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Title: Knight of Swords
Author: Sara Curran-Ross
Page Count: 281 KB (Kindle format)
Publisher: Hellfire Publishing
Genre: paranormal romance
Copy for review provided by the author in anticipation of an honest review
Nathan Valancourt is young, stinking rich, a darling of London's social scene in 1893, and a notorious womanizer. He had never believed in the supernatural, but, when a vampire killer masquerading as a clergyman begins haunting his dreams, forcing him to endure visions of the murders of his previous female conquests, Nathan determines to amend his frivolous ways.
When the killer turns his attention to Nathan's beautiful ward, Juliet, Nathan is anxious to protect her. As they battle the monster, Nathan and Juliet gradually realize that they share a psychic connection. This close bond triggers the discovery of their true heritage as descendants of human-vampire unions. Led to the gradual revealing of powers beyond their imagination, their bond offers them hope of victory.
Knight of Swords is a unique book. It's a genre-bender, which seem to always catch my eye, and in this case the genres being bended are paranormal romance and historical fiction, two of my perpetual favorites. This story is also unique in that it's told from the hero's point of view, even though, at first, he might not be the one we as readers might have chosen for a heroic role.
Nathan, Lord Valancourt, begins the story as a rake in the truest sense of the word. If it wears a skirt and walks on two legs, it's fair game for his attention as far as he's concerned. That all changes when his dreams begin to be haunted by a creeptastic guy dressed as a clergyman who horrifically and methodically kills Nathan's former lovers, one at a time, all while talking about a mysterious Juliet. Nathan can't do anything to stop the murders- who would believe him if he tried to explain how he knew who the killer was, after all, and since marital status was not previously a boundary which Nathan respected, the police are vaguely considering him as a suspect as well.
Things go from bad to worse when Nathan realizes that Juliet is not only a real person, but is the young woman whom he takes on as a ward as a last request to his dying uncle. When he goes to rescue her from the horrible abuse she's suffering at the hands of jealous relations, he opens a supernatural can of worms that make his horrible nightmares pale by comparison.
You see, Juliet and Nathan share a peculiar ancestry. As unknowing descendants of relationships between humans and vampires, neither of them had any knowledge of the parallel supernatural world that was following them, just below the surface. When the trauma Juliet was suffering forces the change on her and drags Nathan down as well, both have to learn to live as creatures that they previously thought were totally made up. Add in some blossoming tingly feelings for each other and challengers from all sides who want Juliet for themselves, and these two find themselves in quite a sticky wicket indeed.
I know what you're thinking. Sure, sure, another vampire book, another story of fated mates and overcoming tremendous-bordering-on-ridiculous odds, another series about to be launched. I'm happy to say that this story takes elements of traditional vampire lore and remixes them into something new and unique. Juliet has powers and abilities far beyond what anyone expected, and all Nathan wants is to stand by her, which her followers and his advisers make exceedingly difficult. With protectors like that, it seems like it might be more efficient to stand naked in the middle of the street with a sign that says "free to a good home." They tried, they really did, but in the end it didn't help and Nathan is the one that has to make the tough choices. Even at the end, where the ground is being prepared for the second book, a remark is made that everyone in attendance on Juliet would give their lives to protect her while Nathan leaves on another quest. Hopefully they're willing to pay up if the first book is any indication.
Like I said, this isn't your typical vampire romance. It's different, which is a good thing, and I recommend it to everyone who loves the vampire subgenre but is ready for a different flavor.
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Forget the bank and seek social guidance
I recently re-married, acquiring a 21-year-old step-daughter who took a HSBC £4,000 loan in 2004. HSBC sold her loan insurance for £1,005, added to the loan. She was working as a care assistant, paying the £116.27 most months but when her payment bounced she suffered a £30 penalty.
She had a baby in February 2006 and left work. She then split up from her boyfriend and went on benefits which are not enough to pay for the loan and so she gets more "£30 fines". The total loan, with interest, was £6,975 and she has paid back £2,441. I have been speaking to HSBC on her behalf but the best it will do is a "consolidation loan" at £40 a month over 12 years. The bank rejects my argument that the insurance was unnecessarily sold. Please help.
LM, Suffolk
She needs social guidance more than a bank. She lied on her loan form. Although it was affordable, it was not for a car, but to pay off her then boyfriend's debts. But should HSBC have sold loan insurance to someone who did so because she thought it was a prerequisite to get the loan? In addition, pregnancy is a statistically likely work-stopping condition for someone of her age - but not covered by payment protection.
HSBC says it had been willing to write-off the loan insurance but the file was mislaid. Now, after Capital Letters intervened, it was found. This will reduce her debt by £1,123 to £3,411. There is a further £700 or so in penalty charges - a decision which will have to wait until the Office of Fair Trading case against the banks is resolved.
But in the meantime, HSBC has passed her case to a debt collector who will come to a new monthly repayment schedule - likely to be no more than £10 a month. She could do with some further help, however. Her current £140-a-month on cigarettes out of £440 a month benefits is simply not sustainable - or healthy.
Abbey refused to pay the funeral bill
I have been looking after an elderly friend, moving him to sheltered care and dealing with his doctors and social workers. He died in mid-August without a will or any known relatives.
It fell upon me to organise his funeral - a firm of green undertakers took security from the fact his Abbey account had £20,000 in it. The funeral cost £2,140. But despite showing Abbey the death certificate, it has not paid the bill. Now the undertaker is chasing me for the money.
What should I do?
BE, London
Banks will generally release funds for funeral expenses even though probate has not been completed - this can take months in any case. There is no reason why Abbey should not have done this - you produced a death certificate, invoice and identification.
But Abbey's bereavement office, which has had administrative problems, refused to release the funds unless you signed a declaration that you were the executor or beneficiary. You are neither - your only interest was to give a lonely person a decent funeral.
Abbey relented but could not issue a cheque due to an unexplained "systems malfunction". It suggested asking the local council for help with funeral costs. This was not helpful idea as it would be means-tested - it really is for "paupers" - not those with £20,000.
There is no reason why you should pay, even if you could afford it, as there would be no guarantee of getting your money back. It's another example of Abbey service that needs improving. Eventually, thanks to this column's intervention, Abbey paid out the £2,140. It will apologise and send you £50 - so you will be able to plant something on his grave.
This is no scam - do reply to Faraday
I received an unsolicited letter from Faraday Tracing Services asking me to confirm my identity for a "pension scheme arrangement." Is this a scam?
DS, Hertfordshire
No. Faraday, which has been around since 1973, is a specialist pensions tracing company which covers "mortality screening" and finding missing beneficiaries.
You are on the voting list and share the most common surname in England which is why Faraday approached you - almost certainly to eliminate you from further enquiries. You are not legally obliged to reply but if you do, it will either prevent wrong payments to a dead person or help find an intended beneficiary.
Pouring trouble on our festival plans
In July four of us bought tickets for the Glade Festival in Newbury. We had booked a tipi to stay in with Hearthworks paying £532. When we were half way there, one of its employees called to warn us it could not guarantee the state of the tipi due to heavy rain. So we went home - we wanted a guarantee of shelter.
We know we have lost what we paid for our Glade tickets, but can we get our £532 back.
FI, Birmingham
There was obviously confusion over the initial call. The Glade festival of "cutting edge electronic music" went ahead and most tipis were problem free despite appalling rainfall - the worst in a generation.
Hearthworks should have made your options clearer - and had easier-to-understand terms.
Hearthworks itself is a small, young company which had never faced a serious weather challenge before. It was not geared to dealing with complaints.
While it says it has acted within contractual rights in refusing a refund, following our intervention it will send 20% of your cash back and offer a half-price tipi at a festival next summer.
Why Mercury Glass was a real pane
In 1997, I had windows installed by Mercury Glazing, based in Slough.
The work came with a 10-year guarantee. This summer, with the guarantee period due to expire in weeks, I noticed a fault. I tried to find Mercury but could not obtain any response.
So I turned to Cardif Pinnacle, the insurer which backed the warranty, for help.
It rejected my claim because it said Mercury was still trading. The work will only cost £182 but why should I have to pay for it when presumably the cost of the guarantee was built into the cost of the windows?
RG, Surrey
Pinnacle looked at Companies House which shows Mercury is a "live" company. So, the insurer argues, you do not have a claim as the insurance kicks in only when home improvements companies go bust.
It may well be that Mercury is well and trading, but Capital Letters pointed out attempts to write to them at their registered address had produced no reply, while the phone number Mercury gave now belongs to a householder whose answer phone says "this is not Mercury".
As a result the insurer will now look again at your claim.
On your bike to Paris and Amsterdam
In May you took up my case after Eurolines banned my folding bike from its Amsterdam coach. It promised to look again. Any progress?
MA, Worcestershire
Yes. Good news. Following your letter, Eurolines has now agreed to take folders - provided they are wrapped in a proper container - on its coaches to Paris and Amsterdam. So you can travel happily with your bike!
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|Quite a bit :s Probably around £100 for fabrics, beads, jewellery, shoes, contact lenses etc.
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|Hard to say because I was doing it a bit at a time over a few months.
My first cosplay I've made pretty much all by myself. I'm definately not working with beads again....
Here's the list from bottom to top:
Shoes - I tried making boot covers but it is so difficult plus I couldn't find the right fabric so i bought some yellowish plain boots.
Fluffly bits on shoes - The boots have an uneven shape along the rim so instead of struggling to glue fluff on and ruining them i (and my mum XD) sewed the fluff onto an old pair of sock instead! genius! So i can just fold them down over the boots. I got the fabric from a charity shop on a crazy body warmer...
Skirt - I made a skirt for mcm expo 09 but it kinda sucks and the colours aren't right so i have a better fabric and dyes to remake the skirt. It's made of a strip of material round my hips, some fuffles sewed to the back and a yellow loin cloth on the from XD
Fur on the back - I doubled over faux fur and stictched straight lines vertically down it instead of making it wavy as the fabric was too ridged. I then cut out the back leather bit and sewed/glued it on. the whole fur is glue gunned to a brown belt and the pink tie thingy is linin that is just sewed either side of the fluff.
Bag - my friends mum is awesome and is making the bag for me :D i should have it soon! yay!
Belt - baught a belt from clairs and markered on the lines then used painted foamies on for the metal parts and faaux leather strips for the brown parts ( the same colour as the fabric for her weapon holster)
Bracelets - bought silver ones from Clair's and panted a few turqi=uoise and gold.
Top - Pink linen (same as the pink tie on the skirt) that I made by first making a pattern out of paper to make sure it would fit me and then cutting the fabric and sewing it with my machine.
Neclaces - brown thick string with cotton string wrapped round and then beads that i painted for the larger one.
Beads - OH MY GAWD! I got my beads online and they were all light brown so i had to spray paint then white with several layers and then paint the coloured ones after threading on stretchy plastic/elastic string. I bout other larger beads from my local craft store (Crosses)and painted those. I glue gunned everything together. The pendant at the top and the tooth thingys are made from salt dough :)
Back flap (dunno what it's called) - I made one but it was too big and dark and i rushed it the night before so i'm going to make another one in a lighter fabric i found and make sure it's smaller.
Eyes - I think Vanille's eyes are green but it's hard to tell depending on what animation it is (short cutscene or a proper cinematic bit)so I bought Geo Nudy Green lenses (I'd definately reccomend these as they are really anime/final fantasy like to make your eyes look bigger)
Ear rings - I bout a pair from Clair's that are almost exactly like Vanilles so I didn't have to make them.
Hair - I can't stand wigs and i'm ginger anyways so i got a shorter layer cut in my hair similar to Vanille's and i just need loadsa hair spray =3
Please comment if you have any questions ^-^
I can't believe this has no comments because progress is looking amazing. You'll pull off Vanille really well.
This is epic progress so far, can't wait to see the finished thing altogether!
Amzing work so far!! Cant wait to see it finished, looks like its gonna be amazing<3
wow, this is really accurate! :D great progress :)
Nice progress! The beads look so accurate! Good luck with the rest. :D
Awesome I so can't wait to see this finished! Awesome progress so accurate!
WOW! I HAVE to have pictures with you!
Woah, looks amazing! 8D
:O this is really cool - must get photo ^^
wow your Vanille is looking really great ^^
gotta take pics with you @ expo, im doin sazh btw :P
Thanks for all your comments guys! =3 can't wait to see you all at expo ^-^
great progress!!
Thankyou! I'm in the middle of dying the skirt right now! rush rush!
Ahh im sure youll get it all done! im so glad im finished! Ive been trying so hard with the accent and failingggg
yay well done! =3 lol yeah i'm gonna bring energy drink so i can be hypo enough to pass off Vanille XD
To-Do List
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|Make back flap panel
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The Genie Company Genie Garage Openers Nate called back to tell me my lifetime warranty did not cover parts/svs. unknown but area code of 330-821-5360 Nationwide
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Purchased two Genie Garage Door Openers for our new home on July 5, 2003; they were installed under purchase agreement with authorized seller on August 6, 2003. We purchased the high end doors Model: Excelerator ISD-1000 - 2H, which carries a lifetime warranty on motor, parts and service. We have had only one occasion in the past ten years to ask for assistance via service call and replacement of parts.
This past week, several things seemed to go wrong with both doors which operate under separate overhead circuit boards. We did the trouble-shoot using our instructions and it was obvious that some of the parts were not working. When I called the 800 number I had on record, they were very nice and informed me someone would call me back within two business days to set up a service call. [continued below]....
Later the same afternoon I received a call from someone who identified himself as Nate (only when I asked his name); he was curt, nasty and unaccommodating, saying my Lifetime Warranty did not mean anything, and they would ship me the parts, but I would have to put them in myself (good luck on that) and we would be charged. He denied that my Excelerator door openers were warranted for life for all those things. I ended the conversation with Nate and recalled to again speak with an individual who put my name back in the circuit hopefully reaching a management level to call me. I am awaiting the call today; in the meantime, one of my cars is stuck inside the garage that doesn't work, and the other is outside unable to open the door to get inside!
What a dilemma for senior citizens to find themselves in. Is there any help for companies that pull this on people after charging them upfront to buy a lifetime warranty on their product.
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I have dealt with MANY seniors so what I say next is not meant to stereotype anyone. DIG THROUGH YOUR FILE CABNETS AND FIND THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT!!!! If you can find that and then present it to Genie showing a lifetime warrenty then you will end up getting a lot farther. There may be a mix up on thier end, something along the lines of a letter transposed in your name or a number transposed in thier system. You have should have the paperwork. This is ALL the information you should need. You may be required to FAX it in to them.
All garage doors have a manual release. Its normally the line that hangs down from the opener. If you can, you can release this manual lever and open and close your garage doors. If you cant do it, get someone who can. Atleast this way, you can recover your car from the closed garage.
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An appeals court handed down that decision this week.
Florida law gives college students the right to carry guns on campus, but it's a law that's been overstepped by many universities including UF.
Students and staff have mixed feelings about whether or not the decision helps or hinders campus security.
UF Professor, Clay Calvert says "I support the ability of people to bring guns onto campuses i would not encourage it, they have the right to do that."
In the Appellate Court judges ruled in favor of, "Florida Carry," a gun rights group, with a 13 to 2 decision.
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McCain's email flirts with misinformation throughout its four paragraphs: giving a half nod to President Obama's attempts at Republican outreach and then throwing that nod away.
What happened to the John McCain who gave such a moving concession speech, the John McCain who talked about working together and healing our country?
Arizona Senator John McCain is adopting a major 2008 campaign slogan for a new political action committee designed to support not only his own planned...
John McCain, who claims to put "Country First," should re-read The Ugly American. Sarah Palin can watch the movie.
McCain has gone "all in" with a strategy focusing exclusively on smearing and lying about Obama, win or lose, he has created a dangerous situation for November 5 and the four years to follow.
If we were to, as a society, put country first, who would define what "country" is or what putting it "first" might mean?
When asked during the VP debate what made him think he could work with the other party, Joe Biden gave a brilliant answer, saying that he never, ever questioned the motives of his opponents.
It's time to back off the precipice, Ms. Palin and Mr. McCain.
I am a serious person and I take our national predicament seriously. I expect and demand better of you, Senator. This is not a game.
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Obviously, they think Barack Obama is that kind of 'me-first' un-patriot, but what about the rest of that "country-second Washington crowd?"
From the minute John McCain first implied that Barack Obama would rather lose a war and win an election, John McCain compromised all that was strong and good in his resume.
Democrats should stay away from the baby stories. They must resist the urge to comment at all on it. Let the media do the muckraking.
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I was impressed with the sound of this instrument. It's loud and plays great. The action is a little high, but there's not much of a difference between this and a pro instrument regarding that. It perfect to learn on and play around the house.
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The wide vs narrow argument is really dependent on the terribleness of winters where you live. In MD, my larger concern is ice, as we usually only get serious snowstorms every 3-4 years, but we get ice in the winter fairly often. On the occasion we do get a serious storm that would require narrow tires to get traction, I call out of work for the day. And if I really need to get somewhere, I'll borrow my roommate's Jeep. Hence I run on 225/45-17's on all 4 corners.
The wider tires give me better grip in the dry, the wet, and on ice. which will likely be 90+% of my winter driving. If you live somewhere that has regular heavy-ish snowfall, narrow is better. Unless you get ultra-heavy snowfall, then wider becomes better because you have to get on top of the snow because you get high-centered if you try to cut down to the pavement. But I argue you should be driving something with more ground clearance at that point.
Agreed. Where I live we get a decent amount of snow, but I still primarily drive on salted and plowed roads. When I first got winter tires for my previous car I took everyones advice and went narrow, downsized, and got Blizzak WS-60's (their hardcore snow tire). Yea, I had absolutely amazing traction in the snow. But the 75% of the time that I was driving on plowed roads and highways, they were horrible (squirrely, bad dry traction, etc). I have winter tires on my car almost half the year. I don't want to have to live with a terribly un-fun and un-performing car for half the year even on the sunny dry days.
The bottom line is I own a BMW. All these practical arguments about the absolute best performing tire in snow, while they may be true, don't factor in the fact that I don't necessarily want the most practical thing, I still want to enjoy my car in the winter. If I wanted something ultra practical I would buy a 4WD minivan
I have all seasons now, but my brother is getting 225 Blizzak LM-60's (their high performance snows) on 17s for his e46 that I am going to try out. I am hoping that they are a good compromise between good snow traction and good dry traction.
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This weekend our water heater went on the fritz, and I did not have a proper hot shower between Friday evening and Monday evening (although I did have a hot bath and a few quick encounters with heated water and soap). No doubt that's why the long hot shower-and-shampoo I took last night, after the heater had been fixed, was utterly blissful, and full of expressions of gratitude to the heater, the repair man, my husband who was home to receive him, etc., etc.
Perhaps it's also why I began thinking about something that hadn't really occurred to me before. I realized that I missed Neopaganism, and I started wondering what had happened to it.
What is Neopaganism? you might say. There are thousands of Neopagans out there. Isaac Bonewits said so. We're not Paleopagan, we're certainly not Mesopagan, we're Neopagan!
I don't actually even hang around the Pagan blogosphere a lot, compared to some–if I may estimate by the number of blogs I read and the number of comments I leave behind–but I keep seeing people say things like, "I'm not Pagan," or, "I don't even think of myself as Pagan any more." The people who are saying those things do identify as Hellenismos, or Asatru, or polytheist, or Celtic Reconstructionist, or Northern Tradition, or any one of a number of traditions that I would have grouped together as Pagan traditions. "Paganism is just an umbrella term," and obviously there's not enough room under the umbrella for some people.
I think now that what the I'm-not-Pagan Pagans mean is one or both of the following. First, they might mean that "pagan" as a designation for "non-Christian" seems to come out of a derogatory use of the word by mostly urban Christian converts in the Roman Empire, directed at a way of life they saw as mostly rural: An equivalent of calling someone a hick, a rube, a hayseed. Or possibly it was a derogatory term used by Roman soldiers to mean a civilian, adopted by the Church as Christians began to think of themselves as "soldiers of Christ". Or maybe not. But they might just mean that "pagan" is a label for their way of belief and practice that they reject because it was invented by Christians, those other guys.
They might also mean, and this seems increasingly likely the more I think about it, that they are Not Neopagan. They are not part of that alternative religious movement that I remember from the 1980s and 1990s (remember them? the 20th century?), the movement that, however furtively and uncertainly and isolatedly, I myself was part of.
Once upon a time, I believed that all pagans were liberal, left-wing, feminist, environmentalist types. I thought they were tired of religion based on rigid structures that never changed until they crumbled beyond repair; they wanted no permanent temples, no paid clergy, no outside authorities. Everyone could put on a robe (or not) and lead a ritual; everyone could speak to the Powers That Be; a living room, a back yard, an open space in a park, properly cleansed and purified in ritual, were sufficient sacred space. Pagan religion was light and portable, a religion of immanence and improvisation, inspired by the ways of the ancients but not necessarily derived from them, interwoven with high magic and low magic and poetry and craft.
In other words, I thought everyone was part of Reclaiming.
Seillean at Crossroads Companion wrote recently about how everyone has That Book, the one that turns you on to The Path. For him it was Donald Michael Kraig's Modern Magick. For me it was, as I have mentioned, The Spiral Dance. It is perhaps not insignificant that I was thirteen or fourteen, a teenager, an adolescent, a girl who had just passed menarche, when I first read a book that glorified women, goddesses, the body, natural cycles, inner power, and poetry. And it was new, brand new, delivered to me from the mentoring hands of the branch librarian who knew how much I liked to read about comparative religion. The inexpressible thrill that Starhawk's words raised in me was the thrill of knowing that the gods I had read about as phantoms of the past, the gods of Greece and Egypt and the North, were not dead, not far away (like the many gods of Hinduism who looked so colorful in the big two-page illustrations), but being taken seriously by worshippers right now. And religion didn't have to mean the same beautiful but increasingly hollow words recited week after week (by a man), the same few hymns sung on the same occasions every year (by the women in the choir, while the men gathered around the altar). The Goddess was alive, and magic was afoot!
I wrote a lot of bad pagan poetry in the next three or four years. But bad pagan poetry and books on Goddess spirituality will not keep you going when your grandmother dies, and the center cannot hold, and your mother has a string of heart attacks that look like an ongoing attempt to not outlive her own mother. I went back to church, where there was soon a new rector, some different ways of doing liturgy, men allowed in the choir, and women allowed at the lectern, at least.
Later, in my early twenties, I was back in Neopaganism again, this time with a spouse and interested friends. I discovered Druidry; OBOD was re-forming, and though I couldn't afford the correspondence course, I could read Ross Nichols and Philip Carr-Gomm and John and Caitlin Matthews. I could take a workshop with R.J. Stewart, could write rituals and host them, could read more Starhawk and take a little weekend workshop on core shamanism and have a shrine and do meditations and….
And bounce back into the church again. And back into Neopaganism. And try this group, and that group, and go back to church and sing fantastic choral music and get the occasional solo and so on, ad infinitum, lather, rinse, repeat.
In the meantime, the World Wide Web was being woven, Internet access was becoming easier, cheaper, and more widespread, I discovered online journaling and blogging, and here I am today–wondering what happened to Neopaganism.
Well, the short version, I guess, is that reconstructionism happened. Discoveries in archaeology, ancient literature, anthropology, and other fields trickled out of the specialist journals and into popular publications where they could be found by interested pagans who began tracing the articles back to the specialist journals and asking for more. No longer were people content to light a candle, cast a circle, call the quarters, and make a rather free-form offering to the gods; they wanted to find out exactly what the gods wanted and, if possible, give it to them, short of trying to butcher a live animal in an urban living room. (Those on farms and in other rural settings found animal sacrifice more manageable.)
I realize only now that I've been watching all of this with a good deal of bafflement and occasional dismay. From my perspective, Reconstructionists were clamoring to have all the things that I wanted to get away from: Buildings that need budgets and maintenance; official authority figures with official titles and official costumes; pre-determined right and wrong ways of doing things; rules! regulations! what, are you people crazy?
No, you all are not crazy. You are creating what you want: Organized, stable, complex religions based on ancient models. But I am here to say that I am not crazy, either, when I say I don't want paid clergy, official seminaries, and permanent temples. (From my experience as a fairly active Christian for much of my life, I would say there's no better way to ensure someone stops learning and growing than to send them to a seminary and then ordain them to ministry.) Nor am I "fluffy"; I don't believe Gardnerian Wicca goes back to the Stone Age, I don't believe in a peaceful ancient matriarchy ruined by discontented men who refused to love the Great Mother, and I don't think the ancient Celts were peaceful poetry-spouting tree-huggers. (Look at contemporary Celts: Poetry-spouting, always, but peaceful?)
A few weeks ago I wondered about where I found myself, what to call myself, and whether to rename this blog. Thanks to my shower musings, I've come up with a new title: Retelling. It's a conscious nod to Reclaiming, the tradition that grew out of The Spiral Dance and the people behind it, Starhawk and her compatriots. It's also a nod to something I do a lot in private, often in the shower: I retell stories. I recount plot summaries of books I have read or video I have seen; I rehearse incidents that happened to me, sometimes recent ones, sometimes long ago. In doing so, I appropriate the meaning of those stories; I create what they mean for me; I allow them to change, and I allow them to change me.
That, my friends, is what I hope to do here: To tell and retell the stories that have made me Christian, Buddhist, and Neopagan.


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Large one bedroom apt with roof access. Full kitchen, full bath (shower & tub), electricity, ac, good heat, towels and lines included. I own half of the roof so you have a lovely private outdoor space.
Located in the East Village / Alphabet City, 7th Street between Avenue B & C. 4 floor walk up. The bed is a new comfortable QUEEN size bed.
The main room is a work space with a couch and kitchen, so you are surrounded by my art. I will keep the work tables free of clutter, as you see in the photos. Day bed in the living room is perfect for a 3rd guest.
Internet connection and wifi.
We are in the back of the building, it is quiet and sunny.
Half a block to Tomkins Square Park, and in a very trendy yet residential part of New York. and 1/2 a block from Zum Schneider restaurant / bar, and many exciting and tasty places for eating, shopping and meditation. There is also the Russian and Turkish baths on 10th street.
Subways are a 10- 15 min walk. You can catch the L train at 1st Avenue & 14th St., or the F train at Houston and 2nd Ave. You also have choices at 8th street and Broadway (NR) and Astor Place (6).
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The communication with Joseph was very easy and helpful. Everything was great organised and we had a really great time.
The Apartment was clean and special the rooftop is amazing. East Village is also a great place to stay, we've done everything by foot.
For the next trip to NYC I definitiv want to take the same Apartment.
Thanks Joseph
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We had a wonderful week in New York. The location of this apartment is absolutely perfect! Nolita is a homely, friendly and cosy area with lots of shops and restaurants with great character. Close to several subway stations that takes you fast uptown and to Brooklyn.
Our contact with Joseph have been very satisfying from the first day we booked the apartment, he met us there with the keys although our flight was two hours late and we arrived at 11:30 at night. He had tips and information about the city and said we could contact him during the week with any questions. The apartment was as expected, 5 floors without lift, we knew that, no problem as all the eating requires som exercise! The bath tub in the kitchen was okey but a bit inconvenient, but we knew about that too.
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To stay at Joseph's was just perfect!
A cozy and unique place filled with handpicked particularities in a wonderful district with special shops, great restaurants, chilly cafés, relaxed New Yorkers and truely the best cheescake in town just around the corner...
You find everything you want and all you need just a foodwalk away...and if you need more: the subway is right there and such strategically located that you can get everywhere without spending too much time under ground.
Joseph gave us a warm welcome, good insidertips and the feeling that we really found a home for the time of our stay.
And folks believe us: we've had the fun of our lifetime with the "original tub"...
The apartment is in a fantastic location - very central and close to subway too. The accommodation is as described/pictured. Obviously not luxury, but comfortable and spacious and we were very happy with it and really enjoyed our stay.
Josephs studio apr is great, the interior is cool, the location is amazing and you will find everything you need. Joseph is very nice and he will help you, if any problems occur.
Joseph is a very nice host answering all the fears and questions we had!
Tha appartent was nice as well even if you have to climb five floors which is hard after a day walking in Manhattan.
The bath tube is in the main room so even your not modest or with you girl/boyfriend (like me though)
For the rest, Joseph forseen everything in the appartment! Tea/coffee if you want before living the room, umbrellas in case of rain, music,...
And the neighbourhood!! So well located in the middle of Soho/Noho/little Italy and China town!
Finally the price is very convenient compare to what you can find in Manhattan and in this area
I would choose the same if I had to come again!
Thank you Joseph, cool experience is this city I love :-)
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Labor leader Mark Latham has pledged long and loud to run a positive election campaign, rejecting the "old politics of fear and smear".
But the latest edition of Labor's official email newsletter, ALP e-news, refers voters to the website johnhowardlies.com, an anti-Government site that might be in breach of the Electoral Act by not naming its publishers. The site claims to have had more than 230,000 hits since it was established earlier this year.
In a section headed "The real John Howard", the July 13 Labor bulletin obtained by The Age urges subscribers to "read what John Howard really says about the different policies (sic) areas".
"This website catalogues the lies, distortions, untruths and misrepresentations that John Howard and his ministers have peddled to us," the e-newsletter says. "Click here to visit johnhowardlies.com." The newsletter also features photographs of Mr Latham and the party's slogan: "Mark Latham and Labor, Opportunity for All."
Over the past week, Mr Latham has complained about journalists delving into his past record in public life and his personal history, and accused the Government of running a "dirt unit" to dig up damaging material about him.
He has repeatedly called for an end to negative politics.
"We're trying to open up opportunity, trying to be positive rather than campaigning on fear and smear, which is more the Howard Government's style, and we'll keep that up right through to polling day," he said in Bendigo yesterday morning.
Mr Latham has pledged repeatedly to run a positive and constructive election campaign.
The Labor leader could not be contacted for comment on the newsletter last night.
The website publishes statements made by various Howard Government ministers, accompanied by assertions of the "truth" in each case.
Readers are encouraged to email in their own contributions for publication.
The site features a twist on the Liberal Party logo - an Australian flag and two other blue blocks shaped into an L with the word LIARS printed below.
A spokesman for the Australian Electoral Commission said last night it was not clear whether material published on the internet was subject to the same authorisation rules as any other campaign materials.
If so, the publishers of the website could be prosecuted under the Electoral Act.
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It's a description that many parents will recognise - and it hints at the remarkable spending habits and tastes of teenagers living in the 21st century.
"Laptop, ostensibly for homework/coursework but mainly for Facebook, a TV in his room, a DVD player, two iPod touches (one purchased by himself!), the odd visit to a disco/club for 16-year-olds, the cinema. Has obviously got a mobile phone - his fourth, having lost two and upgraded one ... Not to mention drum kit, saxophone plus lessons (all abandoned), bike bought by dad (currently unused) ..."
This mother's list is not unusual. According to research published today, the list of "must-have" items for teenagers has grown so much that their lifestyle now costs £9,000 a year.
An analysis of the Office for National Statistics household spending survey by the accountancy trade body AAT suggests teens are spending more than £1,000 a year on mobile phones, MP3 players and downloads, £240 on haircuts and £300 on trainers. On top of that are trips to the cinema, nights out and clothes.
It's a far cry from the days when the latest seven-inch single and 5p for the phone were enough to please most teenagers, and the reason why, according to AAT, even when the effects of inflation are stripped out, 17-year-olds today spend 12 times as much for their teenage kicks as their 1975 counterparts. The organisation admits comparing spending habits is not an exact science, because teenagers now expect so much. "The shopping basket is not the same," said spokesman Andrew Williams. "The aspiration is not the same, the expectations are not the same."
In fact, many of today's teenage "essentials" are cheaper than they were three decades ago. The cost of buying an Atari 2600 games console back in 1975 would have been the equivalent of £1,200 in today's money, while a hi-fi back then would have cost more than £1,100 in today's terms.
These items would cost less than £200 each today. But back then they were considered luxuries; now they are just part of the kit that the average teenager expects to own.
Meanwhile, the cost of activities enjoyed by both today's youngsters and their parents has risen. AAT's analysis shows going to the cinema costs £7 today, compared with the equivalent of £4.80 in 1975, while the price of a pint is up from £2.40 to £3.
Worryingly for parents, teenage-style spending is starting younger than ever. Recent research by financial education charity pfeg suggests that even seven-year-olds are trying to raise funds to buy ringtones and games for their mobile phones, while a quarter have made premium-rate phone calls to vote in TV competitions.
AAT said today's teens faced "a perfect financial storm" as their increasingly expensive lifestyle coincides with recession, diminished parental spending power and fewer employment options.
With the bank of mum and dad due to be as hard hit by the credit crunch as any other, and many schools now requiring parents to ask permission before children do part-time jobs such as paper rounds, young people may soon have to rein in their spending.
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Geoff Williams's parents can consider themselves lucky. The 17-year-old A-level student has the usual burning interest in music and computer games, but says he doesn't need the latest clothing brands or state of the art gadgets. "I've got a classic iPod, but it's lasted two and a half years now, and my mobile is old. I do like technology, but my phone is brilliant, it does everything I need," he said, before adding that he might save up for an iPhone.
So where does the money come from? "I get an £80 monthly allowance, and the rest is Christmas and birthday presents, plus my mum sometimes gives me handouts. I tried getting a weekend job. But at the moment no one is wanting to take on extra staff."
Teenaged in 1975
Tracey Woodward funded her teenage spending by working at British Home Stores on Saturdays, earning about £7.50 for the day.
After leaving school at 16, she worked at the Ministry of Defence as an administrator, earning £50 a week. "I handed about half over to my mum for board and keep, and most of the rest went on train fares, leaving me with about £10 a week," she said. "I was a punk, so most of my clothes came from jumble sales, to get the right look, with the odd bit from Chelsea Girl."
Night buses had yet to be invented, so she and her friends used to walk home a couple of miles after any evening out. Jill Insley


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Matter of fact I read it 2 times.
Any one that has a chance to read this mag. please read the " Seed Armor " section.
It's no wonder people are having problems with sweet corn & the stuff it's treated with.
Poor bees never have a chance anymore!
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter will continue to be the ideal edition for highly virtualized private and hybrid cloud environments. It provides customers with unlimited virtualization rights and all of the features of the product. The licensing for Datacenter will continue to follow a processor plus CAL model, however now, each license will cover up to two physical processors on a server.
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Funan is actually a Chinese name for City of Mountain and is referred to in Old Khmer as Bnam or Phnom in Modern Khmer. It was a strong maritime, agricultural and trading nation and at peak was centered around the Mekong delta and covered modern day Cambodia, South Vietnam and parts of Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and the northern Malaysian Peninsula. Although it is referred to as a kingdom, it was more likely a loose political conglomeration of neighboring nations in which Funan was the center of power.
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These excavations unearthed Roman, Persian, Chinese and Indian goods. As Funanese records have not survived, much is also relied upon archeological digs which have also found a large canal system that fanned out from Angkor Borei, the pre-Angkor capital during the Chenla period, to smaller satellite settlements and which could possibly have linked Angkor Borei to Oc Eo, a distance of 90 kms.
Water Power
Wealth from trading was poured into its complex system of irrigation and water storage, leading to successful rice cultivation and paving the way for the rise of the Angkor empire.
Water was so integral to the Funan kingdom that one of its myths of creation had it that it started from the marriage of an Indian prince to a native naga (serpent deity) princess called Soma. Her father, the Naga King, blessed the marriage by drinking up the sea around the island and created the land which was named Kambuja.
The Funanese Empire reached its peak under the rule of Fan Shih-man in the early third century A.D. King Fan Shih-man strengthened and expanded its naval fleet, boosted the Funanese bureaucracy, established a form of feudal rule which left local cultures and customs relatively unchanged, and set a pattern of rule for neighboring Southeast Asian nations. He and his successors sent ambassadors to China and India, and the latter's influence was so interwoven into Funanese life that the Indian legal code was adopted and an alphabet based on Indian writing systems was introduced.
In the 6th century, Funan, weakened by civil war and succession struggles, was taken over by rebel state Chenla.. Chenla was itself a loose grouping of smaller kingdoms and at one stage was divided into Water Chenla, with its capital in Angkor Borei, and Land Chenla centered around Sambor Prei Kuk. Around the 8th century, continued incursions by a newly risen maritime nation, Java, drove the Khmer people away from the coast to go upriver to Tonle Sap, paving the way for what would become the Angkorian civilization.


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Now select the Advanced button.
Total memory. This
slider specifies the maximum amount of RAM that may be
allocated for use by Operation Flashpoint. To ensure system
stability you should set this to about 2/3 of installed RAM
(You may be able to allocate more of course if you have an
excessive amount of RAM), leaving a minimum of 32MB
available to Windows. If you run other background
Applications you may want to raise this minimum level also.
Texture heap. This
slider determines amount of memory to allocate for the
texture heap in Operation Flashpoint. Unless you have a
Graphics Card with a low amount of video memory, or a low
amount of RAM (64MB or less) then set this to the maximum
amount available – 16 MB.
File heap. Similar
to the Texture heap setting you should set this to 16
MB unless you have 64MB RAM or less installed, in which
case reduce this value accordingly, e.g. those with 48MB RAM
should set this to about 6 MB.
Geometry performance.
This slider specifies how well your system performs at
geometry calculations, i.e. transform & lighting. Those
of you with Graphics cards with a T&L unit onboard
should slide the to the far right, while those on slower
CPUs might want to lower the sliders position. Those with
fast CPUs (900Mhz +) &
non-T&L Graphics cards should similarly be able to
position this to the far right as long as the Graphics card
is fairly modern, e.g. Kyro 2.
Now select the Effects
Object shadows. Tick
this setting to enable character models & certain other
models, e.g. trees, to cast shadows onto the ground. Those
with slow CPUs/Graphics cards should consider Unticking
this setting to disable them although personally I find them
to be fairly realistic so would recommend leaving them
enabled if possible.
Vehicle shadows. Tick
this setting to enable vehicle models, e.g. Helicopters, to
cast shadows onto the ground. Those with slow CPUs/Graphics
cards should consider Unticking this setting to
disable them although personally I find them to be fairly
realistic (Particularly for ground vehicles) so would
recommend leaving this enabled if possible.
Explosions, Smoke.
Tick this setting to enable the rendering of
explosions & smoke in the Game. During larger battles
this may cause the frame rate to drop a good deal on slower
systems however, though with for best visual quality &
realism leave this Ticked.
Max. lights. This
slider determines the maximum number of dynamic lights to be
rendered/calculated for at any given moment. Those of you
with a Graphics with an onboard T&L unit &/or fast
CPU should be able to increase this to a higher value
without noticeably affecting performance & yielding
improved visual quality. Those with an old Graphics card
&/or slow CPU should set this to a single figure number
for best performance.
Explosions. Tick
this setting to enable the rendering of light cast from an
explosion, e.g. BMP blowing up. For best visual realism it
would be best to leave this enabled, although given there
will likely be some small frame rate drop when a explosion
does occur (Particularly during Tank missions) leaving this Unticked
will minimize the affect of it.
Missiles. Ticking
this setting will enable the rendering of light to be cast
from missiles as they are fired until exploding, or moving
out of your visibility. This can be useful for making it
easier to determine where a rocket was fired from
(particularly during night missions) though for the most
part you can leave this Unticked.
Static. Tick
this option to enable light to emanate from certain
non-moving sources, e.g. streetlights & such. Untick
this setting to disable these, which isn't recommended as
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Dempsey, back from FIFA World Cup, rejoins Sounders FC
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Seattle Sounders forward Clint Dempsey spent time with family, did a little fishing, let his broken nose heal and mostly ignored the World Cup. After becoming the first American to score in three World Cups, Dempsey needed a break upon his return to the United States. So until his appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" the other night, Dempsey was mostly away from the spotlight. Dempsey, 31, hopes the U.S. loss to Belgium in the round of 16 isn't his last World Cup game. In the short term, Dempsey said he'll be ready for Sunday night's MLS game between the Sounders and rival Portland. – Associated Press


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OPTEX wireless REDWALL SIP detectors pre-fitted with Luminite Genesis transmitters
Two of the REDWALL outdoor PIR detectors from OPTEX, the SIP-3020 and SIP-4010, can now be bought with pre-fitted Luminite wireless transmitters and be integrated seamlessly with any Luminite Genesis wireless system – to benefit sites where the cost or practicality of installing a hard-wired perimeter security system is an issue, but where product reliability and performance is still essential.
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey Parent Review
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I'm always leery when my favorite books are made into movies. I hate to give over creative license to a director who might interpret characters differently than I imagined. I experienced those same apprehensions about The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey. The beautifully illustrated book by Susan Wojciechowski has been one of my Christmas favorites since I discovered it.
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Thankfully the story was in good hands with writer and director Bill Clark.
Joely Richardson plays Susan McDowell, a young widow forced to sell her home after her husband (Elliot Cowan) is killed in war. Packing up her young son Thomas (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) and a few of their possessions, she moves to a small town to live with her sister, who's husband is also away at battle. But life on the farm is hard for both of them. Thankfully Thomas begins to make friends at school (Saoirse Ronan, Jack Montgomery) but as the Christmas season approaches, he discovers the family's carved nativity has been lost in the move. Sensitive to the many loses her son has experienced during the year, Susan approaches a local wood carver in hopes he can make a new nativity in time for Christmas.
Jonathan Toomey (Tom Berenger) lives alone in a cabin on the edge of town. He prefers to keep to himself and isn't a man of many words. The kids in town often taunt him, calling him Mr. Gloomy. However Susan isn't deterred by the town's attitude toward the bearded woodworker.
With some reluctance, Jonathan agrees to carve a nativity, but without any promises as to when it will be done. Finally with some persuasion, he also agrees to let Susan and Thomas come and watch while he works. Each day Susan brings some small gift—a loaf of bread or fresh baked biscuits. And everyday Thomas tries, usually unsuccessfully, to sit quietly beside the master carver as he turns the blocks of wood into figurines. Ever so slowly, as the pieces are completed, a change comes over the gruff carpenter.
The loss of his father, his home and some problems with his friends in town causes Thomas to lash out at his mother and others as he deals with grief. At one point, after being taunted, he punches his persecutor in the nose. But the movie offers few other content concerns for children seven and up.
The original book is illustrated in rich color and detail by Irish artist P. J. Lynch and luckily the filmmakers capture the essence of these illustrations. Just like the story, the production unfolds gently as Mr. Toomey's past is revealed and the balm of kindness works its magic not only on the introverted craftsman, but on the rest of the townsfolk as well.Directed by Bill Clark. Starring Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Saorise Ronan, Jenny O'Hara. Running time: 91 minutes. Theatrical release June 9, 2007. Updated December 18, 2013
Get details on profanity, sex and violence in The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey here.
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Why have the people in town ignored Mr. Toomey rather than trying to get to know him? What does Susan McDowell do differently? Why can it sometimes take time to warm up to a person?
Why does Thomas say he has nothing to pray about? What makes him change his attitude?
This movie is based a children's story by Susan Wojciechowski, and illustrated by P. J. Lynch.


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Travellers ordered to leave car park
Date published: 10 April 2014
TRAVELLERS have been forced to leave a site in Royton after setting up an illegal camp earlier this week.
Seven caravans and other vehicles arrived on Tuesday evening at a car park on council land opposite St Anne's Primary School. Environmental health officers contacted the police and visited the site yesterday. Police ordered the group to leave by 9am today.
After similar incidents in recent years, council-placed boulders prevented the travellers getting into the nighbouring park.
"We don't want to fence the park off and make it feel like Alcatraz just to stop people parking on the site, but we have had to compromise," said local Councillor Steven Bashforth.
"It is inevitable that we will get people parking illegally like this in Royton due to the town being so close to a motorway."
Goodbye and good riddance, now the people of Royton can breathe easy again.
I don't understand why the Travellers aren't being welcomed.According to my 'Left Wing Manual 2007' Travellers are vibrant and enrich our lives.
Perhaps Billy Bragg has a field available next to his Dorset home?
When are the authorities going to stop treating these people with kid gloves? They continually break a multitude of laws and are not held accountable. They rarely pay taxes, if ever. They leave everywhere they stay a mess and yet we have to pay out to clean up after them. They want to be respected as "travellers" and have us accept their way of life, yet they stick two fingers up at the laws of the land the rest of us live by.
When on earth are we going to sort these people out?They seem to travel the country in vehicles that are largely without tax or insurance committing crimes as they go and leaving places a terrible mess,and no doubt all on benefits,firstly they should be made to clear away all the mess before they leave,after which all the vehicles should be checked yo see if they are legal,finally all their benefits should be stopped until they sign on for work like the rest of us have to
have you forgotten the illegal camp made 500 yards up on the carpenters site 2/3 weeks ago? Or the land at the bottom of the hospital 6/7 weeks ago?? This is a recurring problem which we have had to clean up a significant amount of waste (human and other) time after time at our expense. Unless they start living by the laws that govern the land they are NOT going to be made welcome anywhere.
Why don't the government ban this sort of activity happening in our country, these people are parasites they steal & defraud people & leave the taxpayers to clean up after their mess, we call them travelers now because apparently calling them anything different is apparently racist or politically incorrect even though we are the same race, we are not racist or bias we just know right from wrong their behavior is unacceptable.
I got my share moved on from my patch when I was a councillor but some of the posts above are a little disturbing. If we treat them like excrement they will behave like excrement.
I had the misfortune to be carrying out some work near a gypsy camp in 2012 only for one of them to be caught red handed attempting to steal a drill from the rear of my van. Granted, I shouldn't have left my back door open which was silly of me, but just goes to show what happens when the gypsies turn up in numbers...
I agree JMTS, however I think the comments are representative of a community whose frustration is boiling over at the inability of local and central government to tackle the problem.
Yes have respect for them, but respect goes two ways and illegal trespass, flytipping and general disturbance is not the way for them to show us any respect. Until they can behave themselves properly then we should use the full extent of the law to prosecute them.
Talk about gross generalisations! I can honestly say that I've rarely encountered such a bunch of intolerant narrow-minded and ill-informed bigots as are to be found on these pages.
JMTS, absolute rubbish, they dont respect anything, When they come to Daisy Nook for the fair I have them knocking on my door asking for scrap. When I say no, later I have seen them in my garden trying to steal my kids bikes. After the fair has gone its the tax payer footing the clean up. If its sympathy your looking for for these people, try another website.
Ok JMTS, lets hear your description please..........
Further to my previous post, it strikes me that you could transpose many of the offensive comments/descriptions made about the travellers, with those made about European Jewry in 1930s/40s Nazi Germany.
No, Shaun, the comments above are not generalisations and how can the personal dealings of BlueFriendlyDan, Fitton Hill and ax102 be classed as ill informed.
I had to go to the camp on Greengate St. on several occasions and they were scary experiences which left me feeling threatened and intimidated.
Also, I have yet to see a traveller camp that has been swept clean on departure.
Acceptance will only come about once they accept the laws that men and women in this country have died for.
Shaun....that is an outrageous statement to make and one you should feel thoroughly ashamed of.
All that is asked of this group is to abide by the laws of this country which has a proud heritage of welcoming all so long as they are prepared to fit in. Yet you are prepared to stand up for their lawlessness.
Shaun, why do you deliberately and knowingly ascribe false premises in order to further your brainwashed utopian view. Jews are a clear and district group as are Romany gypsies, but you are wrong to suggest that groups of itinerant southern Irish seasonal travellers are a distinct race/creed from others. By your definition, if took my family abroad in a caravan I would be a separate and distinct race from the british. Take your own advice and learn some tolerance of others opinions.
I'd like to see & hear Shaun McGraths comments when he finds a Travelers camp on his doorstep. Will you invite them in for tea?
To reiterate the point I've made on several other occasions: I do not condone anti-social/criminal behaviour; but said criticism must be proportionate.
What tends to manifest on these sites (I could give several examples), is nasty, distasteful and deeply-offensive descriptions of human beings (don't forget, travellers include innocent children).
There is a gulf of difference between making a constructively-critical point and spouting deeply offensive bile.
We are not talking about an unruly minority here, Shaun. Your viewpoint would possibly have some validity if it was balanced but on every occasion, when travellers come to Oldham or any other stopping off point, they leave the site in a mess to the financial detriment of the taxpayer...a fact you continually choose to ignore and then call the critics on here racists.
Also,your comment comparing the self-determining problems of the travellers to the Jews of circa WW2 is extremely offensive?
done nip it in the bud
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Why is One Missed Call rated PG-13? One Missed Call is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of violence and terror, frightening images, some sexual material and thematic elements.
This thriller turns a cell phone ring tone into a scary experience when people receive a missed call notification dated within the next couple of days, and then they die from gruesome deaths at the exact time of the message. While not particularly gory and with very little blood displayed, the deaths are still bothersome. Characters are impaled with construction rebar, run over by a train (a dismembered hand is seen holding a cell phone), and drowned in a pond. An unseen spirit kills one character during an exorcism in a church during which statues of Jesus Christ and Mary are shown with scary faces. Discussions of child abuse and a depiction of a woman verbally abusing a child are included. An image of a person hanging is seen—suicide is implied. Language consists of both moderate and mild profanities along with terms of Christian deity used as expletives. Sexual content consists of a brief mention of the term "phone sex" and a couple is briefly shown in their underwear after they are interrupted in a bedroom. A secondary character is smoking a cigarette and others are drinking socially.
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Professor Daniel Price of the University of Houston Honors College heads up a new collaborative and multi-disciplinary class called Asthmatic Spaces: Houston, which will help students develop a new understanding of asthma and its related issues by examining how different disciplines approach and define the problems.
"It's new ways of talking between the disciplines," Price said. "It's about getting the humanities and the social sciences and the natural sciences talking to each other."
Price says this new class is about the open-ended nature of research, and how varied perspectives can consider a common goal, like asthma.
"This class will mimic the diversity in skills that students will encounter in the real world, so they'll be asked to look at their own problem-solving techniques. Some are very good filmmakers, so I'd expect them to convey their perspective through that medium. Others are very skilled in mathematics and can show how they create a model from their discipline, as will our engineering or biology students," Price said.
Asthma was chosen as a subject to study because of air quality research already being done in Houston, and because of the varied perspectives that have changed the way we consider the condition. Price says what used to be investigated as an individual health issue has become a political issue, included in global warming and environmental justice discussions.
UH Professors from pharmacy, science, anthropology, health, politics, history and medicine and society will contribute to the class from their own research perspectives. Students will have internship opportunities with the City of Houston mobile air quality lab and will create digital research projects that will be shared on a special Web site that will serve as a public service to those seeking information about asthma and its related issues.
The class begins in the spring semester and will partner not only with other colleges on campus, but with students from New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who are embarking on similar research endeavors.
"These ways of thinking of how we talk to each other is a really good way of thinking about education," Price said. "Education should be learning how to talk to other people better." Asthmatic Spaces: Houston is part of what's happening at the University of Houston. I'm Marisa Ramirez.
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A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
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Danielle van Lunteren's "Infected" bags spread pestilence into the ultra-clean cities of the Netherlands.
Once the city recovers, it will have to decide what to do about the next storm.
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Nerds crowdsource a sci-fi adventure that imagines the city as a post-apocalyptic wonderland.
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I've just bought a TV Live Streaming Media Player, and plan to buy an external USB 2.5" hard drive to store movies. What is the maximum size that the media player can handle?
Thanks in advance.
I suspect there is no size limit (it seems to work on 3Tb 3.5 externals).
I have trouble getting to recognise a USB3.0 640Gb Samsung portable external though. I got it to accept a 128Gb USB3.0 flash drive though
The USB port on the player is ver's 2.0, I have a 3TB My Book Live that plugs in to a Gigbit Router that is faster than USB 2.0.
I have 2 3TB external drives 3.0 (Seagate & Toshiba) both work great. I also used the 3TB WD 2.0 and worked great until my wife knocked it over on to the floor while she was cleaning and while it was playing, must have messed up the read arm, all it does now is make clicking noises and will not read on either the SMP or PC. Oh well, Glad I back them up on two other 3TB drives I have in my office, just for this such an emergency. I can't imagine losing all my shows, music and pictures. Sometimes I think about, God forbid, the house burn down. I would lose them all. Maybe I should get two more and back everything up again and store in my safe deposit box at the bank!


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Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on January 19, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Old and busted — the "Bain mentality":
President Obama's chief campaign strategist David Axelrod today on "This Week" honed his two-pronged attack on GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, insisting the former Bain Capital CEO's record and shifting policy positionswill undermine his general election appeal.
"Frankly I don't think bringing a Bain mentality to this economy — to running this economy — makes him a strong candidate," Axelrod told me. "I don't think shifting and moving around on positions – fundamental positions – is one that people are going to embrace."
"Trust is a big issue in the presidency," he said. "I think there's a big trust issue here."
New hotness — trusting people from … Bain:
Jeffrey Zients will serve as President Obama's new acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), but the president's decision might undercut attacks on Republican Mitt Romney's career as a venture capitalist, because Zients and Romney are both alumni of Bain & Company.
"I'm pleased to designate Jeff Zients to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Since day one, Jeff has demonstrated superb judgment and has provided sound advice on a whole host of issues," Obama said in a statement accompanying the announcement today. Zients previously served as Deputy Director of OMB under Jack Lew, who became Obama's chief of staff with the departure of Bill Daley.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney might also be pleased at Zients' promotion, given that they have a common professional background; Zients worked with Bain & Company as early as 1988, according to the Bain website. Romney worked at Bain & Company, first from 1977-1984, and then again from 1991 and 1992, when he was the Bain & Company chief executive officer.
So did Barack Obama bother to tell his re-election campaign that he was going to appoint a budget director who worked at the very same firm that his campaign was demonizing less than ten days earlier? Heck, at least no one can accuse the White House of coordination these days.
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Rep. Adam Schiff is terribly disappointed in Rep. Nunes…again
Dem Intel Committee member Adam Schiff: We now have more than circumstantial evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump staffers
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When the massive leftist electronic and print press is on your side, you needn't be too careful about the truth, or contradicting yourself, and so on.
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Colts open practice & Indy Indians autograph night IP 6/5
Busy day today. First, the Colts had a public practice at Lucas Oil and there was an autograph session before the game which consisted of lots of children getting god knows what signed and the players signing around the outer wall of the field. whole thing was pretty crazy
Dallas Clark 1/1
Joseph Addai 1/1 - "You aint selling these are you?"
Then went over to the Indians ballpark for the team autograph night. All but like 3 8x10s were pics taken by me
Pedro Alvarez 3/3 (2 8x10s, 1 SS OMLB) - had a couple more 8x10s i wanted done, but he left 10 minutes before everyone else so i couldn't get through the line twice
Brandon Moss 2/2 (8x10s) - apparently likes to figure out what city pics were taken in.
Brad Lincoln 6/6 (8x10s) - showed off the shot of him hitting to the player next to him
Argenis Diaz 2/2 (8x10s)
Jose Tabata 2/2 (8x10s) - does he not speak any english?
Man, I was going to go to the Indy colts practice.... Good to see the Indians auto a bit - going to go to one soon hopefully
Thinking of moving one of the Alvarez, Lincoln, or Tabata 8x10s?
I have one lincoln I can move, but the rest are staying
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Well-known marine biologist Nancy Black was released without bail Thursday after pleading not guilty to charges related to her research with killer whales on Monterey Bay.
"This thing has been kicking around since 2006. If she was going to run away, she'd be gone by now," U.S. District Court Judge Howard Lloyd said.
But Lloyd required Black to turn over her passport, submit to drug testing and face a $50,000 penalty if she doesn't make her next appearance on Feb. 13.
Black, 49, is charged with two misdemeanor counts of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act by feeding killer whales in the bay in spring 2004 and 2005. More serious are felony charges alleging she altered a videotape requested as evidence in the federal investigation, then lied about it to authorities. Those charges carry a combined maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and $500,000 in fines.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Christopher Hale is seeking forfeiture of her rigid-hulled inflatable research vessel. It is on the vessel that Black allegedly interfered with orcas feeding on gray whale calves.
Black maintains she poked a rope through a piece of floating blubber to keep it close to the vessel so she could film underwater feeding habits after it was snatched by a killer whale.
As is routine with the federal court, Black was ordered to undergo mental health counseling if ordered by the court's pretrial services division.