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Famous last-gasp defeats are a Polish tradition, whether in war or football, so there was little surprise at a 1-0 defeat to the Czech Republic that dumped them out of the Euro 2012 finals they have dreamed of holding for years.
It was not losing to Petr Jiracek's 72nd-minute goal that hurt but the tame way Franciszek Smuda's team – in stark contrast to their rousing comeback against Russia days earlier – went quietly into the night. After a hatful of chances in the first 15 minutes, they managed just three shots in the second half of what was billed as their biggest game in 30 years.
Two decades of toil has given Poles prosperity most could never have imagined under communism but football has not rewarded them in kind.
The 1970s and 1980s "golden generation" that produced Grzegorz Lato and Zbigniew Boniek has given way to a succession of average squads that have struggled to win games at major finals, never mind get out of the group.
That failure has fuelled the doubters in the country's post-1989 liberal revolution, who said something had gone awry with the national character along the way. There is a belief that Poles are too busy thinking about their own interests to unite for a common good and reaching the quarter-finals would have done much to counter that idea.
The captain Jakub Blaszczykowski launched the recriminations with the revelation that players were kept on tenterhooks over whether their families would get any tickets for Saturday's game.
He also said Smuda, who announced after the game that his contract would not be renewed, had gone too quickly and other commentators paid tribute to the coach, saying he remained the best Poland has.
The captain's ire was instead saved for Lato, a winner of the World Cup Golden Boot in 1974 and now the head of a much-criticised Football Association that still harks back to communist times. "If we want to head in the direction of professionalism, if we want our football to look like it does in other countries, we have to take examples from the best," Blaszczykowski said.
"The FA president says he has a good relationship with the team. I am not aware of that, because every time we establish something with him it completely is not held to. Many things are not done as they should be."
As late as noon on match-day, Blaszczykowski said, the players were still asking whether they would get tickets for the game before they were finally given two each.
"These are things that we as players, and in particular myself as captain, have the right to say and have to say," the midfielder said. "It can't be like that before each game that we have to beg the FA's president to give the tickets to our families. Everybody is getting them, only our families have these problems."
czech rep 1-0 poland
Goal: Czech Republic Jiracek 72. Subs: CR Rajtoral (Jiracek, 83), Rezek (Pilar, 87), Pekhart (Baros, 90). Pol Grosicki 6 (Polanski, 56), Brozek (Obraniak, 73), Mierzejewski (Murawski, 73). Booked: CR Limbersky, Plasil, Pekhart. Pol Murawski, Polanski, Wasilewski, Blazczykowski, Perquis. MoM Pilar. Match rating 7/10. Poss: CR 55%. Pol 45%. Att on target: CR 8. Pol 9. Ref C Thomson (Sco). Att 44,416.
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As expected, third-quarter seed funding dropped sharply in the third quarter in New York's Silicon Alley.
Fintechs were hit particularly hard, but let's set that aside a moment. The numbers raise an interesting question: Is the venture community trying to cure the indigestion it got by swallowing too many new companies like a python consuming an antelope?
Deals raising between $250,000 and $3.5 million slumped 29% from 2Q 2016 and tumbled 57% from the year earlier period to 32, according to Primary Venture Partners. But the dollar amount raised, though it declined, wasn't hit as hard — $57.5 million, down 34% from a year earlier and 21% from the second quarter of 2016.
Dig a little deeper and you'll discover that VCs were doling out larger sums to the lucky term sheet winners: In 3Q 2016 only 1% received more than $3 million; in 2Q 2016, that nudged up to 4%. Last quarter? 13% snagged $3 million-plus investments. In the most recent quarter, 86% of investments were $1 million or more, up from 51% the previous year, and 80% in the 2Q 2016.
This development put me in mind of a widely-read blog post by First Round partner Josh Kopelman on the boom in seed funding in the first half of the decade. That was back in the spring of 2015 when seed funders had poured $4 billion into early stage companies. It was so easy to raise money back then that most deals were substantially oversubscribed. But only the seed round expanded — the amount of dollars available to these young companies didn't increase further down the road.
Kopelman estimates seed money outpaced Series A by 4:1. The results were ridiculously predictable: the precipitous dropoff/death of early stage winners. The Series A Crunch is now biting back. Kopelman offered sound advice in his 2015 post, and the Primary Venture numbers hint that early stage investors are paying attention:
When you raise seed money, you're raising on the strength of your vision. As I always say, there's nothing like numbers to fuck up a good story. And that's exactly what happens at the Series A.
You're suddenly judged on the data that you should have been collecting all along to show traction, growth, potential. So why not raise $2.5M in seed money instead of $1.5M to give yourself the best shot at perfecting this data? You should target 18 to 24 months of runway post Series Seed. The best time to raise follow-on capital is when you don't need it, and 2 years of runway gives you the best chance to land in that situation.
A word about fintech seed raising in 3Q 2016: Only one raised money — Offrbox, with $500,000. In Q2 there were five fintech seed deals, 11% of the flow. Here's the shorthand for the current fintech seed crunch –the blowups at Lending Club and OnDeck, whose IPO has tumbled 80% from its launch in December 2014.
But fintechs are showing long-term strength in the New York region. Primary Venture writes:
A recent report by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City noted that for the first three months of 2016, New York received more FinTech venture financing than Silicon Valley – $690 million in NYC compared to $511 million – reaffirming the city's rise as a FinTech hub.
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Northfield defeated Hammonton 6-2 on Tuesday in a District 16 11-12 softball game in Middle Township to force a championship rematch between the two teams. Northfield, out of the losers bracket, and Hammonton meet for the District 16 title at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Middle Township.
Northfield's Julianna Capasso singled in two runs with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning to break a 2-2 tie. Teammate Brianna Barretta hit a two-run triple in the second inning, and Amanda Kinkler was 2-for-2, including a two-run single in the fifth inning. Winning pitcher Gillian McCarthy went the six-inning distance and gave up three hits, with six strikeouts.
For Hammonton, pitcher Maddie Guyer struck out six, and at the plate singled and scored a run.
District 16 9-10
Hammonton 21, Ocean City 0, 4 innings: Winning pitcher Ryan Adams threw a one-hitter with six strikeouts and no walks. D.J. Adamucci was 3-for-4 with four runs and three RBIs, while Brett Longo went 2-for-3 with two walks and three runs, and Joey McIntosh was 3-for-3 with three runs and three RBIs.
For host Ocean City, Tyler Greene singled in the first inning.
From Monday
District 16 11-12
Absecon 4, Linwood 1: Absecon's A.J. Campbell pitched 5 innings and gave up four hits. At the plate Campbell had two doubles. Tony Santamaria had a double and a single for the winners, while Brandon Soltys added two hits, and Kyle Bronco hit a two-run double.
For Linwood, Jack Pettit had a single and a double.
Absecon plays Margate at 5:30 p.m. today in Margate.
Margate 10, Greater Wildwood 2: Four Margate pitchers, Wyatt Stetzer, Nick West, Jake Lamonaca and Brian Walsh, combined for 12 strikeouts. Lamonaca was 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and J.J. Spotts was 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
For Greater Wildwood, Tyler Tomlin went 2-for-3 with a triple, a run and an RBI.
Hammonton 8, Ventnor 2: Winning pitcher Giancarlo Palmieri went the six-inning distance and struck out seven. Teammate Frank Torrissi was 3-for-3 with two RBIs.
Also for Hammonton, Sean Falcone was 1-for-2 with three RBIs, and Kyle Cantz was 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI.
Hammonton plays Northfield at 7 p.m. today in Northfield.
Middle Township 10, Cape May County 3: Winning pitcher Jake Cooper went four innings and struck out five. Garrett DiPalantino and Sean Dougherty each pitched an inning of relief. Cooper had two hits. Drew Ludman had two hits, Garrett DiPalantino hit a three-run homer in the first inning.
Middle Township plays Lower Cape May at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Lower.
District 3
9-10 baseball
East Vineland 4, West Cumberland 1
Buena 19, North Vineland 6, five innings
Millville American 16, Salem 4, 31/2 innings
11-12 baseball
Millville American 22, Elmer 1, four innings
Junior baseball
Buena 12, Elmer 0
East Vineland 11, Salem 2
West Cumberland 8, South Vineland 5
11-12 softball
West Cumberland 18, Penns Grove 2, four innings
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District 16 11-12 softball
Northfield 15, Greater Wildwood 0, four innings: Northfield pitchers Gillian McCarthy and Olivia Goff combined on a no-hitter with nine strikeouts and one walk.
Gabby Monzo had two hits and three runs, while Mackenzie Brennan reached base four times and scored twice. Julianna Capasso added a two-run single in the third inning.
District 16 9-10
Absecon 7, Ventnor 5: Dylan Campbell homered for Absecon.


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The GuardsMature
Deadly cnflicts occurred between Karenni refugee students from Ban Mai Nan Soi Refugee Camp and the guards, who were hired to protect refugees from that camp, after a young student was shot by a cruel guard.
It was dark, cloudy morning. The rain was coming, turning clouds into smokes of horror, painting the sky in a murky color. The whole sky was trembling by the stormy wind all over every top of mountains. The entire valley was filled with small, old and leaned houses of Ban Nai Nai Soi refugee camp. Other called it camp#1. Ban Mai Nai Soi was a refugee camp occupied with around 20,000 poor children and adults. Most of these refugees were Kayan, Kayah, Kayaw and Pa Ku (Karen) as well as other minor ethnic groups which came from all corners of Burma. Ban Mai Nai Soi was located in the north-west of Thailand, east of Burma among other refugee camps.
As soon as the place left by wind, suddenly the whole surrounding seemed so quiet, lonely, and heartless for a while but it did not last so long. The weather did not seem to be in the right mood. People too, were quiet; the children did not go outside and played hide and seek. It was a school holiday but there were not so many people like to go out of their houses; the houses that were made of natural resources.
The month was turning into September, the end of rain-season and the beginning of winter. And yes, everyone, almost everyone, loved winter there. Whenever you asked about their favorite seasons, winter was the answer for the question because in their thought, winter was the only season that could bring people together. Winter inspired peaceful hearts and rightful desires of all people. This was what they believed or at least, that was what most people felt about that winter.
That day in camp, at a place where there were always filled with noises and sounds, it transformed into a silent place and lonely world. There were no noises at all. This made the whole camp looked like it was stopped in time, no rushing, no flowing ahead or not running backward anywhere.
Strangely, there was a strange house filled with serious, strange young people. The house was made of thatches, wood and bamboos and it seemed like it was going to collapse in a few days. Inside, the whole place smell liked a dead animal buried under the ground somewhere and released lots of bad smell. Above their head, they could even see what were the colors of the sky, what was going on in the sky, because there were lots of holes spread all over on top of them; the roof which was made of teak's leaves and usually lasted for a year or two maximally. The house was build almost five years ago.
These people, they were sitting around two small tables that joined together. Some chairs were shaken and almost broken while sitting on top of them but nothing seemed to stop their assembling for tonight. They cared not about anything, not the storms, nor the coming rains above their heads. It seemed like they would not go anywhere unless they found out the answer to the conflicts.
At the meeting, they talked about how to end the discrimination, bullying, raping and other disturbing things that had been happening around the camp. To be clear, they were discussing about how to end the corruption of Aw Saws or the guards of Ban Mai Nan Soi refugee camp.
Aw Saws were actually not soldiers of Thai government. They were a bunch of people who were hired by UNHCR (The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) for the safety of refugee people through the agreement of Homeland and Security of Thai government. They were hired to protect the innocents and bring criminals to justices. They were hired to protect refugee from other troubles such as wars that created by Karenni soldiers and Burmese armies.
"I do believe that we need them for our safety, I do but fuck, how come they do things that unimaginable to our people?" said a young man, named Ka Reh. Ka Reh was the friendliest of them all. He had an average body size, loved to play soccer, and went hunting whenever he was available.
"I agreed with you, Ka Reh. We fled from our very own country to escape from Burmese militaries that brought wars to our land, from wars that produced hunger, poverty and madness. We arrived here to get protection, to survive. That's all. Why can't we just be lucky at all? Our people!" responded the other whose age was around 18 years old. His name was Gary Say but people called him, Ruck. He then, continued "we should do something, anything to start a sparkling. Maybe we should assemble all students and demonstrate on streets until we get what we want"
On the outside, it was like a big war was coming again, the wars between natures. The clouds began to turn into larger pieces from many small ones, roaring and arming together to create a war against the bloody wind. The storm was coming, brought more energy with them. It seemed like the war between the dark army of clouds and the racing wind were so enormous and almost intimidated other things around them. In the inside the houses, it seemed like nothing bother these people at all. They kept moving one point to another, ignored the outside weather condition, keep arguing, talking, and shouting but with positive altitudes, no matter what.
"Yes, we need to make them know that we are not dumb and stupid and not slaves for them. We gotta fight back to show the truth to the people", announced Rainy Sayro, the guy who has the biggest body mass and the strongest of them all. He was Karen, but was born in Karenni State. He had to leave his village because there was nothing left for him back there. His father was killed by a guy whom his father had never known before in his life and his mother was raped twice by a group of corrupted Burmese soldiers while the other soldiers were burning down the whole village. He survived because he was lucky and carried away by his uncle before the soldiers and flame consumed the whole place. From that day, he never heard about his village anymore. His village was wiped out from the face of the earth. This all had happened before he could walk properly.
"We might not be their citizens but our brothers are not allowed to be treated like animals, our sisters should not be treated like whores! Yes, we gotta do something. Let's do something, my dear friends." asserted Sayro. He was so excited to do something illegal that created a greater cause, the cause of most important things in life; freedom.
Most of them, agreed to the point. The point was that they were going to rebel against the security guards by creating a problem with the intention to terrify the guards. Most of them were keen to do something for their people. At that moment, 'How' was what they were thinking in their heads. How to begin, how to process, how to be tough during the process of resistance and how to win ….
Outside, the sun was slowly consumed by the night and the world around them, began to blur and darken. Light was gradually vanishing without saying goodbye. Some parents were resting from the whole day works, some children were shouting out the words from the books they were ordered to from their school-teachers. Some old man, women were already slept with wide eyes open in the dark corners inside their houses with blankets filled with holes. At somewhere outside, some girls and boys were meeting secretly without letting their parents know. The time around them was rushing into darkness. The day was coming to an end but in the side of that strange house, these serious young men just began to be more active than ever. They began to see lights through the darkness. They were more and more into about how to win the battle between them and Aw Saw. Most of them were agree at some points of how to get rid out of Aw Saw but not all of them were into this suddenly. Not at this point. Just like the normal discussion, a few of them, not easily persuaded, especial La Kae. He was not ignorant, it was just that he did not trust or get excited by the great words or good talkers easily.
"I trusted that we had ...this…this "guard issue" and we need to do something about it but …" "But" was usually the word that he used when it came to disagreement between him and the other. Usually, he got a good reason to use this 'but'. His name was La Kae. He lived in section 12 by his own.
La Kae got some relatives in the camp but he liked to stay on his own, being independent was his best freedom or that was what he believed. He was full with paradoxical personalities. La Kae was the friendliest person while being the most stubborn of them all. He loved loneliness, loved poetry, and loved the longest novels. He was a kind of person. He did every bad thing possible but never hurt a man in his life. He was who he was, full with flaws and unhappiness, love and curiosities.
The most beautiful thing in him was that he was a free-thinker; he did not believe in the way of blindly attachment. Once before, he said this to his friend when they discussed about religion, "Religions are not poison, like those Captains from Chinese Communist Party used to say, actually, religions are there to protect our fallen souls, our broken hearts. Religions are the worlds full with dusts and diamonds. They are made of choices and sophisticated reasons. It is not us who have to decide whether religion is good or bad. Religion is like a poor man with an honest heart in the desert land, and has been there for thousands of years."
He loved to be friends but still, he never let people into his life unless there was a good reason for it. If he began to be friend, as a true friend, he would give anything to protect him or her. That was the way La Kae's. 'Go straight and hit hard. Be true and be kind' was his daily life motto.
"…we should not strike people just because we think they are suck and 'seem' guilty. We gotta have some kind of proofs or anything that can protect us or the people who will be involve in what we are going to do.", he said. "I know we need to do something serious which can lead chaotic to the whole camp. So, we need something real, concretes, not just guessing, pocking around like gossip girls or are we?" he questioned. "Before we began some serious discussion, who can produce real inspirations to begin with?" said La Kae with soft words. It hit hard on his friends who sat next to him.
"There are lots of things going around here. Are you blinded? Fuck, man! Excuse me for being rude but it is too much La Kae. How long have you been in this shithole? 10 years? 15 years? Oh yeah, how would you care, your parents left you in this shithole because you are so selfish and ignorance." said Maung Richard Garee in unsatisfied voice.
La Kae understood why Richard felt so bad about what he just said. Actually, he did not mean to hurt him or anyone with his words or mocked them at all, but he got a point and he had to stick with his point even though he would not be able to get along all of them for a while. La Kae loved all his friends, and never assaulted their personality like Garee…
Actually, Garee used to be a good friend and a good teacher. He taught History at Karenni High School after finished courses at Karenni Post-ten (Art and Science) School, section 20. His altitudes, his behaviours, his views on everything began to change after the unfortunate things happened to his family member; Maria Garee. She was his younger sister. She was raped by an anonymous Aw Saw who threated her to never talk. The raping and threating were happened in somewhere in forests, where Maria and his friends usually went for wild fruits searching. This thing distorted Garee's life forever. It gave him heartache and insanity. His life turned upside down and felt so depressed for many months. But slowly, he tried to build himself up again.
Sometime, last year….
On Sunday, the fifth of March, 2006, at 5p.m in the afternoon, Maria ran back home abruptly, tried to forget the whole things. She tried to force out her memory but it drove her crazy.
She went to the church, listened to the preaching, talked to the Women Right Organization about raping under her false name but nothing seemed to help her. Sometimes, she wanted to tell the truth but something was bothering her, destroyed her mind, something that she could not fight against.
"No one can help me unless I help myself but how? I can't …I can't…I just can't!" thought to herself in one morning. It was almost two weeks but still, she kept remembering the whole details of the event, so shameful, so disturbing and disgusting. For her it was like fighting against two big monsters without swords, without knowing about the monsters.
If she was a normal girl, she could have saved herself but she got another kind of illness, chronic sickness which had been torturing her through her whole life; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. OCD was another force that threatens her again and again in her mind, telling her that killing herself was the only option for her pure life. It told her that dirty bustard who raped her was so dirty; really dirty that nothing could make it clean again, not even by the help of holy water. If nothing could make it clean again, then her body was not good to have anymore. It told her to remove her womanhood again and again. She knew it was nonsense but it kept going under her skin, crawling in her heart, making million moves in her brains. Life was impossible anymore. Slowly, her mind was darken and rotten.
After two week, she committed suicide.
At first, most people thought she was some kind of depressing because she wanted to go to Third Country but was not allowed by her parents. Some friends of Maria blamed her parents for being so cruel, so unkind to their only daughter. Maria wanted to go to USA, to go there and study, get a degree. She wanted to help her Karenni people. She really wanted to go to Third Country or USA but was underage, which made it hard for her to move against her parents' wish. And some people did not feel sorry for Maria at all because they thought she was weak and cracked.
However, finally the truth came out from her old diary. She wrote the revolting story of hers, what had happened to her that day, every details of it before she hanged herself in her room.
Richard's head almost exploded when he found out the truth about his sister.
With the diary of his sister, Maung Richard went to the refugee police office, to the camp committee but they could not help him find anything tangible, not improvement even after a year. All they could do was recording what he said and stored it in their offices. Their excuse was that there was no hard evidence and the dairy was fake, which was written after the death of his sister.
That was how the hate, the fierce fire growing inside his heart, his head. "Is it because people afraid of those security guards or just plainly avoid of making problems between them and the guards or are they not interested of what has happened to my family?" "Not true. I know that there will be some people who wanna tell the truth and fight against the oppression, abuse of those Aw Saws", thought himself in many grieving nights. "There must be some people who love the truth more than themselves."
But still, he hated whenever he saw the guards and most of all, he disliked the people who became betrayal and worked against Karenni people. These corrupted betrayals would do anything for money. "Some refugee went to jail because of these spoil inbreed son of bitches and some were sent back to the border, not even a hug from their brother or sister, mother or father." alleged La Kae to his other friends. Most people who had been expelled from the camp were never to be seen in Ban Mai Nai Soi camp again. All their relatives can do was pray for them to be safe. But how could it be safe in the land of hell? Is there any place that safe in a land of hungry ghost?
He brought the pains with him wherever he went, even to the meeting with his other important friends right now.
"They are hired to protect the refugees because these refugees need security, not to fuck our sisters and beat the crack out of our parents, relatives or our friends. They are not here to give us pains!" cried Maung Rechard. He became aggressive when he heard people talking about these guards issue. Whenever he saw lots of people, he went to them and talked about the human rights, the rights of women, and the rights of justice including other things. That was how he and other students who had the same ideas as him began to form a youth group with some of his friends from different sections. And this was how, their youth group became so active in the anti-Aw Saw movement and that was how Richard began to work hard on behalf of his group.
"If you wanna see the evidences, I will take you to my sister's grave. She was buried at Law Htue Soun.", said Maung Richard in a harsh, hurt voice to La Kae who was quiet and listened to what his friends gotta say. Law Htue Soun was a mountain which was homes for many soulless bodies from the camps.
The discussion was beginning to make more sense to all of them, even to La Kae.
"Think about it, do you want your younger, older sister, cousins or whoever relatives of yours to be in the same fate as my sister's? No, I don't think so! They have done this to my sister and they will do behind the bushes while pointing the guns at some young, tasty, underage girls again and again for sure. I do not know who might be next but what I can be sure is that it is going to happen again and again unless we stop them. We could not rely on other anymore. We gotta act by ourselves." said Richard in a low, shaken voice. He felt so emotional whenever he talked and knew people would listen to him. His voice was moving in the airs like the wind blew away dead leaves from the ground. His eyes became shiner than ever while his heart was full with pains, so achy.
"This is a bad news but together we can prevent the future of our people. All we need is unity. Together we can be so strong!" continued Richard. Then he looked at La Kae and said, "Anyway, if you want some more proofs, here it is. I got it from Karenni Women Organization and Our camp committee office. They are all the files that show the records relating to the guards' actions. One of them is the complaint letter from your brother in law. He was hit by a bottle of whisky while visiting his aunt in section 5."
La Kae looked surprised. He did not know about this. The quarrel between his brother in law and Aw Saw happened last three days ago. The report was sent to the refugee security office yesterday.
"How did he get these files?" thought La Kae. "It doesn't matter how, what matter is that how real these files are" said to himself, and took some files to take a look in the inside.
Time was running fast. Everything seemed to be normal but the whole universe was running with millions miles per nanoseconds, faster than the speed of light. It was eight o'clock, night time already. On the outside, there was no more rains, no more wind. Everything seemed to be perfect. The sky was clear. There were stars spread all over the surface of the sky, above their place. The atmosphere was filled with quietness.
Suddenly, there was a voice coming from somewhere up above the place they gathered. It was a voice of a camp committee leader through one of the speakers which were hanged on top of trees all over the camp. Every section had its own and connected from the office of refugee camp#1 committee which was located at section 14, across the road, closed to the guards' small camp. If the leaders had something to say, they used them to spread the information all over the camp.
"Hello…hello…hello…"said the Camp Committee Leader. "I would like to declare a bad news to you all. Tonight, we encountered a problem. Something terrible just has happened to one of a young student named Shar Reh. It is a bad news for his parents and to us. One of the Aw Saw accidently shot him on the road from among his friends at section 14, 8.09p.m. We will publicize about this in details later on", said the Commitee leader shakily. Then, he continued with an order "But now, we would like anyone on the street, to go home immediately" The voice cut off. The place became more silent than ever. The night was filled with sadness and brought out broken hearts of thousands of people in camps. If you could hear the sound of breaking hearts, million pieces of the sound waves would travel into in your ears and broke your ears drum forever.
"You heard that? Before they raped young girls, they have created lots of problems for many students, and now, they did not even hesitate to slaughter our people. Too much!" said Ka Reh.
"Come on, let's do something!" roared La kae. I got what I need now. Also we have a plan right? Let's do what we have discussed on. Let's bring the entire student together and go to the guards' places. Let them march; assemble all students and people who will participate with us. I know some people who would lead."
"Yes, that is a good idea!" responded Gary Say with agreeing voice. "It's against the order of our camp leaders. We gotta be smart if we want to do something now."
"Yes, let's do that then! But first, we should know who got a better idea. Any?" asked La Kae in a smart voice. He was wholehearted. He would be happy to help solve the problem and help Richard' dream came true. What he always wanted was 'Justice', would come to his feet soon. And now, he would be part of the movement which would bring down those Aw Saws to justice. But first of all, he needed to make sure how to do it successfully by seeking better ideas.
"There was no better idea at this point I think. Let's do what you said, La Kae. Let's bring the mob and shake the ground tonight" said Richard enthusiastically.
"Yes, yes" was the words came out from everyone.
"Ok then, let's plan what we have to do now and do exactly, what we plan!" asserted La Kae. He told everyone what to do. He told them who to contact and what to say as well as how to cover their tracts before the camp committee leaders found out.
A few minutes later, they all moved out of their assembly place quickly, brought note books with them. They did not plan to kill the guards for revenge. Most of them did not prefer violence. All they wanted to do was to panic the guards and want to show that refugee people could not tolerate anymore. They wanted fairness and undiscriminating, they wanted to show those guards that Aw Saw were not law, none refugee people were animals.
But they needed to move fast before those security guards getting killed. They needed to say something where there would be lots of people could hear. They wanted to explain to people before the whole place became a chaotic. To do that, they needed to stick to their plan; bring people at the same place at section 14, at the guards' small camp and persuaded people to listen to what they were going to do, do it with unity, without fears, without hesitation.
Ka Reh, Richard Gare, Rainy Sayro, La Kae and Gary Say; they all had their own responsibilities. Each person went to three or four sections and talked to all the students in each section to wake up and gathered and marching to the guards' place, at section 14, up above the hill. This was La Kae's main plan. Students were the people who hated Aw Saw the most. They were young, full with energy and impatience about how the guards treated their people like trashes, ashes.
La Kae was responsible for section 20, 18 and 17. He took a note about what he was going to say in the loudspeaker. He thought about what he was going to answer if people asked questions. Also he was preparing for the arguments or disagreements. Just like La Kae, the other members went to other sections, to do their novelty duties.
Rainy Sayro had some kind of problems during his talk at the hall of section 16, about persuading people to be united and struck Aw Saw in a non-violent way at the same time. It was in a small hall. Some people had to stay outside to listen to what he got to say. He tried to tell them how to win this war without bloodshed, without guns. This was his point, being non-violent while marching together and showed to the world that they needed justice and that, they were human too.
"Alright, let's say that we do that. We march to show how much we angry at those Aw Saw.", said someone from the audience with short hairs, rounded face, wearing black jacket and jean and in his age around 40. "…but where are we going to live if this problem become uncontrollable? We have been living here, eating and shitting on their land for many years, our sons, our daughters were even born here and grew up here. Don't you forget that!" The guy continued, "This war, whether we fight or not, we are the losers from the beginning, my friend"
This did not trouble Rainy Sayro but instead, it gave him more ideas of how to prepare for the worst. It made him more serious about this problem with those guards.
In the room, the place became silent for a while. The world around them seemed so lifeless, breathless. Outside, the wind was blowing backward and forward, like water rushing down in rivers, like animals running around on green grasses. Rainy Sayro tried to answer all the questions from audiences as much as he could even thought it made him going nut. "Gotta finish the race." he thought whenever he felt depressed. "Later on, life will going on one way or another but we gotta focus on the thing happening right now. We could not just let it pass by our side because our people have been suffering too long" stated him in a loud, calm voice.
It was just not Rainy Sayro that had problem with trying to unite people. Other of his members also had to deal with such things during their meeting with people from different sections. However, they had succeeded at some points. At that night, it's about 9p.m. on the 15th of December, 2008, thousands of students marching, while other people such as anti-guards, violent preferred group, seeking the guards at every corners in the camp.
Some students went to two of Aw Saw's places and destroyed everything, including cars, motorbikes, lots of huts and a shop that belonged to the wife of one of the guards. Almost everything were destroyed in the fire or broken, nothing left in its good conditions. The whole place became so messy. The street was full with rubbish; people were shouting and talking to each other.
Some were looking for Aw Saw. They walked around the camp, searching for guards all over the place. The whole place became disordered, ruthless. Some students were serious more than other, and really serious about killing those guards. But some did take only actions that need to be done for the better future of the camp. Some wanted justice while other wanted revenges. But most of all, they all agreed that they wanted to get rid of those Aw Saws from their camp. This was their goal even thought they had different meaning of this issue.
Regarding to La Kae's plan and his group, they wanted to take over the place; showed Aw Saw something that they would never forget, showed those security guards that refugee people would not tolerate of their actions anymore. For that, La Kae and his group had planned for the students to march to the guard's camp and stayed there until morning. They wanted to charge the guard who killed that boy, who still was 15 years old. To show UNHCR that they had hired the wrong people and to show the world that they wanted to move out from this place, moved away from Burma and Thailand.
However, another group of refugee youth wanted other things. It was contradicted to what La Kae's group wanted. They preferred 'death'. They wanted revenges, to give the guards back what they deserved. Their leader was Ba Rie who aged was around 40. He was not a young person anymore. He got a wife and a kid already. He used to be a soldier for 8 years; served in Karenni Army. He had lots of experiences about wars, about low-life and about hatred. People could see these things inside his eyes and on his whole body; the eyes filled with pains and the body that full with scars.
There were lots of students follow his ideas, listened to him, and made him a hero. Many young people looked up to him because he had proved many times that he was not afraid at those guards with guns. He had done many courageous things against the guards before tonight's event. Maybe the student who was gunned down by Aw Saw was one of his followers.
"We need to give them some lessons. Give them some hard things." said Ba Rie, a few months back, before this deadly war started to his followers. He always met them at his house, closed to the dirty river that flowing down across section 10. "We are just refugees. Why they need those guns? We do not have any kind of dangers inside this camp. It was their fault if they used guns against us." alleged him. "You all, know what? When they become boring of their duty, they will begin to use those guns on our people illegally." said him in a calm voice. "…unless we wake up and fight back in the right time at the right moment!" Then he continued, "Now, it is our time to decide whether we put our history in our hands or we become the victims of our own history?
That was how the fire burned, the problem became bigger and uglier everyday in camps; this was how Ba Rie's youth organized group begin to exist. Some people called them 'real-fighters' while other called them 'ignorant-Geeks', the Geeks who would destroy the relationship between Karenni and Thai government one day.
Everything became more serious than ever when one of Ba Rie's students named Shar Reh was shot down while walking home from visiting his friend that night. That was how a story was described in Katarawaddy Times Newspaper on the coming next Monday issue. The story was written emotionally at the front page with large black letters in Burmese. But later that day, one of the murdered boy's friend said, they planned to invade Aw Saw's camp and told them not to be treated our people like shit. While arrived to the outside of the Aw Saw's camp, just outside the camp, he was shot by an Aw Saw. Two stories but the same direction for the boy; death. Death was what he got. Nothing more, nothing less. The space and time around him would keep moving on without him.
These young people, who planned to take over Aw Saw's camp, thought they could do something. They thought what their teacher; Ba Rie taught them were enough for them to fight against those guards. He taught them many kind of martial arts lessons including Karate, Shaolin and other techniques to defend themselves. "Use it for good, for your own safety and for other who is helpless and bullied by other people", he always said this to them. "You all have to understand, why we do this? Our people need shields. They need help from us. Those people with uniforms, who always carry around guns all over the camp, are not really courageous! They scare of us, that's why they always carrying those guns with them all the time but us? We are not afraid of them. We cannot be afraid of them. We have to face against them, face to face. One day, we will have a chance for that. Right now, all we have to build is our faith not to be afraid. It is an order, the order of our faith and our ambition. Don't be afraid of them. Do not do what they want you to do if it is not legal."
This was how Ba Rie organized his group, the group who would compete against La Kae and his friends. Time would not wait for any of them but wisdom was what would make them different in the end. Which group would lead the people to a better place was the question.
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On the night of 15th of December, thousands of students including some parents who disliked Aw Saws came to the same place, at section 14, up above the hill, around the small camp of Aw Saw. But before that, some started from section 18, 17, and 20 and slowly move to the section while other student from the other side of the camp moved down to the place where there would be Aw Saw's small camp filled with small huts.
People forgot to chat, not thinking about what would happen next. All they wanna do now was to capture Aw Saws. Some came to destroy all the stuffs while other came to just collect what were not broken during the routes of marching and destroying things belonged to Aw Saw.
"Too bad, they all have escaped before we arrived", said someone among the restless crowd. "Is there anybody see where they were going?" asked Maung Richard. Nobody answered. "Maybe because they did not know" thought Richard. "May be they have fled a few hours ago. If so, somebody must have told them, those betrayal bastards"
"They must have known we were going to come to them", said Richard, looking at La Kae. La Kae looked at him as a hearing sign, showing that he too, did not know where those guards run to.
La Kae was among the students shouting to some of his friends, about not to let people steal anything. "We can destroy everything but not taking anything from them. No…nothing at all ok?" said him in a hearable voice. He wanted to show people that these students did not want things from the guards. All they wanted to do was to get rid out of those guards, getting justices. He warned people not to take anything, even money they saw; destroy them all, tear them to pieces except those guards, those human beings.
All five of them were meeting again, Maung Richard Gare, La Kae, Ka Reh, Rainy Sayro and Gary Say. They met at the back of the crowd where there was a school office, down the hill which was located opposite the guards' camp. They were trying to figure out what going to come next, what they going to do after this. If they did not catch these stupid Aw Saws, what they would do to make sure they won this battle, this argument and stopped this nasty chaotic.
"So what is our next plan?" asked Gary Say. "Should we search for them? I think we should look for them. Ask some people to look all over the camp. We need to catch them."
"No..no..we cannot let people do that now! Look at these people; they are all keen for revenge not for justice because of that poor child, Shar reh whom was killed tonight." said La Kae. Yes, he was right. People looked so angry, they wanted blood and soon, there would be more bloodshed, unless they do something to stop. No excuse. "We gotta wait until they calm down and be able to listen what the best things we should do next!"
"We have to let them go? Why?" asked Gary Say. "It is our only chance!"
"No, it is not. We have a better option. Think about it. Let's say that we could find those guards, what do you think these angry students will do to them? They will do anything that can hurt those guards. And some even looked for revenge to kill. If one of them was killed during our responsibility, we won't be able to accuse them of murdering for tonight, and we could not reported to UNHCR that they should not be in our camp. They won't believe us. But let's think the other way, if we let them go, the other day they will come back and get punished by what they have done tonight. This means these Aw Saws will get discredited, which can give more chance for us to win when we nail them in front of the judge. Now, we need to be patient! Patient!" said La Kae patiently.
"Yes, he is right. Before we cannot accuse them of being bad guys because we do not have that much of concrete evidence, now we do" said Ka Reh. "We would have a chance to get rid out of them now!"
"Ok then, we needs to record all evidence as soon as possible." continued La Kae.
"Yeah", responded the other.
"I will let someone find a camera and other things that will need for the recording." said Richard.
"Alright, good", replied La Kae quietly in a low voice. And then he looked at Gary Say "Could you gather some students and take control of the shooting scenes, everything that will help us for the case we going to build? We need it fast, so that we can records all the details for our case before they are destroyed or altered"
"Ok, I will do that", answered Gary Say.
"You" he looked at Ka reh. "Can you help me find a loud speaker? We need to calm down this angry mob. I need to go up there", said La kae, pointing at the higher place at the top of the hill above Aw Saws's place. The wind was blowing at his face, playing around with his eyes, his hairs. He tried to concentrate on what had to be done and what would need to be done next. La Kae took out his note book from his left cultured woven bag, and wrote down some main points, what he was going to say in front of these people, lots of people. "Don't lose control, La Kae", thought to himself. Gradually, the words came down on the paper through the pen he was holding. The night was filled with noisiness. The sound of crowd, the broken vocalize of the wind was added to the blooming sound waves coming from everywhere, and created lots of different racketiness coming backward, forward.
The event was happening so fast. The wind was blowing and touched the whole crowd's skins, looked like the wind was helping La Kae's plan, to calm down the crowd's minds. At the top of mountains, the whole sky was clear; the moon was shining down to the place where there were people moving around. Everything seemed to be perfect except the dead body of the child who would not be able to wake up again tomorrow.
It was dawn now…
There was a little fog covered the place of Ban Mai Nan Soi. People got up earlier than they usually do on the other mornings. In the east, the sun began to flourish and lighten up the whole valley. Birds were singing, chicken were awaken by the orange color up above the sky and the baby, the children, the young, the old were also awaken up by the day, the fresh, the first light.
Although the terrible night had passed, La Kae and his other friends did not rest from last night until dawn. They stayed and still staying there at the section 14, the middle school office, just below - opposite the guards' place. They discussed and worked hard on something that had to be done. Last night, they talked about what they were going to do today. For them, today would be a great day; the change. After the change, there would be freedom, the freedom from fear and oppression.
"At 9a.m, we going to ask all the students to gather and march all the way from their schools to camp #14.", mentioned La Kae. "We will need people who will take over these duties. It is going to be rough but not like last night, it will be far more brainier.", asserted La Kae in a keen low voice and continued with his sharp words, "It will be hard but we gotta do this until the end of the line, until we've got no more blood in our body, no more air in our lungs. I know it will be hard to bear at some points, but we choose to. We choose to do this because we believe it is the right moment of life to decide whether we are just dusts in the wind or sons of rainbows in our history. We will keep fighting until the end of this"
On the outside, stars were slowly disappearing, covered by morning mists and the larger, shiner sun was coming out. A new day was coming. Lifeless mountains were awakening up, trees seemed to be greener, the air they inhaled seemed to be fresher than last night and the clouds were rushing, playing around in the wind, under the grey, morning sky. The bloody night was over now. Only the light from the red sun would come out and shone all over the whole valley of Refugee camp#1, Ban Mai Nan Soi, with all its massive light, soon.


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But while the medical director of both the New Zealand Rugby Union and New Zealand Cricket has warned athletes to halt use, New Zealand Golf has turned to the deer industry in an attempt to defend Kiwi icon Sir Bob Charles from "unfounded" and "unfair" suggestion of drug violations - pre-empting the verdict of the world's top anti-doping experts.
World golf hall of famer and 1963 British Open champion Charles, 76, has endorsed deer velvet supplements for 20 years and admits personal use. But, Charles says he was unaware deer velvet naturally contains insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1).
The world anti-doping code, written by Wada, prohibits athletes from using IGF-1 at all times.
The issue came to light last week when Fijian golfer Vijay Singh and American football star Ray Lewis were also linked to the substance and the possibility they had breached drug rules.
Graeme Steel, DFSNZ chief executive, told the Sunday Star-Times "it would have been nice" had NZ Golf discussed the situation with the national anti-doping signatory first.
Steel said he is in contact with Wada and expects to release a public advisory tomorrow.
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The large, hulking figure of Jack Thompson stalked the moonlit alleys in his escape. He heard (or imagined) the wailing sirens of the approaching police. Within his left jacket pocket resided a bundle of notes; $2500 to be exact. He knew Charles was like every brain-dead alcoholic asshole in Staten Island; keep the money in the ceramic bowl above the washing machine. Jack had took more than he was owed, but fuck I'll call it insurance cause he certainly can't he thought with a smile. It had been two months since he and another fellow named Crawley stiffed him out of his bonus. Charles had to learn the hard way, because you don't fuck with Jack.
South of the island, he had a nice little home waiting for him. Not his home, but a home nonetheless. He had been squatting there for a few months now; rule one of being on the run was not to be where you're enemies expected you to be. Slashing the Brutus's man had been a mistake but it had thrilled him to see the warm blood coarse down his neck when he plunged his make-shift knife into his wind-pipe. The Brutus's man –Gerald- had made the mistake of sleeping with his woman. A woman he realised was a whore; but his woman nonetheless. That chubby little face pleaded for mercy; all the colour had drained leaving a pale canvas of a pathetic little boy who had been caught stealing $2 dollars out of his Dad's wallet. But he wasn't a kid; he was forty two. Kids are stupid just Jack was at that age; but Gerald was in his forties! So he was punished accordingly; his woman did not have any STD's at the time so he couldn't pray for cock-rot.
A strange vision flashed through his mind like moonlight on the ocean. New York City... his woman. Of course! She was living there still probably doing all her work on her back. He wanted to pay her a visit; to make sure she hadn't forgotten about him. She couldn't forget about him, not after the reminder he left on her cheek as a goodbye present. You don't fuck with me he thought again, stifling a laugh.
Yet, even after all the drama and the pointless promises; he could not remember her name for the life of him. He blamed the bottomless bottles of whiskey he drank to drown those particular memories. She wasn't worth remembering, though he was slightly unsure why he had thought of her now. It didn't matter to him though; it was another highlight on his to-do list.
Payback is a bitch he murmured as he stole away to the shortcut that lead to his home. And I never fucking forget to.


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Michael Adamshick played an Anesthesiologist in "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues", and the Lottery official in "Numbers" and "Everybody Hates Hugo". Adamshick has made guest appearances in TV dramas such as Magnum PI and Jake and the Fatman. He has also appeared in short-lived TV series' such as North Shore and Island Son.
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Fast deterministic pricing of options on Lévy driven assets
RiskLab and
Seminar for Applied Mathematics,
ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
2 Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
3 Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland. email@example.com.
Arbitrage-free prices u of European contracts on risky assets whose log-returns are modelled by Lévy processes satisfy a parabolic partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) . This PIDE is localized to bounded domains and the error due to this localization is estimated. The localized PIDE is discretized by the θ-scheme in time and a wavelet Galerkin method with N degrees of freedom in log-price space. The dense matrix for can be replaced by a sparse matrix in the wavelet basis, and the linear systems in each implicit time step are solved approximatively with GMRES in linear complexity. The total work of the algorithm for M time steps is bounded by O(MN(log(N))2) operations and O(Nlog(N)) memory. The deterministic algorithm gives optimal convergence rates (up to logarithmic terms) for the computed solution in the same complexity as finite difference approximations of the standard Black–Scholes equation. Computational examples for various Lévy price processes are presented.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65N30 / 60J75
Key words: Parabolic partial integro-differential equations / Lévy processes / Markov processes / Galerkin finite element method / wavelet / matrix compression / GMRES.
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A team of British cardiologists are keen to put an end to the myth that regular exercise is the key to tackling obesity.
The editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, explains you can't outrun a bad diet. And although regular exercise will combat health issues such as heart disease, dementia, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers, it doesn't promote weight loss. According to the World Health Organisation, since 1980 obesity has more than doubled. They estimate that in 2014, 1.9 billion adults were overweight with 600 million being obese. The authors of the study believe this is down to the 'unhelpful message' from the food industry that obesity is caused solely by a lack of exercise.
British cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, a critic of the food industry blames companies such as Coca Cola for over-emphasising the role physical activity and sport can play in preventing people becoming overweight.
He explains:
In the past 30 years, as obesity has rocketed, there has been little change in physical activity levels in the western population. This places the blame for our expanding waistlines directly on the type and amount of calories consumed.
Members of the public are drowned by an unhelpful message about maintaining a 'healthy weight' through calorie counting, and many still wrongly believe that obesity is entirely due to lack of exercise.
The authors of the journal go on to explain that the tactics used by the food industry's public relations mirror those of big tobacco companies in the past – denial, doubt and confusion. Buy the loyalty of quack scientists, who will deny the facts, spread doubt and confusion amongst the general public, ultimately costing the lives of millions in order to make more money.
The authors strongly criticise the link between sports and junk food. They believe the British government must put a tax on sugary drinks and ban the advertisement of said food.
Tam Fry of the National Obesity forum said:
The next government has to crack down on junk if obesity is to be halted and the NHS not brought to its knees. Whitehall could also crack down on commercial sponsorship of sport – but it won't.
Funding sport makes corporations feel good about themselves and they know it's good for business. They have the cash and the public purse doesn't.
You may not have noticed it when you first watched it, but animated movie, Wall-E, is a satirical indictment on the rampant consumer culture we have today, and what the future could look like if we don't take action.


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The party leaders' debate two nights ago took place in an art gallery. It was, according to one wag, "possibly the only time the arts will really take, or provide, the centre stage during this election".
That remark would be mildly amusing, were it not for the fact that it was made, in his weekly blog, by Ed Vaizey, the Conservative Party spokesman for the arts. One might have hoped that he would have done his best to ensure that this was not the case, rather than accept defeat so easily.
But perhaps Mr Vaizey is a realist, though he is a little unfair to his own leader. David Cameron did allow the arts to infiltrate his campaign, launching a nationwide talent contest with Take That singer Gary Barlow. It would involve an annual schools music competition, with the winners progressing to regional heats and a national final. The Conservative manifesto, however, disappointingly has nothing to say about culture apart from "restoring the National Lottery to its original purpose", which would imply more money going to the arts.
Labour has a reasonably chunky section on the arts in its manifesto, and promises cheaper theatre tickets, maintaining free admission to national museums and galleries, more lottery funding, more children learning to play musical instruments, and lifetime library membership for every child from birth.
The Lib Dems proclaim that "the arts are a central part of civic and community life", and make a few promises that would directly affect cultural life – such as helping live music by introducing an exemption from licensing for venues of up to 200 people, and removing the higher rate of tax relief in gift aid.
Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party don't mention the arts at all in their manifestos. And though some parties emerge better than others as far as manifesto mentions of culture are concerned, the word is still pretty much absent from the hustings, as it is from the TV debates and party leaders' press conferences and interviews.
Of course, much of the arts runs itself quite happily and does not need interference from politicians. But other areas do demand publicly stated interest from politicians, especially in an election campaign. Is there really nothing to be said about the state of TV, public libraries, museums or ticket prices?
It does not even need grand policy statements. I attended a meeting in Downing Street shortly before the election was announced along with the directors of a number of key arts institutions. The Chatham House Rule prevents me from giving any detail of the meeting. But what was clear was that the people who run the arts, and individual artists, want to see advocacy and engagement from all the party leaders and senior political figures. They want them to go to arts events, to talk about them and, by example, encourage the nation.
The irony is that in these cash-strapped times, that wouldn't cost anything at all.
Daisy knows how to spin a yarn
When the Orange Prize longlist was announced a few weeks ago, the chair of the judging panel Daisy Goodwin (or chaise longue as she describes herself) made it clear that too many female novelists wrote depressive fiction. This week, as the shortlist was announced, Ms Goodwin hinted at a dispute among the judges. Later she let slip that she was worried that judging panels for book prizes were too incestuous with literary figures either settling scores or favouring friends. A few more non-literary celebrities on book prize panels would be a good thing, she concluded.
Who knows? I do know that if I were launching a book prize, I would want Daisy Goodwin to be the chair, chaise longue, or whatever the former TV executive and public champion of poetry wishes to call herself. How she performs in the privacy of the judging room I have no idea, but as a literary spinner and publicity gatherer for a prize that was looking a bit tired, she has few equals.
Let's think of Britain before Broadway
One of the greatest plays (and greatest performances) of recent years comes to an end tonight as Jerusalem, starring Mark Rylance, finishes its London run. The stirring lament for a lost sense of individuality, rebellion and even anarchy has had packed houses not just giving standing ovations, but asking themselves questions about identity and Britain.
The plan is to take the production to Broadway. But I wonder if that is a good idea. It seems perverse to mention the words "Jerusalem" and "failure" in the same sentence. But I'm not at all sure that New York audiences will "get" Jez Butterworth's play with its idiosyncratic West Country jokes, a touch of morris dancing and an anti-hero who is a drug addict and a paedophile.
American humour it ain't. The theatre world always makes the assumption that Broadway is the logical next step for a London success. But, wouldn't it be wonderful if this London hit could now entrance audiences across the UK, not least in the West Country, where the play is set. Broadway is not the be-all and end-all. We should think of our own theatre-goers too.
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Misery Loves CompanyMature
Erin walked toward the door of the cafeteria. She turned and took one more look around at the empty space she was leaving behind. She thought about how loving someone was a lot like an empty room. While you were loved, the room was full of all kinds of people and things. It was alive and vibrant. When no one loved you, it became empty and cold, and even the things left over seemed to lose their meaning. She looked at the rows of empty tables and chairs standing before her eyes like graves in a graveyard, each chair back representing a monument to someone's broken heart. She quietly laughed to herself about the analogy, and turned to go.
Erin left the empty cafeteria and walked down the nearly empty halls. There were a few stragglers wandering about as they made their way toward the doors and out into the open air of afterschool freedom. She continued down the hall toward the band room, then suddenly stopped dead in her tracks.
Erin looked at her oboe case. Why was she doing this? Who really appreciated the fact that she played the oboe in the school band? It was just something she did to please her parents, and she knew it. It seemed to her at that moment that she had never done one thing to please herself. There was always someone else. Like a walking, talking idiot, blindly following their passions, she had even tried to please Ray. And for what? To watch girl after girl take over the role of pleasing Ray right in front of her? The only thing Ray never did was invite her to stay as part of a threesome.
A tap on the shoulder brought Erin out of her reverie with a start. She turned to see Ray's friend Hootie standing there smiling at her. "What it is, baby girl?" he said to her. "I hear thangs ain't so tight between you and Ray. Do tell."
Erin began, "Hootie, I..."
"That's Hootius Maximus to you, sweet thang" Hootie interjected. "We got business to talk, so let's take a walk." Hootie opened his jacket and showed Erin his gun. "I don't ask twice." Hootie turned Erin around and headed for the outer doors. "See Ray owes me a lot of money, and I'm here to collect."
"That isn't my problem. Ray isn't my problem." Erin wasn't sure what was going on, or what to say. She knew the gun made her nervous, and she didn't want to end up on the wrong end of it.
"Oh, but it is, and he is" Hootie said as they stepped outside the school. "Ray promised me something you got if he ever got in too deep."
Erin was now beside herself. "He did what?"
"Why do you think Ray has so many girls on a leash? Don't be so naive. He pimps them out when he gets too far behind in what he owes. You just happen to be next up."
Hootie led Erin across the parking lot. The school was desserted now, except for the few students and teachers who stayed late for various clubs and activities. But they were all busy inside the school with their various activities. For all intents and purposes, Erin was alone except for the cars in the parking lot.
Erin wanted to throw down her books and oboe case and run, but the gun scared her. She didn't dare do anything that would get her shot as they weaved between the cars. As they approached an old green four door sedan, Erin saw Emily sitting in the front seat, staring wide eyed like a scared rabbit through the windshield. Hootie opened the back door, and motioned for Erin to get in.
Once Erin was inside the car, Hootie walked around to the other side and got in, and sat down beside her. "All right, we got the packages. Let's get going" he told the driver. Once the car was moving, he turned his attention to Erin. "You and Emily will be working together tonight. Satisfy all the clients we send you, then you go home. You might even get a bonus out of the deal if you're good enough. We're also gonna be filming your asses so you keep quiet. Understand?" Erin nodded her head. "Good. Any questions?"
Erin had a dozen questions ranging from 'is this a joke' to 'why do we have to work together.' She opted for the latter. "Why do we have to work together?"
Hootie looked Erin straight in the eyes. "Because misery loves company."
Erin didn't say any more. Instead she looked out the window as the car sped through the city. Adult bookstores, strip clubs and other sex oriented businesses popped up in front of her eyes. Women dressed in skimpy clothing stood on street corners or perused the sidewalks in search of their next john. She thought about how ironic all of this was. Here she was, the daughter of a minister who played an oboe in the school band, about to be forced into sexual servitude. Suddenly all she could feel was nothing. Everything went numb.
The car finally came to a stop in front of an old, run down apartment building. hootie hopped out, then let Erin out. Then driver got out and let Emily out. The two men walked the two girls into the building, which smelled of cheap wine and stale urine. They took them up three flights of stairs to apartment 302. Hootie opened the door and motioned the girls inside. Once they were all inside, Hootie locked the door.
Erin looked around the large living room. There was a large matress in the middle of the floor, surrounded by chairs and a large sofa. Camera equipment and lighting were set up around the room, and a large flat screen TV sat against the far wall across from the sofa. A coffee table, containing all kinds of paraphenalia, sat in front of the sofa.
Hootie checked the camera equipment. Satisfied that everything was working properly, he came over to the girls. "All right. Both of you take your clothes off, and hand them to me."
Emily stood there, her head bowed in shame, shaking nervously. Her hands were clasped tightly in front of her short tartan skirt. Hootie stepped toward her. "Get your clothes off now, or I'll have fun ripping them off of you. Then you'll go home naked after we're done. That is if I decide to let you go home."
Emily started crying at Hootie's words as she slowly moved her hands up to the buttons of her blouse. She started unbuttoning the buttons at her collar, and nervously worked her way down, slowly exposing her pink lace bra.
Erin had wasted no time. She had already kicked off her tennis shoes and slid out of her jeans. She now stood beside Emily clad only in her long tee shirt, underwear, and socks. As Erin started to remove her tee shirt, Hootie became impatient with Emily. He backhanded her across the face, sending her sprawling onto the matress.
Hootie charged at Emily and hoisted her to her feet by her neck. "When I say take them clothes off, you get them off fast."
Erin couldn't help but feel for the girl. Sure, she didn't like Emily for obvious reasons, but Emily didn't deserve this kind of treatment from Hootie over Ray. In fact, neither of them did. She decided to try and reason with Hootie on Emily's behalf. "Hootie, if you're going to film us, do you really want us bloodied and bruised for our film debut? Let me talk to her, and I'll calm her down."
Hootie let go of Emily. "All right. Go ahead and talk to her."
Erin stepped toward Emily. Much to her own surprise, she opened her arms and embraced Emily, pulling her close to her. Emily returned her embrace, and her shaking slowly began to subside. "I'm sorry Erin. I'm sorry for everything. I never wanted to hurt you, and I wanted so bad to make it all up to you, and become your friend, too. I really like you as a person."
"Hey, it's all right" Erin began. "This is all Ray's fault, not yours. Neither of us had any idea he'd sell us out. But you should know, there are other girls you don't know about. Ray only cares about himself. Neither of us would be here if that weren't true. I'm not mad at you Emily. I was at first. I blamed everything on you. I see now I was wrong." She paused and took a deep breath, then continued. "Listen, we're both going to be all right. We'll make it through this together, I promise. And yeah, I think we're ready to be friends." She brushed her hand through Emily's blond hair. "Let's just do as we're told, and we'll be okay."
Emily kissed Erin's neck. "You're so calm and cool. You're like a rock."
To both girls it seemed like time suddenly stood still, and nothing mattered except the moment they were sharing together. They knew then, deep inside in their hearts, they needed each other.
"All right you two. Break up the love fest and get them clothes off before I change my mind and beat you both." It was Hootie's voice that interrupted the moment, and sent both girls crashing back into reality. But this time they were ready for it. They would face it together, united for the first time as friends.


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| Azaraimy HH |
HIS Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in a titah yesterday on the eve of the New Year, spelt out what the monarch wanted his government to achieve in the new year in areas ranging from Brunei Vision 2035, education, economy, diversification, quality of life, lifestyle changes to the worrying aspects of smoking.
Stating that 20 years is not too long a time, His Majesty said he has consented for the Vision 2035 Executive Council (Majlis Tertinggi Wawasan Brunei 2035) to elect leaders to identify strategies in achieving the vision.
The monarch, while lauding the programmes introduced by the Ministry of Education towards youths' greater success, called for the enforcement of Compulsory Education Order to be strengthened.
His Majesty also called for more efforts in diversifying the economy like empowering Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (PMKS) and increasing productivity.
His Majesty aired his concern on obesity among children and the habit of smoking. On the issue of smoking, His Majesty wanted the relevant parties to not just talk but to take firm action to root out the scourge.
The monarch reminded relevant authorities to be firm and committed in handling crime cases, as the ruler highlighted the rise in murders and robberies.
His Majesty expressed his gratefulness to Allah the Almighty for the peace and prosperity enjoyed by the people throughout 2014.
"By the will of Allah the Almighty, we will continue to strengthen our efforts to sustain this peace throughout 2015," His Majesty said.
"As we enter 2015, we are getting closer to the target of realising the goals of Wawasan 2035 (Brunei Vision 2035).
"As 20 years is not too long a period, we do not have much room to be relaxed. Instead, we need to adopt a more progressive attitude and mindset."
His Majesty said he has consented for the Vision 2035 Executive Council (Majlis Tertinggi Wawasan 2035) to elect leaders to oversee strategies that have been formulated for the realisation of the national vision.
According to His Majesty, leaders will consist of Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Ministers responsible in their respective fields.
"Each leader will be responsible for identifying the aims of their respective strategies, as well as providing and implementing action plans towards realising the goals of Vision 2035," His Majesty stated.
All these must be aligned with the Vision 2035 Executive Council, said the monarch, adding that this would avoid duplications and give optimum results and impacts.
In the field of education, His Majesty welcomed programmes of the Ministry of Education in implementing medium-term and long-term strategies to ensure full attendance of children at schools and to obtain greater effectiveness of teaching and learning at primary education level.
"We have set high targets where at least 90 per cent of our students will obtain Grade 'A' to Grade 'C' in PSR examination in 2017," His Majesty said, adding that it is the hope that such efforts would help all students achieve a greater level of success.
In this regard, His Majesty said the enforcement of the Compulsory Education Order must be strengthened so as to produce a more disciplined and dynamic generation.
In the field of economics, His Majesty pointed out that the Prime Minister's Office is currently setting up key performance indicators (KPIs) that must be achieved by all economic sectors based on the realistic trajectory to achieve the economic goal in Vision 2035.
The primary focus will still concentrate on efforts to diversify the economy from the nation's current heavy reliance on the oil and gas sector, said His Majesty.
The second focus, His Majesty continued, is to increase productivity.
According to the monarch, there is still much room for improvement both in the private as well as government sectors.
"Besides capacity building and the utilisation of technology, this will depend on the aspect of discipline at all levels," said His Majesty.
On economic diversification, His Majesty said the Brunei Government through the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources is vigorously planning to establish a special body to help the nation's local entrepreneurs.
The role of the special body will be to help build the capacity of PMKS so that local entrepreneurs can develop and compete in the market, in and outside the country, explained His Majesty.
"I hope, we all will enjoy the opportunities when we realise the Asean Community in 2015," His Majesty added.
Touching on the quality of life, His Majesty urged the relevant authorities to be more steadfast in addressing the increasing number of crimes that have happened in recent times, including murders, robberies and thefts.
"Handle these cases with commitment and firmness. Thwart crimes from happening, and if they occur, find the criminals and catch them," His Majesty said.
His Majesty also drew attention to the problem of obesity among children and the issue of smoking.
Citing the findings of a study, His Majesty pointed out that the level of health in Brunei is still worrying, where children under the age of five have been found to be obese. This may be caused by, among others, inadequate intake of healthy food, such as fruits and vegetables.
If this is the case then those responsible, especially parents, should work out a way to overcome the issues, His Majesty said.
His Majesty also pointed out that a study has shown that more than 50 per cent of parents still smoking inside their houses and cars. Aside from harming their own health, they also expose their families to the dangers of cigarette smoke.
"This has given us a clear picture that despite our best efforts to promote a healthy lifestyle, it is still not satisfactory," His Majesty said, adding that society must still be educated and given guidance.
According to His Majesty, 'preventive education' is also needed for those who have broken the law and religious edict, in particular smokers who did not take heed of the warnings given by the relevant authorities.
"I would like to remind the relevant parties to not only talk, but to take firm and consistent action until the habit of smoking is rooted out," His Majesty said.
In ending the titah, His Majesty expressed his appreciation to all levels of the government sector and security agencies, including those on duty overseas, as well as those working in the private sector, for carrying their respective duties for the good of country.
His Majesty and other members of the royal family wished everyone a Happy New Year 2015 and prayed that Allah the Almighty would give everyone His blessings and protection.


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Formed in 1890, NAWSA was the result of a merger between two rival factions--the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe. These opposing groups were organized in the late 1860s, partly as the result of a disagreement over strategy. NWSA favored women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment, while AWSA believed success could be more easily achieved through state-by-state campaigns. NAWSA combined both of these techniques, securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 through a series of well-orchestrated state campaigns under the dynamic direction of Carrie Chapman Catt.
Head of suffrage parade, Washington, D.C..
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Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912
Inez Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., 1913. Inez died of an anemia-related disease and became a martyr for the cause.
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