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Affinity Business School (ABS) provides Master of Business Management and Post-Graduate Diploma in Mangaement. ABS is an autonomous business School, which is situated in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India. was established on 7th September 2008 and is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The institute is affiliated to Utkal University. The campus is set up adjacent to Barnuei hills and provides an amicable atmosphere that has led to creating excellent leaders in the field of management. To back this up, Affinity Business School has a solid infrastructure ranging from a very beautiful campus and hostels to a strong IT backbone and the latest in teaching aids. The solid infrastructure is one of the pillars of the institution that has helped it achieve its goal of developing excellent professionals. The aim of Affinity Business School is to create business leaders that could be flag bearers of the next business generation via a series of innovative programs. With a short span of its existence, Affinity business School has produced envious placement records. The Affinity Business School strives to deliver education with a human face and relies on the methodology of Vedic, Yogic and scientific management that help in the development of character building amongst the students. Affinity Business School is committed to create business leaders through its innovative programmes, outstanding faculty and effective leadership.
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The FBI may be after Apple, but so far, the CFPB isn't, at least as far as Apple Pay is concerned.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accepts complaints (and comments) about mobile wallets, which it categorizes as a subset of prepaid cards. You won't find any mentions of Apple Pay there, though, since the CFPB only tracks mobile wallets in which consumers can hold funds. That includes PayPal, and until recently, Google Wallet.
Google Wallet split into two services with the launch of Android Pay in Sept. 2015. There is now an app called "Android Pay" for card-based purchases with merchants, and "Google Wallet," which is for peer-to-peer money transfers. Apple Pay, by contrast, is not an app, and its P2P functionality is still a future proposition.
Google had 14 mobile wallet-related complaints in the CFPB database from Dec. 2014 to Dec. 2015. (Since none were later than this latter date, it appears Android Pay is be safe from CFPB scrutiny for the moment, as well.) Just one, related to unauthorized transactions, was settled with monetary relief.
PayPal, meanwhile, had 135 CFPB complaints dating back to the fall of 2014, with 20 settled with monetary relief. PayPal, which paid a fine of $25 million for other regulatory trouble related to offers of credit in May 2015, pushed back against the CFPB around the same time, saying its account holders typically hold $60 or less in their accounts, and for short amounts of time.
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Apple does not have a collection agency that will come after you to try and collect the amount owed. It will just sit there with a negative balance, but you will not be able to download app updates or use the account for anything other than viewing the store. After a period of about two years, the account will be closed and any past purchases will no longer be able to be used as any new computers won't be able to be authorized to play them because the account is closed. iTunes is a low profit business for Apple so they do not spend money on collection agencies or attorneys.
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Chapter One
Chapter One
Books sat piled high on a large, dark oak table. The names on the spines of the books were faded, old. There was a slight smell of dust and ancient ink and old paper that assailed my nostrils as Shiki, Kitsaia and I sat at said table among the towers of books. I had two different books spread in front of me, opened to certain pages. Pieces of paper stuck out of both books, marking pages for later reference. "What's the advantage of wind?" I asked. We were actually doing something worthwhile: Speaking of elements in magic.
"You can blow back the enemy's attacks, change the way the wind blows so you catch their scent instead, and you can knock the enemy back themselves," Kitsaia answered quickly, slamming a book shut and sliding it across the table before grabbing the top one from the stack nearest her and opening it. Her blond hair was pulled into a pony tail today, her light blue dress not tied all the way so it wasn't as tight as it should have been.
"Meanwhile, the disadvantage is that you can summon too big of a wind and thereby destroy something you didn't mean to destroy," Shiki added, flipping lazily through a newer looking book. His feet were propped up on the table, his raven black hair falling into his emerald eyes. I quickly flicked to a marked page in the smaller of my two books.
"Good, good," I said, scanning the pages I had opened to. "Shiki--get your feet off the table! Now, how about earth?"
"Control plants, create earth quakes, the whole shebang," Shiki answered, closing his book and tossing it to the center of the table before grabbing another from underneath his chair. He opened it underneath the table top.
"Put the pop up book away," Kitsaia ordered, still flipping through her book Shiki jumped and looked at his little sister, wondering how she had known it was a pop up. He slammed it shut. How did I know all of this? Because I know my siblings. I've memorized the way they act; their actions. I know when something's up. "The disadvantages of it, however, are much the same as wind's disadvantages. But, you cannot attack from distances of miles away, like you can with wind."
"Can we talk about something different?" Shiki interjected before I could ask another question. I sighed and nodded, causing both Shiki and Kitsaia to smile. "What's the ultimate element?"
"You both know that there's no ultimate element!" Shiki and Kitsaia both grinned.I was touchy when it came to such subjects. Actually, 'touchy' wouldn't be an accurate word--more like anal. "It's impossible! No one element can be stronger than another! There are checks and balances!"
"We mean theoretically," the blond female explained in a soothing voice.
"Well, then .if you mean theoretically, I guess it would be, umm," I was at a loss for words as I tried to think. Even theoretically, there was no ultimate element.
"If there were an ultimate element," a new voice said from behind my chair. We all jerked slightly and turned around. "-then it would have to be darkness."
"Rorin!" Kitsaia shouted, greeting our cousin. He was towering over the back of my chair, an amused look on his face. With his bright red hair and dark green eyes, he was hard to mistake. His bushy redish orange and black tail twitched slightly at the volume of Kitsaia's voice.
Shiki and I shared at look at our cousins words. It reminded the both of us of our conversation in the forest last moon. "Hello Rorin," we said in unison. Yes, we're creepy twins like that. Deal with it.
"Twins, Kitsaia," Rorin said in greeting. He stepped forward slightly and pushed me to the far side of my chair before sitting down in the same chair. It was a snug fit, but made manageable by my small size.
"Why is it you say that darkness would be the ultimate element if there was one?" Shiki asked, removing his feet from the table and leaning forward slightly. I glared at Rorin for moving me.
"Simply because it is within darkness that all things are born, and within darkness that we find our true purpose," he answered vaguely. Kitsaia closed her book quietly and looked at Rorin in slight wonder.
"Oh," I said simply, reaching forward and closing my own books. I decided to change the conversation quickly before word of my fit got out during their conversation. "Where have you been, cousin?"
Rorin smiled faintly, causing the scar on the side of his face to contort, making him look like a mad man. "I've been out, working." My siblings and I shared a look. We didn't know what their cousin did for a living, but we could easily tell that it was not pleasant. The last time he had been out working, he had been rushed to the castle by a group of people in masks, beaten and bleeding to death.
"Ah," was my response.
"Did you know the founder of the clan?" Shiki asked, seemingly out of the blue. We all stared at him. That had been an incredibly random question for him to ask.
"Um, no. He was dead before I was born," Rorin answered. "Why do you want to know?"
"I merely wished to know what our grandfather was like." Our supposed dynasty was in the early stages, our mother only being the second queen of the demon race. "Why don't you ask your mother?" We froze.
"Because she's too busy," Kitsaia said after a moment.
"Yes, we don't wish to disturb her," I added. Rorin smiled knowingly. He opened his mouth to say something, and then looked over his shoulder and looked back in hesitation.
"We'll talk later," he said before standing and bowing. "I must go." He straightened and turned on his heel, going deeper into the maze of bookshelves that constructed the library. We stared after him, confused.
"What are you three looking at?" a female voice asked us. We froze entirely; even our breathing stopped. "Hello?" I turned my head slightly to see our aunt, Haeso, standing just behind Shiki. Her amber colored hair was scraped into a messy braid, traveling down her spine and ending at her waist. Her orange eyed gaze was looking to where Rorin had disappeared to.
"Nothing, Auntie. Just a hybrid cub that lost its mother," I answered deftly, hiding a smirk as Haeso glared at me, pale pink tail's twitching.
"You don't humor me, Princess," Haeso told me. I was the only one who remembered what secrets Haeso had to hide. "Anyways, I need the three of you to come with me."
"Goddess, don't erase our memories again!" Kitsaia wailed. Shiki lunged across the table and clamped his hand over our blond sister's mouth, silencing her. No one was to know that they remembered anything, especially those close to the queen. A frown tugged at Haeso's pale lips.
"You remember?" she asked. "You all remember?"
"Bits and pieces of it," I answered for my siblings as Shiki continued to try and silence Kitsaia. "What we don't remember is why she had you do that, or who the founder of our clan was."
Haeso frowned fully and sat on the table top, smoothing out her skirts as she did so. "I am forbidden to tell you anything pertaining as to why Her Majesty had me do that. As to the founder of our clan," she paused slightly. "Well, the founder of our clan was fair, just, and a total goofball."
"What else was there about him?" I pressed. There was certain things Shiki and I had to know about him--mostly me. I didn't want to be a ruler like my mother. Kitsaia had calmed and was taking deep breaths. Shiki and I both knew that it was all for show. "What was his name? His element? What did he look like?"
Haeso's delicate eyebrows scrunched together. "My father's name stared with an 'r' . He looked like Shiki does, but with topaz eyes. As to his element- " Haeso's eyebrows straightened and she stood- "you'll have to find for yourself. Now, however, it is time for your combat practice."
I groaned.
Haeso had refused to give us any time to change into more appropriate clothing for combat practice. She wasn't going to change out of her dress, either. Kitsaia was looking around avidly for a way to get out of it as we walked through the many stone hallways towards the door that would lead to the practice fields.
I was dreading having to fight in the dress that I was wearing. Goddess knows what would happen--I'd most likely return to the castle in naught but a cloak. It would most likely be ruined if I were to be paired with Alistair or Illyana again.
Speaking of my shadow of a body guard, I looked over my shoulder. Illyana crept through the shadows, cowl on her cape up and covering her face. I couldn't see her blue eyes, nor her pink hair. All I was was a five and a half foot shadow following me. I turned my head to look where I was walking.
"Who are we going to be paired up with this time, Haeso?" Shiki asked the question that was on all three of our minds. I knew that he didn't want to fight merely because he was lazy. I and our little sister however, didn't wish to train because they both knew that if I got cut it would end in disaster for the both of us.
If I were to be cut, I would either bleed out or lose much blood and have to have another transfusion. My platelet count in my blood was low, and my injuries would bleed longer than most. If someone got a paper cut, it would only bleed for a few seconds, a minute a most. However, if I got a paper cut it could bleed for minutes at a time. If I got cut and Kitsaia were to smell the blood, Kitsaia would most likely attack me for it.
Kitsaia wasn't mine and Shiki's sister by blood. She was our sister by adoption, and no one really knew what she was. She wasn't a demon, like we were, but something else. She had the looks of an elf, but her skin was far to pale. She also had the looks and habits of a vampire, but she loved the sunlight and wasn't affected in the least by it.
"I'm not sure yet. I only know that Lennana will be paired Sir Alistair again-at his request." I muttered something very un-lady like under my breath and picked up the skirts my snow white dress as I walked faster. I was going to kick Sir Alistair in a very unfortunate place. "Calm down, Lennana. I don't understand why you despise him so much."
I began to grind my teeth together. "Last we fought, he called me short!" Kitsaia giggled; Shiki laughed and Haeso raised an eyebrow the short princess.
"He called you short, so you despise him?" she asked. I nodded vigorously. I was walking ahead of the group.
"Precisely! He must understand that I am not short!"
"Yes! You're just faerie sized!" Kitsaia shouted. I stopped in my tracks and turned to face my sister. My eyebrow was twitching and Shiki erupted into more laughter at his little sister's words. Haeso giggled a bit, and then regained her composure.
"Come along now. Let's not fight until we re out upon the fields!" Haeso said, quickly walking to get ahead of me. "We'd hate to have the staff clean the blood off of the floor." Shiki followed his aunt, still laughing. Kitsaia followed him, laughing about faeries. I huffed and followed last.
I hate faeries.
The practice fields lay just outside the walls of the castle. Knights and squires were practicing on the trampled grass, along with archers and magic casters. The practice grounds themselves were surrounded by a wooden fence that people were leaning against, resting or watching the others practice.
The three royalties followed their aunt out to the practice field. Those practicing and those resting or watching bowed as they passed. It was fairly sunny outside today, and it showed the auburn highlights in Shiki's hair, as well as the white ones in Kitsaia's. From a distance, Lennana looked to have a marshmallow on her head, charred to points at the top.
That was how Alistair knew that they were coming. He saw the short, walking, charred marshmallow in a white dress and grinned. Lady Haeso was bringing Princess Lennana to fight with him. He vaguely wondered how Lady Haeso had gotten Lennana to agree to fight him again, especially after the last incident. He hadn't meant to call her short; it just slipped out in the heat of the moment.
He watched as Lennana detached herself from the group and began to make her way towards him. It was a shame that her dress was so white, because it was going to be unrecognizable by the time he was done with her today. "Greetings, Princess Lennana," he said with a grin, sweeping into a bow. Alistair was the youngest knight of the demon queen's force by far, but he was one of the more experienced despite his age. He also happened to be the head of the castle guard.
"Sir Alistair." I acknowledged him with a bow of my head. He righted himself, and then pushed his dark brown hair out of his light blue eyes. He was tall, but he wasn't muscled like most other knights. I mean, he wasn't a giant, hulking thing, but he was lean. It amazed quite a few people how such a small, scrawny looking demon could be in charge of the castle guard and the Queen's armies.
"I see you chose to wear a dress today," he commented as he looked me up and down. Illyana came up behind me, silent as a shadow, and handed me a sheathed short sword before bowing to Alistair and going to sit on the fence. "Although white looks marvelous on you, I must say that your maids made the wrong choice on how to dress you today."
I ground my teeth, resisting the urge to kick him in the shins, or anywhere else for that matter. I would be civil, as I had promised her aunt. At least, I would try and be civil. "Unfortunately, Lady Haeso would not allow us to change."
Alistair laughed shortly. "You should always know how to fight in whatever conditions, so you should practice as such." He smiled. "Even if you are short and will most likely never have to be in a fight, considering their attacks could never hit one as short as you."
My aura darkened slightly as I glared at the knight. Without a word, I drew the short sword out of its sheath. I knew that I would most likely get tangled up in my skirts and lose the match. When fighting with Alistair, I knew I would have to be creative. The last time we had practiced together, he had nearly cut off my arm and I hadn't been able to land a single hit on him.
Alistair smiled at me. He drew his own sword, it being two and a half hands long, and relaxed completely. "You first, Princess." I narrowed my eyes at him. I didn't want to have to move, and my aunt had restricted the use of magic during these matches. I had no way to attack him if I didn't want to move because, if I did, I knew I would wind up on the ground entangled in my skirts and Alistair would go in for the kill.
Frowning, I slipped off my slippers and lunged at the knight, who simply brought up his blade and defended himself half heartedly. There was no power behind my lunge. "Where's your normal enthusiasm?" Alistair asked, dropping down and sweeping with his leg towards mine, hoping to knock me down. I, seeing what was about to happen, hopped up into the air, causing Alistair to miss.
"It died when you were knighted," I responded icily, landing back on the ground. In truth, I was really just trying not to get entagled in my skirts. Alistair pushed up on the ground with his hands, popping back into a standing position like a jack in the box. He laughed at my answer as he slashed at me. I bent back and his blade narrowly missed my chest. However, Ithen fell onto my back on the ground from the weight of not only my skirts, but also her momentum.
Alistair flicked his wrist halfway through his blades path, directing it towards my throat. I had no time to move as the tip of the sword landed at the hollow of my throat. "Dead, " he stated, flicking his blade away from my throat and sheathing it. "Come now princess, that was pitiful. You should have moved when you had the chance!" He bent slightly and offered me his hand.
I batted it away with my own clawed hand and rolled onto my stomach. I then placed my hands on the ground and pushed myself up and stood from there. My whitedress was coated in a fine layer of dust. I then bent and retrieved my short sword, which I had lost when I fell. "I would have moved, Sir Alistair, but I am wearing a dress. If I had moved my legs would have become entangled in the skirts. I have enough trouble balancing without that, thank you very much."
Alistair frowned at this information. "Then maybe you should wear shorter skirts," he suggested. I looked at him strangely.
"What do you mean?" I asked, part of me dreading the answer. Alistair looked to the fence where Illyana was perched. He then looked back to the princess.
"Are you comfortable with your body guard touching you?"
"I suppose," I said slowly. I was not sure where this conversation was going to go. Alistair smiled and looked over his shoulder at Illyana.
"Sir, would you care to come aid me?" he asked. I had to hold back a laugh as Illyana nodded and slipped from the fence. Not many knew the true identity of my guard, seeing as she always wore her hooded cloak. "I need you to trim her skirts to a reasonable length, if you would be so kind." Illyana bobbed a quick bow and headed to me. I made a noise in anger.
Shiki and Kitsaia were covered in bruises from their own spars. Kitsaia's baby blue dress was ripped at the hem from where she had stepped on it, and Shiki didn't have a single spot on his clothing. They were headed over to where Alistair was sparring with their elder sister. They couldn't help but stare slightly at the sight that met them.
Illyana stood on the fence, surveying the scene before her. Alistair was on the ground, Lennana standing above him, his own sword in her hands and pointing at his neck. Her once white dress was unrecognizable and the hem of it was chopped all the way up to her knees, showing off pale white calves. Alistair had a slash on his cheek, while Lennana bore not a single cut. The wide sleeves of her dress were ripped in random places; her white hair now looked to be white brown.
Kitsaia burst into gales of laughter. My dress was ravaged, and Sir Alistair had been beaten by a girl. How delightful. She clapped in joy. "Wonderful job, sister!" she shouted in glee as Haeso came up behind her. She took one look at the scene and shook her head in wonder. How I had managed to bring a knight down while I was wearing a dress obviously eluded her.
"What did you do to your dress?" Shiki asked me, smirking. It didn't matter to him how I had managed to take Alistair down or get his sword, let alone wield it. All that really mattered was what I had done to her dress. "It's destroyed."
Kitsaia elbowed her brother in the ribs, smiling. "I think it suits her--fairy sized!" I and Alistair looked towards the small group. I was glaring. Fairies wore their dresses cut to their knees. I shook my head and looked back at Sir Alistair-I would hurt my sister later. I moved my hands, and then dropped the weapon I held to the ground a safe distance away my opponent.
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For nearly three years, my partner has been paying £150 per month to DCM Apex Debt Management, equating to £4,000. We have now learnt that the company has gone into administration. My partner has already spoken to a no-fee company about what to do next (ie, contact all his debtors, let them know he was with DCM and that they should contact him directly, and offer to pay something to all of them each month). He is going to contact the OFT and the administrators.
Our big concern is whether we have lost the £4,000? He originally owed around £15,000, so was well on the way to clearing his debts (they said he would be able to do this over eight years). But now this puts us back to square one, we can barely afford the £150 per month and don't have any options to consolidate the payments into one loan to pay it all off.
We both work and have good jobs (joint income £46,000) but have a baby, and all of our money is going on household expenses and childcare. I've tried to find out whether there are any guarantees about trying to get our money back, but I don't think they were governed by the Financial Services Authority. KB, Nottingham
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The forward has performed admirably in a difficult season for The Pirates, netting 15 goals, and his efforts have led to speculation that he could be set for a bigger stage.
Thompson is aware that while the forward continues to bang in the goals, the speculation will continue.
He said: "We've had phone calls from people checking on him and some have been fishing for an asking price, but we haven't got one because we don't want to sell him.
"There haven't been any bids and it seems that every time we have a striker at this club who is doing well, everyone immediately assumes he's off somewhere.
"Nathan's under contract with us and I want to keep him here as long as I can.
"But while he's scoring we know the speculation will go on, though it's unsettling for him when he needs to keep his feet on the ground."
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Chapter Seven:
Seymour set Crowlinger's boots, now spotless, on the kitchen floor beside their owner's feet. "Here you are, sir."
The inspector leaned over them and wrinkled his nose. "They smell."
"Not a whole lot worse than they smelt before."
"Listen, de Winter. I have no intention of wearing clothing that reeks of your vomit. Either get the smell out, or find me a new pair of shoes to wear."
Seymour thought for a moment. "I could douse them with perfume. That ought to mask it."
"Well, sir, I'd lend you some of my own boots, but frankly, they'd look like clown shoes on you. Wouldn't be very comfortable, either, I'd imagine."
Crowlinger got up and padded over to the door. "What about these?" he asked, gesturing at Lord Henry's boots, which were leaning haphazardly against the coatrack.
Seymour blanched. "No, those won't work."
"Why not?" the inspector asked, picking the left one up to study. "They look about my size."
"I can't let you take them. They don't belong to me."
Snorting, Crowlinger turned the boot over in his hands. "Clearly they don't. This is some nice leatherwork. And…silver buckles. You couldn't afford even one of these if you saved up for years."
"Exactly," said Seymour. "Put it down, please."
He set the shoe back down on the floor and straightened up. "But then what is it doing in your flat, merman?"
"A friend of mine left them here. Temporarily."
"Shoes aren't the sort of thing one just leaves at a friend's house, de Winter. And since when have you had friends? Let alone rich friends?" Crowlinger raised his eyebrows and began to scan the room. "I see your 'friend' left his cloak and his hat here, as well. And his gloves."
Seymour found himself frozen in place. "What of it?"
"I'm going to deduce, merman, by means of the gentleman's shoes by the door and the gentleman's cloak on the rack and the gentleman's hat and gloves on the table, that there is a gentleman somewhere in this flat. And seeing as the only part of your flat not visible from here is your bedroom, then, unless he escaped through the window using a rope made out of your tied-together linens, there is a gentleman in your bedroom."
His throat felt suddenly too dry to speak. He swallowed and stumbled backwards a step.
"What is a gentleman doing in your bedroom, Mr. de Winter?"
"With all due respect, Inspector, that's none of your fucking business."
"Isn't it my job to report crimes?"
"I thought you had no intention of forfeiting such an invaluable asset over something so trivial as an interspecies relationship."
"Perhaps I've changed my mind," Crowlinger said, striding for the bedroom door with his arm outstretched at knob-level.
"Don't." Seymour stumbled towards him in an attempt to intercept him. "Please don't."
The inspector placed his hand on the doorknob. "I can't help but be curious, de Wi—"
The door growled.
"He has an attack dog," said Seymour.
Crowlinger stepped backward, but the door opened anyway, revealing Henry—sloppily dressed and wearing one of Seymour's scarves around his head in such a manner that his face was concealed but for his right eye—standing in the doorway with his left hand in Lupe's collar and his right on the hilt of his sword. "She's bred to kill," he whispered. "As am I."
Smiling uncomfortably, Seymour reached past Crowlinger and shut the door gently in Henry's face. "Very well. Has your curiosity been satisfied, sir?"
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If you want to have a hockey league, you need to have someone to play against. So you need an opponent. If the Toronto Maple Leafs want to have their players skate around at center ice by themselves and charge fans $300, let's see how many will pay.
At the end of the day, if these 30 independent business can somehow act as a single business to control the cost of labor, then these 30 independent businesses need to work share in the responsibility and sacrifice of fixing the game's economics.
FInally, I think it's really bad form to go around calling other people's arguments "Stupid" if you have nothing "smart" to offer. More specifically, nothing in your "critique" of my "stupid argument" makes the case for the Rich Teams making some of the sacrifice.
If the Detroits,NYRangers, Torontos, Montreals etc did more sharing, it would INCREASE parity.
That's kind of the point.
What are you talking about?
"Or you can just have owners who don't want to risk 2 years of uninsured contract not offer the contracts
If the risk is so costly, you'd think most owners would naturally avoid the extra two years."
Where in your post or my post was revenue sharing mentioned at all? I agree there needs to be more sharing.
The only thing I was arguing is it's going to throw off parity if some teams are giving the longer contracts out and others either can't afford it or are forced to give them out it is bad business for those teams. Actually it's bad business for all the teams but there is always going to be 1 or 2 crazy owners who just don't care and then the market is set. I stand by my statement "well if they don't wanna give it out don't" is a dumb argument.
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Kim Kardashian has found another "selfish" way to make money.
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The reality star is publishing a 352-page hardcover book of her selfies -- and she's appropriately calling it Selfish. The photobook is set to come out from Rizzoli Publishing in April 2015 for $19.95. Kim might have a tough time selecting photos. She said she took more than 1200 selfies on her family's vacation in Thailand last year.
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Supermodel, actress and author Naomi Campbell is the latest woman to speak out and fight back against Instagram's controversial NSFW policy.
The 45-year-old followed the likes of Miley Cyrus and Chelsea Handler when she posted a photo of herself on the site baring her breasts as part of the 'Free The Nipple' campaign, which questions the double standards of Instagram and Facebook censoring female nipples but not male ones.
The point being raised by campaigners (and by some of those seen commenting on Campbell's Instagram post) is that it's hypocritical for only women's topless photos to be censored, and the movement seeks to strip society of its tendency to sexualise the female upper body.
Unfortunately, it wasn't long until Instagram had censored the photo – within 20 hours Instagram had removed the topless image from their site under their aforementioned guidelines (which kind of proved the point Campbell was trying to make).
Following the outcry over the photo's removal, a spokesperson for Instagram said:
We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don't allow nudity on Instagram.
The photograph was taken from a new shoot Campbell did for Garage magazine. As well as being some good promotion for Campbell's latest project, it also continued to raise awareness for the 'Free The Nipple' campaign.
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Duane Starkenburg Redefined The Meaning Of Assclown - Jailed After Attacking Women Joggers, Burying Face In Their Buttocks
Seattle, Washington (The Weekly Vice) - Duane Starkenburg, a 46-year-old Washington man was jailed Tuesday after he allegedly attacked three women joggers - planting his face inside the butt cheeks of two women and attempting to assault a third woman the same way.
Investigators say the first attack was on August 11, the second on December 8, and a third incident last week.
In August, a woman was jogging with her dog in the park when a man she had just passed tripped and grabbed her hips as he fell.
"He did a face plant in my butt (and) lingered for a few moments," she told detectives.
When the woman managed to break free, she looked back to find Starkenburg looking at his hands.
"He was on the ground looking at his hands," she stated. "It was just an act. He was like 'What just happened.'"
On December 8, a woman was walking up a staircase to the park's parking lot when Starkenburg popped "out of nowhere," and asked her for help because of an injury. As she helped him up the stairs, he reportedly got behind her, grabbed her hips and then buried his head in her buttocks.
"I screamed... His nose was up my butt. I was very shocked," the woman told detectives.
The woman kicked Starkenburg away after he attempted to hang onto her her ankles. Once she broke free, he reportedly apologized and claimed it was an accident.
Last Tuesday, Starkenburg struck again. Investigators say he ran up from behind and tried to tackle a woman, throwing his arms around her legs. The man "grabbed both of the front of her thighs and slid down to her ankles," stated the arrest affidavit.
The woman was able to kick free of Starkenburg before fleeing the scene. Starkenburg also reportedly fled the scene, however he was apprehended by police a short time later.
Investigators say Starkenburg admitted to the incidents, but again claimed that they were accidents.
During a police interview, Starkenburg reportedly told detectives that he visits the park every day to "watch women run as he likes to watch them 'jiggle and bounce.'"
"It's not like I drag the women into the bushes and rape them," he told investigators.
Starkenburg we booked into jail on two counts of indecent liberties and one count attempted indecent liberties. He was released after his parents posted his $150,000 bond.
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If the cleaning lady did half the things I think she does in my room, she wouldn't get more than two rooms done the entire day.
Headlining one of the biggest fight cards of the year are bantamweights Urijah Faber and Renan Barao, who will square off for the second time, after Barao took a unanimous decision in their first meeting to earn the promotion's interim title at UFC 149.
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Nest of Stone won the jury Prize for the professional short film competition at the BeThere Animation Festival in Corfu Greece.
Nest of Stone won the jury Prize for the professional short film competition at the BeThere Animation Festival in Corfu Greece.
Hi had the pleasure to design the Poster for the 5th Be there Animation Festival in Corfu. For the poster I drew inspiration from some of the iconography of my favourite "wild" artists, such as Yeronimous bosch, Henri Rousseau, Marc Chagall and Gemma Carrington. Homage images are dotted in the poster.
The theme as requested by BeThere was based portraying Europe, with all its charm and contradictions. I tried to capture the essence of Europe. "Europa" as an idea. "Europa" is a child: her head made of everything she learns, hopes, and fears. She isn't yet an adult, free, full of potential… but chaotic, messy. A child makes mistakes but has hope for the future. Everything is made of ideas.
Vasillis, the director of the festival kindly wrote "The talented Kim Noce has the ability to capture an almost magical sense of the face within an environment always complex, always interesting"
I would recommend for anyone head to the festival for the weekend of the 15th Oct http://betherefest.gr
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I am delighted a GIF Emma Allen and I created at the southbank for "WebWeWant" has been included in the wonderful Fantoche GIF programme "#gif #fantoche".
The film event will be shown two times, one Wednesday in the location "Royal" where "Bit-Tuner" (http://bit-tuner.net/) will produce the beats to it.
The second time it will be shown on Saturday at the "Fantoche on Bikes", an open air bike powered cinema where "Obertonstruktur der Kaulquappe "(http://obertonstrukturderkaulquappe.ch/) will contribute the music. Both screenings will be free of charge, and open to everyone to go to Fantoche and enjoy our work on the big screen.
5 September, 9 p. m., no entry fee #gif #fantoche, 55'
As an ever-changing online format for micro-animations, GIF culture is continuing to gain recognition as an art form. The combination of speed, innovation and almost limitless adaptability is key to its popularity. As part of a curated programme, Fantoche will show the funniest, most beautiful and most exciting GIFs set to a score performed live on-site.
In Animation Goes Multimedia Fantoche looks into the subject of the interaction of cinematic animation with other art genres in multimedia-based daily application.In this project we want to show how animation finds new areas of application through exhibitions, workshops and panel-talks. We would like to show the visitors how animation will draw attention in the future on a daily basis: what new worlds on your smartphone will you carry around in your pockets in the future? How are we being influenced by the more and more realistic gameworlds, books with augmented reality, and animation in urban space? What interfaces are there between animation and graphic design, game design, interactive design and publicity? Fantoche depicts complex contexts for a wide public with exhibitions where visitors can click and scroll actively.
When Fantoche first launched back in 1995, it announced itself as the "new arrival in the Swiss festival landscape, a sapling in the shadow of Zurich's cultural hothouse." The founders of Fantoche, Otto Alder, Frank Braun, Suzanne Buchan and Peter Hossli, were inspired by a sense of idealism, by an absolute love of animation, as well as by the desire to open up this "realm of boundless opportunities" to Switzerland.
Fantoche is both a festival for the general public and a meeting place for the film and creative industries in equal measure. It comprises an international and a national short film competition, a carefully chosen selection of animated feature films, its own programme slots for innovative computer games, themes with in-depth insights into the medium of animation and games, a multifaceted programme for children and young people, school classes and student groups as well as a diverse offering of lectures, panel discussions, presentations and exhibitions.
Nest week Shaun and I are off to Edinburgh International Film Festival where we will be screening the World Premiere of our new film "The evening her mind jumped out of her head". A hand drawn 8 minute animation, tells the story of a serious woman who is forced to lighten up when her mind jumps out of her head. The film will be part of the Mclaren Award: New British Animation Section screening 2 and will be shown on the 24th June, 16:00 at Filmhouse 1.
Shortly afterwards it will screen at Anima Mundi in Brasil.
For more information about the film please visit the website here: website and tickets can be bought here
The Mclaren Award: New British Animation Section 2
From the sublime to the silly, this collection of outstanding UK-produced animation is a tour-de-force of talent. It is tempting to describe the selection as introspective, as many directors look inwards examining the culture and consumption of animation. But for every post-modern conundrum, there are joyous extrapolations of other ideas. All films in McLaren Award programmes are eligible for this year's prize, voted on by you: the audience!
"Hunters Downstream" is my latest experiment where I got the chance to collaborate with writer Sarah Woolner, composer Hutch Demouilpied and actor Penelope McGhie. I wanted to create a fully immersive environment, to guide you through a journey across 5 different physical spaces/rooms where you would navigate inside a memory.
It is an installation, it is a journey, it is a spectacle…. and a mixture of a lot of other stuff. I wanted to be playful, I wanted to capture a memory in its raw state: feeling images, repetition, sounds and the perception of memories more leaning towards the language of dream than the one of reality and film. I feel this is the beginning of a new journey where I can start to explore immersive experiences.
So in short, "Hunters Downstream" is an immersive multimedia installation combining projected animation, miniature sets, kinetic sculptures and soundscapes. The installation merges film, theatre, sculpture and drawings to create something that is its own kind of spectacle.
I am currently making a short film exploring the exhibition in a cinematic format and adding new elements. Meanwhile you can have a glimpse of the exhibition in the video below
(These clips were taken during the opening night)
"Hunters Downstream", the exhibition opened on the 16 May 2015 at Watford Museum, England, UK. The installation was funded by www.watfordmuseum.org.uk for Museum at Night & Culture 24.
Photos taken by John Osborne and Sarah Priestley
The Event was part of Museum at Night at Watford Museum and was funded by Watford Museum. This works could have not being created without the support and enthusiasm of the museum staff!
Special Event at Watford Museum for Museum at Night to explore kinetic animations, soundscapes, drop in zoetrope workshop, live music, vinyl sale, drink bar, exhbitions, and more with: installation by Mew Lab, Voice by Penelope McGhie, story by Sarah Woolner, Soundscape by Hutch Demouilpied, vinyl sale & coffees bar by The LP Cafe, exhibition by Sheelagh Frew Crane -RunBlackWolf , zoetroope, workshop by Quirky Pictures with Suraya Raja, music by Minnie Birch and Tom M Craven, locally breweed beer from Pope's Yard Brewery, kinetic sculputre premiere by Lobby Lud, Wrap workshop with R Katterhorn
This weekend I am running running a fabulous event/workshop with Emma Allen and Oana Nechifor, about my favourite subject: Identity and Animation!
We will be Saturday and Sunday at the Southbank for the Web We Want Festival. Full details can be found at the event page webwewant.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/animating-avatars-1299
"Who are you online? What shapes your web identity? Do you portray yourself or create another persona?
Explore avatars, selfies and modified profile pictures in this creative workshop that explores our digital identities.
All the result of the event can be found here quirkypicturesanimationworkshops.tumblr.com
And here a small write up for the event webwewant.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/art-gifs-1453
More info about the festival can be found in the the main page
I am delighted I have been invite to present my work at Underwire Festival for the talk hosted by Animate Projects in Persistence of Vision on November 15, 2014 2:00 pm.
I will be showing 2 of my films: After and Nest of Stone. I will be sharing the stage with Kris Hofmann & Laura Hulme and their wonderful work!
Here a little bit about the event: "Hear from established animation professionals on how to make your mark in the business – whether it be working independently, in a studio, or mixing both worlds – and how to stay true to your vision at the same time. The panel will feature animators Kris Hofmann, Laura Hulme and Kim Noce, who will present their personal and commercial work, and will be chaired by producer Abigail Addison from Animate Projects.
You can buy tickets here http://www.underwirefestival.com/event/animate-projects-presents-persistence-of-vision/


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Replying to an EC debate at the Scottish Conservative Party conference in Edinburgh, the Foreign Secretary urged the diehard opponents of Maastricht to halt the wrangling over the past and unite for the future.
But his appeal had been anticipated by Bill Walker, the colourful MP for North Tayside, who warned of the unstoppable process of economic and monetary union.
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'The party is split from top to bottom on Maastricht - we may as well recognise it. We should stop trying to sweep it under the carpet; it's there. The country is split as well, and it's time we had a referendum so that the people could tell us what they really want.'
But if the Danes reverse last year's no-vote on Maastricht in their rerun referendum next Tuesday, the Commons will give the European Communities (Amendment) Bill its Third Reading by a resounding majority next Thursday. That vote, in which Labour will abstain, will be taken by the Government as Commons approval for ratification of the treaty, probably this summer.
Nevertheless, Mr Hurd went out of his way to offer reassurance to the Conservative opponents in his reply to the debate. He said that those who had called for the creation of a super-state had been blocked at Maastricht, and in the principle of subsidiarity the Prime Minister had planted a signpost away from centralisation and towards national precedence.
Mr Hurd then offered the prospect of further changes ahead, flowing from the expansion of membership to take in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Austria in 1995 - ahead of the next scheduled review of the treaties, in 1996. By the turn of the century, he said, others like Hungary, Poland and the Czech and Slovak republics would be ready for membership, too.
'We are looking at an increasingly diverse Community of 20, even more, and that can't work on the basis of a Community of twelve,' he said. 'We don't want to weaken the existing core policies and achievements. But it's clear to me that we will need to be more flexible.'
That flexibility could mean greater use of inter-governmental agreements on a variety of issues, and the Foreign Secretary cited the examples of the Schengen Agreement on frontiers, in which the UK was not a participant, and the Western European Union, of which Ireland and Denmark were not full members.
That hint of a Brussels by-pass was reinforced by a direct appeal to the Tory rebels. Mr Hurd said: 'Those who challenge the treaty, as Bill Walker did, do so out of honourable beliefs. I do not in any way challenge his or their right to do so. Their beliefs are honourable. The nightmares by which they are haunted are genuine. They are nightmares.
'But in the light of morning, things look different. If we can all of us get it right, the recent wrangles within the party will themselves be remembered as a bad dream.'
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I am writing a module and am seeing how things are loaded and the configuration is read. Consider the case of a dynamically loaded module that has some command directives within the httpd.conf file. Next consider the following sources from server/main.c ap_server_root = def_server_root; server_conf = ap_read_config(process, ptemp, confname, &ap_conftree); ap_run_pre_config(pconf, plog, ptemp); ap_process_config_tree(server_conf, ap_conftree, process->pconf, ptemp); ap_fixup_virtual_hosts(pconf, server_conf); ap_fini_vhost_config(pconf, server_conf); apr_sort_hooks(); if (configtestonly) { ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_STARTUP | APLOG_NOERRNO, 0, NULL, "Syntax OK\n"); destroy_and_exit_process(process, 0); } apr_pool_clear(plog); ap_run_open_logs(pconf, plog, ptemp, server_conf); ap_run_post_config(pconf, plog, ptemp, server_conf); apr_pool_destroy(ptemp); According to this source I would guess that the httpd.conf file is read (ap_read_config). Then before any configuration is performed the pre_config hooks are called. Then the configurations are read and the post_config hook is called. But that is not what I am seeing happening in Apache. In the ap_read_config step my module is loaded and any command directive that the module has are also read in at that point. This means my command directive is hit before the pre_config is hit. It seems a bit incorrect since I thought the pre_config hook was an initializer that can be used to setup the module. Right now I am using the register_hooks function as an initializer. Am I missing something here? Christian Gross
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Shawn O'Malley damaged Houston's playoff hopes with a two-run, bases-loaded single in the eighth inning that gave the Seattle Mariners a 6-4 comeback victory over the Astros on Tuesday.
The Astros, who are still involved in two postseason races, were displaced in the American League wild-card chase by the Los Angeles Angels, an 8-1 winner over Oakland on Tuesday. The New York Yankees, who lost to Boston 10-4, maintains the top wild-card spot with the Angels now second. Houston slips a half-game behind Los Angeles
As for the AL West race, division-leading Texas beat Detroit 7-6, and has a two-game lead over the Angels and 2 1-2 over the Astros.
The victory broke the Mariners' six-game losing streak.
Robinson Cano hit his 20th home run, a two-run shot in the sixth off Mike Fiers that tied the game at 4-all.
Cano is the eighth second baseman to hit 20 or more homers in at least six seasons. He joins Jeff Kent (12), Dan Uggla (7), Craig Biggio (7), Joe Gordon (7), Rogers Hornsby (7), Bret Boone (6) and Ryne Sandberg (6).
It also extended Cano's hitting streak to 12 games, the longest current streak in the AL.
Tom Wilhelmsen (2-2) earned the victory with 1 2-3 innings of relief. Oliver Perez (2-4) took the loss.
Seth Smith started the winning rally with a two-out single to right off Perez. Mark Trumbo singled off Pat Neshek and Franklin Gutierrez walked. O'Malley then lined a 2-2 pitch from Neshek over second base.
George Springer had three hits for the Astros and Marwin Gonzalez hit his 12th home run.
Mariners: RHP Felix Hernandez has a tender right elbow and could be given an extra day's rest, pushing him back to Saturday. ... LHP James Paxton (left middle index finger) will not pitch again until the Arizona Fall League.
Astros: OF Carlos Gomez, who missed 13 games in September with intercostal discomfort, took batting practice before the game. He is on a track to return but manager A.J. Hinch could not say when. ... 3B Jed Lowrie left the game in the fifth with left quad soreness.
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So I was cleaning up my Journal Entries the other day (to keep things from getting cluttered and whatnot) when I came across NickinAmerica's journal post for a "Bionicle Racers" concept. I read the post and I gotta say: I like the idea a lot. I liked it so much that it actually gave me the inspiration to come up with my own concept for a rip-off of his idea; for now, I'm going to call it "LEGO(TM) Exo-Racers". It's supposed to be a spin-off of the Exo-Force(TM) toy line put out by Lego from 2005 to 2009. Except that instead of focusing on mech-like battle robots a la "Pacific Rim" and "Titan Fall", it would be more along the lines of stuff from games like "Jak X Combat Racing" and "Twisted Metal".
Set at an undisclosed point during the human-robot war (preferably during the Golden City Era), Mecha One (the leader of the robots) begins to experiment with experimental vehicle technology as a test to see if he could win the war against the humans via smaller, more compact battle vehicles. The initial tests prove successful, and he secretly launches a new line of battle vehicles designed for quick guerrilla-like attacks on the Golden City, though in locations not usually explored by neither robots nor humans. Fast forward a few months later, during a small raid on a subterranean human outpost beneath the Golden City, one of the robots piloting a battle vehicle gets hit by some defensive equipment set up at the outpost, which damages his vehicle enough to cause him to crash into a cavern wall and become permanently disabled. At that time, a lesser-known human mech pilot (who will go unnamed until further notice) happens to catch sight of the downed robot and the vehicle, and -- after grabbing some equipment from the now-completely-abandoned outpost, manages to pull the now-defunct robot out of the vehicle.
He then proceeds to scan the robot's electronic brain, where he learns about the battle vehicle and Mecha One's plans to use the vehicles to destroy the Golden City from the inside out. The pilot then decides to take both the robot and the damaged vehicle back to the Golden City's labs, where the scientists there are not only able to repair the damaged vehicle, but (with the approval of Sensei Keiken) are also able to create their own line of battle vehicles as a method of countering Mecha One's vehicles. The unnamed pilot is also appointed the leader of a new team in charge of piloting these new vehicles.
Nicknamed "Team Exo-Racers", this new team is in charge of thwarting Mecha One's plans and ensuring that none of the opposition's vehicles are able to reach the Golden City.
Unlike the normal Exo-Force(TM) toy line, Exo-Racers(TM) will be more focused on combat-based racing, with an emphasis on unique vehicle design. Each vehicle will have a unique design, unique weapons exclusive to that vehicle, etc. For example, one character's vehicle would be an ATV-style trike with snowmobile treads on it and a high-precision laser rifle, while another character's vehicle would be a monowheel with twin Gatling guns mounted on either side. And...that's all I have to say about this side of the concept. (Except for the fact that I'm considering the idea of using a variation of the Mini-Bots found in the original Exo-Force(TM) toy line.)*
Some other things I considered were the environments (well, duh), and [possibly] any music that would be fitting for each environment. For example, if I were to have one of the major battles take place in a jungle, I'd want the music to have some tribal instruments in it (i.e. flutes, bongo drums, etc.) to give a primitive/tribal/unpredictable sort of atmosphere. Also, if one of the battles were to take place in a cavern/mining tunnel environment (which it probably will), I'd want to have the music feature some ambient sounds and/or distorted echoes of spooky-sounding medleys to give it a more haunting atmosphere. Bottom line: IF I were to feature music in the story, I'd want it to be fitting for each environment, since using one specific genre of music as the main carrying point behind a soundtrack is just an archaic decision that -- to me, at least -- makes the music blend together and stagnates the genre being used for said music.
So, what do YOU guys think of my idea? Do you think it's a good or bad idea? What could be fixed or improved? Are there any ideas you'd like to pitch to me to make this concept more original? Tell me what you think in the comments below, and I look forward to hearing from all of you. And if you would like to see some of the concepts in real-life, let me know and I'll do my best to make it happen. This has been MephilesTheDark2182, signing off.


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