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How do you write great family or corporate print, online, or video newsletters and help other people to write their outstanding annual family newsletter, the type that gets put into time capsules for future generations? Think of how many ways you can customize a family newsletter of the type that's usually sent out each year. You can turn newsletters into board games, computer game scripts, or put them in those time capsules to be opened every new century by descendants. You may wish to check out this author's book, Creating Family Newsletters & Time Capsules: How to Publish Multimedia Genealogy Periodicals or Gift Booklets by Anne Hart (Jun 5, 2006).
Tired of only paper print annual family newsletters? Try multimedia--video with text, music, voice, and pictures. Put warmth, kindness, and inspiration into photos, video, and text to cheer up viewers and readers. The annual family video and print newsletter, handwritten newsletter template using circles for messages and squares for photos, or a photo and text calendar delivers energy through celebration of life. Use a new, dramatic viewpoint, what's called a fresh news angle. It's something so new that viewers learn information that can be used in a different way.
Make multimedia newsletters
It's like discovering hidden markets or exploring new patterns and spaces. What are the unique qualities of your information? Contrast and balance the dynamic imagery.
What actions can you use? Emphasize what the family (or corporate) tradition represents. How do visionary events, change, the future, and reality contrast or compare with solidarity, energy, roots, genealogy, and tradition? How does it all work together as energy and character that provide the foundation of the family or corporation? These tips can be used both for video or print family newsletters and corporate case history success story newsletters.
- Children: Have each child write about what they have done or are doing on an annual basis. If the child is too young, summarize in a short paragraph any updates.
- Parents: Keep a separate business newsletter for updates on your business. Decide whether you want to talk about acts of kindness, promote yourself or your achievements, or ask about others. What's left to discuss? Repairing the house? Choose a topic you want to emphasize that is universal, simple, and about values and commitment or teach a new subject to your readers with universal appeal with which they all can identify.
- Information: How efficient and effective is your news information? Be informative rather than directive. Present information instead of giving them directions as commands. What are you expert at? What are you beginning to study that eventually you will have acquired expertise? What do you have time to do and write about that is not overwhelming you with overwork?
- Shorten Text: Use large page margins on your newsletter text. Keep videos to 7 minutes before you break for another topic so viewers can pause. On videos, don't read from a script. Talk into the camera.
- Charisma: Be passionate, enthusiastic, and charismatic in your writing. Use humor and jokes in good taste. Use the element of surprise for humor, not disdain. Instead of flat writing, emphasize acts of kindness you and your children have done.
- Kindness: What behavior helps your writing to be more animated rather than flat in tone and mood or texture? Each act of kindness measures a range of change in your growth. Emphasize the range of change as forward movement. Let your newsletter "pay it forward" as it has been said in support groups, by encouraging readers to keep passing forward the acts of kindness to others as a choice for growth, change, and vision.
- Balance: Each topic should be equal in length or at least balanced. Don't write the entire newsletter about one topic and then squeeze in a paragraph on another issue.
- Relationships: Explain and define who each person is. Put a date on each event or photo along with the name and the relationship. Example: This is a photo of ABCD, my paternal niece taken on July 4, 2006, at the World's Fair in EFGH, California.
- Scrapbooks on DVDs: Decide whether you want your newsletter in text and on a CD or DVD or in print/paper/text form with different information from an interview or life story highlights placed on DVDs or CDs that you enclose with the paper newsletter. Or would you send the newsletter as a PDF file by email? A document file? Mailed in an envelope as a paper? Or saved on DVD as text along with video, with the print edition mailed together? Provide formats such that anyone can read the dated information with or without a machine to play the disc.
- Time Capsules of Humor: Use uplifting, tasteful jokes, poems, art, video, writing, life story highlights, and volunteer work experiences to connect your extended family to community service which extends your family of humankind's accomplishments even further. Create an annual time capsule from your conception of an annual family newsletter or video newsletter. The time capsule then becomes an heirloom that can be conserved and preserved for future generations cataloged by year.
What to Include
Corporate Case Histories and Success Stories or Extended Families' News
Your family video or print newsletter can be a business that you do for other clients. Decide whether you'd like to do corporate case histories and success stories or family history and genealogy as newsletters either in print and text paper or on DVDs and CDs or all of these for all types of clients-family, corporate, or professional, educational/institutional.
A professional newsletter could focus on a medical or legal practice, for example, or other professional. A business newsletter can emphasize the work of a corporation, its history, or an individual business. One example would be the work of a contractor or developer, architect, or independent teacher, dentist, engineer, computer programmer, artist, musician, author, consultant, or life, job, and image coach.
Family newsletters could reach out to extended families or include alumni reunions, genealogy and DNA-driven family history and ancestry surname groups. You choose your emphasis. Include more types of newsletters, whether DVD or text.
Place these items into your video newsletter
- Significant events
- Life stories
- Travel photos
- Photos of events such as weddings, graduations, or grand openings
- News of births or childbirth video clips (leave out the gore)
- Summaries
- Jokes
- Memorabilia and trivia with useful facts, such as statistics
- Joy of life and fun events
- Wise sayings and original proverbs or quotes with source of origin
- Mourning and/or celebration of life events
- Hobbies, crafts, art, writings, poems
- Sports enjoyed
- Reading group: Start a family or corporate book club and discuss reading
- Old time radio clubs, public domain video, or exchanging gifts of purchased videos from stores
- Make your own family videos and exchange them—such as graduations and birthdays
- Celebrations marking rites of passage, anniversaries, cruises, or other events marking dates
- Scrap booking or quilting tips for those interested
- Poems and skits
- Monologues
- Genealogy and DNA-driven genealogy reports
- Food preferences or allergies
- Reunions and suggesting video conference reunions for those not able to travel
- Free courses to family members in what you are expert at doing
- Instruction in putting video on DVDs and CDs for family newsletters or desktop publishing tips for those who want to make their own newsletters
- Military experiences or war stories
- Survival stories
- Computer skill tips
- Making natural, non-toxic cleaning or bug repellents from household kitchen baking ingredients such as cinnamon, baking soda, vinegar, or cream of tartar
- Finding hidden markets for bargains of quality at better prices and activities
How Much Time to Spend on Each Newsletter
If you want to email a newsletter, use a template and follow the template's guide. It will take you about two hours per issue for a two-page newsletter. Allow yourself an hour per page if you've already written the news and just need to cut and paste it from your computer file onto a newsletter template that you can email.
Other choices include writing a newsletter as a personal letter. If you use a newsletter template and print out each copy on your laser printer, it takes about six hours just to write the features for a standard newsletter of multiple pages. If your pages increase to the business type of eight-page newsletter, allow yourself at least one full day's work. This doesn't include the time it takes to write the articles.
That's why putting life stories and memoirs on DVDs or CDs and including them in a little paper or plastic envelope in the newsletter, mailed in a protected, rigid mailer could allow you to summarize the events in the paper newsletter. You'd be brief, and let the speaker on the video tell the story in a half hour or even up to an hour. Remember that talking heads are difficult to pay attention to for more than seven minutes without a break or pause between files to click on.
How Many Copies
Is your annual video and text print newsletter, booklet, or time capsule destined for a small family, extended family, students and teachers, and the archives of a personal history/oral history university library or museum? If you're sending your newsletter to dozens of people, upload it to the Web and let them download it.
Also offer it on a DVD or CD as well as in print as a document that can be emailed as a document file or as a PDF file to be read in Adobe Acrobat software. Readers can download Adobe Acrobat reader free online. The software reads PDF files. The good point about PDF files is that you can typeset them like a book or newsletter using your template or saving any document as a PDF file. Otherwise, save your newsletter as a document file.
If you only have a few people to mail to, you can also use a Web site or you can make photo newsletters using an ink jet printer or color copier and mail them as paper newsletters. Include a DVD or CD anyway with talks, life story highlights, or other events that are recorded using video or even audio.
People like to look at other people in family history newsletters
For relatives who have disabilities, use the appropriate format—video, audio, or print. For blind relatives, use the services of a Braille transcriber or save the document in a format that can be read on a computer using accessibility technology your relative already has. Ask the person what format he or she prefers in which to receive a document.
If you have too many relatives or clients for the expense of using a color copier for photos, print them out as black and white documents, or print black and white photos on flesh-colored paper. There are such conveniences as pre-printed paper, post card photos, and photos on tee shirts or mugs as gifts.
For short one-page newsletters, you can have newsletters with photos printed on tee shirts and offer them as gifts. Same can be said for framed plaques and other art objects. Poems may be framed.
Short skits and monologues may be put on newsletters ranging from one to eight pages in length. It's all about your budget.
Email won't cost you if you're sending to many people, unless your email service provider charges for bulk email. Send the email one at a time to relatives or clients if you're using the relatively 'free' email you normally use to send memos. Send the email from home, not from work, unless you work for yourself at home.
Post cards would only cost about $20 or less to design, but you'd have to print them out from a computer or send photos to a film developing or digital photography processing company to put on the postcards. It costs about $35 to write a black and white newsletter and print it out to send to a few relatives. Count on about $75 for pre-printed stationary with color print. Talk to printers who do discount or print-on-demand publishing of newsletters. Take a course in desktop publishing at a local adult education center.
Four-page newsletters, the standard in business for corporate case history success stories cost $100 to $200 to prepare. You also need to fold them for mailing with pre-printed stamps or places for stamps to be pasted, and envelopes. If you're doing an eight-page newsletter, it will cost you more than double because first class postage is limited to one ounce.
Online family newsletters save postage expenses or time when addresses change
Be sure to check with your post office for current newsletter mailing rates. It might be less expensive to put audio or video clips on a CD or DVD. Save the audio as MP3 files to get more talk on one disc. Photos, video, and text can go on any one DVD.
Or, with less information, photos, video, and text can be placed on a CD. With DVDs costing only a dollar or so per disc, you might make frequent use of your camcorder by producing an annual newsletter on a DVD or CD in multimedia. Defined, multimedia means photos, video, audio, text, and sounds such as music or talking all can be saved and played on one DVD or CD.
You can play the disc on any computer or save it to the type of file that may be played on usual DVD players that play video. CDs with audio and photos also can be sent as a newsletter along with text saved on the CD or mailed as print or both. If the person doesn't have a computer at the other end, use paper, but if they have a DVD player, video brings people to life along with text. And video can be played generations after the relatives are gone. That's why multimedia is a great time capsule. You can capture video, art, photos, text, music, voices, textures, tones, and moods.
Corporate, Educational, or Family Newsletters Are Visual Anthropology: Scrap booking Photos to Video Newsletters
When you crop, size, or edit photos, you trim them on your computer to fit your print or video newsletter template. Don't waste space in your newsletter with tiny photos that can't be seen when printed. Print fewer, but larger photos, and don't make them so large that you can see the grains. It's best to use your photo digital imaging software to correct red eye or cut off an object above a head.
A photo also can be cut with a scissors and pasted on a sheet of paper, then scanned to get rid of plants growing out of a person's head or other intrusive objects. Use two photos to tell a story. Edit out of a picture too much sky and crop the photo about a quarter inch over everyone's head and below their feet. It saves space in your newsletter.
Family reunions and handwritten or multimedia newsletters
Choose your location before gathering the whole family reunion. Have the lighting in place before the people congregate. Don't keep children waiting while you're setting up. You can put a short newsletter on reunion tee shirts and photograph the entire group in the same uniform or dress color or historic costume.
For effect, if your ancestors arrived in prehistoric times, 1632, or today, you might photograph an entire reunion group of current descendants in costumes of those eras you choose to emphasize if each can afford to make historical wear—or plan unique food and modern dress.
Staging and photographing family or corporate reunions is a hobby or home-based business that may be done for a variety of clients. Photo scrapbooks may be turned into video, slide, and multimedia productions using templates you can buy from a store that sells software and craft or hobby items related to scrap booking or desktop publishing and digital video production.
Whatever you do for family newsletters, the same may be done for owners of pets who want to share in clubs or animal care. An example would be a club for a certain breed of dogs or cat fancier societies
What's important with print newsletters, is selecting the weight and feel of the paper. Talk to your local printer about types of paper used in newsletters. You want to communicate also using a type of paper—color, weight, and texture. Choose bright colors or delicate lace watermarks to convey the emotional tone of the newsletter.
Keep the paper light enough to have contrasting letters easy to see. Don't let the color of the paper distract the reader from the photos and text. Postcards should be heavy enough to pass through the postal machines without tearing.
To send photos with a few paragraphs of news, use a fold over postcard sealed with a tape sticker. Never staple the card. It rips in the postal machinery. Keep the background paper light enough in color to show off the photos and text.
Collect templates
Some templates allow you to handwrite news and photocopy the handwritten messages in templates such as squares or circles placed decoratively on graphic art. Some look like cartoon bubbles for writing dialogue captions.
Some circles let you write one sentence by hand in each circle. You can write six sentences on a page. Or you can reduce the font size and type a sentence in the template then cut and paste the text within the confines of a square or circle.
The templates for handwritten news usually look like a greeting card with art in the center and circles or squares for you to write one sentence inside the dialogue boxes
Templates for handwritten newsletters usually resemble greeting cards or coloring books. Stationary supply, scrap booking stores, and craft shops sell these types of templates for handwritten news. For mailing newsletters, they also can be folded into origami shapes and mailed in round or unusual shaped mailers that conform to postal regulations for mailing. One example would be tube mailers for calendars and posters or round DVD and CD mailers for video newsletters.
Teachers and Students: Children and the Family Newsletter in the Schools
Illustrate your newsletters and DVDs with art made by children. If you don't have children, you can ask to obtain written permission of a school or summer camp to let the class draw pictures of artwork on the theme of family and choose those to illustrate your newsletters or DVDs, including the covers for your DVD inserts.
You might want to visit classrooms or camps and talk to school assemblies on how to put together a family newsletter made by children ranging in grades from elementary through high school on the subject of intergenerational writing and illustration or family reunions and newsletter or DVD video design.
Children can make use of desktop publishing software, camcorders, or handwritten templates for family newsletters and greetings. Talk to local parent and teachers associations or the coordinator of authors in the schools projects in case you want to visit a school to give a talk. Have the children interview one another to create a family newsletter section for children.
Ask for the use of children's art for illustrating and producing annual family newsletters
The outcome of this as a fresh news angle is that it promotes children's participation in their own family or extended family traditions by helping them create a family newsletter.
These products can be as simple as using a template for handwritten newsletters to producing a newsletter on computers or using camcorders to create video DVDs of family newsletters for high school or community college students' projects in digital imaging and desktop publishing. The same may be applied to classes for older adults in genealogy for adult education programs. Use home schooling projects for creating annual family newsletters or digital video time capsules as newsletters.
To help children answer questions for newsletters, hand them a list of questions or ask the questions verbally and give them time to think of answers. Then record the spontaneous answers on audio tape or digitally. Save the answers and then move to doing the same on video after the children have decided what to say and how to answer the questions. Give them time to think of answers they want to see on video. Work with teachers if you want to visit a classroom. Or write easy to understand questions with the help of your own children at home.
Record voices on video and audio. Put the clips into a time capsule which may contain many annual video and print family newsletters. Keep them and save them to your computer and to discs. They can be played when the children are older, provided that you transfer the recordings to more evolved technology as the children grow and the old technology becomes obsolete. Example: phonograph players versus DVD and CD players.
Create newsletters to showcase graduation photos and other school pictures. Use themes and events such as presenting the seasons changes through the eyes of children and older adults. Also see chapter 4 on how to make extended family pop-up newsletters, reports, greeting cards, and books.
Writing biographies, eulogies, and celebrations of life media in newsletters and other formats: From onomastics to prosopography and demography
Is prosopography a fancy name for collective, individual biography? Or is it a hidden market for genealogy journalists? Prosopography is an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography.
Onomastics is defined by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language as "the study of the origins and forms of proper names, the study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields, and/or "the system that underlies the formation and use of proper names or terms used in specialized fields."
To uncover hidden markets for your writing, freelance and staff journalists might explore how prosopography and onomastics are used in genealogy journalism and in writing articles for social history-related publications. For links and articles on how to be a personal history journalist-prosopographist, check out the site with the definition and origins of prosopography. .
Prosopography associated with collective, individual biography is an excellent field for writers of memoirs and autobiography to explore for possible articles or books of a biographical nature
Writing biography can vary from books on historical figures or social history to finding the maiden surnames of ancestors. Or on writing articles or children's books on the first female astronaut, ethnic astronaut, such as Hispanic or any other group, or the first woman or man to graduate medical school, or any other aspect of biographical writing set in a specific time period.
Click on the links there to various articles and book excerpts. For further information, you might enjoy my book titled, Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries (Creating Salable Reality Video). The ISBN is 0-595-36633-3. Non-fiction writers may also be interested in writing the background for documentaries, editorials, and monologues. Check out the Prosopography Portal. Also, you may want to see the Foundation Medieval Genealogy website.
When discussing family history in your newsletter or article, you may have noticed that in some areas, women's maiden names that never had been recorded on death certificates may show up in wills, notary records, and a wide variety of court, medical, and religious records. Social history encompasses women's and family studies as well as genealogy journalism.


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Petrella Signs NLI With UMass Hockey
April 23, 2014
AMHERST, Mass. - Anthony Petrella, a 5-9, 190-pound forward out of Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minn., has signed a National Letter of Intent with the UMass hockey program, head coach John Micheletto announced on Wednesday. Petrella joins the Minutemen's six November signees as the seventh member of the Class of 2018.
"Anthony comes to us with a tremendous nose for the net and plays inside the dots with great strength and tenacity," said Micheletto. "We're looking forward to having Anthony be part of the program."
In two seasons at Shattuck-St. Mary's, Petrella amassed 130 points on 66 goals and 64 assists, helping the Sabres to a record of 89-16-5 over that span with a USA Hockey national championship in 2014 and a USA Hockey national semifinalist showing in 2013.
As a senior in 2013-14, Petrella led Shattuck-St. Mary's in goals (34) and was second in points (66) in 45 games. He attended both USA Hockey Select 14 and Select 15 Festivals, as well.
A native of Hilton, N.Y., Petrella is the son of Mauro and Sherry.
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For detailed information on StableCrete™, please view our Technical Bulletin
Q: How does this product differ from other sealers that claim to protect concrete?
A: StableCrete is not a sodium silicate or silene based product. It does not migrate out of the concrete becoming ineffective after a few months and readily accepts any coating to a treated surface. Our product has no provision for a second coating or re-application at a later date. It is also has no harmful affects ( etching ) on glass and metal surfaces. Question to consider? If the specifications on some other product calls for a re-application—what happened to the first attempt?
Q: Can I paint concrete treated with your product?
A: Absolutely! Dozens of coating manufacturers test data reports better adhesion and cover age rates. Coatings are not subject to alkali burn, peeling and flaking as the chemicals in concrete no longer migrate to the surface, commonly called outgasing.
Q: Will StableCrete protect against carbonation of concrete?
A: The reaction of atmospheric carbon dioxide and calcium hydroxide causing carbonation and a loss of pH does not occur when the surface has been treated with StableCrete.
Q: Can and should this product be used with other corrosion inhibitors?
A: StableCrete is a very affective means of encapsulating a liquid amino alcohol based corrosion inhibitor. It will prevent those products migration out of the concrete matrix.
Q: Does StableCrete penetrate concrete and coat reinforcing steel to inhibit corrosion?
A: No. StableCrete prevents oxygen and water from entering the gel pore system as well as contaminates such as chlorides. This also maintains high pH levels promoting the natural passivating layer on embedded steel.
Q: I have cracks in my concrete. Should I fill the cracks before applying StableCrete?
A: No. StableCrete will waterproof the interior of a crack just as it does a surface, then your filler material may be applied.
Q: Can StableCrete waterproof shotcrete?
A: StableCrete is very effective on waterproofing these types of structures. Shotcrete (wet or dry mix) has a very high cement content which promotes a very aggressive reaction due to the increased alkali content Coverage rates may be reduced with higher absorption of shotcrete.
Q: I have recently installed an impressed cathodic system (top surface saw slot) on elevated concrete slabs. Can StableCrete be applied to the finished surface?
A: Assuming your finished surface is a cementitious material which will allow the alkali to react with StableCrete; YES. Testing shows that StableCrete has "little to no effect "on the resistivity of concrete. By use of StableCrete you will waterproof the surface and prevent changes to current flow which cause "hot spots" and premature consumption of anodes.
Q: Your literature indicates the application of StableCrete in "Green" concrete is more effective. Is it a curing compound?
A: StableCrete is not promoted as a curing compound or evaporation retarder and does not form a film discussed in the ASTM protocol. Practically speaking, the high moisture content of new concrete causes a capillary effect which carries the product deeper into the matrix. Once introduced, StableCrete IS the best curing compound on the market.
Q: Will StableCrete stop efflorescence on driveway pavers?
A: One of the products in our StableCrete line is efflorescence remover which will remove the salts. To determine whether StableCrete will stop efflorescence in the future, a test to determine the chemical makeup of your pavers (% of Portland Cement) would be needed.
Q: Is a special repair/patch mortar used if StableCrete is to be applied later?
A: Synthetic repair/patch materials are very expensive and do not contain the high alkali content of Portland Cement which is the catalyst for StableCrete. Quickrete bag mix is our recommendation.
Q: Do I apply my bonding after I have applied StableCrete to an excavated repair area which is to receive new concrete?
A: Bonding agents are used to prevent hydration from a patch material into the host substrate which causes bond problems and cracking at the interface (old & new). StableCrete penetrates the host substrate and waterproofs at that point leaving no film (bond breaker) to contend with. Knowing this, why would you want to apply a bonding agent at all?
Q: Can StableCrete be used on an aged structure hoping to extend the life cycle?
A: Aged concrete may be treated after all coatings and contaminates have been removed from the surface. A simple test with water will demonstrate the concrete is absorbing water. If so, StableCrete will be absorbed in the same manner and be able to keep moisture and contaminates out of the structure thus prolonging useful life.
Q: I have a building with painted concrete floors, which show areas where the paint is peeling off especially around columns—will this product help me?
A: Sounds as if you have alkali coming up to the surface out of the concrete collecting on the back side of your coating causing a bond failure. More than likely the reason it is more visible around columns is because those columns have a footer/pour that extends deeper into the soil than your slab. This depth is causing ground water to wick up to the surface in greater quantities than the slab which also has a vapor barrier under it. Air conditioned buildings aggravate this water vapor emission. A proper StableCrete application will serve to prevent this transfer of moisture.
Q: I have an oceanfront seawall that is showing cracks and rust stains from the sand about 18 inches up. We have placed a repair mortar in the cracks but the cracks keep coming back and the repair material falls out. Will StableCrete help me?
A: Sounds like you have very active corrosion on the steel and the rust on the steel is pushing the concrete away (Spalling) at this location. This area (the splash zone) is much more prone to corrosion than that above or below the water. The constant wet- dry cycle delivers more moisture and salt contaminates to this area causing an acceleration of rust on the re-bar. When you replace this wall, StableCrete should be applied to waterproof all concrete surfaces, but for now no amount of StableCrete or repair will stop these conditions.
Q: I purchased an oceanfront condominium that had a concrete restoration done on our balcony's four years ago. We now have cracking that extends inside underneath the sliding glass doors into living and bedrooms; will this stuff stop the cracking?
A: Probably Not! You may have anodic ring or halo affect causing the corrosion to migrate into the original concrete. Incipient battery affect occurs when new concrete is placed next to an aged material (the patch interface). The two different pH values cause a more aggressive corrosion to travel. The second repair is called "chasing the steel "and only exacerbates your problem. An impressed cathodic system using StableCrete to waterproof all concrete is the only certain way to stop continued corrosion and repairs to the concrete. Sorry!
Q: I purchased a home now six years old and have window sills that have large cracks under the windows outside. I am told these sills must be replaced. Will your product stop this cracking?
A: No! You probably have precast lintels that have active corrosion on the steel causing this Cracking condition. When you replace them, treat the new precast members with StableCrete. Precast products are subject to corrosion of the steel inside the same as poured concrete. By protecting the steel inside concrete from moisture/contaminate intrusion you will prolong the life.


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Chicago—April 7, 2009—Cars.com announced today a webinar to discuss how franchise and independent stores can optimize their business strategy and inventory mix to desk more used-car deals. The free, hour-long event, "Stimulating Profits: Used Cars Drive Sales Success in 2009," begins at noon EDT on April 9.
"In the current economic climate, car buyers increasingly find used vehicles a practical way to balance their transportation needs and budget requirements," said Dennis Galbraith, Cars.com vice president of advertising products and training. "If dealers are to survive and thrive until the recovery begins, they must stock in-demand cars at the right price point and aggressively market them. Simply having a sale on their aged inventory won't drive the results they want in this environment."
Galbraith will moderate the DealerADvantage Live session, which will include an industry roundtable discussion with automotive experts Art Spinella, president of CNW Marketing, and Paul Taylor, chief economist of NADA. Attendees will get tips on how to:
- Identify the cars in-market shoppers want and the most cost-effective sources to acquire them.
- Leverage market-based tools to set a pricing process that optimizes gross and minimizes aged inventory.
- Determine the advertising tools that drive traffic now and build long-term dealership branding.
- Engage in-market car buyers.
"More than ever, dealers must follow-up with each and every prospect and stay with shoppers until they make a purchase," Galbraith said. "Anyone raising his or her hand about a vehicle a dealer has in inventory must be treated as a serious buyer."
Dealers interested in attending or learning more about this month's DealerADvantage Live webinar may visit Cars.com's DealerCenter at http://dealers.cars.com/live, where they can register to attend the event and view archived recordings of past events. Thousands of franchise and independent dealers have attended DealerADvantage Live since Cars.com launched the webinar series in September 2006.
Dealers do not have to be Cars.com customers to attend the webinar, but they must download free WebEx software (http://www.webex.com) to participate. In addition to DealerADvantage Live, Cars.com offers a comprehensive dealer training program that includes in-market and web-based training workshops. Information on upcoming events can be found at http://www.dealers.cars.com/dealer_resources.php.
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JWC TO HELEN WELSH ; 14 November 1852; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18521114-JWC-HW-01; CL 27: 358-360
5 Cheyne Row / Sunday [14 November 1852]
As I have told you before, I think, dear Helen, you write exceedingly good letters; the more's the pity that you write them so seldom.
But in protesting against the silence of others just now, I feel quite in a false position. "Pluck the beam out of &c &c"1— I won't however lose time in excuses—
You seem to be in Cimerian darkness2 as to the condition-of-5 Cheyne Row question. dont even know if Mr C be returned— We here have known of his return only too well I can tell you; for he came home (a month ago) in such a state of what he calls "bilious misery," that I really saw no more suitable winding up of the whole thing, than that in Cavaignac's Tale of L'Homme de Bien—L'homme de Rien3 viz: that he and I should step out into the garden, and joining hands, each holding a loaded pistol in the other, calmly, and resolutely—blow each, his own brains out! I had such a capital pair of pistols too, all ready at half cock!— We did nothing so sensible however but went instead to the Grange, the second day after his return; and stayed there a fortnight, where the "bilious misery" was increased to a pitch! rather than assuaged, by eight oclock dinners and the excitements of high Life— I too caught a cold there as usual, which kept me very dull—and I was glad enough at the end of the fortnight to come home to my new painted house, leaving Mr C behind for these4 days till I should get things in some better order for him than they were on his arrival from Germany—for then the painters and paperhangers, three of the one and five of the other, were just making a great effort to finish the staircase before his coming— I found that Fanny had had the thieves again. Did I tell you of their first invasion? But the last time they did not effect an entrance— Mr Piper slept in the house during our absence, and my pistols were here—but nobody but myself I fancy would have had the spirit to fire them. You can't imagine how utterly strange and unhomelike all these improvements have made the poor house, I perfectly hate it as yet—and Mr C who cant bear anything not exactly as he has been used to it; you may fancy how he likes having all his books and clothes and everything in new places!— Thank God it has been all his own doing. I suppose however the house is much improved—for those who havnt to live in it— The drawing room is a fine square room with new modern windows and modern chimny—will be comfortable perhaps when it is papered and painted which it cannot be till next year. Meanwhile it has got the old furniture in it and Mr C sits there with bare walls— My old bedroom in which I still sleep, is prettly painted and papered in pink, but for practical purposes quite spoiled three feet taken off it and the large bookcase set into it make it too small for my breathing in— The spare bed (its own being too large for it) stands facing the fire place and I have not had one good night's sleep in it since I was put into these new conditions My imagination is tormented with all that various Literature in the wall, and with the feeling of being in The Iron Shroud (do you know that story?)5 and with the change in my curtains &c—alas! when one's sleep is so easily scared away!
The up stairs room—yours, is enlarged by having the chimny and closets taken back two feet—and has the center window broken out, and the red bed is to be put up there and I am to sleep there—hereafter when it is papered and painted—but that also could not be finished this year on account of the damp of the walls— Mr C's bedroom is as it was in size—but beautfly6 painted—faint pink—and there are wainscot closets for his cloths running all along the recess at the fireplace and he has got my pretty green carpet, and Mrs Carlyles picture7 over the mantlepiece, and is very smart indeed the closet at the top is half filled with a great cistern and the kitchen and back kitchen are flagged and painted over and the Larder smoothed up with a window broken into it—the same at which the thieves came in and took six pounds worth of things— There is also a window broken out in the upper staircase—and that I think is all—
John and his Wife passed thro last week to the Isle of Wight—I did not see them but the[y]8 return for a week on Tuesday. I took yesterday a beautiful lodging in Sloan street for them—at this end of it—and I expect to like my new sister in law from all I hear—
This end of London is in a quite horrible confusion at present with that Lying in State of the dead Duke. Thousands and Thousands of people thronging to see him and trampling one another to death! I went yesterday along Paradise row meaning to see the thing myself if it were practicable but when I saw the sea of human beings swaying to and fro I made off fast enough— I dont know for certain how many people were killed yesterday—Mr Piper saw two dead women carried away on stretches—and a Policeman said four bodies were lying in the Workhouse 9 were taken to the Hospital but it is impossible to ascertain all the accidents in such a horrid confusion9—
We are to go to Bath House to see the Procession—which will cost me a new black bonnet, not having such a thing— Numbers of men have been working all day (Sunday) and all last night and are to work all tonight putting up barriers to prepare against the crowd tomorrow— Better a great deal to have buried the Duke and been done with it God bless you all your loving cousin
Jane Carlyle


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The National Youth at Risk Conference in collaboration with The National Network for Educational Renewal has named Walton County's own Blaine Street Elementary School an Honorable Mention High Flying School for 2010. This honor was awarded to only 9 other schools in the nation. This was the school's first year applying for the award and has high hopes for next year to become a National High Flying School winner.
The criteria for the award is :
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• Democratic Education
In the above areas BSES met or exceeded those guidelines. The criteria for high achievement requires the school to rank at the 67th percentile in at least one academic subject in at least one grade level, BSES has consistently made double digit gains in just about every level. 88% of the families at BSES are either at or below poverty level, and 52% of the student population is a minority.
Blaine Street Elementary is led by a strong administration team comprised of Mrs. Melissa Jones-Clarke serving as principal and Dr. Zach Phillips serving as Assistant Principal. As they attended last year's conference and listened to the criteria, they realized they were already meeting or exceeding those levels.
One of the major reasons for applying for the award, according to Dr. Phillips, was to recognize the hard work that the teachers have put in, not only in the classroom but with each individual child that comes through their doors. Both he and Mrs. Jones-Clarke believe that this award is confirmation that they are on the correct path for the school and will continue to improve and progress.
The strong leadership of Mrs. Jones-Clarke is a key component of the school's continual success. Despite the challenges that the school faces, such as budget constraints at the county and state level, high poverty, low community and parental involvement, to name a few, the school seems to be moving in a very exciting direction.
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Conservative Outrage Flares As Michelle Obama Invites Common to the White House to Recite Poetry
Legendary lyricist, Common, was recently invited to the White House by Michelle Obama to recite poetry. However, many conservatives are in an outrage because they feel that Common's music is corrosive to the American society.
Fox News spearheaded the outrage alongside The New Hampshire Journal, and The Daily Caller. Sarah Palin spoke as well against the decision to have Common present for the star-studded poetry event. Fox called the Chicago emcee a "vile rapper" while The New Hampshire Journal noted, "Some of Common's poetry…could raise some eyebrows among those who might find cop-killing and racially tinged or misogynist language beneath the Office of the Presidency." Palin tweeted, "Oh lovely, White House…" with the link to the Daily Caller article dissenting with the White House invite.
Funny thing is, about seven months ago, Fox News was loving Common. In October 2010, reporter Jason Robinson interviewed Common, practically gushing, "your music is very positive and you're known as the conscious rapper. How important is that to you, and how important do you think that is to our kids?" Common replied that it's a "significant role. I just try to show who we are as well-rounded people and I'm happy to be known as the conscious artist."
The Right Wingers also found the time to pick at the corpse of an old Jill Scott Essence piece, casting her as a racist and criticizing her invite as well. All it really boils down to, is that Obama smells like roses over eliminating bin Laden, and now his detractors are trying to find something, anything to dim that light. Nothing new here, except some publicity for Scott who has an album coming out.
Jennifer Lopez Releases, "I'm Into You" Video Featuring Lil' Wayne
Jennifer Lopez has finally released the highly-anticipated music video "I'm Into You" featuring Lil' Wayne (who recorded his scenes in Los Angeles) from her forthcoming album Love. The music video was shot in Chichen Itza, Mexico and features J.Lo in a snakeskin dress dancing inside a Mayan archaeological site. The storyline was inspired by an old Mayan tale.
Mike Epps, You Got Served!
Mike Epps was entertaining a crowd with his stand-up comedy routine at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie when a young woman walked up to the comedian and served him with court documents from a lawsuit about a previous club brawl.
Epps started to curse out the young woman about being served. Mike looked down at her and said, "White bitch just threw some papers up on the mother fucking stage…bitch, fuck you." "This is from when I whooped that nigga's ass in Detroit." While the young woman walked away from the stage, Mike yelled to her, "Bitch, I don't give a fuck…suck my dick."
Mike is a wild boy for that, but when you're in front of your fans; what else are you going to do except act a damn fool?
Kanye Asks For A Million Dollars for Bar Mitzvah. They Take Drake For $250,000
Former President and CEO of NBC/Universal, Jeff Zucker decided to put together a Bar Mitzvah at the Four Seasons in New York for his son Andrew. Jeff was hoping that Kanye would perform at his son's coming of age ceremony. Yeezy's asking price was $1,000,000 dollars and Jeff considered that too much bread. He considered a counter-offer of $800,000 dollars (according to an inside source).
Zucker decided to go "economy" and acquired Young Money star Drake (whose mother is Jewish) for $250,000 dollars. Like Jeff's son, Drake had his own Bar Mitzvah as a young man, and performed for 50 of Andrew Zucker's friends and family.
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A technician used technician used to fire up the boiler on Sundays to make sure fire department employees didn't come into a freezing office on Mondays. But the new boiler, controlled by an Invensys Building Systems building-management system, switches itself on when temperatures reach designated levels. Although this January was 17% colder than January 2007, the boiler used 40% less gas.
Twenty more-modern intersections: 483 incandescent-style, 200 W bulbs were replaced with 5 to 22 W LED traffic signal modules, and 182 pedestrian signal bulbs were replaced with 7 to 11 W LED modules. Considering that bulbs at a typical four-way intersection burn constantly, such upgrades represent a significant reduction in kilowatts per intersection.
Your town's tax base has been declining, you're caring for century-old buildings with mostly original fixtures, you don't want staff cuts, and your council is determined to recast the community as an arts center irresistible to young professionals with families and all the accoutrements that local retailers provide.
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Looking back, says Tom Logan, director of public improvements/city engineer for Covington, Ky., "it looked too good to be true. It took two years to educate ourselves and city officials on the program's technical and financial components. Officials had a difficult time understanding how a contractor could guarantee savings in the millions of dollars."
Ultimately, Logan and Covington Finance Director Bob Due convinced city leaders to borrow $2.25 million at 4% interest through the Kentucky League of Cities and sign a deal promising to save $1.9 million — or $95,000 annually — on gas and electricity bills. Logan expects an additional $85,000 savings each year through lower or eliminated repair costs, and by eliminating $70,000 in annual maintenance contracts for police and fire facilities. And the city's on track to receive $22,000 in one-time rebates and incentives from its local electric and gas provider.
Even assuming a 3% annual increase in energy prices, the loan could be paid off well before the 20-year contract expires. While Logan expects the project will have saved $2.25 million in 12½ years based on annual savings of $180,000, he believes that ongoing improvements like installing daylight sensors and timers for parking garage lights will contribute even more.
"Performance contracts are a very important procurement procedure for institutional clients — universities, hospitals, governments — that want savings," says Stephen Roosa, an account executive for Energy Systems Group of Evansville, Ind., Covington's partner. After auditing operations, the 15-year-old consulting firm upgraded building and traffic lighting; installed vending machine controllers, occupancy sensors, energy-management and CO2-monitoring controls; installed water-efficient appliances; and improved HVAC systems. "They're particularly suited for such entities because energy service companies know such organizations will be around for the duration of a long-term contract."
Now it's up to Energy Systems Group to make good on its promises while making a profit. The company monitors utility bills monthly and, if savings are slipping or not being achieved, dispatches to investigate. Logan and Bresser will review the savings annually.
"The concept is more than 100 years old and growing at about 20% per year," says Shirley Hansen, an internationally known expert in the field and author of Performance Contracting: Expanding Horizons. "It started in France with guaranteed energy efficiency in district heating. According to the Energy Department's Federal Energy Management Program, municipalities, universities, schools, and hospitals made up about $2.6 billion of the $3.6 billion public-sector market in 2006."
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Bond v0.5 - You Only Live Twice
Bond v0.5
You Only Live Twice
Spaceships spaceships and more spaceships!! This fifth installment in the Bond series takes us into outer space in a grand fashion. The film starts off with a US space capsule being literally swallowed up by another, more sinister craft - to the absolute horror of ground control. Instantly the accusations start flying, with the Americans blaming the Soviets, and the Soviets blaming the Americans for staging the whole thing… The world is on the brink of war!!
It's this high drama that sets the scene for You Only Live Twice. While space is a predominant theme, Japan and the orient is actual "theme" of this film. Where Thunderball was underwater, this is Japan. Showing "Commander Bond" being seduced by an asian femme only to be pinned up against a wall and shot - the story then shows us several spy agencies witnessing his funeral. With Bond now officially dead - he can get along with a lot less attention - hence the title.
I've got to say - this for me has been the least enjoyable Bond movie so far in the marathon. It's almost no wonder that Sean Connery stepped down from his Bond title after this outting, it really is a low point. I'm not going as far as saying it's a bad film, just that the others have been of a calibre that this film just doesn't live up to.
It does have some highlights of course. The space scenes, as dated as they are today, would have been about as dramatic as anything could be - in it's day. Unfortunately, seeing it in 2008 on a widescreen plasma - there certainly is something lost in translation. The bay doors are wobbly, the rockets just shoot sparkler smoke, and you can see the strings used in the landing scenes, however, it's still pretty impressive given the era. One thing that really gives these scenes an epic/dramatic feel, is the accompanying music - it is just spectacular! If anything, this score actually improves with age! I can imagine "back in the day" that dramatic orchestral music would have been par for the course, but today, it's a beautiful and delicate touch, masterminded of course by the legendary John Barry.
One more "highlight" here, is James being transformed using cosmetic… well, cosmetics, into an Authentic Japanese fisherman. Jup, with judicious use of foundation, tanning cream and a toupe, he's miraculously stealthed so as to blend in with the other locals. He's also provided with a Bride - described lovingly as having a face like a pig - ahh the sexual discrimination is rampant here!! It's just such a crappy piece of film story telling… I'm not sure if it's because of film evolution, or if it was just bad. Roald Dahl was the script writer too… I just don't get it.
So there we are - after seeing the farsical fight scene at the end of Thunderball, and now this poor sibling to the series, its not a huge surprise that Connery stepped down/was replaced for the next film.... and so:
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It had been a long day. Time seemed to slow to a crawl. She had seen Logan today. She didn't even know he had came back. She had heard all about Scott coming back, but his return seemed much more muted. He didn't even see her. If he did, he didn't acknowledge her. She laughed to herself at the thought. When had he ever acknowledge her? He had plenty of women in his life, more than one of them romantically. Zita? Barely a blip on that radar. It was heart wrenching for her. With Dustin in her life, it was finally starting to become easier to cope. Than she saw Logan, and all her hard work fell to pieces. She had wanted to talk to him, to tell him how she felt, but she froze. What the hell would she have said anyway? I love you? I missed you? Why haven't you called? Bullshit. They may have been around each other for five year, but they were barely even friends, let alone lovers.
Making her way to her room, she passed by a couple of the brats sneaking off to their room, holding hands. Rolling her eyes, she carried on. It would have been wrong for her to be jealous of them. Young love, it always seemed so romantic even though they were barely old enough to understand what love is. As she pushed open the door to her room, she was greeted by silence. Zita sighed. She didn't know what she had been expecting, but the silence she was always greeted by seemed deafening. Leaving her door half open, she made her way to her bed. Flopping down, she tried to hide her face from the last light of the sun as it crawled below the horizon. She really just needed a nap right now. She was exhausted for no other reason than from trying to hold herself together. Sleep embraced her quicker than she realized�
A knock at her door disturbed her rest. Sitting up, she called out, "Who is it?". A gruff, "It's me.", came in response. She recognized the voice in an instant. Racing to the door, she pulled it open to see the all too familiar man. Logan. He had come to see her. She smiled and told him, "Long time, no see." He nodded, "Yeah, well, you know how it is�Had to make all the rounds�" Zita nodded, "No, no, of course. I get it. They're your family. Gotta at least say hi." Logan smiled, seemingly in agreement with her words. "Did you want to come in?" She asked him, and he nodded once again.
Closing the door behind him, she looked at him as he looked around her room. He hadn't changed a bit. He turned around to face her and she tried to act like she hadn't been checking him out. Even though she totally was. "Listen, being gone made me realize something�" Zita froze. "Oh?" She had no idea what he was going to say. He paused, hesitant in going forward with the conversation. "I realized�I missed you." Zita's face lit up, asking him, "Really?" He nodded again, visibly embarrassed. It was strange seeing him that way. Logan never got embarrassed, at least, not that she had ever noticed.
Moving closer to him, she stroked the side of his face. It was prickly from the beard growing in. He clasped a hand around hers. She told him, "I missed you too�" As he kissed her hand, she pulled him into an embrace. What was more amazing than that was that he responded. Every movement, every kiss was returned in kind. Before she could even register what was happening, they were in her bed. His embrace was tender and warm. His grasp firm yet gentle. All Zita could think about was how happy she was right in this moment.
Then the unimaginable happened�
She woke up.
She blinked awake, looking around. Pulling herself up, she looked around her room. There was no sign that anyone had even been in her room. It was all just a dream. Tears spilled out before she could do anything to stop them. Just a dream? Just a dream. That was all their relationship would ever be. The delusions of an unhappy woman. Sobbing hysterically, she clutched at her chest. She could almost feel it breaking inside of her. How it ached. Logan would never look at her that way and she full well knew it.
She was just kidding herself thinking otherwise. But in her mind, he was just as much at fault as she was. He never so much as told her he wasn't interested. That question always went unanswered. It gave her a false sense of hope. How dare he do that. Tears of despair turned into tears of fury. In an instant, she had set herself on fire. Setting the sheets of her bed on fire, she headed to her living room. Throwing everything she could, she tried to release her anger. Everything she had was burning. She screamed in agony. Why did it have to hurt so much.
As the fire continued to burn, she started snapping out of it. Focus, Zita, focus. Put the fire out, then cry your eyes out, she told herself. Choking back her tears, she tried to concentrate. Breathing heavily, she pictured the flames vanishing in her mind. Looking back to her burning room, she watched as the flames slowly sputtered out. This was always the hardest part for her. Eventually, most of them died, though a few small embers still burned. The flames surrounding her body then died out as well, the exhaustion of putting out the fires negating her ability to set herself on fire.
So there she was. Kneeling on the ground, holding herself for support. Naked and weeping, not unlike a child. Most of room was black now. Her television had been smashed in. Her couch was flipped over and burnt. Curtains hung in ragged form. Her bed was half melted. Her bathroom seemed to be the only place in her room spared, that and the select pieces of furniture in her room that had already been fireproofed. She knew she probably triggered the smoke alarm, but she didn't care. She was absolutely miserable. She was miserable because she was finally realizing what she should have known all along. Logan would never want her the way she wanted him. She couldn't understand why she hadn't come to this realization earlier. She also didn't understand why she couldn't stop crying.
Mar 28 2012, 01:50 PM
How wonderful that sweet embrace of sleep could be after a long day of educating young minds. Whilst Hank adored his work with a great passion and would have happily taught classes throughout the night if he thought either he or his students might have maintained the awareness or concentration for them to actually learn anything, he had to admit that it was very thoroughly exhausting, although almost unparalleled in the satisfaction it offered. As such, Hank blinked his round amber eyes and rubbed at them with a heavy paw, as if he might blink away the tiredness from his head. "
How terribly unfortunate,
" he opined aloud to the furniture as if it might reply. Hank often found inanimate objects to be the most wonderful companions in thought. He could not count how many problems had been solved by going over them with an at-hand teaching skeleton or petri dish.
He gently, as if the book in his hands were some delicate living creature he did not wish to harm- set down the well-thumbed copy of Finnegan's Wake he had been reading before bed, slipping a thick red leather bookmark in the pages so he did not lose his place. "
I had been hoping to get in another chapter, but it seems time has made a fool of me.
" His exhaustion had reached the point that the words were starting to blur, and he had decided that it was about time to get to sleep. Hank had a natural inclination towards burning the candle at both ends. He was both a late sleeper and early riser, loving nothing more than to while away the wee small hours flicking through the pages of some delicious morsel of a book and waking up early to watch the sunrise and walk the eternally rewarding grounds of the Institute which he was simply so lucky to inhabit. He slipped his gold little reading glasses from his head and let them rest on his night-stand on top of the book, then flicked off his light. Pulling the sheets up, he rolled over and found himself slipping, as if being pulled downwards by some great, comfortable weight, in to sleep.
Several hours later, Hank's nose began to wriggle and squirm almost independently of the rest of his face. Being a rather more sensitive nose than most, it smelt the smoke emanating from Zita's room across the hall before it had even become visible in the corridor. Hank's nose continued to dance its enthusiastic little performance on his face, until it managed to jerk the furry mutant attached to it out of his dreamless sleep and in to wakefulness. Hank snapped upright in bed with lightning speed. That was definitely smoke. Smoke coming from, unless he was terribly mistaken, the direction of Zita's room. Hank swung out of bed with an agility which seemed almost unexpected. It was easy to forget that, with all of his plodding discussions on literature and lectures upon the beauty of science and art, Hank was also capable of moving faster than even the fastest primate when the need struck. And right now, with his home smelling conspicuously like fire, the need was striking hard.
He bolted for the door and swung it open. His nose was still twitching as he sniffed. Looking out on the corridor he could see the thin grey trail of smoke rising like dragon's breath from Zita's room. Zita, as Hank knew, was a pyrokinetic, so he opted not to raise the alarm throughout the whole Mansion. Not yet, at least. If he opened the door to find some raging inferno, then he was already preparing his lungs to bellow the walls down. That didn't mean he wasn't still bloody concerned, though. He snatched a fire extinguisher from a wall just to be on the safe side, and practically burst her door down, smashing at it with his paw. "
" He yelled at the mute wood, slowly being swallowed by the growing smoke. "
Zita, are you OK?
" No reply.
Turning his shoulder to the wood, Hank pulled back and slammed in to the door with all the force one would expect of the former star quarterback of the George E Hale High School varsity football team, knocking it open. His eyes grew wide as he saw inside. A dozen flickering little candle flames still waiting to burn out, the acrid toxic tang of smoke and a crouching, crying girl. "
Oh my stars and--
" Hank wielded his extinguisher like a weapon, spraying powder brutally upon all the little sparks and twinkling ash piles, lest those little flames grow bold and try to swell. Sweating and flustered, Hank dropped the fire extinguisher to the floor with a clang. The smoke was still hanging in the air like a swarm, stinging at his skin and eyes. Hank blinked away tears and turned his attention now to the friend who knelt in tears on the floor.
Hank opened the door to the bathroom and saw a fluffy white towel hanging upon the towel rack. It was a vast thing, the size of a blanket, and its pristine, diamond white seemed to be mocking the grubby grey which covered much of Zita's living space after her fire. Deciding that such mockery could not stand, Hank plucked it like a feather and returned to Zita. He looked away to preserve the young lady's modesty, and attempted blindly to place it comfortingly against her shaking, sobbing shoulders. Once he was sure she was covered enough that her dignity could be preserved, he turned to her. He placed a long blue arm around her shoulders, and squeezed tightly. "
Come now,
" he whispered, his voice as comforting as a warm cup of tea after a long day. "
Come now, dear, don't cry. It's OK.
" He smiled bravely, and hoped to see it reflected in her face.
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Yelling, she could hear yelling. Why were the yelling? What were they even saying? Zita could barely hear anything over her own pitiful wails. When she heard the fire extinguisher going off, her sobs lessened. She had company now, better stop blubbering like a child. She didn't look up to see who it was until she heard the fire extinguisher hit the floor. Through the smoke, she saw the unmistakable blue fur of the Doc. She had forgotten he lived down the hall from her. She let out a small laugh, though it was muffled from her sobs. Even though he was just down the hall, she never paid him much mind. He was probably one of the few who was able to put up with her and her nonsense.
Not in much of a condition to offer him a greeting, she simply watched as the Doc slipped into her bathroom. While curious, it was soon obvious he only went in there to fetch a towel for her. Ah, right. He was one of those overtly modest folk who didn't want to see her naked. She didn't care either way. After all, when one sets oneself on fire, one stops giving a rat's ass about modesty. She saw him look away as he placed the towel on her. Zita let out a giggle. It was almost sweet of him. She pulled the towel tightly over her shoulders, embracing its softness.
Quickly wiping her face with the towel, she leaned into him when she felt his arm wrap around her shoulders. His assurances that everything was going to be okay was surprisingly comforting. She let out more sobs, burying her face in his shoulder to muffle the sound. They were beginning to subside and Zita was finally able to breathe without breaking into a fit of sobs. Choking out a laugh, she told him,
"You know�it's funny. I was actually planning on talking to you about getting my room fireproofed�"
Looking around to what was left, the small smile she had on face quickly turned into a frown. She thought it a little late for that now, seeing as the whole room would have to be repaired now. She bit her lower lip, scared at how the others would take the sheer devastation of it all.
Apr 5 2012, 01:50 PM
How strange that her laugh she be so infectious. Perhaps it was instinct. In the fact of a raging inferno which one only just managed to defeat, it was the innate reaction to laugh. Laughing in the face of death. Hank knew it all too well. He also had to admit that the image- a naked, slender twenty-something having a towel forced around her by a gigantic blue gorilla man who was, admittedly, far too bashful for someone of his age in a still-smoking room- was actually sort of funny in a totally bizarre way. So Hank found his own smile growing on his face. Mostly, he was just relieved she was OK. Whilst he was sure that fire to a pyrokinetic presented about as much of a threat as a bag of peanuts presented to him (Hank hadn't even liked peanuts until he became simian, for god's sake. And despite enjoying them and knowing they contained plenty of potassium, he point-blank
to eat bananas).
Realising with a blush of such stark crimson that it almost showed despite the thick fur across his cheeks that the towel, which had looked to be the size of a sub-continent when he picked it up, actually covered surprisingly little of her modesty, Hank glanced around at the room desperately awkwardly. Much of what might have covered her appeared to have been blackened like so much forgotten about toast. Hank looked down at himself. His own vast physical size meant that, when taken off of him, his pyjama shirt wound up resembling nothing short of a circus tent. Reasoning that his training outfit with the X-Men had, for several months, involved no shirt, and also that his hair more than counted as appropriate covering, Hank tugged his shirt off over his head. "
Here, Zita,
" He said, almost apologetically. If only he'd had the foresight to grab something for her to wear ahead of time. But he couldn't go back and leave her like this, and it was much too ungentlemanly to go rifling through a lady's wardrobe, so it would have to do. "
Put this on. Cover yourself up. Keep warm.
" Mostly the first one, though. In fact, almost entirely the first one, the room was still boiling from the fire. The second one just provided a convenient second excuse for her to put some clothes on and spare Hank his blushes.
Hank smiled. He and Forge could probably have fireproofed much of this, it was true. Hank wasn't exactly a genius when it came to technological innovation, but he could always help Forge out with some sort of flameproofing gadget or widget or thingamajig. He nodded. "
Oh, don't despair, Zita.
" He looked around. True, there was a lot of damage, but Hank forced himself to adopt the eyes of an optimist. He stood up and brushed some of the undamaged surfaces, wiping away the soot and smoke damage to reveal the same colour it had always been. "
Much of this is salvageable. I can get some of the students to come in here tomorrow morning with mops and buckets and we should be able to get it all cleaned up and good as new as soon as possible.
He smiled bravely, and rested a paw back on her back. "
Nothing valuable was damaged, was it?
" He asked it quietly and delicately, with all of his dignified doctoral bedside manner. Lord knew, some fires took things which meant as much as people. Last photographs of grandma and grandpa, the toys you'd had since childhood. He merely hoped here that the only thing which had received any damage were his cheeks, which he suspected would never stop blushing.
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Surprised by the sudden offer of his shirt, Zita was initially hesitant. Upon realizing that the towel, while warm, barely covered her, she could see why. Shedding the towel, she pulled on his shirt over her head. The thing was enormous on her, but she didn't mind. It was warm and felt nice on her skin.
Watching him as he stood up to clear some debris, Zita couldn't help but smile. He was always so kind to her, despite all the grief she gave him. Reassured by his words, she stood up as well.
"Yeah�that sounds good�"
Gaze turning to her bedroom, she made a mental note to come back later to see what could be salvaged.
At the question of valuables, Zita simply shook her head.
"Nah, anything valuable would've stuck with my mother or�"
She paused, frowning slightly.
"Or my father, I guess�"
Shrugging, she felt Hank's hand return to her back.
"I don't know that I even had anything of sentimental value�Didn't come here with much�"
Looking up to Hank, a look of confusion crossed her face. This quickly transformed into a smirk.
"Hank McCoy�are you blushing? I think you are�"
Leaning in closer to his face, she could definitely see a distinct colour variation. It was exactly bright red, but it definitely looked like he was blushing. She scoffed at the notion.
"Now, don't tell me you're embarrassed being in the same room as a naked woman?"
She tried to hold back a giggle, which failed miserably. As much as she should be upset, she couldn't help but smile and laugh at him. Her hand slid down her throat, where it hit her necklace. Her smile lessened as she thought of what its creator might say about this stunning display of control loss.
Apr 11 2012, 01:07 PM
Hank was both surprised and happy at how quickly she seemed to get it together. Had it been him who had just, literally, seen many of his possessions- even though thankfully none of them apparently held any great sentimental important- go up in smoke, he would not have been half as together as she was. He supposed fires were just one of the occupational hazards of possessing powers such as Flare's. He was glad to see her put on his shirt. Now he could look at her without being worried that you might be able to add his cheeks to the things which burst in to fire on top of everything else, such as the ferocity of their blushing. Her demeanour meant that he could make his own plans for getting the room back in good shape without too much worrying. She was not arguing with him, which he was thankful for. The fire had made his alertness shoot up, so he barely felt tired at all, but he was still thinking far too sluggishly to wind up rowing. He was always much less likely to find himself in some conflict or other early on in the morning.
Hank did have one question, though. He had kept it quiet until now, his natural curiosity battling with his social tact and desire not to upset Zita any further when he had already found her crying. However, he finally decided to voice it. "
What happened here?
" He asked, interested as to what could possibly spark such a raging inferno so quickly. He had been about to reassure her again, to tell her all about how it didn't really matter what you came with to the Institute, because one did not so much bring a life to the Institute as one built one around it- cobbling together memories and possessions until you had a veritable smorgasbord of sentimentally important knick-knacks and artefacts. He had been planning on asking her that, but then he was utterly caught by her next question.
Now, it was not entirely untrue that Hank was uncomfortable around naked women. He saw nothing wrong with nudity on any level. For goodness' sake, when he'd first developed in to his simian form the new layers of animal psychology meant that he'd worn little more than a pair of boxer briefs in to his Danger Room sessions for months. Thank god that someone had talked some sense in to him and made him realise that just because he had fur it didn't mean he could go without
. He also knew of the artistic and even health benefits of human nudity. What would Michelangelo's David be if he were wearing pants? Or where would the Venus de Milo be if she was forced in to a bra? That was too say nothing of the purported benefits felt by many naturists- additional health, vigour and energy and greater health.
It was not as simple as a fear of sex, either. Hank may have had his love life impeded somewhat when he unexpectedly grew fur and transformed in to a cross between the Cowardly Lion and the Cookie Monster, but he was not
of female nudity. "
" Yes, he probably was a little embarrassed. Mostly because of the fact that Hank had an impeccable belief in manners and etiquette, and the fact was that that included the wearing of pants. "
Of course not. I'm not embarrassed.
" He lied without confidence, and his blushes betrayed him.
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What happened here?
His words rang through her, sending shivers down her spine, and not the pleasant kind. No, the words almost stung. Obviously, no ill will was behind them, Zita knew as much. She just wasn't sure what to say or even how to say it. Tears had already begun to well up and she did her best to blink them away. What was she going to tell him? She could tell him to mind his own business, but then he might take offence and leave her alone. She couldn't bear the thought of being alone right now. She could tell him she had a bad dream, but that wasn't entirely true. It was a wonderful dream. She could only wish it had been real.
While her teasing and Hank's claims of not being embarrassed distracted her from this question, she knew she was going to have to give him an answer at some point. But she didn't want to. Smiling at him, she commented on his lies,
"Liar. You so are�"
Leaning into him, she added,
"It's kinda sweet really�"
Pausing, she looked up at him, locking eyes with him. It felt strange to Zita. She had never really paid him much mind in the past. But the fact that he was here, now, seeing a side of her that no one ever got to see. It alarmed her, the way her heart was quickening by looking into his eyes.
Casting her gaze downwards, she let out a small sigh. She may as well tell him, embarrassing as it was.
"I saw Logan today�"
She started, pausing to laugh at herself.
"I know I shouldn't have feelings for him, but I do and�just knowing that I'll never mean anything to him�It kills me�"
Grasping at his fur, she buried her face into his chest. He was almost like a teddy bear now, soft and comforting. But better than a stuffed toy, for he could offer words of encouragement and well thought out advice.
"I know now he'll never love me�I get that�Maybe I'll even be able to get over it�But�"
She hesitated, not sure if she should continue.
Despite this, words continued to spill forth.
"Now I'm thinking�I'm just going to be alone for the rest of my life�I mean, who would want to be with a freak like me? I set things on fire just because I'm upset�Even if I do get control of my powers, things like this�"
She gestured to her room, head still leaning against him.
"�Still happen and probably will always happen�"
Finally lifting her head, she looked to him, looking absolutely miserable.
"I don't want to be alone�"
She said with a whimper in her voice.
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