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Peter Sloan said Shatner was open at the time to finding out whether they were related, but changed his mind a few weeks later
Tonight, exactly 50 years after America first tuned into Star Trek, I'll pop in my DVD of Season 1's first episode, "The Man Trap," a taut thriller about a salt-sucking alien, mistaken identity and long-lost passion.
'A show that purported to be a gritty, lifelike story about war and the compromises required to protect a free, open society looks like costume theatre'
An early draft for the first Star Trek film featured a climactic scene where Captain Kirk faced off against a shapeshifting Jesus Christ
'(Shatner) is an incredibly busy 80-year-old man, and is not interested in spending time discussing this issue with you'
'Leonard is Shatner's attempt to retrace his steps, right back to the beginning, to make sense of two lives tied together'
Canadian actor William Shatner took to Twitter to defend his absence at Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy's funeral in Los Angeles over the weekend.
Star Trek may be the next frontier for William Shatner — again
A crowd gathered as Shatner and his wife Elizabeth prepared to make their way down the parade route in the back of a light blue antique convertible
Each week the National Post imagines the life of a notable newsmaker. This week, Harrison Ford as imagined by Tristin Hopper

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XFCE Makes Mint Even Fresher
he latest incarnation of the XFCE desktop proves once again that when you delve into the wonders of the Linux OS, something old definitely becomes something new again.
The Linux Mint 13 team has released a specially flavored distro built around the latest version of the XFCE interface. This is not a bolted-on GUI (graphical user interface) loaded as an option at logon instead of running the Cinnamon or MATE or KDE desktops.
This latest XFCE Mint 13 distribution is a complete Linux distro unto itself.
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Chapter 1
Striving to live a normal life, Katherine Faulkner wastes her life living in the shadow of others, afraid of unveiling her true nature outside of the society she grew up in. Seven years ago, her autumnal abilities started to uncover itself and put Katherine's life in danger, which forced her parents to send her away and live under an alias. Now seventeen years old, with a new identity, Katherine's abilities are prone only to get stronger and more apparent, which attracts the attention of the onl
The April showers had been occcuring for the past three weeks and I remembered my mother telling me that the first daughter of Equinox was practicing to gain control of her abilities. The girl first developed her abilities last summer and she's been training with our elders since then. She also told me how the four children aren't to be exposed to their powers until a particular age and so far there were three. I asked her if there was a chance I could be the fourth and she gave me a trepidatious glare and whispered, "Let's hope not, honey. For your sake and ours," before kissing me goodnight. I never really understood what she meant by it, until it was too late.
"Mom?" I whimpered, pointing my finger at the lifeless body smothered in the pond of mud and fallen leaves at the side of the main road, where I usually played.
My mother, who was tending to our laundry, quickly ran towards me when she saw what I was pointing at and yanked me away from the body. "Get inside!" she pleaded, shooing me away. "You mustn't tell anyone of what you saw, okay?"
"But why, mommy?" I asked.
"Katerina, just do as mommy says and don't say a word when the police gets here. Understood?" She asked, dialing 911 on the telephone.
"Yes, mommy."
"Good, now stay here and don't make a sound. Don't leave until either mom and dad gets you."
I can still remember the horrific look painted on her face when she saw me hovering over the stranger's body and my life was never the same again after that event. It needed to be re-evaluated and restarted due to the difficult circumstances fate had handed me. Now at the age of seventeen, seven years after the incident, I live in a different state, with a different family, and a different name. My mom and dad figured I'd be safe if I were to go on the foster system, which is why they left me at an orphanage in the border of Alabama and Georgia. I lived with five different families, all of which gave up on me because I was just another mouth to feed, before I met Marie and Chris Faulkner.
"Katherine?" Marie called out. I wasn't actually allowed to call my foster mom by her first name, but knowing that my parents are still alive, it didn't feel right to be calling her my mom. I just do it whenever she's around or when I'm having a conversation with her friends, but other than that I acknowledge her by her first name.
"Yes mama?" I called out, squirming at the sound of my alias. After officially adopting me, Marie couldn't quite get the grip of calling me by my actual name, so she just gave up and started calling me Katherine instead. She even had the lawyer who fixed my adoption papers change my name officially to Katherine Faulkner, which is why nobody knows me as Katerina in the city of San Francisco.
"Honey, you're running a bit late this morning. Is everything okay?" she asked in her usual, over-worried tone. She has always treated me like her own daughter and I wanted to be the daughter she dreamed of, but sometimes I just felt like I didn't belong.
"I'll be out in a minute, just putting my shoes on!"
I guess I could say that I've been living a normal life since I met the Faulkners, but I never really considered my life normal since the day I discovered I was gifted with the Autumnal Equinox's abilities. Since then, I've always lived in isolation and kept my temper cool because I'm always afraid that I would do something I would regret, like put people's lives in danger. Unlike the other three gifted children I've heard of, I haven't been trained to control my powers. Sometimes, I would still create heavy wind when I'm frustrated and the only way I could completely stop it was to get distracted by pain, ergo the scars I bore, which will forever be embedded on my wrists. I'm just glad no one questions my addiction with hippie bracelets, so no one ever sees them.
Once I slipped on my black converse, I grabbed my backpack from my table by the window and made my way down to the kitchen, where I could smell the fragrance of Marie's special strawberry and banana waffles. She only made those on specific occations so I was curious to find out what it was this time around.
"Good morning," I greeted Marie and Chris. Marie was still making the last of the waffles in her blue "Best Mother" smock while Chris sat at the head table, reading the daily newspaper.
"Morning, honey. Good sleep?"
"Perfect, thanks," I smiled. "Yours?"
"The usual back pain, but nothing your old pops can't handle," he winked, taking a sip of his coffee.
Chris has been having problems with his back for quite a while, but every time we tell him to see a doctor he instantly refuses because he always insists on saving the money for my college tuition. Though I keep telling him that I could always take a year off, he won't listen and is persistent on taking painkillers instead. I grew fond of Chris the minute I met him because unlike Marie, he understood my ambivalence in acknowledging them as my parents. When we're alone, he actually lets me call him by his name instead of papa, like Marie suggested.
"Katherine, papa and I were thinking we can have a special dinner this weekend for your seventeenth birthday. What do you think?" mama asked me, trying to change the topic.
Truth be told, I turned seventeen three months ago, but Marie insisted we celebrate my "birth" day on the day I was adopted. Her exact words to Chris were, "she made us parents on December 17th, therefore we shall celebrate it on December 17th." Of course, trying to be the good daughter that I wanted to be, I just went along with it because I wanted to make her happy. Chris and I just secretly celebrate my birthday three months before everyone else does.
When she turned to grab another plate for the last of the waffles, Chris just looked at me and gave me an encouraging smile. It was like he read my mind and he didn't want me to ruin his wife's perfect mood.
"Okay, so after church, papa and I want to take you to dinner. Invite your friend Lesley too." She rested her hands on my shoulder, giving me a kiss on my head, before she sat down to join us for breakfast.
"Mama, how many times do I have to tell you?" her expression saddened, like I was about to break her heart while Chris clutched his newspapers, staring down at his plate.
As much as I wanted to correct her and remind her that my birthday was three months ago, I couldn't bring myself to do it, so I went for my safe choice instead. "Her name is Alexis," I sighed.
"Lexi, Lesley, Alexis," she rambled on. "They're all the same thing."
"Well, I'm running a bit late to school," I announced to no one in particular, taking one last bite out of my waffles and a gulp of orange juice. Though it was delicious, I didn't want to continue the conversation at the table because I didn't want to argue further with Marie. That, and I really was running late and I couldn't miss first period because finals were coming up and I knew Alexis would kill me if I let her suffered alone in English.
"Honey, don't you want to finish breakfast?"
"No, I'm good. I need to meet Alexis at school before class starts. Bye mama," I said giving her a goodbye kiss on the cheek. "See you later, papa."
"Be careful on the road, it's been snowing non-stop for a couple of days now and the roads are slippery!" Chris warned as I stepped foot out of the house. Snow was rare in San Francisco and it wasn't expected to come this year, so we were all taken aback by the sudden occurence of snow.
As I started my engine, I adjusted my mirrors and saw a black wrangler parked two houses away across the street that seemed to be watching me. Of course, I couldn't really tell because their windows were tinted, but my hunch was usually never wrong. Besides, I've lived in the neighborhood for seven years and not once during my duration of stay here have I seen a jeep in the block. Not even during the holidays when the families of our neighbors came and gathered. Choosing to ignore it, I slowly pulled out of our driveway, careful not to skid on the snow.
About a mile away from campus, I noticed that the wrangler was trailing about two streets behind me and I felt a pang of panic hit me. I've been driving for almost five miles and it couldn't have been a coincidence for the same model of a Wrangler jeep to be roaming the same street I was taking to school. It was too much of a coincidence. I stopped driving past houses a couple miles back, yet the jeep still followed me. Wanting to put my theory to test, I decided to take a detour and drive straight past the intersection where I was supposed to turn and parallel park across the boutique store where Alexis and I usually shopped. Supposed it really was just a coincidence, they would either turn at the intersection or completely bypass me.
After waiting five minutes with no black jeeps passing me, I decided that I was probably just imagining it and decided to head to school.
"Finally!" Alexis dramatically sighed, hopping off the bike rack and side-strapping her backpack. "I've been waiting forever!"
The ever-so drama queen of Ridgeland High, my friend Alexis, had long, brunette curls that matched her pale and freckeled skin tone. We met our freshman year and got along quite well, so we decided to keep each other around. We didn't actually match the friendship scale, her being outgoing and me being timid, but we made it work. Though she and I weren't actually best of friends, we were friends. We hung out in school, but never really out. I just try to be friendly with everyone I encounter because it helped me control myself with people surrounding me. The more likable I seem, the less chance of anyone intimidating me and frustrating me.
"Sorry, I took the detour because I thought a car was following me," I told her as we walked out of the student parking lot and to the front of the school.
I wouldn't call Ridgeland a big high school, because it wasn't, but it did have over twelve-hundred students. Each class contained at least thirty students, which was a pain to a lot of us. But it's the only public high school in the district, so we just manage.
"Following you? Like a paparazzi?" she gasped and immediately stopped walking. "Is my best friend a superstar in incognito? Like Hannah Montana?" she asked feigning a gasp.
"Alex... be real for a minute, will you?"
"So you have a stalker then?"
I wasn't exactly sure if the person, or people, in the car were stalkers, but when I saw the wrangler parked outside my house, I had this tingly feeling in my stomach like I should be worried. The exact feeling I felt seven years ago before my real parents sent me away. I haven't felt that feeling since. I couldn't really tell Alexis that, for the same reason I couldn't mention that my real parents were still alive.
"No, not so much a stalker. Maybe it's just paranoia getting the best of me," I lied, hoping that she'd back off.
For the rest of the school day, I contemplated about the funny feeling I got when I saw the black wrangler outside my house and tried to come up with different ideas as the what it could mean. I came up with thieves, stalkers, and yes-- paparazzis, but only one idea actually stuck in my mind-- The merged society of both the Equinox and Solstice.
I only heard about it in the one letter my mother sent me the day I was officially adopted by the Faulkners, making sure I knew about everything that was happening back at home. She told me about the mergence, alerting me about the possibilities of them coming after me in the future. Too bad I didn't have the letter with me since I was told to burn the envelope with the letter inside to ashes and dissolve of the proof of communication by my mother. It would've been helpful in my case.
I exited the student parking lot of Ridgeland High as soon as the clock struck three o'clock, I started to become wary of my surroundings, making sure that no black wrangler, nor any car, was following me to Luau, the Hawaiin diner where I had a part-time job as a waitress. Sure enough there wasn't any. The thought of me being paranoid once again crossed my mind and I had to admit that maybe I really was just imagining it. Maybe I really was just paranoid.
"Good Afternoon, Katie!" Derrick, my co-worker, greeted when I entered through the back door.
"Hi Derrick," I greeted.
Derrick and I went to the same school, that is, until he graduated last year and he and I had been working together since Uncle Lou gave me a job my junior year. He had blue eyes, short black hair, and he played all sorts of sports, whether it be football, baseball, or basketball. He was like the big brother I never had.
"Great day at school?" he asked, wiping his hand on his apron as he cleaned up one of the tables by the bar.
"As great a day at school could get," I told him in a sarcastic tone.
"Well, Uncle Lou wants you to start in register today to take orders. I'm training the new girl today, so he doesn't need you waitressing tonight."
"Wait, what new girl?"
"I think her name is Sloane. She's in the back changing into the uniform, which I took from your locker. I hope you don't mind."
"No, not at all," I smiled. A new girl in the workplace would be beneficial in my sake. There weren't many girls working at Luau, especially my age, since they usually would rather hang out in a diner like this than work.
"Here she comes," he warned, walking past me and to the kitchen to grab the new girl.
She was beautiful. Her long blonde hair looked like it was made out of silk and her complexion was flawless. It seemed like she could past for a model, which was why I wondered why she would need to work at a diner like Luau. I just couldn't quite get the grasp of her working here.
"Katie meet Sloane. Sloane meet Katie," Derrick introduced us.
The tall, mannequin shaped, doll held her hand out to me and I shook it.
"Nice to meet you," she greeted.
"You too. Welcome to Luau."
She smiled an almost wicked smile and said, "Glad to be here." I wasn't sure whether she was being sarcastic, but before I could come to a conclusion a customer walked in and waited for someone to take his order.
"That's my cue," I said, letting go of her soft hands and making my way behind the counter.
Throughout my shift, I watched the two of them work together in unison as I stood behind the register, taking customers' orders and smiling. Since I started working at Luau, I've always been the only girl working there and it felt nice to know that I'd have a girl companion at work, but with Sloane, I kind of felt uneasy. I wasn't sure what it was about her, but something just didn't feel right. It could be the way she walked, she talked, she dressed, anything.
"Hello?" an irritated voice asked. "Can I order or should I look for a different place to eat?"
"Katie!" It was Derrick's voice, admonishing me as he walked behind me to put the dirty plates in the kitchen. It seemed the customers had been trying to order for a while now, but I was just too busy to notice them. Weird. I think I was thinking too much about Sloane.
The boys who stood in front of the cash register glared at me like they were trying to see right through me and my stomach received the tingly knots it had received earlier. It couldn't have been a coincidence because the knots got stronger as I studied their faces, trying to figure out whether I knew them or not.
"Are you going to take our order, or not?" the one with mossy-green eyes asked. He was a little bit taller than the guy who stood behind him and a little more built too. It's probably why the second guy seemed much more nicer than he was. Although, I could be wrong. I have bad judgement of people sometimes.
"Yes, of course. How may I help you?" I asked, reciting my daily greeting.
"We'll both take the combo meal of Hawaiin chicken and barbeque," he told me, somehow not breaking eye contact with me.
"Will there be anything else?"
"No, and we'll eat in here," he said coldly. I felt a drift around me even though there were no open windows in the restaurant. Like everything suddenly turned ice cold.
"That'll be $15.85, sir." I grabbed two large cups from underneath the cash register and handed it to him as the guy who stood behind him took out his wallet and handed me a twenty dollar bill. Unlike his friend, he smiled at me and acknowledged me as a person. I couldn't tell whether they were brothers, but there were some differences in them, besides the fact that one of them wasn't grumpy. For one, he had ash brown hair with a slight hint of blond highlights, which brought out his dark blue eyes. Though he seemed as built as his friend, you could tell that his friend was much fitter, but it was only probably due to what he was wearing. It was obvious that he dressed more like a teenager than his grumpy friend since he wore a hoodie and an AC/DC shirt, while his friend wore a brown leather jacket over a plain white t-shirt.
"Thank you, enjoy your meal," I forced a smile, hoping they'd leave a tip.
"I'll see you around," the nice one said before he turned around and walked towards one of the empty tables, which his friend unwillingly filled.


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If you are looking for some differentiation in your Bluetooth speakers, the JBL Pulse 2 ($199) and the Marsboy Orb ($30 after SPDJVX3R code) offer varying degrees of light show to accompany your music. While the JBL Pulse 2 is essentially a very good Charge 2+ with a light show wrapped around the outside, the Marsboy brings a base model Chinese brand speaker with a LED array strapped on. Is there any middle ground here?
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We first told you about the Nova wireless flash for iPhone last fall when it was merely an idea on Kickstarter having just collected enough funding to ship. The campaign successfully raised over $85,000 and the wireless flash for iPhone is now available for purchase with an iOS app available on the App Store. I recently had the chance to test out the Nova wireless flash for iPhone, and below I'll share a few insights from my experience.
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Deep iPad discounts at Staples and Target: $199 16GB Minis ($100 off), Airs $130 off AC(starting at $369)
From 9to5Toys.com:
Confirming our report from earlier this month, Target has revived its $199 iPad mini sale (Direct Link) this morning. At the time of posting it's available both online at Target.com and at Target retail locations. That's even $30 less than the retail price of top Android tablets Nexus 7 or Kindle HDX.
We've been told by a Target rep that quantities are limited and as such we highly recommend picking one up today. This deal is $100 better than retail and $20 less than Apple charges for a refurbished model. The non-Retina iPad mini features a 7.9-inch LED-backlit display, 10-hour battery life, and dual-core A5 chip.
Seperately, Staples is offering all WiFi-enabled iPad Airs (Space Gray or Silver) for $30 off (Direct link). Coupon code 79449 drops them another $100 yielding $369/$469/$569 on 16/32/64GB Wifi models.
As we've said before, these deals often sell out quick so if you are going to make a move, do so quickly.
Also, Apple is widely expected to update its iPads again in October but these prices are at or below what we expect current models to drop to so you are getting Apple's holiday prices today. expand full story
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This fall, Apple is expected to unwrap two next-generation iPhones with larger displays: a 4.7-inch model and a 5.5-inch higher-end "phablet" variant. While the 4.7-inch model has had physical mockups floating around the web for the past few months, parts or shells for a 5.5-inch model have not been seen until now. Sonny Dickson has sent us photos of a 5.5-inch iPhone 6 physical "dummy" mockup in the Space Gray color (above and below), and he has posted photos of a white and gold model on Twitter:
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Trackpads and keyboards are great for many things, but there are some tasks where there's no substitute for a physical dial, slider or button. In video editing, for example, there's a reason that professional kit uses a rotary dial to move forward or backward through the video clip. Photo editing and audio work are also far easier with physical dials and sliders.
While there's a whole world of dedicated hardware controllers out there, the Palette project on Kickstarter takes a particularly neat approach: a modular system that you can design to your own requirements. There's a power block, button, rotary dial and slider, and you can mix-and-match them in any layout you like, and they can be made to work with any software … expand full story


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Louis Tomlinson is new in town. He doesn't feel comfortable. When he is attacked by a gang suddenly this boy appears. His name is Harry and he helps Louis getting along with the town. But the next day when Louis looks for him in school he doesn't find him. Instead a nerd comes to him - but this nerd, Marcel, is different from everyone else. The next day Harry is still gone and Marcel as well. Instead he meets a punk, Edward. Louis sees every of the boys once in three days. He knows that they must be triplets because they seem so similar. He falls hard for every single one of them. One night he follows Harry and has the choice: will he find out what's really going on or will he just live with it and be carefree?
Warnings: boyxboy, fluff
"Brothers" why am I laughing at this I'm so sorry but that's like me saying to my sisters "good morning sisters" and I think that's hilarious
I love you more than everyone because I am Jesus and I died for you so ya'll better love me
This is hilarious imagine them all speaking one after the other I'm imagining like gremlins
MyJamsAreInfires Aug 06, 2016
omg I'm dead already trying to imagine this XD XD XD XD XD😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
MyJamsAreInfires Aug 06, 2016
lol I love how in the cast members, you actually did put Harry 3 times XD
demonised97 Apr 20, 2015
This is quiet a story... I'm surprised by the creativity of the great mind who came up with this idea :) seriously tho this book is killinit!


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We'd like to say a huge "Thank You" to all of our donors who made our 4th of July t-shirt campaign such a fantastic success. We've received notes from around the country letting us know how you showed the Troops "I have your back" over the holiday. This letter really caught our attention and we're proud to share one USO supporter's experience.
How did you wear your USO t-shirt on Independence Day? Send us your letters and pictures - we'd love to share more!
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When Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jeffrey Lee received an urgent call to head to his work station one morning, he thought there was something seriously wrong, but there was no emergency. Instead, he walked into his own surprise birthday celebration, courtesy of his wife, USO Yokosuka and the Operation Birthday Cake Program.
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'I'll Never Forget It": Why a USO Fourth of July T-shirt Can Mean So Much
Years ago, I wore my USO T-shirt to a Houston Astros game. Someone stopped me and said, "Thank you, sir." I turned to see a man holding his young son by the hand. He said he was active duty, leaving soon for Afghanistan.
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#Flex4Forces and Show Your Strength on Social Media
The USO invites you to get involved in our exciting new digital campaign, #Flex4Forces! The campaign calls on Americans to show their strength as a Force Behind the Forces by striking a biceps flex in support of our nation's military and sharing it on social media.


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Past Exhibitions
Shakespeare's Here and Everywhere
September 3, 2016 through February 26, 2017
William Shakespeare's plays are set in Europe, Asia and Africa, from classical times to the Renaissance. How did he and other authors, mapmakers and readers of his day imagine foreign and often exotic settings, the "other" as well as the familiar? What roles do place, identity and travel play in his comedies, tragedies and histories? Explore these questions and more through maps, atlases and illustrations of Shakespeare's time and beyond, and armchair travel with the Bard to "here, and everywhere."
This exhibition is funded in part by Mass Cultural Council.
Hy-Brasil: Mapping a Mythical Island
June 29, 2016 through October 23, 2016
In 1325, an island appeared on a nautical chart, just off the southwest coast of Ireland. This island, shrouded in mist, was said to appear once every seven years and was home to an advanced race that was immune to sickness and the passing of time. This mystical place, known variously as Brasil, Brazil, Breasil, Hy-Brasil, O'Brasil and numerous other names, would appear on maps for the next five centuries. Its exact location on maps would change over the years, and numerous expeditions would venture into the North Atlantic Ocean to find the island. Some mariners claimed to have discovered the legendary island; however, these reports teemed with fantastic accounts of alien beings, and eventually fell into legend.
In this online exhibition of forty maps from the collection at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library and the Mapping Boston Foundation, visitors will see the transition of Hy-Brasil over the course of five centuries from legitimate island destination, to "imaginary" place, to simply a "rock," before it finally stops appearing on maps in the late 19th century. A variety of map formats are included in the online exhibition, such as portolan charts, woodcut engravings, copperplate engravings and lithographic prints. Hy-Brasil even makes an appearance on a 1492 globe.
In addition, several sketch books and drawings of internationally acclaimed visual artist Caoimhghin Ó Fraithile (Quee-veen Ó Frá-ha-la) (Ireland) will be on display in the Leventhal Map Center gallery. His sketchbooks illustrate images of his site-specific floating artwork entitled "South of Hy-Brasil," a three-dimensional piece that will be sited in the lagoon behind the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from late summer through mid-October 2016. His floating work is part of Tír na nÓg, a temporary public art project in the Fenway section of the Emerald Necklace park system.
The outdoor artwork by Mr. Ó Fraithile is part of Ireland's 2016 Centennial – a global initiative to mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising which set Ireland on its path for independence. Tír na nÓg, and its related exhibitions and events, are supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. Medicine Wheel Productions is the lead organization for Tír na nÓg and their Cultural Partner is the Fenway Alliance. Additional key supporters of the project are Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Consulate General of Ireland in Boston, and Boston Parks and Recreation. To learn more about Medicine Wheel and Tír na nÓg, or to see a full listing of project sponsors and collaborators, please visit: http://mwponline.org/wordpress/projects/tir-na-nog/
From the Sea to the Mountains: The Trustees 125th Anniversary
April 2, 2016 through August 28, 2016
In 1891 landscape architect, Charles Eliot asserted the bold idea to form an organization that would preserve, for public use and enjoyment, properties of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value in Massachusetts. At a time when land conservation and 'being green' was not widely discussed, his vision was forward thinking. Today, the organization he founded, The Trustees of Reservations, oversees more than 26,000 acres of preserved places from the Atlantic Coast to the Berkshire Mountains.
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library is partnering with The Trustees in celebration of their 125th Anniversary on a 70-item exhibition, featuring maps, photographs, and historical items from both collections. Visitors will be introduced to Trustees properties, become familiar with a number of distinctive map formats, learn about natural landforms and geologic terms, and cultivate an appreciation for the natural, historical, and cultural treasures of Massachusetts.
Women in Cartography: Five Centuries of Accomplishments
October 31, 2015 - March 26, 2016
Histories of map-making generally emphasize the role of men; however, since the advent of the printed map, women have worked as colorists, engravers, shop owners and publishers, and most importantly as map-makers themselves. Women are active in all aspects of cartography today, and are leaders in the world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and digital mapping. In this exhibition of forty maps, globes, atlases and works of art from the 17th century to the present, visitors will encounter works by female map creators, designers and educators, learn about the various cartographic skills employed by women over the centuries, and observe the transition of women in cartography from marginalized, to celebrated.maps, statistical cartographic presentations of social data from the immigrant rich Near West Side neighborhoods of Chicago.
We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence
Boston Public Library - May 2 to November 29, 2015
Colonial Williamsburg - March 6, 2016 through January 29, 2017
New-York Historical Society - November 2017 through March 2018
This exhibition commemorates the 250th anniversary of Britain's 1765 Stamp Act. This pivotal moment sparked American opposition to Britain's restrictive colonial policies, particularly taxation without representation, which was established to help pay for troops stationed in the colonies during the French and Indian War (1756-1763). Protestors in Boston hung one of the tax collectors in effigy on an elm tree near the Boston Common. The tree became known as the Liberty Tree, and the loose organization of protestors were known as the Sons of Liberty. This early opposition throughout the colonies to British imperial control set the stage for growing opposition to British rule during the next ten years, resulting in the American Revolutionary War.
Literary Landscapes: Maps from Fiction
February 2 to October 25, 2015
Maps of imaginary places have accompanied literature for centuries. Visualizing the fanciful worlds described in works of fiction sets the stage for events taking place in a story and often provides insight into the characters themselves.
In this exhibition of forty items, visitors will discover maps from a variety of fictional genres, learn how authors create imaginary worlds, and appreciate why descriptive geography is essential to the story. People and creatures—even those who exist only in tales—are related to place, and maps of their imaginary worlds allow readers to be transported into the geography of fantasy.
Back to School: Geography in the Classroom
September 2, 2014 - January 2015
American schoolchildren have studied geography since the late 18th century. Traditionally viewed as an essential subject for boys' and girls' education, geography was taught to children in primary school, and to young adults studying in high school and college settings. In this display of forty maps, globes, games, atlases and related objects, we see the evolution of geographic education, examine the visual aids used by teachers in the classroom, and marvel at unique student-produced geography projects from the late 18th to the 20th centuries.
A City of Neighborhoods: The Changing Face of Boston
March 22 - August 23, 2014
What makes "new" Boston different from "old" Boston? Explore Boston's ethnic diversity and neighborhoods with a special exhibition featuring maps of Boston's immigrant population based on the 2010 Census using historic, modern and digitized maps.
This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
November 8, 2013 - March 17, 2014
Boston was the metropolis of England's North American colonies, with the largest population and economy of any urban center through the 1750s. It was also the leading producer of printed maps, including major colonial "firsts" such as the first printed map, first city map, first battle plan, and first map engraved on copper.
This exhibition brings together, for the first time, a majority of these maps "made in Boston" in the century before the American Revolution. As a group they are remarkable for their idiosyncrasies of style and important contributions to geographical knowledge.
These maps reflect distinct concerns of New Englanders in general and Bostonians in particular: Pride in their fine city, the hazards of navigating the New England coast, conflict and collaboration with the native inhabitants, and the French for mastery of North America, and landownership concerns. This exhibition affords a unique perspective on the ambitions, anxieties and sense of identity that animated colonial Bostonians.
Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune
May 1, 2013 - November 3, 2013
Part I: Atlantic Canada (May 1 to July 28, 2013)
Part II: Eastern Seaboard of Colonial America (August 1 to November 3, 2013)
The period following the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was a time of change and discovery in North America. In this display of charts, views, and maritime objects, we look at the decade following the war, when Britain set out to accurately chart the coast and survey the inland areas of their new resource-rich empire in Atlantic Canada, as well as the eastern seaboard extending from New England to the West Indies. The resulting charts were published collectively by Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres in The Atlantic Neptune, a maritime atlas which set the standard for nautical charting for nearly half a century.
Boston in the Gilded Age: Mapping Public Places
November 16, 2012 - April 23, 2013
The Gilded Age–the era from the late 1860s to the late 1890s–was a period of significant growth and transformation in Boston. Ingenious engineering projects allowed the city to expand, and a devastating fire led to swift and progressive redevelopment of the commercial district. Designed to document Boston's radically changing geography, this exhibition focuses on the evolving street pattern and emerging park system, developed for the City's growing population.
This story begins with the Boston Common and Public Garden. Moving west, the exhibition examines the growth of open spaces in Back Bay, then south to Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace, finishing with the development of Copley Square – the permanent home of the Boston Public Library.
America Votes: Mapping the Political Landscape
March 26, 2012 - November 10, 2012
This timely, election-year exhibition features approximately 30 maps, political cartoons, photographs, and other graphic images that date from the 1780s to the present. The display begins with an exploration of gerrymandering—two hundred years of manipulating political districts for partisan objectives—and includes maps illustrating the extension of the vote to non-property owners, blacks, and women. America Votes also features multiple election results maps, with examples ranging from several early efforts to the most recent campaigns.
October 22, 2011 - April 9, 2012
When reading maps, we expect map makers to use standard conventions, especially in regard to map projection or composition, orientation, scale, and symbols. When a map maker does not use generally-accepted practices, we ask why? What is the story the map maker is trying to tell?
The maps displayed here highlight a variety of unconventional maps spanning the history of the printed map. For each, we demonstrate how it defies convention, and how that particular cartographic design heightens its story.
Torn in Two: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
May 12, 2011 - December 31, 2011
The Civil War from 1861 to 1865 is the centerpiece of our nation's story. It looms large, not merely because of its carnage, brutality and scope but because of its place in the trajectory of America's history. The seeds of war were planted long before 1861 and the conflict remains part of our national and individual memory.
Maps enable us to present the complex strands that when woven together, provide a detailed account of the causes and conduct of the war. These visual images remain a salient aspect of our memory. The photographs, prints, diaries, songs and letters from the richness of the Library's many holdings enhance our ability to tell this story.
January, 2008 - June, 2008
In designing Boston & Beyond, we selected a group of 48 bird's eye views of New England towns showing the region's expansion and evolution during the last half of the 19th century. Each map is a unique blend of geographic representation along with the biases — both real and imagined — of the artists and those who commissioned them to create these exceptional works.
Drawn from carefully chosen vantage points — and unique (non-north) orientations — these maps present their subjects through the eyes of their creators (and the priorities of those who commissioned the works). They are distinctive hybrids of cartography and artistry, of historical representation and cultural ambition, of detailed accuracy and fanciful imagination.
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March 21, 2006 - August 18, 2006
Journeys of the Imagination is an exhibition designed to explore the various ways that mapmakers from the 15th century until today, have created and translated their real and imagined world views.
The maps in this exhibition depict the excitement of discovery and scientific investigation, the artwork, and the social, historical and cultural influences that informed the creation of these documents. We will examine these maps, not just as geographic records of the world at a particular time, but as a document that has a story to tell, both about how and why the map was created, and what the map has to say about a particular culture's world view.
As an endlessly fascinating record of civilization in the context of its history, geography, politics, and religion, we hope that you too are captivated by the cartographic expressions displayed in this exhibition.
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Spring, 2003 - Summer, 2003
One of the goals of Faces & Places is to create an environment that will inspire dialogue, encouraging us to understand each other's cultural heritage, learn how we are different, but still realize how much we have in common. In creating this exhibition, we selected a number of historical maps that portray the countries from which the greatest number of Bostonians originate. These maps depict the countries at various stages in their historical, geographical, political, and economic development.
According to the 2000 census, the eight countries whose immigrant population informs the cultural diversity of the city of Boston are Cape Verde, China, Dominican Republic, England, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, and Jamaica. Immigrants from each of the countries represented in this exhibition celebrate the culture that is their heritage in different ways in their new home.
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Did somebody go off track about something personal when they were at an event speaking?
I went to church for a baby blessing and after the blessing a woman stood up to talk about church stuff (obviously I'm not much of a church goer) and She turned it into an AA meeting rambling on about her struggle with drugs and alcohol for 30 minutes. Get off the sauce lady, I'm trying to get some Jesus!
Ya my sister was speaking at my graduation party and started singing eye of the tiger (her ex boyfriends fav song)
Meryl Streep and Walt Disney going off on a tangent
At my sisters wedding the bishop marrying them started going off on his daughter's wedding in the middle of the ceremony ... WTF! We were like come on buddy get back on track
I was in a team meeting at work talking about work related stuff and then my boss started talking about the vibrator that her daughters internet boyfriend bought her
My husband constantly goes off topic in large groups. He can go from corporate production to embarrassing dating stories in a minute flat! Awkward!
I was at a wedding and the bishop was in the middle of the ceremony going on about him and his own wife and how long they've been together, then he starts talking about how he went to his 50 year high school reunion recently and found out a good friend of his from school had passed away and he had his yearbook with him and showed a picture of his dead friend at the wedding in the middle of the ceremony! So weird.
I watched an elementary teacher tell inappropriate stories about her x husband. The 4 th graders were completely shocked.
I was at a funeral my best friends dads, and his father went off on how accomplished his life was and didn't say anything about his own son who died
Went to church with a friend and the pastor broke out on a confession about watching porn
On testimony sunday. A girl busted into tears in the middle of baring her testimony. She told us how she just got dumped. She went on for ten minutes crying
Best Sunday ever, a guy got up and told us his sperm count was zero ..... Awkward


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Bengaluru, March 3: Follow latest news updates of the day:
11:00 pm: Information and Broadcasting Ministry asked all news channels not to carry stories on the controversial interview of one of the rapists convicted in infamous Delhi gangrape case.
10:27 pm: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is a minister whom everyone can meet: Brijesh Kalappa, Congress.
9:45 pm: Its exposing the mind of the rapist, we have never publicly known the "why": Kiran Bedi on statement of man accused in Nirbahaya rape case.
9:00 pm: Sahara says confident of refinancing Bank of China loans to release control of UK hotel; default due to "technical breaches".
8:33 pm: Accused TMC minister Madan Mitra gets a special AC ward at a government hospital.
8:05 pm: Portfolios announced in Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed keeps Home and Tourism with himself.
7:45 pm: Sajjad Lone has been assigned charge of Science and Tech and Animal Husbandry; Ghulam Nabi Lone has been assigned charge of Agriculture Production.
7:22 pm: I will be going for the meeting tomorrow, said AAP leader Prashant Bhushan about National Executive meeting.
7.00 pm: PM Narendra Modi and BJP Chief Amit Shah to meet UP BJP MPs in Delhi shortly.
6.45 pm: A powerful 6.4-magnitude undersea earthquake struck western Indonesia but there was no tsunami alert and no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
6.30 pm: "PM's speech today was worth listening to, he outlined Govt's agenda in detail", says Jitendra Singh, MoS PMO.
6.15 pm: "Jagmohan Dalmiya is a veteran administrator, the BCCI team will be a good team", says TC Mathew, Newly elected BCCI VP.
6.00 pm: "PM showed the mirror to the opposition, his speech was exceptionally good", says BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra.
5.45 pm: Virat Kohli abuses journalist over an article about Anushka, later apologises.
[Read: Virat Kohli abuses Indian journalist, uses 'filthiest of language']
5.30 pm: "We agreed that ensuring peace on border was vital, our talks held in positive atmosphere", says Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar after holding talks with his Pak counterpart.
5.15 pm: Arvind Kejriwal will not attend national executive meeting tomorrow, say sources.
5.00 pm: "We are hopeful that we will be able to sort out everything in national executive meeting tomorrow", says AAP leader Yogendra Yadav.
4.45 pm: Youth Congress protest against the land acquisition ordinance; police baton charged in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
4.30 pm: "We are looking after the poor but in the private sector there is no reservations for people from the SC/ST", says BSP supremo Mayawati in Rajya Sabha.
4.08 pm: In a democracy threats never worked and it will never work in future as well : PM Modi in Rajya Sabha
3.40 pm: Corporate espionage case: Delhi court sends three accused - Lokesh, Jitender Nagpal and Vipan Kumar - to judicial custody till March 17
3.05 pm:
Strict laws should be implemented, but these don't
always help : Kirron Kher on nirbhaya rape case accused statement
pic.twitter.com/niSVEV6Kud — ANI (@ANI_news) March 3,
2.35 pm: Followed orders, showed raw footage of Nirbhaya documentary to authorities: British filmmaker
2.10 pm: I was very upset when he was hanged, there wasn't any conclusive evidence : Mani Shankar Aiyar, Congress MP on Afzal Guru
1.55 pm:
Islamabad (Pakistan): Indian Foreign Secretary S.
Jaishankar meets Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
pic.twitter.com/IAXnLzTsN6 — ANI (@ANI_news) March 3,
1.45 pm: Deputy CM Manish Sisodia to act as Delhi CM in the absence of Arvind Kejriwal, who is going on 10-day leave for treatment.
1.04 pm: Mamata Banerjee condemns murder of atheist writer Avijit Roy in Bangladesh, says 'we respect freedom of speech'.
1.00 pm: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to leave for Bengaluru for 10 days on March 5 to undergo naturopathy for chronic cough, say sources.
12.37 pm: Congress raises issue of Afzal Guru's mortal remains in RS, Pramod Tiwari calls BJP anti-national for allying with PDP in J&K.
12.23 pm: Court rejects prosecution plea asking actor Salman Khan to produce driving licence in hit-and-run case
11.35 am:
India's largest flag unfurled in Faridabad (Haryana)
pic.twitter.com/XZ3nOdAhfR — ANI (@ANI_news) March 3,
11.20 am: Lok Sabha adjourned until 11:30 am after the PDP demand the return of Afzal Guru's body back to Kashmir.
11.07 am: Sri Lankan Navy targets Indian fishermen near Katchatheevu island, boat damaged, one injured.
10.54 am: 2 cops also seriously injured in the Karnal accident involving the Haryana CM's convoy after the pilot car lost control
10:40 am: BJP is responsible for this, they only helped PDP come to power in J&K: KC Tyagi, JDU on PDP MLA demands Afzal Guru's remains be handed over
Srinagar (J&K): CRPF personnel practice Yoga in
order to release stress pic.twitter.com/AvBeOSPHqO — ANI (@ANI_news) March 3,
PM Narendra Modi at BJP Parliamentary party meeting in
Delhi pic.twitter.com/vXlG61YLIZ — ANI (@ANI_news) March 3,
10:03 am: Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar arrives in Islamabad (Pakistan)
9:45 am: He is a convict of a heinous crime, what he is says, has no significance for us: Nirbhaya's Mother on Delhi gang rape convict's statement
Haryana CM ML Khattar's convoy rams into a pedestrian in Karnal,pedestrian succumbed to injuries, 2 policemen injured
9:11 am: Obama aide urges Congress not to impose sanctions on Iran
8.35 am: Foreign secretary S Jaishankar will be in Pakistan today and tomorrow.
8.25 am: PM Narendra Modi to reply to the discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address, in Rajya Sabha today.
8.15 am: Haryana CM ML Khattar's convoy rams into a pedestrian in Karnal, pedestrian succumbed to injuries, 2 policemen also injured
7.45 am: 40 more dead as swine flu toll climbs to 1,115 in India.
7.30 am: Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu sparred over Iran's nuclear program, the US leader pointedly warning that the Israeli premier had been wrong about the issue before.
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Chapter 20
A slither of Argentine sunlight crept through the curtains playing over the soft lines of Clarice Starling's face, involuntarily her eyelids trembled and she prised them open, the black abyss of her dreams switching to a blurred reality. Her head was positioned oddly on the pillow, her body almost at an angle, how she had managed to sleep comfortably in such a position was unbelievable. Trying to focus her vision she squeezed her eyes shut once more, willing the stinging that the brightness of the room had caused to subside. She opened them to be met with the sleeping face of Hannibal Lecter. Her random sleeping position had been explained; she had invaded his pillow.
She smiled to herself musing about the time they had shared together the night before. The flight to Argentina had frayed her nerves and tested her patience, of course Dr Lecter being so used to such a situation had found her restlessness particularly amusing, especially the need to pace the plane at particular intervals, thankfully the need for discretion had put her off trying to make too much of a parade. Although, the delectable way she had frustratingly brushed her hand over the taught muscle of his thigh had threatened to weaken him; she delighting in his lack of control over her ministrations.
"Clarice," The eyes had opened and she was faced with his maroon orbs, boring into her, he would have looked positively menacing if it hadn't have been for the sated smirk pulling at his lips.
"Hannibal." She smiled, her eyes sparkling with glee as he touched her face with his fingertips, tilting her chin forwards towards him. Her eyes closed as she felt him kiss her good morning and she sleepily crushed her body into his, his arm moving to allow her hip to settle into his and resting across her back. She brought a hand gently across his chest resting it upon his breast bone and moulding herself closer to him.
"Are you hungry?" Clarice shook her head, her copper coloured hair splaying across his chest as she laid her head where her hands had been previously and pressed her lips to his skin, suddenly he felt her mouth move into a huge grin and a chuckle to burst from her throat.
"Clarice?" She moved her head to look at him, her smile huge across her face.
"I was just thinking how nice it is to not have the press pushing their crap through my letter box, and then I got thinking even more"... she smirked, "I was wondering if the National Tattler would lose all credibility now it has actually printed something with a basis in truth."
He smiled, his eyebrows rising up at her, she mirrored him, a small mocking gesture he would no doubt have her pay for later.
"To be perfectly truthful, some of the little scenarios they had dreamt up made my own pale in comparison, and I pride myself on being particularly imaginative Clarice."
His smile turned smug and he cradled her chin in his hands. She smiled back, and nipped at his bottom lip, his eyes were still hooded as she looked down at him. She captured his lips feeling them move against her own, she raised her head to look at him again, his mouth twitched and curled up at the edges into a satirical grin, he brought a hand to her face, and bringing her back towards him he curled his face into her neck, nuzzling her. She felt him breathe against her, and heard the faint sounds of his metallic voice, as his smile spread across her neck.
"Thank you Jack Crawford."


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Kaarina Kaikkonen - Hanging On To Each Other
- Part of...Liverpool Biennial 2010
- Atrium
'Countless works and installations I have built, creating spaces within spaces. Through my work I try to understand myself more clearly - to understand where the internal ends and the external begins.' Kaarina Kaikkonen
Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen creates site-specific installations in both interior and exterior spaces using old pieces of clothing or shoes collected from local donors. The garments carry personal memories of the owner, and with them she makes large-scale architectural forms or sculptures. While the materials she uses represent a common experience of domestic life, they also often allude to the artist's own parents, as she uses her deceased father's jackets as well as her mother's shoes.
In this new project, Kaikkonen collects second-hand clothing from individuals of all ages from around the Liverpool city region, and installs them in FACT's public atrium. The maternal act of doing laundry can be understood as a basic symbol of healing, care and unconditional love - the tender care a mother devotes to washing dirty clothes for her family.
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Bleeding Myself Dry
I told you, "For you I'd bleed myself dry."I bled the whole time. From the wrists; from the heart; from the mind. I bled everything I had for you. What did I get in return?
Everything. Everything I'd ever wanted was right there in my arms. I'd still bleed myself dry and the author doesn't know half the meaning. You know half the meaning. And I know the other half. Because half of me and half of you belong together. But what about the other halves of us?


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Hugh Hewitt: Tancredo's Crusade and its Costs
I'm a fan Hugh Hewitt's radio show as well as most of his writings. But here again with the Tancredo's"Bomb Mecca" comments, and more precisely the Senator's followup I think Hugh is just "whipping that pony into a frenzy".
I wrote here that I think we need less of this "woodshed" mentality in the blogsphere. I might want to call the Senator's , comment's stupid, or just not thought out well enough, but to continually attempt to divide the Moon of Islam into two spheres, "light and dark", is intellectually and factually untrue. There may be different facets of adherance, but the Moon is still the Moon.
Senator Tancredo's followup does make interesting points. One of which is the silence of Moderate Muslims and especially the condoning of terrorist acts by others. No not every one of the billion plus followers of Isam believe as Osam or his followers, but there are more indications that there are many more than we realize. One also has to remember that Mecca is central to Bin Laden's theology (remember the history of Mecca and Medina); and the fact that Mecca's physical location in Saudi Arabia, a country that that see has having more or less 'rogue friendship" with the US, it is important that we take it into the equasion.
I served in the "Kingdom", with the US Army back in 1983, on special assignment. Mecca, though a devout holy place for many Muslims, was also on our charts as a place that we knew that extremists dwelt. If you think they won't use a "Holy Place" to plan their activities, and preach their version of Islam to the masses, you are deceived out of your socks. We can't afford to leave "any rock" unturned in this War on Terror, lest we pay the price.
No, I dont' advocate "Mecca on the Table", but Mecca IS an issue, and it should be a crucial strategic point in the War on Terror. One much remember, these extremists look at this as a Holy War, the Crusades Continued, and as such no "religious' target is off their table.
I do believe, in giving the Senator the benefit of the doubt. Although I do think that originally he should have put it in more precise terms.
However this absured idea that Tancredo's comments will 'unnecessarily inflame' the extremists, or necessarily turn the "light side" of the Moon against us is nonsense.
Hugh writes:
"Tancredo's foolishness will no doubt be used, as was Dick Durbin's outrageous comparison of the American military to Nazis and Khmer Rouge, by propagandists for Islamist extremists. But Tancredo's attemp to hide himself under the wings of John Howard and other eloquent spokesmen who reject the dangeorus idea that the West is generating the attacks on itself overlooks Howard's --and Blair's and Bush's-- refusal to be drawn into Islam bashing or incediary rhetoric like Tancredo's."
Hugh? They've been inflamed to the nth degree for some time now. Extemist would use Dick Cheney going to the hospital for a check up as propaganda.
"The United State is locked in a deadly war with Islamists who would indeed use nukes against American cities if they could, or any other WMD for that matter. There are some states that support these Islamists, including the governments of Iran and Syria, and some of the elites in Saudi Arabia.
But there are also governments like those in Eygpt, Jordan, and Pakistan that are providing us enormously valuable assistance in the war, governements which come under huge pressure from their fundamentalist Muslim populations to stop assisting the "crusaders."
Hugh is going a little off base here. Simply while Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan have been "helpful", Eygpt's military is spintered and festered with Osam Bin Laden sympathizers, and Pakistan? Well the main reason we don't have Bin Laden "dead or alive" is due to their "stalling" our efforts in the area that we know Osama is hiding which borders their country. In my opinion they need to crap Osama or get off our wagon.
The absense of posittive comments on Tancredo's statements, doesn't necessarily constitute disagreement with them. I'll could tell you that there are a lot of military experts, who I converse with daily, who to some extent agree.
I think it's time to get off the horse.
Hugh's Crusade is All WrongPosted by Jack Moss
Hugh Hewitt: Tancredo's Crusade and its Costs


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Escape to Tatooine B2-2 is the second level of Escape to Tatooine (Bird Side).
Jar Jar Binks' grippling and releasing power makes the level easy.
Fling Jar Jar straight ahead. He should grip the floating ground with his tongue and spin around it. When you think you are at the right place to hit the wooden support of the tower, release his tongue. That way, the tower will collapse, and also kill the pigs in it.


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The CRM114 filter program, which is integrated with KMail, helps fight spam in POP3 and IMAP mailboxes. Because this flexible filter does not require server-side changes, it is a good choice for users without root access to their mail servers.
As if the flood of normal spam isn't bad enough, spammers are now aggravating large parts of the literate world with image-based spam and with messages that don't contain any meaningful content at all. This new spam is a challenge for even the most sophisticated of filters. For example, the database in our lab using the Bogofilter program grew to a size of 100 MB. Receiving mail via KMail on an IBM ThinkPad T23, with a Pentium 3 1.13 GHz CPU and 768 MB RAM, became a time-consuming experience. The KMail interface freezes for the most part, as it does not call the spam filter program as a background task as of this writing [1].
It seems unlikely that the developers will find a solution to this issue before the KDE 4 release, since it would mean rewriting major parts of the program. At the same time, much junk mail remains unfiltered due to image spam and messages with meaningless content. One thing is for sure, I needed a more powerful solution.
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Microsoft is slowly becoming a Linux vendor.
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For those of you who are looking for an ideal holiday location, I would highly suggest that you consider taking a trip to Zakynthos, Greece. No matter what it is you're looking for, Zakynthos is certain to provide for a wonderful holiday that the whole family will cherish for many years to come. Perhaps you aren't familiar with the beautiful attractions and luxury hotels in Zakynthos; that's okay; I'm going to go through some of the most popular and most exciting locations that are situated in the region of Zakynthos. Let's talk a bit more about how you can have a memorable and exciting holiday in the world renowned Zakynthos.
A Little Bit about Zakynthos:
Zakynthos or Zante is one of the most popular areas in the Ionian Islands. The area covers 410 km and is home to around 120 km of coastlines. Year after year, several people flock in to the island because of its many natural beauties and other manmade attractions. When you visit the region you can expect to see gorgeous sandy beaches surrounded by crystal clear water, many caves and rock formations and also a climate that is absolutely perfect. The landscape of the island is filled with many plains and beaches. In certain parts of the island you can also find mountainous areas that are filled with gorgeous vegetation.
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Zakynthos Town
Zakynthos Town is the capital city of Zante and it can be found on the eastern region of the island. It is made up of around 50 km, and has many wonderful restaurants and shops within it.
Navagio Beach or Shipwreck
This is one of the most famous beaches within Zakynthos. It has been made popular by the whipwrecked boat that is situated on the beach. The water is absolutely stunning and the wreckage compliments the sandy region beautifully.
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Another extremely popular beach in the region of Zakynthos is Laganas beach. One of the very unique aspects about this gorgeous beach is that each and every year thousands of Caretta turtles flock here to lay their eggs. This species of turtles is endangered, so it certainly makes for a very memorable and exciting experience.
Blue Caves
To the west of the Laganas coast you can find the stunning blue caves. Here you can spend an afternoon exploring the wonderful natural rock formations that are secluded and relaxing. This particular region is only reachable via boat.
As you can see, the island of Zakynthos is full of many exciting attractions, so you shouldn't have a hard time finding something fun and exciting to do. Most of the region is very beautiful in itself, so any time that you spend anywhere within the island can be a treat. A holiday in Zakynthos can be a very unique and exciting experience. If you want to give your family a trip that they will remember for the rest of their lives, I would highly suggest that you take a trip to the region of Zakynthos.


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The S1000RR supersport bike was BMWs best-selling model, accounting for 13.3 percent of total 2015 volume.
BMW Motorrad USA has announced recently that the company has set a new all-time year-end sales record. With 16,330 units sold in 2015, BMW motorcycle sales grew 9.3 percent above the total 14,945 units sold in 2014.
The S1000RR supersport bike, featured in the film Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, was BMWs best-selling model (accounting for 13.3 percent of total 2015 volume). Other best-selling models included the ever-popular R1200GS Adventure (12.2 percent of total volume) and the R1200GS (11.5 percent of total volume).
The S1000R roadster and BMWs first adventure sports bike the new S1000XR Adventure also bolstered annual sales in the BMW Motorrad S-Series model range.
The classic customizable RnineT was one of the top performing models in December with 138 units delivered, and in combination with the new R1200RS sport tourer, helped grow flat-twin engine R-Series model retails by 21 percent to 575 units compared to 477 in December 2014. BMWs F-Series middleweight machine sales grew by 11 percent in the month with sales of 235 units compared to 211 in December 2014.
New and loyal customers; a broad, continuously enhanced model lineup; a high-performing dealer network; and accolades from the motorcycle press contributed to record growth for BMW Motorcycles in the United States, BMW Motorrads strongest export market, commented Kris Odwarka, Vice President, BMW Motorrad USA.
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«Four years since I was at your place, my brothers and sisters. It feels like only yesterday, time passes so quickly now! » she began to tell the tale of her life amongst the Rodent and how the Tournament changed everything. «I eat whatever I want whenever I want, I can stay out all night if I wanted to and listen to music, watch movies… don't even get me started on the monthly massages… » she enumerated before explaining what she had been talking about.
Nine-Seven-One reached the distributor and stated his name, stepped on the weighting machine, extending his hand into the hole. He felt the familiar sting while the machine analysed his weight and shape.
«Do you intend to join the Tournament? » the machine asked.
«No » Nine-Seven-One replied. A regular bowl of food slid from a hold in the machine and he took it. He remembered Athena talking about chicken, vegetables and beef. Was it what he ate twice a day? He couldn't know. Everyone called it food, simply. He sat down on the nearest seat available and started eating at a regular pace. Some tried to rush their dinner and get additional mentions on their files, but only ended up sick afterwards because of it.
«I have good news for you. I've been keeping it secret for a while, but now it's time to reveal it and I'm super excited to reveal it to you now… » Athena marked a dramatic pause. Nine-One-Seven warily guessed it was something dramatic and significant, enough to distract the desperate minds of Rodents with gossip. Nine-Seven-One noticed they always put one of those before and after the Tournament. Last time Kratos had revealed he suspected something was going on between Athena and Ares. If they followed the script, she would have to get engaged, then married. Then would come news of pregnancy.


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"How could this happen?" Danny questioned, his green eyes wide with confusion."Who would want to cause damage? To cause ghosts and halfas to be something evil?" He turned back to the image of him dying with a shadowed woman next to him, another image flicking again before him of a small boy, his son. He reached out, his gloved fingers itching to touch the face staring back at him with sadness and yet he knew that by just touching the glass he couldn't really feel his child... He fisted that hand and turned to the people, the ghosts that were there with him. He needed to stop this future from happening, much like he had stopped Dan from killing his loved ones, but how? That was the real question at this point.
At that time he had known who he was fighting and he hadn't been alone. This time he only had the ghosts that were normally his enemies and a ghost that couldn't do anything to help him. Sam was gone, her absence still felt while Tucker was taking care of his own family.
"We will help you," Ember supplied stepping forward. "This doesn't mean we are friends, but a truce to help prevent our world from collapsing." Skulker's own eyes narrowed, but he too nodded his acceptance of this truce. "We can't let our world disappear." Danny nodded now, his hand coming out as if to shake hands with the ghosts before him. At first Skulker just looked, his eyes staring at the white gloved hand in hesitation before taking it in a firm grasp.
"As soon as it is done I will be back to hunting your pelt." His handshake grew tighter, but Danny didn't even flinch, his own gloved hand tightening. Both males turned to the the ghost of time. Clockwork turned back to the mirror, the image changing to one of this time period. Two shadows stood in what appeared to be the Tower, but it was different.
"There is a partnership being formed in the future, but of one from people in both present and future. These people will be your companions in this mission." He turned to the trio. "Find them and the answers shall be like a waterfall." The trio nodded as they took off from the Tower leaving the ghost of time alone, his lips lifting in a smirk of approval as he turned to the image on the mirror. "This will all end as it should," he whispered, his smirk dying as his eyes closed. "Even if some blood must be shed."
"Dan!" she gasped, her body shaking as she looked into the red eyes of the male who had come to the past to kill them long ago. "W-Wha-" She felt the fear shrink a little as anger replaced it. "What are you doing here?!" she demanded, her spine stiffening. Behind her Neo stepped forward, his hands coming to rest on her shoulders, his own body shaking. He knew of Dan, had heard many a tale of the man before him and yet as he looked into the green eyes of the ghost before him he found that he wasn't sure about him. He was supposed to be the epitome of evil and yet those eyes weren't looking at them with disdain, not at the Goth before him anyway. The ghost looked unsure about him, his eyes only flickering to his for a moment before locking on the woman between them.
"Sam," he said, his voice low as his fangs flashed in the dim light of the room. "It has been a long time and yet you don't look much different." Now he looked around, as if realizing that the dungeon he had been kept in was quiet, no sounds of the ghost that had been his warden breaking the silence. "How long have I been in that cursed container?" He turned back to them. "And who are you?" He was looking at Neo now, his eyes narrowing as he took in the fingers that clung to Sam's shoulders. "And why are you with her?" Before Neo could answer Dan had moved, his movement too fast for Sam to see and for the other halfa to react as he pulled the Goth to his bulky form.
"Let her go!" Neo barked, his eyes narrowing at the other man as Sam stood stock still in the older Phantom's arms. Somehow he felt to familiar and yet she knew she had never been held by Dan. Looking up her eyes grew fuzzy and she saw someone else holding her...someone who looked like...
"Danny?" she whispered in shock before Dan's face reappeared. Sam had the urge to rub her eyes, but they were locked at her side as Dan's dark brows rose in confusion and Neo's own eyes grew wide. He had seen it for a second too. The change that had come over the evil man before them. What had that been? Danny was dead! The halfa's life taken! "Let me go, Dan!" the small woman growled as she began to struggle. The older ghost was in such shock that he did release her to the shock of the pair now before him. "How did you escape and why are you here?"
"The thermos just opened," the white haired ghost stated casually. "I popped out and found you and this person here." He looked to Neo now. "What I want to know is why a relation to Vlad is here?" Now Sam turned and looked at the male behind her. "Oh? You didn't know?" His eyes narrowed. "I guess even a generation or so down the line still carries the same traits as their ancestors." Neo didn't even blink, instead a smirk twisted his lips.
"This coming from a guy who is Vlad Masters." Sam felt uneasy standing between the two, both of them staring down the other with such hate that she was afraid a real fight was going to break out.
"I am only his ghost half," Dan stated with a shrug. "I am not his human half which was always bound to obsession."
"Wait," the Goth said, her hands going up. "I thought ghosts were obsessions." She looked to Dan. "Isn't that what holds all ghosts to this plane?" The white haired male nodded, but began to explain that Vlad, while obsessed in his ghost form had already been obsessed in his human form with a woman, an ideal, that he could never have. "Okay, this is true."
"But I am also Danny, a human male that though clinging to some ideals continued to change his focus. He went from wanting to be popular to just wanting to protect his loved ones. That isn't such a bad thing, unlike wanting to steal someone's wife after killing said former friend." Neo sighed deeply and closing his eyes began to massage the bridge of his nose. It was so like Vlad that Sam moved toward Dan, her amethyst orbs watching the male with a slight distrust floating in them.
"Okay, so I am Vlad's relative, but from the human Vlad," he stated removing his hand and opening his eyes. "Vlad's ghost half was taken out in my time, though my father did marry a ghost female." Now it was all coming out, but the Goth refused to remove herself from Dan's area, the older Phantom now looking down at the top of her head. He was curious as to why the small woman would even move toward him for safety, unless she was doing it unconsciously because of his small connection to her friend. If that was the case then she should reconsider that idea. He wasn't her friend and was likely the worser of the two evils. Looking up at the male glaring at him, he began to reconsider his own notions.
This male wasn't someone he knew, though he could sense the other male in him, and he couldn't judge whether he meant the female harm or good. Suddenly a smell hit him, a rather light scent that in all the confusion hadn't alerted him to the underlying situation.
"You slept with him," Dan stated to the shock of the woman before him. "You slept with this thing." The Goth looked back at him, her stance changing, though she still didn't move away from him.
"Yes. Yes, I did, but that is none of your concern."
"Ah, but it is when I clearly remember you having a thing fo-" Before he could finish the sentence the male before him, the one he had yet to learn his name changed his appearance and it all clicked. "Brat." Sam turned her gaze from both men, her shame making her cheeks burn as Dan moved to stand before her, his cape hiding her from Neo. "Bastard," was all that was heard before the male before her rushed at the other ghost.


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His uniform is itchy, but Jim Kirk is pretty sure that he's a lot more comfortable right now than his First Officer. Then again, Jim isn't currently supporting the full weight of a near-hysterical Human woman like Spock is, and he's pretty sure that that is the main reason why the Vulcan is making the non-expression that actually means Why Must Humans Be So Overtly Emotional in My Presence.
It's a face that Spock makes a lot.
"Mother," Spock requests politely, "Please attempt to control yourself. The Captain needs to introduce the Bridge Crew as per protocol." Amanda Grayson nods into his chest and, with a final sniffle, straightens up and brushes the wrinkles out of her son's dress shirt, "Sorry darling".
Kirk has all of three seconds to absorb that Spock's mother apparently calls him "darling" before she is turning to face him and the rest of the slightly shocked senior officers where they are lined up in the transporter room. They had all assembled as diplomacy required to receive Ambassador Sarek and Lady Amanda, but the also-customary introductions had been cut short when, as soon as she fully materialized, the Ambassador's wife threw herself on her son and began to cry. Kirk wasn't particularly surprised with the turn of events; ever since Vulcan's destruction five months prior things had been pretty tense all over the Federation. Lady Amanda was probably under a lot of stress, especially since she and Sarek had been given the daunting task of organizing the colony on New Vulcan until a High Council could be assembled. Kirk guessed that she hadn't had a lot of time to catch up with Spock lately, and word of that whole Khan thing had circulated even to the farthest reaches of Federation Space. She was probably worried about him nearly dying. Several times. Or something. Whatever.
Stepping forward and attempting that Vulcan finger thing (probably butchering it, if the look on Bones's face is anything to go by), Kirk gestures down the line and says,
"Ambassador, Lady Amanda, may I present the Enterprise's Chief of Medical, Doctor McCoy-" Bones gives a little Southern bow to Sarek and kisses Amanda's hand, "Chief of Engineering, Mr. Scott, our helmsman Lieutenant Sulu, navigator Ensign Chekov- " The kid looks like he's going to shit himself with excitement, "and Chief of Communications Lieutenant Uhura." Uhura makes a perfect ta'al and says something in perfect Vulcan that's probably culturally perfect. That show-off. Sarek and Amanda nod politely at each member of the crew as he introduces them, and already Amanda seems to have fully composed herself. He supposes that that comes from living with a people that consider the tiniest scream of pain when you are mortally wounded the height of impoliteness. At least, that's the impression Spock gives off.
"And I believe that you've met our First Officer," he adds, for a touch of humor. Amanda laughs obligingly, and Jim thinks he can see why she's considered such a good diplomat. The ability to laugh at bad jokes is a vital one in politics. Just then, the wall intercom beeps.
"Kirk here"
"You and Dr. McCoy are needed in Medical, sir," comes the voice of the officer he left with the com, "There's an issue with the Tellarite Ambassador's daughter, and Nurse Chapel is threatening to stab her with a hypo."
"Great," Kirk sighs, "Not again. We'll be right there." He turns to the Vulcan Ambassador, "I'm sorry to have to run off, but the doctor and I are needed. Lieutenant Uhura will escort you to your quarters. I will see you at the scheduled dinner?" Sarek nods, and speaks for the first time in a voice that is eerily similar to Spock's, "That is agreeable, Captain. Thank you."
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Gutierrez completes Sauber 2014 line-up
By Alan Baldwin
LONDON (Reuters) - Mexican Esteban Gutierrez will race with Swiss-based Sauber for a second season next year with Russian teenager Sergey Sirotkin signed as test driver, the Formula One team announced on Saturday.
Gutierrez will partner experienced German driver Adrian Sutil, who has moved from Force India to replace Nico Hulkenberg in a direct switch with his compatriot.
Sauber also announced the continuation of their sponsorship agreement with Mexican telephone company Telmex, who have backed the racing careers of both Gutierrez and compatriot Sergio Perez.
Telmex will remain a premium partner with their logo having a significant presence on the team's cars. Formula One had hoped for a Mexican Grand Prix next year but those plans have now been pushed back to 2015.
The driver announcement left only back-markers Caterham and Marussia with race seats remaining for 2014 while Britain's Paul Di Resta is out of a job after losing his place at Force India.
"It was a steep learning curve last season, but by working closely with the team I was able to improve continuously," said Gutierrez, 22, who ended the year as the highest-scoring rookie with six points after a difficult start.
"It will be my fourth year with the team, the second as a racing driver, and I feel comfortable in taking the next step," he added.
"The technical challenges in 2014 will be massive. Therefore it will be even more important to know well the people you are working with. I will do my very best to improve even more and support the team the best way I can." Continued...


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