text: The Features – Clark Gable (Gone With the Wind – 1939) – Zachary Quinto & Chris Pine (Star Trek– 2009) –Jean Reno & Natalie Portman (Leon the Professional – 1994) – Brad Pitt (Fight Club – 1999) – Dennis Hopper (Mad Dog Morgan – 1976) – Jason Mewes & Kevin Smith (Clerks – 1994) – Cameron Diaz & Abigail Breslin (My Sister's Keeper – 2009) – Sasha Barton Cohen & friend (Bruno – 2009) The Prices Click on the Amazon price to buy from Amazon and support HTF SD-DVD TITLE Amazon BestBuy Target Costco 7th Heaven: Season 9 $22.99 $34.99 Andy Barker, PI: Complete Series $18.99 $19.99 The Art of Love (1983) $26.99 Best of Monk $14.99 $14.99 Best of Star Trek - TOS: Volume 2 $8.99 $12.99 Best of Star Trek - Next Generation: Volume 2 $8.99 $12.99 Blue Seduction $14.99 $14.99 Bruno $16.99 $15.99 $16.99 $18.99 Daniel Boone: Best of Mingo $17.99 $14.99 Daniel Boone: Fess' Favorites $17.99 $14.99 Darwin's Darkest Hour $12.99 $14.99 Downhill Racer (CC) $19.99 $24.99 Elvis Costello - Spectacle: Season 1 $44.99 $44.99 The Exiles $24.99 $24.99 Farscape: Complete Series $104.99 $129.99 Food Beware: French Organic Revolution $22.49 $19.99 Franklyn $15.99 $24.99 Gone With the Wind (70th Anniv. 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The Specials --The usual price discrepancies, this week, between the Best Buy flyer and bestbuy.com on a number of new release titles . So, if you are thinking of picking up a title at your local store, you MAY want to consider doing a purchase on BB.com and an in-store pickup. Those discrepancies range from $1 to $5. --Best Buy, this week, has some major DOORBUSTER PRICES for the new Star Trek release. Be at Best Buy for the first two hours of business on November 17 and the following prices are in effect: Star Trek DVD (1-disc): $12.99 Star Trek DVD (2-disc): $20.99 Star Trek (Blu-ray) (3-disc): $20.99 Star Trek (Blu-ray) LE Gift Set: $36.99 Stores with midnight openings will have Doorbuster pricing for BOTH the midnight opening and the first two regular business hours on November 17, 2009. Go to bestbuy.com/startrek for participating stores with midnight hours. --Best Buy also has an EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY GIFT SET of the new Star Trek release for $39.99. 3-disc Blu-ray set with digital copy and four replica Starfleet Division Badges as worn by the USS Enterprise Command Crew. Minimum 6 per store. No rainchecks. --Also at Best Buy, bargain prices on the Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection ($64.99) and the Star Trek: Next Generation Motion Picture Collection ($44.99). --PRE-ORDER District 9 @ BB on Blu-ray or DVD and get EXCLUSIVE FREE DOG TAGS and LITHOGRAPH. $5 deposit is required. Pre-order in-store or go to bestbuy.com/movies. Available on Blu-ray and DVD 12-29-09. --Also at Best Buy, there's a number of good deals on various seasons of TV Shows on DVD. --The following blu-ray titles are on sale at Best Buy: $9.99: Terminator 3, Stargate. $14.99: 2010. $17.99: Independence Day, X-Men, X2, X-Men 3. $19.99: Apocalypto, ST: Wrath of Khan, ST: Voyage Home, ST: Our Undiscovered Country, ST: First Contact, 300, Wanted. $24.99: Galaxy Quest, Death Race. --Best Buy Odds and Ends: Best Buy is advertising a bunch of holiday DVDs and Blu-ray discs on sale. --Target, this week, has EXCLUSIVE PACKAGING OF STAR TREK this week. Only at Target! Star Trek 2-disc deluxe DVD ($26.99) and 3-disc deluxe Blu-ray ($29.99) each with limited edition packaging that transforms into a replica of the USS Enterprise. --Target also has an EXCLUSIVE VERSION OF GONE WITH THE WIND ON BLU-RAY. $34.99 No other details are listed in the ad about the release. --Target also has a FREE $10 TARGET GIFTCARD when you buy BOTH It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Very Sunny Christmas DVD AND any previous version (1-4) of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Must be purchased on same receipt. Quantities limited. No rainchecks. Terms and conditions apply to Giftcards. --Target continues to advertise Twilight on DVD & Blu-ray. E-Movie cash offer for the Twilight Saga: New Moon in the various incarnations of Twilight: Twilight (Standard DVD): $17.99 Twilight (Exclusive 3-disc DVD): $22.99 Twilight (Exclusive 2-disc Blu-ray): $24.99 Up to a $7.50 value, at participating theaters only. Offer expires 1-20-2010. 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VIRGINIA WATER England (Reuters) - Justin Rose will be returning the U.S. Open trophy he won at Merion last year hoping it comes back to him again and he wants to boost his title defense with a first victory at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week.
Since becoming the first Englishman to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970, Rose has made the most of the trophy in his possession, showing it off when he can, and even letting his son eat ice cream out of it.
"I think it gets FedEx'ed after this week," Rose told reporters on Wednesday. "It's time to think about winning it now.
"About a week or two ago I put it on the dresser that we have in our bedroom. I thought, we're getting to the last few weeks I'm going to really stride and enjoy it now.
"Leo ate some ice cream out of it. He was the first to christen the trophy. I had not even had a drink but he had some ice cream out of it and we got some great video, I think will last a lifetime, and some great memories. It holds five bottles of champagne, just FYI."
With the US Open due to start at Pinehurst on June 12, Rose is aware that defending his title will be no easy feat having never swung a club at the re-developed North Carolina course.
But the world number eight, who said his preparation would be similar to that of Merion a year ago, does not believe his lack of Pinehurst experience would be a disadvantage as the tournament was last hosted there in 2005.
"I've never played Pinehurst, and I think guys who played in 2005 won't have as much of an advantage because of the course re-design," continued the 33-year-old.
"There was a lot of rough in 2005, fairways were narrow, typically USPGA-style fairways. But this year, it's going to play I think more of a running game, almost a mix between U.S. Open and an Open Championship, I'm led to believe.
"I had not been to Merion at this stage last year so my preparation is going to be very similar. I'm going to head up to the venue the week before, spend some time, get to know the golf course, and put a game-plan in place."
As a youngster, the South-African born Rose honed his skills on courses near his Hampshire home, not far from Wentworth, and after finishing tied fourth at the Players Championship earlier this month, Rose would like to add the European Tour's flagship event to his ever-growing list of accomplishments.
"It's a bucket list tournament for me as I've sort of been saying the last couple of days," Rose, who will accompany Lee Westwood and defending champion Matteo Manassero in a threeball at Wentworth on Thursday, added.
"It's a tournament I grew up watching as a kid so it's definitely special to me; the Majors, a World Golf Championships or two possibly, and I don't see a tournament I wouldn't more like to win."
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The state of Queensland has got an alien thorny invader: Prickly acacia, or in scientific terms Acacia nilotica subspecies nilotica.
Prickly acacia is a shrub or small tree which belongs to the plant family Leguminosae, subfamily Mimosoideae, a family which also accommodates the sensitive plant Mimosa pudica, well-known as a curiosity house plant. The prickly invader A. nilotica is native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent and was introduced from India into Australia in the late 1890s. Originally imported as an ornamental, A. nilotica ssp. indica was later widely used as a shade and fodder tree for sheep. But what was initially a valued addition to the Australian flora soon became a menace. When the grazing regime in Australia changed from predominantly sheep to cows and the country also experienced a number of successive wet years, the balance swung in the favour of prickly acacia. The thorny shrub spread quickly and has now invaded around six million hectares of arid and semi-arid land in the State of Queensland. Acacia nilotica ssp. indica is also present in the Northern Territory as well as in Western Australia. Due to its substantial impact on the environment as well as on the economy, particularly on the livestock industry, prickly acacia was initially declared a noxious weed in Queensland in 1957. Subsequently the plant has also been listed as a "Weed of National Significance" for the whole of Australia. And Australians have every reason to be worried, as the prickly invader has got the potential to spread throughout the arid regions of the whole of northern Australia.


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Maui Kitesurfing is dependant on the FAA Waiver which allows kiteboarding on Maui's north Shore within the FAA controlled Airport Zone.
Under the responsibilities of the waiver, the waiver holder has a duty to inform the public of the waiver's conditions, and rules that apply to kiteboarders, and meet regularly with the FAA and Water Safety and governing bodies to discuss any issues or conflicts.
The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) controls the Airspace within a 5 mile radius of all major US airports.
The FAA has regulations that specifically relate to and address kite flying, and forbid particular kiting activities within the 5mile zone.
The FAA has issued a conditional Waiver that allows some restricted kiteboarding activities, within certain areas.
Without this FAA Waiver, all kiteboarding would be banned within a five mile radius of the Kahului Airport (OGG).
It is in the interests of all kiteboarders to respect these rules and to inform other kiteboarders. Always follow the directives of the Lifeguards, Rangers and DLNR.
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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 695067, 21 pages
Preliminary Analysis on the Global Features of the NCEP CFSv2 Seasonal Hindcasts
Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-090 SP, Brazil
Received 26 June 2013; Revised 12 October 2013; Accepted 24 October 2013; Published 19 January 2014
Academic Editor: Klaus Dethloff
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The representation of the CFSv2 ocean-atmosphere ensemble hindcasts is investigated during Dec-Jan-Feb (DJF) and Jun-Jul-Aug (JJA) from 1983 to 2010. The skill anomaly correlations showed that in some continents the forecasts do not have dependency with changes in the initial conditions. Also, in both seasons the model has a higher skill at the 0-month lead time with the largest spatial biases occurring over the North America, South America, and Oceania. Over the continents the largest biases in the nonlinearity of El Niño minus La Niña events are found over the eastern South Africa, part of Oceania, and central-southeastern parts of South America. During DJF the main biases are related to double-ITCZ, strengthening of SPCZ, and deepening of the Aleutian and Icelandic low pressures. The simulation of a warmer SST on the eastern of most austral oceans, the strengthening (weakening) of the Subtropical (Polar) Jet over the Southern Hemisphere, and the weakening of the zonal circulation near the Antarctic continent are also found in both seasons. Over the central-eastern Equatorial Pacific a cooler bias in SST is found during JJA. These biases are interpreted by analyses of the simulated global mean-state and their impact on the main patterns of variability.


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A man suspected of robbing the same Hillcrest bank twice and of attempting to rob a Jack in the Box in the neighborhood in the past week was arrested Thursday when he returned to the fast-food restaurant, police said.
Shawn Dustin Page, 30, was taken into custody at the Jack in the Box on University Avenue, near Eighth Avenue, said San Diego police Lt. Andra Brown.
He is suspected of robbing the Wells Fargo bank on Cleveland Avenue near University Avenue on Feb. 24 and again on Tuesday, she said. In the second robbery, he lifted his shirt to show a handgun tucked into his waistband, Brown said.
Page is also suspected in the attempted robbery at Jack in the Box about 6:10 p.m. on Wednesday. A would-be robber demanded cash from an employee, but left after the employee told him that he was unable to find the key to open the register.
On Thursday, police detectives were at the Jack in the Box for a follow-up on an unrelated investigation when the manager informed the detectives that the suspect had entered the restaurant. Surveillance video confirmed he was the suspect, Brown said.
Page also matched the description of the suspect in the Wells Fargo robberies, Brown said.
Police detectives, in cooperation with the FBI, arrested Page on two robbery counts and one attempted robbery count. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in San Diego Superior Court.
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Topeka State and federal investigators are looking into whether a racial profiling task force and two sister committees misused public funds on elaborate trips and town hall meetings.
The Wichita Eagle reports Sunday that it reviewed expenses of the Governor's Task Force on Racial Profiling, the Kansas African American Affairs Commission and the Kansas Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission.
Among its findings was that officials with those groups spent $10,000 on a town hall meeting featuring $1,400 in steak dinners, $3,200 in refreshments and a four-piece band. The newspaper also found that two companies were paid more than $36,000 for work on a website that never went online, and speaking fees of up to $750 an hour to address small groups.
Much of the questionable spending was in 2009.
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Four seasons within a life
A time of treasured bliss
For one he can't imagine
A better life than this.
He arises through the seeds of spring
Unaware of what lies ahead
Shall he worry? Let him not,
And let him play instead.
Arose of passion from the heat
Of summer's young romance
He dares to leap and woo the heart
For love he takes the chance.
Mature and wise of autumn times
The man once a seed
A goal and life to support
And brand new mouths to feed.
The bitter cold of winter air
The memories he shall keep
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I WISH THEY WOULD BRING THIS BACK!!! This is my go-to lipstick in the summer, as it is almost creamy and hydrates my lips but NEVER. EVEN.BUDGES., even in super-high heat and humidity. Bonus: it feels cool going on, which I can't explain, but when it's hot outside, is a wonderful surprise. The color is a medium purple-mauve color which looks great with my slightly tanned fair skin. I also love this in Buff and Bare, and as stated before, I wish Revlon would bring this back...it is genius!
Revlon's Moisturestay Lipcolor is so close to being a wonderful product, but just misses the mark. The biggest complaint was the lipcolor is not long lasting which is my number one desire in a lipcolor. I do not want to have to reapply my lipcolor every ten minutes. The best part of this product was the shade and it compared beautifully against my pale skin.
I really do love the color of this lipstick. It also lasts for a really long time. The price is drug-store, but the package says high end. The only con is that after wearing for an hour or so, it starts to have a weird, crumbly texture on my lips. Definitely would recommend if you're looking for long lasting lipstick.
I liked the way this lipstick glided on, but I didn't care for its longevity. The shades available are nice, but not what I was really looking for. The price is a bit high (especially if purchased at Walgreen's) and I've found that I can get the same quality, in more shades from Maybelline with almost 20% less cost.
I enjoyed the various color options with the moisturestay lipcolor and had a good experience with the length that the color stayed on, but I was disappointed with how it left my lips feeling dried out and cracked after application. There are some other products that I would reach for first in the future.
I borrowed this from my mother when I was helping her pick out a great makeup combination, and I thought there was a lot of moisture and a lot of pigmentation. I do not like very strong pigmentations, so I am not a fan of this lipstick, but for other women, such as my mother, they would love it.
The color I got was way too dark but that was my fault. However the lip color does stay on but it kind of feels really dry and tacky afterwards. It was a few years ago that I tried it so the formula might have changed since then. I think it would probably be worth a second shot
Revlon's moisture is my favorite, i have dry mouth condition and i need all the moisture i can get for my lips. It is a nice soft lipstick; I receive many complments about my lips and colors. I have been using Revlon lipstick for years. I do reccomend this lipstick to others.
I love this because i have dry skin and my lips are always needing hydration. So to find a lipstick that allows my to have moisture is great. The only drawback is the smell. They smelled like sunscreen. I didn't mind to much but it could be a problem if you dont like to smell
This is the best shade of red. It doesn't have an orange, or pink, or blue tones in it. It is a true red color. My only complaint is that it does need to be reapplied a few times a day. If I could find this color in a long last formula, it would be the perfect red lipstick.
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Henri Bendel will welcome Palm Beach vintage jewelry dealer House of Lavande, and a trunkload of its couture collection for the first time. The glittering line of vintage one-of-a-kinds will be unveiled Thursday, then go on sale the following weekend.
Designer Erin Fetherston and Stylist Veronika Borchers will join in the festivities to launch the exhibit on Thursday, whose rockstar pieces include a nearly $6K crystal bib necklace by Pauline Trigere and Givenchy's late-1970s purple-and-blue marbled resin heart necklace going for $948.
Even if couture costume jewels aren't in your buying budget, sounds like they'll sure put on quite the show to just see.
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Author James Houston will speak as the Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer for 2008 at the Joe Crowley Student Union theater on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. Houston will also be signing books after his talk.
Houston is a fiction and non-fiction writer who has penned 17 books including "Snow Mountain passage" a highly praised novel about the Donner Party from the point of view of leader James Frazier Reed and his daughter Patty. He also co-authored a memoir with his wife Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston titled "Farewell to Manzanar," a story chronicling the Wakatsuki family's experiences in the American government's internment camps during World War II.
Houston was chosen to be the sixth Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer for his experience in writing and his varied experience in non-fiction and fiction. This experience mirrors Robert Laxalt's literary legacy in journalism, memoir, non-fiction and fiction, says Warren Lerude, journalism professor and member of the program's board.
"We wanted to get somebody who has the same literary charisma as Bob Laxalt," Lerude said.
At the ceremony, Houston will receive a medallion that will be presented by Laxalt's daughter Monique Laxalt, an author and attorney practicing in the Reno area.
The Reynolds School of Journalism, which hosts the Distinguished Writer Program, invites members of the University community as well as the local community to Houston speak.
"This brings role models here where students can meet with them and learn through their literary skill," Lerude said.
He said bringing renowned writers and reporters to the University serves not only honor Laxalt's memory but also to inspire young and up and coming writers at the University and within the larger community.
"We want to honor Robert Laxalt's legacy in writing," Lerude said. "And we wanted to contribute to new generations of writers by bringing top writers here in Bob Laxalt's name to visit new generations and to encourage writing on a globally celebrated basis."
The annual Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer Program began in 2004 as a way to commemorate Robert Laxalt's memory as a writer and reporter. Laxalt was the author of the memoir "Sweet Promised Land," and the novella "A Cup of Tea in Pamplona." Laxalt was also the director of News and Publications at the University, helped found the University of Nevada Press and the Center for Basque Studies at the University.


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Acer unveiled the Aspire S7 ultrabook to UK and European press at a touch-themed Windows 8 event at the Science Museum, Kensington, on 30 October 2012.
Following the MacBook Air template again, two models of Aspire S7 with either 11in or 13in screen were on show.
But breaking cleanly away from Apple's much-copied ultraportable, the Acer Aspire S7 will include a touch-sensitive screen.
We took a brief look at the Acer Aspire S7-191, the 11.6in display version.
It's a thin design, especially in the main body section, with a lid making up almost half the total thickness when closed. Acer says this model is 12.2mm thick, a figure we'll be checking when we get a sample to review.
That lid outer looks like brushed metal, and feels relatively strong too, so even though the white body below is plastic there's still a sense of sturdiness to the laptop's construction.
Acer Aspire S7-191, a thin ultraportable with touch-sensitive IPS display
The display is a high-resolution IPS type, a full-HD panel of 1920 x 1080 pixels squeezed into a comparatively small 16:9 LCD. In contrast to the cheap screens that Acer has long been fitting to its notebooks, this in-plane switching panel looked to have better colour accuracy and much more usable viewing angles.
When we found Windows 8's Desktop, we discovered on-screen Windows elements were tiny. And touch control here was very difficult because of the difficulty in pressing minute buttons with normal fingers. Not impossible, but we had to jab several times to make windows close, for instance.
Back in the interface formerly known as Metro, it was a simpler job to swipe and tap at the bigger touch-friendly tiles.
Inside the Acer Aspire S7-191 we noted an Intel Core i5-3317U processor, the entry-level 1.7GHz ultra-low voltage chip used by the 11.6in MBA and many other ultrabooks. There was 4GB of memory, and storage is said to be available as either 128GB or 256GB – and curiously, listed as RAID 0. This may be using the same trick as the Aspire S5, which striped together two smaller SSDs to increase performance.
The keyboard is backlit and has keys with very minimal travel. And the trackpad follows the MacBook example, a large and buttonless design.
Patent-pending is how Acer describes its TwinAir internal cooling system. An Acer spokesman described how air is drawn in one side at the rear by one fan,r and vented out through another fan on the other side. How this differs from an identical-sounding twin-fan setup in the 15in MacBook Pro, for example, was not explained.
To get around a new problem for Windows 8 laptops, that of the screen folding back when you attempt to touch the screen, Acer has a dual torque hinge design. We were able to open the lid from closed with one finger, and as the screen approached the vertical, friction in the hinge increased. With the display perpendicular, it was possible to touch the screen without the display folding back further.
Acer's Oliver Ahrens (Senior Corp Vice President & President EMEA Operations) announced to the press that the 11in version was available now while the 13in version will launch in December.
That 'now' availablity may be a little optimistic. We can't find anyone selling it anywhere right now, nor even an expected delivery date. Microsoft has a webpage that showcases various PCs running its new OS, but the best it can find for this particular laptop is 'come back soon—we can't wait either!'.
Acer Aspire S7-191: Specs
It's obviously too soon to give a verdict on the Acer Aspire S7-191 since we held it in our hands for less than five minutes. When we get a sample we'll be verifying its weights and measures, its performance, and how well it straddles the divide between 'lightweight' and 'flimsy'.


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When Pinkalicious loses a tooth, it's not just any tooth - it's her sweet tooth! Suddenly, candy no longer tastes sweet! With her pinkatastic pen, Pinkalicious writes a note to the Tooth Fairy and tucks it under her pillow - only to hear from Cupid, the Easter Bunny, and a Christmas elf instead. It is not until the Tooth Fairy finally responds - and works some magic - that Pinkalicious discovers where sweetness really comes from.
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One of the newest Android tablets on the block is the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet. Here's all you need to know about the Xperia Z2 Tablet release date, price and specs in the UK.
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The Sony Xperia Store has the Xperia Z2 Tablet listed as 'Coming Soon' but you can pre-order the device. The site states that 'Deliveries expected to start at beginning of March' for Wi-Fi-only models and 'early April' for the 4G version.
If you pre-order the Xperia Z2 Tablet from Sony you'll get a Magnetic Charging Dock DK39 worth £39 for free. Simply put both products into your basket and the discount will be automatically deducted when you checkout.
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The Xperia X2 Tablet is available in two different colours from Sony – black and white – and there are three different models to choose from.
At its cheapest, the Xperia Z2 Tablet matches the iPad Air at £399. That gets you the 16GB Wi-Fi-only model but if you want more storage then the 32GB version costs £449.
The most expensive edition of the Xperia Z2 Tablet is £499 and comes with 16GB and 4G LTE mobile connectivity.
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Viraat is very furious that they lost a golden opportunity to oust Barkha. He tells Maheshwari that she should have not supported Barkha, but Maheshwari tells Viraat that it is good for them to support Barkha. Later, Radhika suggests to Dev that they should do something to cure Barkha. Dev feels good to know that Radhika still cares for Barkha. The next day, Balram tells Padma that he knows one witch doctor, known for his rare abilities of exorcising evil spirits. Barkha gets tense and tells everyone that she does not need any sort of treatment, but no one listens to her. Maheshwari finds it a golden opportunity to get rid of Barkha as well as Radhika. Since she believes that Radhika is a ghost, she feels that the witch doctor will get rid of Radhika, and at the same time, Barkha's secret that she murdered Radhika, will also be exposed. Finally, it is decided that the witch doctor should be called and Viraat is entrusted with the job. Later, Barkha meets Maheshwari and gives her the address of a fake witch doctor. She then asks her to call Viraat and tell him to bring the fake one. Maheshwari unwillingly obliges to Barkha's orders, but the minute she leaves, Maheshwari sends a message to Viraat to bring the real witch doctor.
Choti Bahu is the love saga of two soul mates Dev and Radhika.
Radhika, a Brahmin by birth, was adopted and brought up by a family of weavers in a small town called Rawal. Dev, whose family has been in the service of Rajpurohits for generations, visits Rawal as a child on the occasion of Radhashtami. Dev and Radhika meet each other and become good friends. Radhika and Dev's families tie them in the bond of marriage in their tender age.
Maheshwari (played by Pragati Mehra), the eldest bahu of the Purohits, hopes to inherit Dadaji's property. However, her plans hit a snag when Maheshwari realizes that Dadji has willed all his property is in the name of Choti Bahu.
Undeterred, Maheshwari decides to find a docile girl for Rohan (played by Apurva Agnihotri). Maheshwari plans to own the property by controlling and manipulating the Choti Bahu and to this end chooses Radhika for Rohan. Destiny brings Dev and Radhika together after 15 years, when he returns to Rawal after 15 years to find out about Radhika, Rohan's bride.
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Auhor: Romesh Gunesekera
Publication; Pages: Bloomsbury, 390 pages
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Auhor: Romesh Gunesekera
Publication; Pages: Bloomsbury, 390 pages
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It appears as a misshapen footprint on the bald head of Adam's Peak in the island paradise of Sri Lanka. Depending on who is telling the story, it marks the entry of the first man as he was tossed out of paradise, or the last imprint of the Buddha.
Some people will tell you that it's the mark of Satan as he tumbled in all his flaming magnificence from the heavens, the dark side of the human DNA made manifest on earth. It's this aspect of humanity that haunts Romesh Gunesekera's tale of ugly lusts and intangible longings set in the earthly paradise of the island of Mauritius in the year 1825.
The island is at the crossroads of the trade routes, no less than that of history. 1825 is the year when, as Gunesekera explains, a Kandyan prince named Ehelopola was sent in exile to Mauritius with a small band of helpers. The prince's own morose acceptance of his fate from the Kandyan highlands to the suffocating atmosphere of Mauritius comprising a combustible mix of colonials, both French and British, planters, merchants and indentured sugar-cane workers brought from India, slaves and native servants, forms one strand of the story.
It allows Gunesekera to introduce Don Lambodar, an educated Sri Lankan, (or Ceylonese) who as his name suggests not only has a complex parentage - he is described as a Tamil Moor with a father who traded in bonded labour, until he was cut down, perhaps by his own people, but who has the advantage of an English education to set his mind free. Or at least, free enough to be able to sip at the high table of liberal European thinking while also questioning the reality that separates the subjugated races from that of the rulers. He is Gunesekera's 'coconut-cream soldier' : brown on the outside, white inside. We see him fumbling his way through the colonial drawing rooms, sipping tea in the prescribed manner and falling in love with an English woman, Lucy Gladwell, lately arrived from England, who is painted in the palest of colours, a Victorian heroine with a love of both Keats and Lala Rookh.
She could have walked out of the pages of Mrs Henry Wood though it's doubtful if Mrs Wood would have sanctioned her championing the cause of the native servants who have been so well trained by her aunt Betty Huyton at their English estate at Ambleside - their little piece of paradise - or her un-spoken feelings for Lambodar. These come to a pitch only after the crisis that Gunesekera has been fermenting through the parallel narratives of the novel, erupts as relentlessly as the rag-tag band of humanity surrounding them try to mutiny against their captors.
Gunesekera has deployed his characters so that they detonate with precision. When he trains his guns, however, on an empurpled past we must wonder: is he a colonial manquê?


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FIVE years after putting his clubs away and heading for London for a new chapter in his life, Michael Skelton has his bag back out and is ready to pursue his golfing dreams again.
As a teenager he played a major role in the Walker Cup triumph at Ganton in 2003 and he can boast winning the Welsh Amateur, the McGregor Trophy and representing England regularly on his golf CV.
But after missing out on an Open spot in qualifying 2009, he decided to give it all up until 18 months ago when he returned to the tee-box with his friends and he has worked his way back to a professional standard.
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Yesterday he started final qualifying for the EuroPro Tour at Frilford Heath, which effectively guarantees him a spot on this year's schedule regardless of his positioning. The higher up his finishes tomorrow's final round will determine how highly he is categorised.
Either way, though, Skelton has big ambitions. Will it take him long for his game to settle back in to the Tour routine? "I honestly don't know. We will see. I know I can chip, I know I can putt, it's just about my mind and how I adjust again," he said.
"I have a plan behind me and from the experiences I have had through business I am going to try to apply that to my golf. I have a team around me now which I didn't have before and it's time for my theories to be tested.
"With my team around me, I have an aim, a main aim. That is to be in the world's top 50 within the next seven years. That's by season 2020-21. It's a big aim, it's tremendously ambitious. I know that."
As ambitious as it may seen, there is no doubting Skelton has ability to graduate on to the European Tour scene. His previous achievements illustrate the level he has attained, so at the age of 29 he is looking to succeed on the professional stage.
"My whole golfing journey has been an incredible ride," said Skelton, who plays out of Middlesbrough Brass Castle these days. "My highs have been really high and my lows have been really low. Hopefully this decision to go back on to the pro scene will be another exciting ride."
The professional stage was where Skelton found things difficult last time and it resulted in him heading to London to try something different.
"I was in my mid-20s and all I knew was golf, I wanted to experience other things because I didn't want to be just stuck on one thing," said Skelton. "I was working in fashion, e-commerce. I enjoyed living in London and I suddenly had the money coming in, which I had not had as a professional golfer.
"When I was playing golf I had no money, no plans, I just got on with it. I have a coach, a physio, investors with me now, and it's about getting out and doing it."
When Skelton was shining as an amateur he had opportunities to turn pro when he was at his best. He chose to delay it and, with hindsight, he thinks that could have been a mistake.
"I was on an upward curve when I was 19 and maybe I should have turned pro then when I had the momentum," said Skelton. "It's easy to say that now, though, when I look back.
"But I am going back in to it this time with a clearer plan, I didn't really have anything in mind when I was younger, you don't, you just want to play golf and don't care about anything else.
"I know it's going to be hard. The EuroPro Tour is not an easy tour at all. It's alright for those golfers who are in the top two every week, but it's a good tour to be involved in.
"But the world is built for winners. If you are not in the upper echelons of whatever you are doing then you will be struggling. That's what I'm going to be pushing for this year to try to get to the European Tour."


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Starside kicks-off community garden
April 11, 2010
Starside Elementary School is known for its environmentally friendly initiatives that have developed green-minded students. And with the school's new community garden, they'll have the thumbs to match.
On Saturday, more than 20 students, teachers and community members gathered in front of the school to begin an organic community garden.
"All of the kids were really excited about it," Chelsea Johnson, first grade teacher, said. "They all want to be a part of it."
Saturday morning's goal was to get the six lasagna gardens ready for the assortment of vegetables that were going to be planted. Lasagna gardening is a no-dig, no-till organic gardening method that results in rich, fluffy soil with very little work Paula Henderson, school counselor, said.
The layers included newspaper, barn litter (manure), compost, peat moss, yard clippings and ash in varying amounts.
Inside the six beds, the volunteers planted, or will plant, onions, green onions, radishes, peas, potatoes, asparagus, broccoli, spinach, peppers and jalapeños. Once these vegetables are picked, they will be donated to the Multi-Service Center.
Henderson said the school's Earth Keepers, a group that meets after school on Thursday's, will mainly be responsible for the garden's care.
"These kids are so excited," Henderson said. "If you ask these kids who wants to go out to the library and they all do."
She said some of the regular maintenance for the kids will be pulling weeds and watering if necessary.
Another amenity of the new garden will be the new sunflower learning center. The center will be a small classroom next to the garden where the walls will be made out of 10-foot tall sunflowers.
Cate Weese and her dad Jason Weese helped make the classroom Saturday.
"I think it will be pretty cool," she said.
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Yellow Medicine East and Morris Area fought through the mud to the tune of 268 total yards of offense, but the Sting made the most of five Tigers turnovers and prevailed 20-6 in West Central South Conference football action Wednesday in Granite Falls.
Tyler Sand scored two touchdowns on runs of 15 and seven yards, finishing with 61 yards on 16 carries for the Sting. Mason Hegna recovered a fumble on the last play of the game and returned it nine yards for a touchdown.
Eric Riley scored the Tigers' only touchdown on a one-yard run in the third quarter to tie the game at 6-6.
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She took Twitter as a media to say that she is not a pregnant.
The pregnancy rumors began swirling in the internet after a Virginia radio station falsely reported the news that she was a pregnant.
"FYI ….Brandon & I are getting married & no I am not pregnant. We are eloping for one reason only. We both want an intimate ceremony," Kelly tweeted.
However the rumors seems to be realistic because earlier this week, Kelly announced that she had decided to cancel the plans for big wedding and wants to elope instead.
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Prior to installing 3.4.2019 this worked fine: [ RegisterBefore(UDP.Dhcp, CIP, 41794) ]
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Thanks for your interests in creating parsers using NPL. Could you please try:
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I've been to the doctors about 5/6 times now. On first appointment, I was told to wait a month, see if my pain died down and then come back. I did, the pain got worse, nothing helpful or good came out of it.
On my second appointment, the doctor poked my stomach around, I explained how the pains were in my left abdomen, that I noticed mucus in my stools and had sore pains in the morning/night. I was told to give it another 2 weeks and come back if it was still there. He asked if I was stressed, I said no, I'm at university, 18 years old, no stress in my life, no issues that would cause stress.
I went back in 2 weeks and I saw another doctor, she said it could be IBS after I said it was getting worse, she prescribed me Mebeverine and Fexofenadine (for my hayfever). She said to take them for 2 weeks, then come back and see if they're helping. I've only been taking them a week and my symptoms are getting worse.
I've had what looks like plastic lining in my stools, more mucus, inconsistencies, some are clumped together, some are small, lots of small droplets, most recent was very dark with a large lining sheet inside the stool, the largest it's been. I see food that hasn't been digested (such as pea's) and the pains are now all throughout the day.
To make it more odd, I am a homosexual, my partner has also now started to have similar problems, he is seeing mucus in his stools. Previous to this, my partner had worms, on a first occasion, we took a Mebendazole tablet, then and I stayed for a week in his house and my partner (weeks on) still had irritation around his anus and worms in his stools, so we both took a worming tablet, again Mebendazole. I have already done a urine test (for Chlamydia), a blood test and a stool sample, which all came back as okay; I was puzzled how my stool samples came back normal, I have taken many photos, all showing them not okay (I can provide, if somebody wants to see what I'm attempting to describe).
Me and my partner were both virgins and did have unprotected sex, but should I be worried about something? I was planning on going back the doctors and explaining this, saying how my partner is having the same symptoms and pains (except he has constipation, bloating, bad wind) whilst I do not.
From the pains, I tend not to eat a large breakfast, I rarely have lunch and I only have my main meal. Could this be IBS (a fluke for both of us to have it) or an intestinal bacterial infection, shall I repeat a stool sample?
I strongly appreciate all help, I have had this for what I can remember being the best part of 5 months, at least.
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Hello and welcome to e health forum.
From the history it does seem that you might be having Irritable bowel syndrome.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic functional disorder characterized by cramping abdominal pain or discomfort with alterations in bowel habits (bloating, constipation, and diarrhea). These symptoms usually are present for at least 12 weeks in a patient during the previous one year, and unfortunately the onset or subsidence cannot be predicted.
IBS is diagnosed by its signs and symptoms and by the absence of other diseases. IBS does not cause any permanent damage or any serious illness but the symptoms cause severe discomfort & distress affecting an individuals work, ability to travel and attend social events.
Most symptoms of IBS can be controlled with diet, stress management, and prescribed medications (laxatives, antidiarrheals, antispasmodics, or antidepressants).
For symptom relief, you may consider to take antacids for acid relief, activated charcoal for bloating and stomach gas issues.
You may consider to consult your physician or a gastroenterologist for counselling if you have any additional doubts.
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severe cramping in my stomach, mucus in stools
hello, since saturday morning ive been having the same problems, waves of intense cramping in my abdomen which makes me double up in pain, my stools have consisted in small pellets like a rabbits with alot of mucus, ive never had problems with my bowels before, and for the last 3 days im constantly on the toilet yet nothing really comes out besides the above, my stomach is tender when i touch it, and i get a sharp pain if i bend over etc
i recently bought a shih tzu puppy who sometimes eats his own stools if i dont catch him in time, could this be some kinda of germ or parasite from him? altho i wash my hands thoroughly everytime i clean up after him but i remember on friday night i had some friends round and i did forget to wash my hands.
any help or advise would be great thanks as i didnt get a wink of sleep last night through the pains.
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'The Global Soul' is not my favourite Pico Iyer book (though he is a favourite anyway) mostly because I couldn't connect to three out of its six chapters. I picked up the book because, in addition to it being a Pico book, it was about a subject that has fascinated me for a while now – the concept of 'home'. This, in a multicultural world whose corporate citizens are rapidly making sure that 'Everywhere is made up of everywhere else..' I remember writing about this almost three years ago, in the context of another travel book and my visit to what I still consider home – Cochin. It was evoked by the presence of the same brands that I might see in a mall in Bangalore, the disappearance of familiar landmarks, and the residents referring to new landmarks that I really didn't know of. It is perhaps unfair to expect that even as I changed, the idea of home would remain a constant. Maybe I will get used to that in a while too.
I had wondered whether, in our pursuit of convenience and familiarity, we might end up creating a homogeneous world. Now I wonder if we might be one of the last generations to live in a truly heterogeneous world, as, in addition to the corporate imperialism, culture also becomes the most exported and imported product, courtesy technological advances – real and virtual. Home is, as the t-shirt goes, where the wifi connects automatically, and I'd be able to recreate it anywhere, with all the props made available to me.
Every year, around this time, there is usually a home visit, and I would be chronicling it, this year there isn't. Our regular visit targets are missing in action, and going there doesn't make sense. I wonder if this is how it begins, and a couple of decades later, when I'm traveling, a bout of homesickness would hit me, and I would realise that it wasn't Cochin I was thinking of. I'll probably feel sad then, and guilty. But for now, I am closing my eyes, and recreating Cochin in my mind, with no props. I am able to, I can sense the wistfulness as I walk through the streets (without Google) and they haven't changed. It's heartening to know that while I have left Cochin, it hasn't left me.
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McQueen recently was shopping at a Walmart in Taylor when she happened to come across a startling Halloween display, or so she thought.
"I could only see the lady's head and it looked like a Halloween decoration at first because it was very blue," McQueen said.
The head she saw turned out to be real and attached to a 50-year-old woman who was in real trouble.
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It was a Monday and on the previous Friday McQueen had been taught a technique all future doctors must learn.
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Empirical likelihood for single-index models
The empirical likelihood method is especially useful for constructing confidence intervals or regions of the parameter of interest. This method has been extensively applied to linear regression and generalized linear regression models. In this paper, the empirical likelihood method for single-index regression models is studied. An estimated empirical log-likelihood approach to construct the confidence region of the regression parameter is developed. An adjusted empirical log-likelihood ratio is proved to be asymptotically standard chi-square. A simulation study indicates that compared with a normal approximation-based approach, the proposed method described herein works better in terms of coverage probabilities and areas (lengths) of confidence regions (intervals).
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When looks matter
Critic John Simon defends considering an actor's or actress' appearance when doing film criticism:
If a set designer's sets look poor or inappropriate, we criticize them with universally conceded impunity, even praise for our perceptiveness. The same goes for our criticism of a production's costumes. Now, of course, it will be said that sets and costumes have no feelings, and cannot be hurt.
True, but their designers can be hurt more than actors can. If I say that actor X, in the hero's role, looks like a garden gnome (which I haven't actually), future directors and producers may, being ever so much more humane or purblind, disagree and ignore my "unfounded" slur. If, on the other hand, they agree with it, what harm have I done?
With sets and costumes, though, it is a different matter. Because opinions pro and con in those areas are much less emotionally charged and more debatable, sympathies can be more easily shaken than about faces, and poor reviews may actually damage a designer's opportunities.
I do not hold with pussyfooting criticism of any kind. If I say that actress Y in the role of the leading lady looked like a cigar store Indian (I actually did), I was saying so because she glaringly didn't fit the role: two dashing young men would not have fought a deadly duel over her.
Now, I know that some reviewers would merely say of a visually thoroughly unsuited actress that she is miscast; or if she is many years too old, that she is too mature for her role. But those statements do not make much of an impression. A critic is a salesman for his reviews, and to sell them, he needs to make a powerful effect. Ergo the cigar store Indian.


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Order by Michigan Insurance Commissioner puts all insurers' MFNs up for review
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DETROIT, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In connection with its ongoing review and regulation of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's Provider Class Plan and the provision of health care insurance under state law, the Michigan Insurance Commissioner issued a report regarding Blue Cross's Class Plan for hospitals. The Commissioner also issued a separate Order requiring all insurance carriers to submit their Michigan hospital provider contracts containing so-called "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) language for review and approval of those provisions.
MFN language is commonly included in certain types of commercial contracts. Blue Cross is defending the inclusion of MFN provisions in some of its hospital contracts in a U.S. Department of Justice case in Federal District Court in Detroit.
The Insurance Commissioner's Order institutes a six-month window during which any health insurance carrier that currently includes MFN clauses in its hospital contracts or seeks to include such provisions in the future must receive approval from the Commissioner in order to continue them. If the health insurance carrier does not receive approval, its MFNs will not be enforceable after Feb. 1, 2013.
"This action by the state of Michigan is a fair, formal regulatory review of both existing and new contracts to ensure any MFN provisions are proper," said Jeffrey Rumley, BCBSM vice president and general counsel. "We welcome the Commissioner's ongoing oversight as Blue Cross continues in its mission to ensure access to affordable health care in Michigan. We are looking further at what we believe is the significant positive effect of the Commissioner's Order on the pending litigation about MFNs brought by the Department of Justice. We will continue to negotiate reimbursement with hospitals that is fair, recognizes hospitals for their efforts to improve quality, and provides our customers with the most affordable pricing possible."
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Seven people have been rescued from a burning yacht off Dún Laoghaire in Dublin.
The boat caught fire just before midday and the alarm was raised.
The crew was rescued by Dún Laoghaire Lifeboat and taken ashore.
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Everyone in New York was giddy this summer when Amar'e Stoudemire stood up and proclaimed "the Knicks are back" after signing with the team as a free agent.
It seems that the entire city misunderstood what Stoudemire was saying. The Knicks are indeed back, but it is the Knicks of 2004, 2007 and every other year in the awful aughts rather than the winning teams that are getting harder and harder to remember. Had we known that at the time, we probably would have just saved our giddiness for the next Justin Bieber sighting because this is just too frustrating.
The Knicks lost again on Sunday night, 104-96 to a Rockets team that was without Yao Ming and starting point guard Aaron Brooks. Trailing by nine entering the final period, the Knicks stopped playing and fell behind by as many as 19 before doing some superficial work to make it look a little better in the final reckoning. No one who actually saw the game was fooled, though. This team is sick and relief isn't looming anywhere on the horizon.
What is looming is a four-game trip out West which could put this season on the brink before we even get to Thanksgiving. These kinds of road swings are difficult under the best of circumstances, and those circumstances are as foreign to this team as running a pick-and-roll successfully is to Raymond Felton.
Although he certainly plays the role with aplomb, Felton might not be the main problem with the Knicks offense. It's hard to watch the Knicks standing around, running isolation plays and firing up perimeter prayers without turning your gaze to the team's bench in disbelief that a Mike D'Antoni team is so hapless offensively. It was particularly galling on Friday night in Minnesota as the team turned a 21-point lead into a loss and their willingness to settle for awful shots made Kevin Love a folk hero with 31 rebounds.
When you throw in substitution patterns that make little sense and a doghouse with arbitrary rules for entry, it gets hard to keep the faith that D'Antoni is going to point this team in the right direction in the near future. The same problems keep hampering the team and there doesn't seem to be an attempt to try new solutions. He hasn't been dealt a killer hand, but the lack of superior talent may be exposing some of D'Antoni's shortcomings as a head coach.
It's still early, but this feels like a pretty crucial moment. The Knicks have to stop the losing now or shuffle back into the irrelevance they've called home for the last 10 years.
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Days (flow) follow and he is (un)dead. He walks (stumbles) (drunk) for days. Days following (days flowing). (her not flowing). (her without red). Him (stumbling, drunk). (wailing).
He walks through it:
(a funeral dark and without. A man in a box. Him in a box. People tending garden. Him as a father. His father. Him with tall even boots. Him in a coffin. Cartoonish in a series of ways).
(people snotting into tissues. People crying and ashamed. People at sea, sailing. People like humanity. Inhumane. His wife statuesque. Uncrying. Her there and a father gone. Her man gone. Her father gone and a baby coming).
(arms hug, hung, weak and strained. Fashionable. One arm or two. Family or love or lust or liking. Brother or sister. Father or daughter. Father or son. No father. Other fathers. Not this father. This father. Her. His her. Her weeping explicitly and without intent).
(sandwiches the size of baby birds. Birds like sandwiches repaired and sweeping through. Flying over. Her eating and drifting. People milling. Her, a boat. Anchor up. Him never wandering back. Her looking and nodding and going).
(she showers and reclines on the couch and eases into the changes. Her, watching tv. Towel dried skin and speaking to the baby. Melodies and mentioning. Listless endless stories, cranking and scribbling. Hot days with a baby already conceived. Her, half-hearted and weakening. Nothing coming out).
(He watches her watch tv. Her unmoving body. His desire to un-die. His want. His longing. His staggering bumbling steps. Unmoving, he watches. He can't can't can't. Her, drinking air, sleeping. He watches her, her mouth parted, her hair slick and wet. Her. Showing).
(Her, crying again. Late nights in bed still unmoving. Still watching tv. Him still wanting. And a cat in the noon of night, with her trying to find sleep. Him elsewhere and drinking warmth. Nestled in banks of embers arranged like blankets. A funeral and him in a box. Her, with life inside, motoring along regardless of these kind of days).
He only walks out of it sometimes:
Days that (keep) going (won't stop). Days like this (him drunk). Him (staggering) and trying to find his (undrunk) legs. (trying to uncork her). (like a bottle). (one ounce, two, a hundred, etc).
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