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But I'm not there yet... even though I'm working on it I'm not at place where I can accept that the person I married betrayed me! If you have accepted the affair and forgiven or not forgiven, but you reached the point that you accepted it ... how long did that take?
I feel like I should be there already but I'm not, not even close!
ie. D-Day was 10/22/11
NC began: 11/4/11 (also D-Day#2 and OW#2)
TT until: 04/06/2012
status: ????
limbo?? and avoiding each other!
(Me)"I've been called worse"....
(WH)"Oh yeah, like what?"
(Me)"YOUR wife!!!"
You are about where I am on the timeline. Your TT stopped around my DD2, when a lot more came out. TT continued until November though, when I feel that true R began. 6/7 months on things are much better, although I am going through an angry stage this week.
What has made me feel better is my FWH being supportive and making an effort to understand me. It has taken me screaming and shouting to get him there. Have forced him to read so he sees that the feelings I have are normal and to find strategies to cope with me in my raging. He is truly remorseful for what he did and is making every effort to make me feel better.
I have forgiven him for the ONS. I have forgiven him for not telling me for so long. I think I understand his whys for not he these. Understanding the Whys is key to forgiving. Get your WS to talk about their whys . They also have to be remorseful . And there must be NC with AP.
There are some things I still haven't forgiven him for and we are working on these ( continuing to see her socially behind my back after it was all over). I also want him to hate her, but he can't seem to do that.
It might help to break the forgiveness process down into little steps, so that you can see if you can forgive your WS in stages. Work out what things are really upsetting you and work through them bit by bit.
It doesn't help that you are avoiding each other. You need to be working on this together. They need to show remorse, tell all, go NC and work on their whys


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JACKSON, Miss. -- President Bush on Wednesday renewed his pledge to fight corporate scandals like the one that struck WorldCom's Mississippi headquarters."There will be no more easy money, just hard time," he said.
In a speech before an audience that included a laid-off WorldCom employee, Bush said he understands the anger of people at companies that "have betrayed the trust of their employees and shareholders alike."
"Here in Mississippi, you know what I'm talking about," he said. "You know what it means to be let down by shady corporate practices."
"People dedicated their lives to building these companies and they deserve better," Bush said. And he said that "raising the standards of conduct in corporate America will protect jobs."
On a trip away from his Texas ranch, Bush was also raising cash for a Republican House member, Chip Pickering, who has been assailed for taking more WorldCom contributions over the years than any other member of Congress.
In a speech before an invitation-only audience, Bush also renewed his call for legislation to create a homeland security department giving him maximum flexibility to respond to terrorism and putting aside the "political turf" issues he said are distracting some senators.
Approximately 1,000 people were gathered in Madison Central High School's gym as Bush spoke under a retracted basketball backboard.
An admirer shouted, "Dubya, we love ya!" when Bush introduced Sens. Thad Cochran and Trent Lott, both Mississippi Republicans, and they got a standing ovation.
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Better the last chance than no chance at all.
And without some of the usual speed bumps around, Mickey Pendergast will get his shot at a sixth visit to the men's provincials.
"From an entirely selfish standpoint, it'll be nice not to have Morris and Armitage at the southerns," Pendergast said last night, two days after earning the
A berth out of the last-chance 'spiel in Crossfield to qualify for southerns.
Under a new Alberta Curling Federation format, Calgary's John Morris earns a bye into the Kia Cup provincials in Innisfail, Feb. 9-13, as the Canadian team ranking system leader at the end of last season.
Rob Armitage gets a berth as the Alberta Bonspiel Series runner-up, as do ABS champ Mark Johnson of Edmonton and, of course, defending provincial champ Randy Ferbey of Edmonton.
Three spots at provincials will come out of the southerns at Drumheller starting Friday and Pendergast said his team stands a good shot at taking one of them.
"We really didn't perform all that well in the city playdowns," he said. "You get one more chance left and you have to come up with the shots. We played an awful lot better at the last chance. It was nice to see we could come up with the shots when we needed them."
It was also nice to see Lady Luck swing a few other stones in a different direction, wasn't it?
Pendergast admitted he got a little lucky in the A final, when he beat Calgary's Greg Northcott 7-5 Saturday.
"He had a shot to win that picked up something halfway down the sheet," Pendergast said. "It isn't always the best way to win but it's happened to me before so it goes both ways. And what's the old saying? The better I'm playing, the luckier I get. Something like that."
But Pendergast, third Dean Mamer, second Matt Lemna and lead Kevin Pendergast aren't about to get all full of themselves because they're in the southerns.
No, they've already learned that lesson this season.
After finishing runner-up to Pat Simmons of Manitoba and collecting a cool $6,000 last October, the Calgary rink fell flat.
"We were streaky," Pendergast said. "Up in Lloydminster, we won our first two and then faltered. In Red Deer, we won our first three and then lost three in a row."
ON THE ROCKS: Medicine Hat's Leon Moch and Calgary's Greg Anholt got the other last-chance berths to the men's southerns ... Harold Breckenridge (Inglewood), Frank Morissette (Calgary) and Lloyd Heller (Medicine Hat) captured the three District 2 senior men's berths in Carstairs on the weekend. They advance to the southerns in Okotoks, Feb. 4-7 ... The seven women's teams entered in the Dist. 3 playdowns at Calgary Winter Club Wednesday through Sunday automatically earn spots at the southerns. Of the 33 men's teams playing, 11 will win berths.


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vm-pop3d is a POP3 server. It is free to download and use. It supports
alternative password files and mail spool directories; it can be used for
setting up virtual email accounts -- mailboxes without real Unix owners for
each. This will allow you to have multiple email accounts with the same name
on one system.
WWW: http://www.reedmedia.net/software/virtualmail-pop3d/
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: vm-pop3d
PKGNAME: vm-pop3d
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
There are no ports dependent upon this port
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 21
Remove non staged ports without pending PR from ma*
Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus minor
COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. A few Makefiles where not
included as they contain Latin-1 characters that break the Phabricator
workflow. Category M.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- remove MD5
For ports maintained by email@example.com, remove names and/or
e-mail addresses from the pkg-descr file that could reasonably
be mistaken for maintainer contact information in order to avoid
confusion on the part of users looking for support. As a pleasant
side effect this also avoids confusion and/or frustration for people
who are no longer maintaining those ports.
- Bump PORTREVISION as it was forgotten at the previous change
PR: ports/107293
Submitted by: Greg Larkin <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Approved by: erwin (mentor)
- Add WITH_DEBUG knob. [1]
- Use DOCSDIR in pkg-plist.
PR: ports/106698 [1]
Submitted by: Greg Larkin <email@example.com>
Remove USE_REINPLACE from ports starting with M
- Add SHA256
Correct a number of ports that anger the tempermental Make Spirits
by using C comments instead of make(1) constructs.
And as long as I'm here, fix a command misspelling in vm-pop3d.
As prompted by: kris
Drop maintainership.
Submitted by: Gea-Suan Lin <email@example.com> (maintainer)
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
Add USE_REINPLACE where appropriate.
Use ${REINPLACE_CMD} instead of ${PERL}
Submitted by: maintainer
add a startup script
Submitted by: maintainer
upgrade to 1.1.6
add master site
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it's a makefile for vm-pop3d, not for maintainer himself ... :p
change the maintainer's e-mail address. support ip-base virtual with
add WWW:
add vm-pop3d A virtual POP3 server
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State Division of Forestry officials are warning that a continued lack of rain means people need to be careful with outdoor fires.
"As dry as it is, we discourage people from burning. In most places they can haul trash to the curb and have it taken away. That's the best thing to do right now," said Mike Kuypers, manager of the Division of Forestry's Bunnell District which includes St. Johns and Flagler counties.
Burn permits are issued on a day-to-day basis by the forestry division.
On calm days the permit are issued but not on windy days.
"Without any rain, the dryness level keeps rising. It's been awhile since we've had any significant rain," Kuypers said.
Relative humidity below 35 percent, lack of rainfall for two weeks or longer, and strong, dry winds are all components that create extreme fire danger, according to a press release from the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Also adding to the problem was freezing temperatures last weekend, particularly inland in the northern part of the state.
"We haven't had a wide-scale freeze in this area, so that hasn't been a big problem. Especially along the coast everything is still fairly green," Kuypers said.
Typically, after the first hard freeze the fire danger jumps significantly, he said.
Conditions are dry, however, according to the Keetch-Byram Drought Index, used to measure drought.
It estimates the dryness of the soil and duff (underbrush) levels.
In St. Johns County, the Keetch-Byram average as of Thursday was 564 out of a scale of 800. About 93 percent of the county was in the range between 500 and 800.
Figures were even higher in surrounding counties of Flagler and Putnam.
In Flagler the KBDI average was 569 and 93 percent of the county was in the 500-800 range.
In Putnam the KBDI average was 614 with 100 percent of the county in the 500-800 range.
Currently there are no fires in St. Johns or Flagler counties. Putnam County has one.
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The door to the warren opens and Noah exchanges words with one of the yoofs who calls for Mother Jones. Once she determines that this is real Noah she calls LeFarge (the lawyer?) to assist her and the pair agree to go with Noah to a meeting at a coffee shop.
Noah expresses a limited willingness to work with the TNI and LeFarge hands him a small notebook whilst saying little of use himself. Noah fills them in a bit on some of the horrors that have resulted from Shirin's death….and then succumbs to a poison they put in his drink.
Back at the Wych House Jenni and Amadia haul a groaning Patrick up to flat 6 and try to make him comfortable. Steve fetches CloNoah and he diagnoses the radiation burns as almost certainly fatal. Despite Patrick's weak protestations and CloNoah's last minute change of heart Jenni stabs a morphine filled syringe into Patrick's side and eventually he succumbs. Shortly afterwards he makes his way back to the house and dumps his body in the next room's bathtub.
The next morning Noah has still not returned and the residents are starting to grow concerned. Jenni takes some time to emerge from her room, with Patrick standing watch against various visitors.
Steve gets a message from Joyguard informing him that speed is of the essence as a parcel is coming [GM: Cannot recall if message was written or spoken – will add clarification if written]. He meets with Mother Jones, providing some upfront info and a promise of more in exchange for a meeting with Kelly.
The group heads off to find Noah and make their way to the Warren. Jenni breaks in and manages to break Noah out just as Mother Jones gets back.
Amadia reveals to Noah that she was worked out how to shift the doors around the Wych House.
Patrick researches TNIT and finds that they are owned by global plutarch Alex Abel and that the good family institute seems to be just one item in the portfolio of evil. He also notes that St Thomas' just apparently had to shut down several wards due to an outbreak originating in the morgue. He then has a brief flash of Patrick B's rows of screaming faces before hie collapses.
Jenni arranges another emergency meeting, inviting the PCs plus the mysterious Cretan (who we're hoping isn't a Cruel One). She goes up to speak with Imogen who is just emerged from a dangling slime pod, and brings her up to speed on developments.
Noah senses a tremor from the basement. It is ominous.
Everyone goes to bed and awakens in the basement. We move on to the guest speaker and the absence of a person appears. [A man arrived who wasn't there]
It claims that to decrypt the unreadable codex you need to read the first page. [The codex is unreadable, therefore begin by reading the first page]
It claims that no translation of 'layer by layer the city was built' was possible. [The original text of 'layer by layer the City was built' cannot be translated]
It claims that John Quincy could read it but can't now. [John Quincy deciphered the text, but would not be able to read it]
It claims to be the author of the codex but not the writer.
It claims the codex was not written at all. [The codex is a lettered work of authorship, but was not written]
'I was born as I was destroyed, so too the book'
Everything I said was a lie.
In Other Business Jenni summons John Quincy. His form is faded and patchy.
He read it using the reason of another world. Somewhere that existed beyond the labyrinth.
It is a city unknown to the living, and known to only some of the dead.
It may be possible to read the book simple by being near the portal.
He burned London along with Fanny, Adam, – Broxston in order to stop the Eater of the Dead entering the world. Then they used music to control it.
Steve encourages the group to try to call Shirin back but she doesn't comes when called and instead a bioluminescent glow and strange fungal smell creep in. We adjourn and the meter starts to tick up. A spot of red mold is present on the plastic table. Imogen sticks her finger in and then another finger emerges and starts tapping on the table, spreading mold further. Patrick hits it with a pipe and then a hand grows out of the pipe and when Patrick drops it in flees off into the dark.
Jenni grabs some chemicals and these are used to battle the horrible mold limbs. A brief conversation follows in which becomes clear that any reference to the Red Piper causes the metre to tick up.
The metre is up to about 35k.
Steve arranges to meet Mother jones at Trafalgar Square the next noon.
Imogen and Jenni get Noah to help them take some blood in order to pay La Perfumier.
Steven goes to speak with the librarian and invites her over to the Wych House to try to read the Codex. Nothing happens in Room 2 but when they get down to the basement it becomes more comprehensible. Noah and Patrick put their heads together and are able to divine more meaning, learning much about the layers of the city- the wormtomb, the blightwood.
The metre continues to slowly tick upwards.
Patrick gets impatient about wrapping up and despite Steve's warning attempts to force the prof. to leave. She goes nuclear. Noah flees in a panic and Jenni is forced to tend to a very nearly re-dead Patrick whilst Steve bluffs her into leaving with a threat against the library.
Noah has fled down the tunnels of the basement and finds himself knocking on the doors of the Warren.
Jenni catches real Noah up to speed and they go down to see Steve and check up on other Noah- the fake attempts to kill him until he is assured that Noah is already dead and his work is done, whereupon he calms down.
Both Noah's put their heads together and determine that TNI/The Warren are trying to gain control over the Underworld and that the relationship with Kelly is likely to have been set up when she was trying to integrate with the existing London power structures. It is not clear why Shirin was killed when she was- likely due to timelines brought down from on high.
Seeking accomodation for false-Noah they speak with Jacob's wife, Alice, in flat 1 and learn that the wierd entities of the labyrinth were once dead people but have been transformed into servants of something. She agrees to take in not-Noah as a lodger.
The group takes the Basement to the stacks of the Fitzwilliam Library and find themselves next to the library's vault. Going up to the appointment they find that they possess the 'Travertine codex' and ask to see it. Jenni sneaks after the librarian, Dr Alexander, and sees her do something a bit weird with the codex and a notebook- she takes a gander and sees that it is vol 18 of a translation effort.
As we look at the codex Noah flicks through the pages and he and Patrick pass out. In their minds they hear 'And thus layer by layer was the city built' as they come around.
Dr Alexander returns with some notes that appear to have been made by Shirin. We speak with her privately and she explains that the manuscript appears to describe (in an unhelpful fashion) impossible architecture. She suggests that the book might be related to a city of the dead. She also reveals that the author was 'The Cretan' and is very excited at the possibility of speaking with them.
Patrick is forced to leave the bathroom to give a speech to the assembled businessfolk. Having determined that his double is inconveniently absent he rails against his former peers and turns the whole room against him. An elderly gentleman chastises him for his crimes against the privileged and starts to advance upon him with a spatha he's pulled from somewhere. Patrick grabs a poker from the fireplace and lays about the old man. They tussle as below Eviller-Patrick arrives and starts boisterously expressing his confusion. He is promptly assaulted by a couple of knifemen (one of whom he starts to consume) before a fellow in a tricorn and frockcoat arrives and looses his hounds on the murderous banker.
The elderly gent pitches Patrick off the balcony but landing well he is able to make a get away, his last glance showing him Patrick-A on the floor being savaged by a pair of massive dogs. He hails an Uber and heads off to St Thomas for treatment.
Jenni gets a call from the hospital and after alerting Steve heads off to St Thomas herself. She is let in to see Patrick who is babbling incoherently in a drug-addled state. She provides what information she can to a number of police offers.
That evening calls a meeting of a subcommitee comprising herself, Noah, Amadia and Steve. All are present bar Noah who has left a note saying that he can't attend due to reality being unsure who he is. Kelly Loboso cannot attend but a Harry Lime-like individual enters the basement. 'Harry' reveals that he and Kelly are just personas of the same individual and that he was shed after an encounter with the Duke of Hazel brought them too close to the basement. It seems that they cannot be too close to those of the basement lest the Cruel Ones reach for them. Apparently the Ambassador is another member of their cluster but was safer for rarely being in the area.
Harry suggests that Plague, Death and 'something that shouldn't be named' or the Traventine Codex could tell more of the past opening of the basement and its future.
He says that in extremity it will be better to let the 'pressure' out then in, and that they won't let fire deal with them again…
Jenni phones the number provided by Harry and Mother Jones answers. She agrees to conduct messages to Kelly Loboso if Noah is brought back to her.
Steve goes through Mother Jone's phone and emails and learns that her London operations have been going on for about a year. They are responsible for placing Amadia with Shirin and then later killing her with the Rite of Ash Kente. They ( a lunatic going by 'L') created a flesh-puppet Noah to handle things and then somehow fucked up and actual Noah got placed here instead due to a reality glitch.
Jenni and Amadia look into the Codex and find that it was lost in the Great Fire of London having been the property of a noble named John Quincy. They decide they need to get back to the music library where some of the man's collection ended up.
Amadia goes to Steve's flat and makes sure that doppel-Noah is comfortable. An armchair is duly shifted into the bathroom.
Imogen is awakened by Damocles who insists that more dog food be obtained for Audrey. On the way out she hear's a noise from upstairs and goes to investigate. Up in her old flat she finds that dust is billowing as if some sort of blast had occured and there is a smell of cordite. She encounters The Immaculate Man who tells her it is time to 'pay her debt' and to give life to the two dozen she has wronged. She smashes his head in with her sledgehammer. They retreat back down to flat 5 and Damocles fills Audrey in on what has occurred. She politely brushes off the old woman's attempts to comfort her and heads off to the Pluto club.
At the club Imogen agrees to hand Mary over to Pest within the next 3 days. After several hours of drinking the group staggers home, discussing their current plans and objectives.
The next morning Patrick dyes his hair and makes arrangements for the hitter to follow him to the evening's reception and take out his brunette double. Steve recieves a delivery of the translated music pages and hands them over to Noah after having a quick look himself.
Imogen and Jenni speak with Mary who says that she took the Hand from the Twins and someone else took the Silver. So far as she knows they never had the Noose.
Steven speaks with other Noah and determines that he appears to have been programmed to kill by a Dr Andrew Langstrom on behalf of Mother Jones and TNI.
Noah reads through the papers and makes an appointment with the Fitzwilliam library to take Amadia to search for more relevant music/texts.
That evening Patrick is picked up by Valentina's limo and they head off to the Mithraem. They are followed by Pest in his Morris Minor. He brazens his way into the event and then conceals himself in the bathroom.
Back at the Wych House at 6pm, the residents are called to the EGM. Everyone is present except blonde-Patrick. Jenni goes through her revised agenda and the Duke of Hazel attempts to have Old Pissant expelled but the motion is voted down.
At the Mithraem someone is knocking on Patrick's stall telling him that he needs to give a speech.
Noah is heading south with Newcastle with Mother Jones, recovering from his psychotic break. She is speaking with a powerfully dressed woman about a problem with a 'switch'. Their chance of recruiting Amadia has apparently been thwarted due to the mistakes of B division cobweb farmers in allowing a switch. Jones wants permission to remove and replace the 'first iteration' with the second. The other woman mentions that they arranged for Shirin's death and then tell Noah that he is only 4 months old and was never married to Shirin….he awakens from the 'dream' back in the Wych House. He immediately updates the Mystery Board,
Patrick reluctantly heads out to work through the basement, finding himself in the Mithraem where it appears that some sort of cannibal banquet has occurred. At the offices he finds that BOA is shuttered due to the recent incidents; he tries to find out what details the other Patrick has left there. After absent-mindedly giving the wrong number to the security guard he ends up having a very brief angry phone conversation with Other Patrick before fleeing the freaked out normies.
Noah speaks with Steven about his dream and the latter makes plans to seek out a local Cliomancer called Harold to see if anything can be done about the memory issues. Noah then speaks with Jenny and they decide to hold an emergency residents meeting. Meanwhile Jenni plans to seek out the missing regents through the basement.
Pest asks Jenni to do another gig at the Pluto, this time with a Rococo twist.
Patrick speaks with Valentina, an acquaintance from HSBC and finds out this he is supposed to be hosting an event the next evening. He persuades her to give him a lift there.
Noah and Steve's meeting with Mother Jones goes…poorly . Once Noah proves uncooperative she summons forth his simulacrum who attempts to murder him with a silenced pistol. Steven immediately snatches up her phone and legs it, quickly outdistancing the 'kids' who jump out to stop him.
Amadia and Jenni head out through the basement but only end up in the Pluto club. They notice that the electricity meter there has jumped up passed 20k now. Jenni then goes to get her set prepared, learning from Pest that she'll be expected to play from 11-5. Jenni is asked to mix some of the classic music and does it sufficiently well that she attracts the attention of the obviously influential Rinka Nehru.
Steven returns to the crime scene to give the police some false information about Mother Jones being the one with the gun. He then returns to the Wytch House and finds Noah struggling home. He helps to patch him up noting that the wound seems a little too straight for something delivered in a melee. Steve calls Harold and it seems that the cliomancer is associated with the Mother Jone's lot and may recently have performed his arts on a Noah-esque individual. He walks back out to find Noah photographing the Mystery Board with his phone, and then another Noah crawls up from the basement. Not long later the mind controlled Noah is secured and they head out (along with a gun-seeking Patrick) to find Harold.
At the club Jenni speaks with the Perfumier and gets a bit of a price list, and then spots a very Harry Lime-ish individual who enters in an extremely sharp suit. The wych house men show up and Steven attempts to show a photo of the man to Lance Joyguard, only to find that it won't go through properly. The man asks to speak with Lancelot and then dismisses Steve. He claims to be the ambassador of Magonia.
Patrick liases with Pest to put a hit out on his other self. There is a fair bit of haggling and some difficulty in explaining who is to be the target but in the end a deal is reached.
The residents arrive back in their rooms with Jenni appearing alongside the slightly less douchey Patrick. She gets a text from other Patrick asking if he's there and after a bit of worry they text back claiming that he's not. They then try to get a locksmith in to secure the place but are met with predictable inaction.
Noah gets a feeling that the basement is not safe and warns the other residents to stay out for the time being.
Imogen manages to get Mary to talk to her and questions her about Mr Dirt, the Red Piper and other strangeness. Later Jenni talks with her and agrees to help her find the Silver. Mary suggests that someone else stole the Silver immediately after her own theft. They decide that it might be worth contacting La Perfumier
After a talk with Imogen and Patrick, Jenni heads out to the nearest locksmith and returns with locks and deadbolts. Patrick lets himself into Jacob's flat searching for power tools and hears weeping from the bedroom, he encounters a distraught Alice Bishop. She confronts him with his own death but he does his best to ignore it and leaves with a bag full of Jacob's equipment.
Amadia has founds some strange notes in Linear B but has been unable to translate most of it. She goes with Noah and they prevail upon Steven to seek out someone who can finish the translation. Her partial translation involves Door within Doors and strangely references Jupiter rather than Zeus.
Patrick and Jenni break into the secured bedroom and within the back of his wardrobe find a host of groaning faces. Patrick eliminates the horror with the old lighter/aerosol combo and Jenni just about manages to control the blaze with a fire extinguisher.
That morning the news mentions that a number of Bank of America employees have gone missing.
Noah agrees to meet with Mother Jones as she is now on her way back from Newcastle.
Imogen goes to a graveyard (via an unwanted meeting with Pest in the Pluto Club) and hurling Mr Dirt's tooth onto a disturbed grave she invokes the Red Piper. The Piper tells her to find The Silver and the Noose. He advises her to get rid of the tooth's bearer once she has recovered the artefacts.
Steven speaks with Lance and suggests that at this point murder probably isn't the optimal method to motivate the knights errant to focus on his task.
Noah is back from Newcastl, much to his own confusion. He speaks with Amadia, Jenni and Imogen in turn and more or less brings himself up to speed with what has happened in his absence.
Patrick goes into work via the Basement which takes him to the Mithrain chapterhouse. At work his own credentials have been cancelled but Frank Langston vouches for him and he is able to get up to the offices. There he recieves an IM from his mysterious source and is given Ayer's details along with a series of trades to make. He bullies Langston into making half of them to throw the internal auditors off the track.
Imogen spends a fun 5 minutes chucking rocks at unfortunate policemen. This stirs the blue beehive back into action and another armed response unit shows up at the Barbican.
Noah nips out for shopping and manages to slip past the cordon. On the way back he is stopped by the police and questioned about the other Wych House residents- it appears to be everyone who was on the drug lab video. He mentions only seeing Imogen around the place and gives fake details before moving on.
Jacob heads off with his most essential belonging bumping into Jenni and Imogen on their way to Mr Dirt. The handyman accepts their assistance in getting out to a station and then heads off to Spain where he definitely lives happily ever after.
Imogen and Jenni get in to meet with Mr Dirt only to find that the ghoul is distressed to have brought into 'embassy' with the emissary of the Red Piper. At this point it becomes extremely cagey and refuses to divulge information lest it grant any advantage to the other, apparently baleful entity. Imogen agrees to wear a token from the ghoul about its neck in exchange for no harm being done to Jenni for her part in this affair. Jenni offers to help Mr Dirt and he asks for information on the whereabouts of the bag of silver.
Damocles growls at Imogen as she returns, his gaze fixed on the hand bearing Dirt's tooth. She manages to cow the dog before it attacks her but does start to feel the tooth.burrowing into her…metaphysically.
Around 8.30 that evening everyone's doorbells ring and Lance Joyguard announces he has come to meet with his errants. He introduces Steven Graves, his representative to the group. Steven then sits down with Noah, Amadia and Jenni and they bring him up to speed on the contents of the mystery board.
That night there is a meeting of the resident's association. The main wierdness is that Old Pissant and the Duke of Hazel are both present. A man of two parts. We nominate Kelly Loboso and Harry Lime to attend the next meeting, with Imogen agreeing to remove the Red Piper in exchange for a chat with Mary. Then the guest speaker arrives- another Patrick Bayne; a very confusing conversation occurs which is interrupted by Audrey's summoning of the Red Piper. At Patrick B's panicked insistence the meeting is expeditiously adjourned.
As the dumbwaiter arrives in the basement, Jenni tends to an extremely agitated and improbably lively George. He doesn't appear to remember Noah at all, and when the dumbwaiter returns the doctor is conspicuous in its absence. She leads him down the tunnel into what appears to be catacombs. She tries to crawl down a narrow tunnel to find help when something grabs her from behind…
The revelation of Jacob's talons is enough of a shock to halt the violence between Imogen and the handyman and they manage to intervene with Patrick before he does anything too untowards to Ben, the banker restraining himself to trashing the flat. Imogen questions him about where Mary is and he croaks out that she might be at the Pluto club. She heads down to the basement to try to find her and disappears down a tunnel. Whilst Patrick is distracted Jacob carries Ben away to seek medical attention.
Jenni manages to fight her away free from the claws of the guardian and emerges before a ragged group of ghouls- she pleads for help for George and meets their leader, Mr Dirt. She leaves George with them and leaves before they start their supper
Imogen turns up in the Pluto club and reveals that she is looking for her friend Mary. A conversation with Pest ensues in which Imogen agrees to exchange Mary for information on how to find Mr Dirt.
Jacob is accosted by a police officer who gives Ben first aid and places a cooperative Jacob under arrest. This arrest becomes rather firmer when Jacob carefully attempts to hand the gun into the police's custody. The officer's attempts to apply the cuffs are halted by the gunpoint intervention of Mrs Bishop who drags her protesting husband home. A loud altercation then occurs in the doorway, overheard by Patrick, whereby the ghost reveals that if the Wych House is left via the basement then the occupants won't be troubled by the authorities.
Patrick leaves for hospital, bumping into Jenni en route. She gives him directions to a tube station and he makes it to his usual clinic where they are curiously unconcerned by his gunshot wound.
Imogen goes through Flat 4 looking for clues about Mary and finds a curious amount of information regarding funerals and graveyards. She later speaks with Jenni and learns that she has just met with Mr Dirt and that George & Ben are involved with the mysterious entity. Jenni agrees to take her there later.
A large number of armed police officers have converged around the building and Imogen decides to take Damocles out to play with them. This ends with both her and the dog being dropped in a hail of gunfire from the trigger happy officers, much to the delight and horror of the watching residents. Immediately a terrible wailing comes from Audrey's room. Patrick slips out and pulls Imogen's body back into the Wych House atrium, the police apparently quite unable to see anything so close to the building itself. Jacob eventually pushes the body back out to where it can be discovered and then spends the night cleaning up all the bodily fluids currently defacing the property.
Imogen emerges from a world of mulch and watches as Damocles bursts forth from the body of a rotting rat. They return to Flat 5 leaving a slime trail of footprints for Jacob to clean up. Jacob notices that his skin is starting to turn a pale green and decides that he has finally had enough, he packs his bags and despite Alice's tears books a ticket to travel to Spain.
Noah is in Newcastle (of course) fixing the last of the recent bureaucratic craziness when he receives a visitor- a certain 'Mother' Jones who asks 'would he kindly' invite her up for a meeting…
In the Queenless Court, the Duke warns Joyguard that when the new King comes the councillor will no longer be welcome there. Leaving the train they speak with Joyguard asking for an introduction to the Hounding Man in exchange for their investigation into the missing Councillors. Joyguard reveals that the Hounding Man is an immortal killer of particularly grisly method. They clarify that what they really want is a teacher for Amadia so if he can find one who isn't a murderer that would be preferable.
Joyguard suggests that should they swear themselves to the quest they shall be appropriately rewarded and when they kneel he pulls an improbably large sword from his jacket and dubs them as questing knights.
He asks them to search for the missing 'Kelly Loboso' who disappeared shortly after Harry Lime left last week.
Imogen returns home from her long walk with Audrey and after feeding the dogs she heads out to ask the local homeless whether they know about a 'Mr Dirt' . One of them mentions seeing a sickly looking woman shouting for him at one of the water features. Eventually she heads to the basement and starts shouting for him there- this awakens the slumbering Bishops and Jacob ambles over to ask for quiet, revealing that the description sounds a lot like Mary. This leads her to spend some time squatting outside George and Ben's door before the other group gets in. They discuss their respective quests and agree to help one another.
They head down to the Basement and ask it to take them to Mr Dirt. However they instead they are led down a tunnel that leads to a keycard access door open 11-4, Mon-Thurs. Five minutes of hammering the doorbell produces the face of a man who does a double-take at Imogen and slams the door. On consideration she recognises him as one of Mother Jones' youth. They protest they are minors and can't be talked to without a responsible adult. When the group protests they claim to have called the police and improbably shortly afterwards a siren is heard in the street above. Jenni looks out through a grate and spots a plaque for the 'Good Family Institute'. They flee back down the tunnel before the police spot them.
Patrick goes to Mr Ayers' house to try to make it look like he left the country. Unfortunately he is stumbled upon by Mrs Ayers. This proves to be most unfortunate for Mrs Ayers. He cleans himself up, sets the house on fire, takes Mr Ayers cufflinks and after gloating triumphantly in the mirror he leaves.
In the morning Noah gets a call from Love, Love, Love and Love letting himself know that the Good Family Institute are taking out a restraining order against him. He then calls Mother Jones and after exchanging accusations they arrange a meeting for the next morning. He then calls the hospital where they seem a bit confused about his absence. He decides that he ought to nip back to Newcastle to investigate what is going on and has Amadia send a message to his answering machine to date the event.
Jacob has a conversation with George wherein he agrees that he won't talk about Mr Dirt (on the grounds that he doesn't know anything about any such person). George also reveals that they have obtained a gun for home defence. He later discovers that his nails have taken on a rather talon-like quality.
Imogen encounters George coming down the stairs and starts interrogating him for information on Mr Dirt. Things escalate rapidly from this point and shortly thereafter George is bleeding brains down the stairwell and Ben is being beaten senseless by Patrick. Jacob accidentally shreds Imogen's hand with his filthy talons.
Noah and Jenni take George down to the Basement hoping to get him to a hospital and as they descend he starts back to consciousness with a gasp.
Patrick logs into Ayer's terminal and mails Frederique to let her know that he will be away for the foreseeable future. He then resets Ayer's passwords so he will be able to electronically impersonate him for a while longer.
Jenni goes to see Mary about the Twins' demand. She reveals that the Hand lets you vanish, the Silver pays for any service and the Noose apparently lets you hang ghosts. They discuss how they can possible wriggle out of it. Mary says she needs the Hand to be able to leave – she wasn't able to pay them off, but not tried giving the Hand back. Mary also revealed she knows more about the box of coke – it seems she took it and tried to use it to pay off the Twins? Mary proposes getting the Silver so that they can use it to pay them off for having stolen things off them. Jenni considers the plan to steal it – Mary will let her use the Hand.
As Jenni leaves Mary's room, she catches the end of conversation between George and Ben, talking about not being able to buy something.
Noah talks to Amadia about updating the Investigation Board, updating it with information about the Underworld revelations. Works with Amadia to update it – red string is used.
Jacob has a nice dinner with Alice and then is invited to Sunday dinner with Ben and George. Hoping to enjoy a bit of time in a coalition of the sane he agrees.
Patrick talks to some police whilst out jogging and fingers Jacob for involvement in the drugs lab. He goes home and talks with Jenni who spills her issues to him. He advises that murder or arson may solve her problems- business.
Over dinner Ben, George and Mary sit down and discuss with Jacob the importance of getting things done quietly and without fanfare. They then serve him a nice bomb-fragment pie. He makes his excuses and leaves swiftly.
Jenni goes to have a chat with Noah and brings him (and his Investigation Board) up to speed. They decide to visit the Queenless Court on Monday along with Amadia.
On Monday Patrick is picking up Frederique's work; after chewing out the incompetent Frank he learns that the cleaning staff have been talking about seeing him naked in Mr Ayers office. He arranges a meeting so he can deal with the issue.
Noah learns through his freedom of information requests that the Good Family's iniiative is sponsored by an American organisation called the New IT. He continues
Jacob comes across John's sleeping bag again only to find that it contains some sort of mince-human hybrid. This does not go down well and soon the base of the Wych House is spattered with mince and…other effluvia. Fortunately(?) Ben arrives on scene and soon team cannibal is mobilised to clean up the mess. And they might have gotten away from it if not for Noah happening by and being lied to by an unconvincing Ben and a blood-spatted Jacob.
Noah, Jenni and Amadia set off via the basement to find the Queenless Court. On the way Jenni acquires the Hand from Mary. Noah is able to take them through the Basement on to the platform where the Last Train will arrive. Aboard the train however they find that the Regent's Council has been disbanded due to lack of quoracy. It appears that the members of the council are missing. Amadia is apparently titled as the Knight Protectress of the Wych House.
Patrick is visited by a homeless woman from the train, who bids him permanently kill the Duke of Hazel (John) in exchange for a boon. Apparently she also has information about the Hounding Man. Patrick (thinking Ol' Pissant dead already) swears himself to the task.
On the train the group are invited forward by the Duke. He appears heavily bandaged on one side and is surrounded by armed heavies. Joyguard is present appearing slightly concerned, though not for his personal safety. The group is careful to declare their neutrality in the matter, but suggest that they may be able to help investigate the missing Regents in exchange for the court's help.
Patrick heads out to Mr Ayers house and due to the bank's new security measures Jacob is nearly caught trying to helpfully slip Ol' Pissant's foot into his flat, just making it home in time to avoid a face to face confrontation.
It is Friday 15th of July, 9pm.
Two weeks, more or less, have passed since Shirin Karimi herself passed.
It is time for the fourth Wych House Residents' Association – chaired by Jenni Hanniver.
We skip through most of the meeting, but "Patrick Baynes" is named as the next guest speaker, and then we get to the current guest speaker and Shirin emerges from the darkness. Noah falls off his chair in surprise and shock, and Imogen reacts with anger pushing over the table and advancing on the ghost with a chair. Jenni and Amadia both tries to stop her and when she's not deterred Amadia hurls a chair, unfortunately this ends up catching on the table and then dropping directly onto Noah's face.
Shirin tells us that the Wych house is built over a gate to the underworld and that it has opened as a result of her death. She was keeping it closed and was planning to take Amadia as an apprentice to carry on the duty. Now that she's dead it will take the services of 'The Hounding Man' to get the gate closed again.
Following discussion of the underworld Shirin mentions 'the Cruel Ones' which piques Imogen and Patrick's interest who demand first to know more and then that these hostile forces be summoned. Not liking the tapping that starts to echo out of the darkness Jenni quickly wraps up the meeting, but not before Patrick shouts out "Come on you fucks!", and all is plunged into darkness. As the light flashes we see Shirin screaming silently as she is dragged away by something. Noah and Imogen jump for her but only manage to grab each other. Jenni writes down the names of all the residents barring Old Pissant on the meeting sheet and as the light flashes a final time we see the unfortunate hobo being torn apart by the Red Piper and another hidden force. Then we awaken back in reality.
Noah and Amadia go to hospital to sort out the head wound and are dealt with without too many awkward questions. Jacob scours the Barbican for any sign of John to no result, though when he returns to the which house he finds that the tramp's sleeping kit is there, stuffed with some manner of meat mannequin, and drawn into the mince (on the section he could see) were a dozen or so small 'smiley faces' :-).
Jenni is returned to the Pluto club where she gets on with her sweat and visits La Perfumier to see if she can score some more 'scent'. Sadly she lacks the Child's Tears and Pig's sweat that the occult pusher is seeking. She is invited to meet with the Twins who want her to deliver Mary Stone to them. She pleads ignorance which they respond to with some disbelief.
On the Saturday morning Jacob does some handyman work around the place, including re-clearing the mold under the sink in Flat 4 (which is filled with teeth). Later he is horrified to find Damocles leading Audrey around by a leash. However he's unable to persuade them that there's anything wrong with the situation and can't come up with a way of stopping them.
Noah and Amadia spend their day trying to make sense of recent events.
Patrick is given a list of scutwork by Mr Ayers and heads into the office to sort it out. He has something of a contretemps with his boss which ends with Ayers…gone and his suit now adorning the psychotic banker.
That evening Noah is confronted by Mother Jones who arrives with a posse of adults dressed as youths. She is outraged by his refusal to cooperate despite her kindly asking him to let him into the flat and do other tasks (such as dealing with Imogen after she kicks one of the 'youths' down the stairs). Everyone is left baffled as to what the hell that was all about.
The fight breaks up, Patrick and Jenni get an uber to St Thomas' whilst Jacob staggers home and collapses in bed. A cup of tea and chicken soup are mysteriously presented to him.
Imogen sees Audrey back to bed and retires for a night of drinking and explosives.
In the morning Jenni gets up and asks about Patrick, she is told that he is dead. Meanwhile Patrick is told that he has apparently been declared legally dead some time ago, he takes the news with his usual good grace. He phones Jenni and he picks up new clothes for him before they head home.
Jacob wakes up to find that he seems to have been bloodily sick in the night. He calls his GP's surgery who refers him on to NHS direct to see if he needs an emergency appointment. He spends the day in hospital, where he is well looked after, but told that his dental peculiarity will require a number of follow up appointments.
Patrick starts work late to find that his absence has been covered for. He later recieves an email from TKIT telling him to 'Lost £40k and be well', after some consideration he makes a bad trade.
Jenni spends her day with Amadia and gets to listen to her practice her Clarinet. She tries to work out how to help the piece with her own musical knowledge, but that is then interrupted by events above…
Imogen wakes up with a detonator in hand attached to a half dozen sticks of C4, feeling a black abyss looming nearby she follows a compulsion to pull the trigger…
At around 9pm that night the penthouse of the Wytch House explodes. Imogen runs in terror out of flat 5 and flees the building, whilst a near catatonic Jenni has to be led out by Amadia. Jacob evacuates the building, whilst Patrick ventures upstairs to see what happened to Imogen. He takes in the damage and then as he starts to leave he sees a Middle Eastern figure who promptly vanishes. Shocked he goes to stare out the window.
Below the emergency services show up but they seem unable to take in the Wytch House much to Jacob's increasing horror and agitation. From his perch Patrick hurls a rock at Jacob, striking an unfortunate nearby fireman. A panicked flight from the building begins, though Jenni and Jacob have to go back in to coax Patrick out of the building.
Over the following week Jacob attempts to determine whether the building can be salvaged, meanwhile Patrick buys up the owning company and directs them to shut down the employee pension scheme.
Imogen finds herself wandering through darkness, eventually emerging into a cavern where she finds three people embedded in the wall, covered in fungi. They tell her that she is in Terdassos. Touching them she finds that they're actually partly made of fungi.
Jenni comes back to the Wytch house for her record collection and finds that Mary is sleeping in her bed. When she wakes her, Mary reacts with outrage claiming that Jenni had ruined her life, abandoning her when she fell through a plate glass window. She claims that the pair worked together for a year and had talked about moving in. Apparently they were working for the Crays. She confesses to carving Bitch into the bedside table and 'borrowing' her records. Apparently they were working a score to acquire 30 pieces of silver from the Twins, the daughters of Ronnie Cray. The twins are looking for the Hand and the Noose with which Judas hung himself.
Patrick finds that he is paying a lot of inheritance tax due to his death several weeks ago…he informs his accountants of his extreme displeasure.
Jacob has more teeth coming through and starts to feel increasingly hungry. He does his best to ignore this and throws himself into fixing the Wytch House.
Imogen passes through a vegetative hellscape eventually emerging from Damocles' mouth. Damocles welcomes her back in Audrey's voice whilst the old woman roams around on all fours and eats from the dog bowl.
Jenni heads off to the Pluto Club on friday night and has a chat with the lovable scamp running the joint, he tells her that the Twins might be showing up tonight.
However at 9 that evening (Friday 15th July) they all awaken to find themselves in the fourth residents meeting of the Wytch House.
Jacob wins a staredown with Patrick and Jenni just manages to calm the banker before he throws a punch. The meeting concludes and the doorway to number 3 becomes open. The residents ascent whilst a furious Jacob remains down in the dark, comforted by a familiar presence.
Noah speaks with Amadia who is upset about being confined to the Wytch House and suggests that serving her remaining time might not be the worst thing in the world all things considered…
Noah researches Mother Jones and puts in a couple of Freedom of Information requests that should hopefully be returned in the next couple of days.
The next day Imogen starts making inquiries after the police who were at the hospital.
Patrick begins to covertly (and illegally) invest in the building management firm that runs the Barbican houses with the aim of getting revenge on Jacob.
Imogen goes to a hardware store and buys the parts to build a rope ladder down to the basement. When she gets home there are 4 crates in her hallway containing plastic explosives, detonators an related paraphenalia. There are also GPS coordinates for somewhere in Helmand. She secretes the equipment around her apartment, placing the explosives in her wall-safe. Afterwards she hurls the crates off the side of the building and Jacob, going to investigate is struck by one of them and is rather half-arsedly treated by Noah. Jenni goes to talk with Imogen who reveals the details of the delivery.
After being treated Jacob searches for the culprit and in No. 8 he discovers Mary tucking into a meal of fouled meat. She urges him to join her in eating and he reacts with violent disgust. The sound of this draws the others to the flat and he rants at them for a time before kicking them out so he can 'clean up'. Once he goes to check Ben and Georges flat, Imogen attempts to barge past and unwilling to allow this intrusion a scuffle breaks out resulting in a very broken coffee table and slightly broken Jacob. The handyman does his best to make the place presentable, but the damage is clear.
Patrick has a rather cold meeting with Mr Ayers who makes it clear that the Mithras cult have ordered nothing bad result from the previous night's activities. It is clear however that Ayers has not forgotten or forgiven.
Jacob's friend Len suggest that his dental problem could be cancer, much to the old fellow's delight.
The residents meet up with Ben and George and give their version of the day's events. Patrick and Jenni try to sneak up via the basement route but when he opens the trapdoor someone stomps on his face and he falls knocking Jenni off her perch and sending her tumbling back to the basement below. Enraged Patrick tears the place apart looking for Mary, terrorising Ben and George with Imogen's assistance. They eventually reveal that she stole something related to Judas Iscariot.
Noah goes down to treat Jenni and manages to reset her dislocated arm.
Jacob gets home just in time to hear the couple's screams of distress and confronts the pair, Patrick, enraged attacks him and the whole group descends into a melee, ending up with Jacob accidentlly booting Jenni as Noah held Patrick pinned on the floor.
Patrick gets a call telling him to select a kitchen knife and meet a car downstairs. He gets into a car and is driven to a farm on the Isle of Dogs. He pulls up outside a barn and finds a small crowd waiting, sipping champagne. He speaks with Frederique and apparently there is some sort of HR issue that he needs to get sorted out. Mr Ayers comes up and impresses upon Patrick the need for discretion regarding this activity. The cult leaders direct activities and the various initiates have their hands sliced by a knife and take an oath in latin before heading into the building.
Jenni speaks with Amadia who gets out 'Help me! I'm in the bas-' before the call cuts out. They all rush back and head to the boiler room, from there they can see that the table below has been overturned and a chair badly crumpled. They quickly descend but find no sign of Amadia though Noah and Jacob see light coming from the Flat 4 route..
The electricity meter is on 1433,8.
Going up to flat 4 it appears that Ben and George have taken Amadia in after she staggered back to the basement in a panic having lost a lot of time. Apparently she met Shireen and then ran when the people there fled from the 'Red Piper'. Shireen said that the tunnels weren't safe and she wasn't sure what she could say but then there was a tearing noise and something arrived, and then she ran.
Jenni notices that the couple happen to have a vinyl of hers in their flat and they claim it simply appeared in their hallway.
Jacob wants to brick up all the entrances to the basement but this is vigorously resisted by the residents who want to be able to investigate further.
In the barn Patrick is confronted with a bull prepped for slaughter. One gentleman objects to being involved in the slaughter and is quickly removed from proceedings. They are told that the first to drink the heart's blood will be anointed and the last to draw blood will not be initiated. Patrick really gets into the slaughter and when it seems that Mr Ayers will get to the heart first he stabs him in the stomach to ensure his victory. With a primal scream he he claims the heartsblood. Then everything goes black.
Things wrap up at number 4 with the suggestion that perhaps there should be another residents association meeting. Noah books Amadia a room in the Premier Inn so she doesn't have to stay at the Wytch House. Imogen collects Damocles from the vet; it appears to act like a normal dog. As they pass a shop window of TV screens they see a reference in the scrolling banner to 'Up to 12 individuals sought for massive drugs lab in central London'.
Getting home they requisition a vhs player from Jacob and watch the lab footage again- after reviewing it they spot a twelve feminine figure in the background though it becomes increasingly hard to focus upon and eventually moves out of frame.
The next morning Patrick is woken by a phonecall- it's the IT people coming to install a secure line and extra security measures for his home office. He also recieves an email informing him that he needs to fill out a tax form before he can recieve his salary. After some back and forth between his accountant and HR he finds out that this in an inheritance tax form and snottily hangs up.
Imogen is woken by the noise below and goes to pick up Audrey from the hospital.
Noah gets a call from Mother Jones who tells him that he is in breach of contract by allowing Amadia to dwell outside of the flat. How she knew this was unclear. He speaks with Amadia who has also been contacted and she agrees to come home.
Jenni finds that someone has carved the word 'bitch' into the top of her bedside table. She tells Patrick but his room does not appear to be disturbed.
At the hospital Imogen swears that she spots a police dog handler with a familiar face from her tie in Afghanistan. She makes inquiries but no-one is able to identify the officer in question.
Jacob bricks up the doorways in flats 7 and 8.
After going to sleep everyone awakens to find themselves in the basement. There is a sickly looking young woman there who is fiddling with a fancy catalyst lighter, and holding a burned, severed hand. Then she vanishes. All the residents are present around the table. Angry, Patrick strides off into the dark. The rest see no choice but to start the meeting.
We ask George about his sister Mary and she claims that he owes a lot of money and has gone off the rails. We start to discuss blocking up the doors to the basement when a roar of anger comes out of the dark followed by more angry shouting from Patrick. Imogen and Jenni run off to investigate (accompanied by Damocles), they find him out of breath and with blood on his hands, beyond him they find a body mangled beyond recognition. Patrick claims he was attacked but lies that he didn't know who it was.
They continue with the meeting until tensions start to escalate and things almost come to a fight between Patrick and Noah.
We ask for Shirin to attend as the next guest speaker and agree that only the portals in flat 1, 6 and 9 remain open. Jacob demands that they eject Damocles from the building and the vote is hung with Amadia and Noah abstaining. Incensed by this Jacob starts to push back when Patrick once again demeans him, referring back to the embarrassing incident several nights before.
Imogen awakens in a police cell and after some banter with the bobbies contacts her lawyer, who is troubled to be awoken in the early hours of the morning. She is shortly released and has an expensive cab ride home.
The rest of the residents board the train finding that most of the passengers appear to be homeless but their do appear to be TFL staff managing the train too. As Old Pissant enters the curtained carriage one of the homeless who appears to be acting as a bouncer tugs his forelock in respect. Jenni speaks with one of the passengers who explains that they need to choose whether they are Squires or Ladies. Those who pursue glory for the court and those who seek social advancement. It seems that everyone (aside from the TFL staff) have taken noble names for themselves. Though it appears that Duke (the title Old Pissant possesses is restricted from common use).
Eventually the group decides to enter the reserved carriage and give themselves appropriate names:
Lord Patrick
Count Cap
Lady Sparks.
Jacob doesn't want to play the game and refuses to take a title which causes the bouncer some aggravation until someone scuttles up and whispers in his ear, after which he is allowed to pass as guest of the Master of the Third Man.
The regents of the court, Lance and Lyme, offer to assist the residents in exchange for their fealty, which none of them are keen on. Another offer is made to treat them as 'knights of the grail' outside the court but with some access. Eventually they decide to take some time to think about it and leave the train at Cannon street along with Mr Lyme. He suggests that there is a woman at the Witch House who can help them with their inquiries. There is some speculation that this could be Amadia.
They take a taxi home and bump into Imogen as she arrives home, they let her know about Audrey. Jenni has a late night whiskey with her and explains their evening's exploits.
Jacob finds that his home has been cleaned while he was away. The CCTV shows unclear images of an elderly woman doing the chores.
Noah has an incredibly dull dream of life in Newcastle. When he awakens he his met by Imogen who is concerned that they have been unable to get in touch with Amadia. She agrees to assist with the hunt if he will help her get in to see Audrey.
Once they eventually get to see her Imogen decides that she has been suffering from Damocles wounds. She boots Damocles hard in the flank and asks Noah to check on Audrey to see if anything has transferred across.
Jacob awakens to find that the notepaper he left out for his mysterious visitor has a message letting him know to get some milk in. The handwriting is very familiar.
Imogen starts choking out Damocles which causes the dog to whine and then choke…and then barking starts coming from Audrey's room whilst Damocles starts audibly begging to be released. Imogen loses her shit and attempts to kill the dog whilst Noah runs to get a sedative from the nurses station. A fracas ensues with Damocles finally escaping having injured a nurse and slaughtered two unfortunates on the way out.
Afterwards Imogen speaks with Audrey who urges her to leave Damocles alone.
Damocles shows up back at the Wytch house where he is taken in by Patrick and jenni. When Jacob happens upon the blood trail he follows it back to the others and they all end up heading to the vets where Damocles' gouged eye is being treated. Revelations of slaughter and demonic manifestations are made.
Noah goes off to search for Amadia to no avail. He eventually goes to the police with the predictably useful results.
A strange girl approaches Jacob as he loiters outside the vets. He invites him to lunch saying that they share a common interest but when he professes confusion she is horrified and runs off telling him that when he realises his interest he should leave a note in his door.
Imogen and Jenni go to see Damocles and the DJ is appropriately horrified when the dog does in fact talk and afterwards they take Jacob and Noah and all go to the pub for a consolatory drink.
Patrick spends the afternoon boning up on mitharism and recieves a note in latin which google translate helpfully suggests as 'Night pay attention to the afternoon'. He prepares his robe in case of a surprise visit.
At around 9pm Jenni receives a panicked call from Amadia…
Noah goes home via the tunnel and en route discovers a pair of boots and signs of a violence. For a short while he is able to follow a blood trail before the traces tail off. He makes what notes he can of the scene but his inebriated state renders them rather incoherent.
Jenni comes home to find that Patrick is manically exercising in the middle of the living room. Her attempts to get to the bottom of his strange mood are halted when Noah crawls in through the hatch in their hall. This intrusion and Noah's tipsy indifference to Patrick's anger quickly push the banker into a rage and as soon as Jenni ushers the doctor out the door Patrick starts to smash up the furniture in order to block the passageway to the basement.
Concious of her room-mates odd mood Jenni decides to use the perfume she recieved at the club and try to put together a soothing mix. The substance quickly provokes an experience of intense synesthesia. As she works she begins to perceive a strange harmony that is in some sense an echo of something that doesn't exist.
Jenni's music is able to bring Patrick out of his murderous funk and he gives her an awkward thankyou before they both go to sleep.
The next morning Noah meets up with Patrick and Jenni and the group head to a nearby diner to discuss the weirdness that has been occurring in the block. The issue of the missing drugs comes up which causes Patrick some concern and they decide it might be worth testing a hair sample to see if they've been drugged.
They decide to go back to the basement later and Noah goes shopping for exploration gear.
Jacob, working on installing CCTV cameras in his room finds that another mysterious cup of tea turns up through his work. Then he hears another morse message and follows up to Audry's room where he finds that the she has fallen out of bed. He manages to find Noah who diagnoses that she has a broken hip. After several calls they manage to summon an ambulance…not
Patrick calls Sid the drug dealer and tells him that the deal is off as he has found a better buyer. Sid desperately tries to convince him to deal but Patrick is unsympathetic.
Looking for Amadia, Jenni breaks into her flat and finds that the boards on her door have been subtly unnailed. Still searching for Amadia she wanders down to the basement where she has a bit of a funny turn wherein she sees her dead room-mate Meg and snaps out of it to find herself staring at the electricity meter.
Noah discovers that his door appears scratched as if by a pick and finds that the little door inside is open.
After half an hour and no sign of the emergency services Jacob summons help from a local mate, Benny, and the pair take Audrey to hospital in the back of a white van.
Patrick recieves a phone call from a withheld number, it is a woman interested in seeing if the drug deal can be re-arranged. When he says there's no chance she hangs up to the sounds of 'kill him' and Sid's hopeless blubbering.
Going down to the basement Patrick and Jenni can see in the basement's darkness and find the light of Noah's torch painful. The electricity meter reads 1002,3. Behind the door the tunnel wall is in place. They have a hunt around the place but find nothing particularly mysterious.
They return that evening catching Jacob's attention as they clatter through the walls with a collection of construction tools. They find that the tunnel is present again and head down it together finding that it turns into a small utility tunnel leading into one of the more recent tube tunnels. They come to a gate across the line and a sign proclaiming it as Alder's Gate St. apparently it has only been closed since 2009. We appear to have lost around 3 hours of time.
A tube train arrives bearing the description 'the queenless court of the last train'
The following day Jenni works on her mix for the evening and finds that there are unusual influences creeping into her work. Noah continues to clear Shirin's room whilst Patrick studies up on Mithraism.
At 7 Jenni heads over to the Pluto club and in let in by a bunch of working class fellows. The club has a jazz club-esque aesthetic. She meets up with Pest who cautions her that in event of trouble she shouldn't call the police herself to this most legitimate of establishments.
Noah returns from a trip to the convenience store to find that Mother Jones is sitting down with Amadia at the kitchen table. He is displeased to find that she is entitled to make checkups on Amadia without any notice. Listening in on their conversations he learns that Amadia is from the Sudan and seems to be extremely (indeed unusually) open with the woman. Before she leaves she urges Amadia to keep practising. He gives her permission to go off to see Jenni's set.
Jacob, cleaning the lift. finds that someone has left a cup of tea for him. Drinking it leaves him with a strange feeling of loss and regret.
Coming up to 9 Noah and Imogen decide to head down to the basement. Lacking an easy route down they decide to have a look around flat 8 and find that the cocaine trunk is now empty. They proceed down to the basement and find that the electricity meter has clicked on another 3 units. Opening the sliding door they find that the wall is gone- Imogen flips out, throwing away her torch and lapsing into flashbacks of her time in Afghanistan. Noah manages to get out of the way unscatched until she snaps out of it. Hugely embarassed by the incident she warns him never to speak of it on pain of death.
Going down the tunnel they find primitive paintings of a figure in a fetal position outlined by dots.
Patrick hires a call girl, dolls her up and instructs her to remain silent then heads off to the club. He finds that the people there seem to be dressed in a slightly archaic Sunday Best, which fits the general retro aesthetic of the club.
Noah and Imogen come upon a pool of water filled with coins of various denominations and currencies. Then they become aware of quiet psychobilly music that leads them into the Pluto club. They meet with Jenni an find that they seem to be an hour out of sync with each other.
Jacob hears the music drifting up through the liftshaft and he too ends up wandering up the tunnel when he crosses the wishing well he finds himself tossing in a coin quite against his will and ends up sadly sobbing in the darkness at the unreasonable turn his life has taken. He is snapped back to reason by the terrible cold of his damp feet and the feeling that something wicked this way comes. His feet too painful for him to escape, he waits and finds himself confronted by Damocles. However when the dog draws close he sees fingers emerging from inside its mouth and an eye regarding him from within. The whole situation clearly being competely bonkers, he turns off his torch and tries to wait out this mental breakdown.
He awakens on a mound of earth in a cemetery.
Patrick accepts the offer from Pest of have something on the house. He goes to speak with La Perfumie who offers him the scent of 'success', 'irresistability' and other abstract concepts. He takes a bottle of 'success' to be used within the next three days.
Imogen and Noah try to find out some more about the Pluto club and the bosses that apparently run the joint. They are accosted by Pest who sleazes at them briefly before calling over Patrick who smashes their proffered bottle of vodka and then walks off smugly. When Imogen is inclined to repay this insult, Pest calls in some security and Noah manages to de-escalate before any violence arises. He directs them to speak with Joanne, la perfumier who offers them her wares in exchange for 5k or a mix of 5 days worth of tears, sweat and urine.
Patrick comes home just in time to meet a filthy Jacob and the usual taunting escalates into violence which ends up with Patrick rolling around in agony in a puddle of his own piss.
Drug Notes
"Cocaine" – Patrick
"LSD" – Jenni
"E" – Noah/Imogen


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The U.S. Paralympic cycling team was announced during a ceremony Friday in Augusta, the site of the USA Cycling National Championships.
Among the seven women and six men who will represent the U.S. at the Paralympic Games in London beginning in August are veterans Allison Jones and Muffy Davis.
"It's a huge honor, one like no other," said Jones, a six-time member of the team from Colorado Springs, Colo. "No other woman has made it six times, and to make it back-to-back like this is a big deal for me."
Jones and Davis, of Salt Lake City, are joined by Monica Bascio, of Evergreen, Colo.; Alicia Dana, of Putmey, Vt.; Meg Fisher, of Seattle; Greta Niemanas, of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.; and Jennifer Schuble, of Birmingham, Ala.
Jones' experience could prove key for the team in London. Not only did she win a silver Paralympic cycling medal in 2008, but she also has competed in skiing for the U.S., earning a gold medal in slalom in 2006.
"You just want to do your best," she said. "No predictions. Hopefully, just medals. But I'll work on trial and road races and get prepared to compete."
The six men include Joe Berenyi, of Oswego, Ill.; Steven Peace, of San Diego; Anthony Pedeferi, of Camarillo, Calif.; Clark Rachfal, of Annapolis, Md.; Oz Sanchez, of San Diego; and Anthony Zahn, of Riverside, Calif.
"Hopefully, we will compete and bring home medals," Berenyi said. "Just making it isn't good enough. We want to do well. It's all about competing."
If history is any indication, the team will be competitive. At the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, the U.S. won 14 medals in cycling, including five gold.
Along with the time trials held in Augusta on Thursday, the team was selected based on results from the Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles in February and the Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September.
Among those on the men's team who won titles in Augusta this week are Berenyi, Zahn, Pedeferi and Peace. For the women, Jones, Fisher and Davis won titles in the time trials.
Peace, Sanchez and Schuble are military veterans making their debuts. Berenyi, who is making his Paralympic debut in just his second year of paracycling, won the C3 classification and a time trial event in Spain last week.
"It's a dream come true," he said. "This is still new to me, but I figured I'd give it a shot, and this year I won."
The Paralympic Games will be held Aug. 29-Sept. 9. The time trials for cycling begin Sept. 5.


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A kitchen in Carlton by Hecker Guthrie. Image – Shannon McGrath.
Paul Hecker & Hamish Guthrie have been jointly awarded Interior Designer of the Year 2013 by Belle Magazine, in association with Coco Republic. They took out the award at a glittering function at Coco Republic's Sydney showroom, against fellow nominees Iain Halliday of BKH and Sydney-based architect/interior designer Greg Natale.
Brighton bedroom by Greg Natale. Image – Anson Smart.
Greg Natale won the Residential Interior award, after having been nominated for two projects including a home in Brighton (pictured above). The other nominees were Hecker Guthrie for their Carlton House (pictured at top) and Justine Hugh-Jones for a Sydney home (pictured below).
Sydney harbour home by Justine Hugh-Jones.
We've recently profiled both Hecker Guthrie and Iain Halliday as part of David Clark's Edit. We've also created a Top Australian Interior Designers Pinterest board – visit there for more inspiring Australian interiors.


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Dr. Bernadette Jeffrey
- B.A. Psychology: Washburn University
- MSW: University of Kansas
- Ph.D.: University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work
Dr. Jeffrey's prior assignments in teaching and research:
- Adjunct Faculty, Freshman Seminar Program, Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado, 1989-1991.
- Adjunct Faculty, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1990.
- Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1993-2001.
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA 2001-2004.
- Research Consultant, Office of Child Development, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare 2005-2006.
- Adjunct Professor, CCAC, South Campus, Department of Psychology, Child and Family Studies, 2007-2009.
Prior clinical work experience:
- Senior Clinical Social Worker, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, various locations, 1971-1989.
- Marriage and Family Therapist, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987-1989 and Laurel Heights Hospital, Atlanta, GA, 1988-1989. [Dr. Jeffrey was a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Georgia from 1987-1993 and was a licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW) in Georgia during the same period.
Scholarly Interests
- Race and spirituality
- Gero-rich social work education.
Academic Department(s)
- Department of Social Work
Academic Program(s)
- B.S. Social Work


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Note: For the purposes of this argument, I am assuming that the Brewers will play the Braves in the NLDS with home-field advantage. If that is not the case, than I will adjust accordingly if that situatuion presents itself.
The 2011 playoffs are coming sooner than you think, but who should start where? Should it be Greinke, Marcum, Gallardo, Wolf? Or should we drop Wolf and put him in the bullpen? There are many questions regarding the playoff rotation, and in the Blurb this week, I will examine in a four-part series each of the starters that would be pitching for the Brewers in the postseason (Narveson is not included). Lets start with the number 1 starter in the rotation right now. Zack Grienke
First lets look at his stats.
Overall: 15-6, 3.75 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, Short Starts (Starts less than 5.0 IP): 2, Complete Games: 0, Quality Starts: 19, Bad starts (Gives up more than 5 ER): 4
Home: 10-0, 2.83 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, Short Starts: 0, Complete Games: 0, Quality Starts: 11, Bad Starts: 1
Road: 5-6, 4.70 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, Short Starts: 2, Complete Games: 0, Quality Starts: 8, Bad Starts: 3
Grienke is a different pitcher at home than he is on the road. In the confines of Miller Park, he is an ace, but on the road he's a back of the rotation guy. Or is he? In his last 14 starts (since July 8th) , he has only given up more than 2 ER once (the one exception being the second game of the Pittsburgh doubleheader where he gave up 7 ER in 6.2 IP).
Greinke should start in Game 1 and Game 5 in the NLDS. That would set him up to have two home games, which should equal two victories.


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- External audit: fulfilled by the United Nations Board of Auditors (BoA); and
- Internal audit: fulfilled by the Office of Audit and Investigations (OAI) of UNDP under a Service Level Agreement with UN Women.
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Homers doom D-backs' sweep hopes
PHOENIX — Chase Anderson recovered after struggling early, tossing three scoreless innings.
Once Arizona's rookie right-hander reached the fifth inning, any momentum he had was gone.
Anderson gave up two runs in the first inning and a three-run homer to Yasmani Grandal in the fifth, sending the Diamondbacks to a 7-4 loss to the San Diego Padres on Sunday.
"I kind of lost the feel in that fifth inning. I can't really tell you why," Anderson said. "I felt good, my command and my fastball was coming back in the third and fourth inning — no rhyme or reason. Just have to work on it."
Padres starter Ian Kennedy (10-11) was strong in his return to Chase Field.
The right-hander struggled in his first game back in the desert a year ago, but pitched into the sixth inning and struck out six to beat his former team.
Grandal provided plenty of support, hitting a deep sacrifice fly in the first inning and clearing the wall easily in the fifth with a three-run homer off Anderson (7-6).
Pinch-hitter Will Venable added a two-run homer and Joaquin Benoit worked a perfect ninth for his eighth save to give San Diego manager Bud Black his 600th career win.
"It was a little different my first time, but this time was no different," Kennedy said. "I've been a Padre for over a year now and it kind of goes away."
Arizona fell behind early when the Padres hit Anderson hard and never fully recovered. Cliff Pennington hit a solo homer and Miguel Montero had a two-run single for the Diamondbacks, who went 1 for 6 with runners in scoring position.
"We had opportunities," Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said. "We left 10 guys out there today. They got more of their guys in than we did."
Kennedy pitched at Chase Field for the first time since the trade last Aug. 27, but didn't factor in the decision after allowing six runs on six hits in 4-2/3 innings.
Kennedy was sharp early against the Diamondbacks this time, striking out five the first four innings. He made a couple of pitches he would have liked back in the sixth inning, allowing Arizona to load the bases before Montero lined a two-run single up the middle.
Ender Inciarte chased Kennedy with a run-scoring double in the sixth inning that cut San Diego's lead to 5-3.
Kennedy allowed three runs on eight hits.
"He had really good command today," Gibson said. "His breaking ball and his change-up, he mixed it in good."
Anderson had the shortest outing of his career the last time out, allowing six runs on six hits in two innings of an 8-1 loss to Washington on Tuesday.
The Padres hit the rookie right-hander hard in the first two innings, scoring a pair of runs in the opening frame on (Seth) Smith's groundout and a sacrifice fly by Grandal.
Anderson settled down for a few innings, then walked three in the third to set up Grandal's 11th home, a three-run shot that put the Padres up 5-0.
Anderson allowed five runs — four earned — on six hits and struck out five in five innings.
Black joined select company by becoming the second San Diego manager to win 600 games, though he didn't know about the milestone until he was told after the game.
"It's a tribute to the players, the coaches, the organization," Black said. "It's a round number. I like 601 better."
Black is second on the Padres' all-time list behind the 951 games Bruce Bochy won with San Diego from 1995-2006.
Monetro went 1 for 4 on Sunday, extending his hitting streak against the Padres to nine games. He's 11 for 32 with 10 RBIs in that span and also has a seven-game hitting streak at Chase Field.
Diamondbacks: INF Chris Owings played second base Saturday night while going 2 for 4 at the plate in a rehab game with Triple-A Reno. He has been a shortstop, but the Diamondbacks are taking a look at him playing second.
Padres: LHP Eric Stults, Monday's starter against Milwaukee, has allowed three or fewer earned runs in 10 of his last 11 starts.
Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks have a day off before starting a two-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. RHP Trevor Cahill start on Tuesday after going 2-0 with a 2.33 ERA his past four starts.
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In the last few years, India's carpet exports have spiralled rapidly more than tripling themselves over the seventies and registering a more than tenfold increase in less than three decades of Independence.
One of the earliest civilizations known to man - Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley - is gradually passing through its second, and what may be its final, phase of destruction.
The temple of Lord Jagannath with its bamboo scaffoldings and rythmic sound of hammers and chisels nostalgically carries one back to the days of Konarka when 12,000 masons were trying to carve out music in stone in the neighbourhood of the tremulous sea.
Dr Haertel's excavations at Sonkh continued for eight consecutive years (1966-74), at an immense mound and plateau just eight miles south of the celebrated mount, Govardhan.
The directorate of archaeology and museum in Bihar and the Archaeological Survey of India have recently carried out a large number of excavations in various parts of Bihar.
Recent excavations have once again placed the small town of Mandsaur, 300 km north-west of Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh, on the international map. Better known for being the world's largest opium growing district, this area was the cradle of the famous Aulikar dynasty of the north-west Malava, during the time of Alexander the Great's invasion of India. An archaeological expedition, headed by Dr V.S. Wakankar, has been working on the site since the early fifties. They have unearthed much more than the remains of the Aulikar dynasty.
A few kilometres from Dholpur, an hour's drive from Agra, a recent discovery might well throw new light on Babur's contribution to landscaping. So far, the Ram Bagh in Agra was his only important legacy to India.
The energy and creativity of new private museums offer lessons to public ones.
Forty-four temples in Andhra Pradesh, some of which date back to the 6th century, face submersion by water because of a new dam being built on the River Krishna at Srisailam. The archaeological department in the state finds itself without adequate finance or human resource to preserve the temples.
The princely state that once helped Swami Vivekananda and the Nehrus is witnessing its heritage being torn apart in custody of the government-bit by litigious bit
The Draupadi Trust has taken upon itself the task of preserving the crumbling ruins of Kampil, her legendary birthplace
Rare sculptures may be retrieved with breakthrough in tracing ship that sank in 1885.
Last month when a team of oceanographers sailed from the Thanjavur coast in Tamil Nadu to make a hydrographic survey of Kaveripattinam, the submerged ancient port city of the Chola era, it marked the beginning of a science unexplored in India: marine archaeology.
Accordingly, when Sharma's friend from the US, Dr D.P. Dwarikesh, professor of linguistics at Western Michigan University and an amateur archaeologist, visited India on a sabbatical. Sharma contacted him and passed on the legends and his own suspicions that it could lead to a possible archaeological discovery. This was in 1978 and in November of that year.
Nearly 500 years after the sun set on the fabulous Hindu empire of Vijayanagar in what is now Karnataka, plans are afoot to resurrect the crumbled ruins of this medieval kingdom.
Is the Lanka of Ramayana the Sri Lanka of today? Some archaeologists beg to disagree.
Archaeologists have made one of their biggest finds in central India in recent times. After considerable effort, they have been able to unearth houses, a temple complex and a yagna shala dating back to the first and second century BC at Dangwada, on the bank of the river Chambal, about 30 km from Ujjain.
Archaeologists, as diggers, are constantly at the mercy of the vicissitudes of fortune. A team of the Archaeological Survey of India demonstrated this by its recent discovery of a unique Buddhist icon in Andhra Pradesh.
That trite phrase 'as old as the hills' has suddenly taken on startling significance in relation to a thread that runs through Hindu beliefs: the cult of mother-worship, a veneration of the shakti form that harks back to primeval times.
Lush vegetation in the Thar? Groves of jamun trees? Mighty rivers the size of the Ganga and Indus? Seasons of monsoon-like rainfall? None of this is the fantasy it might appear at first sight.
Three years ago excited archaeologists made one of their biggest hauls in Dangwada, 30 km west of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. Recently, at the very same spot, the earth has again yielded coins, pottery and fresh evidence of houses that push civilisation as far back as 3500 B.C.
An impending battle for possession has shattered the peace of the Delwada temples at Mount Abu, famous the world over for their intricate carvings.
The fabled fort of Golconda, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, is facing one of the most insidious attacks in its 600-year history.
Last fortnight, Tonjis Szoral, assistant director-general of antiquities and museums of Turkey who visited the place, impressed upon the Government of India that Arikamedu was "a very rich site of cultural deposits".
It took eight years of paintstaking work for archaeologist S.R. Rao to excavate the Harappan city of Lothal, 80 km from Ahmedabad, unearthing in the process the first and largest dockyard ever built by any Bronze Age community, 4,000 years ago.
The temple project was designed as a unique operation to salvage history from a watery grave and transplant it intact to more suitable sites.
With the tempo of activity both on the irrigation and the excavation side picking up it will be interesting to see whether and how the conflicting demands of development and preservation of heritage can be safely reconciled.
No other religion has the kind of mystical and ethereal associations as Buddhism. But more than a religion, it is a way of life that seems as timeless and unending as a prayer wheel in motion.
A number of the architectural landmarks that survived decay in Calcutta's heart, Dalhousie Square are now proposed to be partially or completely demolished to make way for high-rise structures.
Where exactly is the ancient city of Kapilavastu, capital of the Sakhya kingdom of Sudhodhana where Buddha spent the first 29 years of his life?
As a place of pilgrimage it ranks with Mecca, Jerusalem, the Vatican, Varanasi and Amritsar. In antiquity it predates them all. But for centuries, Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha a few miles across the India-Nepal border in the terai region of central Nepal, has remained a monument to neglect.
Temples are endangered by encroachment.
Gross neglect famed Elephanta caves seriously.
Ajanta may not be dying yet. But like Venice it is incurably sick. The unique cave paintings of Ajanta and Ellora which, for decades, have awed visitors from all over the world, are rapidly becoming a tragic monument to archaeological neglect.
Nineteenth century pictures recreate grandeur.
Fresh evidence of Harappan industrial skills.
Lal Bagh palace is a crumbling edifice.
A couple of thousand people pay their respects daily at the Kalika temple, atop the nearby Pavagadh hill, but few are tempted to see the splendid medieval ruins.
A unique achievement in restoring paintings.
Architect brings in zany innovations.
Excavations reveal an important Harappan site.
Architectural marvels in Junagadh fall to ravages of time and man, authorities fail to heed signs of decay.
Priceless works sent to festivals abroad return damaged.
Twenty-seven members of the family signed a settlement to divide the fabulously wealthy estate left behind by Fatehsinhrao, the last reigning maharaja who died intestate in 1988.
Recovered epistles reveal Mahatma Gandhi`s charm.


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Atleti spoil Valencia's perfect start
Atletico Madrid spoiled Valencia's perfect start in the late kickoff, holding Unai Emery's side to a 1-1 draw at the Mestalla.
Simao Sabrosa put the visitors ahead in the 19th minute, finishing off an intricate passing move from close range.
Atletico's teenage goalkeeper David De Gea, widely tipped as a possible future replacement for Spain keeper Iker Casillas, protected his side's lead in the second half with a series of fine saves as Valencia pressed for an equaliser.
The 19-year-old was finally beaten in the 83rd when Aritz Aduriz headed in a hanging cross from David Albelda.
Valencia are level with Real on 10 points, fourth-placed Atletico have seven and Sevilla have a chance to go joint top with Real and Valencia with a win at home to Racing Santander on Thursday.
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