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Penname: katty8812
Title: Inception on a Rainy Night
Summary: Bella Swan knows the deadly secret of Professor Cullen, yet she can't help being attracted to him.
Disclaimer: Twilight and its characters belong to Stephanie Meyer though I do enjoy playing with them.
Author's note: This is my first attempt at writing a lemon. Please be kind!
Bella walked hurriedly on the wet streets. The dark night and the empty roads did nothing to calm her down.
Dratted ball game! She thought viciously. The roads that would have been teeming with students and couples from the varsity were conspicuously empty as all of them had gathered in groups in pubs or bars to cheer the Seattle sea hawks to victory.
She slipped slightly on the wet pavement, thanks to the worn out soles of her ancient sneakers. Bella immediately slowed down, not wanting the night to end in a visit to the hospital.
She thought of the Nissan she would buy with the money she was saving up. Her pocket was full of a wad of notes, her weekly pay, which was really good for someone who worked behind the bar. It was a popular bar and she had soon discovered that she was less likely to drop something from her hands than she was to trip up on her traitorous two left feet. While she did not enjoy drunken men with beer bellies hitting on her, she knew that desperate times called for desperate measures.
She had always been an independent girl and while both Charlie and René had offered to aid her during college, she had steadfastly refused all their help. Her on-campus job at the library and some free lance writing work had helped her through the first semester, however with the sinking economy and rising prices, she found herself on very thin ice while trying to pay the tuition and remaining at the top of her studies.
Then in the midst of it all, her beloved truck had finally passed away. She was glad that 'Beth' as she had named it, had quietly passed away in her sleep and simply refused to start the next morning. It was just as well, Beth had been on life support for a very long time and the doctors had told Bella that no amount of surgery could bring back the dead. It was time to say goodbye and put Beth to rest at the local junkyard.
Bella sighed as she continued to walk; it was still a long way to her dingy apartment. As always, her thoughts turned to a certain professor of hers. While she was a lit major and intended to make a mark in the literary world, she had chosen American history as her minor.
Little did she know when she had filled out her application forms that her choice would show her depths of depravity and heights of desire. In a class of over a hundred and fifty students, with her body humming with excitement, her pen posed over the writing pad, she had first seen Professor Cullen.
She had dropped her pen and ignored the writing pad.
Lightning flashed in the sky and a light drizzle started.
"Damn!" she cursed as she quickened her pace to dangerous levels that threatened bodily harm. Having lived in Washington long enough, she knew it wouldn't take long before the drizzle turned into a downpour.
She remembered the walks she took with Jacob, her childhood friend on the beaches and the tribal legends he told her. She had been fascinated with the story of the 'cold ones'. Being a nerd, and having almost no social life, she had used her free time following the myth of the cold ones.
She became deeply absorbed into the stories of the blood-drinking creatures as she found more and more references to the creatures throughout history, in almost all parts of the world. She followed the myths of the Strigoi as Romanians called them and those of Vrykolakas as the ancient Greek named them. She followed the Upyr legends from Russia and understood the characteristics of BrahmarākŞhasa in India.
It was mentioned that legends of these creatures first started in India, China and Egypt from where, by way of the silk route, their stories made their way to the west. The creatures were always mentioned as undead, drinking blood, hard and cold. They were believed to lack the water element and hence were hard and always thirsty.
While Bella never cared for movies like Dracula, she lapped up all the information she could find on these mythical creatures with morbid fascination. As work and study pressures increased in her senior year, her obsession with the myths and legends came to a halt and she never gave them another thought.
Not until two weeks ago.
She sat quietly, waiting for the class to begin. She carried no pen or paper with her. It was pointless, she had tried her very best to focus on the lecture, but she always found herself drowning in his golden eyes, in that smooth enigmatic voice and the chiseled features of his beautiful face.
Professor Cullen was driving her to distraction and she had no idea what to do. Never before had she felt so strong an attraction.
Get a hold of yourself Bella! She chastised herself. Crushing on a teacher? How pathetic can you get?
With all said and done, she simply couldn't ignore the fact that she had never before felt like this for anyone. She did not just want him; she needed him. In all his classes, she would memorize his every action, his each gesture, even the smallest nuance and store it away for later.
Later came every night, in her bed, on the couch, in the shower. When there was no fear of exposure, in the privacy of her apartment, when the need for him reached a fever pitch and the urgency for his touch could not be quelled, she would reach down and touch herself.
She would imagine that the fingers stroking her so intimately were his. The hand that roved the expanse of her naked skin was his and soon she would be caught up in her fantasy.
The thought of his lips ghosting over her lips, her neck, her breasts would make her frantic. The idea of his body seeking her made her pant and gasp. The notion of his teasing fingers and tongue would make the fire glow in her stomach even as the coil of pleasure wound tighter, reaching the point where it was almost painful.
Finally, the image of him on top of her, filling her, stretching her, possessing her would make her scream and see the stars.
Bella blushed and shifted in her seat, rubbing her thighs together to try and reduce the ache between them as Professor Cullen entered the class. She allowed his deep melodious voice to wash over her as she watched his every move when suddenly, his roaming gaze locked with hers for a moment. She felt a gush of warmth between her legs and impossibly, his golden eyes seem to darken as they stared into hers.
For the rest of the lecture, she couldn't even focus on him as tingles ran amok in her body at the memory of his dark gaze. She decided to stay back after class to talk to him, any and every excuse would do. However, as the bell rang and the class emptied, she had lost her nerve. She rushed out, trying to put as much distance as she could between herself and the alluring professor when she tripped over her shoelaces that had come undone.
Her face was about to become intimately acquainted with the hard floor when a hand grasped her upper arm. She tethered for a moment at a Matrix worthy angle and yet her mind could process nothing but the hand that had grasped her. It was cold as ice and hard as marble.
Images flitted across her eyes as myths and stories echoed in her ears about the cold ones. Before she could turn and face her savior, her mind had already reached a conclusion.
On righting herself and turning, she found herself looking into the golden eyes she had dreamed about for the past several weeks.
"Miss Swan, one should watch where one is going, lest there be an accident. You could have been hurt," he said in a soft voice.
Her mind seemed to snap as she tried to reconcile the creature from the legends to the stunning man standing in front of her. Instead of murmuring some generic words of gratitude, in the shock of the moment, she had blurted out the first thing that came to her mind.
"I know what you are."
She did not know what response she was expecting, but his expressionless face was not it.
"Indeed," he responded as he smoothly walked away.
There was no fighting the torrential downpour now. Bella ran to seek refuge at the entrance of a closed building. She muttered curses under her breath as she waited for the deluge to ease. Wet as she was, soon she started shivering as the rain refused to let up. She was considering resuming her journey despite the rain when a black Mercedes drove up alongside the pavement.
Please God, she prayed, don't let it be a maniac or a junkie.
Her breath caught as she saw who was in the driver's seat as the glass lowered. Professor Cullen's gaze bored into her wide eyes as he spoke.
"It seems you are in need of help, Miss Swan."
In all the noise of the pouring rain, she could still very clearly hear his soft voice. She stood there, paralyzed with conflicting emotions. Fear, desire and curiosity warred within her as she continued to stare at him.
Noting her indecision, he got out of the car and moved to the other side to hold the passenger door open for her. Something in his eyes made the decision for her and as she slid into the car, she felt as though she had leaped off a cliff with no idea of what lay beneath.
The heater in the car was at full blast as she studied the profile of the man beside her. How many times had she fantasized about him? Even after discovering his secret, she could not let go of her longing for him. For the past two weeks, she had been waiting. What for, she had no idea. Perhaps, she was waiting for sudden disappearances or murders. Or maybe she was waiting to be pulled into a dark alcove to be devoured.
It felt as though her mind had been split into two, the rational part screaming at her to run while the irrational, Cullen addled part asking her to wait and watch. It repeatedly assured her that he would come to her.
It was obvious which part won.
Bella tore her eyes away from his face as her heartbeat started to rise and she started feeling the first stirrings of her desire. She looked out of the window to find that they were traveling on a road hitherto unknown to her.
Run! Her mind screamed at her, but her body refused to obey.
The agonized silence was broken as the car came to a halt on the gravel outside a large mansion. Before she could make any observations, he was at her door in a flash to open the door for her.
A chivalrous vampire she mused as she entered the foyer. He moved silently through a pair of doors as she looked at the lair of the demon. The house looked more like a museum than anything else. It was nothing like the dark, damp cave she had imagined with cobwebs hanging off the walls.
Suddenly, she was cocooned in warmth and found that he had draped a shawl around her shoulders as he handed her a cup of steaming hot chocolate. She took the cup from him, her frozen fingers warming from its heat as he directed her to sit on a chaise.
She blew on the cup and took a hesitant sip and smiled as the thick, sweet liquid made its way down her throat, warming her from within. She found him standing in front of her, still as a statue, gazing at her with an intensity that made the blush rise up in her cheeks. As she took another sip, she wondered how completely bizarre the entire situation was.
As the silence grew, her mental filter seemed to have clogged up completely as she said the first thing that came to her mind.
"You keep chocolate in your house?"
A ghost of a smile flitted across his face as he continued to observe her single-mindedly.
"It is just to keep up appearances."
She nodded. "I see, obviously it's not of much use to you."
Again he gave her a curious look. He seemed to be struggling with himself. He took a deep breath, as he seemed to reach a decision.
"Tell me how you found out about my kind."
It was not a request but a command.
She never considered disobeying. She simply started recounting how she had been sucked into the world of mythical creatures. He listened to her silently, but every now and then, a look of complete disbelief would show on his face, after which he would immediately school his features into neutrality.
She finished her tale by recounting the incident where he had kept her from falling down and how she had recognized his touch.
He muttered something, too low for her to hear though is sounded suspiciously like 'weakness'.
Again the silence stretched between them, the flickering flames of the fire casting shadows to dance on their faces. She did not know how long it had been, only that her once sodden clothes were dry and that she had to do something, anything to break the silence. But when in desperate need of them, words failed her. Finally, she willed her body to move and stood up on shaky legs.
She felt like she was under water, where every movement was slow, fuzzy and buoyant as she approached him. As she looked in his eyes, she could find nothing. She had not known what she had been looking for in his ocher eyes, but she had expected to find something. Numbly, she moved towards the front door and was about to pull it open when she felt his cold hand grip her wrist from behind her.
She froze, her hand on the handle of the door as cool breath ghosted on the back of her neck, stirring the strands of her hair. "Did you know," he whispered against the shell of her ear, "that I could smell your arousal in the class, day after day?"
Bella whipped around and gasped as she took in his darkened eyes. The amount of want in those bottomless black eyes nearly brought her to her knees. He placed his hands on either side of her waist, trapping her between him and the closed door. He leaned into her, breathing in her scent deeply as her heart started racing and the pulse started pounding in her ears.
"Did you know, I can feel your desire for me?" he whispered again as she drew in a shaky breath. "I can hear your heart flutter in your chest, I can hear the blood rushing through your veins, and I can smell the pheromones releasing in your blood at my proximity."
At this point, Bella was too far-gone to react in any way. He completely overwhelmed her. Her body was thrumming at his closeness, his dark gaze making a fire erupt in her belly. Her senses swam with his scent, cinnamon, cloves and the overpowering sweetness of frankincense and myrrh.
"Isabella Marie Swan," he whispered, his cool lips almost upon her feverish ones, "what do you want?"
"You," came her slightly choked response and then, suddenly the world faded away as everything around her blurred and then she was lying on her back on a huge four-poster bed, covered in blood red silken sheets.
He hovered on top of her, drinking her in with his eyes, making wetness pool between her legs. At her reaction, his eyes grew impossibly darker as a low rumbling sound came from his chest. Her shoes and socks were off in a flash and he buried his face in her neck as he asked her one last time.
"Are you sure?" he questioned, his voice low and husky. "There is no going back."
She moaned in response, incoherent with yearning as she arched her back, trying to bring her body in contact with his. He growled and took her wrists in his iron grip and placed them on the headboard.
"Keep your hands here. Do not move them. I don't want them in my way."
She nodded, looking on as he slowly unbuttoned his shirt and pulled it off. Bella tightened her grip on the headboard as her hands itched to roam over the pale expanse of his chest. He unbuttoned the first two buttons of her shirt and again buried his face in her neck, kissing the pulse point behind her ear.
Instead of being scared, Bella became all the more aroused as she let out a sigh. Then, without warning, his lips descended on her. The kiss was bruising, devastating as he pried her lips apart with his and plundered her mouth. There was no tenderness in the act, it was a demanding kiss filled with lust and longing. She offered him all that she had and he took what he wanted unabashedly.
Bella's mind, delirious with pleasure caught his words as he continued to kiss his way down her neck, to her collarbone.
"So soft… so sweet… so warm…"
The feel of his cold lips moving over her flushed skin made jolts flow through her nerve endings. He took hold of the edge of her shirt and with a roar, ripped it off her body, the buttons making plinking sounds as they hit the walls and floor.
His hands moved on the flat planes of her stomach as his mouth trailed over her shoulders. "Do you have any idea how you have tortured me?" he asked, his voice losing the cultivated tone of a professor as it became tinged with a southern twang. "Breathin' in your scent everyday, watching you sitting in front of me but too far to reach? Your body callin' to me as much as your blood?"
He ripped off her bra, much as he had done with her shirt and pinched her nipples hard. She screamed as she felt her center pulsing with need, the pain in her nipples getting translated to pleasure.
"Oh yes, darlin'," he smiled devilishly, "you are going to pay for what you put me through."
He dipped his fingers in the waistband of her jeans as his mouth trailed down between her breasts, licking and sucking her feverish skin. He tortured her nipples till they were hard peaks, bruised red and inflamed with his biting and suckling.
It was too much, too much. Bella was panting, her breath coming in uneven gasps as her center ached for friction. She could no longer lie still as his tongue dipped into her belly button. Her hips bucked and they were immediately pinned to the bed by his firm grip.
"Impatient, darlin'?" he asked as he took in her naked torso, flushed pink, her chest heaving with her labored breath. She looked at him with hooded eyes as her unbuttoned the fly of her jeans and lowered the zipper. With a jerk, he pulled off her jeans, taking her plain cotton panties along with it.
The smell of her arousal hit him hard as he let out a growl and covered her lips with is own for another kiss. His tongue tasted the sweet crevices of her mouth as one hand tangled itself in her hair while the other stroked her hipbone. Bella started squirming beneath him, rubbing her body along his.
"Patience, love. I'm going to take my time loving your sweet body." He moved lower till his face was level with the apex of her thighs. Gently, he nuzzled the curls at the top and both of them moaned simultaneously. She parted her legs willingly for him as he took in the sight of her glistening lips.
He blew cool air on her and her hips bucked again. "You want me real bad, don't you sugar? Look how wet you are for me!" Bella moaned again in agreement with him. He dipped one finger between her lips and gathered the moisture. He looked at the glistening tip of his finger and sucked it into his mouth as she watched with rapt attention.
A litany of profanities fell from his lips as he tasted her for the first time.
Without waiting, he lowered his head between her delicate thighs. His fingers drew lazy circles on the hipbones as he inhaled the musk of her womanhood. "Ambrosia," he said as he licked his lips and started tasting her.
His cold tongue lapped at her heated center as she whimpered with the overload of pleasure. He tongued her everywhere but the place where she was aching for contact. As he dipped his tongue into her channel, she screamed and her hands flew to grip his honey locks and pull him closer.
Instantly, his movements ceased and he froze. He rose up to look at her, she was crying and whimpering at the loss of contact. He grabbed her chin between his forefinger and thumb, forcing her to look at him.
"What did I tell you about keeping your hands out of my way?" he growled. Again, he repositioned her arms above her head. "You do not want to play with me, Bella," he whispered silkily, "because there are so many ways for me to torture you otherwise. So many ways for me to play with your body without bringing you fulfillment. You wouldn't want that now, would you?"
At her silence, his anger seemed to flare. "Answer me!"
"No," she sobbed out.
Why was he doing this? Did he not know how long she had waited for him, how badly she needed him?
Satisfied with her answer, he returned back to his task, lazily lapping at her, without ever touching her clit. She was waiting, waiting for him to touch that bundle of nerves when suddenly he pushed two fingers into her channel. Bella cried out, the sensation of his cold fingers in her melting heat unlike anything she had ever felt.
The professor also seemed to be panting, murmuring in a worshipful tone. "So wet… so hot… so tight…"
Slowly he pumped his fingers as his tongue started flicking her clit in a perfect rhythm. And then he did something that threatened to throw Bella off the precarious ledge on which she was balanced.
He nibbled, yes, nibbled on her clit. Just as her orgasm was about to take over, he withdrew his fingers and mouth from her. Bella let out a frustrated cry at the emptiness and his mouth descended on her inner thigh. Biting and sucking furiously, he marked her as his own.
Slowly, he crawled up and took possession of her mouth again, making her taste herself on his lips. She moaned into his mouth at the eroticism of the act. In a second, his pants were gone as he settled himself between her thighs and placed his length at her opening.
Swiftly, with a thrust he had sheathed himself completely into her, both of them moaning and groaning as their bodies became one. While she was no virgin, Bella had never been filled the way he filled her. He was overwhelmed with the heat of her body and his breath became ragged with the effort it took not to pound into her like an animal and kill her.
Slowly, he began to thrust into her, growling at the feeling of being enveloped in her wet heat. Her hips began to match his movements, thrust for thrust. She wrapped her legs around his waist, drawing him deeper within her. Soon, both of them were tethering at the edge of their orgasms, his thrusts becoming shorter and more erratic as her incoherent cries filled the room. Again, he stilled, looking at the visage of the girl beneath him. He wondered what it was that he had done in his depraved existence to deserve such a gift.
Bella tried to move, but he had her pinned beneath him.
"Please, please!" she begged.
Bringing forth all the control he had developed over the centuries, he remained still, as he asked, "What do you want? Say it!"
"Move! Please, move within me," she begged, all illusions of propriety lost in the haze of pleasure.
"Say my name," he demanded.
"Please, pro…professor!" she continued to whimper.
"My name, Miss. Swan, I want to hear my name on your lips."
"I'm begging you, please, professor Cullen!"
"Say . my . name!" he roared as he thrust into her again, while he pinched her clit cruelly.
"Jasper!" she screamed, as a tidal wave of lust washed over her, as finally he lost control of his gift.
Her orgasm seized her body, her lips opening in a silent scream as wave after wave of rapture coursed through her, clenching her muscles around him as he continued to pump, finally emptying himself in her with an animalistic roar.
Even as her body continued to throb as he collapsed on top of her, she continued to chant his name.
"Jasper, Jasper, Jasper…" because he had asked her to say it, and she could never deny him anything. As the aftershocks of their coupling continued to pulse through them, she continued to whisper his name like a prayer.
Slowly, he raised himself on his elbows and looked at her. Her heart seemed to overflow with something intense which she did not know how to name. His dark eyes had now returned to the normal amber color and the tenderness in his gaze as her brushed wet curls off her forehead made her heart thump in joy.
Gently, he pried her hands off the headboard, her fingers stiff from their tight grip. Softly, he kissed each finger and each knuckle before placing a kiss on each of her palms. She cupped his face in her tiny hands, finally giving into the desire to touch him. She pulled him down for a kiss, so gentle, so tender, so sweet, that she could have wept from the beauty of it.
As they looked into each other's eyes, she realized he was still buried in her, hard as rock. Her eyes widened with incredulity at this discovery. A roguish grin spread on his face as he leaned down to whisper in her ear.
"There are some things you have not discovered in your research darlin'," he drawled as goose bumps broke over her skin. "One of them is that we vampires are insatiable!"
She looked into his rapidly darkening eyes and again heat flared within her.
"This is just the beginning," he promised as he leaned down to capture her lips in a searing kiss again.


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- Release: Aug 12, 2003
- ESRB: Everyone
Various Cheats and Hints
Unlock Madden Cards in Mini-Camp
Get Gold in Mini-Camp challenges to unlock Madden Cards. Cards directly relate to the challenges you complete. For instance, getting a Gold in the Ground Attack challenge will yield a Priest Holmes Card. Be sure to get Golds on all of the difficulty levels to collect all of the cards!
Avoid The Cap
The salary cap is pretty easy to manipulate. If you don't like a player for whatever reason, than re-negotiate his contract so that he doesn't get a signing bonus. Than work out a trade with another team and you won't take a hit against the salary cap for trading him.
Earn Madden Cards With EA Bio
Gain levels in your EA Bio by completing specific challenges and playing other EA Sports title to unlock Madden Cards. Unlockable Cards include:
Level 2: #204 Bingo! Cheat
Level 4: #246 1990 Eagles Classic Team
Level 6: #186 Steve Spurrier Coach
Play Football 101 to Earn Easy Tokens
One place to garner quick Tokens is Football 101. Run through all of the plays in your playbook to get a substantial helping of Tokens, which you can use to purchase Madden Cards.
Unlock Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Cards
To unlock the Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Cards, beat the Game Situation in Mini-Camp. The team who you complete the challenge with is the Cheerleader/Pump Up Card you will unlock.
Easy fumbles:
Go to Mini Camp mode. Do the LB Chase And Tackle. First do it under the rookie difficulty setting, and when you are skilled enough, advance to the pro setting. Get a gold trophy in the mini camp drill. Do not waste your time in the game situation. You will receive a Silver Fumbilitis. Use the card during a game. This card increases your chances of getting a fumble by 50%.
Easy stadium:
In owner mode off season, you will have the opportunity to create a new stadium twice. One is when you can go to stadium mode and you can chose rebuild, or relocate. In both areas you will have a chance to create a new stadium. Most of the time if you create a bad stadium, you will have your proposal denied because you do not have enough money. Get about $300 million then create a stadium that has one section at least of press, and one section of press and luxury. The rest can be finished off as desired. Then, on the "Secure Funds" section, make it so that the team provides the most money possible, making it so that the board has more approval for the stadium. Note: If you relocate to a city that has a high desire for a sports team such as Los Angeles or Boston, their approval will be higher.
Easy money in owner mode:
While playing your franchise in owner mode, wait until you play any home game. While playing, go to menu options and save your game. Immediately quit the game and completely exit out of franchise mode. Reload your franchise game, and repeat as many times as necessary. The trick works off your ticket sales for that game. For example, if you normally make $5 million a game, multiply that by the number of times you saved/quit/reloaded. If you do it ten times, then you will make $50 million in ticket sales for that game. Note: If you save and do not quit, most likely your game will crash after a few plays.
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Ubisoft has released the latest DLC for Far Cry 4 today titled Escape From Durgesh Prison. The DLC is a time trial where the player will
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Konno et al. (1993) proposed a method for incorporating skewness into the portfolio optimization problem. This paper extends their technique and proposes a modification which leads to portfolios with improved characteristics. The model is then used to analyze the potential for put options to increase the skewness of portfolios. This strategy is tested with historical returns on a portfolio of TSE stocks. Compared to the Konno et al. (1993) approach our resulting portfolio has higher skewness and lower variance; with expected return being equal.
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PAFN a peer mentoring program and is one of the largest and most diverse groups at the University of Virginia. It is a pan-ethnic, multicultural peer mentoring program that helps incoming Asian/Asian Pacific American students with their transition into college. This peer mentoring program is geared towards providing incoming students with advisors who serve as mentors as well as an excellent source of information on life at UVa.
Incoming 1st year and upperclass transfer students can apply to be a PAFN advisee during the summer prior to their arrival at UVa. Advisees are paired with an upperclass advisor and form a small "family" with a few other advisees. These students along with their families join other members of PAFN and get together for various activities and events throughout the year.
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What do the terms right and left mean any longer? These two words have defined political discourse and debate for most of the last century, yet they are becoming increasingly irrelevant as supposedly rightwing politicians adopt what have been traditional leftwing causes. In a similar manner, in the last 20 years Labour politicians have taken on rightwing policy stances on law and order and immigration. David Davis, always seen as a traditional rightwinger, is parliament's leading advocate of civil liberties, while John Reid and various other Labour home secretaries took great delight in being further to the right than Michael Howard ever was. Devout Christian Tim Montgomerie, editor of ConservativeHome, is a leading proponent of gay marriage, while lefty Liberal Democrat Sarah Teather opposes it.
Political commentators bandy the words "left" and "right" about with gay abandon without coming to terms with the fact that politics has moved on since 1988. Two things have caused this – the end of communism and the rise of Tony Blair.
In the Tory party there are still a few traditional "hang 'em and flog 'em" authoritarian rightwingers, but they are a peculiar species, almost threatened with extinction. They generally answer to the name of Chope, Leigh or Howarth. From time to time they emerge from their habitat to squawk abuse, but few in the Tory party take much notice of their predictable views. They certainly made their presence felt in the gay marriage debate, but not in the way they had intended. All they achieved was to persuade MPs such as Mark Menzies, who had intended to abstain, to vote in favour.
But that is not to take away from the fact that most of us hadn't seen the so-called rebellion coming. Far more Tory MPs voted against the government than I had imagined. And I won't pretend that David Cameron hasn't been weakened by it. But in some ways he only has himself to blame. I fully support the intention of the bill, but if you actually study the wording of the legislation you cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that it's a dog's breakfast of a bill – hurriedly drafted by people who have little understanding of some of the complex issues. All this means is that in committee and further parliamentary stages there are going to be some further bitter debates. The opponents' dander is well and truly not just up but fully erect!
Aside from the issue of gay marriage, there are further distinctions that have to be made between the traditional right and the modern right. The typical Tory MP from the 2010 intake is dry as dust on economic policy but at the same time as wet as a goldfish on social policy. And it is they who now hold the whip hand in the Tory party. It is they who are coming up with new policy ideas for the next election. It is their loyalty David Cameron needs to cultivate and rely on.
No serious observer of the Westminster scene believes there is a serious plot to unseat David Cameron. The first priority of any coup plan is to have a king over the water, who is ready and willing to strike. There is no such person. Were Boris Johnson in parliament that might be different. But he isn't and won't be until at least May 2015. There is no way on this Earth any current cabinet minister could be persuaded to jump ship and lead a plot, and neither Liam Fox or David Davis are that stupid. There may be seven or eight Tory MPs who have sent Graham Brady a letter demanding a leadership vote, and I could probably name them all. None are figures of any influence at all, and most of them are bitter because of lack of preferment.
Cameron's No 10 team has always been useless at cultivating backbenchers. Thatcher and Major were far better at it, but it's as if No 10 has a deathwish in the way they appear as if they couldn't care less what their backbench colleagues think. That must change, but plenty of people have been saying it for two years and nothing happens. One Tory MP, elected in 2005, told me recently that David Cameron has never exchanged a word with him in the eight years he has been in parliament. I found that remarkable. The trouble is, I suspect he is not alone.
All parliamentary parties are coalitions of people who agree with each other 85% of the time. It's how the party leadership handles the other 15% that determines whether they command a happy ship. At the moment Cameron captains a somewhat mutinous ship, but all he needs to do is, in the words of Erasure, show a little respect.


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Capital markets partners Tim Peterson and Rob McBride are leading the Fried Frank team acting for longstanding client Virgin on the deal, part of an ongoing debt restructuring programme.
Simpson Thacher is acting for lead arrangers JPMorgan Cazenove and Goldman Sachs on the bond issue, with corporate partner Nicholas Shaw understood to be leading the team.
The bonds, whose total value was greater than had been widely predicted, were issued in two tranches – a $1bn US denominated portion issued by Virgin Media Inc and a £875m slice from Virgin Media Finance.
The UK denominated tranche is the largest-ever sterling high yield bond issue.
Virgin is expected to use the bond issue to refinance some of its estimated £4bn debt.
The senior secured notes are due in 2018, with the dollar notes carrying a 6.5 per cent interest and the sterling tranche paying at 7 per cent.
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Detroit: The Next Design Mecca?
Reed Kroloff is no stranger to cities that are in need of a rebirth. As a former dean of architecture at Tulane University, he was responsible for bringing back 97 percent of the school's student body after Hurricane Katrina. He is also an active organizer and adviser for dozens of new public works competitions around the country.
For this reason, it's no surprise that Kroloff has a special place in his heart for Detroit. A city that's struggled, Detroit is also a creative community with a design legacy of which it's proud.
This week, that creativity is on display at the second annual Detroit Design Festival. Kroloff, as the director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is among those involved in the festival.
"It's a group of people very actively trying to figure out how you remake a city that has stumbled. And Detroit is definitely a city that has stumbled."
But where others might see failure, Kroloff sees opportunity. Having also worked on The High Line, a project that made a public park of an abandoned elevated train track in New York City, Kroloff is inspired by stumbles.
Kroloff also reminds us that design is not entirely new to the Motor City. "It's an architectural treasure trove in the center of Detroit," he says. "This is a place that has had some of the world's greatest architects at work on it, for a period of almost a hundred years."
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Shahbulat Shamhalaev Withdraws From
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September 13th From Pechanga Resort
Newport Beach, CA. (September 9, 2013) – Shahbulat Shamhalaev has withdrawn from Bellator's Season 9 Featherweight Tournament as the Russian native has returned to Dagestan to attend to his ailing father. Bellator newcomer Justin Wilcox will replace Shamhalaev and will face Akop Stepanyan in the Bellator Featherweight Tournament Opening Round live on Spike TV.
The first fight of the night will begin at 4:30 p.m. PST and the LIVE national television broadcast on Spike TV starts at 6 p.m. PST, as well as in Spanish language on mun2. The preliminary card will be streamed LIVE and FREE on Spike.com. Tickets for the event start at just $50, and can be purchased by visiting Pechanga.com, Bellator.com, or by calling the Pechanga Box Office at 877-711-2946 or visiting between noon and 8 p.m. daily.
The full fight card for Bellator MMA from Pechanga Resort can be found below:
Bellator Featherweight Opening Round: Patricio Pitbull (17-2) vs. Diego Nunes (18-4)
Bellator Featherweight Opening Round: Justin Wilcox (11-5) vs. Akop Stepanyan (13-5)
Bellator Featherweight Opening Round: Des Green (8-1) vs. Fabricio Guerreiro (17-1)
Bellator Featherweight Opening Round: Joe Taimanglo (18-4) vs. Andrew Fisher (12-4)
Bellator Light Heavyweight Feature Fight: Vladimir Matyushenko (26-7) vs. Houston Alexander (15-9)
Light Heavyweight Feature Fight: Savio Kosic (4-1) vs. Hector Ramirez (9-5)
Bantamweight Feature Fight: Derek Loffer (4-1) vs. Mario Navarro (4-3)
Welterweight Feature Fight: Andy Murad (6-0) vs. Gavin Sterritt (4-1)
Featherweight Feature Fight: Musa Toliver (9-8) vs. Goiti Yamauchi (14-1)
Heavyweight Feature Fight: Manny Lara (4-3) vs. Blagoi Ivanov (7-0)
Light Heavyweight Feature Fight: Nick Moghaddam (6-6) vs. Virgil Zwicker (10-3)
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Bellator MMA is the world's largest tournament based Mixed Martial Arts organization. Televised to nearly 500 Million homes worldwide in over 135 countries, Bellator's majority owner is entertainment giant Viacom. In the United States, Bellator can be seen on Spike TV, the MMA television leader. With over 150 world-class athletes under contract, Bellator is home to many of the sport's top mixed martial artists. Bellator's founder & CEO, Bjorn Rebney, is an experienced fighting sports and entertainment executive with a deep commitment to the purity and integrity of the sport of MMA and its athletes. Bellator's core philosophy is that title shots should be earned, not given. This belief gave rise to Bellator's real sport, tournament-based format, which gives Bellator's tournaments a true playoff feel that keeps the sport true and distances itself from the subjective side of fighting sports found in organizations that utilize a matchmaking/casting formula. Bellator MMA is comprised of an executive team that includes top industry professionals in television production, live event orchestration, fighter development/relations, venue procurement, sponsorship creation/development, international licensing, marketing, advertising, publicity and commission relations. Bellator is based in Newport Beach, California.
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Spike TV is available in 98.7 million homes and is a division of Viacom Media Networks. A unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), Viacom Media Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV's Internet address is www.spike.com and for up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit Spike TV's press site at http://www.spike.com/press.
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Law is not that different from other business services, so get in shape for the tough new world
For so long, as lawyers, we thought we were different. The number of solicitors in private practice grew by some 400 per cent between 1968 (20,500) and 2011 (87,973), but now change seems to be coming at once: macroeconomics, buying patterns, computerisation, commoditisation, disaggregation, globalisation, third-party capital, market segmentation, you name it – all changing what clients want. Now we know we are not so different from other business services after all.
For a sector that accounts for around 3 per cent of GDP there is surprisingly little analysis of business legal services. This is changing as we head into a period of structural transformation and firms look for sustainable competitive advantage in a crowded post-growth UK market.
Sustainable differentiation means holding on to something others do not have in the market you are in. It could be top-tier global coverage (think magic circle), managed legal (Berwin Leighton Paisner/Thames Water) or a virtual firm (Axiom).
For us, it's a focus on technology and digital media. Our specialist area does not have the technical barriers to entry of pensions (it's no accident that Sackers is the specialist firms' poster-child) or the structural barriers of the class action firms that are taking on the big institutions. In fact, it's characterised by low barriers to entry, as evidenced by the number of tech law start-ups. For us, it's all about relevance, engagement and pricing.
Relevance is key. In a faster moving world our market and sector knowledge must be such that we 'get it' at the start of the call giving the instruction. Corporate counsel don't have 15 minutes to explain the background. These days, they take as read first-class legal expertise and, increasingly, client service and commerciality.
For us, staying relevant also means meeting all the technological and digital media needs of our buyer, supplier and finance provider clients.
Market engagement is also critical. This gives us one of our two sustainable edges. We're putting a lot of effort into business development (BD), with direct costs and marketing spend at around 5 per cent of fee income.
This is for a number of reasons: first, the work is out there, but you have to work harder and smarter for it; second, we want to showcase our lawyers' thought leadership in the areas we cover; and third, developing our partners' skills as effective rainmakers gives us a head start in growing the practice.
We believe the barriers to staying and growing in IT law are higher than the barriers to entry, largely because of the resource and investment needed in BD and the people and platforms that support it.
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New software development company that develops custom business applications for a number of markets.
Small, medium and large companies that purchase custom business-specific software.
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Ranchi, Dec 17 (UNI) The Jharkhand Shramjeevi Patrakar Union (JSPU) today expressed grief and demanded the arrest of killers, who gunned down a scribe in Deoghar district last night.
JSPU convenor Madhukar today said Rs five lakh as compensation and job for the next of kin of the deceased had been demanded from Chief Minister Madhu Koda.
Unidentified miscreants last night shot dead local scribe Pramod Kumar Munna near Baidyanthdham railway station in Deoghar district.
The scribe was associated with a Bihar-based magazine.


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The Runaway girl
Things got complecated. People got angry. People got upset. People got scared. Including me.
Ear-piercing screeches came from every direction around me as I looked up at the left over smoke in the black night sky from the gun. I turned to my left to see Ami's parents, her mother was on the ground. Dead. Her father was beside her on his knees, screaming and crying in pain. Many were screaming in french as I looked towards Ami.
She was completely still, frozen. She stared at her parents, tears tomenting her face which was covered and smudged in make-up. The gun was to her head. I turned back to her parents to see a million men dressed in black, guns pointing at her father. I had to leave. Now.
I ran for my life. I ran for everything. I ran for me and I ran to think. To think about what was happening and to think about why it was happening. To think about why her mother was dead and why her father was about to die. To think about why she had a gun to her head. My footsteps were heavy anhd slow, pulling me back as I forced my body away from the screaming crowds.
When I was away I lent against a tall building,slumping down onto the ground. I heard another gun shot and more screams. Then it ended. I had to think fast. Ami had just screamed. Jack had just shouted her name along with everyone else. Her mother was dead. Her father was about to die. Another gunshot and another shout and scream. Correction, now dead. I didn't know what was going on. Why was this happening. Wait, they were all in danger, Jack was in danger! I had to go back!
Heavy footsteps.
A large crowd was circled around them, I pushed myself through to the front and saw 3 ambulances, and 5 police cars. People shouting at eachother in french and bodies being taken away. I threw myself into Jack's arms.
"Thank god you're ok! I thought you got hurt!" I shouted at him. "What happened?!" I asked urgently.
"Ami's mother killed herself because she found out Izzy was dead. Ami then killed her father instead of the man pointing a gun at him. Then Ami killed herself." His face was plain but you could see the hurt and guilt in his eyes.
"Jack I-"I whispered.
"Maybe I held on, and didn't know when to let go," He gently pushed me away and got into Toriops car, driving away.
"Jack?" I whispered confused. Koji and Lulu walked up to me.
"You're my best friend, but we've been pulled into something we don't want to be in. I'm sorry." Lulu said without emotion,walking with Koji into the limo and driving away. Detective Toriop walked up to me, his hair was out of place which I had never seen before.
"She's dead. You can have your happily ever after now. Why? Because she's dead. How? Because you ran away like a baby. Why? No-one knows." He swiftly turned on one foot and walked away. What was going on?! I knew exactly what to do right now. To do what I always do. Run.
I arrived at a hotel. Prostitutes and drug dealers sat outside but I had a gun.I was running out of euroes and this was the cheapest hotel so I had to. I walked in and hired a room at the top of the building, speaking fluent french to the ugly fat man and signing a fake signature on the tea stained clip board.
I charged up the stairs and slammed the door, sitting on the end of the dirty bed that smelt of piss and sweat. I curled into a ball in buried my face in my knees. Lulu and Koji hated me, Toriop thought I was useless and Jack didn't...love me. I thought for hours as tears trickled down my face before coming downstairs and apoligising to the man for inconvenience. I gave him 15 euroes. My eyes were sore and I looked a mess. He obviously new I was English.
"You upset...you come with me, I make better." He smiled and grabbed my hand, pulling me outside to older men. "Look who I found!" He shouted at them. The men got up and smiled wickedly. Circling me.
"She's pretty."
"Sexy too!"
"Come with us!"
"We'll make you feel better yeah?" They all spoke well English and shoved me into a nearby alleyway. They threw my bag of money on the floor and started to rip my clothes off, pulling my hair and punching me.
"Get away from me! No! Stop! Help! HELP!" I screamed until a man shoved his tounge in mine. I slapped and punched and reached for my gun on the ground. The man kicked it away and kissed my neck. I punched his balls and grabbed the gun, shooting the air.
"She has gun! Run!" They all ran away, leaving me curled in a ball in the rain, frozen and bruised with the gun heald tightly in my hand. I screamed for help but my voice was feeble and fragile. I heard footsteps, a man, coming towards me but not very quickly.
"You didn't scream very well. I suppose I didn't get here in enough time. I heard you were in the incident up by the tower. I can help you if you promise not to shoot me." His angel voice wasn't Jack's. He picked me up in his iron arms and carried me to safety.


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| Essential Functions: Oversee and develop the training of otolaryngology residents and students.Assist with the development of clinical and education programs in otolaryngology and in institutions affiliated with our program.Conduct teaching, research and service.Progress in publications and presentations.Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: M.D. Required.Post-graduate training in Otolaryngology.When applicable, board certification or equivalency with ability to obtain Michigan medical license.Ability to provide quality instruction to a variety of students.Faculty rank commensurate with credentials.
Internal Number: 76_201986
About Wayne State University
Founded in 1868, Wayne State University is a nationally recognized metropolitan research institution offering more than 400 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 32,000 students. Wayne State?s main campus in Midtown Detroit comprises 100 buildings over nearly 200 acres; its five extension centers offer higher education to people throughout Southeast Michigan. Wayne State is d...edicated to preparing students to excel by combining the academic excellence of a major research university with the practical experience of an institution that by its history, location and diversity represents a microcosm of the world we live in. Reflecting its location and the excellent international reputation of its graduate schools, particularly in the sciences, Wayne State boasts the most diverse student body among Michigan?s public universities. Its students represent 49 U.S. states and more than 60 countries.
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The ingredients in this moisturizer cannot, in any way, shape, or form, balance the oil and moisture content of the skin. It's not as if the oily ingredients in this day cream won't affect the oily areas of skin, and the astringent witch hazel won't affect the dry areas. Everything is mixed together, and all the fragrance makes this a poor choice for all skin types, including combination skin.
A light, activating moisturizer. Lightweight oils and healing plant extracts encourage the skin's ability to retain moisture, normalizing dry, mature and normal skin conditions.
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Strengths: None for skin care; one good lipstick.
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Dr. Rudolf Hauschka is no longer around, although the Germany-based cosmetics company bearing his name definitely is. Sold primarily at health food stores, the products are a standout for their high prices alone.
If plants are your thing, these formulations, according to the ingredient lists, are some of the most "pure" there are. However, the formulas are a frustrating mix of good and bad natural ingredients, and there are no suitable options for those with oily, combination, or sensitive skin (especially for sensitive skin, as everything, and we mean every product, in this line contains fragrance).
As for the products themselves, despite the inclusion of lots of natural ingredients sure to pique consumer interest, Dr. Hauschka's development team seemingly ignored copious research on skin-care ingredients from the last 20 years or so. For example, almost every product has plant extracts that have irritation potential, and most of the problematic ones have no known benefit for skin, so you're risking irritation without a reward. Instead, the company literature goes on and on about how the products are rhythmically mixed and the spiritual connection between nature and people. It all sounds tempting and quite Zen until you realize such back-to-nature philosophies aren't necessarily the key to a healthy complexion. We have little doubt that most consumers using these products will experience some amount of skin irritation, and the textures of many items are inelegant at best; "silky" is s not a word that comes mind!
We're skeptical about the disclosure of the ingredients in the products because preservatives are not listed. If that is truly the case, the risk of contamination after just a couple of weeks of use is significant, especially considering how many plant extracts these products contain. The company insists that the ingredient lists are accurate and that the natural extracts and essential oils chosen have self-preserving properties—but cosmeti chemistry research doesn't support this; such ingredients don't have the same preservation track records as those (such as the parabens and phenoxyethanol) that show up in thousands of other products.
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In early 2009 the company announced that they discontinued all of their sunscreens. This decision was in response to new European Union regulations governing labeling for products with UVA-protecting ingredients. Dr. Hauschka will not formulate a sunscreen with synthetic active ingredients, and from everything we've read and from all of the discussions we've had with cosmetic chemists about this issue, there is no way a sunscreen can meet the EU's new UVA standards without including a synthetic active.
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Town makes way for new community center
MOORE, Idaho - The town of Moore started building its new community center Friday.
For the past five years, the Moore Community Association has been looking to build the center. Community leaders said that in the past, many events were hosted at a church or nearby schools. They said they needed a place for the community to come together, but construction of the new facility will also add a sense of unity to the town in this troubling economy.
"It's really great to see something like this happen in our little community. We've lost several businesses in the past few years; strong businesses that have been here for a long time," said Butte County Sheriff Wes Collins. "New ones have sprung up, but this is definitely one of the bigger projects that's happened in the city of Moore for several years."
The community association was able to make this possible through grants. The expense of labor was mostly covered through volunteers, which include the Idaho State Police. ISP wanted to give back to the community as part of its 75th anniversary.


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Schwab Capital Markets Hires Two Sales Execs
August 5, 2002
Schwab Capital Markets has hired Dan Charney as senior vice president and senior managing director of institutional sales and Geoff Heyman as vice president and senior managing director of institutional sales. Charney will also act as a member of Schwab's institutional steering committee.
Charney reports to James Raphalian, senior vice president and director of institutional sales, and Heyman reports to Charney.
Both executives were previously partners with Thomas Wiesel Partners.


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On 6th November the charity CRY (http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/ecg.htm) are running a heart screening for people aged 14-35 at the University of Hertfordshire, it involves a 10 min ECG and you get same day feedback about any heart problems. If required you will also get a echocardiogram on the day (heart ultrasound). The cost is heavily subsidised and is £35 (normally private ECGs cost over £200). If you want to book an appointment (ignore the student only message) go to: https://www.appointment.com/cryevents?schedule=University%20of%20Hertfordshire&date=2012-11-06
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