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A/N: For those couple of you who are probably here only to see when the next chapter of Lesser Evils will be out…no worries, I'm still working on that almost as we speak, haha. In the meantime, I will continue my horrible misuse of Blizz's intellectual properties in between gleefully 4-gate-ing my friends and family. The "Supernova" mission just seemed like too perfect an opportunity for an "Enemy Mine" type plot (my absolute favorite flavor of instant-drama-in-a-can!) to pass up.
The first inkling Captain Melissa "Stubs" Rhodes had that this day was about to go very sour was the metallic chime in her ear.
"Aw, hell," she muttered, eyes flicking to the icon in the corner of her banshee's HUD – blinking an ominous red now – that monitored her cloaking device's power level. Ten minute warning…they'd already obliterated the air defenses of this particular Tal'darim outpost, but, like most banshee pilots, Stubs always got a little jumpy in plain sight.
"Getting low on juice here, sir," she said, punching in the com signal for Banner, her squadron leader. She knew he could see the state of her batteries – as well as those of the rest of their squad mates – on his own display, but a little pointed "reminding" never hurt.
"I know, Stubs, trust me," he replied. "Fritzy's been bitching for ten minutes now."
She snorted. Fritzy hoarded his power supply in much the same way as the Kel-Morian Combine hoarded mineral rights. He'd even – unbeknownst to Swann, who probably would've stuffed him headfirst into one of his own lift turbines – hooked up an extra generator he'd filched from a busted wraith to his cloaking rig as a backup. The additional weight threw off the handling of his ship and the power load blew out his capacitors more often than not, but he claimed it made him feel "safer." Safer. Right.
"Just gotta clean up what's left on the ground and we're out," Banner continued. "We already cleared out the big guns."
As if to underscore his words, the two vikings escorting them darted across Stubs' line of sight, soaring over the battlefield unmolested by stalker or photon cannon fire.
She gave a mental shrug. "You're the boss." With her visor down, the cockpit of her banshee was as invisible to her as it was to the zealots still scurrying across the ground, replaced with a high-res image of the terrain around them provided by the sensors studding her hull. It was night – the next sunrise meant death on this world – but the virtual battlefield she watched was as bright as noon.
She seemed to be floating over a browning jungle broken by alien ruins and strange clusters of giant crystals. Mist rose from the muddy remnants of streams in pearly scarves, and flocks of birds – or whatever passed for them on this planet – rose in startled puffs from the trees. Under other circumstances, she might've found the landscape fascinating, but at the moment Stubs was more concerned with the bright red reticles bracketing the bits her targeting computer had identified as in need of leveling.
She dipped low over the blasted-out husk of a photon cannon, loosing a barrage of cluster rockets at a group of zealots crouched in the lee of a crystalline pylon. The zealots tried to scatter – she was only mildly surprised when two managed to escape, the things were really damnably quick – as the pylon burst in a satisfying flare of blue energy.
The simplified green outline of another cloaked banshee – easily identifiable as Fritzy's by the way it seemed to wallow in the air – tracked across her HUD as she soared upwards again.
"Mengsk's wrinkly balls, Fritzy, that thing flies like you stuck wings on a pig."
Used to ribbing from the rest of his squad, Fritzy sounded only amiably annoyed. "Uh-huh, just keep talking. We'll see who's laughing when you're flying naked in five."
"Naked" was common parlance among wraith and banshee pilots for flying with cloaks deactivated. The term had been in use for almost as long as the technology itself, but the innuendo never got old. "Believe me, you ever see me naked the last thing you'll be doing is laughing," she said, grinning as she gunned for a sentry darting between stands of trees.
Fritzy snickered. "Oooh, baby, show me your exhaust ports!"
They'd been speaking on the general com, so this comment elicited whoops and hoots of laughter from the others listening in.
"You are all idiots," Dancer, the fourth and final banshee pilot, pronounced good-naturedly. "Er, 'cept you, commander."
"Thanks for the endorsement, Dance."
Stubs banked her ship, taking a long lazy lap around the battlefield and scanning for any Tal'darim they may have missed. Smoke rose from one corner of the clearing they'd leveled, signaling the beginnings of a forest fire, but since this entire planet would be crisped into atoms by its own bursting sun soon, she couldn't muster much concern in response to it.
"Looks clear to me," she said.
"Clear," Dancer agreed.
"Alright folks, form up on me," Banner said, banking neatly and turning his own ship towards base. "Time to go – whoa, hold on, hostiles inbound!"
Stubs' own display lit up with red as he gave the warning. One reticle, two, three, four – she cursed as she recognized the sleek silhouettes of a flight of protoss phoenixes, her obscenities becoming more creative as she noted her cloak's power meter counting down from a minute.
The grim voice of Fingers, captain of their viking escort, came over the general com. "Break off, banshee leader, we will engage."
Stubs swore again. Normally they could've all run – phoenixes couldn't match the big thrusters on the vikings and would never have known the slower banshees were even there – but with their power banks about to run dry, the vikings had no choice. Banshee fighters lacked anti-air capabilities; they needed every second they could get to flee out of sensor range before their cloaks gave out.
"You heard the man," Banner said tersely. "Scatter!"
Stubs picked a random direction and dialed her engines to max thrust, knowing the others were doing the same around her. Her eyes flicked rapidly between her power meter and the sensor feed showing the two vikings angling in for the attack as she murmured encouragement under her breath. "Come on, come on..." She'd flown a lot of missions with viking pilots, but the helplessness she felt watching her escorts dogfight while she turned tail and fled never seemed to fade much. She was sure they felt the same circling out of range while their banshee charges busted up photon cannons, but at least the vikings had the option of landing to assist if things got too hot.
Forty-eight seconds, forty-seven, forty-six…
The phoenixes spotted the attack and immediately drifted into a looser formation, trying to minimize the area effect of the terrans' ripwave missiles. Raynor's Raiders had fought these Tal'darim before, and protoss were, apparently, inconveniently fast learners.
Forty, thirty-nine, thirty-eight…
The vikings fired their first salvos just as the phoenixes' ion blasters lit up with blue. The protoss formation split, two veering upwards in impossibly sharp ascent and two nosing down to strike at the vikings' bellies, but it didn't help the lead ascending phoenix, which burst into orange flame as both salvos slammed into its rear.
The vikings banked hard right, dodging the ripwave effect of their own missiles.
Stubs cursed. Both terran ships were charred and pitted from ion strikes, and one of Finger's engines spat black smoke. A lone phoenix peeled off to chase him, the other two tailing the less-damaged ship.
Twenty-nine, twenty-eight, twenty-seven…
The intact viking jinked right and veered left, loosing a salvo at the phoenix chasing Fingers before darting back away from its own pursuit. Not fast enough – spindly beams of light arced from the two phoenixes, looking too delicate to possibly be responsible for the molten lines of metal left in their wake.
Stubs winced, a sick feeling growing her stomach as she watched the viking's wing actually shear off, sending the craft into a violent tailspin that ended in the trees.
Eighteen, seventeen, sixteen…
Fingers yanked his craft into a screeching ascent, climbing almost straight upwards as though he meant to reach space. The lone phoenix still pursued, splitting the clouds of smoke emitted by the damaged viking and slowly gaining. Gaining. It shouldn't have been. That stupid engine…
Stubs swallowed and tasted something bitter, knowing there was only one way this could end and wanting to look away but resolved not to. She owed him that much.
Just before the phoenix closed to firing range, Fingers cut his main engines. Stubs watched in a combination of shock, admiration and horror as he spun his ship's nose towards the ground and restarted his thrusters.
The phoenix's pilot, evidently assuming that the damaged ship had simply stalled and eager to make the kill, had continued to close and didn't recognize the maneuver until too late. With inhuman swiftness, at the last moment it tried to twist aside, but the point-blank volley of ripwave missiles took it in the belly.
Both ships vanished in a ball of orange flame.
Stubs had stopped believing in any kind of god a long time ago, but she muttered a prayer anyway.
Three, two, one…
A cool feminine voice sounded in her ears. "Warning. Power levels critical. Cloaking field disengaged."
Stubs sucked in a breath and held it. She was not out of sensor range – if she could see the phoenixes then they could see her – but she was skimming as low as she dared above the treetops and the atmosphere was full of radiation from the impending supernova. Maybe…
Two other banshees flickered from virtual green outlines to real visuals as their power banks depleted.
Wait, only two?
She punched Fritzy's com channel. "You son of a bitch," she said, half-wry half-envious.
"Yeah," he said a little sheepishly. A heavy pause followed. "You were right, though," he said finally. "I'm not laughing."
She snorted, trying to sound more confident about this than she felt. "Yeah, well, just don't drink all the chief's whiskey before I get back."
It was a weak kind of joke, but she could hear his attempted grin in his voice. "No promises, Stubs, so you better be quick. See you back at base!"
"Bastard," she said to no one as the channel closed.
Her targeting computer picked out the three other banshees and two phoenixes in red and green brackets on her HUD. Neither had turned to pursue her, and she dared hope that maybe this time she'd be the lucky one.
The maddeningly calm voice of her shipboard AI put an end to that. "Warning. Targeting sensor sweep detected. Source: protoss phoenix-class air superiority fighter. Distance: fifteen kilometers and closing."
Stubs groaned. She was already cruising at maximum velocity and there was little else she could do until the phoenix got close enough to maneuver around. She didn't have to flee forever; just until her batteries built up enough charge for a few minutes of cloaking. Then the hostile ship would lose her and she could circle back around for home. It would be a near thing, though. That phoenix was faster than her – much faster, a banshee could barely triple the Korhal sound barrier and a phoenix could easily reach escape velocity on most habitable worlds – and it would take fifteen to twenty minutes for her generator to pump out enough charge.
She noted that the last remaining phoenix had headed after Dancer and silently wished the other woman luck.
Turning back to her display and switching to an orbital map, she searched for the most likely-looking terrain to run towards. Her banshee's one advantage over the phoenix was its maneuverability; her ship had been designed for urban combat, and its narrow profile and ability to lift off vertically meant she'd do better than the phoenix in confined spaces. A canyon maybe, or…ah-hah!
Her map showed a field of those strange crystals not too far from her current position, and they were huge. Half a kilometer high, some of them, tilted into a dizzying latticework of gaps and tunnels. Her banshee might navigate it, but the phoenix would dash itself to pieces almost instantly if it tried to follow.
Stubs adjusted her course and grinned a rather savage grin that turned into a grimace halfway through. Two men had died to give her this chance. She'd do her best to make it worth it.
The phoenix fired a barrage from its ion blasters just as her banshee darted between the first of the gleaming spars and into the crystalline forest. The protoss was slightly out of range, though, and streams of charged particles scattered harmlessly from her hull as she cut her speed and banked hard to slip between a pair of giant azure crystals.
For one wild moment she thought the phoenix was actually going to follow – instead of veering off it continued to race straight for her – but at the last possible second it pulled into a spiraling turn tighter and more graceful than anything she'd seen any terran fixed-wing craft do, and Stubs felt a flash of pure professional admiration. The things she'd do with a ship like that. Say what you would about protoss; their toys were nice.
She'd slowed to half speed once she'd entered the crystals, and even that seemed more than fast enough in this place. Most of the flawless blue and green spars jutted upwards from the ground, but they did it at haphazard angles, and every now and then where they crossed a new crystal grew downwards from the join. Stubs wasn't sure if they were more brittle than her paristeel hull and wasn't interested in finding out.
Her HUD showed the phoenix keeping pace above her, but it couldn't get close enough to the needle-sharp jumble of crystals to shoot. Satisfaction filled her at the sight. She could cruise around until her batteries were topped up and then light out for home without worry.
Taking advantage of the brief reprieve, she really studied her surroundings for the first time. Stubs had visited a lot of strange worlds since she signed up with the rebellion, but usually the parts she got to see were either on fire or about to be. The forest of crystals was by far the prettiest alien thing she'd ever flown through, even in simulations, and she thought it was a pity she'd never see it beneath the sun. Starlight flashed and glittered from the many facets around her, and even in the false day of her HUD their color was deeper and purer than any jewel she'd ever known. She imagined that being here with the sun shining through would be like flying inside a gigantic prismatic cathedral. It was a shame she'd never know. At daybreak this place would vaporize with everything else on this side of the planet.
She kept an eye on her power indicator as she cruised, dipping low into the dim crevices between shafts and skimming as close to the crystals' bases as she dared, still wary of the phoenix circling vulture-like overhead. She only needed a few minutes more…
Movement on her HUD caught her eye and she punched her turbines into full reverse on instinct, just missing the giant shard of crystal that tumbled down almost on top of her.
Stubs swore. A quick zoom revealed the molten edges of the stump it had fallen from. That hadn't been a natural collapse; the damned protoss was trying to crush her!
She accelerated as much as she dared, swerving erratically in and out around the angular spars. Gleaming chunks of crystal ricocheted from the intact shafts around her and shattered, sending fragments pinging off her hull. If one of those big hunks fell on her, she'd be finished. She needed to find a way out, now. Her cloaking array hadn't regenerated as much power as she'd like, but she'd rather be running again than impaled on some huge alien crystal, however beautiful.
A jagged circle of open sky appeared around a twist in the vein she followed. Bright daggers of crystal bristled above and below her, threatening to slice her hull open like a packet of MREs, but the shards plummeting to ground around her tapered off and she dared to let out a breath. Had the phoenix lost her?
Her gaze flicked to the red reticle hovering over the mouth of the gap and her eyes narrowed. Not a chance. That bastard knew exactly where she was, and knew he had her, too. There wasn't enough room for her to come about, and if she tried to reverse he'd simply bring that section of the lattice down instead.
She drew a slow thoughtful hiss through her teeth, considering.
He wanted her to come out, then that's exactly what she'd do.
Barreling through the prism-studded tunnel at a constant three-quarters speed, she knew the phoenix was tracking her, gauging the moment she'd fly beneath its artificial rockslide.
Which was why, when she was midway to open air she pulled up her cloak and threw her turbines into full reverse.
"Cloaking field activated."
The kinetic foam of her harness absorbed most of the crushing deceleration, but she could still feel the weight of it in her chest as her banshee stopped in an almost dead hover. Though her thickly-shielded hull blotted out the characteristic scream of the ship's engines, she was sure they were shrieking now.
"Come on, you smart son of a bitch, do the math," she muttered, nudging her ship cautiously down the tunnel. She'd always heard that the protoss were both clever and supremely arrogant, and today she hoped it was true.
With a rumble she could feel through her seat, the entire mouth of the opening sheared away in a glittering mass, blue ion beams flickering through the crystal in a deadly light show – no doubt at exactly the same moment she would've passed under it had she kept her constant velocity.
With an exultant whoop she punched her engines to max and shot through the gap in the wake of the collapse, hurtling through the cloud of shimmering dust into free air.
She found herself soaring above a completely coverless plain, but it didn't matter. She was out and cloaked and her power banks were a quarter full and all was right with this nasty doomed pit of a world. She watched as the phoenix swooped around the pile of crystals it'd shattered (looking for bits of smashed banshee, no doubt), and she waved a rude gesture at its image in her reticle.
Laughing crazily, a little in relief but mostly in the raw electric exhilaration of having won (and this was why she flew, despite the danger and everything else), she'd just begun to work out how best she could tell this story in the mess when her entire cockpit went dark.
Her heart lurched into her throat as her banshee plummeted twenty meters before her HUD flickered back and her engines shrieked to life.
"What. The. Hell," she demanded, leveling out her flight as her turbines stabilized.
Her first suspicion was the phoenix, but her HUD pegged its height at several meters lower than it had been before the power surge, and she realized it had been affected too. Actually, the protoss craft was very low to the ground indeed, and she felt a vindictive surge of disappointment that it hadn't crashed. Oh, well. At least it didn't seem to have spotted her in the moment her cloak was down.
That outage had felt like an EMP of some kind, but the effects were far too short and she didn't see any other ships in the area. This was a dead world anyway; no one claimed it but Raynor's Raiders and the Tal'darim, and neither of those factions would've attacked both her craft and the phoenix. Maybe it wasn't truly an assault? This world's sun was about to explode, after all, and dying stars were associated with phenomena weirder than this.
Stubs gave a mental shrug. Well, she thought she could live with the mystery. No damage seemed to have been done to her cloaking array or to her engines, so she pushed her turbines to max and pointed her nose towards base.
No sooner had she done it than her cockpit went black again.
She cursed in the dark, fingers finding overrides and manual resets with practiced ease, but nothing worked and her ship plunged down like the inert hunk of metal it was.
She'd never managed to regain her lost altitude after the first blackout, and she was still wondering if that was a blessing or curse when the ground rose up and clouted her.


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Have completed this game, and must say (again), really enjoyed it. Difficult in parts, plenty of stealth required, and therefore patience at times.
Some strange and unusual things for an FPS which do take some getting used to:
In some parts (window ledges/walking across beams), game automatically switches to the 3rd person view.
The 'Cover' facility (taking cover next to a wall/building) is useful,tactical and at times saves ur life. I didn't use this until maybe after being halfway thru the game however, as I didn't know what is was all about!
Slo-mo action hand to hand fighting invokes a strange set up whereby u have to align opposing circles and click quickly when they align (which turns them green), if u don't click in time, they turn red meaning u die pretty soon.
Worst level, when u get poisoned at the Casino and need to get to ur car to save ur life. Hard to navigate back to ur car within the allotted time, and effects seems a little over the top, but then again what would I know, I've never been poisoned!
Overall: great game, enjoyable, but not in CoD league, grafs good, great selection of weapons, characters look like the film characters, & of course the haunting Bond theme throughout. Story is a mish-mash of Casino Royale & QoS. Would I recommend it? Yes 8/10, but then again I am a Bond-nut.
Buggy in parts but this might have been down to my ageing machine. Now back to IGI 2.

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Hi! I'm Nomadchina. I'm originally from Finland but I have been living in Xidang village in Northwestern Yunnan, China for the past 2.5 years. I was running a guesthouse in co-operation with a local Tibetan family and also did field work for my master's thesis.


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Shweta won a National Award for her performance in Makdee when she was just 11, no she has chose to make her Kollywood debut with Ra Ra.
Hi Shweta could you give us a brief about your role in Ra Ra?
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Oh really, since you are doing a movie in Tamil which is new to you do you find it a bit tough?
Not really, the dynamics of human emotions remain the same and it isn't a factor. An actress who can time her actions well onscreen is bound to be effective. As long as one is alert, one can manage fine.
We agree! You already sound like a veteran. So how come a Tamil movie ?Is there any change in the preferences you developed?
I have always wanted to do a Tamil film. So, when the producers of this film, who were looking for a heroine, got in touch with me after seeing my stills, I agreed to be a part of it.
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These are just rumors I never said that I had 2 projects simultaneously with Ajith and one with Dhanush .I had my schedules filled up with Telugu movies.I would have really loved to do both of them.
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Thinking of hitting the pillows early tonight. I'm in some sort of funk. Not overly depressed. Just off. Just sad. It may have something to do with running myself ragged with kid's activities and not having seen the sun for 116 days. Or it just may be the Christmas time blues.
Last night found me in the hallway crying almost uncontrollably thinking about my grandparents. My grandmother who is still very much alive, and my grandfather who is not. Gram had sent me a text asking me to put on the TV to PBS. When I did, there was a Great Performances broadcast of Phantom of the Opera. That was our thing - mine, Gram's and Pops'.
They introduced me to the musical when I was really young. They bought me the soundtrack and I learned every word to every song and played it at top volume for approximately two years straight. They took me to see a performance when it came to Cleveland. And when I was thirteen, I spent two weeks in North Carolina with them while they were fixing up a house they were selling. That soundtrack was the soundtrack to that entire trip. I'm sure my grandfather suffered in silence, but that memory brings me suck great joy.
So, in turn, last year, our local high school was doing a performance of the same show. This time I took Gram. We sat in the front row. For weeks after, we sent each other texts to the songs that were stuck in our head.
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This Thursday, June 4, marks the 26th anniversary of the pro-democracy student protests that led to bloodshed in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989.
China has done its best to scrub the event from collective memory.
The country has already detained dozens of dissidents and activists ahead of the anniversary, even putting some "on vacation" with police, Radio Free Asia reported. Meanwhile thousands rallied in Hong Kong last week to remember the victims from 1989.
On the major 25th anniversary last year, China went to great lengths to censor discussion about the tragedy, when Chinese troops killed unarmed civilians in the center of Beijing. (The exact death toll is in dispute, but some estimate that more than 1,000 pro-democracy protesters were killed.)
In an apparent effort to keep people from recalling the violence, China took the drastic measure last year of blocking access to Google in the country. The country also took measures to quell protestors themselves. For example, Chinese authorities arrested a well-known artist named Guo Jian after he created a diorama of Tiananmen Square covered in ground meat.
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We didn't exactly throw a dart at the map and pick the place it landed on, we had a little more thought involved than that. We wanted to take the kids to the snow and it had to be within a reasonable driving distance for our three year old.
This is how it went....
Taking the picture taken through the windshield, our first sign of snow was near Page, Arizona, this was a welcome change of scenery after being in the truck for 4 hours.
I kept Vic awake and intrigued throughout our 7 1/2 hour journey by reading aloud a great new book by author, Chris Camillo, called Laughing at Wall Street. The book reveals many myths about the investing industry, specifically hidden fees from mutual funds and 401K's, and how to pick stocks based on what's going on around us rather than what the Wall Street analysts tell us.
After 6 hours of driving, we all were sick of being couped up in the truck, so we resorted to finding new things to do like seeing if we could put our feet behind our head, [not me] and dancing in our seats to fun songs like "I don't want this night to end" by country singer, Luke Bryan....You got your hands up- You're rocking in my truck- You got the radio on- You're singing every song- I'm set on cruise control......lalala la. [Whatever works right?]
Finally, we were there, to the Grand Lodge in Brianhead, Utah! Even though it was only 8 degrees outside and it was way past Sophi's bedtime, she happily stood in a "frozen" state looking around at the beautiful Christmas decorations in the resort lobby and said, "is Santa coming here too mommy?"
While Vic and the girls braved the cold to unload the truck, Sophie and I stood by the cozy warm fire waiting for them to bring in our bags and head for our room.
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I know it's kind of weird to be taking a picture of the bathroom but it was really pretty and worthy of remembrance!
This would be the kitchen that we would be using for the next couple of days.
This was the living room with a pull-out couch that our girls would call home. Not too shabby having a fire place and flat screen TV for two teenagers to enjoy after a hard day on the slopes! [smile]
With all of the driving we did, we were all tired, but not too tired to head upstairs to the family area they had in the hotel where guests were singing karaoke. Of coarse our girls had to join in the fun too. Sophia saw a few little kids singing Jingle Bells so she pulled her sisters up to the stage to do the same!
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2017 Chevy Suburban vs 2017 Ford Expedition
Drivers who want the utility of a truck, versatility of an SUV, and amenities you'd get in a luxury sedan find the powerful and capable 2017 Chevy Suburban as their go-to vehicle. Due to its best-in-class highway fuel economy and its 8-passenger seating, the new Suburban hits the road with confidence and efficiency, traveling down the road or across the country with your family in tow. The Suburban is the full-size SUV you need when you have to do it all.
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26963 14th Street, Highland CA, 92346 (Residential)
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Fantastic single story 5 bed 2 bath home in a great area of Highland.
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The decision to name the new performing arts center after Buddy Holly was a defining moment for Lubbock and anyone who fondly remembers the rock 'n' roll legend.
Once completed, The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences forever will connect the musical pioneer to Lubbock, the city where he was born and raised and started his journey to worldwide fame.
Lubbock long has celebrated Holly's legacy, naming streets, schools and parks after him. There's even a Buddy Holly Center in the Depot Entertainment District, which traces his life and musical roots.
But it's been difficult to find a landmark way to honor him that would please the city, his family and his widow, Maria Elena.
The Lubbock Entertainment Performing Arts Association found the perfect idea amid its fundraising campaign to build the proposed $85 million center in downtown Lubbock, near the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
Instead of selling naming rights to the building, the decision was made to honor the most influential artist in Lubbock history, a performer who inspired musical superstars from the Beatles to Bruce Springsteen.
"It's important for us to recognize that Buddy's musical talents connect us to the rest of the world. And I do mean the world," said, Tim Collins, LEPAA chairman.
The group announced in March it had raised more than $45 million toward $85 million in construction costs. Donation of land from the city was contingent on LEPAA raising more than $45 million by 2017.
Cleanup on the former Department of Public Safety property on Mac Davis Lane started. Architects were hired, a joint effort from Lubbock firms MWM Architecture and Parkhill, Smith and Cooper.
The state-of-the-art facility began with a dream and wish it connect all of Lubbock to the arts and its deep artistic heritage. It will be more than a building. It will be the heartbeat of Lubbock's sound and soul.
"To stand the test of time, those dreams have to have a purpose," Collins said. "This project can't be just about raising funds and building a new building. To stand the test of time, to truly become a landmark, it has to create a connection."
The performing arts center will connect the older generation, which remembers and honors Holly, to a younger one, which is creating newer sounds just as Holly did 60 years ago at the peak of his career.
After Holly was killed in a plane crash Feb. 3, 1959, efforts were made to work on tributes with Maria Elena Holly. Some were successful; others were not. But she was thrilled with the new performing arts center, especially after hearing guarantees from proponents.
"Let me assure you that the use of Buddy's name on this building will keep us honest," Collins said. "Honest to our intent to bring great performances to everyone in Lubbock and the South Plains."
The words reflect a sincere commitment to honor Holly, whose hits songs such as "Peggy Sue," "That'll Be The Day" and "Oh, Boy" sound as good today as ever.


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AUSTRALIANS are truly a fast-food nation, with more than half of us visiting a major fast food chain in the past month, according to a new report into out-of-home dining.
Australians averaged four visits a month to fast food chains such as McDonald's, KFC and Subway, according to Enhanced Media Metrics Australia (EMMA) released by Ipsos.
"It's students, sales people and labourers who are the heaviest users of quick service restaurants," Ipsos MediaCT managing director Simon Wake said.
NSW and the ACT top the nation with their love of eating out, with cafes the most popular destination.
Of NSW/ACT residents, 60 per cent said they enjoy eating at a cafe at least once a month, second behind Victoria at 62 per cent.
Terry Chaouk from The Hungry Baker at Paramatta said he had noticed a move toward people dining in over the past six of the nine months his cafe has been open.
"I think the price point we take into consideration more these days. Our main meals are between the $10-$15 mark which is a lot more achievable. Our biggest turnover has been in that range," he said.
"We'd range from 600 and 700 (sit-down and takeaway) covers a day. Seventy five per cent of it sit-down, 25 per cent takeaways."
"We'd range from 600 and 700 (sit-down and takeaway) covers a day. Seventy five per cent of it sit-down, 25 per cent takeaways."
It's the first time this highly accurate data from EMMA has been used to track spending. Previously the majority of information collected relied on surveys of 1000 people or more.
While 81 per cent of Australians will eat out at least once a month, more than half of those will visit a fast food chain or quick service restaurants.
McDonald's topped the list as the most popular fast-food brand, with 42 per cent of Australians visiting in the past month, followed by Subway (29 per cent), KFC (23 per cent), Hungry Jack's (16 per cent) and Domino's Pizza (11 per cent).
Takeaway was also more popular than eating in at fast food chains, with 30.5 million takeaway visits and 21 million eat-in visits each month.
In NSW and the ACT combined, 83 per cent of people eat out at least once a month, 2 per cent above the national average of 81 per cent, the statistics revealed.
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A quick and easy lemon loaf cake chock-a-block with blueberries. Nuts add a bit of crunch, but are optional, and the lemon drizzle tops it off, creating perfection!
I was told this was very tasty via Facebook, It is!! and it is easy to make. - 04 Mar 2015
Very moist and with the glaze, this is more like a coffee cake. (Use powdered sugar for the glaze and increase by 2 tablespoons to thicken or else it's too runny and will run right off the cake) It's VERY soft coming out of the oven, so once it's cooled, cover it and refridgerate for a few hours or overnight to let it set or it will break coming out. It sets up like a bread the next day. And this is one recipe where adding too much blueberries will work against you. I've tried 1 1/2 - 2cups and it was way too much. Ended up with blueberry cake and too much juice inside. As the recipe suggests, use 1 to 1 1/4 cups, no more. I have used frozen blueberries with no problem. Be sure to coat berries in flour (fresh or frozen) to prevent them from sinking too much. Most of them sink anyway, but a little flour does help. Use quality bottled lemon juice and it will taste just as good. With frozen berries, I had to bake for almost 70 min. I've also put a brown sugar struesel on top when I want a little extra crunch and sweetness. **Tip - in the last 10 min. of cooking, brush the top with some of the glaze and put it back in the oven. The bread absorbs the glaze in the oven and won't be too wet. Brush on remaining glaze once it's done. - 10 Jan 2007 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Wonderful recipe. Quick and easy to make and it's so good! The only I might change the next time is reducing the lemon flavor just a bit, so that it doesn't overpower the blueberry taste. I think the last time I made this, I had pecans on hand, so that was what I used. I think the nut aspect is a personal decision, whichever you want to use. This time, I have walnuts so that will go in it. I was thinking that using powdered sugar would be a good idea for the glaze the first time I made this and seeing a review from someone else with this suggestion means I will have to try that as well. - 01 Aug 2002 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


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Last week our area was hit with snow. More snow than we are used to getting. Most kids love snow because it means they get out of school, but Cava is not like most kids. Instead, he was frustrated by this.
He and Benjamin did enjoy playing outside in the snow: snow ball fights, sledding, snow angels, and building a snowman were all part of their fun activities.
And, Cava being Cava, would take breaks from playing in the snow to do what he loved to do best: puzzles! He did another 1,000 piece puzzle . . .
And two 3-D puzzles: the White House and the Empire State Building. One of the advantages of him doing these was we got to do two short history lessons on the importance of those two buildings in American history.
I love to read and I also love reading to my kids. When Benjamin was younger, I read to him every night and now I get to read to Cava. One of my favorite kids' books is Cornelia Funke's Inkheart, which is the perfect book for anyone who loves books and reading. When I first read it to Benjamin, he and I both loved this magical tale of stories come to life. Now I was fortunate enough to get to share that with Cava.
I think it's important to read to Cava so he can not only hear the story, but also hear the language. After I read a little to him, I stopped and ask him what he thinks about what has happened in the story so far.
I know better than to ask him an abstract question like, "What do you think will happen next?" because he won't be able to even guess because that is something that has not been taught and he will only shrug and give me his usual, "I dunno'."
"It's hard for me to understand," he replies, "There are so many words."
So instead of reading chapters, I may only read a page or two to him before we stop and talk about what I've just read. Reading to Cava is not about getting through the book, but helping him to understand both new words and all of the elements of a story that he hasn't learned yet (such as about plot, character, and setting). It helps to stop every so often and talk about what I've read to help his concentration because if I just read aloud, he loses his focus on what I'm reading. I also have him sit right up next to me, so he can see my finger move along each word on the page.
Reading comprehension is a real struggle for him.
Despite being out of school, we still worked on homework he'd been assigned, such as his daily reading and answering a question related to that reading. On the last day, he had to read a story and then write a question that he had about what he just read. I told him to keep this in mind as we read so that he could think of one after we'd finished.
With Cava, I sit next to him while he reads and we stop after each page to go over what we just read, also I can go over the meanings of any words he doesn't know. If I let him read a book on his own and I ask him what he's just read, he will reply every time, "I dunno'."
The story he read was about two friends: one who loves to stay home and one who likes to travel the world and see different places. The illustrations and the text show each friend at home or somewhere in the world (Egypt, Paris, Antarctica, etcetera). When we got to the end of the book and I asked Cava, "So what is the question you have from reading this?"
He looked at me all blank-eyed and confused.
"Remember, your homework for today was to read and then think of a question you had about something in the story and for you to write it down. What question do you have about anything you just read?"
I can tell he is waiting for me to give him a question, but this is his homework assignment, not mine, and he needs to learn how to think about what he's reading. As I wait, he begins to get frustrated and he tells me, "I dunno'. This is too hard for me."
Patience is critical despite how frustrating it can be. Taking things slowly is another key to helping him. So I take a deep breath, and try to find a way that he can understand the task that is put to him.
"Okay, the story is about one friend who loves to stay home because they think nowhere is as perfect as where they live and the other one loves to see the world. If you could ask one of them a question, what would it be?"
"I dunno'."
"Well, what if it was Trevor?" I ask about his best friend at school. "What it Trevor went away on a trip. When he got back, what would you ask him about his trip?"
He thought for a moment or two before answering, "What did you see on your trip?"
"See, that's a question you could ask one of the characters. Write it down on your homework sheet."
To formulate a question was to abstract for Cava when it related to a story, but when I posed him asking a question of his best friend who just got back from a trip, he could do it. He had a concrete context to work from.
As Dr. Boris Gindis has written in his article "Cumulative Cognitive Deficit in International Adoptees: Its Origin, Indicators, and Means of Redmediation":
Based on my experience with hundreds of internationally adopted children undergoing psychological assessments at the BGCenter, I can trace the roots of their reading comprehension problems to 3 major issues:
- Lack of cultural context awareness.
- Delayed cognitive processes and skills necessary for a speedy cognitive/ academic language acquisition.
- Emotional problems related to weakened nervous system and developmental trauma, lower self-esteem and motivation, which often block cognitive processes involved in reading activity.
In regards to the first category, Cava tends to do better with books that he's seen the movies or TV shows for, which is why he often checks out books based on shows he watches (Curious George, Martha Speaks, Phineas and Ferb) and movies he's seen (Spider-man, Frozen, and any other Disney or Pixar film). But if he reads a new book that is unfamiliar to him, he struggles with understanding not only the words but the story as well because he has no frame of reference.
During our snowy break last week, as I was taking some dirty laundry to the washing machine, I past by Cava working on a puzzle. I could tell from his demeanor that he was upset, so I stopped and asked, "You okay, buddy?"
With a crack in his voice, he sadly replied, "It's too hard for me?"
"What is?"
Putting the laundry basket down, I sat beside Cava to listen to him. "Everything is pretty big. What exactly is too hard for you right now?"
He brought up shoveling snow, which he and his brother did. "Yeah, it can be when the snow is icy and it's not something you do every day. But you did it. Was there anything else?"
"I know reading can be difficult for you, especially since you are still learning a whole new language. You are having to relearn reading and reading in English can be tricky, especially when you have words like year and cheer which are spelled differently but sound the same when spoken aloud." (I used those two words because they had been spelling words for him). "But you've come a long way in just over a year and I'm proud of you. Do you know what that word means?" I've told him I'm proud of him many times but this was the first that I stopped to take the time to see if he even knew what I meant.
He shook his head. "No. What does that word mean?"
I gave him the simplest definitions I could, "It means we are happy with you, with all that you have done, such as how well you are doing in school, and are happy that you are our Cava. We are proud that you are our son now."
"Oh, okay."
"And Mommy and I and your teacher will all work with you on your reading. Just think how much more you can read and understand than you did just a year ago."
"Yeah, I know more words in English now."
While he is quick in his acquisition of his new language, English, his progress in reading and understanding what he's read is coming at a much slower pace.
It is important for him to not only build up his speaking vocabulary, but also his understanding of what words mean verbally and written on the page. We do this by reading with him and asking him about what he's read on each page. When he struggles with understanding something, we have to put it into a context he will understand that way he won't get defeated so easily and become frustrated, angry, and then give up. We have to raise his cultural awareness and his contextual knowledge of the material he's reading.
Dr. Gindis writes that to give an internationally adopted child context, go back culturally to their beginnings: songs, riddles, cartoons, books, images, games, routines, favorite places, sounds, food, and activities because "everything that surrounds a child born into this culture has to be re-introduced into your adopted child's life and be reinforced through multiple repetitions." Repetition is critical.
Many of the learning skills that Benjamin has acquired both through school and at home, are missing for Cava. We are having to go back and help him learn how to learn. We are having to teach him to not only be able to read in English, to understand what he's reading in English, but to, hopefully, be able to formulate his own thoughts and ideas on what he's reading.
As I've written about before, we are working on both Cava's communicative language (the language he needs for social interaction in everyday communication), but also his cognitive language, which Dr. Gindis defines as "a tool of reasoning, a means of literacy, and a medium for academic learning." By strengthening both, we are also helping to build his self-confidence so that he can see that he can do something new and challenging because he already has accomplished so many difficult and challenging things successfully. Reading is just one of those areas that we work on daily with him. Unlike with Benjamin, we realize we have to approach teaching Cava differently: both in terms of pace but also in terms of how we teach him, which all goes back to framing it in a context he can grasp.
Though this process can often be extremely frustrating, it is also very rewarding. When I see that he gets it and, more importantly, see that he realizes he's understanding what he's reading and that there is a joy to his understanding, it makes all of this worth it.
Hopefully, I can keep the spark of a love of reading alive in him and that it doesn't get squashed under all the frustrations of re-learning how to read. Cava loves to go with me to the library or to the bookstore, which are both something I hope will continue throughout his life. I want to foster a real love of books in him. I think it will give him a much bigger picture of the world around him. His world already got larger when he came here to begin with, so I can only imagine how much greater it will be when he finally reads a book that makes him understand: I'm not alone. Someone else understands, too. That is the magic of books.


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Established in 1996, the Centre for Health Promotion Studies has sought to provide research, education and skills to promote community health and well-being.
In 2006, the Centre was one of three key entities that joined to form the School of Public Health.
Valued for its emphasis on applied research, the Centre has provided opportunities for students to participate in cutting-edge, action-oriented research focused on community health. It does research 'with' rather than 'on' people. Social justice and health equity lie at the core of its ethos.
"Participation is the key to developing healthy communities. By understanding together what works best for whom in which circumstances, we learn what will be most effective in creating social change for health," explains Jane Springett, director of the Centre from 2011 to 2015.
One such project is Healthy Alberta Communities*. Formed in 2004, the project operated in four major Alberta communities: North Central Edmonton, St. Paul, Bonnyville and Medicine Hat. The project team worked with each community to remove physical and social barriers that prevent people from making healthy choices—for instance, by providing playgrounds for children and walking trails for all. The project team also tracked community member health, as well as the process of change in the communities, allowing their successes and challenges to inform future projects.
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Boston, MA (PressExposure) June 24, 2011 -- Millions of people have used acai berries over the past few years and the brand name grown to be a multimillion dollar companies. What happened is, companies realized many people were talking about acai berry, a fruit from the Brazilian rainforest.
Acai berry is well known for it's weight loss effectiveness and a health giving fruit. So, they developed an alternative pills marketing it as the best alternative for the natural acai berry fruit.
Unfortunately, their acai berry weight loss pill contains fillers and other chemicals - some of which are harmful and some which just aren't affective. Making this dietary supplement a complete scam why? Simply it doesn't work.
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According to their site: they added lipid-blocking digestive enzyme and Antioxidants into the ingredients which by the way is completely safe. This highly effective natural combination provides dieters with amazing advantages for achieving their weight loss goals.
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Acai berry had not been previously studied specifically for heart disease factors and conditions. The acai berry contains potent antioxidants which are known to have a positive effect on overall health and known to protect against various diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, eye diseases and many other conditions and diseases.
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