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I need some advice. I can't sort this out on my own.
A pale, sculpted face was looking through and past everything, seeing no more of it than necessary. He had no idea who was around him on the subway train, and didn't care because he was sure they must be strangers. Even the ones he couldn't see and didn't know about.
He clouds my judgment, he acknowledged to himself. How can I get clarity?
There was something hard, though he was not happy to see anyone. He reached for it, and pulled it out.
Can I call someone about this?
Clutching the phone he had taken out of his pocket, his index finger selected a number from his list, without punching digit by digit. His cell to his ear, ring after ring, he began to fidget. Yet, soon enough, he'd be talking freely, tongue unguarded. Relying on his virtual anonymity, due to the slim chance of being known by anyone else present, he was willing to say anything he meant to say, no matter how personal or profane.
"Hey Reverend Archvale," he greeted his phone. But he wasn't calling for the clergyman. "Is your son there?"
"One moment please," his phone told him.
Then, after a brief moment of the caller smiling white at nothing, a second voice came through, "Hello!" It was crisp with delight.
"Hey CJ," he said to his phone.
"Who's this? That you, Blake?"
"Yes. This is he," Blake told his phone, feigning non-chalance.
The young woman who had followed him onto this subway car from another, was seated two spots away, and wished she could have heard the voice of the preacher's kid more clearly, if only to hear the name of the adonis who held her gaze. Instead, she repeated his friend's nickname over in her head, wondering what the letters stood for.
"Any particular reason for calling? Not that you need a reason, or anything. I just... uhmm -"
"Okay, when I got up this morning, I dunno who let him in, but he had the stereo on full playing Pink," said the young man to his phone. "Singing along with every breath. Guess which song."
"Are you talking about Fernando?"
"Do I complain about anyone else? C'mon, guess."
"Gee, uhm... 'Funhouse', the one that drove your cousin up the wall in the mental health center? Hah, it made me picture the nurses in clown outfits."
"Close enough. 'Please Don't Leave Me'."
For a moment, the eavesdropper lingered on the impossibility that he'd said those words to her. Then she reminded herself that she was still a stranger to the man who sat just two seats away.
"Oh gawd. Is your relationship threatening to fall apart once more?"
"You bet, Sunshine!" said Blake, remembering the moment vividly.
The lower of the two singers sung with a voice I had stopped hearing in my dreams months ago. And unfortunately, its resurgence there was for reasons other than its initial emergence.
"I dunno if I could yell any louder..."
The lyrics and the music invaded my dream, tearing it asunder from my memory.
"How many times have I kicked you out of here?"
I rolled against the blanket with a groan.
"Or said something insulting?"
Pulling myself up against my pillow, I yawned.
"I can be so mean, when I wanna be!"
The clock read: 6:37 AM. It was not time to wake up yet. Not for me.
"I am capable of really anything..."
I rubbed my eyes and blinked.
"I can cut you into pieces, -"
I looked again at the time in disbelief.
"-when my heart is..."
"Ahora no, por favor," I mumbled groggily, thick with a Canadian-English accent on every Spanish word.
"Plee-ee-ease... don't leave me-ee!" His lilting voice, harmonized with Pink's, came closer, "Plee-ee-ease... don't leave mee!"
I flung the covers off, and from the doorway he smiled at what he saw there. That morning wood was not for him! I blushed with reluctance to do so.
"I always say how I don't need you, but it's always gonna come right back to this!"
As I slid my feet off the bed and rose onto them, he approached, putting a hand upon my chest.
"Please, don't leave me!" he chorused, face haunted warmly.
I brushed his caress away from my pectoral.
"When did I become so obnoxious?" he sang the question to me.
I gaped, pushing him away.
"What is it with you that makes me act like this?" the words were pouted to me, before he pushed me back against the bed. "I've never been this nasty!"
I rolled onto him, pinning him down, fury on my face.
"Can't you tell that this is all just a contest?" His foot went down to rub at my deflating loins. "The one that wins will be the one that hits the hardest!"
And I could feel his arousal through his sweatpants. He was the only one hitting hard!
"My baby, I don't mean it!" A pause came. He pushed up against me. "I mean it. I promise."
Disgusted, I spat upon his face, a face that had once seemed so handsome to me. The memories of that time stirred in the back of my mind, and I winced.
"Please, don't leave me! No, ple-ease, don't leave me!" the chorus came again.
The stereo shut off. I thanked the powers that might be for housemates as a loud "What the hell, man?" came down the hall. Then I wondered how Fernando had gotten inside in the first place.
"Please don't," he whispered, singing no longer.
"I told you, Fern. I just need time to think," I told him as I got off him and grabbed an off-white tank top from the floor.
"Well, that certainly wasn't the song off that CD that got Pink her husband back."
"Ugh," said Blake, shaking himself from his reverie. "Did you say something?"
That was when the young woman with the short hair and the ornate pearl earrings became aware of how fascinated she was by his voice alone. It wavered with such bright emotion, even when it sounded sad. To her, it seemed both high and low at once, and somehow harmonized with itself.
"Don't call me Sunshine, Blake. My hair's not as blond in the winter. And it's turning brown with all this young-adulthood-testosterone. Guhh!"
"Fine by me. But I need some advice."
"Where are you? Toronto? Mississauga? We can do coffee. Well, in my case, a smoothie or a hot chocolate."
"Bloor & Spadina subway station, just pulled out westbound a moment ago."
"Union Station, 5:00 PM. That good for you?"
"Union Station, 5:00 PM. Sounds fine to me. I'll see you then."
The young woman looked at her analog watch. The band was leather. The face was like asphalt. The frame, hands and clip were gold embossed with silver. The time read 2:56 PM. She wanted to be there then. Running a hand through her bristling red hair, she smiled, believing with certitude that there was nothing wrong with following her heart to that place and time. And then she stood, to get off the train and switch directions, because she was content with the knowledge that she would see him again. At the next stop, she sauntered off the train, unknowingly walking a primrose path.


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Sydney, Jan 5: MS Dhoni could come out of retirement and wear the big gloves in the fourth and final Test against Australia starting tomorrow here at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).
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Dhoni, who stunned everyone by quitting the five-day game after the third Test in Melbourne last week, may play in India whites again in case there is an injury to Wriddhiman Saha. (Kohli era begins in Sydney)
India captain Virat Kohli today said Dhoni was on standby for Sydney Test if Saha suffers any injury on the morning of the match. (Kohli stunned by Dhoni's decision)
"Dhoni is the second keeper in the squad as of now. So God forbid if something happens to Saha on the morning of the match, obviously he will have to step in because I can't keep wicket," Kohli said on Monday.
Dhoni retired after playing 90 Tests, 60 of them as captain. He has stayed back with the team.
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"We value the important work that WISE accomplishes in the community," said John Granby, president–Michigan/Indiana/Kentucky Region, Verizon Wireless. "This HopeLine grant reinforces our company's commitment to end domestic violence and our support of organizations that provide critical services.
The $5,000 gift was made possible by the Verizon Wireless HopeLine® program, which converts no-longer-used wireless phones into support for domestic violence survivors. Since 2001, HopeLine has collected more than 8 million phones, awarded more than $10 million in cash grants to prevention and awareness programs nationwide, and donated more than 106,000 HopeLine phones with 319 million minutes of airtime to domestic violence organizations for use by survivors. Phones that cannot be refurbished are recycled in an environmentally sound way under a zero-landfill policy.
Last year in Michigan, Verizon Wireless and the Verizon Foundation donated nearly $200,000 in cash grants to domestic violence agencies and shelters. Verizon Wireless and HopeLine also donated 3 million minutes of service to help domestic violence survivors in Michigan in 2010.
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Though lesser known than other brands, it has an impeccable heritage dating back to 1793, when it was first made in what is now Britain's oldest working distillery. (It's the only gin with the equivalent of an appellation contrôlée, ie it has to be made in Plymouth.) The 100% proof (57% abv) version is the gin that was supplied to the Royal Navy, who mixed it with Angostura bitters to make pink gin, or 'pinkers', which was said to be capable of curing everything from indigestion to depression.
Rather less daunting is the 41.2% version, which has a richer, more citrussy flavour than London gins, containing less juniper and other bitter botanicals. It'll make you a pukka dry martini or G&T. Or mix it with cranberry juice, pink grapefruit juice and sloe gin for an Arkansas Breeze.
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This is a busy office, yet I was able to get in within a week. Staff was professional and the doctor was too. He was efficient and explained my problem and answered all my questions. I went to other podiatrists in town and they only wanted to do surgery. He solved my problem in two months without injections or surgery. He is by far the best podiatrist, if not doctor in Joplin.
Had an appointment with this doctor. Even though I had already had x-rays a week before, they took more and the doctor was only in the room for less than 5 minutes. Did not seem interested in how my injury occurred or what previous treatment had involved. Charged me for x-rays and something called strapping telling me after the fact that insurance wouldn't cover this. Then told me to make another appointment for the following week. Seeking new doctor.
I was able to get an appointment in week, and he solved my problem within 3 visits. He took the time to explain my problem in words that I could understand. He did not try to talk me into surgery or anything I did not need. I was very satisfied and he did great at solving my pain. The only draw back is they did expect payment at time of service, which I suppose is fair.
Nurse would quote me one price. Office manager wouldcharge me a lot more using estimated costs. Really annoying and unprofessional that staff is not on same page. My advice use other podiatrist in area.
I got an appointment within a week of calling. The doctor was busy, but on time and he took the time to explain my foot pain in terms I was able to understand. He was honest and upfront and told me that I did not need surgery as opposed to other podiatrists who only wanted to do surgery. He solved my foot pain and would recommend him to anyone.
Has similar visit today as the below post. I felt the doctor was more interested in a "consultation fee" than helping my injury. He saw me for maybe 2 minutes told me to reschedule for later date and then his staff said that would be $40 co-pay. I cancelled my next visit and have found another Doc. Terrible experience.
I do not believe the previous review. This doctor appeared to have no care of my foot condition. I am diabetic with several toes that are blue from lack of circulation and also numbness in those toes. Although I was wearing almost new diabetic shoes it was apparent to me that the first priority was to sell me a new pair for 400 dollar shoes. Those were ordered and I returned to get them "fitted" and that was all that was done, and that was by his nurse. The actual inspection of my feet and toes lasted about 60 seconds and was just a cursory glance. Nothing more. I told the referring physician and he stated he would not be referring anymore patients to him.
Excellent staff, fantastic doctor!!! By far the best in Joplin!
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By understanding the motion of substrate around a dynamically moving foot, it is possible to use tracks to constrain possible motions of the distal (and therefore proximal) limb. My work incorporates digitisation of fossil tracks and computer simulation as well as using data from extant taxa using XROMM techniques to study the sub-surface motion of the foot during locomotion.
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Dragon Lady is a thriller, praised by Farley Mowat as "a stunning combination of a first-rate modern adventure yarn and damned good writing. Furthermore it has the authentic smell of the North Atlantic and the feel of a Nova Scotia too few of us know." A light plane disappears in the fog off the Nova Scotia coast, and the pilot's brother tries to learn what happened to it. But as Peter Landry pursues the truth, a web of treason and terror closes around him. His quest takes him to the waterfront of New York and then back to Nova Scotia, where an intoxicating woman joins him aboard his small schooner as he scours the coast searching for the truth about his brother. But he is hardly prepared for what he finds.
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"Hey, detective. I was wondering if you could check on my husband. He says he is about to leave for work but i saw his work schedule and he is supposed to be off today. I was wondering if you could follow him?" Mrs. Gomez had called the day before asking for Ben's services and is now giving him a lead.
"Okay, but there is a charge for a stake out. Standard fee is about a hundred a night," Ben adds.
"I am fine with that. I just need to know if I can trust him. He has been acting pretty peculiar. I mean you remember everything I told you last night, right? If he isn't being true I'll get my money back when i sign the divorce papers."
"Right. Text me your address and his license plate number and I'll either call or text what I find out ma'am."
"Parada en tu hermana! Ella no es un saco de arena, que poco diablo! Oh, sorry. These kids are driving me up the wall! Hold on," she puts the phone away from her mouth, "He dicho alto, idiota!" She gets back on the phone. "Yes, yes. Thank you very much!"
"Uh huh, no problemo,"
"Goodbye, detective"
Ben hangs up and proceeds to his car. He grabs a snow scraper from the backseat of his dark blue Dodge Stratus and begins cleaning off his vehicle. It's been snowing lightly all day.
"So, what was that wink for?" Karen sneaks up and gives him a hug from behind.
"You know how i feel about dating someone else. I already am in love," Ben smiles as he slowly keeps brushing off the snow.
"Aw, I love you, too," Karen kisses his neck as she holds him. "Why do you keep seeing this guy?"
"It's good to talk to someone that's not always about business and who is not a gh..."
"You were about to say it weren't you?" She says after a short pause. "You know how I feel about the 'G' word!"
"I'm sorry, it slipped. You know i hate upsetting you, babe!" Ben turned around and sees a heavy set teenager. His face is plastered in white make up, his hair is spiked, most likely zero gauge ear rings, with a black shirt and some sort of other pieces of metal in his skin.
"So... I think I'm in the right place?" The teenage boy stares at Ben awkwardly for he appears to be talking to himself.
"Dr. Rhodes? Yeah, he's uh... He's great."
Karen laughs almost uncontrollably in an otherwise momentary silence.
"Cool," the boy walks away and looks back and mutters 'so weird' under his breath.
"That's what happens when you sneak up on me! I'll talk to you in the car!" Ben exclaims in a low volume.
"You're so cute when you're perturbed!" Karen laughs some more.
Ben finishes cleaning off his vehicle and jumps in.
"So you have another case? Another possible 'CMW'?"
"Do you listen in on all my calls?"
"Like I have anything better to do!"
"Yeah, probably a 'CMW'," Ben replies. A 'CMW' is an acronym for 'cheating man whore'. Ben has acronyms for everything these days. Saying the full term gets quite redundant.
"Okay. If you need any help just say my name," Karen begins to disappear. As she gives Ben a kiss on the cheek she says "Haunt you later, Babe," in a half joking/half mad Ben almost used the word 'ghost' again. Then, she is gone.
Just then, as the detective was about to put the car in reverse to pull out of the parking spot a the psych ward, his phone receives Mrs. Gomez's text with her home address and her husband's vehicle information. Ben's text notification is a short bit of the classic blue oyster cult song 'Don't fear the reaper'.
"Okay, back to work I go." He says after reading the text. He places his phone back down and proceeds to go to the Gomez home.


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Robert B(rown) Parker 1932–
American novelist.
Parker's crime fiction places him as a prominent contemporary author within the hard-boiled tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald. His best known works form a series consisting of nine novels, beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript (1973), and featuring Spenser, a tough but compassionate private-eye trained not only in espionage but also in gourmet cooking, physical fitness, and literature. One of Spenser's most endearing qualities is his sometimes self-depreciating but always witty sense of humor.
Parker wrote his dissertation on Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald and although he knows the private eye tradition well, his success is largely based on the contemporary tone he maintains while remaining true to the conventions of the genre. Along with the standard element of suspense, Parker's emphasis lies in character development, through dialogue as much as through action, and the incorporation of social themes, most notably the distortion of the American dream.
Promised Land (1977), the fourth Spenser novel, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Ironically, some critics feel this is one of his weaker works. For example, David Geherin, who acknowledges Parker's usual strength in characterization and dialogue, finds "an overemphasis on character analysis and an excessive talkiness that upsets the novelistic balance in Promised Land…."
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 49-52 and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 1.)
Newgate Callendar
In the tradition of Hammett, Chandler and the other private-eye creators of the 1930's comes "The Godwulf Manuscript" by Robert B. Parker…. Parker's locale is Boston, and his private-eye—a tough, wise-cracking, unafraid, lonely, unexpectedly literate type—is in many respects the very exemplar of the species. He is called in to investigate the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript from a college library. Along the way he runs into student activists, the mob, drugs, sex and the usual package. "The Godwulf Manuscript" is not notable for originality or ideas, but it is at least well written and does have a point of view about life. Its trouble is that it is simply too derivative to be anything more than lightweight.
Newgate Callendar, in a review of "The Godwulf Manuscript," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1974 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), January 13, 1974, p. 12.
Newgate Callendar
Parker must have learned a good deal from "Godwulf"; his new book is more deft, smoother and sharper in characterization. Where "Godwulf" read like a compilation of every private eye from Chandler on, "God Save the Child" has a great deal more personality and character.
Spenser still remains a smart aleck who shows his dislike for stupidity. He also is intelligent, educated, a gourmet cook and a mean man with his fists. In "God Save the Child" he is hired to find a missing 15-year-old boy; then the ransom notes start arriving. Spenser solves the case, of course, but along the way there are shrewd thrusts that animate the writing. The portrait of the mother is especially well done.
Newgate Callendar, in a review of "God Save the Child," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1974 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), December 15, 1974, p. 10.
Robin Winks
Robert Parker is perhaps the best of [the writers attempting to replace Chandler]…. [Promised Land] shows him gaining mastery over his material all of the time. The dialogue is good, without that cutesy-tough overtone one finds in so many imitators of Chandler, and while Spenser remains a bit self-romanticized, he is no more so than Marlowe and Archer. Anyone who complains about the lack of Chandlers ought to try [either Mortal Stakes or Promised Land]….
Robin Winks, in a review of "Mortal Stakes," in The New Republic (reprinted by permission of The New Republic; © 1977 The New Republic, Inc.), Vol. 176, No. 12, March 19, 1977, p. 36.
AGATE NESAULE KROUSE and MARGOT PETERS
Robert B. Parker has created Spenser, a Marlowe-like private eye who drinks a lot and makes tasty omelets, salad dressings, and women. In The Godwulf Manuscript (1973) he is inexplicably rude (Marlowe never is): to a university president who has been only courteous, he sneers, "Is there something you'd like me to detect or are you just polishing up your elocution for next year's commencement?" The detective is less interesting, however, than his antagonist, a small, weak, lecherous professor of medieval literature who early in the story is revealed to be also a radical, dope pusher, and murderer. This paragon is married to a huge, adoring woman who mothers him and eventually takes five bullets in the stomach so the little man can escape. He does. Spenser finds him cowering in the bathtub where he has wet himself in terror. Once under arrest, however, the medievalist revives and, assuming a lofty tone, lectures the police department on the brilliance of his criminal career. At this Boston university, administrators are phonies, professors cowardly murderers, and students (except the heroine) doped and mindless radicals. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid," said Raymond Chandler, Parker's model; but Spenser, despite a certain vitality, doesn't quite make the grade, perhaps because all imitations are only imitations, perhaps because a tough guy who bullies presidents, deans, professors, and students just isn't tough enough.
Agate Nesaule Krouse and Margot Peters, "Murder in Academe" (reprinted by permission of the authors), in Southwest Review, Vol. 62, No. 4, Autumn, 1977, pp. 371-78.∗
Robin Winks
The Judas Goat is not [Robert Parker's] best book, but it is very good. Parker is one of those authors who … are always being compared with Chandler and Ross Macdonald …, and while the comparison is apt as a label for quality and tone, it no longer is very helpful, since Parker has established a voice of his own. The Judas Goat is tough, cynical, sexy in a realistic way, and just a mite sentimental, and it sends Parker's series detective, Spenser, off to London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam to seek out (and as it happens, to destroy) a tiny band of terrorists who, in bombing a London restaurant, have maimed an American millionaire and killed his wife and daughters. Personal vengeance, stalking dogs, hounds of heaven, and yes judas goats are the subjects here, and it is all handled with taste and authenticity.
Robin Winks, in a review of "The Judas Goat," in The New Republic; (reprinted by permission of The New Republic; © 1978 The New Republic, Inc.), Vol. 179, No. 19, November 4, 1978, p. 54.
H.R.F. Keating
[A] literary strain has been present more or less in all [Robert Parker's] novels, even in Mortal Stakes which has a baseball setting (Parker is an avid sportsman). Spenser has been well called "the thinking man's private eye": it is easy to detect the presence not far over his shoulder of an author fully conversant with the whole tradition of the novelist as seer or even as therapist. There is a concern with human beings that rises at times to compassion and perhaps falls at other times to that commonish complaint among American novelists "psychology showing through".
But the seriousness that this indicates is always well compensated for by Parker's dialogue. Spenser is a wisecracking guy in...
(The entire section is 194 words.)
Newgate Callendar
Robert B. Parker has written five books starring Spenser, the tough Boston operator, a one-man army. In his new book, "Wilderness" …, a different hero is introduced—a man named Aaron Newman, a writer, jogger, big and strong but saddled with doubts of self and wife.
Jogging along peacefully one morning, Newman sees a murder and can identify the killer, who turns out to be a psychopathic gangster. He tells the police what he knows, but when the gangster threatens his wife, Newman recants his evidence. But can he now live with himself? And how does his wife, who can be very bitchy, feel about it?
Thus, while there is plenty of action in "Wilderness"—indeed, nothing but...
(The entire section is 242 words.)
David Geherin
It should come as no surprise to a reader of The Godwulf Manuscript (1974) to discover striking similarities between it and the novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald, particularly when he remembers that Parker wrote his doctoral dissertation on the novels of those three writers. What is surprising, however, is the extent to which he has managed to stake out for himself an original claim to the territory already overrun by would-be successors to the three earlier masters of the hard-boiled detective novel. Parker manages the tricky task of evoking echoes of all three writers while at the same time creating a character and developing a style that are uniquely his.
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Anatole Broyard
In "Early Autumn," by Robert B. Parker, the private eye has come a long way from the dissolute days when he was a hell-raising, hard-drinking womanizer with a license to carry a gun. Spenser, Mr. Parker's detective, is a baby-sitter in the seventh novel of this popular series.
He salvages Paul, a 15-year-old boy whose divorced parents each want him only to spite the other. Paul is "thin, nasty, apathetic and withdrawn." In a surge of supererogation, Spenser takes him to Maine and starts him running, boxing, lifting weights, reading, talking, listening to music and building a house. As you can see, "Early Autumn" is a bildungsroman.
In spite of Spenser's baby-sitting, he's a pretty...
(The entire section is 182 words.)
Peter S. Prescott
Last year in "Early Autumn," Spenser made a man of a 15-year-old boy vicitimized by his affectless parents. "Ceremony" seems an alternative version of that novel. This time the child with the destructive parents is a girl, a high-school dropout who volunteers for a life of prostitution, then finds herself a prisoner of it: finally, when freed by Spenser, she finds she has no other talent, no other aim in life. Spenser is faced with an interesting moral decision: what is best for this homeless child? Unpaid, saddled with a job he never wanted but now cannot let go, he's a modern paladin. "It's a way to live," he says. "Anything else is confusion." "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" Susan asks. It's...
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"With the base rate at 0.5 per cent, savings rates are low, so now is a good time for many homeowners with savings to consider offsetting," says Nick Scarrett, head of pensions and investments at Fair Investment Company. "At the moment, many people will be paying more interest on their mortgage than they are earning on their savings, and this doesn't make financial sense."
Offset mortgages link the balance of your mortgage to the cash you hold in savings or current accounts. It lets you "offset" the credit balance in your other accounts against the mortgage balance, so interest is only paid on the difference.
The effective rate of return you get on your savings is the mortgage rate you're being charged, and there is no tax to pay, so the return will often be much better than that currently available on a savings account. For example, a basic-rate taxpayer offsetting against a mortgage charged at 3.5 per cent would need to earn 4.38 per cent gross on a standard savings account to get the same effective return. A higher-rate taxpayer would need to earn a gross savings rate of 5.83 per cent.
David Black, banking specialist at the analysts Defaqto, says: "Offset mortgages can work extremely well for higher-rate taxpayers who have a mortgage and savings. Offset mortgages effectively offer tax-free interest on savings at the same rate as the mortgage."
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Black says: "Others who could benefit from an offset mortgage include the self-employed, buy-to-let landlords, anyone who receives a fairly substantial part of their income in the form of an annual bonus or even those paying school fees. In these instances, an offset mortgage can provide the borrower with the flexibility required to assist with irregular income streams or outgoings."
John Hughes of the Britannia agrees. "Offset mortgages are a good option for people who earn bonuses or get paid by commission as they might be able to pay a big deposit on their savings or current account every so often, offsetting their mortgage even more. Offset mortgages vary from lender to lender, but as a rule they are quite flexible, offering the opportunity to overpay, underpay, pay in lump sums and even repay your mortgage early. If you are running low on cash, you can even take a payment holiday."
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Paul Kaye, general manager of sales at the Leeds Building Society says flexibility is one reason why more borrowers are beginning to choose offset mortgages. "Because savings are kept in a completely separate account, there is no need for a fundamental reorganisation of finances, and customers have unlimited access to them at any time, providing great flexibility and peace of mind."
And flexibility is becoming increasingly important to homeowners, according to research published in May by Lloyds TSB. Some 68 per cent of mortgage borrowers said flexibility is important, and 40 per cent said it was "very important". Stephen Noakes, head of mortgages at Lloyds TSB, says: "Our research shows that customers want to have a greater degree of control over how much they pay, and have the opportunity to flex payments dependent on economic conditions."
Offset mortgages are often seen as being more expensive than standard deals. The headline low fixed or tracker rates borrowers may be offered with a non-offset mortgage are often not made available to those who choose an offset deal. That shouldn't stop borrowers considering them, says adviser Drew Wotherspoon of John Charcol. "Generally, for borrowers with good levels of savings, offsets present a viable option, especially when obtaining anything more than a token return on a savings account is a labour of herculean proportions.
"The premium you have to pay for an offset varies from lender to lender, so if you can find one that doesn't load the rate for the privilege then it makes sense to have the option even if you do not use it to a great level. The general rule of thumb is that if you use an offset correctly you can save money on your mortgage, which will also help you pay it back quicker. Yet borrowers should seek specific advice about whether an offset is the best solution for them."
Using savings to offset against a mortgage rather than using the cash to make overpayments can make sense, according to David Hollingworth of brokers London & Country. "One of the benefits of offsetting rather than overpaying is that you retain easy access to the savings in case they are needed. That means that funds earmarked for other purposes like a tax bill or a holiday can be put to good use until they're required."
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Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised the lead arrangers on a £1.5bn loan to Land Securities – the UK's largest property company.
A&O is acting for Lloyds TSB Capital Markets, Barclays Capital, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Salomon Brothers International.
Land Securities is taking out the loan to return more than £500m of capital to shareholders, and is using the balance as working capital.
A&O banking partner Trevor Borthwick led the deal. He said that although A&O acts for Barclays Capital, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Salomon Brothers International on a regular basis, work for Lloyds is less frequent. This is perhaps due to the fact that Lloyds is one of the less active arrangers in the market. Despite this, A&O won the work after acting for Lloyds on a previous Land Securities deal.
The deal was signed on 20 May – just a week after A&O had taken instruction for the arrangers. "It was a significant achievement for the team to turn around such a large deal in such a short space of time," said Borthwick. He was assisted on the deal by A&O associates Thomas Costa and Jonathan Lawrence.
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Here's another good one, "sintaraso" - the feeling of wanting to hit someone with your belt.ReplyDeleteReplies
My dad had that feeling a lot when I was younger.Delete
Hi - I'm from Germany, I am in my Fifties, but guess: until today I never heard about "Waldeinsamkeit" though now I know it exists. It must be a very, very old term which nobody uses nowadays. But I have a suggestion for you that's not overused but still well known. When you are very lonely and feel like the last human on earth you are "mutterseelenallein" (roughly translated: "alone like a mother's soul"). Though it describes a sad condition it is in my opinion one of the most beautiful words in the German language.ReplyDeleteReplies
I like that one, Jean Pierre. Thanks for the comment from Germany.Delete
Love the new look of the blog, Cary!ReplyDeleteReplies
It's a work in progress. Very slow progress.Delete
Oh my gosh! I love these. Komorebi--Yes! So cool! :-)ReplyDelete
I just finished reading Happiness. A common theme throughout the book is the untranslatables. Very nice and timely post.ReplyDelete


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After the failure of a French GP comeback, it appears that Formula One could return to Turkey.
Dec.1 (GMM) Moves are afoot to revive the defunct Turkish Grand Prix.
Formula one raced at the Hermann Tilke-penned Istanbul Park - featuring the famous four-apex Turn 8 corner - between 2005 and 2011.
Bernie Ecclestone and race organisers could not agree a new race fee for 2012 and beyond.
But late last week, British journalist Bob Mackenzie, of the Daily Express, revealed that the F1 chief executive is "pushing for a return" of the Turkish event, "after ruling out a French race".
Greek website gocar.gr said the decision will be made in the coming week.
"I've known Bernie Ecclestone for many years," he said.
Ak, who is willing to pay $5m out of his own pocket, said Ecclestone is asking for a $26 million fee for the race.
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John Butler, probably one of the greatest guitar players the world has seen in recent memory. Even if you're not a musician, after hearing Butler you may have to agree with me. Within a landscape that encompasses a plethora of genres, picking styles and individualism, Butler's music stands alone.
As a music junkie, and I don't use that term lightly, I find myself constantly introducing Butler's music to the unaware. It's not their fault either, even active music listeners have yet to hear of him or the band he fronts called The John Butler Trio. I frequently have discussions where people ask why his material never seems to make it to the airwaves. I don't have a concrete answer for that but after studying radio and working within the music industry, I have a few ideas. We'll come back to this but first a little history on the man who embodies the word "soul."
Great music seems to come from a very tight knit handful of countries. The UK, Canada, United States and more recently Australia. John Butler hails from the latter, honing his craft on the streets of Fremantle. He took his musical talent to the public as he busked his way from obscurity to hometown fame. And to think his grandmother gave his first guitar to him, at sixteen, after his grandfather passed away. It remains one of his prized possessions to this day. With the addition of a drummer and bassist, The John Butler Trio was formed. Butler released his first self-titled album in 1998.
As we progress through the albums and the years we hear the growth of one of earth's scarcest talents swell to fruition. A unique thing about this band is that Butler is the only staple. Musicians are often replaced or switched out by Butler to change direction from album to album. 2004's "Sunrise Over Sea" brought the Trio massive airplay in Australia with the release of the single "Zebra" and the supremely popular "Peaches & Cream" written for his wife and newborn daughter.
I have had the pleasure of seeing The John Butler Trio live in Toronto on three separate occasions and the man just refuses to disappoint. It's funny to note that I fell in to the category of being ignorant of this band until I saw them at the now torn down Kool Haus in 2008. A friend had an extra ticket and I rarely turn down a show. Leaving the venue I couldn't stop talking about it. I left with a copy of their album "Live At St. Gallen" which was recorded in Switzerland and if you're listening to this band for the first time I recommend it be your starting point. Another cool story came when I saw him perform at The Mod Club. Playing to a sold-out crowd he addressed the audience in between songs and told us a story about four kids begging for tickets outside their tour bus all day. "Should I let them in?" he asked, with a thunderous cheer we agreed. He let all four of them in the back door and propped them at the side of the stage for the remainder of the gig. Classy play Mr. Butler, classy play.
I hope by now that I have at least peaked your interest in to listening to this phenomenal musician. Addressing the question of why he doesn't receive airplay here in North America, it's a complete mystery. He would be embraced by so many of us and I strive for a world where musicians like John can be heard on a more regular basis.
I'm going to leave you with a rendition of his track "Ocean." It's the record I usually play for people who have yet to here his material. Yes it's long, eleven minutes, but it's also instrumental. Butler, in his element, with a 12-string and an audience to fuel the burn. It's an emotional rollercoaster worth taking because in all honesty he'll blow your mind.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6884?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12899089#action_12899089 ] Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-6884: ----------------------------------------- I have additional concerns about AOP. Herriot plans to introduce AOP based interfaces for exposing system internals. This should not be deployed on production clusters. Using AOP to check isDebugEnabled(), results in two flavors of AOP code. One that must be deployed on the system and the other that should not be. Confusion here could result in serious issues. Second, with AOP, if some one deploys the version without AOP based debug check, there is no way to know if the check is happening or not, by the system behavior alone. My vote is to keep it simple for now and check in the code changes that Erik has. This is a widely used java coding practice and not a huge code bloat. If others still feel that this causes code bloat, we could further choose one of the choices proposed in the jira. At that time, we need to any way remove all debug enabled checks that are currently being made. > Add LOG.isDebugEnabled() guard for each LOG.debug("...") > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6884 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6884 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.22.0 > Reporter: Erik Steffl > Assignee: Erik Steffl > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-6884-0.22-1.patch, HADOOP-6884-0.22.patch > > > Each LOG.debug("...") should be executed only if LOG.isDebugEnabled() is true, in some cases it's expensive to construct the string that is being printed to log. It's much easier to always use LOG.isDebugEnabled() because it's easier to check (rather than in each case reason whether it's necessary or not). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids), writer Katie Dippold and producer Peter Chernin, the creative crew behind action-comedy The Heat, are reteaming. Chernin Entertainment has dropped $1m from its discretionary fund to pick up an untitled pitch from Dippold with Feig attached to direct and produce.
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Demián Bichir, Oscar nominated for his turn in the immigration-themed A Better Life, is turning to directing. The Mexican-born actor will direct the indie love story Refugio from a script he wrote. It tells the story of a young man who leaves behind his circus family to search for a long-lost love.
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Unformatted text preview: Abnormal Psychology Test 1 Chapter 1 • Criteria for Determining abnormality o Unusualness – behavior that is unusual is often considered abnormal Rarity or statistical deviance is not a sufficient basis for labeling behavior abnormal; nevertheless it is one yardstick often used to judge abnormality o Social deviance – all societies have norms (standards) that define the kinds of behaviors acceptable in given context. Behavior deemed normal in one culture may be viewed as abnormal in another. Norms which arise form the practices and beliefs of specific cultures, are relative standards, not universal truths. Clinicians need to weigh cultural differences while determining what is normal and abnormal. What strikes one generation as abnormal may be considered normal by the next Standards we use in making judgments of abnormal behavior must take into account cultural norms o Faulty perceptions or interpretations of reality Normally our sensory systems and cognitive processes permit us to form accurate mental representations of the environment. Seeing things and hearing voices that are not present are considered hallucinations, which in out culture are generally taken as signs of an underlying mental disorder. Similarly, holding unfounded ideas of delusions, such as ideas of persecution that the CIA or mafia are out to get you may be regarded as signs of mental disturbance, unless of course they are. o Significant personal distress States of personal distress caused by troublesome emotions, such as anxiety, fear or depression, may be abnormal. Appropriate feelings of distress are not considered abnormal unless they persist long after the source of anguish has been removed (after most people would have adjusted) or if they are so intense that they impair the individual's ability to function o Maladaptive or self-defeating behavior Behavior that leads to unhappiness rather than self-fulfillment can be regarded as abnormal. Behavior that limits our ability to function in expected roles, or to adapt to our environments, may also be considered abnormal. o Dangerousness Behavior that is dangerous to oneself or to other people may be considered abnormal Social context is crucial • Demonological model o In our culture, abnormal behavior has come to be viewed as the product of physical and psychosocial factors not demonic possession o Archeologists have unearthed human skeletons from the Stone Age with egg-sized cavities in the skull. One interpretation of these holes is that our prehistoric ancestors believed abnormal behavior was caused by the inhabitation of evil spirits. These holes might be the result of trephination – the drilling of the skill to provide an outlet for those irascible spirits. Fresh bone growth indicates that some people did survive this medical procedure....
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The Spiral of Despair: Birth of a Son
The Story of LightBlade: Part 2
The big day, the spiral starts to unravel. While the whole elven kingdoms have gathered to watch one of their brave knights get married, where is CurseBlade. Drinking in the local bar drinking himself stupid, but when hes drunk he gets...violent.
"I'm so excited, I'm finally getting married" LightBlade squealed in joy
"Its a very special day indeed" Her friend replied
"So, how do I look?"
"Like a million dollars"
LightBlade was in the most amazing dress, with tiny white roses on her dress. LightBlade smiled brightly when her friend nodded, couple minutes later a crash and violently swearing was heard. It had begun already, LightBlade run out.
"What's going on?"
"Lady LightBlade, your husband to be was throwing things around and threatening the guests"
LightBlade looked at him, walked over to him. He lashed out there, that was it. On her wedding day in front of all these people, the violence begun. He scratched her face, tears rolled down her face in pain and heartache.
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.." He whimpered
"You hit me.."
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry"
LightBlade looked at the guards, she couldn't let him be taken away so she tried to make the best of what already was a bad problem like she normally does.
"Let him go"
"If you wish, my lady" The Guards let him go as they replied.
CurseBlade got back up again, went over to Light. Who was trying to hide the marks on her face which he had just given her. CurseBlade took her hands.
"Will you still have me, as you're husband?"
"O-Of course"
The wedding went on, they eventfully got married. Curse had inherited a huge house from his parents, later on Curse lost it again. He beat Light again, this time Light curled up in a ball. Scared for her life.
"I-I thought you loved me.."
CurseBlade didn't answer, he just walked off and sat in his bar. Drinking. Oh what woe it is, to see the sad decline of a noble. LightBlade laid there, scared and alone. What had she just join, she just married a jackal and hide. She got back up, cleaned herself up. Got changed and whiling getting changed, she felt a strange movement within her body, like tiny feet kicking against her stomach.
"I-I'm with child...my first child"
CurseBlade heard her, he calmed down slowly and went to her. He eyes had some regret in them but they looked more evil.
"I'm sorry for hitting you and beating you, but what did you just say?" His voice had no sorriness or regret in it, just sounded dull and empty.
"I-I'm with child..."
"That's amazing. I'm so happy"
CurseBlade voice still sounded empty, more possessive and angry. LightBlade put his hand on the kicking, first child. DeathBlade, first of many sons which they would have together.
"I'm going, to lay down okay"
"Okay Curse"
CurseBlade went to lay down, leaving Light by herself again. Couple hours later, LightBlade was laid on the couch, in her dressing robes. She couldn't image what would happen next, Curse came back downstairs got her by the neck, held her up by the ceiling.
"YOU. are mine. you will do as i say, without complaint or refusal. HEAR. me"
LightBlade nodded, scared for her life. She was held up there for minutes on end, being choked until Curse threw her on the floor. Hard. LightBlade cried silently on the floor, gasping for breath and praying he would change. Sadly, he didn't. He just got worse.
"What did I do deserve this?" She cried to herself as Curse watched her weeping and crying.
"You are a worthless, weak and stupid, hear me. NO one will listen to you, no one loves you"
LightBlade cried to herself, Curse true side was beginning to show already. There was nothing she could do, she was his by law now.
"THIS is your fate" He shouted to her
This continued, didn't get easier just harder and more cruel. By the time she went into labor with DeathBlade, the nurses and doctors were horrified to see the once brave and friendly knight, cowering when every male tried to touch her.
"Easy now, easy now" One of the Doctors tried to calm her.
"P-Please, d-don't hurt me"
"Easy, we won't hurt you"
Ten hours in labor wasn't easy, it was very painful birth. But when the baby did come, LightBlade was overwhelmed by sudden feeling of hope, she had something to live for her, it wouldn't matter how much she suffered as long he didn't hurt their children.
"It's a boy my lady, healthy and strong"
"I-I'm so glad"
"We're going to clean you"
"O-oh okay"
The doctors cleaned her, exposing burn marks on her chest and back. Extreme black bruises, she could have multiple broken ribs because LightBlade was scared and feeling like her husband yelled at her every night just as the beatings stopped, worthless.
"My son...my little DeathBlade"
The baby cooed incontinently in her arms, such innocents radiated off him. It calmed her sadly she knew she had protect her child from his cruel father. Sadly we know, that DeathBlade would witness the beatings and his life would be scared forever by this. When LightBlade was finally released from the hospital, she slowly walked home huddling and hiding her son.
"Where have you been?" A dark voice asked her, it was curse in full blown rage.
"G-Giving birth, husband"
CurseBlade evil that he was, took the child and placed him on the couch. Cruelly made that innocent baby watch the cruel torture and beatings his father inflicted on his mother, LightBlade could only cry but she didn't scream. Little Death fell silent. His eyes weld up with tears. He reached for small knife that his dad laid on the couch, throw it at his dad making him drop his mom.
LightBlade got her son, calmed him quietly. CurseBlade just stormed off back to counting his money, poor LightBlade wasn't allowed any friends. She was treated like a slave and Curse friends were happily repeat the same as their master.
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A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a plane crash in Auckland this evening.
The man is believed to have been the only occupant of the aircraft which crashed 50 metres off Kohimarama Beach at about 9:50pm.
A local resident said she was watching the election coverage on TV when she heard "an unusual thud". Minutes later she heard a helicopter circling and then saw it shine its spotlight on to the water.
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Runtime: 121 min
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
Synopsis: Jimmy Dove works for the bomb squad in Boston and he is always the one who is on the tough jobs. One day he decides to quit the force and to become a teacher for the rookies of the squad. A few days later his former partner is killed by a bomb and Jimmy becomes suspicious that maybe this bomb could have been built by a former friend of himself. He begins to investigate and finds out that his worst nightmare has returned from his past.