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By: Ridley C. James
Beta: Tidia
A/N: This story is the result of a debt owed. Tara and I made a deal and the only payment she would accept was a story. I'm not sure this is 'exactly' what she wanted, but I hope she likes it. I hope her mom likes it, too, because I know she is rabidly protective of Papa
Winchester. It's different, but Tidia promised she liked it. Be warned, it is slightly intense and kind of dark. And before anyone can jump on me, I LOVE John Winchester. I love him for all his flaws and I do not, DO NOT think he was a monster…only human. As Tidia and I love to say, he was a bastard, but a bastard who loved his kids. That said, read on. And thank you, Tara.
Regret is…an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.
-Gerald Lawson Sittser
There are many moments when he blames himself.
He is sorry. Every single day he is sorry he couldn't save her. His entire life revolves around making it right, making sure it does not happen again. Sometimes the daunting task consumes him, burning away the man he was when he was with her, erasing the man he might have been.
In the worst moments he shows no mercy to those around him, takes no prisoners. He leaves the bodies of his loved ones in his wake as easily as he destroys the enemy, misfortunate collateral damage. Somehow he convinces himself it is for the greater good, a safety net. The current mess is a product of such a John Winchester moment.
Mary's face springs unbidden to his mind. It is like her to appear when death is close at hand, the scent of her bolstering his courage or maybe just giving him reckless abandon to do what needs to be done. Dying doesn't seem too terrible when something so sweet is waiting on the other side of all the pain.
But her sorrowful face is also a haunting reminder of what she left behind…what he would leave behind. The boys. Stay. Just a little longer.
Dean and Sam are the only remaining legacy of what they shared; the only tangible trace of her, not smoke and shadows filtering through his tired and weary mind. He has to protect them, even if it means living without her.
"Stay awake, Johnny."
John blinks, focusing on the present moment, letting the pain anchor him, and releasing the image of Mary from his mind. There are others to consider.
He forces his eyes to remain open, narrowing them to focus in the darkness. He can barely make out Caleb Reaves, battered and bruised, pinned not two feet from him. It is John's fault they are in such dire straits. Mackland will kick his ass, or at least launch a verbal assault on a caliber John can barely follow.
John clears his throat, winces at the pain the small jarring invokes. "I'm awake."
"No sleeping on watch. John Winchester rule number five."
John would have laughed if Caleb's voice hadn't sounded so weak. John already learned that any movement on his part was a bad idea. It sent agony through his shoulder and chest, while it also might bring the rest of the fucking house down on top of them. He swallows back the bitter taste of bile and blood. "Same goes for you, Private." He has no idea how badly Caleb is hurt, but he knows neither of them can risk taking a nap.
"Shouldn't I have moved up in rank, Jar Head?"
"You're a slow learner." It's not true. Caleb is as sharp as they come, a drill sergeant's dream. "You might earn a stripe before your thirty."
"Good to know…I'll mark it in my calendar."
"You do that. Then we'll celebrate."
"Johnny and party…those words do not go together."
"You think you and Ace have the corner on having fun?"
"When you let us."
John thinks about his soon to be seventeen-year-old son and the trouble Dean finds, especially when in the company of John's protégé. "What you two call fun…I call danger."
"Says the guy who let a house fall on us."
John snorts when he can easily divert the blame. "Says the psychic who should have seen it coming."
Caleb laughs in response, a gasp of pain his penance. "Two words…death vision."
"True." John swallows, taking comfort in the fact Caleb hasn't seen their demise played out in his mind's eye. "Speaking of…how you doing over there, Kiddo?"
"Just not ready for the Mac speech…or to tell Dean he's lost his partner in crime." Those are conversations John refuses to have.
"I'm…not so good."
The confession has the hairs on John's arm standing to attention. "What the hell does that mean?"
Another hoarse laugh. "It means I'm bleeding like a stuck pig."
"Can you reach the wound?"
"Sure thing. I'm just enjoying watching the red stuff leak onto what's left of this crappy green carpet."
John clenches his jaw, takes as deep of breath as the timbers restraining him allow. "Goddamnit, Junior. I'm being serious."
"That's no shocker. Serious is your middle name."
The kid's pissed at him. Not unusual. Not undeserved. "Report, now."
"I seem to be hemorrhaging, Sir."
"Caleb, I swear to God when we get out of here you are going to be running maneuvers for a fucking month."
"That…your way of telling me I'll be fine? Live to fight another day?" He hears Caleb sigh. "You have the worst bedside manner, Johnny."
John looks down at the beams crisscrossing his torso and wishes he had some kind of supernatural strength. "Try for a pressure point above the wound. It'll buy us some time until help gets here."
"Help's coming?"
John's unsure if the question is another jab at him or a serious inquiry. The slight break in Caleb's voice has him leaning towards the latter. "Bobby knows where we are. When we don't report back, he'll come looking for us." John hopes it is sooner rather than later.
"Why didn't you let him come on this fun-filled adventure? He offered."
"I thought some field work would do you good. Can't have you getting soft." That's not exactly true, but John doesn't have to explain himself.
"In other words you didn't want me having any fun."
"Since when has babysitting the boys been fun for you? You used to whine to high heaven if I had you sit out a hunt to stay with them."
"When Sam was in diapers and Dean was a sulky six-year-old, Hell, yeah, I bitched. I was a teenager. It's different now."
"Not really. Ten years later and you're still bitching."
"It was one fucking night, John."
"You think evil takes a night off, Kid?"
"You wouldn't let Dean come on the hunt."
"Two man job. No need muddying the waters." Again, he doesn't speak the truth. John was trying to make a point. Or maybe he was just feeling pissy. It seems irrelevant now.
"God, you're an ass."
If it hadn't been said in a choked whisper, John might have been pissed. But now he feels guiltier. Caleb is right. He was being an ass. "You know, I haven't always been this way."
"I only know what I've experienced."
There was a time when John was the life of the party. When stopping at the bar with his buddy Mike after work was a happy ritual. Playing softball with the guys on Sunday was the closest thing to a battle since his time in the Corp. Coming home to Mary and his family was a given, a gift taken for granted. But one moment changed all that. He is different now.
"I try to be fair, Junior." Not tonight, but on average, John tries to do the right thing.
"What's fair about taking your crap out on your sons?"
John feels the familiar stab of anger, the topic a regular argument with Caleb. "I'm keeping them safe."
"From me?"
"No, damn it. That's not what I mean and you know it."
"It was a party, Johnny. I never ask you for shit. Just one lousy night…one party."
"At a bar, Caleb."
"It's okay for Dean to hustle pool in a seedy bar in Bumfuck, West Virginia with bikers and felons… but he can't come to a fucking party at a sport's pub in New York City with a bunch of geeky engineers and architects?"
"He's not part of that world."
"That's my world," Caleb replies, softer. "He's part of it whether you like it or not."
John wants to point out that the world Caleb is referring to is more illusory than reality. After all these years, he still doesn't understand Mackland encouraging it. But John doesn't miss that Caleb's voice is fading, his words slurring. "Save your energy, Kid. We'll talk about this later."
"You know how many times you've said that to me…the whole 'we'll talk later, Kid' speech." Caleb coughs. "What happens when there are no more laters, Johnny?"
John lets his head fall back, rests against the rubble beneath him. "I ask myself that all the time." Mary's face reappears, the ache in his chest is more pronounced. The hardest thing about losing the people you loved most-there will never be another time for more. It is why he holds so tightly to his boys. "You'll understand when you get older."
Caleb doesn't come back with a smart-ass reply about being twenty-five not fifteen. John jerks his head up, groans when pain shoots through his skull. The younger hunter's eyes are closed. "Caleb? What happened to no sleeping on watch?"
The kid doesn't respond. John shoves against the debris pinning him, unable to gain any leverage over the heavy girders with only one hand cooperating. "Caleb! Answer me, goddamnit!"
The voice comes from above, belongs to Bobby Singer. John is both thankful and dissatisfied. He glances to Caleb. "They're here, Junior. Just hold on."
John closes his eyes briefly. Sam and Dean are with Bobby. What the hell has he done? He swallows down his regret, cranes his neck to see through the maze of struts, joists and furniture, hanging above them like a child's macabre mobile. "Bobby! Dean!"
A beam of light penetrates the darkness, shining from what is left of the first level of the old house. "Looks like the whole damn floor caved in."
Leave it to Bobby to state the obvious. "Bobby, get your ass down here."
"I'm coming, Dad."
John growls. He doesn't have time to argue, knowing full well Dean won't listen worth a damn to anything he says to the contrary. "Be careful, Ace. The entire structure's unstable."
Minutes later Dean is lowered down, a flashlight in one hand, a first aid kit strapped to his side. He drops to the ground amidst the rubble. "Dad?"
John weakly raises his arm to shield his eyes from the harsh glare. "Watch it with the light, Son."
"Dad." Dean crawls over the couch tipped on its side to reach his father. He grips John's shoulder. "Are you okay? Where are you hurt?"
John winces at the boy's touch, the fear in his eyes, eyes so much like Mary's. "I'm okay, Kiddo. More stuck than hurt. Check on Caleb."
"Where…" Dean jerks his head around, swinging the light in an arc to search the destruction around them. "Shit. Damien…"
"He's losing blood," John says. He watches his son struggle across the mound of rubble to get to Caleb. "We need to get him out of here."
"Bobby and Sammy are working on it." Dean kneels on the ground in front of the other hunter. "Caleb?"
"Deuce?" John hears Caleb reply to his son. "What…"
"See if you can locate the wound, Dean," John adds. "Then get to work on moving him out from under that crossbeam."
Dean swivels in his direction, but John doesn't quite catch the look on his face before he turns back to Caleb. "You with me, Damien?"
"Yeah…when did you join the party?"
"Bobby, Sammy and I crashed after all the fun."
"You bring the steaks and beer…cause Johnny skimped on the good stuff. Not even one damn balloon."
John listens to the typical banter, relieved Caleb responds to his son but frustrated they are goofing off.
"Dean, did you find it?"
"What's he barking about now?" Caleb replies.
"His typical stuff," Dean says. "Blood loss, broken bones, having to save your sorry ass."
"All business and no play," Caleb mutters.
Dean shoots his father another look and this time John recognizes it. Caleb isn't the only one pissed at him. "Dad, I'm working on it."
"Easy with the merchandise, Dude."
"Leave it to you to fall on your fucking shovel, Damien."
John hears the change in his son's tone. "Dean?"
"Not mine," Caleb says. "Your Dad was down here digging in the cellar. I…was distracting the lovely spirit of Mrs. Wakefield, who is a major bitch by the way."
"How bad, Dean?" John asks.
John sees Dean struggling with the first aid box, digging through the contents. "About what you'd expect, Dad."
John shoves his feelings of helplessness and frustration aside, refocuses his anger on someone else. "Bobby! What the hell is taking so long?"
"Yelling, yelling…" Caleb says. "Always with the yelling. You'd think he'd get tired of hearing his own voice."
"Shut up, Junior," John snaps, receives another disproving look from his son for the trouble. "Save your strength."
"But stay awake," Dean says gently. "No bleeding to death on your birthday, man. You know the rules."
John winces at his son's words. Caleb should be spending his birthday at a pub in New York with his friends-with Dean. But John had to make a teachable moment out of it-couldn't let it go. Mary would be so disappointed in him.
John hears the muffled voice, recognizes Bobby. When he finally convinces his eyes to stay open, the mechanic is closing his cell phone. The buzz of the harsh overhead lights and stark white walls brings back memories of arriving at the ER, being rushed into the trauma room.
"Who you talking to?"
Bobby glances his way. "I called Mackland."
John doesn't miss the satisfied smirk. "He pissed?"
"What do you think?" Bobby drops into the chair by John's bed. "He's coming."
John doesn't really want to think about The Scholar and the fact the two hour drive from Manhattan gives him ample time to formulate a speech of unbearable proportion. "How long have I been out?"
Bobby removes his hat, working the bill. "Not long enough. They gave you some happy juice in the ER before putting your shoulder back in place. They wrapped your ribs while they were at it."
"I told you we could have done that back at the hotel."
"I offered. But Dean didn't take me up on it."
John thinks Singer would have enjoyed himself too much during the painful procedure, better it was done at the hospital. "Where are Dean and Sammy?"
"Surgery waiting room."
John struggles to sit up straighter, his ribs making the movement difficult. "Surgery?"
"Shovel made a mess of things."
"Shit." John runs his hand along his beard. "Did you call Jim?"
"I'll leave that little report to you, Knightly duty and all." Bobby sets his cap on his head. "Kid's not critical. The doc mentioned bleeders and bruised kidney, but didn't look too worried."
"Doctors never look worried. You sure that's all there is?"
"You'll have to ask Sam. He was taking notes for Mac."
"Yeah." Bobby scratches his whiskers. "You should have let the birthday boy have his fun-saved yourself a whole shit-load of trouble."
"You forget it would be your ass on the operating table."
"Like hell. I've had too many birthdays to fall for being bait in one of your brilliant salt and burns, Winchester."
"It was a job. I was in charge."
"It wasn't top priority. The house was empty-has been for months. Good thing seeing as how it should have been condemned." Bobby leans forward, elbows resting on his knees. "Admit it. You were just being a bastard, as usual. Got your shorts in a twist because Caleb showed up and Dean wasn't so gung-ho about the gig."
John hadn't been happy about the ease in which Dean lost interest in the hunt. Dean is not allowed to slack, it's dangerous. There can not be two generals, that only leads to dissention in the ranks, which gives way to disorder and death. John may be a bastard, but he is a bastard who loves his kids. He loves them enough to put their safety above their happiness. "The job comes first."
Singer rolls his eyes. "Don't think I haven't noticed you tightening the reigns since Dean's edging up to eighteen, John. And I ain't the only one."
"This had nothing to do with Dean."
"The hell you say. Then why didn't you let him go on the hunt when he asked?"
John decides to study the sling on his right arm. "He'd already begged off."
"So you make his partner in crime go instead." Bobby laughs with a shake of his head. "You know if you wanted it to be real effective you should have taken Sammy. Forced Dean and Caleb to go to the party. They both would have felt like shit when the squirt ended up being operated on because they ditched a job."
"Fuck you, Singer." John lies back against the pillows, closes his eyes. "Get out of my room."
"No can do. I promised Dean I'd stay with your sorry ass because it was tearing him up to have to choose between going with Caleb and standing by his old man. Funny how that predicament keeps repeating itself. I don't mind telling you that Sam had no such quandary."
John opens his eyes to see Bobby making himself comfortable by kicking off his shoes. He won't be getting rid of the mechanic anytime soon. "You honestly think I did this on purpose? That I wanted Caleb to be hurt?"
"You're still my friend. I like to think you got some of your heart left." Bobby's gaze narrows, and John feels small even though he is taller than the mechanic. "But I don't think you'll pass up using it to your advantage. After all these years, I know you too well."
John fumbles for the button to raise the bed, hoping to lose the small feeling, sick of being judged. "What would you have me do, Bobby? You think I should paint Dean a make believe world like Mackland has Caleb? Let him play in the 'normal life' sandbox for a while? What the Hell will that accomplish?"
"Prove you are his father-that you care- that the kid has some choices."
"Choices we can't afford."
The door opens, shutting Bobby's retort. Dean walks in, looking older than the seventeen-year-old-to- be. In that moment John can see his son aging in front of him, of what he will become in time, his creation, not Mary's.
"He's outta surgery, and in recovery. Sam's upstairs. The doctor said he's going to be fine-in time-like at least 2 months."
"So no hunting for a while."
The disappointment John feared from Mary now prominently reflects in living color on Dean's face. "Is that all you care about? Caleb could have died."
"No, I was asking for clarification. . ."
Bobby stands. "You said Sam was upstairs—I'm going to check on him. Make sure he's not pestering the nurses."
John watches as Dean waits for Bobby to leave. "Then yes, Dad, no more hunting-and if I were him I would think twice about hunting with you."
John has to react quickly to cover his surprise at the insubordination. Even though the rebuke is warranted, it's a luxury he can't allow Dean. "And now I'm assuming you are talking about the shovel."
"No. You said it was an easy job. He shouldn't have even been there."
"You think it should have been you. Because, just so I am clear, you were supposed to go."
Dean looks stricken, like the night with the Striga. John reminds himself it is for his son's own good as the boy rushes from the room. When John is alone he throws up in the kidney shaped dish by his nightstand
John recognizes the look as soon as Caleb opens his eyes, blearily searching the room. Disappointment is becoming a constant in their relationship. "Hey, Kid."
Caleb licks his lips, blinks. "Where's Dean?"
"I sent him and Sammy downstairs for a bit."
"Are you going to let him come back? Or am I stuck with you for company?"
John doesn't answer the question. He goes on in his own line of thought. "Jim expects you at the farm to recuperate, but your dad might have a problem with that-probably want you at his place."
Caleb holds his gaze. "I'd like to be at a pub in New York City."
"About that—Happy Birthday."
"Gee, thanks, almost seems sincere, but it could be the morphine coursing through me… makes everything all warm and fuzzy."
John tries for a grin, shrugs his uninjured shoulder. "I didn't get you a gift."
"It is going to be hard to beat this memory."
"I have one that beats it."
"Really? Would that be the time you left me in the woods on my sixteenth birthday to face down a werewolf alone?"
John rolls his eyes. The kid can be a drama queen. He hadn't been alone on that job, only led to believe he was. "No, it would be the first time I met this punk ass brat."
"I've never heard about the first time you met Joshua." Caleb shifts, his face paling as his battered body registers the movement.
John finds an interesting spot on the wall above Caleb's head. "You wouldn't leave me alone, kept following me around like one of Jim's hounds."
"Morbid curiosity."
"I finally took pity and taught you a few sparring moves."
"You blackened my eye."
"I taught you to keep your guard up."
Caleb brings one arm across his abdomen, suddenly looking much younger than his new status of twenty-five. "This another training exercise, Johnny?"
"Did you learn anything?"
"Maybe it wasn't meant to be my lesson."
John rubs his burning eyes. "You sure you didn't hit your head when you fell, Junior? You're talking crazy."
"That's not an answer," Caleb says.
John pins him with a hard stare. "This was a normal job, shitty luck."
"That's good." Caleb seems to disappear further into the bed. "I can handle the war games, as long as no innocent bystanders are hurt by flying shrapnel. Dean and Sammy aren't collateral damage."
John hears the warning, the unflinching loyalty to his sons. He knows it is as much a product of his success as a mentor as it is a tribute to his failure as a parent. "I thought me and the boys would stick around for a while. Dean's birthday is in a few weeks. Maybe you'll be up to celebrating by then."
"Don't make promises you have no intention of keeping."
John's struck by the jolt of grief. Caleb is no longer the captivated kid tugging at his cape. Any reply is interrupted by the opening of the door and a crude rendition of The Beatles's Birthdaysong. Dean and Sam are bearing makeshift wrapped gifts and a cake. Bobby is trailing behind, a blue 'It's a Boy' balloon in hand.
"We tried for Butterscotch Pie," Sam explains, carefully placing the cake on the nightstand. John notices his younger son takes the long way around to avoid crossing his path. "But no such luck." Forgiveness will not be easily won. Sometimes John fears he has completely lost that ability with Sam.
"That's okay, Runt. One sugar high is as good as another," Caleb says.
Dean waggles the paper bags. "You scored on the gifts though."
"That would be true if you were a thirteen-year-old girl." Bobby ties the balloon on the railing. "Beanie Babies and Barbie are popular in the gift shop."
John watches Dean claim a seat on the edge of Caleb's bed, his back to his father. "Don't worry, Damien. Your real gift is the phone number I scored you from the hot life-size Barbie running the gift shop. She teaches Yoga on the side."
Caleb smiles and John is painfully aware of the genuineness. "Ah, an inspiration to recover quickly."
"That was the plan."
"I can always count on you, Deuce."
"Maybe I should use that technique to get you boys to train more," John says. He hopes to speed along his exile, even if it is not deserved.
"I told you what motivated these two years ago," Bobby throws him a line. "Women work magic."
"As long as their living." Caleb looks up at him, and John hopes it's a hint of mirth if not absolution he sees reflected in the gold gaze. "No more blind dates with dead chicks, Johnny. Especially on my birthday."
"I wouldn't trust Dad or Bobby to pick out a girl," Sam says. They all laugh at the twelve-year-old who nods knowingly despite only last year still thinking girls had cooties.
"I don't know, Sammy." Dean turns to meet John's gaze, those damn expressive eyes unblinking. "Dad found Mom." His mouth twitches ever so slightly, the way Mary's would when she was trying damn hard not to smile. "That has to count for something."
The pain in John's chest is back, Mary's face foremost in his mind. He licks his lips, tries to force some moisture to his mouth, hoping none reflects in his eyes. "Sorry boys, she was one in a million."
John is sorry.
Almost every single day he is sorry for not saving his family from the pain of losing her. Sorry because he will never be the father he could have been, or the friend he used to be.
He blames himself for it all, hoping that in the end he'll be able to make it up to them. Praying with the final battle he'll find peace and exoneration if only in Mary's eyes. Maybe even a little understanding.


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broken hearted girl
A black girl fell in love with a white boy, even though her parents would dissaprove.
It was that time of the year again,summer had ended and it was back to college again. It's wierd how I was the smartest girl in the entire college yet I was the one who hated getting an education the most,(well so i have been told). If life was easier and such hard work was not needed to become successful in life, ooh what a wonderful place the world would be. To me school was like hell, speading dreadful hours in a pit hole feel with anguish and pain.

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Denis Shadow: Who the hell are you?
I pulled at the neckace, my hands turning bright red, after a moment I sighed and got up, clearly it wasn't coming off.
I have to hide this from my mum. Can I even hide this thing?
I brushed off my clothes and sighed, I couldn't go home, it'd be too much drama. There has to be a way to stop her but going home with this hing on my chest is sooooo not the way. "ah crud"
"It's about time I found one of you, Zander is too careless"
I turned around and my eyes widened, this guy not ony looked like trouble, he practically eminated it.
"Zander? I think you got the wrong guy, I don't know a Zander"
The man smiled "I was hoping you would say that, how about you come with me?"
"Uh...sorry dude, I have to go, it's getting late and my mum will be freaked out if I don't go home"
"I can get that pendant off"
"Excuse me?" okay, now he had my attension
"I can get that pendant off, the one thats fused to your chest"
"How the heck do you know how to get it off?"
"I know things, much more than you can imagine, we're wasting time, come with me and I can fix all of your problems"
I snorted against my better judgment "Whatever your selling I'm not buying"
My turn to act all knowing. I smiled "I know more than you think I do, withou Zander's help, thats what scares you most though isn't it? Your afraid of Zander"
"So you do know him"
"Don't need to" I smiled and shrugged "You underestimate things to much"
The guy stepped foward "Do I now? Because I think your bluffing, Zander hasn't even checked this area yet but he was so close" he smiled "Nice try" he walked foward and I knew was done.
"Well, it was nice meeting ya' but I really have to go" I turned and ran. Please don't say he's following! I turned my head and saw that yes, he was following. "Crud" I groaned.
Why is this guy chasing me anyway? and who the hell is Zander? Whoever he is, I envy the guy for being able to scare him.
"Help" I whispered and looked back to see that he was closer "For god's sake!" I shout and run into the darkness. After a few minutes I realise I am no longer being followed and I slow to a stop "Who the hell was that guy? He's crazier than my mum" and thats saying something.


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Mississippi natives as well as alumni and supporters of Ole Miss Guy and Hattie Billups founded Billups Coffee and decided to headquarter the company's operations in their hometown of Oxford.
The Billups family founded Billups Petroleum in Mississippi in the late 1940s. Billups Petroleum grew to include gas stations throughout the Southern states and East Coast, and the famous "Fill-Up with Billups" slogan and signature handshake sign became well-recognized icons for travelers throughout the Southeast during the '50s and '60s. Billups Petroleum became the #1 independent oil company in the United States, and the first successful oil company from the South.
By the mid '60s, Billups Petroleum was purchased by various entities including Charter Marketing, Citgo and Exxon.
"Billups Coffee signifies a new chapter for us," said Guy Billups. "We wanted to pay homage to our family history in the petroleum industry by keeping the 'Fill-Up with Billups' slogan and incorporating a retro theme into the Billups Coffee brand."
Billups Coffee is available for purchase online at www.BillupsCoffee.com, shipping nationwide and will soon be carried in retail locations.


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If this week's SEVEN STONES review makes you curious about more Maine metal, make sure to check out WWW.DOWNEASTAGRESSION.COM, where you can download an issue of the zine, Down East Aggression, and get hip to the place "where rap goes to get fucked." Also of note, the Hollis Center-based site/mag is in the process of categorizing all of Maine's current metal bands into "black metal," "dark metal," "death metal," etc., the obscurities of which are largely lost on this here "Sibilance" staff. Hey, we like metal and all, but this is beyond us.
Former SHUFFLIN' TREMBLE/LOUD NEIGHBOR keyboardist JOE FARREN is back on the Portland scene, having finished up college and serving a stint in Boothbay Harbor honing his chops as a solo pianist, guitarist, harmonica player. He's finished recording a new album with singer/songwriter TOM ACOUSTI turning the knobs and guest musicians that include LOST ON LIFTOFF'S WALT CRAVEN, longtime Maine guitarist ROBBIE COFFIN of the WICKED GOOD BAND and much else, and drummer MARTY JOYCE and bassist JUSTIN MAXWELL of the RED LIGHT REVUE (Maxwell also plays in the COMING GRASS, notably). You'll also find Nashville studio musicians lending dobro, steel guitar, and fiddle. If that's got you excited, check out the CD-release show at Slainte, July 15. No word on whether WJAB radio host and former Shufflin' member CHRIS SEDANKA will be on hand.
If you're looking for yet another thing to do on that cool date, July 7, 2007, you might want to check out ONE LONGFELLOWSQUARE, the newest old venue in Portland. The former Center for Cultural Exchange at the corner of Congress and High streets will host a band familiar with its haunts, BOREAL TORDU, who are touting a new lineup and some new songs you haven't heard before. Tickets are, naturally, $7.
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Scientists examined 174 studies distributed somewhere around 1980 and 2016, and found that individuals with abnormal amounts of week after week physical action had a lower danger of bosom malignancy, colon growth, diabetes, coronary illness and stroke.
The agents utilized a recipe called MET minutes to gauge the amount of action offered the best medical advantage. MET minutes measure the amount of vitality you smolder amid physical action.
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"More studies utilizing the point by point evaluation of aggregate physical movement will locate a more exact appraisal for various levels of physical action," the study closed.
The study was distributed Aug. 9 in the diary BMJ.
Analysts at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France, responded to the discoveries in a going with article.
The publication noticed that while the study unites assorted information on activity and illness counteractive action, "it can't let us know whether hazard decreases would be distinctive with brief term serious physical movement or more length light physical action."
The publication said future studies "must streamline their estimation and reporting for genuine additions in information."


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A novel by Bill Brooks
"As I lay dying, I see Daddy Walter sitting on the porch reading a Bible sold to him by a man wearing spats." Thus begins the novel of Charles Arthur Floyd, best known to depression-era America as Pretty Boy Floyd. "I was the dreamer, the seeker of all things beyond my reach, the dandy, the dancer, the lover of countless woman, the bank robber, the husband, the father, the son, the brother. I was the most wanted man in America."Rising out of the harvests and oil fields of the Oklahoma dustbowl that John Steinbeck so poignantly captured in The Grapes of Wrath, Pretty Boy Floyd became the most wanted man in America by the newly formed FBI-and the woman who loved him.And while Bonnie and Clyde were tearing up the country, robbing and shooting their way across the Southwest-Charley knew them both, cared for neither-Charley was robbing banks from Kansas City to Ohio. The local newspapers were full of stories about guys like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly, and Al Capone, but none of them had what Pretty Boy had: uncommon good luck, a taste for fancy clothes, fancy cars, and beautiful dames.From the opening pages to the final chapter, we hear Charley and his pals, his lovers, and his family tell us the story of Pretty Boy Floyd. Writing with the same combination of lyricism and earthy prose that he used to create the western classic, The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid, Bill Brooks plays the medium for Pretty Boy, his partners, lovers, and his enemies.
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Chai, Celeste
- Paper Title: Valuation of EIAs with the Threshold GARCH model
- Department Affiliation: Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies
- Supervisor Name: Doctor Tak Kuen (Ken) Siu
In recent years, due to the keen competition in the insurance industries, we witness the prolication and innovation in insurance products in the global insurance market. One of the popular insurance products is an equity-indexed annuity (EIA). This product is particularly popular in the North America.
Basically, an EIA is an annuity which earns interest depending on the performance of an equity index, or a certain share.
A typical index is the S&P 500. One of the key issues in trading EIAs is to provide an objective or scientic way to value the liabilities. In this paper, we develop a fair valuation method for valuing liabilities under EIAs under a nonlinear time series model, namely the Threshold-GARCH model.
This model can incorporate two important stylised empirical features of equity indices, namely, the conditional heteroscedasticity and regime-switching characteristics; the latter is of particular importance in describing the long-term behaviour of investment returns. The market in the Threshold-GARCH model is incomplete.
We shall adopt a time-honored tool in actuarial science, namely, the Esscher transform, in specifying a pricing kernel. This method can be justied by the maximisation of an expected power utility. Monte Carlo simulation is used to compute fair EIA values for five most common designs of EIAs in the insurance industries.
Empirical studies are provided using the S&P 500 index.
Equity-indexed Annuities (EIAs); Threshold GARCH; TGARCH; Regime-Switching; Conditional Esscher Transform.


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By becoming a Friend you will also be helping us to develop new writers, fund new work and reach new audiences.
LES HOMMES VIDES Les Hommes Vides is a twenty minute low-tech, charming, eerie and comic performance of slapstick and surreal table-top puppetry and object theatre. It contains scenes of plank action, eyeless shopping, bouncing puppets, poetry and prizes. Following the company's highly successful debut production, Plucked, at LIMF12, Liz Walker's latest show promises further adventures in the bizarre world of adult puppetry. Escape normality and suspend disbelief!
'For 20 years she (Liz Walker) has explored the art form's nightmare limits, with surreal dramas about puppets in crisis that have been likened to the works of David Lynch and Samuel Beckett.' Independent on Sunday 'Superlative puppets... they have such a fearsome, otherworldly demeanour.' Guardian (on Faulty Optic's Flogging a Dead Horse) Wed 16 – Sat 26 Jan, 6.30pm & 9pm (Saturdays 4.30 / 5.30 / 6.30 & 9pm) THEATRE – Tickets: £8
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THE HEADS The new show from the innovators who created memorable puppetry for Anthony Minghella's Madam Butterfly, Simon McBurney's A Dog's Heart and The Master and Margarita and their own hit shows Low Life, 1984, and most recently, the Biblically epic tabletop drama, The Table. The Heads is a cascade of imagery inspired by Cubism, McCarthyism and Catholicism, with guest appearances by a puppet Madonna, a cardboard J.Edgar Hoover, some giant hands and much more. 'Blind Summit prove once again that when you're working in miniature you don't have to think small.' Guardian (on The Table)
BLIND SUMMIT AND SOHO THEATRE When we saw Blind Summit's The Table in Edinburgh 2011 we were bowled over by the originality, humour and beauty of the piece. So much so, that after their London International Mime Festival run here January 2012, we asked them to become a Soho Theatre Associate Company and supported them with creative time in our theatre to work on ideas for new shows. Wed 16 – Sat 26 Jan, 7.30pm (Thu & Sat mats at 3pm) THEATRE – Tickets: £15 – £20
Billed as Die Hard meets the Naked Gun on stage, Joe Bone's multi award-winning Bane trilogy arrives in London. Action, comedy, music and drama are shaken together . 'Phenomenal.' Time Out Mon 7 – Sun 13 Jan, 9.30pm THEATRE – Tickets: £12.50 – £15
CRICK CRACK CLUB: FORBIDDEN BY JAN BLAKE A new play enigmatically pondering over whether some stories simply shouldn't be told and if some subjects are off limits... Tue 8 Jan, 8pm THEATRE – Tickets: £9
CLAUDIA O'DOHERTY: THE TELESCOPE NOMINEE: BEST SHOW FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012 'Constantly amusing… An offbeat gem.' Telegraph Wed 9 – Sat 12 Jan, 9.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £12.50
ALTERNATIVE COMEDY MEMORIAL SOCIETY Mon 14 Jan, 8pm COMEDY – Tickets: £12.50
BARRY CASTAGNOLA: WHERE'S BARRY? 'A hugely entertaining show… great creations, sharp in-jokes… silly fun.' Chortle Mon 14 + Tue 15 Jan, 8.45pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 THE HEADS
THE RUBBERBANDITS Their riotous, satirical hit single Horse Outside became a global 10m hit YouTube sensation. 'The Daily Mail's nightmare of a feral underclass… wild and winning.' Guardian Tue 15 Jan – Sat 2 Feb, 9.30pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £17.50
ANDREW DOYLE: WHATEVER IT TAKES Andrew Doyle's critically-acclaimed new stand-up show enjoyed a total sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Tue 15 – Wed 16 Jan, 7.15pm
IAIN STIRLING: HAPPY TO BE THE CLOWN? 'One of the best joke writers on the circuit.' GQ Thu 17 – Sat 19 Jan, 9.45pm COMEDY – Tickets: £12.50
JEN BRISTER: NOW AND THEN 'Blisteringly funny.' List Tue 22 – Wed 23 Jan, 7.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10
COMEDY – Tickets: £10
A stand-up show about being proud of your roots and ashamed about everything else.
'A comic force not to be ignored.' Chortle
'If you didn't like Nick Sun, then you sucked as an audience.' Doug Stanhope Thu 17 – Sat 19 Jan, 7.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10
LUISA OMIELAN: WHAT WOULD BEYONCE DO?! All the single ladies, all the Single Ladies! You know when you fall Crazy In Love, but it all goes tits up and you're like Me, Myself and I, but then you Get Me Bodied, you're like he's the Best Thing I Never Had! I must have bumped my head, because Who Runs The World? 'An intense, funny and manic hour of soul-baring comedy.' Chortle
ALEXEI SAYLE Alexei Sayle returns to Soho Theatre with his first full-length solo stand-up show in over 16 years. After his return to live performance hosting a special series of shows at the start of this year, we are proud to welcome Alexei back. 'Modern Comedy? We owe it all to one man.' Chortle 'Back on the stand-up stage for the first time in 16 years, his comic control remains something rare and wonderful.' Times 'Still gobby and engagingly self-deprecating.' Evening Standard Mon 21 Jan – Sat 9 Feb, 7.30pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £20
Thu 24 – Sat 26 Jan, 7.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50
ALFIE BROWN: SOUL FOR SALE 'Alfie Brown is quite simply the future of British stand-up.' The List Thu 24 – Sat 26 Jan, 9.45pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50
DANIEL SIMONSEN: CHAMPIONS 'Packed with laugh-out-loud moments.' Guardian WINNER: NEWCOMER FOSTERS EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012
Thu 17 – Sat 26 Jan, 9.15pm
Tue 29 Jan – Sat 2 Feb, 7.15pm
COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £20
COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50 ALEXEI SAYLE
DAVID TRENT: SPONTANEOUS COMEDIAN 'Funny and tightly put together.' Guardian NOMINEE: NEWCOMER FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012 Tue 29 Jan – Sat 2 Feb, 8.45pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50
JAMES ACASTER: PROMPT NOMINEE: BEST SHOW FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012 'Beautifully structured... Smart... Intelligent... One of the best pieces of straight stand-up at this year's festival.' Time Out
Theatre Bench in Assoc with Ros Povey & Perfect Pitch
LIFT 1 Lift. 8 Strangers. 54 Seconds. A thousand possibilities… LIFT: How the things we dare not say could change our lives and how those closest to us are often those we've never met. The world premiere of a new musical by Craig Adams and Ian Watson about love, life and loss in a London lift. Cast includes Julie Atherton (Sister Act, Mamma Mia, Avenue Q), Nikki Davis-Jones (Wicked and Blood Brothers), Cynthia Erivo (Sister Act), Jonny Fines (Avenue Q), Luke Kempner (South Pacific), Ellie Kirk (Legally Blonde), George Maguire (20th Century Boy) and Robbie Towns (Legally Blonde).
PERFECT PITCH Is a not-for-profit company dedicated to the development of new British musicals through readings, workshops and showcases in collaboration with a network of partners within the UK. 'Perfect Pitch, who are an extraordinary organisation, see, nurture, develop and incubate new ideas for musicals... I think we sometimes forget in Britain just how extraordinarily good we are at musicals.' Stephen Fry, Patron of Perfect Pitch Wed 30 Jan – Sun 24 Feb, 7.30pm (Sat & Sun matinees 4pm) THEATRE – Tickets: £10 – £29.50
Thu 31 Jan – Sat 2 Feb, 9.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £15
KATHERINE RYAN: NATURE'S CANDY 'Ryan's mixture of the gossipy, the bitchy, the dark and the upbeat works very well indeed.' The List 'Acridly funny.' Sunday Times Mon 4 – Wed 6 Feb, 8.45pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50
RICH HALL: RICH HALL'S HOEDOWN 'Immaculate wordplay imbued with a genuine passion for the songwriter's craft.' Times Mon 4 – Sat 9 Feb, 9.30pm, Sun 10 Feb, 7pm COMEDY – Tickets £15 – £20 LIFT
SARAH KENDALL: GET UP, STAND UP Political but not polemical, hilarious but not haranguing, Sarah is one of the most acclaimed stand-ups in the industry. 'Delivers with dastardly relish.' Scotsman Tue 5 – Sat 9 Feb, 9.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £15
Snuff Box Theatre in collaboration with Richard Jordan Productions present
Meet Chloe, 21 from Leytonstone. She likes the simple things in life: cherry sambuca, hairbrush-in-the-mirror karaoke with Rihanna and winding her Dad up. Oh, and she's a boxer. Fighting fit from sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Snuff Box Theatre invites you ringside, for an adrenalinefuelled, no-holds-barred onewoman show.
'One of the strongest emerging comedy talents we've seen in a long time.' Time Out 'Sweat-slick and tough, yet sweet and gifted with terrific NOMINEE: NEWCOMER timing.' Times FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012
SOHO THEATRE'S YOUNG WRITERS AWARD In 2012 we launched our prestigious new Young Writers Award, to showcase the best work from the participants in our Soho Young Company, presented to a young writer whose work shows real promise and talent. The inaugural award was won by Charlotte Josephine, and now after a sell-out run in Edinburgh, we're delighted to welcome Bitch Boxer back to Soho. Tue 19 Feb – Sat 9 Mar, 7pm (Sat matinees 3pm) THEATRE – Tickets: £10 – £15
Wed 6 – Sat 9 Feb, 7.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50
SAM FLETCHER: GOOD ON PAPER NOMINEE: NEWCOMER FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012 Thu 7 – Sat 9 Feb, 8.45pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50
DAVID BADDIEL: WORK IN PROGRESS Mon 11 – Sat 16 Feb Mon 18 – Sat 23 Mar, 9.30pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10
WITTANK 'A dazzling display of sketch genius.' List Wed 13 – Thu 14 Feb, 7.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £12.50 BITCH BOXER
HighTide Festival Theatre presents
After the huge success of 'A pocket dynamo of a comic.' Ella Hickson's Boys in June Guardian "Am I a virgin? I think I am. I 2012, we're thrilled to once mean it went in her but it was again be working with Thu 14 – Sat 16 Feb, 9pm floppy and it wasn't very nice so Hightide Festival Theatre I think I'm a virgin. I'm going to on a new production. A COMEDY – Tickets: £12.50 say I am. Will look better on my company focused on the uni applications." discovery, development and production of ZOE LYONS: Liverpool, 1989. Greg is exceptional new POP-UP COMIC fourteen. He has just started playwrights, the Guardian secondary school. He earns described it as 'punching Fri 15 – Sat 16 Feb, 7.15pm pocket money sweeping up hair far above its weight.' in a barbers. Girls are aliens. COMEDY – Tickets: £15 Liverpool FC are everything. 'An outstanding play by young writer Luke Barnes.' Bottleneck is a vibrant comingTONY LAW: Telegraph of-age story about becoming a MAXIMUM NONSENSE man through adventures both Tue 19 Feb – big and small. It is about a Sat 9 Mar, 8.30pm Gloriously absurd, loud and notorious city; Liverpool. How (Sat matinees 4.30pm) ridiculous comedy. Tony brings the outside world views it, and his five-star, total sell-out, how it views the outside world. THEATRE – Tickets: £10 – £15 Edinburgh Comedy Awardnominated show to Soho Theatre for an extensive run. 'One of the finest and funniest comics on the circuit.' Time Out NOMINEE: BEST SHOW FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012 Mon 18 Feb – Sat 2 Mar 7.30pm COMEDY – Tickets: £15 – £17.50
JAMIE KILSTEIN Known for his intelligent, noholds-barred take on religion, politics, corporate greed and veganism, Jamie's consistently been compared by critics, comedians and audiences to fearless comic icons Bill Hicks and George Carlin. 'Irresistibly endearing and wonderfully audacious.' Tim Minchin Mon 18 –Sat 23 Feb, 9.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £15 BOTTLENECK
SOHO THEATRE FRIENDS Ever missed a sold out show? Friends get priority booking for all the hottest tickets. From £50 a year (or £25 if you're 25 or under). Call: 020 7478 0111 sohotheatre. com/support-us
LADY RIZO Having won the inaugural TO&ST award (Time Out and Soho Theatre) for best cabaret show in Edinburgh 2012, New York star Lady Rizo makes her London debut. Revel in the luscious vocals of this Grammywinning diva as she combines glamour, wit and insane charm. A fascinating mix of bawdy humour and polished hyper-femininity, the brazen blonde will have you rolling with laughter. 'If you only see one cabaret show this year, see Lady Rizo.' Time Out WINNER: TO&ST 2012 Mon 18 Feb – Sat 9 Mar, 9.45pm CABARET – Tickets: £10 – £20
WILL FRANKEN A kaleidoscopic tsunami of mind-blowing character comedy. 'Can't remember one moment of this show that wasn't funny.' Scotsman Thu 28 Feb – Sat 9 Mar, 9.30pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £17.50
MAN 1, BANK 0 A must-see comedy adventure for anyone who has ever wanted to get one over on the bankers. 'Extraordinary and highly entertaining.' Irish Mail on Sunday Mon 4 – Sat 16 Mar, 7.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £17.50
ANDREW LAWRENCE: IS COMING TO GET YOU 'His delivery is nothing short of genius… A wordsmith of great talent.' Metro 'Anyone who gives this spikily inventive performer the time of day will realise they're in the presence of an A-list talent.' Guardian Mon 11 – Sat 23 Mar, 9.30pm Mon 25 – Sat 30 Mar, 9pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £17.50
LORETTA MAINE: BIPOLAR 'Like Dolly Parton seen through the lens of Mike Leigh… she performs brilliantly observed songs about love, loss and violent revenge.' Guardian Tue 12 – Sat 16 Mar, 9.45pm LADY RIZO
COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £15
Talawa Theatre Company, Soho Theatre and the Albany present
Chima is not welcome in the area and only has a few hours to meaningfully connect with his brother. But outside a hostile community has been alerted to his return. Chima has been blamed for the death of a white girl and the vitriolic community won¹t be satisfied until it delivers its own rough justice.
It's 1982. London is restless, gripped by spiralling unemployment and inner city riots. Ska beats dominate the Onochie faces the tough airwaves and in a flat in Deptford, decision of siding with the South London two mixed-race community he has tried to brothers are re-united. belong to, or standing with the brother he doesn't know. Sixteen year old Onochie rules the family roost. His barely 'Promise comes with a name known older brother Chima attached: Arinze Kene.' returns home to find that Guardian Onochie is a skinhead who chooses to no longer be black.
SOHO SIX God's Property is a script that grew out of Soho Theatre's Soho Six Writers Group in 2011. Writer Arinze Kene was a member of this vital part of our Writers programme that commissions new writing and brings it to the stage. MULTI-TALENTED WRITERS As well as being a distinct new writing voice, Arinze is also a very recognisable face to those who are partial to some Eastenders action for playing bad boy Connor Stanley. Tue 26 Feb – Sat 23 Mar, 7.30pm (Sat matinees 3pm) THEATRE – Tickets: £10 – £20
TOTALLY TOM Wed 13 – Sat 16 Mar, 9.15pm COMEDY – Tickets: £10 – £12.50
PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON: JURASSIC BARK Piff the Magic Dragon embarks on his first Soho Theatre season accompanied by Mr Piffles the World's First Million Dollar Chihuahua™. 'A stunningly good magician.' Penn & Teller NOMINEE: TO&ST 2012 Tue 19 – Sat 23 Mar, 7.45pm CABARET – Tickets: £10 – £15
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BY RICHARD MARSH AND KATIE BONNA This achingly funny romantic catastrophe fuses poetry and prose to ask – can a one night stand last a lifetime? A very human tale of good intentions and bad timing. 'Laughs are frequent, unsignalled and brilliant.' Times WINNER: FRINGE FIRST AWARD 2012
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Witness the rawest most hilarious portrayal of male and female attitudes, anxieties and agonisingly familiar sex tricks as Ryan and Laura meet for their second date. A true story based on your sex life. 'Unflinchingly honest in its appraisal of this couple's insecurities, mistrust of each other and tense negotiations of social rules. It's funny because it's so true.' Fest
Tue 12 – Sat 30 Mar, 7.30pm (Sat matinees 3.15pm)
Mon 18 – Sat 30 Mar, 9.45pm (Sat matinees 5.30pm)
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DOCTOR BROWN: BEFRDFGTH International comedy sensation Doctor Brown comes home to Soho Theatre with his 2012 Foster's Edinburgh Award winning show Befrdfgth. WINNER: BEST SHOW FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2012 WINNER: TOTAL THEATRE AWARD 2012
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Can a small hard bump on the nose like a pimple easily be removed?
I had a nose job two years ago. A small bump like a pimple under the radix remained. It's beginning to show off more. My surgeon promised me it will go away but after two years it's still there. I want to get rid of it. I'm touching it every minute and taking pictures. Its beginning to irritating me and my family. I dont want fillers. Can my surgeon rasp it down (pimple size not more higher than 1,5mm) in the clinic under local anesthesia?
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Obtaining your previous operative note and consulting with a rhinoplasty specialist would be helpful in determining if your diagnosis is indeed correct.
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Radix bump
If it is bone, it might be possible to rasp it down. Hard to say without an exam. Best of luck with your decision to move forward.
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Good news, absolutely that kind of small bump can be solved with a short surgery under local anesthesia, without breaking bones or usually much bruising. The doctor was right to wait 6 months to a year but if its still there it is going to stay. This can be caused by many things including your healing. Now is a good time to touch it up!! Please revisit your surgeon and work out a plan.
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Depending on the location and extent of the bump, different things can be done. What I mean by that is that sometimes a component of the "bump" is bony, other times its cartilage, and sometimes its a combination of both. Depending on what it is, different things can be done. That being said, to answer your question, yes it can be done under local anesthesia. It does take longer to do as getting you nice and numb to the point where he can do what he needs to do can take time (numbing the nose is not the most comfortable thing in the world!) but it is certainly doable. What I have found is that it mostly depends on the patient. when doing small work on the nasal dorsum under local I always like to give a xanax beforehand just to help calm the jitters down - you just have to make sure you have someone to drive you home. Talk to your doc about it and theyll be able to give you a better idea of what it may be and what can and can't be done. Best of luck!
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By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Oct 4, 2004
|4 bolts. It would be bad to fall before clipping the first bolt, and you might crater if you fell off before the second bolt. I wouldn't suggest this as a good "first lead".
By Michael J Yarros
From: Colorado Springs, CO
Oct 6, 2004
rating: 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|Nice lead, somewhat commiting. Holds are solid.
By Ken Trout
From: Golden, CO
Dec 21, 2007
|Winch hooks placed 12/21/07.
By Randy Carmichael
From: Boulder, CO
Apr 8, 2009
|A great variation is to stay off of the arete and just use the cracks. Fun jams!
By Tom Shelly
Aug 9, 2009
Climbed this today (8-8-09), and it is a fun 8. The crux is right at the first bolt though it is clipable without conquering the move. Work on mostly positive holds to the middle of the arete or work the crack to the left side for good jams. Either variation was fun. Nice ledge at the anchors to set up or rap off. This route gets hot in the sunlight....
Side note: The winch hooks Ken placed are not there. The anchors are double cold shuts to rap off from.
By Tony T.
From: Denver, CO
Nov 1, 2012
rating: 5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c
|Pretty committing in the sense that it's not grid-bolted. The bolts are about 7-10 feet apart. I actually would have liked to place a few pieces of pro while I had to rescue lead it for someone who got a little gripped and had to back down. Fun route though! I just wouldn't recommend it for the leader lacking confidence or a new leader.
By plantmandan
From: Brighton, CO
Dec 11, 2016
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|I agree with the previous comments, fun route but not a good choice for new leaders. I found the second clip in particular to be awkward, and a fall from there would be hazardous.
By David Ponak
From: Longmont, Colorado
Jan 23, 2017
|Placed a few cams to make it less run out, felt like it deserves at least a +.- Probably could be led pretty safely just with gear.


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Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Pecans and Mustard Seeds
When shredded and sauteed, these sprouts become meltingly tender. The mustard seeds and lemon juice add tang, and the pecans provide crunch. This dish is perfect served alongside a holiday turkey.
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Source: Body+Soul, November/December 2007
- 1/3 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
- 2 containers (10 ounces each) Brussels sprouts, ends trimmed
- 1/2 tablespoon butter
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard seeds
- 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread pecans on a rimmed baking sheet and toast until fragrant and lightly browned, about 10 minutes; set aside.
Meanwhile, with the shredding disk of a food processor, shred Brussels sprouts (if you don't have a food processor, halve and thinly slice with a chef's knife). In a large nonstick skillet, heat butter and oil over medium-high heat. Add mustard seeds and cook, stirring occasionally, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add Brussels sprouts and cook, tossing occasionally until tender and beginning to brown, 7 to 9 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in lemon juice, and season with salt and pepper. Serve topped with pecans.


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Hi Florian, In XSLT script it makes a lot of sense to use TAB saves a lot of time when the XML is being parsed. If I remember it well the previous coding guidelines demanded TABs even for Java. Honestly I do not care what we choose, but we should be consistent. Problem areas are: 1. Whitespace (tab vs. spaces) 2. Line ending (Unix, Windows or Mac) 3. Java Formatting provided by the IDEs - I use Netbeans and often use its Java autoformatter The only safe consistent solution would be to do a server based normalization of our source code, like it is being done via GIT does with its git hooks <http://git-scm.com/book/en/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks>. I heard that the Libreoffice developer using this a lot. Regarding formatting, we should consider as well to do a normalization on the client side, so the user is able to reflect the changes (WYSIWYG). There is a Maven Java formatter plugin <http://maven-java-formatter-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/site/0.3.1/usage.html> I once saw in another project, but never used myself, which might be of help. The plugin is even able to align local line endings - uncertain if it is possible to be applied only on sources being changed. Anyone experience with this and a suggestion how to proceed? Shall we do a normalization of all source in the end? State of the art for Java in cross platform programming is from my observation Unix line-ending, more often "spaces" than "taps", but unfortunately no interoperability for cross IDE Java formatting. PS: Sorry for the belayed response (pre-x-mas-stress-syndrom) Best regards, Svante On 14.12.2012 08:40, Florian Hopf wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that my default formatting rules don't comply with most of > the sources that I am touching. It seems that the indentation is two > tabs whereas I normally use 4 spaces instead of tabs. Are there any > accepted formatting rules for the project available? > > Regards > Florian >
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- Minimum stay:3 nights
- Sleeps:8
- Bedrooms:3
- Bathrooms:1
- Property type:Apartment
- Internet:Yes
- Pets considered:Yes
- Wheel chair accessible:No
About the Property
3 bdrms, 1 bath, sleeps 8, living rm w/ gas fireplace, ding rm, full kit, porch
Enter the front door and you're in your home away from home. It's spacious but comforting.
Bedrooms are decked out with comfy linens. Back porch looks at the garden. Eat in the kitchen or the dining room. On chilly evenings have a fire with the click of a switch.
Jamaica Plain (JP) is a neighborhood within the city of Boston. The house has easy access to the T (our public transit system) — a 15 minute ride to downtown. JP has the feel of a small town but it's definitely part of Boston's urban life. The house is just one block from Jamaica Pond (a 1.5 miles loop around the pond) which is great for walking or running in all seasons — biking, picnics or renting a sailboat in the warmer months.
Just 2 streets away is a new Whole Foods Market. Walk less than 10 minutes and you're in JP center with an array of ethnic restaurants, cafes, pubs and retail stores. This home is a great space in a great neighborhood in a great city - all set up for a great vacation
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- Children Welcome
- Non Smoking Only
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- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
- Long-Term Renters Welcome
- Wheelchair Inaccessible
Bedrooms: 3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 8
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Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood within the city of Boston that provides a small town feel within the urban lifestyle. JP, as locals call it, is just minutes from downtown Boston by public transportation. It's a unique community, almost completely surrounded by parks, including the Emerald Necklace (designed by Frederick Law Olmsted of Central Park fame) the Arnold Arboretum, Franklin Park Zoo and a protected Urban Wild area. The center of JP offers abundant amenities including restaurants — ranging from take out to 4 Star — in an array of ethnic options. A great place for families, couples and singles.
Let's not forget this is New England. Pleasant car rides in almost any direction take you to the picturesque small towns you've seen on postcards. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut and Vermont are each within an hour's drive. In fact, you can drive to Montreal in about 6 hours . . . and New York City in about 4.
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For most students, summers are filled with bikinis and beach balls. However, for one Iowa student, her beach gear consisted of safety gloves and sanitary bags. Blake Rupe, a University of Iowa graduate student from Ottumwa, Iowa, conducted research on the garbage presence in Veracruz, Mexico, specifically concentrating on the beaches near the city.
The European Studies Group in International Programs will host a Lunch & Talk series beginning April 11. All events are free, open to the public, and will be held at noon in 315 Phillips Hall.
Many musicians, artists and scientists have the desire to merge disciplines in order to better understand our world, and Iowans will have the chance to experience the results of one such collaboration this week in a number of different events and programs on the Unviersity of Iowa campus.
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The sun hung eternal in the empty sky, perpetually baking the strip of Rio de Janeiro coast as if the star itself had passed out from heat stroke, content to recover as close to the beach as possible. But the water was chilled by a far off current, and past it, sweltering heat melted the tops off enough bodies to make the stay worth it.
There was, on the far side of the sand, a man not present for the ocean or the sun, nor the barest of breasts. He had a peculiar air about him, a young, voracious look, stance relaxed- though eyes intent enough to glare through sunglasses. He remained perched under a wide umbrella, shade hiding him from inspection, keeping him in a tiny world of his own.
For a time he sat and watched, calm, unmoving, having more in common with the umbrella above him than the people elsewhere. Upon closer inspection, a liberty not taken by the pleasure-seekers present, the man was waiting. And not like a human waits, not with an impatient, swiveling gaze or a recurrent glance to wristwatch, but with the patience and fortitude of a spider awaiting dinner.
Soon a woman tread across the sand near his umbrella, and ever-so-slightly gazed to her side, eye catching his long enough to connect.
His teeth, enamel-white and glowing, split his face and continued to do so through his beckon. The woman failed to conceal a laugh, and moved towards him. He spoke, London fog in the pitch of his voice.
"I recognize a Lady from the Isles any day. You look like a Manchester lass." By then she had reached him, oversized sunglasses obscuring her face, though her blonde locks were revealed, tumbling down onto her curves, tan and barely covered.
She smiled, and spoke like champagne, bubbly-sweet and intoxicating. "A fair guess. You sound like a London boy." He nodded, removing his sunglasses. "I concede. What brings you to Brazil?"
"Escaping the homeland, of course." she answered.
"Pleasure, then? We have so much in common."
Her grin turned impish, he was handsome, though one rarely went to other countries to find men from their own. He extended a hand to her, through her thoughts.
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Without a doubt on of the most unique villas at the 5 star Marriott Praia del Rey golf & beach resort. With 4 en-suite bedrooms all with direct access to the garden and private 18m long swimming pool! It is a front line villa located only 200m from the Beach next to the BeachFront units and still offers extreme privacy. It is perfectly orientated offering sun all day long and it is especially beautiful at sunset. Close proximity to the beach makes it a ideal for families and golfers! its is one of a kind.
One luxurious 4 bedroom villas in the Praia d'el Rey resort with Traditional furnishings, fully equipped kitchen set in a family room with TV, private 10m pool and BBQ. The Villa is set in private plot with sea view and located only 200m from the Beach. The villa is ideal for families, surfers and golfers alike.
I live in Lisbon and fell in love with Praia del Rey over 10 years ago and bought a weekend villa there. I enjoyed it so much that I have been developing villas in the resort ever since.
John purchased this villa in 2014
The design of these Villas are unique in the Praia del Rey resort! the pictures tell the story. (please email me for detailed high res pictures of the villas)
All our Villas has their own private garden and pool. We give assistance to our guests all days during the week.
We are considering a Non Refundable Rate.
Please speak with us abou prices because they will change with number of guests and season.
Praia del Rey – Golf & Beach Resort sits along Portugal's gorgeous Silver Coast, is an easy hour's drive north of Lisbon and right near the medieval town of Obidos, which is a World Heritage site. Nearby is the large salt water Obidos Lagoon on which many aquatic activities are enjoyed. The resort boasts a highly renown championship links golf course from which you can appreciate views of the Atlantic and Berlenga Islands beyond. Also, you'll find a 5 star Marriott Hotel & Spa within walking distance.
Fresh grilled fish or traditional meat stews and delicious local wines are in abundance at the restaurants in the surrounding areas of Peniche, Obidos and Caldas da Rainha.
From its central location there are a variety of day trip locations to discover - historical, gastronomical, scenic or aquatic - and within 3 hours drive, you are enjoying port wines in Porto, the surf in the Algarve or crossing the border into Spain.
Golf: Praia Del Rey has an award winning 72 par golf course, rated as the best in Portugal and 15th in Europe. The course is part links and part wooded. It is a good test for all handicap abilities. Excellent golf shop and club house, golf academy with PGA-qualified teachers. Driving range, putting green and bunker practice area. Minimum handicap required: Men 28 and Ladies 36. A handicap certificate is required when booking in at the club house.
The Golden Eagle course is 45 mins by car and Campo Real approx 25 mins.
Discounted green fee rates are available through golf booking agencies.


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Kathleen Arntsen,
President and CEO of Lupus and Allied Diseases
Association, participated in a video project through the Patients
for Biologics Safety and Access (PBSA) to promote the power
of advocacy. The overview listed her as "a powerful
patient advocate from New York living with multiple autoimmune
diseases, including lupus. She works with other patient advocates
to make their
voices heard in vital patient safety policy
In response to a request from the Congressional Lupus Caucus,
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released an
Action Plan for Lupus Research. This report was a
collaborative effort, led by the National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) on
behalf of the NIH. It represents a synthesis of internal
and external input on promising future research
directions to improve the lives of people with lupus.
In 2005, the House Appropriations Committee directed the NIH to
develop a plan to guide the nation's investment in lupus research.
In response, The Future Directions of Lupus Research was released
in 2007. In July 2014, the Congressional Lupus Caucus requested
that NIAMS, as the lead agency of the Lupus Federal Working Group,
develop a new coordinated action plan for lupus research.
"We have made great strides in our understanding of lupus
and its treatment since the publication of the 2007 report,"
noted NIAMS Director Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D.
"Yet, much work remains to be done."
The first-ever national roadmap to improve treatment and care
for people with lupus was unveiled during a briefing on Capitol Hill
on October 29. Lupus and Allied Diseases Association President and
CEO Kathleen Arntsen and Vice President Sandi Frear attended the
launching. The National Public Health Agenda for Lupus identifies
public health priorities, strategies and recommendations that are
relevant and complementary to efforts in lupus biomedical research
and clinical care and serves as a model of a comprehensive
approach to lupus care and treatment.
The Agenda was developed by the Lupus Foundation of America
and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors in
collaboration with leading lupus and public health experts and
people living with lupus. Kathleen Arntsen sat on the Steering
Committee and helped develop the plan. The effort was made
possible through funding from the United States Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
To see a copy of the plan click on the link below.
Advocates for Arthritis September 2016
Arthritis Advocate Mary Judge (left) and Kathleen
Arntsen (right) attended the ACR's Annual Advocacy
Fly-in September 12-13 pictured here with Morgan Brand
(center) from Senator Charles Schumer's office
Advocates in the Senate Subway at Capitol Hill
GHLF & LADA Advocates met with Step Therapy Bill Sponsors
Assemblyman Matthew Titone and Senator Catharine Young
to discuss A2834/S3419 on March 1st


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Flowers April/May
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