. She was very surprised as to how I made such delicious oatmeal and didn't hesitate to ask how I did it. To be honest, I didn't think it was such amazing oatmeal but here's the recipe:
Supplies: Traders Joe Rolled Oats, measuring cups, fruit toppings, spoon (for mixing), pot, water, milk, and coconut oil.
Directions: Pour 1/2 cup of water in pot and let water come to a boil. After the water in the pot has come to a boil, add however much oatmeal (my mother had a bag from Trader's Joe) you desire. Use a spoon or ladel to mix the oatmeal in the water. Wait for oatmeal to come to a boil. Then take a spoonful of coconut oil with two ounces of almond milk and mix these two into the pot with the oatmeal. Make sure the oatmeal flakes have softened and turned a beige color before turning off the stove.
Serving: You can adjust the heat to simmer if you plan to have second and third servings to keep the oatmeal hot. Before serving, let the oatmeal chill for five to ten minutes. Add fruit toppings or honey of your choice with your oatmeal.
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Utah freaky dinky people. Gawd. I'm so sick of everyones drama. For a fact, i'm not drama. Drama follows me and loves me. Hmm...i'm so used. Let's see. I fuckin' hate Jesse now. He's so "ghey". Gawd. He pisses me off so bad. Hmmm.......enough about his faggot ass.So me and Jake went to the graveyard last night...the car broke down. I was out taking pictures and all of a sudden the car goes "poof". And i'm like wtf? So water and junk is all coming out and steam. So we sat there for i guess 15-30mins. Then we took off..made it to Main Street. Oh man..people are so freaky..i thought we were gonna get shot. Yeah so today we went back to the graveyard. I got more pictures. But i'm just not done. I need more. So i guess we'll go again next week. I just hope some people die soon if not sooner.
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When doing business of any kind with the Florida DMV, the first thing you may notice is the myriad of forms you need to fill out. Fortunately, most forms are available in PDF format at the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) website. You can download them for free if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader, and if you don't have that, it's also available as a free download.
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Shoe Story 9: Cooverji the Village Cobbler / Baby Black Shoes
Cooverji the Village Cobbler
With a white shirt draped over a bent-over back, his scrawny legs sticking out of loose-fitting khaki shorts, a pointy cap covering his head, and hardy leather chappals on his feet, Cooverji the village cobbler would come around to our Mamaiyas house.
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Baby Black Shoes - they hang every year on my Christmas tree.
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Full Cast of No Strings Attached Actors/Actresses
Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher are a great starting point for your to rank your favorites on this list
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Born: 1987
Date Born: 1987
Birthplace: New York City, Area code 917, Contiguous United States, New York, United States of America + 2 more
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Films: You've Reached the Elliotts, High Road, No Strings Attached
Parents: Paula Niedert Elliott, Chris Elliott
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Born: 1983
Date Born: 1983
Birthplace: Durban, Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Nationality: South Africa
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Films: Samaritan, Up in the Air, Fired Up!, Youth in Revolt, High School + 1 more
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Date Born: 1978
Birthplace: Linn County, Area code 319, United States of America, United States, with Territories, Cedar Rapids + 1 more
Nationality: United States of America
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Films: Reindeer Games, Cheaper by the Dozen, Bobby, Open Season, Texas Rangers + 20 more
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Birthplace: Eurasia, Westminster, United Kingdom, London, England + 1 more
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For nearly a decade, Pete's Candy Store has featured poetry readings on its elegant stage. THE MULTIFARIOUS ARRAY is the latest incarnation, bringing an eclectic array of the best in contemporary poetry to Williamsburg each spring and fall. InTouch Us Person Magazine says we're the poetry reading where "the paparazzi have paparazzi." We don't know what that means, but we like it!
Sit back, enjoy Pete's famous cocktails and toasted ciabatta sandwiches and listen to today's most exciting poets!
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Companies of all sizes, including government entities, can benefit from the use of reverse auctions for specific categories of spend. Reverse auctions, when implemented successfully, can generate significant savings. As a powerful addition to your procurement process, reverse auctions create a competitive marketplace among your suppliers for the products, services, and even complex purchases. When implemented properly, online auctions can complement an organizations strategic sourcing process and help lower the overall cost of purchases; as well as, positively impacting budgets.
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In simple terms a reverse auction is exactly opposite of a forward auction (eg: eBay). In a reverse auction, the buyer initiates the auction as opposed to the seller (as is the case in a traditional forward auction). The end goal of a reverse auction is to purchase the goods or services at the lowest possible price.
Typically reverse auctions are conducted via an invitation only process. A buyer creates detailed specifications of the items/services that he/she is looking to procure. An online reverse auction solution (such as the one provided by ProcurePort) is used to publish these specifications to a select group of verified suppliers. The reverse auction is scheduled for a specific date/time during which the invited suppliers log into the secure web based reverse auction platform and submit their bids in real time. The online auction solution provides real time bid feedback to the suppliers, which allows the suppliers to competitively improve their bids to win the business.
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MAD-R in the marketing world represents Money Authority Desire and Response. It's the driving force behind the strategy building for your marketing mix and when it comes to social media marketing it absolutely should not be ignored. Couple it with AIDA, and you have a solid foundation for building any strategy you need (be it SEO, PPC, Email, Traditional, Mixed, etc.)
A long time ago someone said "Money can't buy happiness" and while that might be true people can't typically buy your products on good will alone. You need to make sure you're marketing your product to people who have the money to buy your product. One of the ways you can find out this information is by using sites like Alexa and Compete to get a ball park idea.
Once you've figured out where the people who can afford your product hang out at next is to find out if they have the ability to purchase your product. This requirement will definitely change based on whether your product is a B2C or B2B product and at what level it's used at.
If it's a B2C is a big ticket item like home electronics or low priced like everyday consumables ("grown-up" purchase vs any kid with $15)? If it's B2B is it an expensive training system or office supplies (VP or director vs office manager)? Knowing who will have the ultimate authority to say yes or no will help define your target market and your messaging.
It's harder to discern desire, but it's something that you can figure out using tools like surveys, questionnaires, competition research, and listening posts. Again, what constitutes as desire will change based on what you're selling.
If you're selling a large corporate training system then you need to target those who have a desire to stay abreast of trends and changes in their market. If it's for a TV then you need to find people who want to upgrade from their current television situation. Desire is also where MAD-R intersects with the aforementioned AIDA.
The final step is figuring out who will likely respond to your marketing. Compare yourself to your competition or similar products that may be for a different niche. How do people respond to their marketing, who responds, and why?
Are people in their 30′s more likely to respond to your marketing than people in their 40′s and buy a huge TV even though both groups have the Money, Authority, and Desire to purchase your product. Where do they place your product in their priority list? Are businesses with 100 employees more likely to respond to your training system than businesses with 1,000?
Putting it all together
Markets are defined as groups that have the Money available to purchase your product, the authority to say yes, the desire for your product to fix a problem they have, and will respond to your marketing mix. A Target market is one that has all of these attributes in greater concentration.
Your job as an social media marketer is to define the MAD-R for your business / products, find where your target market hangs out online, and then build your messaging and interactions around what you've learned about them along the way.
Listening tools (like Google Alerts or Radian 6), information aggregation tools (like Alexa and Compete), and active information gathering tools (like surveys, questionnaires) are going to be some of your greatest tools in figuring this out.
This isn't an easy thing to figure out, it takes some serious time and effort (a marketing researcher basically spends 40 hours a week figuring this stuff out). However, the more you can define your market, the better image you have of your customer, the more information you have the better your strategies, campaigns, and successes will be.
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SemanticWeb.com "Innovation Spotlight" Interview with Elliot Turner, CEO of AlchemyAPI.
If you would like your company to be considered for an interview please email editor[ at ]semanticweb[ dot ]com.
In this segment of our "Innovation Spotlight" we spoke with Elliot Turner (@eturner303), the founder and CEO of AlchemyAPI.com. AlchemyAPI's cloud-based platform processes around 2.5 billion requests per month. Elliot describes how their API helps companies with sentiment analysis, entity extraction, linked data, text mining, and keyword extraction.
Sean: Hi Elliot, thanks for joining us, how did AlchemyAPI get started?
Elliot: AlchemyAPI was founded in 2005 and in the past seven years has become one of the most widely used semantic analysis APIs, processing billions of transactions monthly for customers across dozens of countries.
I am the Founder and CEO and a serial entrepreneur who comes from the information security space. My previous company built and sold high-speed network security appliances. After it was acquired, I started AlchemyAPI to focus on the problem of understanding natural human language and written communications.
Sean: Can you describe how your API works? What does it allow your customers to accomplish?
Elliot: Customers submit content via a cloud-based API, and AlchemyAPI analyzes that information in real-time, transforming opaque blobs of text into structured data that can be used to drive a number of business functions. The service is capable of processing thousands of customer transactions every second, enabling our customers to perform large-scale text analysis and content analytics without significant capital investment.
Examples of customer use cases include: Analyzing tweets for positive / negative sentiment, processing SEC filings for companies to drive automated stock trading platforms, social media monitoring and business intelligence, powering recommendation engines and contextual advertising platforms, semantically-powered search engine optimization and competitive intelligence.
Sean: Can you give us a few examples of how companies are monetizing your API?
Elliot: Yes, we have quite a few well-known companies using our API for interesting applications:
* PR Newswire leverages AlchemyAPI to power its "Agility" social media monitoring and targeting platform.
* Salesforce.com's Radian6 platform uses AlchemyAPI to perform large-scale crawling and analysis of news and blog content.
* Waggener Edstrom uses AlchemyAPI to identify key "Internet influencers" for specific topics and to help PR professionals target stories to the press.
* A number of Internet advertising networks use AlchemyAPI to provide better, more-targeted contextual ads, incorporating sentiment analysis and other advanced features not seen in competing keyword-based ad platforms.
* Business intelligence software providers use AlchemyAPI to understand their customer's unstructured data, providing key insights into ongoing operations.
Sean: Where does your API draw its information from?
Elliot: AlchemyAPI operates in three modes:
1. It is capable of analyzing any content sent directly to the service via the API. Customers use this mode of operation to analyze internal data, document repositories, or other content archives.
2. It provides web crawling functionality, making it possible to analyze content that exists on the public Internet. Social media monitoring firms and other companies use this capability to analyze blogs, news websites, and other online content sources.
3. It can integrate with "Data Firehose" providers, such as GNIP or MoreOver, enabling real-time analysis of billions of tweets, social media updates, and other content.
Sean: How does your API work with Linked Data and what types of applications are people using this capability for?
Elliot: AlchemyAPI was one of the first semantic analysis platforms to embrace RDF and the Linked Data standards, and has provided these capabilities for a number of years.
AlchemyAPI links semantically analyze text to 3rd-party data-sets in the "Linked Data Cloud" such as: Dbpedia, Freebase, Opencyc, Geonames, and many others. AlchemyAPI customers can then access structured data that describes the people, companies, organizations, and topics mentioned in analyzed documents.
We've seen a number of interesting usages of Linked Data. For instance, an academic research group constructed a "Disease Tracker" application that tracked the outbreak of diseases across different cities, states, and countries. They leveraged Linked Data to provide real-time demographics, life-expectancy stats, and other information for regions experiencing disease outbreaks.
Sean: Your API offers a lot of features. Which ones are most popular?
Elliot: We offer a bunch of APIs (12+) for analyzing content in a variety of ways. Named entity extraction, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, and fact/relation extraction are some of our most popular APIs. However all of our APIs incur significant usage within any 24-hour period.
What techniques are you using for Entity extraction?
AlchemyAPI uses a hybrid approach incorporating deep linguistic processing and statistical analysis. We're tokenizing text, breaking it down into its basic components (nouns, verbs, etc.), applying shallow and deep linguistic parsing techniques, co-reference resolution, and finally a process we call Named Entity Disambiguation." This linguistic approach is supplemented with a statistical view of the data. We've found a hybrid approach provides the best accuracy across a wide variety of content sources: From grammatically-correct editorialized text all the way down to badly written misspelled tweets.
Disambiguation enables us to go a step further than many other entity extraction solutions, answering questions like "Is this Paris TX? Or Paris France? Or Paris Hilton?"
Sean: How does your sentiment analysis API work? Are you able to analyze raw data from social networks like Twitter and Facebook?
Elliot: AlchemyAPI has 5 different sentiment analysis APIs, providing a wide range of capabilities for looking at opinion-based content. This includes document or sentence-level APIs, entity and keyword-targeted APIs, user-targetable APIs, quotation-based sentiment analysis, and even "directional sentiment analysis."
Directional sentiment is interesting in that we expose not only who/what the sentiment is expressed towards (positive sentiment towards Coca-Cola), but also who is responsible for that opinion. This enables you to determine not only the "why" but the "who."
Our service processes many millions of posts from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook every day for our customers and partners.
You also have a Keyword Extraction feature. Can you tell us how this works?
Keyword extraction is a complimentary API to named entity extraction, focusing more on identifying abstract concepts such as green energy, quantum physics, etc. Named entities, on the other hand, provide information on real-world people, places, companies, and things.
AlchemyAPI uses a hybrid approach here as well, incorporating deep linguistic parsing and statistical analysis, to identify topical keywords, ranking, scoring and computing their sentiment. Our ad network customers love this API.
Sean: Do you have a free trial for users to test your API?
Elliot: Definitely, you can test the API at: http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/register.html. It allows developers to sign up and process up to 1k API calls per day.
Thanks so much for your time Elliot!
Join the discussion. Please let us know what you would have asked below.
About the Author:
Sean Golliher (@seangolliher) is an adjunct professor of search engines and social networks at MSU and is a member of their computer science advisory board. He is also the founder and publisher of SEMJ.org. Sean holds four engineering patents, has a B.S. in physics from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a master's in electrical engineering from Washington State University. He is also president and director of search marketing at Future Farm, Inc., Bozeman MT, where he focuses on search marketing, internet research, and consults for large companies. He has appeared and been interviewed on well-known blogs and radio stations such as Clickz.com, Webmasterradio.com, and SEM Synergy. To maintain a competitive edge he reads search patents, papers, and attends search marketing conferences on a regular basis.


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Warner Bros. Sends Set Supervisor to Namibia for MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Assistance
by Dave Trumbore Posted 2 years, 61 days ago
A new overseer has been assigned to the Namibia-based filming location of director George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road. Concerns about the film falling behind schedule and beginning to go over budget (not to mention the cost of flying executives to and from Africa) have necessitated the placement of Warner Bros. producer, Denise Di Novi on location. While she won't have producer credits on the film, Di Novi will be responsible for supervising the production as a "studio representative." The film, which started shooting in July, is reportedly still expected to wrap by the end of November.
Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Nicholas Hoult and Zoe Kravitz, is due out next year. Hit the jump for more.


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Finally!!!! Now kaitlyn just doesn't need to over think it and take Gandalfs advice! I wish your story was not so entrapping as I really need to be studying XD
Oh no!!! She can't die, but seeing how there are more chapters following my fingers are crossed she lives! It's good to see that change in her character. And the man of Rohan is redeeming himself helping her to the caves. Can't wait to finish!
Ahhh they left her, but it's probably for the best, she wouldn't end up to well I don't think. Hopefully she can make herself feel useful, she must feel so in the way at times.
We just had to have a cliff hanger didn't we?! right when hse was about to tell him! guess I'll have to read on to see what happened and see if my thoughts are correct.
Im am glad that you did not make her a wonderful fighter in this battle like I have seen so many do. It is one thing growing up to learn it, but not in a months time. Her wekness was shown and thats a good thing to me. I cannot wait to keep reading.
Hmmm so we've got a little more, albeit small, but of her past. Obviously the injury causes her much pain, maybe it leads to her fear of daggers/knives? Hmmm much to wonder about. Ohh and the next battle is coming, what on earth will she do?
So I am interested in why it is she is so afraid of knives, and you mentioned past memories when boromir struck her. Makes me think something happened to her or she saw something in her own world to cause it, guess I have to wait and read more to find out!
I must say I an intrigued by the story, it's one of the few girl falls into middle earth I've read but I'm wanting to I've it a shot and so far I like and I like your writing style! Can't wait to read more
OMG!!! This is amazing :D i cant wait for the next chapter!!!
Omg! this is so good!!! Please Please Please add a new chapter quickly! Dont leave me hanging!!!
yaaaknow.. this.. IS JUST SO DAMN SAD! stupid not really death but still realistic enough to look like death! STUPID EMOTIONALL ME XDD even tough your oc does not know gandalf really well its still nice to see she cares..
holy craps that was awesum XD
I have read and followed the story so far.
Let me just tell you this:
It is a great story. You balance the concept of Tolkien's story versus your own, with your own character incredibly well.
I work as an author in my country and thererfore I can only say that with this talent of yours I am confident that you would earn money writing novels and perhaps even a book? Who's to say. There fore I place my hope on this fanfiction and will continue reading it. I hope next chapter comes out soon, as I am very much looking forward to it.
I see you haven't updated in 6 years. That's a real, real shame. This story is truly incredible. So much so I've been up all night reading it all the way through - it's now 6am! I do not know if you will get this, I hope you do. I don't know what made you stop writing, but I hope you are well. This story was a proper rollercoaster ride. When Kaitlyn was crying, I was crying. When her heart was racing, well I'll be damned, my heart wanted to break out of my chest! You're writing was so expressive that I felt EXACTLY what she was feeling. It was so amazing to read and experience that. This has to be the best LOTR fic I've read, if not one of the best FF's I've read. I hope one day you return, though I see that's doubtful with so many years that have passed.
I saw you mentioned earlier you had a FF account, so I'm going to search on there to see if you continued to update or not. I do hope so. :)
Thank you.
I see that you haven't updated in a while and you probably won't finish the story but I'd just like to say how wonderful this story is!!!
T^T Pleaseeeee even though it's been a long time, pleeeasseee update!!!
Kaitlyn and Legolas's romance is just so beautiful! It's so easy to love Kaitlyn too!!!
*chant from the crowed*
We Want More!!!
We Want More!!!
Seeing as you haven't updated in a while I assume you've left the site. However, I have some comments:
If it is possible, could you get rid of the extra lines in between parargraphs? They make the next harder and less enjoyable to read.
I really like this story. (Yeah, fail of a comment, but whatever)
It seems as though you aren't going to continue the story which makes me sad T^T I love this story so much! I love how Kaitlyn is so real and not so mary sue-ish hehe
I got left in such a cliff hanger..how will they end up together?!!!
Hello there.
As you haven't updated since 2005 I will say only this,
Wherever you are I hope you are well, and I thank you for writing an amazing piece of fiction.


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Cyber-criminals are using Irish people's confidence in the Apple iTunes brand to launch phising attacks, according to a leading Irish network security company.
Apple users are often known for their confidence when it came to online threats, believing their platform keeps them safe from any threats, ESET Ireland said.
But that confidence can work against them when it comes to social engineering, particularly phishing, as they tend to trust "official" looking websites more and cybercriminals know and abuse this to the maximum. "Phishers" create elaborate websites that look similar to iTunes, but their sole purpose is to collect account information.
A very realistic looking phishing email is being received by Irish users, using the usual Apple visual clues and leading to a faked ITunes Connect login site (its address is associated with malware distribution by several antivirus vendors) which harvests login details of users. It still lets you in if you enter any made-up nonsense though.
Once "logged in", the page asks you to "confirm" many of your personal details, including your credit card number and security code, as well as your Social Security number if you happen to be American, your password and sort code.
Even though Apple would never ask their users for any of this information via email and warns exactly against such phishing on their support website, many users are still convinced by the look and feel of the site.
If anyone has entered their login details, they handed them over to the cybercriminals and should therefore change them immediately. If they supplied them with any additional information, such as their credit card details, they should cancel their card and make all other steps to limit the potential damage of having revealed their sensitive information.


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I read the post about wearing your twins and saw that some used 2 Ergos. All we have now is 1 Baby Bjorn. If you have 1 or 2 Ergos, do you like them? Are they comfy? How old should the baby be to start using them and for how long can you use them (age or weight)? I thought it would be useful to have an Ergo or 2 too.
The twins are starting to be awake more, but I also have a 2 yr old and 4 yr old to take care of. It would be nice to wear both but not sure how realistic that is. Thanks for any help.


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Firing Tim Cook: Apple Should Leave That Option Open
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- There's nothing more interesting than studying investor psychology.
Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt wrote a must-read piece (see the link at the end of this article) on what happens when investors get too emotional over a stock. DeWitt narrates a real-life worst-case scenario where an Apple (AAPL)-only hedge fund manager loses millions in client money. It's all gone. Just like that.
I have interacted with that fund manager several times over email. While we had our differences, I have no reason to believe he's anything other than a) a good person and b) distraught over what went down. So, that said, I am not here to kick him when he's hurting; rather I want to do two things in this article:
1. Outline, with a look in my eerily accurate rearview mirror, the process of what happens when emotion takes over; and2. Apply that psychology to the notion -- which I introduced Monday -- that Apple's Board should, at the very least, consider making a move with Tim Cook. For as much time as I have defended the still-dominant Apple in recent months, ever since Steve Jobs' death I have taken a long-term bearish stance on the company and, generally, been neutral to bearish on the stock. On several occasions, I discussed the role of emotion and how it was fixing to blow up quite a few overweight AAPL accounts.
Quick disclaimer: I don't rehash this stuff to show you how "right" I was -- because, heck, we can find equal parts "wrong" -- rather I do this because it can save investors from easily avoidable pain. Most recently, from Jan. 25:
To dig your heels in -- because selling now would compoundAnd, from way back on April 27, 2012:
your original mistake . . . -- are famous last words for so many investors . . . that type of "strategy" . . . would crush quite a few retail portfolios.
With each victory, you become all the more certain that there's no way -- God willing -- you can be defeated. A little bit of loyalty, and Tim Cook and China will take care of the rest.
Ironically, seeing profits slowly start to get smaller only strengthens your resolve. You hold. You listen to the pumps to buy on the dips. And it keeps working. You're rich. But for every disciplined investor who manages his or her position properly, there's at least one devotee who stays all-in and keeps digging himself or herself a deeper hole. Before you know it, your otherwise rational mind fooled you into staying in a position from 700 down to 250 because you just knew it had to make it to 1,000. It was destiny.That's the process of emotion we have seen unfold with AAPL in recent months. Investors get emotionally attached to the name, go all-in -- or close to it -- and often leverage their positions with call options. Recipe for almost-certain disaster, if not now, if not with AAPL, at some other time, with some other stock. Anyway, Apple, as a company, finds itself in a similar spot. It has gone all-in on Tim Cook. That decision "got made" (sometimes poorish grammar just sounds better!) on Steve Jobs' watch. I acknowledged this reality Monday:
Steve Jobs is gone. Yes. One of his final decisions might end up being one of his biggest mistakes -- leaving the CEO gig to Tim Cook. (Others, including the folks at MacDailyNews, will say Jobs erred most in the way he handled his cancer treatment. Maybe so, but I just can't bring myself to go there.)
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Why did Sog retain the older version's bolt action style lock and add the Arc Locks lock release mechanism? Wouldn't it have been easier and simpler to manufacture to have just stayed with the straight pull lock release setup?
The straight pull blade release tended to be a bit of a pain to use. Frequently stiff and stubborn to release.
Don't know that the Flashs "needed" the arc, but they were using it on most of the other knives and it seems logical to change the Flashs to the same thing.
It does improve the Flash2.
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Jessica Simpson took to Twitter to share a new pregnancy photo of herself – she's looking VERY pregnant!
Simpson writes: "We are loving Laguna…and yes, I'm wearing flip flops!"
Something tells us it's all about comfort at this point in her pregnancy.
Jessica is wearing a black strapless maxi dress, paired with an oversized cardigan… and yes, flip flops!
OK! Magazine reports that Jessica's fiancé, Eric Johnson, will be gifting her with a $30,000 "push present" – jewelry purchased from an Italian jeweler on the island of Capri.
That seems silly, if it's true. Since when do women get extravagant gifts for having a baby?
The magazine quotes a source as saying: "He made a big deal about how ridiculous he thought the idea of push presents was, so she has no idea that she'll be getting anything at all. He loves to surprise her, which is why he's pretending he hasn't got anything, but he's actually planning to totally spoil her. He didn't just get her one thing – he really went crazy!"
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Two Major Artists Booked for Gospel Fest 2013Grammy-nominated artist Anita Wilson, along with J.J. Hairston and Youthful Praise will headline Gospelfest 2013: Reach Out and Praise
J.J. Hairston and Anita Wilson are the two headlining acts for this year's Gospelfest, held as part of the University of the Pacific's Black History Month Celebration
Grammy-nominated artist Anita Wilson, along with J.J. Hairston and Youthful Praise will headline Gospelfest 2013: Reach Out and Praise. The concert is part of the annual Black History Month celebration at University of the Pacific
The event will be held Friday, Feb. 15 at Progressive Community Church, 2820 South B Street in Stockton. Gospelfest 2013: Reach Out and Praise starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at go.Pacific.edu/Gospelfest2013 or at the Box Office on Pacific's campus.
"We are excited to bring this year's concert to Stockton and hope to inspire and encourage our community. We are thankful to Progressive Community Church in South Stockton for once again partnering with us to host this event at their facility," said Randall Ogans, the event's lead organizer and co-chair of the Black History Month planning committee. "Their performances are sure to honor the true intent of gospel music, which is to boldly proclaim a message of hope that renews our strength to persevere together, even in the midst of these hard economic times."
This will be Wilson's first appearance at Gospelfest. She is a three-time Stellar Award nominee and comes from the rich musical heritage known as the Chicago sound. She is best known for her work as a worship leader and featured vocalist in the award-winning ensemble Donald Lawrence & Company. Her debut solo project, "Worship Soul," was recorded live at the historic Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. The album's lead single is featured on "WOW Gospel 2012," a collection of 30 of 2011's most popular songs. Along with acclaimed songwriter/producer Rick Robinson, Anita co-produced an album that contains songs that range from soulful to fiery to meditative. Last week, "Worship Soul" received a Grammy nomination for Best Gospel Album.
For the past 10 years, J.J. Hairston and Youthful Praise have been ministering to people around the country with their songs centered on the themes of praise and worship. Their sixth album "After This (Light Records/eOne)" takes the choir in a slightly different direction by singing songs of encouragement in the midst of the difficult times. The group's mission is to spread a message of love, hope and victory through faith in God. "After This" hit number one on the Billboard gospel charts earlier this spring.
Originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut, Youthful Praise has performed with gospel greats such as Pastor Shirley Caesar, Hezekiah Walker and Dorinda Clark Cole. Their debut album, "Awesome God," earned them two Stellar Award nominations, a Soul Train Award nomination and the Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA) Excellence Award for Choir of the Year.
Gospelfest started in 2000 as part of the University's celebration of African-American history and heritage. Over the years, the concert has featured a number of local and nationally-known artists, from Pacific student-band Tipping Point to Marvin Sapp, winner of gospel music's most prestigious award, the Dove, and whose single "Never Would Have Made It" became the longest running No. 1 gospel single in Billboard's history at 42 weeks.
The concert is one of many events planned throughout February for Pacific's celebration of Black History Month. Other events include a poetry reading, round-table discussions and guest lecturers. This year's keynote speaker is Grammy Award-winning singer Anthony Hamilton, who will lecture and perform on Thursday, Feb. 7 at the Bob Hope Theatre, 242 E. Main St., in downtown Stockton. An additional speaker, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, will speak on Feb. 26, 7 p.m. in the Faye Spanos Concert Hall.
For more information about Pacific's Black History Month Celebration, visit http://go.pacific.edu/BlackHistory.


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Using one eye, I peeked out from behind the old wooden shed. My quarry for the past 24 days, the non-typical monster buck that had occupied all my recent dreams, had just appeared and was on a trail leading to me.
Its body was angled slightly toward me at just over 30 yards. I eased back out of sight to draw my bow. I found my anchor point, and leaned forward to take the shot.
The old buck caught my movement, stopped and stared at me while I concentrated on releasing the arrow as soon as my 30-yard pin came mid-level on its chest and a couple of inches behind the shoulder blade.
I released, and the arrow penetrated its ribs slightly back from my point of aim and failed to pass through.
The buck immediately spun and bounded down a hill toward a thicket with the fletching visibly protruding from its left side.
My 24-day quest for a very special white-tailed deer had led me to this moment of exhilaration, this moment that was now turning into anxiety, because this was not a typical hunt, nor was this a garden-variety buck.
Getting Inspired
I have been hunting bucks for 47 years, using every method imaginable, mostly with a firearm. But I've also bowhunted occasionally with some success, taking a few does and small-racked bucks in my career.
In 2009, I was inspired by watching hunting shows to upgrade my archery outfit and start getting serious.
I took a nice 8-pointer in 2010 and gained valuable experience hunting does. These experiences and getting familiar with my new weapon helped prepare me for the shot of a lifetime.
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Earlier in the Mississippi gun season, I ran into my friend Ben. He lived in a residential neighborhood that adjoined a wooded area. Deer had been getting in his garden, and he asked if I'd like to come arrow one. I agreed to help thin the herd, but I hadn't set a plan into action.
Then Ben emailed me a picture and asked if I would like to hunt for "this deer."
At first, I didn't see anything except trees, but I looked closer and barely made out a deer. I zoomed in closer and closer until I could see all kinds of points, stickers and antlers going everywhere!
I immediately called Ben and told him I'd be over tomorrow. And, please, I asked him, please don't tell anyone about this buck.
I knew I'd invest the remaining seven weeks of the season hunting this one deer if that's what it took.
A buck this big is a rarity, especially for this part of Mississippi, and it was well worth changing my plans for the season.
I met Ben the next afternoon and scouted his property. He showed me plenty of deer sign and tracks beating down three trails through his place.
I placed one trail camera and set up a climber and a ground blind in a promising location.
My second bow season began December 5, and I felt confident in making a shot up to 47 yards.
The game camera caught the old monster buck several times during the next two weeks, both night and day, obviously when I wasn't there.
The last snapshot was taken the afternoon of the 17th while I was out of town. The old buck was following a doe, and I smiled, knowing the rut was just beginning.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
I continued hunting for the monster every chance I had and soon realized sitting in the woods near a residential area is definitely not a typical hunting experience.
More than half the time was wasted because of disturbances of all types-dogs spooking deer, loud voices, music, banging doors, kids yelling, construction projects or folks just wandering through the woods.
The quiet times were sparse, primarily at dawn, dusk and when it was raining or really cold and windy. I saw plenty of deer movement at these times, but never caught sight of my monster.
On December 28, after 15 days of sitting on Ben's property, I headed out early to hunt for an hour or so, arriving just before dawn.
About a half mile from Ben's, the headlights of my truck fell on a buck crossing the road, but I couldn't make out detail at first. It stopped just off the road behind some low tree limbs.
I stopped, too, but still couldn't clearly see. Then, after a short pause, it continued walking and passed through an open area. I saw the left side of the rack and knew it was the monster I was after.
This was the first time I had laid eyes on the deer since my vigil began more than three weeks earlier.
I watched it turn into a strip of woods that led to Ben's property, so I wasted no time getting there, scrambling to gather my gear and rush to the ground blind.
It was still dark when I zipped myself in, and I soon heard sounds of deer passing through the property a scant 30 or 40 yards away, but it was still too dark to see.
Dawn arrived and I neither heard nor saw anything other than squirrels and birds.
After sitting in the blind for a couple of hours, I peeked out at Ben's house on the hilltop and saw him in his kitchen. I figured the buck had gone into the thickets to snooze after running around all night.
I had to leave to pick up materials for a project, but dropped by to tell Ben the good news about seeing the buck.
He was excited to hear the buck was still alive and back in his neighborhood, but he also had some news to tell me.
One of his neighbors had seen evidence of another hunter on a vacant property nearby. I decided to walk over and see if I had competition for this buck.
I placed my bow and gear in my truck and walked over to the vacant property, but my phone vibrated with a call from Ben.
I was about 75 yards from my truck when he said he'd just seen a deer in the woods on his neighbor's property.
"I think it's him," Ben said. "You'd better get back there right now!"
I ran back to my truck, grabbed my gear, stalked back to the garden area and peeked around the corner of the old wooden shed.
Replaying the shot
After my shot hit the buck, I played it over in my head, and I felt sure the arrow had pierced at least one lung. I theorized the arrow had also hit the paunch, which likely prevented a pass-through.
I went inside Ben's house and told him everything. He was also excited. We decided to wait 30 minutes and then search for the blood trail.
After a long, anxious half-hour, we found and followed sporadic bright red blood droplets that were flung off as the bounding buck's feet hit the ground.
The blood trail increased slightly after 40 yards, and at 60 yards, we found the nock end of the arrow covered in blood.
At 70 yards the blood trail crossed a shallow creek. I had on rubber boots so I crossed, but Ben went farther down to find a footbridge.
The trail went up the creek bank to the edge of a pasture and turned left, then stopped about five yards from of a cane thicket.
The buck had blown out a grapefruit-sized, thick puddle of bright red blood there, but after that, nothing.
Ben and I quietly discussed the bubbles in the blood, the likely damage and our options.
After we'd stood there whispering for about three or four minutes, the buck suddenly jumped up in the cane and moved back into the pasture. All it could manage was an awkward trot.
We could tell it was badly hurt after it stopped in brush 60 yards away, visibly swaying. I told Ben we should leave him alone for several hours. Surely, it couldn't go far.
If it had been close to a neighbor's house, we wouldn't have had the luxury of waiting that long. Thankfully, it was near the brushy creek instead. We left the area and agreed to meet at his house in three hours.
I drove home and picked up my 4-wheeler and managed to wait as long as I could - almost three hours.
Then I went alone to the spot where the buck was last seen and followed the blood trail about eight yards to the edge of a field of sage grass.
As I looked out into the grass, I saw a stalk move slightly against the wind. I eased to the right and there was the buck, lying on its side.
Its head moved slightly but it appeared to be done for. Still, I released another arrow into its heart, just to be sure.
What elation! My quest was over! I held the rack to make sure it was real and enjoyed my moment. It was an exceptional buck, a trophy anyone would be proud to have taken.
But there's more to this old buck's history.
It had a large protrusion on the left side of his jawbone. When I caped out the head, I noticed the jawbone was missing some teeth, so I removed and saved it.
Later, a friend offered to x-ray the jawbone. The x-rays revealed of a tiny metal fragment. This buck had probably been shot in the jaw, resulting in the fracture and loss of teeth.
A reliable witness claims to have seen the buck during the previous four winters, and said its rack had not changed much except to get heavier, indicating it was 5 to 7-years-old.
The old, gray monster's mount is currently on display in a sporting goods store in Starkville, Miss., for other deer hunters to enjoy. I know that many will dream about taking an old monster like this one during the upcoming season.
Looking back, it sure is a blessing to have friends like Ben. I thank him every time that I see him!
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