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Leader of the Drakos-El
"Mr. Wester," Garland's voice said somewhere to Wester's left, "We have an envoy from the Fregurd clan nearly here."
Wester sighed, opening his eyes to the setting sun. Around him was the forested woods that lay in the crevice of Hedian Valley. Wester had chosen the location simply due to it's easily defended terrain. With only fifty eight of the Drakos-El warriors remaining and just a little more of the clan's villagers. Wester had to be smart and without first informing Fregurd first, bringing in this many warriors would seem like an invitation to war.
'I must be smart,' Wester thought to himself. He was the leader of the Drakos-El clan until the new High Council was chosen as per the law. He just prayed that the Source would help him through these troubled times.
"Prepare a meeting tent, Mr. Garland. Also, how is the Healing coming along?" Most of the Drakos-El were able to heal many minor injuries, but few were skilled enough to save lives without aide. Wester had already tired himself out earlier that day with using his own limited skills as much as he could. The people who thanked him did not leave him with a good feeling. He had just been doing what needed to be done.
"Just fine, Mr. Wester," the man replied, finally walking from behind a nearby tree. For some reason, the man still thought they were kids. Wester had long since honed his hearing to locate any enemy, so Garland's hiding was meaningless. "Most the injured are either stable or healed completely. Any others we have buried." A slight hint of sadness had entered the large man's voice toward the end. Though he was one of the fiercest warriors in the Drakos-El clan, he was soft.
Wester stood, pushing his golden locks out of his face. One strand, which was shorter than the others, stayed laying over his nose. Wester remembered the heathen Kane had cut it the night before. Maybe Wester would leave it there. A reminder of the man's threat. Wester prided himself on his unscathed body. He had never been cut or made to bleed as a child. Bruises, he had had plenty of, but he had been careful enough to avoid a cut.
Now, the heathen Kane had nearly cut him. He deserved this reminder.
Garland, nearly a head shorter than Wester, followed as he headed back toward where the Drakos-El made camp. For some reason, Wester found himself wondering if the Dynio clan had taken such heavy casualties. It seemed horrible, but Wester hoped not. He wanted to be the one to take them out, not the mysterious warriors.
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The comma after love
Heartbreak and getting over it.
Moving on.
Moving on was something that I was definitely not looking forword to. But the time had come for me to look past the ruins and into the sunshine.
Easier said than done, most would say. Me being a part of the MOST contingent, especially with severely defective eye-sight. Anyways getting over the shadows of a love lost was quite tough on my mental as well as emotional well being.
Everything seemed fixated upon the one thing that should have been dumped in the past, the guy. Everywhere there seemed to be reminders of what had been lost, what would never come back to me, and also what would always come back to haunt me in my lowest moments.
Every memory seemed magnified exactly in the same manner as it does in those wierd old movies where in the climax a flashback (that too in crystal clear imagery) is inevitable. Everything seemed like a pointer towards the past rather than the future. How screwed up is that?
But as they say, everything happens for a reason. Well, for the record I haven't exactly been struck by a lightning bolt of reason as yet. but I was sure of only one thing. I had been saved from what had been a disaster in the making. And I am ever grateful.
I began looking to my family and friends for distraction, rather than any kind of support. A rather unnecessary burden it seemed to me. I went out for movies, shopping, everything that a girl normally does when she's happy. But I did it because it passed my time and diminished whatever bad memories were still left.
It took half a dozen movies, a dozen shopping sprees and a helluva lot more of weeping and sniffling to actually feel like part human. It made me realise that your heart doesn't really break at all, unlike the myth propagated by a certain half-naked cherub. It merely gets bruised, or in some scenarios, it just ACTS like it has been bruised. In my case, it was a big, black bruise, smack in the middle of my stupid beating machine.
It took some time getting used to the healing process, but what made it intriguing was the fact that it was a lot more painless than I had earlier anticipated. Who would have thought it possible when everyone, everywhere seems to believe that life after love is a shrieking hell of stinking tears and weeping noses.
Sure it started out like that with me too, but I definitely ran out of fresh tissues a lot earlier than I had predicted.
After all these ventures, it occured to me that MOVING ON is actually even more hyped up than the ailment that one moves on from. It actually is a cleansing experience, vitalising, energising. in fact I strongly recommend it to all those who are suffering from LOVE...!!!


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Stephane Dion: China Tries To Prevent Visits Of Canadian Diplomats To Tibet
OTTAWA — China has for years tried to block Canadian diplomats from Tibet, banning some of them from visiting aid projects once funded by Canadian taxpayers, says Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion.
Dion said that while China has never denied a request by a high-level diplomat to visit Tibet, it has put up roadblocks, including delays in approving travel requests and shadowing Canadians while there.
China's foreign affairs minister Wang Yi and Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion leave a joint press conference on June 1, 2016. (Photo: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
Dion describes the problems in a written response to questions from New Democrat MP Randall Garrison that was recently tabled in the House of Commons.
The minister's frank assessment comes as the Liberal government moves to expand trade with China, following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first visit to China and a return visit by its premier late this summer.
The Montreal-based, Canada Tibet Committee suggested the travel restrictions are part of China's ongoing efforts to mask human rights abuses in the region it has controlled since the 1950s, when its invading forces drove out Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa did not respond to a request for comment.
'No rejections of high-level visits'
Dion outlined five visits to Tibetan regions by Canadian diplomats between November 2010 and September 2015.
He also detailed eight visits to Canada by Tibetan parliamentarians at the behest of China's National People's Congress between March 2009 and November 2015, saying his department was "not aware of any restrictions" on them.
Not so, when it came to Canada's trips to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas of China, Dion said.
"While there have been no rejections of high-level visits, TAR officials routinely attempt to either delay the visits or to make it very difficult to obtain permits," Dion wrote.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made his first official visit to China. The PM aims to strengthen ties between Canada and the world's second-largest economy, and promote human rights.
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"Canada-based embassy staff, with the exception of the local Chinese project co-ordinator, have been restricted from visiting Canadian-funded projects in TAR/Tibetan areas."
Global Affairs Canada says that Canada "does not maintain a significant international development assistance program in China" any more, but the now defunct Canadian International Development Agency was active there in the past.
Canadian diplomats wanted to follow up on some of those completed projects, but they were either given restricted access or barred from visiting altogether, Dion said.
Canadian ambassadors "were only allowed to visit one project each during their trips," Dion said. But Chinese officials barred other Canadian embassy staffers.
Diplomatic visits 'tightly managed'
"Even after the projects were completed, Canada-based embassy staff continued to be denied permission to visit project partners as TAR officials would not hesitate to inform the embassy that the projects were no longer of relevance to Canada."
Overall, the diplomatic visits are "tightly managed by local authorities. TAR Foreign Affairs Office officials generally accompany the delegation on the entire visit. Access to local residents can be quite limited," Dion said.
On the most recent visit, to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in September 2015 for a tourism and cultural event, three Canadian diplomats were "not given substantive opportunities to visit with senior government officials," the minister wrote.
Carole Samdup, executive director of the Canada Tibet Committee, called on the government to stop future Tibetan delegations from visiting Canada "until there is full reciprocity for Canadian diplomats in Tibet."
"It's a question of basic diplomatic respect between our two countries. Why does Canada allow itself to be treated as a second-class partner in its relations with China?"
"What does China have to hide?" asked Samdup.
"It's a question of basic diplomatic respect between our two countries. Why does Canada allow itself to be treated as a second-class partner in its relations with China?"
Dion said none of the Canadian requests to visit Tibet were "explicitly made" to monitor or investigate human rights violations.
But he added: "better understanding the human rights situation in TAR is an important objective of all embassy travel to the region."


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Analytical - J'y Crois Encore
I don't know why these words came out this way, but I truly tend to hate my poetry. So for you fans, I'm sure you'll enjoy.
I'm a little too analytical
Sadly, I can look at you, and by the way your hair sits on your head
By the amount of times you blink your eyes (Twenty six times in three seconds)
I can tell you your mood.
I creeped you out because I called you out on a lie
It went over your head, and you thought it went over mine
Saw you with your mother, had to hide
Your tears are only makeup to subside the ugly lie
I have no doubt that I scare people I meet
Because I see what makes them unique
Or fake like the foundation they smear on
No one I've met in person has intrigued me
Little too analytical they say
But seeing the reality of you, dear reader, has always been my goal
Prophetic voices call out to those who will hear
But most won't listen to the truth screaming out to them
Like fireworks in the dark unexpected
They will hate my musings
They're simplistic really
Where are the words never spoken to my heart?
If you love I love you
Don't be scared, you're safe, this I swear
Fall and I'll serenade you in my arms
If you only say it back
If you only say it -
Screaming out that I still believe
J'y Crois Encore
J'y Crois Encore
J'y Crois Encore
Analytically I hate myself
So what does that make me?
Hypocrite? symbol of insanity?
Or realist, lost to the fake majority?
My fate lies with you, dear reader
All art is quite useless
All Art is a con
J'y Crois Encore
I love the world who hates me
Hate the hate that surrounds me
I'll promise the moon but you won't allow me to
Its all the same
Life isn't gray.
What more do I have to lose
Two friends who hate but love me
Analytical thoughts like this will kill me
So I
Shut down.


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Professionally Decorated - Ski in Out - Hot Tub - Wi Fi - View(23 Reviews)
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- Minimum stay:4 nights
- Sleeps:8
- Bedrooms:3
- Bathrooms:2
- Property type:Townhome
- Internet:Yes
- Pets considered:No
- Wheel chair accessible:N/A
About the Property
Townhome, 3 Bedrooms + Convertible bed(s), 2 Baths, (Sleeps 6-8)
• Wizard Chair Lift Just 100 Meters (Yards) Away or Free 5-Minute Shuttle to the Bases of Both Mountains. Ski home to our front door on Home Run, off Lower Cruiser Run.
• Unparalleled Slope Side Location Nestled in the Woods of Pine and Spruce Bordered by 2 Ski Runs
• 3 Floors, 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths
• Professionally Designed Interiors with Distinctive Furnishings
• Views of Rainbow Mountain across the Valley
• Private Hot Tub Surrounded by Pines
• High Speed Wireless Internet Connection
• Heated Slate Floors
• Secure Underground Parking
• Fully Equipped Kitchen with Heated Slate Floor
• Granite Gas Fireplace
• Sleds and Sledding Hill
• Deck with Gas Barbecue
• Washer and Dryer
• Booster seat, high chair, and fold up crib
• Mid-stay cleaning included for stays longer than 10 days
The Entry is on the Main Floor and has slate floors, a closet, and space for hanging your clothes and storing boots, skis and boards. The Kitchen, Living Room, Dining Area, and Balcony are also on the Main Floor. The room features an open plan with high ceilings. The Living Room has a granite gas fireplace, original art, two sofas, one of which is a queen sleeper. Both sofas have throws you can cuddle up in to watch the 40 inch TV or movie on the DVD player (with a collection of DVD'S), play one of the large selection of board games, listen to your IPod/IPhone, or enjoy the views to the north. The Balcony off the Living Room has a gas barbecue and a table and chairs.
The Dining Area features a rustic oak table which seats eight. Placemats, candles, candle holders and lighters are provided. The Kitchen offers granite countertops with a tumbled black backsplash, Kitchenaid stainless appliances (dishwasher, refrigerator/freezer, stove, and microwave), heated slate floors, wok, rice cooker, toaster, waffle maker, crockpot, coffee grinder, Keurig pod coffee pot with a variety of pods, electric teapot, and dishes for 12.
Two Bedrooms occupy the Ground Floor. The King Bedroom has a king bed (convertible to two twins), closet, dresser, TV with DVD Player, and IPod dock. The private Hot Tub sits just outside this Bedroom. The Twin Bedroom features two twin beds, dresser, clock radio, Brio and Lego toys, and a closet. Between the two Bedrooms is a Bathroom with heated slate floors, granite counters, dual shower heads, hair dryer, night light, complimentary toiletries, and fluffy towels. The stacked Washer and Dryer also reside between the Bedrooms. Detergent, iron and ironing board are provided.
The Master Bedroom occupies the Upper Floor, with peaceful views across the valley to the north. It has a king bed, closet, dresser, TV and DVD player, and en-suite Bath (with tub/shower combination, heated slate floors, granite counters, hair dryer, night light, complimentary toiletries, and fluffy towels.)
Other amenities include secure underground parking with one designated stall and additional visitor spaces, secure bike and kayak storage, complimentary mid-stay cleaning for stays longer than 10 days, and key code access. The townhouse is 1450 square feet.
We pride ourselves on great customer service. We will follow up your Email or phone inquiries within 24 hours.
We wish you a holiday full of wonderful memories!
Keywords: Townhouse high on Blackcomb Mountain
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Member since: 2008
Property Type
- Townhome
House Rules
- Max. occupancy 8
Minimum Age Limit For Renters:
All guests must be at least 25 years old, unless they are children staying with their parents....moreless
Children Welcome:
Kids games and puzzles, plus Brio and Lego toys are provided....moreless
- Non Smoking Only
- Pets Not Allowed
Accommodation Type
- Vacation Rental
- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
Bedrooms: 3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 8, Beds for 6-8
Other Amenities
- Just ten level steps to load and unload your car.
- CD Player
- DVD Player
- Music Library:
Satellite / Cable:
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- Cinemas
- Health/Beauty Spa
- Museums
- Restaurants
Local Services & Businesses
- Fitness Center
Leisure Activities
- Boating
- Horseback Riding
- Miniature Golf
- Shopping
- Sight Seeing
- Sledding
- Walking
- Wildlife Viewing
Location Type
Mountain View:
Highest location on Blackcomb Mountain. View across valley to Rainbow Mountain....moreless
Sports & Adventure Activities
- Cross Country Skiing
- Cycling
- Fishing
- Golf
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain Biking
- Rafting
- Rock Climbing
- Sailing
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Water Skiing
- Dining Area
Clothes Dryer:
Stacked with washer on lower level. Detergent provided....moreless
Secure common garage with one assigned stall and 21 additional visitor stalls....moreless
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Cooking Utensils:
Full set of pots and pans, wok, rice cooker, coffee pot, waffle maker, crockpot, coffee grinder, toaster, electric tea kettle, and dishes for 20....moreless
- Dishwasher
Heated slate floors and Kitchenaid stainless appliances. We can assist you with ordering groceries ahead of time so they are in the refrigerator when you arrive!...moreless
- Microwave
Off living room with table and chairs and gas barbecue. View of Rainbow Mountain across the valley....moreless
- Outdoor Grill
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Spring 2017
Apr 1 - Jun 30, 2017
4 night min stay
Summer 2017
Jul 1 - Aug 7, 2017
4 night min stay
Aug 8 - Aug 22, 2017
4 night min stay
Fall 2017
Aug 23 - Dec 17, 2017
4 night min stay
Pre Christmas 2017
Dec 18 - Dec 22, 2017
4 night min stay
New Year's Week
Dec 23 - Jan 2, 2018
4 night min stay
Early Winter 2018
Jan 3 - Jan 31, 2018
4 night min stay
Winter 2018
Feb 1 - Mar 31, 2018
4 night min stay
My Standard Rate
4 night min stay
Additional information about rental rates
- Tax Rate 5%
We offer competitive rates by constantly comparing our rates with other Mountain Star rentals. All of our rates are in Canadian dollars for up to 8 guests. In order to book our property you must be willing to accept our policies as well as our posted rates and minimum stay requirements.
Manager's cancellation policy:
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Sledding adjacent to the development and sleds provided. A short walk to the Tube Park and the Olympic Sliding Centre.
Manager info
Year Purchased: 1998
About: We live in Vancouver, BC. We are the original owners of our Mountain Star home and have been renting it to guests since 1998. We spend as much time here as we can, and our sons and their families enjoy spending time here also. In the summer we love to hike, ride bikes and ride the Zip Line. In the winter we ski, both down hill and cross country. We hope you'll love Whistler as much as we do! The Cherrys
Why Upper Village, Whistler, BC, Canada:
Mountain Star is the highest ski in ski out location on Blackcomb Mountain, which affords us easy access to the slopes and beautiful views across Whistler Valley.
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Our cozy living room with a gas fireplace, flat screen TV and DVD player.
Our rustic oak dining room table seats 8.
Decorative Back Splash
Spacious master bedroom with king bed and view of Rainbow Mountain.
Renovated Ensuite master bathroom
Twin bedroom with two twins and closet full of toys.
Lower level bathroom between bedrooms. Dual shower heads!
Private invigorating Hot Tub with Mountain Views
View from our balcony of Rainbow Mountain across Whistler Valley.
Whistler Mountain Symphony Bowl with Black Tusk in the distance.
New BBQ on Deck
Look for HOME RUN signs to ski in to Mountain Star 19.
Living area. Chest table is full of games for the kids.
Newly Renovated kitchen with Keurig coffee maker
Newly renovated kitchen with stainless appliances and granite. Heated floor.
Master bedroom
King Bedroom with hot tub just outside. Bed can be converted to two twins.
Twin Bedroom
Lower Level Bathroom
Our front door is just 10 level steps from your car for loading and unloading.
Mountain Star - the highest ski in ski out location on Blackcomb.
New 6 inch Sofa Bed Mattress
The secure underground garage has one assigned spot and 21 visitor spots.
HOME RUN TRAIL to Mountain Star.
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Group of three couples went here because we wanted pizza on the East side of town. (In other parts of metro Detroit we'd go to Buddy's.) Of course, they claim their pizza was invented by the same guy ("Gus") who developed the now-famous Buddy's pizza empire. For my money, I believe them, as I find the pizza here pretty much...
This family run bar and restaurant has had a reputation for serving great square pizza for three generations. The fourth generation is working its way up through the ranks to learn business. We enjoyed their lunch buffet the other day and plan to make that a regular stop. They eliminated the wait, but maintained the quality
Crunchy crust, lots of cheese. Any time that we are in Roseville, this is a mandatory stop (twice this trip). And the garlic bread and salads are also good.
Took some friends for dinner buffet. Great choices and good value. I had the Perch dinner and usually the breading is light and fluffy, but the fish was boring and it seems to have "sat" somewhere, which made the breading soggy and cold. Others enjoyed the buffet. Will go back and give them another try. Great service.
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Julianne Hough took Throwback Thursday Tuesday to new heights when she shared an epic photo on Instagram from her days as a Dancing With the Stars pro in the making. In the snapshot, a young Julianne struts her stuff across the ballroom in a fierce sequined number and cornrow braids. That sass alone deserves a mirror ball trophy!
As for Hough's dance partner, he's definitely a familiar face to those who tune into the wildly popular competition series season after season. Yep, that's right—Julianne's former dance parner was none other than fellow DWTS fixture Mark Ballas. Nice braces, Ballas.
"#dancerbaby #pastlife #tanAF," Julianne captioned the LOL-worthy photo.
And for those not up on their DWTS fast facts, Hough and Ballas go way back. At the wee age of 10, Julianne followed in big brother Derek Hough's footsteps across the pond to London to train under Ballas' parents. Julianne and Derek ultimately joined forces with Mark to star their very own pop band called 2B1G, or Two Boys One Girl.
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"I have had a blast," Seastrunk tells Inside the Auburn Tigers after spending the morning and afternoon hanging out with other recruits and the Auburn coaches and then going to downtown Auburn on Saturday night to roll Toomer's Corner, a long-time AU tradition.
"It's all fun," Seastrunk says. "It is a blessing to be among people who really want me to be at Auburn who are really caring. I had a great time at the Big Cat Weekend. I met a lot of guys."
A group of those guys are highly-regarded football recruits who joined him at Toomer's Corner late Saturday night and drew cheers from several hundred Auburn fans who stopped by to see what was happening. Prospects at Toomer's Corner included Marcus Lattimore, LaDarius Owens, Jessel Curry, Eric Mack, Trovon Reed and Khari Fortt. All were obviously having a good time throwing toilet paper into the oak trees where Auburn celebrates a variety of things including football victories.
Joining the prospects, who will be seniors this fall, were current Auburn players such as All-SEC defensive end Antonio Coleman, Antoine Carter, Kodi Burns, Mike Slade, Quindarius Carr and Josh Bynes.
Khari Fortt checks out the action at Toomer's Corner.
Seastrunk and the other recruits shook hands, posed for photos and listened to the fans do football cheers.
"Every other school has something great to offer," Seastrunk says. "I am not narrowing it to anybody, but I love the environment in Auburn. I could see this place at home. It is a great feeling."
Lache Seastrunk has a big smile on Saturday night.
Seastrunk points out he enjoyed the attention from the fans. "It is kind of cool," he says. "People don't have to come up to you and shake your hand and give you a hug. It feels so good that they can come up to you and welcome you here like that. I want to thank everybody who was out there who came up to me and welcomed me. It is all good. They didn't have to. It is all blessing."
Khairi Fortt (front left), Trovon Reed (front center), Lache Seastruk (front right) and Marcus Lattimore (back right) pose for a photo on Saturday night at Toomer's Corner.
Seastrunk, who made his second trip to Auburn, came with his mother like he did the first time. He notes the first trip to Auburn was his favorite unofficial visit and trip two this weekend was even better. However, he isn't ready to make a college choice yet.
"This is the best ever (trip) because they just welcomed us here," he says. "I felt the warmth of everybody. It is going to be a really hard decision. I am not going to commit in a hurry. I don't want to because I have to evaluate each and every school."
The photo shows the crowd at Toomer's Corner on Saturday night.
Talking about Auburn, he says, "I love the coaches, I love the people. I just love the environment period. It reminds me so much of home. Mr. Chizik (Auburn head coach Gene Chizik) knows my coach well--really, really well and that is a plus, too."
Seastrunk says he plans to return to Auburn this summer to participate in a camp and he will announce his decision on his college choice in January at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio. "Y'all are going be very, very surprised what I do at the Army game," he says. "Everybody is going to be surprised. I can't release the information of what I am going to do, but you all are really going to enjoy where I go to."
Marcus Lattimore is the No. 1 ranked running back in the nation, according to Scout.com.
Seastrunk wasn't alone in his enthusiasm for the weekend. Highly-regarded offensive line recruit Eric Mack couldn't get to campus in time for the morning and afternoon sessions of the "Big Cat Weekend", but was downtown on Saturday night at Toomer's Corner. "It was crazy," Mack says. "I really enjoyed myself. I have never experienced anything like that out of all of my recruiting. I like it."
In-state standout LaDarius Owens says the whole experience was fun. "I liked the time we got to spend with the coaches getting to know them better. I liked going down to Toomer's Corner, too. It was really exciting. I have never seen anything like it. Fans coming out at the last minute to do something for us shows how special Auburn is."


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Mike will also be holding an online chat on 25th May at 5PM UK-Time for the "Straight Story on Virtual Server" which will interesting. He has billed it as "Here's your chance to ask him your questions about Virtual Server and get the 'from the trenches' details on how it works and what problems it can and cannot solve. Michael gives you the straight story without pulling any punches."
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British property panic a red flag for banks, insurers
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FRANKFURT/ LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - The run on British property funds has drawn attention to the vulnerability of the commercial real estate sector, largely funded by domestic banks and building societies but increasingly by foreign banks and insurers.
UK banks and building societies had around 90 billion pounds ($117 billion) in credit extended to domestic commercial real estate at the end of 2015, according to a study by De Montfort University.
German, other international and U.S. banks had 55 billion pounds of exposure, having increased their investments in the sector since the 2008 financial crisis. Insurers, which prior to the crisis had barely any exposure accounted for 25.9 billion.
This means they could all take a hit if Britain's vote to leave the European Union leads to a slowdown in business investment and depresses demand for offices and shopping centres, as expected.
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U.S. forces had attempted daring rescue of British hostage whose life is threatened in Steven Sotloff ISIS execution video along with journalist James Foley earlier this summer... but the operation failed
- British hostage paraded before camera in latest ISIS beheading video
- It is feared the man could be the next victim of militants in Syria
- U.S. special forces attempted to rescue him and fellow hostage James Foley
- But their mission earlier this summer failed after militants disappeared
U.S. special forces failed in an attempt to free the British hostage who ISIS militants have threatened to kill, it has emerged.
Jihadist militants released a second sickening video on Tuesday which showed U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded by a fighter with an English accent.
At the end of the video, a British hostage is filmed on his knees in a similar orange jumpsuit to those worn by the two men already killed by the extremist group, sparking fears he could be their next victim.
U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff (pictured) was the latest victim of ISIS jihadists and a video of his killing included footage of a British hostage, who it is feared could become the fanatics' next victim
It is believed the British hostage, who is not being named by UK media, and James Foley (pictured), who was the first man killed in the videos, were the subject of a failed rescue mission earlier this summer
It has now come to light that the man - who MailOnline is not identifying him at the request of the British government but who has been named and pictured around the world - was the subject of a failed rescue attempt by U.S. commandos earlier this summer.
Last month the Pentagon revealed it had launched the attempt to rescue a number of hostages held in Syria, including James Foley, the journalist killed in the first video.
But the mission failed to bring back any hostages because the jihadist gang had moved prior to American commandos' arrival.
The British hostage is believed to be an aid worker who was based on the Turkish border of Syria, working with victims of war.
Government sources have stressed that Britain has a long-standing principle not to publicize kidnappers or terrorists. But UK authorities are in touch with the man's family and are continuing to provide support for them, it is understood.
It comes as President Barack Obama has said that America will not be intimidated by the 'horrific' violence of the Islamic State following the brutal execution of Mr Sotloff.
David Cameron, who will meet NATO leaders in Wales later this week, has branded the latest video 'absolutely disgusting and despicable'
Journalists Mr Sotloff (left) and Mr Foley (right) had been covering the war in Syria when they were kidnapped
Speaking in Tallinn, Estonia, Mr Obama vowed that 'justice will be served' and that a coalition will be built to 'degrade and destroy' ISIS, which has taken control of vast swathes of Syria and Iraq.
However, failed to give a timeline for deciding on a strategy to attack the terror group's operations, saying: 'It'll take time to roll them back'.
Mr Obama spoke at a news conference with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves after arriving in Estonia to show solidarity with Baltic leaders who fear they could be the next target of Russia's aggression.
During the conference, he added that the prayers of the American people are with the family of the 'devoted and courageous journalist' Mr Sotloff, who deeply loved the Islamic world and whose 'life stood in stark contrast to those who murdered him so brutally.'
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement that he would chair an emergency response meeting with his Cabinet on Wednesday to review the latest developments.
Mr Cameron has hit out at the 'absolutely disgusting, despicable' murder of Mr Sotloff.
He said: 'If verified, this is a despicable and barbaric murder. My thoughts and prayers are with Mr Sotloff's family and friends tonight as they deal with this appalling and tragic situation.
Steven Sotloff's mother Shirley had appealed directly for the return of her son last week
Sotloff, a 31-year-old Miami-area native who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished in Syria in August 2013 and was not seen again until he appeared in a video released last month that showed Foley's beheading.
Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the Islamic State.
In the video distributed on Tuesday and titled 'A Second Message to America,' Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is apparently beheaded by a fighter with the Islamic State, the extremist group that has conquered wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate.
The executioner appears to be the same man who killed Foley – known as 'Jihadi John' - and tells the camera: 'I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State.'
He warned President Obama that as long as U.S. airstrikes against the militant group continue, 'our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.'
'Justice will be served': President Barack Obama (pictured) today said that America would not be intimidated by the 'horrific' violence of the Islamic State after a second U.S. journalist was brutally beheaded on video
Speech: Speaking in Tallinn, Estonia, Mr Obama vowed that 'justice will be served' after the video was verified
Visit: Mr Obama (left) spoke at a news conference with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves (right) after arriving in Estonia to show solidarity with Baltic leaders who fear they could be the next target of Russia's aggression
The footage - depicting what the U.S. called a sickening act of brutality - was posted two weeks after the release of video showing the killing of James Foley and just days after Sotloff's mother pleaded for his life.
Barak Barfi, a spokesman for the family said: 'The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time,' Barfi said.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that the world was 'outraged' at what they had seen.
'We are all outraged at reports from Iraq about the brutal killing of civilians by ISIL, including yesterday's (Tuesdays) reported brutal beheading of another journalist,' he said.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said U.S. intelligence analysts will work as quickly as possible to determine if the video is authentic.
He said it is believed that 'a few' Americans are still being held by the ISIS.
Psaki would not give any specifics, but one is a 26-year-old woman kidnapped while doing humanitarian aid work in Syria, according to a family representative who asked that the hostage not be identified out of fear for her safety.
No statement: President Obama boarded Air Force One to Estonia yesterday without addressing the nation
The fighter who apparently beheads Sotloff in the video calls it retribution for Obama's continued airstrikes against the group.
The killer specifically mentions the recent U.S. airstrikes around the Mosul dam and the beleaguered Iraqi town of Amirli, making it unlikely that Sotloff was killed at the same time as Foley, as some analysts had speculated.
Over the weekend, Iraqi government forces with help from U.S. airstrikes broke the Islamic State's two-month siege of Amirli, a town where some 15,000 Shiite Turkmens had been stranded.
In a statement on Tuesday evening from U.S. Central Command, military officials said an airstrike conducted on Monday against Islamic State militants near the Mosul Dam damaged or destroyed 16 armed vehicles.
The SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. terrorism watchdog, first reported the video's existence.
In a sign of disorganization - or perhaps dissension - in the extremist group's ranks, a faction of the Islamic State apparently posted the video early, before it was supposed to be released. In a later Twitter message, those responsible apologized and asked fellow jihadis not to 'reproach' them.
Alleged: The British jihadist, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, known as Jihadi John is suspected of killing US journalist James Foley and Steven Sotloff (pictured above on August 19)
The Islamic State has terrorized rivals and civilians alike with widely publicized brutality as it seeks to expand a proto-state it has carved out on both sides of the border. In its rise to prominence over the past year, it has frequently published graphic photos and gruesome videos of bombings, beheadings and mass killings.
Last week, Sotloff's mother, Shirley Sotloff, pleaded with his captors for mercy, saying in a video that her son was 'an innocent journalist' and 'an honorable man' who 'has always tried to help the weak.'
Sotloff grew up in the Miami area, and graduated from Kimball Union Academy, a prep school in New Hampshire.
As a student at Kimball, Sotloff 'developed a passion for reporting and writing, a gift that he shared with people around the world, and this unthinkable act of terror has taken him from us far too soon,' New Hampshire Gov, Maggie Hassan said in a statement.
Sotloff then attended the University of Central Florida, which said he majored in journalism from 2002 to 2004 but apparently left without graduating.
Just how Sotloff made his way from Florida to Middle East hotspots is not clear. He published articles from Syria, Egypt and Libya in a variety of publications. Several focus on the plight of ordinary people in war-torn places.
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In a statement, Foreign Policy magazine said it was saddened by news of his death and called him a 'brave and talented journalist' whose reporting 'showed a deep concern for the civilians caught in the middle of a brutal war.'
Time Editor Nancy Gibbs said Sotloff 'gave his life so readers would have access to information from some of the most dangerous places in the world.'
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, a California Republican, said the new video demonstrates the Islamic State's 'barbarity across the region - beheading and crucifying those who don't share their ideology.'
He said the U.S. and allies need to step up military action against the group, including through airstrikes.
At Sotloff's parents' home in Pinecrest, Florida, two police vehicles blocked the driveway Tuesday, and officers advised journalists to stay away. Friends of the family could be seen coming and going.
'Everyone's been concerned. Everyone is grieving,' neighbor Pepe Cazas said. 'It's terrible. I've been praying for him.'
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I never seem to have the time to edit it ( although apparently had the time to write it?)
I apologize in advance, should you attempt to read this tangential ramble..
OK. I begin...,
" We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde
" Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?"
- Quentin Qrisp
" What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"
- Oscar Wilde
Had to quote him again....he's
one of my favorite Irishmen, for being wise and funny and brave and quote worthy as hell.
Pretty sure he said something about people who quote others as lacking in imagination.
I should quote it but can't find it at the moment....
All you can do is give it your best shot. Hey, I'm trying... Every day is a chance to
" take arms against a sea of trouble"
-William Shakespeare
OK! The " quote-a-master" portion of this broadcast is done ( for now. l just can't help myself )
My name is not Penny.
I'm not really 5ft 4...I've said I am for so long I even had myself fooled. But so, I'm closer to 5ft 3....if I stand reallyreeeally straight...
I was born in Tokyo, Japan to American parents, grew up in the unbelievably beautiful city/ country of Geneva, Switzerland...moved to the U.S. for the first time as a young teen, and I still feel like a stranger in a strange land at times.
That's my Big Opening Line. I tend to introduce myself that way, you know, bc it gives an aura of mystery...ha.
All that just speaks mostly to my parent's interesting lives, i suppose.
Btw, this profile has gotten away from me, as far as length. I need to edit this thing, forGODsake!
So many people here say they're "good at making people laugh". I think humans often make each other laugh. This is where "show" not "tell" comes into play. I do have to admit I really don't understand when people state how " smart" and "funny" they are. I can't imagine meeting someone and declaring myself to be those things.
There seems to be a very large amount of " laid back" and " drama free" people here as well.
So i suppose one can infer that there are lots of semi- comatose, yet hilariously funny people out in okc land.
Give me some energy! Life is exciting and dramatic... I hope never to be " drama free", forgodsake.
Btw, I'm not meaning crazy " acting out" drama. More that I love excitement and adventure.
Oh, and feel free to help with any editing.
I swear I've tried.
ENFP, in case that's of any interest.
SO, anyway....most of my teenage years were spent in Woodstock, where my family moved to after Switzerland. I was very very lucky to have been able to experience that town when I did. So many artists and bands, from the Stones ( who did Some Girls here) to The Psychedelic Furs, The B - 52's...all showed up in town to record albums at Todd Rundgren's Utopia Studios ( Todd lived here....on Mink Hollow road, of course?) The Stones played an impromptu gig at a local place, which is the kind of thing that happened a lot back then.
Btw, Mick Jagger seduced, and spent the weekend with my (18 year old) friend, who said he was "really nice and grrrreat in bed!" and has a good story to tell ( along with thousands of other women...). All kinds of people came through.... Hendrix, Thelonius Monk, The Band, of course.
I won't do all the name dropping I could, as I want to come off as unassuming and modest.
I will say I was in Rick Danko's
(The Band) living room when he sang " It Makes No Difference " while playing the piano.
He invited me to sing the harmony, and said " it's like flying with the angels when it all works" ( don't think he meant my harmony though...ha)
Albert Grossman lived here, which brought all of the artists he managed to the town at one time or another, Dylan and Joplin among them.
Levon Helm , the great drummer and singer from The Band lived here until his recent death, and did really wonderful shows all the time at his home/studio.
Dave Brubeck, Donald Fagan, half of Steely Dan (who still does). People are "too cool" in Woodstock to fawn over celebrities. I don't think Bob Dylan was quite so fortunate. Locals were OK, but people from far and wide made pilgramiges to see him, thinking he was some kind of guru. I like when he answered back to a reporter " Hey, I'm just a song 'n dance man". I didn't mention him in my ridiculously long list of "likes", but I don't know if there's anyone in his league, as far as songwriting and just, well, greatness.
It was pretty interesting considering Woodstock was, and still is a small town. Just about everyone I knew played something, and the best times I can remember having were hanging out with friends and either listening to or playing music.
It was a time when great music and musicians were everywhere.
I want to go 'off topic' for a moment. The age ranges that I put down for me are really ball park figures. Age really is so damn relative, and there are young people who seem 'old' and 'old' people who are young. That being said, originally, I had a somewhat higher 'age range' here, and I was getting messages from much older guys who really were, well, older......in appearance and attitude. To be totally honest, I also started to get annoyed by all the men my age who had 25-40 as their 'range', so I decided to go much lower. That was also influenced by some 'lovely messages' (to quote OKC) from younger fellows, and even some lovelier meetings and dates that resulted from them, which got me thinking.....why not? I'm not obsessed with age, and I aint no cougar, homie. Why is there not a word like that for a man, Is the thing? Ok! Glad we had this talk.
I love language, words...."riffing" on life ( a friend once said I did that. I'm not exactly lsure what he meant, but it sounds good?). Lived in France when I was in my 20s, married a French guy, (who, it turned out, loved himself enough for the both of us) and learned to speak French. Not necessarily in that order, though. I have somewhat of a passion for justice/ against injustice ( obviously subjective) and admire people who fight the good fight, big and small picture. I try to. This describing one's self thing is super uncomfortable.
Well, ok, I'm starting to warm up, but really, i'm better at showing off in person? So many "I " sentences......goodgrief. Maybe that's a healthy reaction to it. OK, moving on.
I often laugh loud and hard if I think something is funny. On occasion , friends have been known to move a seat or two down the aisle in a movie theater, if Im getting too sort of loud....but I really do try and keep a handle on it.
Somehow I've raised a bright and lovely daughter, who is smarter, wiser and cooler than me.
It's fair to say "the student has surpassed the teacher".
She is a young woman out in the world now, and while I am always her mom, we are friends, and I don't just love her, I really respect and like her too.
One more thing. I must comment on the questions and results of same. The "OK Cupid" graph says I'm ' less mannered', 'more aggressive', 'kinkier', ' less romantic' and more 'indie' than other women. The thing is, I did answer the questions as honestly as I could, given the fact that some.of the choices were very constraining. And btw, I still can't believe I even answered most of those sex questions, mygod. But then I think, well, what's the big deal. That being said, I'm a serious person, and I am not here to find casual sex. That is easy enough to get, if one so desires it ( hey...did I imagine it, or did I just hear a chorus of " REALLY? Tell me where all this casual sex is, that you claim is " so easy" to get?)... I would hope for something more meaningful than that. And many of the 'conclusions' aren't really all that true. The 'indie' thing, i'm ok with, but not so much the rest of it. First of all, I believe in manners, which I think are pretty damn important, as far as human behavior goes, and I am polite and really have a strong aversion to selfishness and rudeness( for example, I don't like to hurt peoples' feelings, I mean, I avoid even hurting my dogs' feelings, which is pretty much every time I leave my house without them, so thats really tough, and I think its more than rude to not give a crap about treating our planet kindly and gently ). As for the kinky reference, I am not here for anything shallow? I grew up with pretty hip liberal parents who didn't put a lot of shame or guilt around the whole subject of sexuality, but I am not a casual person. That doesn't mean something needs to be a big huge deal? I am romantic, but not so much in the western sense ( well, OK, I realize the word itself is derived from Western sensibilities ) that implies all the things our culture has made it into, and reduced it to. I hope this helps to offset some of the 'staff robot's' conclusions, even a little bit forgodsake.
One thing I'm good at is (ironically)
editing. Just not myself I suppose?
I love language, and I have a pretty good knack for guessing where someone is from based on their accent. I also like 'doing' accents and while I wouldn't compare myself to...say, Meryl Streep, I'm pretty good at it.
It's so interesting to me how distinct our voices are, and how we can often recognize someone instantly by their voice on the phone, even if we've not seen or heard them in years.
This is almost too silly to answer.
How do I know? How does anyone really know?
The only answer I've read that really struck me was a guy who was a paraplegic.
He said "my wheelchair ", and ofc as hard as it is to realize how true that is, it made perfect sense.
I do want to say I dislike the OKC choices for body type. I put it "curvy" because it was the only close option. However, my daughter mentioned that "curvy" is often an 'e-dating' euphamism for large, and not that there's anything wrong with large, I am not large.
I suppose the answer depends on who is doing the 'noticing'?
I'm pretty sure my humility and modesty jump out at folks right away? This part of the profile makes me a bit queasy ( as per my modesty). I have been described as friendly.
But this is asking what 'people' notice, and therefor, although I am a 'person', I don't feel qualified to answer......
But, SO, I have a special love for passionate, life affirming authors, being a passionate, life affirming, well, person ( I do like reading about the dark and macabre side of life as well. It's all part of the spectrum, and what I like/ respond to has more to do with the quality of the writing than anything else). My all time favorite writer in the ' life affirming/passionate' catagory, any catagory really, is Leo Tolstoy. It has been years since I' ve read the classics, but I hold many dear to my heart...from Homer to Joyce, Melville....and there's the great man and poet Walt Whitman, Allan Ginsburg, Emily Dickinson, of course William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, James Baldwin....and I'll segway on to Henry Miller,who' s stuff I read as a teenager, and re- read again this year. I can't in good conscience leave out the Great Master, Shakespeare, who besides the truth and beauty of his words and weaving a great yarn, influenced the English language possibly more than any other single person. I love me some great Russian writers .....Solzhenitsyn, Chekov, Gogol, Dostoyevski and NO, okc, I do not think Lolita/ Nabakov is " over rated", goodGOD...the man didn't just write beautifully lyrical prose ( and sorry, but calling Lolita " over rated" is beyond pretentious). That novel seeped into modern thought and became shorthand for a certain kind of man and young girl/woman ( that filthy Russian perv sure was great, boy)... Virginia Woolfe, Hermann Hess's Siddhartha was one of my first favorite 'adult' books, as was The Autobiography of Malcom X, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter Thompson, who had me laughing so hard while reading his stuff on the train, people stared at me...which takes a lot on a crowded NYC subway. Then there is Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Capote, and for non fiction, I love to read about history and pretty much anything, because so much is so damn interesting. I have trouble sleeping sometimes, so I read in the middle of the night. I always have a few on rotation. Lately I've been reading a lot of stuff by Micheal Pollan, who my daughter turned me on to ( The Botany of Desire is such a beautiful book ) as well as John Krakauer, he is wonderful (" Into The Wild", "Where Men Win Glory" to name a couple) and Bill Bryson, he's funny and brilliant. For films, I like many directors. Even if some of them have made more bad films than good ones, just making one great film is quite a feat. Scorsese, Kubrick, Herzog, Mira Nair, Baz Luhrmann, Wes Anderson, Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Lynch, Mel Brooks, Goddard, Malle, Fellini, The The Big Lebowski, The King's Speech (saw it many times. Could watch it again) , Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Stranger Than Paradise, The Thin Blue Line, Cabaret, Doctor Zhivago, La Strada, Open City, Twelve Angry Men, The Third Man, Dead Man Walking, Citizen Kane(!!) A Dangerous Method, 1900, Fannie and Alexander, The Seventh Seal, High Noon, Shane, Apocolypse Now, Annie Hall, The Godfather, Beasts of the Southern Wild....my god, the list goes on forever? I love Colbert, Mahr, and I have a huge crush on John Oliver....his "British -ness" his dimples....all of him. And of course John Stewart, who kinda started that TV format of great political commentary/satire /comedy. Like everyone, I do netflix rather than TV quite often.... Breaking Bad (brilliant look at how addictive and seductive power is, not to mention the acting, writing. And directing) House of Cards ( so Shakespearean!), Mad Men ( I've watched every episode a couple times. The only actor I don't love is January Jones/ Betty Draper. She's very pretty, but not interesting to watch imo), Orange Is The New Black....I have an affection for Pawn Stars which is oddly addicting. Music 'likes' are all over the map and I'm running out of room and likely losing my audience here with my endlessrambling, but if you 're still here, i'm amazed? I love 'punk' from the good old days when we'd go to cbgb's and feel drops of Iggy Pops sweat on us.... Television, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Ramones, The NY Dolls, ...The Clash, The Pixies, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Otis Redding, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Nine Inch Nails, ohboy, how do you talk about music without going on and on. And on. There's jazz , Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Miles Davis, did I mention Charlie Parker? I'm not sure I can think of many things as beautiful as him playing "Loverman"......Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington.....where to stop....the list is endless.....classical, soul, rock and roll, reggae, anything thats done with feeling and style....Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline....there's so many, so many,its amazing I have time to try and meet someone. Food? I love lots of types and cultures and flavors......and I think dessert can be its own brand of heaven......
I think maybe its more accurate to try and list the things i wouldnt want to live without.
Feeling, Kindness, Justice, passion, love, touch, avocados, music, the beauty and pureness in the eyes of dogs and other living things.
I suppose the only thing that I really can't do without is having some connection to this crazy and amazing world and all the beautiful, and the not so beautiful things in it.
that is....if they sound interesting and veer off from the usual pablum about being a really o"sincere, nice guy" who " works hard and plays hard " and "hates drama" . What does that mean? Life can be exciting and wild and" dramatic". To that end, I love drama.
Not for nothing, if a man thinks flexing his biceps and alluding to ( wink wink) " size" is gonna excite a gal, he might well be right....but i' m not that gal. I think a certain amount of subtlety is much sexier and more confident. There needs to be some substance along with 'style' for me, anyway. Oh, and btw. ..all of that is out the window if you're super hot....ha.
Sometimes I think....although not obsessively....why did I do some of the stuff that I did in my life, and damn if I wouldn't sometimes like to go back and tell my younger self a thing or two, forGODsake.
How many more hours I have until I need to get up. My mom and dad, who are getting so very frail, and except for being there for them as much as I can, I am fairly and completely powerless to change that fact. I think about thinking, and how it does seem to have lost it's popularity sometimes, of course not with ME, no, never.
Oh, and I'm now thinking, why do I use so many 'dotdotdots'/ ellipses....?
BTW, most people say something like " it wouldn't be private" . Usually the same ones that put oxygen and water, etc. for things they can't live without.
The question reads " the most private thing I'm WILLING to admit".


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Frank Sinatra sang Bart Howard's 1954 standard "Fly Me to the Moon," originally called "In Other Words," on his "Sinatra" TV show in 1969. He dedicated it to the Apollo astronauts, who in his own words "made the impossible possible."
On Friday, March 22, all three Sharon elementary schools' fifth graders gathered in the gym at Heights Elementary School to Skype with NASA astronauts at the official closing ceremony for Team USA in the "Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut" program to promote good health and nutrition in the public schools.
Frank Sinatra sang Bart Howard's 1954 standard "Fly Me to the Moon," originally called "In Other Words," on his "Sinatra" TV show in 1969. He dedicated it to the Apollo astronauts, who in his own words "made the impossible possible."
On Friday, March 22, all three Sharon elementary schools' fifth graders gathered in the gym at Heights Elementary School to Skype with NASA astronauts at the official closing ceremony for Team USA in the "Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut" program to promote good health and nutrition in the public schools.
It works in conjunction with First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative to combat childhood obesity and diabetes.
Via Skype, flight surgeon Dr. Michael Barratt shared images of daily life in the International Space Station, and he and two colleagues from the Johnson Space Center in Texas fielded questions from the assembled fifth graders. Then, they quizzed the students in "Jeopardy" fashion.
The official website is trainlikeanastronaut.org. The Human Research Program Education Outreach division (HRPEO) under the direction of Dr. Charles Lloyd and Laurie Abadie originally ran the program. Unfortunately, due to the federal budget sequestration, NASA is currently considering suspending its educational programs and educational outreach including STEM initiatives. Houston, we have a problem!
Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III was a special, honored guest among a number of state and local elected officials at the NASA webcast, hosted by K-5 Wellness Facilitator and NASA Mission X Team USA Leader Timothy Vigorito.
Kennedy invoked the memory of his great-uncle, "This program holds a special place in my heart and I am here representing my family, for it was my great-uncle President John F. Kennedy who encouraged space exploration."
In 1961, President Kennedy proclaimed, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project…will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important…and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish…."
In 1969, Neil Armstrong exited the Eagle, stepped on the surface of the moon, and uttered the now famous line, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Mission X is growing by leaps and bounds. We are one of only a handful of U.S. school districts who work together with schools in 20 nations in this endeavor.
"Train Like an Astronaut" involves a variety of exercises to keep third- through fifth-grade kids healthy. Some examples are: Jump for the Moon, where children jump rope to increase bone strength as well as heart and other muscle endurance; Mission: Control!, where students perform throwing and catching techniques on one foot to improve balance and spatial awareness; and Agility Astro Course, where kids run an obstacle course to work on quickness, strength, good balance, and coordination.
One notable activity was Crew Assembly Training, where small groups work together to assemble a puzzle quickly and correctly in order to understand the importance of dexterity and hand-eye coordination. At the ceremony, Superintendent Timothy Farmer and other volunteers donned gloves and collaborated to build a model out of Legos. It proved a daunting but not impossible task.
The students have made great strides, literally and figuratively, as they chart how many steps Astro Charlie has taken toward the moon. He has traveled about half of the 478 million steps in his 238,857-mile "walk to the moon".
"My message to the kids today is to never let anyone tell you that dreams don't come true, because this program today is living proof that dreams do come true," said Mr. Vigorito, the 2012 recipient of the Sharon Education Foundation Lee Flaxer Award for his impact on the lives of children through dedication and personal involvement. "My mom took me outside to observe Sputnik in 1957. My dad often rewarded my good report cards with space models. I joked with the NASA astronauts about how many Apollo models I covered with Rolo candy gold foil to make them look realistic. They admitted that they did the same thing."
After the gravity of the events around the globe and especially here in Boston two weeks ago —the Boston Marathon Bombing - we should recall the words written on the plaque that the Apollo 11 astronauts left on the moon: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind."
Let's take steps to heed those words and always work toward global unity and peace. Let's defy gravity and shoot for the stars. In the words of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., "Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond." In other words, according to Buzz Lightyear, all children should dream that they can go "To infinity and beyond!"
Julie Weil lives in Sharon and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Apply to damp or dry hair and style as desired.


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