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Plano woman sues Carnival for being stranded at sea
A Plano woman who was aboard the Carnival Triumph when it became stranded in the Gulf of Mexico last week has sued the ship's parent company, saying it put her life at risk and caused her mental anguish.
The suit was filed by Kathy Marie Armstrong in Galveston County, where the boat launched. The ship became disabled after a fire in its engine room and had to be towed to Mobile, Ala.
It took four days to tow the ship to land. During that time the boat had little electricity and no plumbing or air conditioning. Frustrated passengers reported enduring foul smells and bad food.
"[Armstrong] feared for her life and safety, under constant threat of contracting serious illness by the raw sewage filling the vessel," the lawsuit said.
The suit alleges that Carnival acted negligently and breached its contract by failing to provide adequate food and amenities. It doesn't ask for a specific amount of money, but requests damages for physical and emotional injuries, plus attorneys' fees, court costs and interest.
Mississippi lawyer John Arthur Eaves, Jr. is representing Armstrong. He said he has filed about 15 lawsuits since the ship landed. He also represents about 80 passengers and family members of the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that wrecked off the coast of Italy in January 2012.
"Once again, Carnival's desire to increase profits at the risk of passenger safety has resulted in putting passengers at risk," Eaves said. "How much longer are we going to allow this to happen?"
A Carnival spokeswoman declined to comment, citing pending litigation.


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There is one pretty good teaching tool at Cal coach Jeff Tedford's disposal this week — the tape of Appalachian State's historic 34-32 upset over Michigan in 2007.
If any of Cal's players think an FCS team (formerly Division I-AA) can't beat an FBS team (formerly Division I-A), the sight of the Mountaineers celebrating in front of 110,000 fans at the Big House should have an impact.
The Bears face a potential letdown Saturday when they host Eastern Washington, the 18th-ranked team in the FCS. Cal moved up to No. 10 in the FBS national polls Tuesday and is coming off an impressive 52-13 rout of Maryland in its season opener.
"We definitely talk about it," Tedford said. "Our preparation has to be a lot about us and not so much who we play. We respect all of our opponents, so this is mainly about us. I think we're mature enough, and we've been down this road before and there's enough examples out there of when you're not ready to play, what can happen."
Eastern Washington has played in big venues before. The Eagles played at Texas and Colorado last year and lost only 31-24 to the Buffaloes. Over the past four seasons, the Eagles also have played at West Virginia, Oregon State and BYU.
"I'm confident that our veterans aren't necessarily going to be in awe by the situation, which is sometimes what you worry about," Eastern Washington coach Beau Baldwin said. "We've played in a lot of big stadiums against nationally ranked FBS teams, so I don't think nerves will be an issue. Last year we went into games with the approach that we're going to win these ballgames. We'll take that approach even though I know we're underdogs."
Cal players seem to have gotten the message.
"They're not crummy players," left tackle Mike Tepper said. "In no way, shape or form does Cal look at them like they are not a good team. In the 10 minutes I've watched film of them, they play downhill, they play fast and they play hard. You can't overlook anybody. We're not overlooking them at all."
"We will re-evaluate that," Tedford said. "Number one is we need to help Giorgio better. We need to look at his fundamentals and his mechanics and try to improve him for games. We know he has the ability to do it, because we see it in practice all the time."
Tedford also said field goal kicker Vince D'Amato and backup place-kicker David Seawright also will get a look on kickoffs this week at practice.

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Disquiet: Amani Willett Contemplates Being a New Father During Uncertain Times
September 26, 2013
Reading Disquiet, Brooklyn, New York-based photographer Amani Willett's first book, which was published earlier this year by Damiani, is a bit like unpacking a particularly well-crafted set of Chinese boxes. Each pass reveals another layer, clarifying intellectually what may have already resonated emotionally. Or vice versa. Disquiet documents the first two years of Willett's son's life, using the social and economic turmoil of America's Great Recession as a backdrop.
The work is instantly familiar—the visual documentation of a young, educated family welcoming and celebrating its first child. But that thin veneer of normalcy swiftly falls away, revealing instead a portrait of a family in the eye of a storm.
During the summer of 2010 when Willett began working on the images that would eventually be collected in Disquiet, his life was in a state of flux. After making a name for himself as a self-taught "street photographer," Willett was entering the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and becoming a father at the same time. With the recession in full swing, change and uncertainty were everywhere he looked. Photographing his new family, Willett began to make the sorts of connections that lie at the heart of this book. "I found myself having an internal dialogue where my personal experiences of family were … converging with my thoughts about the world I was bringing my son into—the economic trouble, political dysfunction, war and climate disasters," the artist says. "At first I was experimenting with the idea of creating small groups of images that operated as sentences or even short stories. It was from there that I made the leap to envisioning the project as a book."
In one frame, lonely silhouettes in the streets dart through roiling clouds of smoke and gas. In another, jumbled metal barricades sit quietly in the fading evening light. Elsewhere, unruly mobs wave placards behind burning roadblocks. Some of the images are repurposed from news reports—altered, printed out and rephotographed.
The chaos of the outside world is thrown into relief against the tranquility of wife and baby, at home. A baby boy sleeps on his mother's chest, his head resting in the nape of her neck. Mother walks in a garden, child in her arms amidst sun-dappled shrubbery. The dichotomy seems clear: A faceless outside world consumed by strife is kept at bay by the comfort of the family, a symbol of the power of love over hate. But then you look again.
Living with the book, initial assumptions start to seem inadequate; the "home as refuge from upside-down world" narrative thins like an onionskin. One first notices the tension in the mother's shoulders as she sits alone on the edge of the bed. In another image she is nude on a couch, facing away from the camera, skin stretched tightly over her vertebrae. A newspaper lies unread in the fall leaves. Cheerios spilled on a cold tile floor echo the scrambled jigsaw puzzle pieces from a few pages earlier. Bare bulbs cast stark light on an unfinished basement. Looking again at the earlier photograph of the mother and child in the garden, we see the worry in her face, her hand comforting the child.
Willett acknowledges the intensity of the push and pull between public and private in the book, but says he was focused more on "the anxieties that becoming a father brought to the forefront for me, [and the fact] that this new milestone in my life coincided with one of the more trying political and economic periods in recent history." Willett sees the work as a weaving of his own "internal dialogue" that reflects "the way we experience the world." The book eschews "strict boxes around life, work, society, politics."
Editing for a book was new territory for Willett, who has previously shown his work only through exhibitions. He came to realize that some pictures he "would never think of hanging on a wall" worked in this context because of "their descriptive ability and the way they could connect parts of the book to one another." Sequencing was also key: The pictures of his son are chronological, but everything else had to contribute to the book's narrative arc and design esthetic.
There is a somnambulistic quality to this project—the sensation of a dream in which you fear something terrible looms. Willett's greatest achievement here may be his ability to tie a subject as personal as the birth of his child into the wider context of American unease and uncertainty in this new millennium. His fears and worries create an emotional resonance that reverberates through the frantic tumult of street protests and an expecting mother's quiet worry with equal poignancy.
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D.B. Wortman , Department of Computer Science and the Computer Systems Research Group, University of Toronto
This correspondence describes an experimental comparison of timing information provided by a large multiprogramming operating system (OS/360 MVT) with timing information derived directly from a high-resolution hardware clock. The hardware clock was found to be a superior source of timing information.
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Is this the 'snowball' getting bigger and bigger? Wisconsin and New Jersey curtailing union rights to collective bargain and then the Supreme Court smacking down class-action suits? My guess is it's only the beginning.
Corporations have played the American worker and the middle class like a fiddle the past 40+ years, working conditions and rights that took lives and years to overcome have been stripped and yet they want more. They have their game down to a science, playing it well on every front, especially the media. And the mainstream media seems to have no clue at all or they are part of the movement. Well duh!! Most of the freakin' mainstream media is owned by the mega-corporate world.
CEO salaries to average workers salaries at the widest disparity in 80+ years, salaries stagnant for 40 years, unemployment close to 10%, mankind in this a country should be ashamed of itself.
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Gillian McKeith tries to whip the women of Britian in to shape by getting numerous women to flash their ample bums on camera and straddle horse riding simulators. The horse riding simulators are supposed to help you lose two inches off your bum, and I suppose this is as scientific as McKeith is allowed to get these days. (And no, she didn't ask the women to poop in some tupperware so she could analyze it.)
Aside from watching McKeith scream at women's flabby bums for being too big, my favorite bit of the show was watching Anna Richardson, a journalist, try to lose weight by eating apples. She's absolutely hilarious, and might I point out, absolutely stunning. At a size 14, she's gorgeous and has a lively, vivacious personality. Richardson admits that she hasn't weighed herself in 7 years, and underestimates her weight by a stone. She consults an ex model who advised her to eat nothing but apples for a week, as that's what all the models used to do. But while Richardson is hilarious, she revealed a darker side of the modeling industry by when she spoke to a different former catwalk model who said that at certain fashion weeks, she would see certain models "shit themselves" because they were abusing laxatives to lose weight. Glamorous, no?
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Definición de demoralize en inglés:
(also demoralise)
verbo[with object]
1Cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope: the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The way you defeat an army, is by demoralizing the individual soldiers in it, or getting them to desert or retreat.
- I object, not to the paperwork that demoralises teachers, but to the undermining of them as caring and knowledgeable professionals that it represents.
- Now, the national side, which once ruled the football world with a haughty confidence, is completely demoralized and there's less than a year to prepare for the great campaign on home ground.
dishearten, dispirit, deject, cast down, depress, dismay, daunt, discourage, unman, unnerve, crush, sap, shake, throw, cow, subdue, undermine, devitalize, weaken, enfeeble, enervate;
break someone's spirit, bring someone low
informal knock the stuffing out of, knock for six, knock sideways
dispirited, disheartened, downhearted, dejected, cast down, downcast, low, depressed, despairing;
informal fed up
British informal brassed off, cheesed off
vulgar slang pissed off
2 archaic Corrupt the morals of (someone): she hastened her daughter's steps, lest she be demoralized by beholding the free manners of these 'mad English'
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- It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized.
- It is you and the like of you that deprave and demoralize youth and prepare criminals for the gallows.
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- Alcohol as a destructive force in Apache culture is a phenomenon that dates from colonization, and it has been a byproduct of demoralization and despair.
- The poor areas may have generated more crime and disorder as a consequence of anonymity, demoralization and despair.
- This is not just demoralization; this is a clinical depression.
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- And so I think they'll come to the realization that as difficult as our political compromise is, as tough as it is to work it out, it is much better than the continuation of this grinding, dehumanizing, demoralizing conflict.
- 'You're not far now,' she deadpanned, setting me up for a demoralizing final 3.8 miles.
- Furthermore, nothing is more demoralizing for a company's personnel as when they realize they have to recreate hundreds of word documents and spreadsheets.
demoralizingly adverbio
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- Much of the work needs effort to get started and can be demoralisingly difficult to complete.
- The mile-markers passed one by one at demoralisingly infrequent intervals to anyone accustomed to training in kilometres.
- She is also pleased to have completed her course, having found some of the statistics modules demoralisingly difficult and the reading load hard to keep up with.
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing approximately one million Americans each year. The good news is that the death rate is in decline, in part due to the use of pacemakers and other implantable devices designed to aid an ailing heart.
Roughly 3 million Americans currently have an implanted cardiac device. Doctors implant hundreds of thousands more each year. (Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and heart pacemakers are the first- and third-most implanted medical devices in the country.) There is no debate that these high-tech devices can save lives, but they also create a different sort of health risk for patients who seek or require use of another revolutionary medical technology: magnetic resonance imaging. Since its debut in the 1970s, the MRI has become a hugely popular method for creating detailed images of the inner body. Millions of MRIs are produced each year in this country, used to assess everything from torn ligaments to brain function.
Patients with cardiac implants, however, are frequently denied an MRI because the technology's powerful magnets might wreak havoc upon their delicate electronic implants. Recently, Dr. Douglas Chang, chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues published a study looking at health risks to patients with implants who undergo an MRI.
Q: Historically, what has been the concern about conducting an MRI on a patient with an implanted cardiac device like a pacemaker? Is it directly dangerous to the health of the patient or to the functioning of the device?
A: There are several concerns about performing an MRI scan on someone with an implanted cardiac electronic device. Will the strong magnetic fields damage the cardiac device? The fields potentially could reprogram or reboot the device. They could lead to inappropriate cardiac pacing activity or permanent damage to the circuitry. Another concern is for device movement. Lastly there is concern for distortion of the MR images by the device.
Q: What did your study find?
A: The study, conducted with Dr. Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green of UC San Diego, and Drs. Debra Doud and Robert Russo at Scripps Clinic, looked at patient safety and image quality in one of the largest ongoing studies of orthopedic MRI examinations. Specifically, we examined 68 cervical spine, 20 thoracic spine and 130 lumbar spine MRI tests that used a 1.5T magnet.
MRI machines are rated by the power of their magnet, using a measure called the Tesla (T). Clinical devices typically range in power from 0.5T to 3.0T; research MRIs can go as high at 60 T.
We found no adverse clinical events: death, device failure, loss of image capture. None of the MRI examinations were judged to be nondiagnostic.
Q: Are there broader ramifications to your research?
A: For patients undergoing MRI of the cervical and lumbar spine, the presence of an implanted cardiac device did not result in imaging artifacts that resulted in a nondiagnostic examination. Clinically indicated cervical and lumbar spine MRI examinations at 1.5 Tesla can be performed successfully in patients with an implanted cardiac device with appropriate programming and cardiac monitoring.
This suggests that with a closely monitored MRI environment, patient safety is achievable and that important MRI examinations can be offered to improve health decision-making and care. In my clinical practice, I would be delighted to be able to offer an MRI exam to my patients with back pain, and who also might have a history of breast or prostate cancer. Without the MRI option, the alternative is not to look for metastasis specifically, or to subject every patient to a blood draw and an IV infusion of radioactive tracer to perform a nuclear medicine bone scan.
Q: What about developments at the other end? How close are we to developing cardiac implants that are not affected by external sources?
A: There are some MRI-compatible cardiac devices in development, and some have just recently been approved for use in Europe. However, even with these new devices, there are many cardiac patients now with the older models. For example, 400,000 devices are implanted each year in the United States, and there are more than 3 million patients overall with them.
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Lambda Literary entranced by Neighbour Procedure
I'm tempted to begin with a discussion of the lesbian rule, which is explained in "Afterthought," a poem—or exegesis? —in Rachel Zolf's most recent book, Neighbour Procedure (Coach House Books). It might be appropriate to begin there for a review on Lambda Literary, but the lesbian rule is not where the book begins.
Neighbour Procedure begins with "Shoot & Weep." The first of four parts. The other three are "Book of Comparisons," "Innocent Abroad," and "L'éveil". Each section, almost a chapbook. Together, a whole, though one that resists completion. This is conceptual poetry, I am informed by a blurb on the back cover, though I don't know what conceptual poetry is, perhaps it is like pornography, one knows it when one sees it.
More than conceptual poetry, however, this is political poetry, though, like conceptual poetry and pornography, I don't entirely know what that means either. The easiest way to reach for an explanation is to say that the poems of Neighbour Procedure are deeply concerned about the world and arrangements of power in the world and how one recognizes, negotiates, and challenges power in the world. That, for me, makes it political poetry. The poems are also compilations, distillations, manipulations, and reorganizations of other forms of text; that makes it conceptual poetry. Zolf uses a conceptual framework to produce the poems though it emerges through the poems – a generative and creative framework, not a concept for unthinking adherence. More simply, Neighbour Procedure is an exploration of the world through one poet's mind with particular attention to Israel and Palestine. It is a passionate and quotidian mulling of language and culture; it is deeply invested in how to make meaning in a world of war, conflict, and strife.
Since I first read Neighbour Procedure, I've been thinking about it, mulling Zolf's words and ideas, returning to her poems. Immediately, I felt compelled to write about it as a way to think about it and engage it more deeply. This review is my internal flailing to understand. In some ways, Neighbour Procedure is Zolf's flailing to understand, though her poetic work is more artful than this prosaic review.
I confess to being a reader with the greatest passion for lyric and narrative poetry; I was drawn most to the section "Innocent Abroad" where Zolf assembles poems that resemble lyric and narrative poems I love. These were for me ambassador poems for the rest of the book; they invited me to grapple with the other work. They were an invitation to engage more deeply with her project. In two poems in this section of the book, "Messenger" and "Mixed Crowd," Zolf explores multiple translations of the Quran into English, tracking the changes of the passages and examining differences between, "We made a covenant of old with the children of Israel" and "We formerly accepted the covenant of the children of Israel." Gray and black text highlights differences in translations. Zolf gathers and presents words, arranging them as images on the page to be read discursively and visually; she is an intrepid curator assembling her installation in this book for readers to contemplate meanings ...
The form of this poetry is not fixed; it is malleable, pliable. There is a sense of discovery and unfolding in the book, for both the poet and the reader. There is a reaching for meaning even as it is never given. Justice, ancient and modern, haunt, even taunt, Neighbour Procedure. That is the lesbian rule. Articulated by Aristotle as justice is a pliable rule, and explored by Zolf in this fine, vexing, and ultimately satisfying collection.


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MainSource Bank, Greensburg, Indiana Daryl R. Tressler, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of MainSource Bank today announced that MainSource Bank will expand its presence in Kentucky with the purchase of three branch locations from American Founders Bank, Inc. (AFB). The transaction includes two branch locations in Frankfort, Kentucky and one branch location in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. In total, the purchase includes approximately $70 million in loans and $100 million in deposits. MainSource Bank currently maintains a presence in Mercer and Anderson counties in Kentucky. In exchange, MainSource Bank will sell its branch located in Jefferson County, Kentucky, including certain associated loans and deposits, to American Founders Bank.
Mr. Tressler stated, This acquisition is a strategic opportunity for MainSource Bank to expand relationships in our Kentucky markets. The locations of these branches provide a natural extension of our footprint and are located in communities that fit our core business strategy. In addition, we are eager to expand our brand of community banking and its focus on local-decision making to the residents of Frankfort and the surrounding areas. We believe this acquisition will allow MainSource Bank to be a stronger financial institution and demonstrates our commitment to growth and opportunity in this area.
This acquisition continues our long-range strategy of investing in markets with high growth potential for AFB, stated John T. Taylor, President and CEO of American Founders Bank. AFB has successfully served the Louisville market from our North Hurstbourne location since 2007 and we are pleased to bring our customer-focused approach to banking to more consumers and businesses in Jefferson County.
The agreement calls for the Frankfort and Lawrenceburg offices to become a part of MainSource Bank, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of MainSource Financial Group. The Louisville office will become part of American Founders Bank, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Founders Bancorp, Inc. The transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2009, is subject to regulatory approval and other closing conditions.
MainSource Bank is a subsidiary of MainSource Financial Group, Inc., which is also headquartered in Greensburg, Indiana. MainSource Financial Group is listed on the NASDAQ National Market (under the symbol:"MSFG") and is a community-focused, financial holding company with assets of approximately $2.9 billion. The Company operates 69 offices in 32 Indiana counties, 6 offices in 3 Illinois counties, 4 offices in 3 Kentucky counties, and 6 offices in 2 Ohio counties through its three banking subsidiaries, MainSource Bank, Greensburg, Indiana, MainSource Bank of Illinois, Kankakee, Illinois, and MainSource Bank - Ohio, Troy, Ohio. Through its non-banking subsidiaries, MainSource Insurance LLC, and MainSource Title LLC, the Company and its banking subsidiaries provide various related financial services.
American Founders Bancorp, through its subsidiary American Founders Bank, currently has nine financial centers in Lexington (4), Louisville, Shelbyville, Frankfort (2) and Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. A Kentucky-based institution, AFB was founded in 2001 and acquired First Security Bank of Lexington in 2006. It had assets of over $500 million as of September 30, 2008.
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MIDDLEBORO — Richard A. Perry, age 73 years, of New Bedford, MA, died February 17, 2014 after a period of failing health at Golden Living Center Oak Hill in Middleboro. He was the husband of Flora (Auger) Perry of 52 years.
Born July 23, 1940 in New Bedford, he was the son of the late Charles and Alice (Falcon) Perry.
He was a life long resident of New Bedford and worked for over 30 years for Johnson and Johnson. He served in the U.S. Navy and was actively involved with the United Way, New Bedford Office and was a Communicant of St. John Neumann's Church in East Freetown where he was a volunteer. A big part of his life was coaching various youth sports in the local area and loved spending time with his children and grandchildren.
In addition to his wife Flora, he is survived by 3 daughters Rachel Midgley and her husband Bob of Northborough, MA, Cheryl Moura and her husband David of Lakeville and Jennifer Baylies and her husband Jeff of New Bedford; a sister Jackie Angelo of New Bedford; 8 grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
He was also the brother of the late Charles Perry.
A Funeral Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 10:00 AM in St. John Neumann's Church in East Freetown. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery in New Bedford.
Visitation will take place on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 from 4-8 PM in the Dahlborg-MacNevin Funeral Home, 280 Bedford St., Lakeville, MA.
In lieu of flowers memorial gifts may be given to the United Way, 105 Williams St., 3rd Floor, New Bedford, MA 02740.
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Roman Chamomile
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- What other names is Roman Chamomile known by?
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- How does Roman Chamomile work?
- Are there safety concerns?
- Dosing considerations for Roman Chamomile.
How does Roman Chamomile work?Roman chamomile contains chemicals that can help decrease gas (flatulence), relax muscles, and cause sedation. Depending on the dose, it can either relieve or cause nausea.
Are there safety concerns?Roman chamomile seems safe for most people when taken by mouth as medicine and in foods. In large amounts, it can cause vomiting. It can also cause an allergic reaction in people sensitive to ragweed, marigolds, daisies, or similar herbs.
The essential oil of Roman chamomile also seems to be safe when inhaled or applied to the skin.
Special Precautions & Warnings:Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Roman chamomile is LIKELY UNSAFE when taken by mouth in medicinal amounts during pregnancy. Roman chamomile is believed to cause miscarriages. Not enough is known about the safety of applying it to the skin during pregnancy. Avoid using Roman chamomile if you are pregnant.
It's also best to avoid Roman chamomile if you are breast-feeding. Not enough is known about how it might affect the nursing infant.
Allergy to ragweed and related plants: Roman chamomile may cause an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to the Asteraceae/Compositae family. Members of this family include ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds, daisies, and many others. If you have allergies, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before taking Roman chamomile.
Dosing considerations for Roman Chamomile.The appropriate dose of Roman chamomile depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions. At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for Roman chamomile. Keep in mind that natural products are not always necessarily safe and dosages can be important. Be sure to follow relevant directions on product labels and consult your pharmacist or physician or other healthcare professional before using.
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BIRTHPLACE: Kingston, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: undrafted
* Scored his first goal since Oct. 18 vs. Columbus last Thursday vs. Vancouver, giving him four points (1g-3a) in seven games. In Nashville's previous 24 games, he was a healthy scratch 12 times, and registered one point in 12 games dressed.
* Logged 17:31on Dec. 29 at Colorado, his highest total since the 2007-08 season finale.
* Has assisted on each of Nashville's past two game-winning goals.
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OT Points: 1g-1a-2pts, Shootouts: 2-5, 40%, Penalty Shots: none.
|2007-08: Recalled by Nashville from Milwaukee (AHL) on three occasions (Oct. 27, Feb. 17 and March 10) and appeared in 33 games for the Predators… Scored the overtime game-winning goal to cap a rally from a three-goal deficit on April 1, 2008 at St. Louis… Converted the first and only shootout attempt of his career on March 22, 2008 vs. Chicago… Scored the first game-winning goal of his career on March 15, 2008 at Detroit… Notched the first multiple-point game of his career (1g-1a) on Feb. 10, 2008 vs. Phoenix… Named to the 2008 AHL All-Star Classic but missed the event due to recall by the Predators… Ranked second on Milwaukee in assists (40) and game-winning goals (5), as well as third in points (54)… Notched 17 multiple-point games, including three four-point games in just 45 AHL games… Started the AHL season with a six-game point streak (2g-9a) from Oct. 6-24 and notched a point in each of his final five regular-season games with the Admirals (4g-8a) from Feb. 27-March 8… Signed a two-year contract on July 25, 2008. PLAYOFFS: Appeared in all six playoff games for Nashville, and tallied assists in back-to-back games in Games Four and Five.
2006-07: Tallied an assist in his NHL debut on March 4, 2007 at Anaheim… Recalled by Nashville from Milwaukee (AHL) from March 4-April 2, 2007 and appeared in 13 NHL games… Led Milwaukee (AHL) in scoring (30g-38a-68pts) and plus/minus rating (+9).
CAREER NOTES: Appeared in 11 ECHL games with Reading in 2005-06 before joining Milwaukee (AHL), then finished the season ranked third in assists (34) and fourth in points (12g-34a-46pts) in 65 games with the Admirals… Ranked second on the ECHL's South Carolina Stingrays in goals (30) and fourth in scoring (30g-28a-58pts) in his rookie pro season of 2004-05.
AMATEUR: Led St. Lawrence (ECAC) in scoring in three of his four college seasons (2000-04)… Also tied for second in the ECAC in scoring (17g-25a-42pts) as a senior in 2003-04… Led St. Lawrence and tied for tenth in the ECAC in scoring (15g-23a-38pts) in 2002-03… Led St. Lawrence and tied for tenth in the ECAC with 31 points (10g-21a) in 2001-02.
BACKGROUND: Nickname "Pevs"… Lists Anaheim as his favorite NHL city and the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary as his favorite arena to visit… Other favorites include Amerigo's (place to eat in Nashville) and foxsoccer.com (website)… Has a dog named Bear… He and his wife Nicole got married in the summer of 2008.
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We can't say we're huge fans of Lily Allen's overall look in this snap, recently taken in New York, but we do admire the fact that she's keeping the 90s Brit-rave vibe alive with her purple hair and bold red plaid (and platforms, natch). Still, the jeans she's wearing caught our attention. Black skinny jeans are a fall style staples no matter which way you spin it. If you need a pair, grab some now.
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Using a predominantly warm color palette of yellows, rusty reds, browns, and even pink to cooler greys, crisp whites, and blues, designer Simon Spurr takes a modernized version of dapper British man, and takes him into The Big Apple. But don't be fooled, having had stints at design houses such as Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, the U.K. native knows a thing or two about American style. So, what happens when the two worlds meet? We get an ultra luxe meets toned down, easy, modern aesthetic.
Among the preppy staples of three-piece suits, coats, and precisely tailored blazers, Spurr gets the cool factor by incorporating high quality, ultra-premium jeans. The perfect piece in any borderline foppish wardrobe. Here are our favorite denim looks from his Spring Summer 2011 collection:
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MAR 26, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
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Down syndrome advocates meet with Justice Dept.
The president of a Frederick County support group says he's meeting Tuesday at department headquarters in Washington with representatives of the agency, national Down syndrome organizations, Johns Hopkins University and the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
A county grand jury decided last week not to pursue criminal charges against the deputies.
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Decommissioning of NMCB 24
"I hate to see it go. This has been a fantastic command for me and for many of the Seabees who have served here, but it's a force wide change and something we all have to get used to," said Capt. Ronald D. Gruzesky, Commanding Officer of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two Four.


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The Callahan Research Team
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Pulse Art Fair Plans to Move to Miami Beach (Exclusive)
The Miami art fair PULSE just kicked a little sand in the face of its rivals.
The contemporary art fair plans to relocate from downtown Miami to a spot along the beach this winter—a move to lure more visitors and stand out from the crowd of more than a dozen art fairs that hit the city every December. Fair director Helen Toomer unveiled the new location in an interview Thursday.
The new spot at Indian Beach Park has the potential to draw collectors from luxury hotels as well as tourists spilling off the boardwalk. The swath of Miami Beach might also generate more buzz: mega-art dealer Larry Gagosian reportedly just purchased a condo nearby. "There's a lot of energy going on there," says Toomer.
The new venue puts PULSE closer to the big kahuna, Art Basel Miami Beach, the sprawling art fair that takes over the Miami Beach Convention Center. Toomer says the two fairs are now a five-minute shuttle bus ride apart, compared to 25 minutes when the fair took place in an indoor venue in the Wynwood Arts District.
Dealers will sell art in tents just off the sand, with room for potentially 20 additional booths and more outdoor art installations than last year. PULSE, like Art Basel Miami Beach, runs from Dec. 4-7.
Time will tell whether the seaside helps dealers sell more art, but Toomer says at least they'll be in a better mood while they're trying. "I understand how difficult it is to be in an art fair for four days," says the former New York gallerist, who took over as fair director this year. "The fact that we're able to move to the beach, go outside, look at the water, get some fresh air and come back rejuvenated is really important to me."


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Buckeye Vodka Expands to 35 States
The Kentucky Department of Alcohol Beverage Control approved Dayton, Ohio-based Crystal Spirits LLC's request to sell its premium Buckeye Vodka brand in 750ml and 1.75L bottles throughout the state. Heidelberg Distributing Company of Kentucky will represent Buckeye Vodka.
"We believe Kentucky will embrace Buckeye Vodka," said Mike Monnin, Vice President and General Manager at Heidelberg Kentucky. "Kentuckians demand quality and value in their spirits and Buckeye Vodka certainly delivers on both."
With the expansion into Kentucky, Buckeye Vodka extends its reach to 35 states via The Party Source. The Covington store ships spirits to an approved list of 35 states, provided both the purchaser and recipient are of legal drinking age. Although prices vary by location, The Party Source currently sells 750ml bottles of Buckeye Vodka for $16.99 and 1.75L bottles for $30.99.
"Expansion into Kentucky along with our partnership with Heidelberg and availability at The Party Source is an important step for Buckeye Vodka," said Jim Finke, CEO of Crystal Spirits. "While we're extremely proud to be the best-selling Ohio-based spirit in the state, our reach beyond Ohio will help drive future growth."
In 2012, Buckeye Vodka pumped an estimated $1.26 million into the state's economy with sales up 70% over the previous year. Finke expects double-digit growth to continue.
Crystal Spirits was also recently named the 2012 Ohio Distillery of the Year by The New York International Spirits Competition (NYISC). Buckeye Vodka earned a Silver Medal in the tasting competition, adding to its Gold Medal and Best Buy Award from the Beverage Testing Institute's International Competition in 2011. The NYISC judging, conducted by members of the spirits trade, occurred in New York City on October 21, 2012.
"The Buckeye Vodka family could not be more proud of the Ohio Distillery of the Year award," Finke commented. "Our team works incredibly hard to ensure superior quality, taste and consistency in every small batch of Buckeye Vodka. To receive international recognition for our company is absolutely wonderful."
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JAN 29, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
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Every year, the Super Bowl gets weirder and weirder prop bets. With the Harbaugh family and Ray Lewis at the center of this year's game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, it's nothing different.
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Unlike what most think, it is more than a simple pizza joint down the road. It is the term used to describe being high to the point of absolute peace in the mind. You achieve the highest state of mellow. It is named this because the drug often used to achieve this state of mellow is the shroom.
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Suggestions for Environmental Cooperation Pursuant to the United States-Chile Environmental Cooperation Agreement
Notice Of Preparation Of The 2012 2014 U.S. Chile Environmental Cooperation Work Program And Request For Comments.
The Department invites the public, including NGOs, educational institutions, private sector enterprises and other interested persons, to submit written comments or suggestions regarding items for inclusion in a new work program for implementing the U.S.-Chile Environmental Cooperation Agreement, which was signed on June 17, 2003. We encourage submitters to refer to: (1) The U.S.-Chile Environmental Cooperation Agreement; (2) the U.S.-Chile 2009-2011 Work Program for Environmental Cooperation; (3) Chapter 19 (Environment) of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement; and (4) the Environmental Review of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement. These documents are available at http://www.state.gov/e/oes/env/trade/chile/index.htm.
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The United States and Chile established the U.S.-Chile Joint Commission for Environmental Cooperation (the Commission) when they signed the U.S.-Chile Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA) on June 17, 2003, negotiated in concert with the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The Commission is to meet every two years to advance environmental cooperation and review progress in implementing the ECA. The Commission also is responsible for establishing and developing programs of work that reflect national priorities for cooperative environmental activities.
The Commission last met January 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. During the meeting, the United States and Chile signed the 2009-2011 Work Program, which built on successes from previous work programs and laid out a roadmap for environmental cooperation to achieve the long-term goals of: (1) Strengthening effective implementation and enforcement of environmental laws and regulations; (2) encouraging development and adoption of sound environmental practices and technologies, particularly in business enterprises; (3) promoting sustainable development and management of environmental resources, including wild fauna and flora, protected wild areas, and other ecologically important ecosystems; and (4) encouraging civil society participation in the environmental decision-making process and environmental education.
For the 2012-2014 Work Program, we anticipate building upon cooperative work initiated under previous work programs. We are requesting suggestions that may be considered for inclusion in the next Work Program.
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Citizens in Fayetteville are showing their support for Police Chief Tom Bergamine's Community Wellness Plan in record time. In the past 24-hours, three offenders listed on the Nixle.com alert system had solid tips called in on them within less than a minute after the alert was broadcast. Nixle is a citizen-interactive initiative involving community policing that was adopted as part of the Chief's Wellness Plan.
Three arrests have been made over the past four days as a direct result of Nixle and the citizens who recognized suspects and called police. All of the arrests were made in less than thirty minutes from the time the alerts were sent out. Nixle.com notified the Fayetteville Police Department that it had placed a local media article on its national website earlier today regarding the capture of Leonard Baker last week, who was brought in by a bail bondsman who received a Nixle alert on his cell phone. The article can be seen at www.nixle.com/press.html.
The latest offender apprehended by the Nixle alert system is Joshua Cole Harris, 17, of 6799 Longparrish Court. Harris was charged with breaking and entering of multiple residences in the Zone 23 area, an area west of Strickland Bridge Road towards the Wal-Mart on Raeford Road.
Police issued a Nixle alert at 9:40am today (as seen in the actual alert below) and within one minute, a citizen called and told police where he was. Police arrested Harris at about 10am this morning. He is currently being processed at the Cumberland County Jail at this time.
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WASHINGTON (January 13, 2011) — The latest alternative fuel workshop for fleet managers hosted by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) and the other members of the Alternative Fuels Trade Alliance will take place January 20 in Seattle.The free workshop will be held in the Summit Ballroom of the Holiday Inn Seattle-Seatac International Airport, 17338 International Blvd. This will be No. 12 in a nationwide series of 14 training seminars in 2010 and 2011, made possible by a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department. The workshops address alternative fuel quality, infrastructure, available vehicles, safety, the latest technologies, and the environmental impact of propane autogas, ethanol, biodiesel, and compressed natural gas.
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Tastefully decorated, the lounge is independent, bright and sunny with two sets of doors to a balcony with views to the street and neighborhood.
The modern kitchen is new and fully equipped, opening onto the dining room. There are three bath/shower rooms.
The apartment is spacious and with a lot of light, a total of 130 sq meters, tastefully furnished and with attention to detail. Guests can enjoy the views from the outdoor seating area on the balcony.
The apartment is situated in a quiet side street off Via Sindicato, 50 metres from Plaza Mayor, ideally located in Palma's historic center, the apartment is just a 10-minute walk from the beach, perfect +for people who want to experience the old city of Palma. Close by is the shopping centre of Palma, El Corte Ingles, Supermarkets, and Boutiques. The famous market El Oliver is 5 minutes away.
All the historical sights, palaces, museums and art galleries are within walking distance, not forgetting the impressive Cathedral. Surrounding the apartment are many famous squares with coffee shops, tapas and wine bars and restaurants.
The central bus and train stations are also very close, with a fast bus connecting the airport with Plaza Espana. Next to the apartment is a bicycle rental, Palma is fully equipped for cyclists.
Palma's beaches are 10-15 minutes walk away, and discovering nearby beaches by local transport is easy.
Throughout the year Palma hosts many fiestas and celebrations, from art nights in the streets, to medieval fairs, firework displays and outside live music. The city hosts international sailing events, and connects the other Balearics Islands by ferry.
Not forgetting the famous Tuesday nights busy "Routa Martiana" which happens in the area of the apartment where all the tapas bars are open offering tapas and beer or wine for 1.50€ each.
The famous antique train to Soller also leaves from Palma, travelling through the beautiful countryside, to the village of Soller.
Enjoy your stay! Hope to see you soon!
Rental starts at 14:00 hours and finishes at 11:00 hours on the last day of the contract.
Prices are for this property in Euros.
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Très bel appartement, très bien situé et très agréable pour des vacances en famille ou entre amis.
Se préparer à donner une caution en liquide à l'arrivée, chose qui n'est pas toujours précisée.
À conseiller.
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Wohnung hervorragend ausgestattet und sehr schön eingerichtet
3 Bäder jedoch reicht das warme Wasser nicht für 6 Personen,erst am Nachmittag wieder ausreichend vorhanden.
Ansonsten sehr positiv und wir würden jederzeit wiederkommen
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Great host. Quick to reply by mail and text. Supplied baby cot and chair without hassle. Just easy!
Amazing location in old town, Palma.
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We had a great stay in the apartment. Location is really great. In reality exactly like the pictures. Pay attention: the stairs are rather steep!
Everything was more than ok, except for the noise the wooden floor makes.....
We liked:
-Excellent location, easy to walk within minutes to restaurants, bars, shops, cafes. Perfect with little baby.
-Spacious lounge & dining area (we were 3 adults and a 5 month old baby).
-2 good size double bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
-Elevator (but 3 steps to get up to it made it a little tricky with pushchair).
-Quiet - good for sleeping!
-Lucky it was available at short notice.
We didn't like:
-No electric kettle - just one for the hob - far too time consuming for tea & making baby bottles!
-No AC in the bedrooms, only in lounge. We had to have the lounge at lowest temperature for a few hours to help cools the bedrooms.
-Tiny microwave (our standard MAM baby bottles wouldn't fit).
-En suite bathroom did not have a shower curtain.
-Poor water pressure in showers.
Owner is kind. Apartment very nice, clean, right in the center of Palma. Small minus - the lack of air conditioning in bedrooms.
We stated in the loft with 4 persons in our twenties looking for a place for our own to have a relaxing holiday.
Location: In the center of the city between two main squares. One with a big shopping mall and bus station and the other near the main shopping district and tapas bars were most of the locals seem to come.
Accommodation: very neat and specious for four persons. two room; one with a two-person bed an another with two one-person beds. We didn't cook in the apartment however there sufficient supplies in the open kitchen.
service: after a text message the owner met us at the apartment very promptly and arranged everything with us.
Generally speaking: very nice place to use as a hub to go into Palma and explore the island. We for one very much enjoyed our stay.
Big thanks for Spain Rentals for having us over.
Fabian, The Netherlands.
Apartamento de lujo en el centro de Palma, con todas las comodidades a tu disposición. Las habitaciones grandes, espaciosas y con mucho sitio de almacenaje para la ropa. La cocina muy completa. El baño adecuado y todo funcióna a la perfección. El salón amplio con aire acondicionado, que para verano es una gran ventaja. La ubicación es inmejorable, calle peatonal muy tranquila, cerca de todo y sin ruido de tráfico. El anfitrión del apartamento atento en todo momento a cualquier problema. En difinitiva una maravilla.
Wir fanden die Wohnung sehr sauber vor. Eine sehr zentrale, gute Lage mit Haltestellen für diverse Buslinien in unmittelbarer Nähe, deshalb kein Auto nötig. Leider nur im Wohnzimmer eine Klimaanlage, in den Schlafzimmern nicht. Küchenausstattung etwas spärlich aber für einen Kurzaufenthalt in Ordnung. Wohnungsübergabe und Rückgabe freundlich, unkompliziert und gut.
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According to multiple reports, Louis van Gaal is ready to take an axe to the Manchester United squad and sell up to 10 players - all that and more as the media reacts to his first days in charge.
New boss to cull 10 United players: Louis van Gaal started work at Manchester United yesterday and a few of the papers agree on the fact that the steely Dutchman is ready to take an axe to the squad bequeathed to him by David Moyes.
United have already signed Luke Shaw and Ander Herrera this summer and, according to the Mirror, Van Gaal wants to sign at least four more players, meaning a big overhaul of the squad is required.
According to the Mirror: "The players poised to be shown the door by Van Gaal include Ashley Young, Wilfried Zaha, Marouane Fellaini, Bebe, Anderson, Tom Cleverley, Nani and Nick Powell.
"With Patrice Evra leaving for Juventus just weeks after being handed a new deal and striker Javier Hernandez open to a move elsewhere to play more regularly, Van Gaal could jettison as many as 10 of Moyes' squad."
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The Daily Express also throws a certain Japanese playmaker's name into the ring: "The players under threat are Nani, Marouane Fellaini, Ashley Young, Shinji Kagawa, Javier Hernandez, Tom Cleverley, Anderson, Wilfried Zaha plus Bebe and Nick Powell who spent last season out on loan.
It represents the biggest overhaul of players in United's modern history and reflects Van Gaal's determination to revamp a squad that finished seventh last season and failed to qualify for the Champions League."
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The Daily Star introduces yet more names to the equation, and boldly states that some of the Van Gaal outcasts could be gone in the next two days.
"Louis van Gaal is set to wield the axe within 48 hours of taking over as Manchester United manager.
"Starsport understands those heading for the United exit include Anderson, Javier Hernandez, Wilfried Zaha, Nani, Tom Cleverley, Chris Smalling and Bebe. There are also huge doubts over the immediate futures of Darren Fletcher, Ashley Young and Rafael, while some of them might not even travel on the club's pre-season tour of the United States."
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Eurosport's view: A squad overhaul is long overdue at United and Van Gaal could be the perfect man to do it.
Of all of the names listed above, perhaps the only ones worth salvaging are Shinji Kagawa and Rafael, both of whom would benefit from clever management.
It will be interesting to see how far Van Gaal goes when discussing the make-up of his squad in his first press conference this afternoon.
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Noble Bird Chapter 15
Tori grimaced as he ran across the roof tops, hidden from the nobles below. Unlike the others, he had to hide for a bit before moving. If anyone caught 'Bluebird' his cover would be blown. Well more then he it already was. He had a strange feeling his sister would have told his father by now. If anything to saw that actually Tori could fight and was a very strong fighter.
If so, he would have to lay low for a few days, perhaps disappear into the library for a week or two. Just until things calmed down. Problem was if his father knew, the Prince would know. And how the prince would react to the idea that one of his lords spent his free time fighting against the other nobles in his court to help the slum rats was any ones guess. Tori winced as he remembered the conversation he had had with the prince in the library.
The princes words, "from my point of view you have way to many secrets"" ran though his mind. This wasn't going to help his case. How was he supposed to admit he had been fighting people for the past six or so years? Right under the Prince's nose, as well More importantly, would he been seen as a threat to the Prince? Would he have to disappear off the radar all together?
Tori hoped not. He enjoyed living in the city and it would be a shame to leave. He'd miss so many people. But if it came to that, he would do it. He wasn't going to let 'Bluebird' die so easily. His only consolation was he had killed the lead slaver this time. But for each slaver he killed two more took there place. More and more free people were in danger or being enslaved now, even in the so called free states.
Tori tumbled and feel to his knees, panting heavily as dizziness came over him. He gripped his arm where Lykos had got a good slash in, trying to stem the bleeding slightly. He felt light heaved as he lost more and more blood.
He narrowed his eyes as he heard footsteps behind him. He dived out the way, narrowly missing being tackled by Lykos. Lykos grinned at him, the look in eyes fill of lust and need. He had turned him on when they were fighting. The wild beast in Lykos wanted to defeat Tori, wanted to force him into submission and finally rut into him. Both Lykos and Tori knew it.
"Bird, you didn't think you'd get away from me that easily did you?" Lykos grinned. Jumping at the younger man, attacking him with his blades. Tori dodged them and pulled out his knives. The fight was fierce, neither wishing to back down. Tori refused to give up so easily in a fight.
There was a clatter as Lykos disarmed the man, but in the process ended up losing his own blades. Tori got into a stance, ready to fight hand to hand if need be. Lykos chuckled at this, his eyes searching for a weakness. He found it. Tori swayed lightly as he head spun.
"Not now" he muttered. The juice mildith had given him was wearing off and the blood loss didn't help matter either. He let down his guard, his body stumbling to aside. Lykos took advantage immediately.
Tori yelled in pain as he was tackled to the slanted roof he was by, forced to laid against the tiles, Lykos pinning himself in-between Tori's legs so he couldn't kick him and get away.
Lykos leant forwards and claimed Tori's lips, growling as the mask got away. Lykos grabbed the mask and yanked it away from his face. It clattered to the floor at there feet, whist Lykos grabbed Tori's chin and forced him to look into his eyes. Tori's clear blue eyes looked at him, full of fight, but also fear. Lykos growled lowly at him. This was the Lykos which had got him is dangerous reputation. This was the wolf inside him that refused to be tamed by anyone. Even the Prince.
"Mine" He growled before kissing Tori again. There was nothing gentle about this kiss, all teeth and possessiveness. Yet Tori found himself melting into it, moaning in pleasure as Lykos explored his mouth, sucking on his tongue, nibbing on his lower lip. Lykos hips rubbed against Tori's, making the noble whimper in pleasure, his legs feeling like goo.
Much to part of Tori's mind horror, he begin rubbing back, meeting the wild man thrusts and rubs, gasping as pleasure ran though him. Lykos smiled against the kiss, growling happily as Tori melted into his arms, letting every sound out. His hands ran down and cupped Tori's ass, groping it lightly, teasingly. He only grinned more as Tori gasped in surprise, bucking against his groin and creating a divine friction against his clothed dick.
He released the Noble's lips, letting him breathe, watching him as he panted for breathe, saliva dripping from his mouth, a red flush covering his face. Lykos used the grip he had on Tori's ass to lift him slightly, grinning as Tori automatically wrapped his legs around his waist. "Good boy" he teased.
Tori glared at him but before he could retort, Lykos had grabbed his hips and was grinding there crotches together, sending him into blissful pleasure. He yelled in pleasure, throwing his head back and revealing his white neck to Lykos. Lykos was on it almost immediately. Nibbling. Kissing. Sucking. Leaving marks to prove he had been there, that Tori was his! Not once stopping the feverish rubbing against Tori, like he was an animal in heat.
"Stop.." Tori pleaded, panting out of breathe, "Stop!" He may have been begging for him to stop, but Lykos could hear the lust and need in Tori's voice. Feel the hardness underneath his pants. See the pleasure in Tori's eyes. He need this just as much as Lykos.
"No" He growled, possessiveness and lust mixing into a deep and dangerous tone. His eyes barely no resemblance to a human any more, only the wildness of a beast in heat. He needed Tori. Needed to be in the Noble's ass. And he wasn't going to let the Noble's mind stop him when he was clearly ready for him. "You. are mine!" Every word, backed up with a sharp thrust upwards.
Tori moaned blissfully in pleasure, arching his back, unable to control his body any more. It felt like all his muscles were made of goo. Lykos caught his cut arm, pulling it to his face. His eyes glued to Tori's, he licked the cut across Tori's forearm, watching at the boy moaned at the feeling of the wet muscle licking against the cut, tasting his blood. Lykos's tongue flicked up and down the cut, catching every bit of blood which was leaking from it, before kissing it gently.
"Don't fight it" He whispered, half warning the boy. "Don't fight it"
Tori watched in fascination as Lykos kissed up his arm to his hand. His tongue licking around the digits, before sucking on two lightly. The look in Lykos eyes was hungry. When Tori didn't fight back, Lykos let the digits slide out of his mouth, before kissing the hand one last time. He leant forward and pressed a kiss on Tori;s lips, before moving so they were nose to nose, Lykos hands travelling downwards, this time going under the cloth of Tori's pants and gripping the flesh of Tori's ass.
"You know what I am about to do to you?" Lykos murmured, his tone only lust and hungry. The only thing he wanted to do was rip the clothes of Tori's body and buried himself to the hilt in Tori's tight virgin hole. But he wasn't quite that far gone in the hunger yet. He wanted Tori to crave his body. Maybe one day he'd be able to more that fast but doing that to him on his first time would only cause the noble pain and likely bleeding. He had to taken this one stop at a time, no matter how frustrating or gorgeous the bird was. Prepare thoroughly and take it slow. At least at first anyway.
"I'm going to thee clothes of your body and pin you down to the floor. I'm going to finger your ass up till its nice and stretched and make that sure of yours throb with need. I'm going to make you beg and plead, and then. Then I'm going to take that ass of yours and make you feel pleasure you've never known. Pain too, but I think you desire that just as much as the pleasure" Lykos chuckled, biting lightly on Tori's ear lobe. Grinning as the bird moaned in pleasure.
Tori growled at the teasing, any thought of fighting gone. His body was burning in pleasure. But he could see the look in Lykos eyes. He wanted submission. he wanted power over him. Tori leant up and a placed a almost shy kiss onto Lykos lips. Lykos quickly took over the kiss, kissing his little bird senseless, happiness running though him.


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