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Journalism Grants programme funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 25-30 scholars which aim to advance creative reporting approaches. Full details:
School(Institutions/ Country): | France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom
Level: 4 months grant programme
Field(s): Journalism.
Deadline: 2nd of September 2013.
Funded By: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Beneficiaries(Target Groups): There are no citizenship or nationality requirements, however, all media and journalists can apply if they partner with an eligible media.
Benefits(Value/ Inclusions):
‣ Award No: A maximum of 25 to 30 Journalism Grants will be made available in 2013.
‣ Scholarship Duration: The projects funded under this grant project need to be completed within 4 months after signing the grant contract. If your story requires more time, please provide a reasonable explanation regarding why your story pitch.
‣ Scholarship covers: Applicants must apply for a minimum grant of €8,000. For your reference, they expect the average grant given to be about €20,000. A maximum of 25 to 30 grants will be made available in 2013. Applicants may apply for full or partial story funding. Full grants may cover direct expenses for journalistic research and study trips, including travel and accommodation, possible technical costs for equipment or crew, information procurement costs (such as access to professional databases or original data gathering efforts), graphics design and visualization, adaptation of software, and other justified costs incurred directly in the implementation of the project. Alternatively, partial grants can be made available to top up existing reporting budgets.
‣ Journalism Grants programme in the Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme (IDR) is a media-funding project operated by the European Journalism Centre (EJC).
‣ The grant programme aims to advance creative reporting approaches, thus enabling a better coverage of international development issues.
‣ The grant is intended to raise awareness about these issues by having a strong impact on media audiences in eight of the European countries with the highest net official development assistance: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
‣ Innovative reporting projects will be awarded considerable funding, with an aim to support journalists, editors, and development stakeholders to perform thorough research and to develop new, exciting, and even experimental reporting, employing state of the art presentation methods and techniques of journalistic storytelling.
‣ At a time when many media organizations face financial constraints, the grant programme aims to better enable media houses to go beyond their usual reporting approaches and thus set a new and distinctive agenda for development coverage.
Journalism Grants programme
‣ Journalists and relevant media outlets that target audiences in one or more of the eight European countries with the highest net official development assistance are eligible to apply: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Media published in any of the official languages of the admissible countries may submit an application.
‣ Journalists and media outlets not based in the countries mentioned above, as well as freelancers, are ONLY eligible to apply as cooperation partners of admissible organizations.
‣ A "letter of commitment" for the story to be published or aired by an eligible media outlet will be required from all applicants, once they have been invited to submit a full-fledged proposal.
‣ State owned or directly government-controlled entities are NOT eligible for funding.
‣ All projects must provide in-depth information of relevance beyond the limitations of daily news cycles.
‣ The latter must be true even if the coverage appears on the occasion of specific news events such as summits or conferences.
‣ Projects are required to address by theme, style, and presentation the general public, or large audience segments, or must effectively leverage important multipliers.
‣ They may be one-off publications or entire series, which must be narrative, exploratory and explanatory in nature, and may be presented in a linear or non-linear fashion including text, graphics, images, animations, interactive elements, video, audio, or film.
‣ Projects aiming at cross-country cooperation and using multiple platforms are strongly encouraged to apply.
‣ A relevant media outlet is considered to be one of the following: A public or commercial broadcaster with at least broad regional reach; a mainstream print magazine or newspaper with distribution at least in a region or major city with over 500,000 inhabitants; a print trade publication or specialist magazine of particular influence as a multiplier; a website of significant reach and audience, an electronic format such as a mobile application – or contribution to an existing app – with demonstrable potential to reach a large audience.
Eligibility Criteria for Journalism Grants
‣ Award decisions will be based solely on journalistic quality and merit, and will be taken in complete editorial independence from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Scholarship Application Method
‣ Apply online.
‣ Scholarship Application Deadline: The application form will be closed on the 2nd of September 2013 (midnight CET).
‣ Following the application deadline, each applicant will be notified of the final decision by email within three weeks after the deadline has passed.
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Whakatane police setup cordons at the intersections of Golf Links Rd and SH 30 and Wano and Ferguson Rds after reports of a man walking around the coastal settlement of Taiwhakaea brandishing a high powered firearm.
Senior Sergeant Bruce Jenkins said police were called at 9am today, who then alerted the armed offenders squad from Tauranga.
"However, before the armed offenders arrived we managed to arrest the person, a man in his early 40s, a short distance from his house,'' Mr Jenkins said.
"He is now in custody and will be appearing before the courts either this afternoon or tomorrow.''
Under the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, the man's home was searched and police found a high powered
gun that had allegedly been stolen in a separate incident.
"We also found other stolen property and an amount of cannabis.''
Mr Jenkins thanked the people of the Taiwhakaea community for their co-operation.
"It's good to see people working together to keep their communities safe.''

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In Islington we have been involved in an innovative programme that helps people struggling with the digital side of claiming benefits. The council has recruited 17 volunteer IT mentors to help out at 10 learning hubs in the borough.
Their job is to help residents who are struggling with claiming benefits online and will, no doubt, have difficulty with money management when universal credit is rolled out.
These mentors attend a five-hour course over two evenings and start their one-to-one training sessions with residents – some of whom have never turned on a computer before.
Residents will now be offered the six-week practical programmes from October in convenient neighbourhood locations.
The concern is that residents who lack IT skills will fall through the cracks when the government's universal credit changes come in.
Through the free training, IT mentors help people prepare to manage their finances, and apply for work and benefits online.
The price of setting this service up is small, and it makes a big difference.
What local councils can do to bridge the digital divide:
1.Use the experience and resources your community already has to help and support each other. Islington formed a residents' engagement team to provide a voice for tenants and understand their needs. Residents on estates are being trained as IT mentors to help each other access jobs and benefits online. The IT training is low cost.
2.Lobby government to allow the Department for Work and Pensions to share information on those affected by welfare changes with councils. Knowing who is affected and when allows councils to offer a better response. For example, knowing who is on out-of-work benefits can help us work with the job centre to support the most disadvantaged into employment.
3. Engage with and encourage individual local businesses or your business improvement district to provide free wireless to enhance your town centre's retail offer and accessibility.
4.Keep your libraries open and offer residents free computer time in them. Maintain free-to-use computer terminals and printers in learning hubs, community centres and council offices – for those who don't have one at home, this will be a convenient solution.
Case study: IT mentor Ngemba Dikasiwa, 41
"I decided to volunteer to be an IT mentor alongside my own job search – I am looking for IT design work so this seemed a good fit. From my own job search I know that when I go to the job centre there are a lot of people who struggle with the online world. However, you need IT skills to prove to the job centre you are looking for work or they can stop your benefit.
"Forms are now mostly completed online rather than on paper. So I will be working with residents to help them understand how to complete job applications, apply for council services and benefits via their e-account option and pay bills – as well as how to shop online, check transport timetables and find out what's on in their local area.
"I'll also be showing them how they can take simple steps to keep themselves safe from cyber crime and scams."
Richard Watts is Islington council's executive member for finance and Andy Hull is co-chair of the Islington fairness commission.
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BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanon is regularly ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but one minister is breaking taboos with an unprecedented campaign targeting everything from spoiled food to bribery.
From rat-infested grain silos to rotten meat for sale in supermarkets, barely a day has passed in the last four months without news of a horror story uncovered by Health Minister Wael Abu Faour.
"We're living on a mountain of corruption, the more we dig, the more scandals we discover," the 42-year-old minister told AFP.
The campaign has made the politician a media star, with live coverage of press conferences at which he names and shames restaurants, supermarkets and suppliers accused of breaching health and safety standards.
His inspections have forced the closure of butchers, the seizure of expired goods and even the arrests of businessmen.
They have captivated and divided public opinion in a country ranked last year as the 39th most corrupt in the world by Transparency International.
"For a long time, we closed our eyes to it. Businessmen, often protected by politicians, thought they were untouchable and no one would hold them to account," Abu Faour said.
Bribery and other corruption in Lebanon is thought to amount to some 15 per cent of the country's GDP, some $6 billion, with the healthcare sector that is Abu Faour's purview among the worst affected.
"The biggest corruption network in the country" is in the healthcare sector, he said, with 25-30 per cent of the more than $300 million budget allocated to hospitals being "siphoned off".
He described five doctors arrested for a case involving false claims of thousands of dollars for treatment of "patients" who were dead.
"They even had a dead person receiving physiotherapy at three different hospitals at the same time!"
But in Lebanon, such corruption is routine.
The country's state institutions collapsed during the 1975-1990 civil war and never fully recovered, electricity and water shortages are common, and even the most minor administrative hurdle usually involves greasing some palms.
Abu Faour's campaign started with food safety inspections of restaurants and supermarkets, but has expanded far beyond.
He has targeted unlicensed operations in a country where cosmetic surgery is big business, closing down establishments that disfigured clients.
He has also gone after private water suppliers, who flourished in 2014 as a drought left homes without municipal water.
"Ninety per cent of the home water distributors didn't have licences … they were stealing state water," Abu Faour said.
The campaign hasn't always been easy, with protests by some of those targeted and his inspectors threatened at knife-point.
But he has even revisited old cases: several men accused of promoting a fake anti-cancer drug have had their case sent back to court after, he said, their political patrons had them released from jail.
His work has been an uphill struggle in a country where the finance minister told the As-Safir daily that customs corruption costs $1.2 billion a year.
Abu Faour, a member of the Druze minority, is the protege of the community's powerful political leader Walid Jumblatt, himself the target of accusations for mixing business and politics.
The health minister has faced the wrath of his colleagues, who have accused him of a running a "media circus" and even "terrorism" against Lebanon's famed cuisine.
Critics say he defames his targets, but he has also been dubbed "minister of Lebanon" by grateful supporters.


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Even if you aren't a hockey fan, you've probably heard some of the buzz that came from last nights Stanley Cup finale. The Kings won the game 6-1 and took home the franchise's first Stanley Cup Championship. The real story came in the first period when journeyman Steve Bernier took out some frustration on Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi with a brutal boarding penalty. Scuderi crumpled to the ice, blood spilling from his nose and mouth as Bernier was escorted to the locker room with a game misconduct. As the Kings took to the five minute power play, one goal was scored. Then another…then another. Devils fans were not impressed and they took to twitter to let out their frustrations…NSFW style!
If you thought the hit didn't warrant a five minute major you are out of your mind. Scuderi had just gotten rid of the puck and clearly had his back to Bernier who showed no signs of slowing whatsoever. Maybe there could have been a penalty called on the Gionta hit moments before, but that does not warrant the bullsh*t move that Bernier pulled. Also, any delusional Devils fan that thinks Bernier is the sole reason they lost needs to grow up. Yes, the play clearly swung the game, but New Jersey had two overtime games earlier in the series and couldn't capitalize on either of them. However, it's quite clear that a lot of Devils fans are not happy with poor Steve Bernier. Dumb penalty? Yes. Death threats? I don't know about that.
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I went to the Rosendale last Saturday night after a few months of anticipation. I had heard, from fairly reliable sources, of this amazing, award-winning gastro-pub in West Dulwich. I was not disappointed, at first. The interior is tastefully decorated and the atmosphere is vibrant. My first hint of disappointment came when I perused the rather dull and unimaginative menu. I then noted that our waitress wore the most anguished expression. I was on tenterhooks every time she was in the vicinity, expecting her to burst into tears. Service was extremely erratic, varying from the tragic and hopelessly incompetent waitress to a rushed, harried and mainly ineffectual Danny de Vito look-alike. Drinks took about twenty minutes to arrive. Many wines were not available. Food was mediocre and prices somewhat steep. Changes to the menu were not reported but alternatives were served without warning or apology. After registering a complaint about my pitiful single scoop of off-tasting vanilla ince-cream served in a ramekin (when I had ordered lemon curd ice-cream and was expecting something resembling a resturant standard desert), the staff stared at my group with stony contempt. We beat a hasty retreat! Sadly, my Rosendale experience was extremelyy anti-climactic.
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Skylon Restaurant
I took my husband here to celebrate his birthday. It was wonderful stepping into this airy space with its swish, clean lines and muted colours, after braving the slashing rain and gusty winds on the South Bank. The panorama is magnificent, always request a table with a view. The stylish staff were competent, if not a bit brusque, perhaps their brief being to emulate continental efficiency and aplomb rather than hearty good humour. The starters and mains were a gustatory delight (simple, sophisticated and cooked to perfection) but the desert was slightly disappointing, lacking imagination or any particular flair. This was slightly ameliorated by the tasty tidbits sent courtesy of the kitchen. Interesting variety of wines by the glass and no condescension when ordering this way, or when ordering non-alcoholic beverages. All in all an expensive but fine dining experience, with a spectacular view of the Thames to boot.
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My husband took me there for Sunday lunch, to celebrate our wedding anniversary. The decor and ambience are stylish but the service could be better. It is always irritating when you have to flag down a waitron to get service - this happened a few times when it was obvious to any sentient being that we were waiting to order. Perhaps food ordered can be brought out in stages and not dumped haphazardly in front of diners . The food is good but not fantastic and perhaps not worthy of the prices. The ground floor shop is a delight for the senses and service is friendly and helpful. It seems endemic to London that waiting staff are incompetent, disinterested or downright rude. Such a pity, when the city holds so many gastronomic, and other, delights.
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ANDERSON, Calif. - The two victims in Tuesday morning's fatal fire in Anderson have been identified.
The Shasta County Coroner's Office said the victims are 56-year-old Ted Riley and his mother, 88-year-old Claudia Riley.
Fire crews responded to a house fire on the 3300 block of Thomas Avenue in Anderson just after 6:00 a.m. Tuesday.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, held a press briefing to finalise her official visit to the Republic of Zambia, which was undertaken at the invitation of the Government from 3 to 12 May 2017. The Objective of the mission was to evaluate the realisation of the right to food in the country. During the briefing her statement outlined preliminary findings based on information gathered during the visit. The final report will be presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2018.
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The Government of Japan handed over a cheque worth Two Million, Eighty Seven Thousand Dollars ($2, 087,000) towards the Programme for Sustainable Resettlement of Former Refugees in Zambia during the occasion of the National Advisory Group. The cheque was received by the Permanent Secretary Office of the Vice -President on behalf of the Zambian Government and the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Janet Rogan on behalf of the UN who are Programme Managers.
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Today is a very important day when we commemorate the World Press Freedom Day under the theme "Critical Minds for Critical Times: Media's Role in Advancing Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies." This theme points to the importance of strengthening free and quality journalism to enable the media to effectively contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in general and of SDG 16 in particular. SDG number 16 aims to Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
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Mar 27, 2017
I am delighted to be here today representing the UN in Zambia for the International Day of Forests. This year's theme is most relevant to Zambia because around 70% of the population rely on forest resources for their energy needs either through fuel wood or charcoal. The other 30% of the population rely on electricity produced by hydro-electric generation, which is dependent on forests for the sustainable supply of water. So does the formal economy.
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UNDP in Zambia in collaboration with Ministry of Health (MoH) and Medical Stores Limited recently agreed and signed a project called Solar for Health. This project aims at increasing the proportion of solar energy in the energy supply of the health facilities, thereby increasing the number of health facilities with access to electricity and improving health care. One of the key sponsors of the Project is NOREPS the Norwegian consortium of innovative partners, government and private sector organisations.
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There are two underlying messages in this theme: first, "promoting inclusiveness" which is about empowering, or giving power to, those who are not currently included. It is about making space for others. Particularly, this message is to men, who possess the power and who occupy the space, that they need to share power, share space with women.


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I am not a lawyer, but even a layperson can read the state law governing redevelopment projects like the one for Fort Trumbull and see that it requires that the land be titled in the name of the city.
Connecticut general statute 8-199 could not be more clear: "Title to land taken or acquired pursuant to a development plan shall be solely in the name of the municipality."
And yet, the City of New London has dithered all these years, allowing the title to the Fort Trumbull properties to remain in the name of the New London Development Corp., and now Renaissance City Development Association.
It's time Mayor Finizio and the City Council begin the legal process to right this terrible wrong.
Get the titles to Fort Trumbull, including all those properties taken by eminent domain, and put them where they belong, under the control of a government elected by and accountable to city residents.
The New London Development Corp. can continue on its merry way, arrogantly complaining about the city and its residents and officials and entering into any agreements it likes.
But it need no longer have control over what should be a treasured city asset.
Mayor Finizio has a huge mandate to get this done. He also made it into a central campaign pledge, a promise he needs to immediately begin to fulfill.
Changing the name of the failed redevelopment agency or putting some new faces around the board room conference table will not suffice.
Given the clarity of the law, it would seem there would always be a cloud over the title of the land anyway, if the NLDC or Renaissance City were to convey it directly to a developer.
It's not just non-lawyers who see this plainly in Connecticut law.
I raised the issue in a column in 2010, after someone sent me a copy of a memorandum by then-city Law Director Thomas J. Londregan, who acknowledged the Fort Trumbull properties need to be titled in the city's name.
I named it then Londregan's treadmill memo, because he said he wrote it after watching plumber Murray Renshaw's public access cable show, while exercising on the treadmill, back in 2007.
"NLDC is aware of (statute 8-199.) I have pointed it out to them," the city attorney wrote. "There is a clear understanding - so clear I recall putting it in writing - that the title to this land is to be in the name of the City of New London ...
"The clear understanding between the NLDC and the City of New London is that when the NLDC has secured possession and title to the entire development parcel then the entire development parcel will be put in the name of the City of New London."
I asked, in 2010, then-Attorney General Richard Blumenthal about title to the Fort Trumbull property, and he expressed chagrin that it was not in the name of the city, as called for in the statute.
"This situation is unique and unprecedented," Blumenthal said.
Blumenthal said the city has the authority and statutory mandate to move forward and take title and that a resolution should be fairly straightforward.
When I asked Londregan in 2010 about the memo, he deflected email and voicemail messages and responded through then-Mayor Rob Pero, who said the city was waiting for the plan to be "implemented," roads finished, etc., before title passes.
Well, another three years have passed, and time's up on the excuses.
Curiously, statue 8-199 goes on to address what happens to a redevelopment plan like the one for Fort Trumbull when three years pass and nothing happens.
"If after three years from the date of approval of the development plan the development agency has been unable to transfer by sale or lease � the whole or any part of the real property � the municipality, by vote of its legislative body, may abandon the project plan and such real property may be conveyed free of any restriction."
There you have it. The law is very clear: The city should have title to the land and may abandon the existing redevelopment plan to let the duly elected representatives of the people of New London decide what's next.
If Mayor Finizio can summon at Fort Trumbull a small measure of the success he had in cobbling back together the long-delayed National Coast Guard Museum project, the city will be well served.
Why not explore some innovative and creative ideas to create the kind of mixed-use city neighborhood envisioned for Fort Trumbull by the esteemed Yale Urban Design Workshop?
Why not carve the land into house lots and offer them free to homesteaders? First dibs go to those displaced by eminent domain or their heirs.
Set some particular architectural and zoning guidelines to create small commercial and retail uses along with multifamily homes. Encourage alternative energy sources and creative use of the waterfront and public open space.
Save some room for a hotel or marina.
Give the same tax abatements to new homeowners the City Council had agreed to give to New York City developers.
People will line up for a chance to become part of an exciting new urban neighborhood on the water, one next to a beautiful state park and in sight of a new national museum. I'll bet many of the young designers at Electric Boat, who could walk to work, would be first in line.
Make the historic peninsula a showcase for New London pride and erase for good the national shame of eminent domain.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
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Who first got you into suggesting? Whose suggestions did you look up to? Who did you ask for help when you began?
For me, I don't remember who got me into suggestions or who I looked up to, but I know Sakamoto and Cobalt helped me a ton when I first started.


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The Friends of the Westwood Library announced the winners of its Dino Quilt and Autographed Book raffles.
The Friends of the Westwood Library announced the winners of its Dino Quilt and Autographed Book raffles.
Celeste and Frank Fitzhenry of Waldo Way were chosen at random from among those town residents who joined the Friends in 2011 to receive an autographed copy of best-selling author Elin Hilderbrand's The Island.
Celeste and her husband joined the Friends because they believe in the library. "It's a good town resource," she said.
Hartford Street resident Suzanne Chin was the winner of a child's blue dinosaur quilt made by librarian Ann Thomas.
Thomas made and donated the quilt because it reminded her of the FOL mascot, Penny the Dinosaur, a handsome blue fellow who collects extra coins from children.
The money collected from Penny and other sources, including the FOL membership drive and the group's yearly book sale, helps fund important library programs, including book purchases, technology upgrades, authors' visits, children's activities and museum passes.
Westwood bibliophiles still have another chance to win a prize and, at the same time, support the library. The FOL will be selling raffle tickets at its one-day book bonanza on Jan. 21. The prize? A basketful of autographed books from best-selling mystery writer and town resident Jan Brogan. Titles include Teaser, A Confidential Source and her first novel, Final Copy, which was named one of the eight best mysteries of 2001 by The Drood Review of Mystery.
The book sale will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the main library's downstairs conference room. Over 3,000 titles will be for sale, including a large number of like-new art tomes, bestsellers, cookbooks and children's stories.


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Child smartphone addiction growing, says German study
- Europe
- May 30, 2017, 12:57
Drug agency study of 6,000 children links phone dependency to health and behavioural problems
Merkel's plea for European unity may be a turning point
- Europe
- May 29, 2017, 09:00
Chancellor puts EU at the heart of upcoming German election with unusual frankness
Jens Weidmann: Bundesbank president is man of principles
- Economy
- May 20, 2017, 09:46
Merkel's former adviser says return to normal monetary policy must not be delayed
Austrian snap election likely as coalition teeters
- Europe
- May 12, 2017, 18:18
Conservative wunderkind Sebastian Kurz (30) tipped to be country's next leader
Angela Merkel hopes for boost in crucial German state election on Sunday
- Europe
- May 12, 2017, 18:04
Vote in North Rhine-Westphalia is central to chancellor's hopes for fourth term
North Rhine-Westphalia: the state that takes the pulse of Germany
- Europe
- May 11, 2017, 08:45
Sunday's election in the country's most populous state will throw up clues for Merkel's future
French reform backlog hangs over Merkel and Macron meeting
- Europe
- May 9, 2017, 17:00
German patience is wearing thin after 12 years of talking by French leaders
Red-Green euphoria dwindles amid German state election woes
- Europe
- May 7, 2017, 18:00
Merkel's CDU in first place, outgoing coalition down over five points, exit polls show
Germans need to laugh more, survey suggests
- Europe
- May 4, 2017, 15:01
Study ahead of World Laughter Day shows Germans most amused by others' bad luck
German defence minister vows to root out neo-Nazis in army
- Europe
- May 3, 2017, 19:05
Bundeswehr closes ranks after Von der Leyen criticises leadership over extremist soldier
Merkel presses Putin over persecution of gays in Chechnya
- Europe
- May 2, 2017, 19:42
German chancellor discusses anti-gay crackdown, Syria and Ukraine during Sochi talks
Berlin gets the better of Brussels in Dieselgate row
- Manufacturing
- May 2, 2017, 16:12
German government accused of protecting car industry over citizens' health
Derek Scally: Germany and France are drifting apart
- Opinion
- May 2, 2017, 00:23
Difference in economic performance is reflected in a difference in public attitudes
Kohl wins record damages against rogue ghostwriter
- Europe
- April 27, 2017, 18:00
Journalist published recordings containing disparaging comments about Angela Merkel
German police detain fake asylum seeker soldier
- Europe
- April 27, 2017, 15:10
Suspect claimed to be Syrian refugee and was granted asylum despite speaking no Arabic
Angela Merkel emphasises need for EU unity in Brexit talks
- Europe
- April 27, 2017, 11:03
Berlin confident co-operation between 27 states will hold in years of discussion ahead
Brexit: Merkel acknowledges Irish concerns ahead of summit
- Europe
- April 27, 2017, 10:09
Chancellor warns good results for EU and Ireland hinge on unity of remaining members
German growth and employment set to continue upwards trend
- Economy
- April 26, 2017, 17:17
Country's trade surplus also on course to fall as economy 'remains on growth path'
Berliners finally dump the car for love affair with the bicycle
- Europe
- April 26, 2017, 14:00
Berlin Letter: 'Cycle Law' to overhaul bike infrastructure and mark shift in city's priorities
'Are you a feminist?' Ivanka Trump says yes, Merkel fudges
- Europe
- April 25, 2017, 17:00
Merkel and Trump meeting at G20 'women's summit' seen as soft diplomacy coup
Merkel experiments on Ivanka to get to Donald
- Europe
- April 24, 2017, 15:45
German chancellor invites US 'first daughter' to Berlin for Women20 summit
German right-wing party appoints 'liberal' to front election
- Europe
- April 23, 2017, 19:13
AfD selects leaders from western and eastern wings to head general election challenge
Germany's AfD in meltdown as leader exits election campaign
- Europe
- April 21, 2017, 14:00
Frauke Petry shocks right-wing party by saying she does not wish to lead election battle
Dortmund blast 'stock market motive' rocks German football
- Europe
- April 21, 2017, 13:00
Police believe three-fold explosion targeting bus not prompted by God, but mammon
Dortmund attack motivated by stock market speculation, police say
- Europe
- April 21, 2017, 09:29
German-Russian man arrested over bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund team bus
Magazine alleges Cristiano Ronaldo made $375k settlement over rape claims
- Soccer
- April 14, 2017, 17:30
Der Spiegel report on an alleged encounter between footballer and woman in Las Vegas hotel in 2009
Detroit house of Rosa Parks relocates to Berlin
- Europe
- April 14, 2017, 15:53
Artist Ryan Mendoza moved US civil rights heroine's home to restore its dignity
Germans split over their own Good Friday ban – on dancing
- Europe
- April 14, 2017, 01:00
A survey shows a slim majority in favour of retaining ban – but is the dam breaking?
Dortmund attack: No links found between suspect and bombing
- Europe
- April 13, 2017, 10:57
Man held over links to Isis but search continues for suspects in attack on team bus
Danish farmers take the piss by turning urine into beer
- Offbeat
- April 12, 2017, 13:08
60,000 bottles of 'Pisner' beer made using urine collected from Roskilde festival-goers
Dortmund bus attack: man in custody as terror link 'likely'
- Europe
- April 12, 2017, 07:48
Police study letters found at scene of Borussia Dortmund team bus explosions
German Turkish community nervous before referendum
- Europe
- April 11, 2017, 19:38
'No' voters afraid to express views on Erdogan as 1.4m voters in Germany eligible to vote
Martin Schulz prioritises social spending over defence
- Europe
- April 10, 2017, 18:49
SPD leader says party can win over younger voters shaken by Trump's election and Brexit
German bosses say Brexit may have silver lining for Ireland
- Economy
- April 8, 2017, 07:00
UK exit may boost attractiveness of Ireland as English-language base for German firms
We'll fight them on the internet: Germany's first cyber general
- Europe
- April 8, 2017, 06:00
Germany has appointed its first cyber general to combat the threat of global online attack
Merkel 'most encouraging and supportive' of Ireland's Brexit concerns
- Europe
- April 7, 2017, 16:07
Kenny says Merkel aware of Ireland's wish to balance EU membership with close UK ties
Merkel vows to support Ireland in EU talks on Brexit
- Politics
- April 6, 2017, 18:54
Chancellor says Germany will help Ireland meet its specific concerns in upcoming talks
Merkel allies say Berlin shares Irish Brexit concerns '100%'
- Europe
- April 6, 2017, 01:00
Ireland's issues will play prominent role in EU talks with UK, say German politicians
Activists warn Hanover zoo elephants 'living in fear'
- Europe
- April 5, 2017, 14:00
German TV footage claims to show animals being abused in the course of training
German book warns of sermons inside mosques
- Europe
- April 5, 2017, 01:00
Author says most sermons were against the integration of Muslims into the community
Miniature Martin Luther beats Angela Merkel and Darth Vader
- Europe
- April 4, 2017, 18:35
Playmobil figure of Germany's father of the Reformation sells out entire run of 34,000
Berlin's tolerance tested by anti-Semitic and anti-gay incidents
- Europe
- April 4, 2017, 11:05
Bullying and kindergarten cases underline cultural challenges of immigration
'Don't forget, Goebbels was a ladies' man': memories of the Hiller Girls
- People
- April 1, 2017, 06:09
Jenny Hiller is one of the last surviving members of the Hiller Girls dance troupe, who high-kicked their way through Weimar, Nazi(...)
Britain topples from post-war pedestal in Germany
- Opinion
- April 1, 2017, 05:00
A tearless Brexit delivery leaves the German leader holding the baby
Merry German widower still looking for love on 100th birthday
- Europe
- March 31, 2017, 18:37
But please no applicants any younger than 90, says Berlin artist Gerhard Finke
German police accused of Christmas market attack cover-up
- Europe
- March 31, 2017, 16:00
New documents contradict claims killer Anis Amri was considered a low level threat
Enda Kenny to meet Angela Merkel on Brexit
- Europe
- March 31, 2017, 14:54
Taoiseach to discuss Irish concerns with German chancellor ahead of EU summit
Ireland's Brexit concerns to be flagged in EU document
- Europe
- March 31, 2017, 01:00
Enda Kenny to step up lobbying as bloc prepares for negotiations with the UK
Brexit: British in Germany get uneasy as uncertainty grows
- Europe
- March 31, 2017, 01:00
Some of the 100,000 Brits living in Germany fear a post-Brexit future as European pawns
Resigned relief across EU as May launches Brexit
- Europe
- March 29, 2017, 17:00
Merkel dismissal of British hopes for parallel talks on trade deal hints at potential tensions
Germany mourns looming departure of like-minded British
- Europe
- March 29, 2017, 16:00
Merkel government is painfully aware of need to strike middle ground in Brexit talks
Berlin accuses Turkey of spying on Turks in Germany
- Europe
- March 28, 2017, 18:05
Federal prosecutor opens preliminary espionage investigation as tensions ratchet up
'Queen Elizabeth' vanishes after night-time Berlin raid
- Europe
- March 28, 2017, 17:32
Massive 100kg coin minted in Canada contained €3.7m worth of gold by market prices
'Schulz effect' fizzles out in Saarland poll
- Europe
- March 27, 2017, 16:00
German state poll win for Angela Merkel's CDU bodes well for party in federal election
Pro-EU marches celebrate 60 years of European unity
- Europe
- March 26, 2017, 18:00
Diverse crowds turn up for Pulse of Europe and March of Europe gatherings in Germany
Germanwings pilot's father rejects claim son purposely crashed plane
- Europe
- March 24, 2017, 16:45
Günter Lubitz says Andreas Lubitz was not depressed and investigation evidence was flawed
Poland files charges against Tusk before EU celebrations
- Europe
- March 23, 2017, 20:00
Case against EU Council president marks new low in Warsaw-Brussels relations
EU celebrates Treaty of Rome amid gloom over European project
- Europe
- March 23, 2017, 01:00
On Merkel's watch, German view of itself has become one of vainglorious victimhood
German president warns of 'authoritarian fascination'
- Europe
- March 22, 2017, 19:32
New head of state Steinmeier hits back at Turkey's Erdogan over 'Nazi practices' remark
Germany to overturn convictions under Nazi-era anti-gay laws
- Europe
- March 22, 2017, 19:25
Article 175 saw more than 60,000 homosexual men prosecuted in postwar Germany
Germany's most notorious banker goes on trial in Munich
- Financial Services
- March 20, 2017, 18:07
Ex-HRE chief Funke accused of finessing lender's accounts before its 2008 bailout
Author of Turkey refugee deal admits it has fallen short
- Europe
- March 20, 2017, 01:00
Gerald Knaus believes Turkish threats to cancel swap agreement with EU a bluff
Martin Schulz takes over as leader of Germany's SPD
- Europe
- March 19, 2017, 18:17
Former European Parliament president to take on Angela Merkel in September election
Berlin bubble? Property is booming and rents are rising
- Commercial Property
- March 18, 2017, 05:00
German banks say asking prices out of step with reality
US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin moves to ease trade fears
- Economy
- March 17, 2017, 15:55
'It is not our desire to get into trade wars,' Trump appointee tells G20 finance ministers
Habermas warns on EU integration without renewed German push
- Europe
- March 17, 2017, 14:08
Philosopher says threat to unity is not populists but austerity and lack of integration
Two worlds collide in Washington as Merkel to meet Trump
- Europe
- March 16, 2017, 12:15
German chancellor is no stranger to colourful male leaders, but US president raises the bar
German union reacts angrily as Ryanair flies in staff to break Berlin strike
- Transport & Tourism
- March 14, 2017, 20:15
Verdi vows to launch legal action against airline over baggage-handler dispute
Angela Merkel ally vows to ban Turkish rallies in Germany
- Europe
- March 14, 2017, 18:00
Tensions rise between Berlin and Ankara amid Erdogan claims of 'Nazi practices'
Refugees in Germany struggle as election looms
- Europe
- March 13, 2017, 01:00
Some fear Germany is deporting people it could use while letting less savoury ones stay
Warsaw hits out at Tusk re-election to Brussels post
- Europe
- March 10, 2017, 17:00
Other central European countries back incumbent, leaving Poland out in the cold
German teen bragged on Darknet about stabbing of boy (9)
- Europe
- March 10, 2017, 17:00
Marcel Hesse (19) arrested and admitted to killing young neighbour and a second victim
German police say axe attacker who injured nine was 'disturbed'
- Europe
- March 10, 2017, 06:56
'Psychologically disturbed' man from former Yugoslavia injured nine in Düsseldorf station
Angela Merkel dismisses 'depressing' Turkish Nazi claims
- Europe
- March 9, 2017, 18:00
Bundestag president warns Turkish vote risks leading to 'increasingly autocratic state'
Germany and Turkey in bid to avert diplomatic meltdown
- March 8, 2017, 18:47
Claim 'Nazi' practices stop Turkish politicians speaking in Germany stirs controversy
Syrian refugee loses case against Facebook in German court
- Europe
- March 7, 2017, 17:04
Anas Modamani sought injunction against site over faked posts linking him to terrorism
Germany's SPD hopes to lure older voters with €1bn welfare reform
- Europe
- March 6, 2017, 17:00
Centre-left party to fix past 'mistakes', including dole payments to older workers
Germany calls Turkish president's Nazi comparisons 'absurd'
- Europe
- March 6, 2017, 17:00
Row comes as German mayors cancel rallies over appearances by Turkish ministers
New magazine channels revival in German conservative anger
- Europe
- March 4, 2017, 02:00
Journalist behind venture says magazine a backlash against political paternalism
German and Turkey in war of words over political rallies
- Europe
- March 3, 2017, 17:00
President Joachim Gauck questions Turkey's democratic credentials in escalating row
Berlin-Ankara diplomatic strain grows after Germany cancels rallies
- Europe
- March 2, 2017, 20:25
Foreign minister says Turkish visitors are welcome but electioneering events are not
Dresden dementia stalled by revival of East German memories
- Europe
- March 2, 2017, 17:00
Results of 'reminiscence therapy' have exceeded expectations in senior residence
Germany's Martin Schulz rallies his troops in beer tent
- Europe
- March 1, 2017, 18:00
SPD leader's Ash Wednesday address in Bavaria delights drinkers
Journalist's arrest heightens Berlin-Ankara tensions
- Europe
- February 28, 2017, 17:00
Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the move as 'disproportionate . . . bitter and disappointing'
Berlin outlaws Islamic State mosque after police raids
- Europe
- February 28, 2017, 16:00
Fussilet 33 mosque was visited by Anis Amri hours before Christmas market truck attack
Police take on Islamophobic trolls after car attack in Heidelberg
- Europe
- February 27, 2017, 18:07
Twitter trolls fabricate refugee connection after German driver kills pedestrian
Drivers in high-speed car race in Berlin get life sentences
- Europe
- February 27, 2017, 16:00
Race involving two men on city boulevard ended in crash in which motorist was killed
Martin Schulz: meet the anti-Angela Merkel
- Europe
- February 25, 2017, 06:00
Martin Schulz has engineered Germany's biggest political upset in years – and could now challenge Merkel's grip on the chancellors(...)
Berlin picks up the pace of deportations
- Europe
- February 24, 2017, 15:00
New rules allow for expedited deportations of applicants viewed as a security threat
United Ireland should guarantee North access to EU, says Kenny
- Politics
- February 24, 2017, 01:00
Call for Brexit deal to follow German example on unification 'were it to occur'
Enda Kenny calls for Brexit deal to include united Ireland provision
- Politics
- February 23, 2017, 15:31
'The Good Friday agreement is like a poem, it speaks for itself' – Jean Claude Juncker
Greece to need no more loans from mid-2018, says bailout chief
- Economy
- February 22, 2017, 17:08
Merkel and Lagarde agree Greece needs 'greater flexibility' on budget targets
German Bundestag leader warns on Brexit special pleading
- Europe
- February 22, 2017, 01:00
Norbert Lammert: 'Everyone has their own interests that are important to them'
Martin Schulz vows to roll back Schröder-era reforms
- Europe
- February 20, 2017, 17:00
Candidate for German chancellor pulls SPD party to neck-and-neck with Merkel's CDU
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- Film
- February 17, 2017, 20:59
Collaboration with Schlöndorff in running for Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival
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- February 14, 2017, 17:18
Chancellor and Tunisian leader seek common ground while visiting market attack site
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- February 13, 2017, 16:21
Regional leader Höcke calls process of coming to terms with fascist past 'silly'
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- Europe
- February 12, 2017, 19:33
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Sir Paul McCartney's son has spoken candidly for the first time about his drug addiction and the difficult relationship he had with former step-mother Heather Mills.
James McCartney, a 35-year-old musician, previously shunned the limelight unlike his sisters fashion designer Stella and photographer Mary. He admitted to alienating himself from his family following the death of his mother Linda in 1998, but says he has now "re-bonded" with his father and even played on two of Sir Paul's solo albums.
The musician, who is currently trying to break America with a 42-date tour, said in an interview that he was so grief-stricken following his mother's death that he slept in his father Sir Paul's bed.
"We were both grieving together. That first night, in Arizona, when she'd just died I thought it would be too sad for Dad to sleep on his own so I kept him company," he told the Daily Mail.
His mother Linda's death, he said, "was very detrimental to my relationship with my family" and resulted in him being admitted to a rehabilitation centre in Arizona for drug dependency. He has since suffered from drugs and alcohol addictions, but says he has been sober for the last seven months.
He admitted that he "didn't like" Heather Mills, whom his Beatle father married in 2002 and divorced in 2008.
"My relationship with Heather was not very good. I didn't like her," he said. "But I wouldn't want to say anything negative about her because she's good mother to Beatrice [Sir Paul's daughter by Mills] and that's the most important thing."
He said his relationship with Sir Paul's current wife Nancy Shevell is much better. "Nancy's my new mother. I feel that. Definitely. She's very genuine. I knew her a year or so before she married Dad.
"She had been one of the biggest supporters of me pursuing my own dreams. She wants me to have my own career. She makes Dad very, very happy. We all adore her."
McCartney's decision to go into the music industry was not always clear-cut, he said. "It's hard to live up to The Beatles. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly."
He said he does not want to be "the new Paul" but is striving to be the best he can. "Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around."
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There is a new blog in town. Hans Jenkinks is passionated by gorgeous and unusual flowers. He is The Plant Provocateur. Be carefull, you are going to love him !
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Book Reviews, Jewish Social Services Quarterly, December 1946
Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA), National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare, December 1946
This piece reviews such books as Child Care Facilities for Dependent and Neglected Negro Children in Three Cities: New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, by Abigail F. Brownell, as well as The Nightingaleâ??s Song by Dorothy Alofsin and Consider the Years by Joshua Trachtenberg.
Topic: Children, Social Work, Publications
Name of Publication: The Jewish Social Service Quarterly
Editor: Aptekar, Herbert H.
Volume/Issue: Vol.23/no.2
Page Number(s): 220-225
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Coverage: United States
Language: English
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Posner, William. Book Reviews, Jewish Social Services Quarterly, December 1946. The Jewish Social Service Quarterly. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA),National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare. December 1946: 220-225. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=5946
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Samsara Rancho La Vina Pinot Noir 2009
Winemaker Notes
Critical Acclaim
Vivid ruby-red. High-pitched aromas of raspberry and fresh rose, with a strong overlay of Asian spices. Silky, sweet and energetic, offering lovely red fruit and spicecake flavors that expand with air. Fruit-driven and pure on the finish, which clings with serious tenacity. I really like this wine's blend of power and vivacity.
Ripe and complex, offering a wealth of cranberry, cherry, cola and pomegranate fruit flavors, spiced with clove and cinnamon. Silky and tart now, with some furry tannins. Just lovely, but should develop over the next 6–8 years.
The 2009 Pinot Noir Rancho La Vina Vineyard is a deep, powerful wine redolent of tar, violets, licorice, and black cherries, all of which come together on a powerful, focused frame. Round sweet and polished through to the finish, the La Vina shows off considerable class and pedigree. All it needs is more time in bottle.


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From the Unit of Respiratory Pathophysiology (Drs Pedone, Scarlata, Chiurco, and Conte and Antonelli-Incalzi), Università Campus Biomedico; the "Alberto Sordi" Foundation (Drs Pedone and Scarlata); the Department of Epidemiology (Dr Forastiere), Roma E. Health Authority; and Fondazione San Raffaele (Dr Antonelli-Incalzi), Cittadella della Carità.
Correspondence to: Claudio Pedone, MD, PhD, Università Campus Bio Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, 00128 Rome, Italy; e-mail: email@example.com
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We thank Dr Hardie for his suggestion to expand the analyses we presented in our article in CHEST1 to test the hypothesis that people with FVC < the lower limit of normal (LLN) but without true restriction (total lung capacity [TLC] > LLN) do not have an increased risk of death. Indeed, compared with people with normal TLC and normal FVC, those with a reduced FVC (but normal TLC) do not have an increased risk of death (mortality rate ratio, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.12-3.66). People with decreased TLC and normal FVC, on the contrary, have a sixfold increased mortality risk (mortality rate ratio, 6.68; 95% CI, 2.36-19.4). Compared with patients with FVC < LLN and TLC ≥ LLN, those with FVC < LLN and TLC < LLN had a mortality rate ratio of 7.78 (95% CI, 1.9-56.67). Although the estimates may not be completely reliable because of the small number of events (only two deaths in the group with TLC > LLN and FVC < LLN), these results seem to support the hypothesis that the association between reduced FVC and mortality repeatedly reported in the literature is supported by the association between TLC and mortality.
As for the figure, because of the small number of events, the reference lines are actually very similar but not identical. For example, at close scrutiny it can be seen that the reference curve in the first panel (FVC ≥ LLN) has one "step" fewer in the first 6 months of follow-up.
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Noteable Quoteable
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" - Mark Twain.
Life's tough. It always has been, and it always will be. No matter how much you beg, borrow, steal, scream, cry, laugh or swear at it, it will always go on being the same old detrimental dirtbag it can be. It breaks your heart, shatters your dreams and sometimes just seems to make your existance a miserable pile of dog excriment.
But that's why we do it.
Life wouldn't be much fun if we lived in a world of fluffy bunnies and rainbows where nothing ever goes wrong, would it? We need some challenges to face, so we can feel better about ourselves when we finally do squash them. Just because you're the underdog doesn't mean your out of the running. There are thousands of people out there who have done incredible things despite overwhelming odds (pity our England football team wasn't one of them eh?)
We're all terriers in life's long rat race. Sometimes these rats get pretty big, and sometimes we might not come out unscathed. But we'll still keep going won't we? Because we relish in the victory we know we are working for - and we'll damned well keep going to get it. Dreams can seem a long way off sometimes, but still we keep working for them. They're ours for the taking, we just have to work for them.
So come on. Let's show the world what we're all about.


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As he dug around for his wallet, she thought she saw the long black barrel of a pistol in with his things.
The man slowly lifted himself from the seat. Angela could not peel her eyes from the bag. That was a gun in there too, it surely was. As he turned to follow her off the bus, he shouldered the gun tote. Panic ran down her spine like icy water, aching and heavy, rooting her to the very spot. "You can leave that here, you know."
His cracked lips pulled back in a one-sided smile that hung from a scar on his left cheek, revealing a sharp canine that gleamed like a blade. "How 'bout that beer."
Angela couldn't stomach more than a sip. She felt her stomach twisting into knots and lurching for her throat - empty, demanding empty. She held the bottle down on the bar as though it would slip away from her, or as if she might slip from the bar. The condensation ran cold down her fingers, down the palms of her hands. She was in El Paso, a town she didn't know hide nor tail of, buying beers for lonesome gunmen. She squeezed her eyes tight, squeezing the stars out of them, praying for highway.
"What's waitin' for you in Austin?" Startled from her prayers, Angela struggled to get hold of one of the words rushing past her tongue. Her shirt was stuck to her back with sweat, sweat was running down her chin, sweat was dripping from her brow and yet this man was dry as that highway, dry as the desert, probably just as cold on moonless nights. The man leaned over his beer, staring down the neck of the bottle. "I asked you," he half whispered, sliding his cold stare up to her eyes, "what's waitin' for you down in Austin?"


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Author's Note: Hello, new and old readers! This chapter took a ridiculously long time to write. But honestly, I couldn't give you guys anything less than perfection. I put a lot of work into these pages you're about to read, and I really hope you love them as much as I do.
When I first decided to rewrite this story, I said it would only go to the original six chapters. But, I have been playing with the idea of a fluffy epilogue. What do you all think? Would you like to see where our favorite couple is down the road? Say, twenty years? Please review and tell me what you think!
Now, without further ado, I proudly present for your enjoyment, the dramatic conclusion of Ace Of Hearts.
Chapter Song: Ashes and Wine by A Fine Frenzy.
It was raining.
The rain brought out the inner child in Rory. She loved to run out into the rain and splash in as many piles as her feet could find. The stories she told me from her childhood were colorful and imaginative enough to feel like you were right there, with her. She would walk home from school with Lane on those familiarly wet Stars Hollow days, and the pull coming from the mud piles was too tempting to ignore. She would hand Lane her books, unwilling to stain their pages, and jump in haphazardly without a care for her clothes. And on occasion, the adult Rory would find herself in mud puddles before coming home from work. She came straight home, and trail mud through our house. Lorelai was never bothered with the streaks of mud on her carpet, and neither was Rory. It was all a part of the tradition, after all.
Needless to say, there was no jumping in mud at the Huntzberger house. No mud fights, or weather related rituals, or any obvious forms of affection and laughter. If Honor and I had tracked in mud, the maid would wipe our trails as we walked. Nothing ever stuck to those floors.
In one way, I had everything I would ever anticipate wanting, growing up the way I did. But in a more important way, I lived in poverty. My parents did not teach me what it was like to love another person. They taught me to live within a contract. They didn't set examples of unconditional love, they told me to follow their rules, and live the life that was set out for me.
I never had to fight for anything in my entire life. The things I wanted were always there. They were handed to me alongside a world of expectations. The sole reason I was born was to take over for my Father. It was what he had done for his Father. What Huntzbergers had been expected to do for generations. I didn't have hope for anything different until Rory had waltzed into my life. She gave me everything, by believing in me. She gave me a different future that the life that was laid out for me. And I had been stupid enough to let it slip through my fingers, as if I never had it at all.
I hadn't seen it at first. The first time she said she loved me, I should've known that she was offering me something that others had to fight for. And yet she was gave it to me so willingly, so trusting that I would take care of the heart she was painstakingly handing to me. She was looking past the title, the bank account, or even the facade of myself the world saw. How much I regretted that moment. I should have instantly engulfed her into my arms. I should have realized that I was the luckiest bastard in the world.
Being responsible for the caring of such a seldom held heart drove me to a different life. A life that was far away from my Father and his ideas for the future of his company. For once, I could decide my future for myself. And as long as I had Rory by my side, anything was possible. I worked harder than I ever had, striving to be more deserving of the love she gave me. The definition of a better man. For her, and for us.
That was it. There would be no better without her.
I grabbed the keys off of the counter, and was in my car before I gave it another thought. I couldn't waste any more time. She couldn't drive us apart anymore. And I couldn't let her. I tried to lose myself in the drive, and not let the nervousness settle in. The drive to Stars Hollow was a familiar one. How many times had I driven this road, to beg for her forgiveness? As many times as I had to, I realized. No matter how many times I had fucked up royally, Rory would end up in my arms, and my life would have meaning again.
If I knew anything about Rory, I knew that she would not be affected by any grand gesture. She didn't want me to show up at her door, softly serenading her with love songs and expensive presents. She would want me to show her that I wasn't like my Father, putting everything before his wife and family. She would want me to show her that I wouldn't leave her like her Dad had done. I had to throw away all of my pride, and beg her if I had to.
The rain was pouring on the windshield. It seemed like the wipers could not move fast enough to catch the massive amounts of rain that fell from the sky. My hands shook, but not from the ever persistent cold. They shook from the nervousness that coursed through my veins. I would either leave Stars Hollow with my wife, or without my heart. I was leaving it with her, regardless if she sent me away or not.
My stomach was in knots as I pulled into the driveway. Rory's car stood in its usual spot, but Lorelai's jeep was gone. I sat in the car for a moment, trying to rediscover my confidence. I recognized the moment for what it was: a crossroad. One way or another, this was coming to an end on this stormy night.
I took note of the light shining from what I knew to be Rory's room. She was in there, surrounded by her books and pro/con lists, stuck in her own head. I got out of the car and stood in the downpour for a moment. My life was waiting for me inside that house.
I stood at the front door, and raised my knuckles to knock. The pounding rain against the roof made it impossible to hear movement from inside the house. With my heart in my throat, I knocked again. As much as she might not want to see me, I couldn't see her leaving me to stand in the rain. Especially since I had no intentions of leaving here until she talked to me.
I backed away from the porch, not wanting to accept the possibility that she heard me and decided to stay dry and warm inside. I stood at her window, extending my cold fingers to tap on the wet glass. The old Logan would have laughed at the thought of standing in the rain and mud for a girl. But this version of myself was more afraid of the loneliness of separation than the humiliation of being so vulnerable.
Any moment. She would come to the window at any moment. She would open it, and her crystal clear eyes would soften at the sight of me at her window. I could see it so vividly in my mind, I hardly registered the rain as it continued to pour down around me. All I needed was her to come to the window. And when she did, our lives could go back to the way they were always supposed to be. Together.
The seconds dragged on, yet Rory did not appear at her window. The seconds turned to minutes, but I did not lose my composure. The blur of thoughts as the minutes ticked by became progressively darker. I had come here to show Rory something. To show her I wasn't going anywhere. But maybe, this was her way of saying something, too. By not coming out, she was showing her own grand gesture. The kind of grand gesture that left me waiting in the rain.
The thought of it left me ill, and I stepped back from the window as if struck by physical force.
I hadn't a clue how long I had been standing there. I just stood, internally willing Rory to appear at the window. Hours could have passed, and I would have been just as wet and affected by her as I always had been. What choice did I have, when I was drawn to her so? We were like two magnets, sometimes opposites, but always near each other.
My mind was too soggy to register the world around me. I focused in on the window, and the window alone. What could she be doing? The image of her, sitting against her door, silently waiting for my departure burnt into my brain. I would always be left with the searing mark of Rory Gilmore. The years we had spent absorbing each other could not be ignored, and I would spend the rest of my life remembering what it was like to be whole. To be loved, and to love in return.
How long could I spend waiting for her? All night, if I had to. But at what point would I realize that enough was enough? Would it ever feel okay to leave her behind? Somehow, I didn't think so. To walk away was to admit defeat, yet I couldn't stand here forever. A dejected sense of reality washed over me. My skin was numb from the falling water, but I was numb for a completely different reason.
"Logan?" The voice broke through the clouds, just as it always had. I hesitated, as if to doubt it could actually be her. I turned towards the voice, and suddenly my internal struggle didn't matter as much as the person standing in front of me.
"Mom! Have you seen my sweatband? The pink, sparkly one?" I stood at the bottom of the stairs, and bellowed up to my Mother. If something of mine went missing, she was usually the prime suspect. She appeared at the top of the stairs, hands on her hips wearing a look of disbelief. "I need it to go on a run."
"Oh, child! Do you realize that it is raining outside? We, as Gilmore women, do not run, jog, power walk or any other word that can be associated with physical exertion. Especially not in rain."
I rolled my eyes at her. I had awoke this morning with an unrelenting desire to run. And strangely, the rain only fueled this craving. The combination of the falling rain and the slap of my feet on wet concrete would be loud enough to distract my mind from itself for a while. I wish it would be that easy, to just drown it all out. But unfortunately, I ran with my problems, not away from them.
"I just want to go for a run, okay? Have you seen it?"
Mom pursed her lips and considered me for a few moments. "I love you honey, but I might have to have you committed. When's the last place you saw it?"
I had to admit, I had only ever worn the thing once. Maybe twice, as a joke. "When Logan and I went to the gym. He bought it because it matched the blush in my cheeks from sweating."
"Woah, how romantic." She told me, not bothering to hide her disgust. "Just go without it. It's not like you'll be sweating, anyway."
"I can't go without it! I need my sweatband!" I exclaimed dramatically.
"Then borrow mine. You're not exactly making a fashion statement here, honey."
"No, Mom! I need mine. I can't go without my sweatband." I could hear the childlike whine in my voice, but made no move to stop it. I felt like a child. I instantly pictured the sweatband in question, sitting in the goodwill box waiting to be donated. In the back of her closet, naturally. I groaned outwardly. "It's at the house. I have to go get it."
I looked at my Mom, and put on my best 'This-isn't-bothering-me' face. I knew she could see right through me, yet she didn't question me on it. "Can I borrow your jeep? You're blocking me in."
She didn't hesitate to place the keys in my hand. "Sookie is coming to pick me up anyway. I'll meet you back here with Chinese, a movie, and a towel to dry off my soaking wet runner of a daughter."
I left the house without giving too much thought to what I was actually doing. I hadn't been back to the house since I pack up my things. Yet, I was going anyway. All for a sparkly, fluorescent pink sweatband. I didn't let myself of any alternative reasons for going there. I just needed that sweatband. Period.
I could feel a new emotion rise through my stomach. I hadn't felt this way since deciding to leave. It took me a few moments to decipher the emotion. It was anger. I was angry. Beyond angry. I was angry at myself for not packing the damn sweatband in the first place. I was angry at Logan for not trying to return it. It was undeniably an irrational anger, I knew. But I couldn't find myself caring. I was upset, and needed to do something. I needed to do something besides crying on the couch with my Mother. I didn't want to eat any more ice cream, or wallow anymore. I wanted to yell. I wanted to be upset with Logan for making it so difficult to walk away from him. Why did I have to love him so much, anyway?
The rain made the drive that much longer, and that only gave me more time to build up my anger in my head. When I finally got there, my blood was boiling. I threw the car into park, and jumped out into the wet street. I didn't let myself think about the look on Logan's face, or the memories I would face inside the door. I only thought of my silly, useless sweatband.
It felt completely ridiculous to knock on the door, but I forced myself to anyway. Why had I left the key when I moved out my stuff? I should have envisioned this moment. A few long moments later, I realized that no one was coming to the door. Where could Logan be, anyway? It was raining. Logan loved to go out in the rain. I could picture him now, playing mini golf in the rain with a nameless woman, who accepted Logan's love without question. The thought infuriated me that much more. No, Lorelai Huntzberger would not be ignored. I balled up my fist like Luke had taught me so many years ago, and put a hole in the window.
The glass shattered with a satisfying crunch. I carefully opened the door through the brand new hole. I had always known this house was way too easy to break into, and it was almost funny that I was the one to prove that. I was more than slightly wet, and trailed the mud on my shoes onto the carpet.
The look of the room stopped me dead in my tracks. The living room was in disarray, pillows and empty pizza boxes everywhere. I had a feeling that Colin and Finn definitely had something to do with this.
I instantly averted my eyes, not wanting to change seeing anything else just yet. I walked the familiar path to the bedroom without looking up once. I didn't particularly want to see our bed that we had shared for so long. I went straight to the box of unwanted clothes, looking for the sweatband. Where the hell was it?
My eyes scanned the room quickly, but my thoughts of the sweatband were dropped in the same instantly that my eyes locked with the picture that sat on the bed side table. I recognized it instantly. It was our wedding picture. I held the picture in my hands and drank it in with my eyes. I looked so happy in his arms. So ready to share our lives together.
What had happened to that? We had promised each other forever. And yet, I was calling it quits. It was my fault that it all fell apart, I knew that much to be true. I was the one who broke that promise, yet the hurt was astronomical. I had hurt Logan, and continued to hurt Logan with each and every move that I made.
We belonged together. I knew this to be true. It didn't have to make sense, or be plausible. It didn't have to be a good time to be with Logan, it just was. I had let this secret come in between us. I had done this, and I knew that I had to be the one to fix it. I felt stupid for not telling him in the first place. He deserved to know. I clutched the picture to my chest, and felt my heart beating roughly against it. I didn't know where Logan was, but I knew I needed to find him. I couldn't let another moment go passed without him.
I took off out the door, and didn't look back.
I can't even say I paid much attention to the road. My mind wasn't paying much attention to the cars in front of me, or the rain. In my head, I was with Logan. I was telling him my awful secret I kept from him for too long. I called his work trying to track him down, but he wasn't there. I called Finn, but he was too drunk to give me a straight answer. I settled for going home, at least to try to track him down.
I pulled the jeep into my Mom's usual spot. That was where I found him, standing in the rain at my window. Tears sprang to my eyes at the sight. I studied him, but I didn't have to wonder what he was doing here. He was here for me, and I was finally here for him.
"Logan?" I take a few quick steps closer, wanting to feel the warmth that comes from being in his presence. He turns around, and I know that I can no longer deny him.
My mind raced, and I can't seem to form coherent sentences. I know I need to say something, to tell this beautiful man standing soaking wet in front of me how sorry I am. How I will spend the rest of my life being sorry for breaking us. If only I can open my mouth to tell him this, maybe it can be the first step of fixing it. I inhale as I prepare to grovel.
"I can't stand it, Rory. I love you. I miss what I thought we both had. It was the type of love that people wait their whole lives for, Ace. You know it's true. I was there, I saw it every day. Your love for me. Our love for each other." He lets out a huff in frustration, wanting to reach out for her but instead settling for running his hands through his wet hair. "Is this really what you wanted to happen? Tell me it is, and I will leave you alone. I want you to have what will make you happy, but I can't function without knowing. Is there any chance left for us? Or should I walk away and forget the impact you've had on me?"
I was stunned back into silence. My impressive vocabulary was no help for me at that moment, because I didn't know of words to express what I felt for him. But I realized that the words weren't as important as the feeling behind them.
"I went to go find you. I didn't know it when I left, but I went looking for you. Not a sweatband."
His crisp brown eyes locked with my tear filled blue ones. I knew he didn't understand the reference of the sweatband, but he understood what I was saying. I went looking for him, just as he had come looking for me. The all-consuming look he wore burned with its intensity. It scared me. It had scared me from the start. But at that moment, nothing scared me more than the thought of being without Logan.
My feet moved on their own accord, and for that I was grateful. I launched myself into his arms unexpectedly. His feet slipped from under him and the next thing I knew, we were laying in the moistened ground. His accepting embrace did not loosen at the impact, nor the mud that was seeping into our pores. I felt completely safe in his arms. I had always been safe here. He was doing more than just embracing me. He was welcoming me back home.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I rub my face against his neck, dying to be closer to him. I pressed myself against him, feeling his warmth through his cold soaking clothes and letting it comfort me.
"Ace, oh, my Ace. I missed you so much." He drinks in my skin, consuming every part of me he can reach. His hands roamed up my soaking wet back, into my hair and down my shoulders. As if he wants to memorize me once again. To make sure I didn't change too drastically in his absence.
His arms encircled my waist, and rolled us over until my back was pressed against the muddy grass. I was reminded of being a little girl, almost desperate for a rainy day. The rainy days brought the puddles that we practically asking to be jumped in. I most happily obliged. Those moments were just like this one in their pureness. Effortlessly happy in the mud, my heart fuller than it had ever been. I opened my eyes, unaware that they had been closed in the peaceful moment and focused on Logan's face. He was fixed on me, and gently swept his thumb across my cheek to wipe away the mud there. And then his lips were on mine.
Despite the cold air, his kiss was smoldering. It blew the lid off of all the control I had, and I could no longer think coherently. All I could focus on was his lips, and the way they parted mine to allow entrance with his tongue. Oh, the way his lips were pressed against mine. How could I try to deny our love, when the evidence of it was all in the way he kissed me? My hips involuntarily spasmed, thrusting against his. He groaned against my lips and I knew that I would take him on my front lawn, in the rain if I could manage it.
He pulled away from me ever so slightly, and I shrunk at the lack of contact. "Mm, Ace. As tempting as the thought of taking you right here is," He smiled at me, a sight I hadn't seen lately. It filled me with warmth and brought the blush to my cheeks.
"Let's go inside." I finished for him. As much as I wanted nothing more than to stay in this moment, I knew there was a lot he needed to hear. Logical thought started to seep into my brain once more and I had to tell him. If we had any chance of being putting back together. "We should talk."
He nodded, his expressive face showing his nervousness. I instantly felt sorry for making him think I could possibly live without him, when it was so obvious that I could do no such thing. He got up quickly, and offered me his hand. Once on my feet, I reached down to pick up the wedding picture that I had carelessly let fall in our embrace. He looked at me with questions in his eye, but didn't say anything. We took one step at a time getting into the house. Neither of us were in a rush, as if we both knew that this could possibly be the last few seconds of clarity before the storm of emotions that was surely to come.
He followed me into my childhood home, as the mud trailed its way behind us. I set down the photo on the first available surface. While his hand never leaving my body, he stared at it carefully. "Where did you get this?"
I avert my eyes away from him, feeling guilty in that moment. But the time for keeping things to myself was over. If I had any hopes for us, I had to tell him everything. A to Z. Soup to nuts. "I kind of broke into our house." I admitted, sucking my bottom lip into my mouth. Anything to stop the deep blush I was sure was apparent on my face.
"You broke into our house?" He asked, the look of confusion apparent on his handsome face. We had known each other a long time, and I knew he wasn't surprised by this confession. As a Gilmore, I left an endless string of questionable decisions. And as a Huntzberger, he expected no less from me.
"Yes. But little did I know what I was looking for was waiting for me here." I smiled a sweet smile at him, the one I gave him when I knew I had done something crazy.
He laughed lightheartedly, and my knees almost buckled at the sound. His hand reached up to cup my face, and I wanted nothing more than for my lips to be reacquainted with his. But I couldn't put this off anymore. He leaned down, just far enough for me to know that he wanted the same thing. Oh, if only a kiss would make everything better. I would spend the rest of my life kissing him. If only I was that lucky.
I pulled away ever so slightly, keeping my hands tight against his shoulders, but he doesn't let me. I sigh, hoping he will still want me after I spill my guts. He looks at me, his eyes so full of hope and disheartenment that it hurt to return his gaze. I pull us to my room, where we can sit and not ruin my Mother's furniture.
"I need to tell you why I left." The look of fear that he gave me was plain on his face, and it was enough to feel my heart break all over again. I cursed myself for keeping this from him for so long. At the time where we needed each other the most, I shut him out in favor of dealing with it myself. And now I could see how big of a mistake that really was. This man who was holding me loved me unlike anyone else. If anyone deserved to know, it was him.
"Do you remember when my Prius hit the big rig?"
He nodded slowly, studying me carefully for signs of distress. "You almost died."
I tried to swallow the thick, emotionally crushing knot in my throat. I instantly thought back to the moment where I woke up in the hospital. Logan was sitting next to me in the uncomfortable chair, eyes drooping. He looked like he hadn't slept in a lifetime, maybe more. He had squeezed my hand, so relieved to see that I was going to be okay. But I wasn't okay.
"I was pregnant." The words slipped from my lips before I had the courage to try to utter them. His hands never left me, but they were unmoving. He didn't even blink in those seconds, and I was suddenly afraid that he would pull away from me. He still hadn't said anything, but his grip on me loosened. I could see the wheels working in his mind. He was letting his thoughts get carried away with him.
"You weren't going to tell me." It wasn't a question. His eyes focused on me, and I could see the hurt that laid there. But I knew I had to tell him the truth, and beg for forgiveness.
"No, I wasn't going to." I hung my head in shame as his hands left my skin. He stepped away from me, letting his freed hands pull at his hair. "I wanted to. I just couldn't."
Not even a second went by, his voice becoming louder with each word. "You couldn't tell me that we had lost a child? Our child, Rory. Do you realize how unfair that is? I deserved to know."
I forced myself to push the tears away. I was in the wrong here, and no amount of tears would solve that. Part of me wanted to run, and hide away like I had been doing, but the look on Logan's face stopped me. He looked so utterly hurt, so filled with heartache and despair, I knew I'd spend the rest of my life making sure he never looked like that again.
"I'm sorry, Logan. I didn't want you to hurt like I was. You didn't know about it yet. There was no reason for you to know we lost what we barely had."
"No reason?" He asked me incredulously. "No reason? I'm your husband Rory. It was my baby too." He sat on my bed and put his face into his hands. I knew in that moment, I had broken his heart again.
I knew I had to make him understand. I had to make him understand that I did this for him. I kneeled in front of him, and rested my hands on his knees. "I should've told you." I admitted without a doubt. "But I didn't want you to have to look at me, and know that I had lost your baby." I took a deep breath that was meant to cleanse, but did nothing of the sort. "That I can't give you the babies that we wanted." He looked up at me, the shock clear as day on his face. But I couldn't stop the words from tumbling out of my mouth. "I didn't want you to have to realize that I failed at my most basic instinct- to protect our children."
I couldn't stop them after that. The tears came, falling one after the other in a cascading downpour that reminded me of my life. I let myself admit things that I hadn't had the emotional capacity to think about. "I can't have your children, Logan. And I didn't want you to hate me for it."
I buried my face into my hands, feeling the heavy sense of shame and guilt that had been eating away at me. The room was quiet besides the sounds of my sniffling sobs. After a few painfully tense moments, I felt Logan kneel next to me on the floor.
"You thought I would hate you?" He spoke slowly, as if each word hurt more than the last. When I couldn't make the confirming words come, I simply nodded my head as it lay hidden in my hands. Logan grabbed my wrists and pulled them away from my dirt and tear streaked face. I looked up at him cautiously, and softened at what I say there. He should have been angry with me. I had expected him to storm out, and to realize that maybe divorce was the best option. That he wouldn't want to be with someone who hadn't told him the truth, who had hurt him so much. Instead, I looked up and saw the tears falling from his handsome face. "Rory, nothing in this world could make me hate you."
I had only seen him cry twice in our more than a handful of years together. The first time was in joy, when Honored had given birth to our nephew. And even then, he fabricated that something was stuck in his eye. And the second was at his Grandfather's funeral, where he had held onto my hand so tight, as if I was the only thing keeping him standing there. And even those moments didn't compare to this. He wasn't hiding anything from me. He was allowing himself to be vulnerable as I was in that moment.
"I knew it a long time ago, Ace. That it would always be you I came back to. Nothing else matters. Not where we work, or where we live. It won't matter if we never have kids of our own, or if we decide to adopt a dozen. It wouldn't matter to me if we lived on a shrimp boat, out to sea where you'd have to stop shaving your leg hair. The point is that I love you, Rory. I have for a long time, and I'll never stop."
"Even if we'll never be a normal family? Don't you want that?" I saw the life we could have had, with a big house, and a yard. With blonde, blue eyed babies running around. They would trail in mud and read classic literature. And more importantly, they would have a complete family. A whole unit, like both Logan and I had missed out on.
Oh, and then he looked at me. That look he gave me, and I knew he wanted to devour me whole.
"Normal is boring. Normal is overrated. Normal is not why you love me." He said as he pulled me by my elbow closer to him, and laid those eloquently tender lips on mine. And I knew I was back home.
It was a remarkable feeling, to have your heart break and be put back together in the same stretched out handful of seconds. A moment, shared between two souls that had a sense of belonging to each other. Logan Huntzberger had saved me from myself more than once. He was my other half, and we completed each other in a way that no one else could. Here in his embrace I felt safe. I felt alive, and whole. And I knew as long as we held had this, I would never have to question it again.
Author's Note: So, what do we all think? Do you like where it was left off, or should there have been more? Leave a note and tell me what you think!
Also, I have another story in the works for anybody who is a fan of Glee. So, be on a look out for that. Thank you all!