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Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church for Louis R. Duran.
Duran, 85, passed away Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, at Artesia General Hospital.
Interment will follow the services at Woodbine Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Dominic Grado, Zachary Grado, Joeluis Garcia, Angel Cabral, Orlando Rodriguez, Eric Tesillo, Louis Duran and Hector Galvan. Honorary pallbearers are Ismael Sandoval, Randy Samora and Gabriel Duran.
Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Grace. A rosary will be recited at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the church.
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As the wedding season approaches at speed we are gearing up for another summer of tipi weddings, parties and festivals. Just a quick mention of the three open days we have coming up:
10th & 11th of March at the Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living (SG6 3NA).
28th & 29th of April at Tip Top Venues, Newton Longville (MK17 0BU).
If you prefer something a bit more traditional we'll soon be taking delivery of a beautiful 24m x 12m vintage pole marquee which we'll be launching on the 20th of May at Lodge Farm House, Kings Walden, Hertfordshire (SG4 8LL).
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For a while we've been wanting to post the "behind the scenes" shots from our burgundy bohemian styled shoot that happened in the rolling Hertfordshire hills late last summer, so here they are!
The shoot was organised by Caroline from Caroline Opacic Photography and in between the photos are a few words from her about her inspiration and what feeling she was trying to evoke through the shoot.
"This shoot was designed to be inspiration for a vampy, bohemian tipi wedding. I love outdoor, festival style weddings, and wanted to play with merging boho and deep wedding hues. Normally I go for pastels, so using burgundy and navy as the primary colours, was new for me, but I totally fell in love after this shoot."
"The venue was a gorgeous tipi by Country Tipis, styled by Vintage Garden Weddings. We opted for lots of macrame, navy and red dream catchers, vintage glassware and mossy centrepieces for an alternative banquet set up. We also set up an incredible outdoor ceremony area with a macrame arch, and decorated with flowers from The Urban Flower Farmer. Possibly my favourite setup was our Moroccan snug area, underneath one of Country Tipis' smaller tents. We finished the day with a fire pit set up, complete with marshmallow roasting and snuggly blankets provided by Brolly Bucket."
The bride
"Our bride Eva was wearing Lucy Can't Dance's 'London Calling' dress which I had wanted to feature in a shoot for a long time. I love the tassels on the sleeves – they really matched the festival feel and perfect for an autumnal wedding. To go with the dress, we opted for some great wedges from Emmy London and an eye catching Victorian inspired ruby ring from London Victorian Ring Co."
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No. 13: Traditionalism is Modernism…
October 27, 2014
Excuse the dashed off nature of this post. It's been a while since I've posted anything, but I wanted to comment after reading this post by one of the better Neoreactionaries out there, Henry Dampier: Traditionalism is Modernism.
Though the Trichotomy is nice in theory, in practice it seems obvious to most that Neoreaction really consists of two opposing and very often antagonistic camps, the Traditionalists and the Post-Libertarians. (However I've found that most of the antagonism extends from the former group towards the latter one and not the other way around.)
Moldbug's insight is both simple, and it's own way, a little profound. The State is a Corporation. In contemporary political discussions, especially online, the public world of the state and the 'private' world of capitalism and corporations are contrasted infinitely to the point that the two become absolutely antithetical to one another. The ideological libertarian, the ancap, sees taxation as theft and considers the practice to be fundamentally immoral. The progressive leftist, on the other hand, considers the matter more through the lens of an 8th grade social studies lesson in civic virtue: taxation is the moral duty of those who possess something worth taxing.
The Menciian post-libertarian completely transcends the tedium of this worn-out old debate. In an economic sense paying taxes is the entirely rational act of the individual or firm. In this way the issue is completely obviated. The state is a corporation, no different or better than an insurance agency. The individual does not pay taxes, as the leftist would have you believe, out of a moral obligation to his 'society' or nation, but rationally, as it is in his best interests to do so.
Like the ideological libertarian the post-libertarian believes that the market evolves solutions over the long term to persistent material problems faced by human beings. The concept of governance then is subject to conditioning by historical market forces, emerging, not as the ideological libertarian insists, as something absolutely opposed to the market, but rather, as a corporation functioning within the dynamic confines of the market.
Members of the political left will alternatively see either Neoliberal democracy, or perhaps world communism as the form of government, given in idea, that is ultimately morally superior and towards which all of human history appears to be trending. The traditionalist reactionary typically will see some sort of romanticized monarchy as being the moral pinnacle of governance.
The post-libertarian will abide be neither of their visions unfortunately.
As Dampier points out this sort of Menciian thinker mines the political philosophy of monarchism, not to restore monarchy, but, quite to the contrary, to move beyond it. And herein lies the difference between reactionary traditionalists and post-libertarians, the post-libertarian is not making a moral argument about who, ideally, has the right or prerogative to rule. The post-libertarian does not advocate the elite, the people, or the 'merchants' right to hold power. The post-libertarian rather accepts reality as given. The most functional political structures emerge over time through competition, and it's their functionality, and nothing else, that determines their worth.
Because he holds this view the post-libertarian confines himself much more entirely to the comprehensible world of the understanding while both the traditionalist and the Marxist concern themselves with the subjective realm of our reason. These two realms are, of course, metaphysically speaking, both infinitely coextensive as well as infinitely distinct.
The liberal or libertarian is generally caught between a rock and a hard place so to speak when he places himself inbetween the traditionalist and the leftist, as both are philosophically idealist in the sense that they both attempt to constitute the physical realm of material actuality as completely determined the morality of our reason. The post-libertarian avoids this transgression, attempting a neutrality with respect to the right of actuality to constitute itself according to its own laws, whether those laws be the ones of Newtonian mechanics or economic supply and demand.
The market does not yield anything rightly considered as the absolute or ultimate form of governance, yielding instead only forms of governance that may be considered most adapted to the circumstances engendering their emergence. Hence, Neoliberalism is not the end of history but only that system which has emerged during modernity as the one most adapted towards the unique circumstances of modernity. As this era of history gives way to another, as material factors conditioning the realities of governance change, Neoliberalism becomes obsoleted in the face of better adapted institutions.
"He comes to himself out of his sensuous slumber, recognizes himself as Man, looks around himself and finds himself — in the State. An unavoidable exigency had thrown him there before he could freely choose his station; need ordained it through mere natural laws before he could do so by the laws of reason. But with this State based on need, which had arisen only from his natural endowment as Man, and was calculated for that alone, he could not and cannot as a moral being rest content — and woe to him if he could! With the same right, therefore, by which he becomes a man, he leaves the dominion of a blind necessity, since he is parted from it at so many other points by his freedom as — to take only a single example — he effaces through morality and ennobles through Beauty the low character which the needs of sexual love imprinted on him. He thus artificially retraces his childhood in his maturity, forms for himself a state of nature in idea, which is not indeed given him by experience but is the necessary result of his rationality, borrows in this ideal state an ultimate aim which he never knew in his actual state of Nature, and a choice of which he was not then capable, and proceeds now exactly as though he were starting afresh and substituting the status of independence, with clear insight and free resolve, for the status of contract. However artfully and firmly blind lawlessness has laid the foundations of her work, however arrogantly she may maintain it and with whatever appearance of veneration she may surround it — he may regard it during this operation as something that has simply never happened; for the work of blind forces possesses no authority before which Freedom need bow, and everything must yield to the highest ultimate aim which Reason sets up in his personality. In this way the attempt of a people that has reached maturity to transform its natural State into a moral one, originates and vindicates itself."
— Schiller, "On the Aesthetic Education of Man," #4
Here is my main critique of traditionalism, it conflates the physical and the moral to such a degree as to become fundamentally idealist in its inability to recognize the independence of the understanding from the reason and vice versa. As an example, consider the physical institution of the university, which provides bureaucratic certification, and the relation of that institution to the moral necessity felt by the individual to educate himself, morally and aesthetically, to engage with the inner forces of his soul and to sort them out and put them in the proper order. These two things are completely distinct, but may, under certain conditions and at certain points in time coincide, as they did during the classical age of the modern university during the 19th century.
Initially the university developed to fulfill a physical need, later the abstract spirit of the ideal of liberal education grew into self-consciousness and began to predominate as the primary justification of the physical-legal existence of the institution of the university. In this way the university has moved away from fulfilling its basic material purpose within our society in favor of fulfilling directly an abstract moral one, namely, the rational and spiritual perfection of the populace. When the modern university is held up and defended in political discussions by progressives it is usually in service of this pedagogical ideal which they set up as the ultimate moral aim of the ideal of education. At the same time however it is plain to see that the university is failing in a purely mundane sense to satisfy with regards to its physical purpose of certifying students for entry into the world of middle-class bourgeoisie employment.
This is not the easiest point to grasp I realize, and I understand that I'm likely not doing it justice but I hope you can at least see what I'm driving at. Physical institutions must remain grounded in accomplishing materially necessary things as directed by the conditioning forces of history and the market. They must keep their eyes on the prize so to speak and work towards a purely mundane goal, it is only by means of this sort of self-limitation that at the same time they may flourish as truly moral institutions. When the body decays it is not enough to argue the immortality of the spirit.
In the case of the physical-legal institution of marriage traditionalists very often make this very mistake, of arguing that the superficial outward arrangement of a transitory political, cultural or social institution should be maintained so as to fulfill an ideally moral, rather than a mundanely physical end.
My ultimate diagnosis of reactionary traditionalists is this, they are degenerate 19th century romantics trying to realize, in actuality, the naive physical condition of their reason through the rigid upholding of the superficial outward constitution of the past.
Traditionalism here is Romanticism, specifically the Herderian kind, and Romancitism is Modernism. Go on twitter and browse through their posts, what do you find? Postcard ready images of idyllic towns and nature scenes, fan-art dedicated to Teutonic knights and Gothic motifs. As much as they're wont to complain about materialism is there anything more materialistic than this? The harmony or unity of these past eras is the naive condition of their reason, and this sort of Gothic sentimentalism originates with and in many ways is completely identical to Romanticism during the 19th century.
I think I'd like them better if they read Walter Scott but their canon is ultimately only very small which is why I would call their romanticism degraded or degenerate as it tends to be hallowed out of much of its original substance.
This sort of traditionalism is not, as they would have it, a revolt against modernity in favor of a return to a more spiritually and socially integrated and harmonious past, but is modernism itself, as that is, plainly speaking, exactly what modernism is, a revolt against modernity in favor of a return to a more spiritually and socially integrated and harmonious past. The middle ages serves only as a symbol of this past within our consciousness, and was constructed by Ossian, Herder, Novalis, Walter Scott et al during the golden age of modern history around the turn of the 19th century.
It must be recognized that this past is not a goal to be realized in actuality, but a regulative ideal set up during the development of our reason that may never be physically realized. The reason for this? The moral harmony and unity of society is not objectively contained within the physical reality of society itself, but is a harmony rather introduced by our mind in our attempts to conceptualize reality.
The mistake of the traditionalist then, at his best, is to attempt directly realizing what is only a moral condition necessary for thinking in a constitutive way. At his worst however the reactionary is really just an anti-intellectual oaf dealing entirely in the picturesque. He collects cute postcards of European hamlets and hangs them on his fridge and believes that nothing more need be said. By perpetuating this revolt against modernity he sadly only perpetuates it though, as that is, in essence, the very definition of modernism.


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Riyadh, Adel bin Ahmad Al-Jubeir, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Cabinet, received here today the Ambassador of the Republic of France to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Francois Gouyette.
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I don't personally know anybody that has read the Quran. That is a fact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran
Wikipedia's page on the Quran is very nice. It says nothing of the style or voice expressed by the Quran.
And since a billion Muslims adamantly believe it is the word of God or Allah, I suppose it was time for me to read it. I chose not to practice contempt prior to investigation. It was time to investigate. So it was, I was determined to read the Quran this weekend. What I read shocked me. Really, shocked me. The English translation. http://quran.com/
One of the things that absolutely confounds me are the flaming liberals who being chiefly atheistic- are quick to defend something like the Quran. A book that many have never read but pretend that they have. Next time you get somebody running their mouth about Muslims, Islam, or the Quran...ask them if they have read the Quran. And if they answer "yes", follow up with a little quiz of your own. Ask them how long the first book is. That ought to do it. Seven verses, very tiny, in the opener. One hundred and fourteen suras which preach fear and control through violence, obedience, and intolerance for anybody that doesn't believe.
We all have opinions about various religions and I am ok with that. I have tremendous levels of tolerance. You are free to believe anything you want without me criticizing it. And as I read the Quran this weekend, I couldn't help but think that if this is the word of some highly evolved God- then we are all in a lot of trouble. Because you see- the Quran does not preach love, tolerance, and inclusion for all people. It is tribal. Us against them. It excludes non believers. You are essentially told to submit to this doctrine or face the consequences. And if you are in need of a hateful, punishing God- then this is the book for you. If you don't have enough fear in your life, add one of these things to your repertoire and become a believer. Here's a quick taste...pretty characteristic of the whole reward and punishment theme. http://quran.com/82 A quick look at Ramadan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan
I'll tell you where I get a little crazy. I get a little nutso about the time the Muslims start shoving this stuff down my throat or else- that's when I buy twenty bucks worth of or else. In America...
We call it freedom of religion which means you can practice yours- just don't interfere with our beliefs or try to force feed us a Quran style dose of fear and control. The gloves come off when you stray outside those boundaries.
I just touched on the Islamic surface this weekend. That's all I have time for. I cannot spend a lifetime studying the veracity of Islam. I will say this and leave it alone. If the Quran is the last word on love, tolerance, and forgiveness- if this is the gospel according to God or Allah- we are in a lot of trouble. Before and after.


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By: Annalee Finkenbinder
After 3 years we packed up all our belongings, got engaged and drove cross-country, moving 3000 miles with the intention of being closer to family. We stayed with your parents in upstate NY while we interviewed and found an apartment in Brooklyn. After a couple of months and a lot of dynamic, mildly stressful adventures we found what we were looking for — and then you got a job in Indiana.
Cool. I get it. And now I'm unpacking both of our boxes, measuring things you would usually measure and looking for furniture, while you travel most of the week. Sometimes it's lonely and strange to be in our new place without you and when I'm really tired I start to resent how quickly my expectations were asked to evolve.
But at the end of each day I go to sleep knowing that I wouldn't change a thing, and what you're doing, though unexpected and not what we planned, is amazing, and somehow all feels absolutely right. I love you to the moon and back times infinity and I'm looking forward to visiting you on the road.
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When I was much younger, I found the Sandman graphic comics in Powell's bookstore in downtown Portland, Oregon. I emptied my wallet and brought them home with me. I didn't come up for air until I had read them all. The Sandman and his sisters are all deep and dark characters. Neil says they remind him of his dreams. Those had to have been nightmares!
Vertigo and Edelweiss gave me the opportunity to read this book for review (thank you). It will be published November 10th, so you can grab a copy then.
My mind doesn't travel where Neil's does and I often get confused and mixed up during his tale telling. The graphics are very colorful and feel 3D, so the artwork can carry you along.
This tale goes through history, worlds and galaxies and lost loves. You see all the major players from the original series. It's a bit like visiting with an old friend. Except this character is not necessarily a good friend.
If you've read the other Sandman stories, you'll want to read this one. If you haven't, taste this one and see if it talks to you. It still talks to me all these years later.
I'm Jo Ann Hakola, The Book Faerie, bookworm and bookseller. I have been selling books since January of 2000. It's a homebased business and I sell online only. Here is my website: http:www.bookfaerie.com I offer free shipping stateside. It's a one woman endeavor, and I love working for myself. I have over 6,000 books online now. I do book reviews from a reader's point-of-view and try to spread the magic of reading.
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Dr. Christian graduated from Appalachian State University in 2005 and received her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her graduate work focused on mechanisms of translation initiation in mammalian mitochondria. Brooke did her postdoctoral work at Yale University as an NIH postdoctoral fellow where she studied the contribution of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species to the neurodegenerative disease Ataxia-Telangiectasia. Dr. Christian joined the department of chemistry at Appalachian State University in 2015 and teaches Biochemistry I, Biochemistry II, Biochemistry I Laboratory, Introduction to Chemical Research, and General Chemistry I Laboratory.
Current research projects in the Christian lab are focused on cellular stress, specifically stress induced by mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS). The first project involves the contribution of mtROS in the assembly of oxidative phosphorylation complexes. Dr. Christian uses tissue culture and animal models to investigate mitochondrial superoxide dismutase and mitochondria-targeted catalase overexpression systems. The second project uses the same models to investigate adipocyte (fat cell) differentiation, with a long-term goal of targeting this process to help reduce childhood obesity. The third project tests the ability for tardigrade-specific proteins to stabilize protein-based therapeutics, with the hope of storing and shipping these drugs at room temperature. Techniques used in the Christian lab include tissue culture, western blotting, qPCR, PAGE (denaturing/SDS and blue native), shRNA knockdown of genes of interest, immunofluorescence, and subcellular fractionation.
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Why Laws Of Attraction May Make You Lose Friends
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One of the frequently asked questions in the Law of Attraction community is related to lost relationships where many people wonder why they lose friends and experience strained relationships with their closed ones as they learn how to raise their vibrations?
When you raise your vibration, don't you expect only nice things to happen to you?
Yet you might find people losing out on their friends. They might even feel that their relationships are more strained than ever and things might not go as easy as you think. If you have thought that the law of attraction will only bring in good things to you, this development might seem as a conundrum. So, what can you do?
Understanding Law of Attraction
What you need to understand is that on raising your vibrations, you align yourself with a happier and pleasant state of being and are more likely to promote love, happiness and tolerance while the rest of the world is still working on discord and separation.
Your vibration truly rises when you notice that people are being kind to others and connecting better. The problem arises when you are unable to change your expectations about your loved ones as you gradually become aware of their negativity.
Remember, we live in an universe with 'infinite' versions. So, all you need to do is to make your loved ones evolve into a version you would like. You can try to make your loved one improve so that you can continue your journey together.
The major reason for this change in perception of your loved ones is because there is a change in your energetic shift. Your loved ones left behind in your journey of raising vibrations as they are not able to cope up with you. Either that person will get left behind and you will start detaching from him or you will expect that he joins you and rises up with you to keep the relationship alive.
It's Important to Believe
However, it is vital to remember that in the Law of Attraction, you get what you truly believe. So you need to believe that your loved ones will make the climb with you and they will. Focus on raising your vibration without worrying about the outcome.
To keep the relationship alive, avoid thinking that your loved one is a negative person and focus on the good times spent together and his positive traits instead of the negative one.
You need to understand that ascending to a higher state of being is what matter most and being surrounded by negative people will make your vibrational energy decrease. As you climb, loving relationships will automatically start getting attracted to you. And don't worry about losing your friends. Down the road, your positive energy might align with one of your friends positive energy again, a friend you had initially lost touch with because of different energies.
It's important to get in touch with yourself to be able to feel positive. Understanding the law of attraction will help you to lead a healthier and happier life.
Thank you!
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Chapter Three
After the hysteria over The Masked Mistress died down a few weeks later, Gretchen and Orlando had their first date. It had been a very clandestine affair, taking place in the private seclusion of Gretchen's older sister Jessica's house. As the tabloids wove tales of romances among others, Gretchen and Orlando had bonded over chicken fettuccine and a bottle of Jessica's coveted wine under their noses. (She had been charitable enough to donate one for the occasion.)
As he walked to the posh Manhattan digs of his new agent Miranda Willard a week after his first date with Gretchen, Orlando couldn't help thinking about her. He realized that he was wearing a sort of silly grin that he couldn't quite suppress on his face, and that he probably appeared to be slightly deranged, but underneath the mildly glassy look, Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom was, well… He was happy.
Orlando pulled out the piece of paper on which he had written Miranda's name and address to look at it again. He then looked at the building to see which number it was. As he moved forward, hoping to get a better look, he found himself bumping into a lithe figure.
"Oh damn—look, I'm—" The apology got stuck in his throat when he realized into whom he had ran. He relaxed a bit, tilted his head quizzically as confusion quickly conquered contrition. "Sienna? What are you doing here?"
Sienna, clad in a vibrant magenta shirt that made her deep blue eyes stand out, dark blue jeans, and stylish boots, chuckled, not at all ruffled even though Orlando had nearly knocked her over. "Well, I was walking until you nearly sent me careening to the pavement."
Orlando rolled his eyes, but he still couldn't help being both mildly amused and mildly embarrassed at the same time. "I meant what are you doing right here, Sienna."
"I knew that, Orlando." She gestured to the building behind her. "If you must know, a good mate of mine lives here." She paused a moment, staring at him searchingly with her perfectly formed eyebrows arched. "And what are you doing here, might I ask? Do you know someone who lives here?"
"I do, actually. Well, sort of." Sienna kept gazing at him, wondering what he was going to say next. "I'm meeting with Miranda Willard—"
Sienna's eyes widened a bit, and a sort of delighted shock filled them. "You know Randa?"
Orlando frowned at the use of the nickname. "Well, not on a personal basis really. She's my new agent."
"Oh! Well, what a small world it is, then. She's a friend of mine. We used to model for print ads together, ages ago. You'll definitely like her but…" Sienna suddenly looked anxious and glanced at her watch. "Well, she's out of her apartment right now. You and I both just missed her. She suddenly had to run out and pick up a friend at the airport—"
At that exact moment, Orlando's phone buzzed, as it had been on vibrate, signaling that he had a new voicemail.
"I wouldn't be surprised if that was her," Sienna remarked as Orlando brought the phone to his ear to listen to the message.
Hey Orlando, it's Miranda Willard. Listen, I'm sorry that I didn't call you earlier, but I had a sudden emergency come up and I had to leave unexpectedly. Hopefully things will be straightened out by Friday. I apologize again. I will call you and set up another appointment. I have some scripts that I think you would definitely be interested in. Talk you later, Orlando. Bye.
Orlando sighed and ended the call to his voicemail box. He shook his head and put his phone away. "Well. I suppose I have a bit of time free now that my meeting with Miranda has been canceled."
"And as it happens, so do I." Sienna linked arms with him.
Orlando glanced down at the top of Sienna's tawny head and couldn't help but smile a little as he fell into step with her. To the casual observer, they might have looked like slightly bashful lovers. But to others who knew them they looked like what they were: friends. So perplexed was he that he didn't even think about the consequences of someone spotting him and Sienna together like this.
"So do you know much about this mate that she had to go pick up at the airport? I suppose it was a close friend if she had to ditch a client."
Sienna chuckled again as they made their way down the sidewalk. "Oh yeah. It was definitely a close friend. A best friend." She tilted her head up at him again. "You mean you don't know about Miranda Willard's best friend?"
"Should I?"
Sienna shook her head in disbelief. "Orlando. Dear, sweet, guileless Orlando. You are seriously out of the loop, my friend." She glanced over her shoulder and saw they were near a newsstand. She disentangled herself for a moment and bought the newest issue of Vogue magazine that boasted a multi-page spread featuring the raven-haired, violet-eyed stunner on its cover. She paid the vendor with a beguiling smile, then sauntered back to Orlando with the mag in hand.
"That, my love, is Miranda Willard's best friend," Sienna informed him as he took the magazine.
When he saw who it was on the cover, he got a jolt.
She was tall with long, flowing black hair, and a flowing lavender dress brought out the color of her eyes. Exquisitely applied make-up made her appear ethereal. The gleam in her eyes hinted at an inner insouciance. The eyes seemed different, but the face was very familiar. It was the face of the woman he'd been thinking about all day.
"Gretchen?" he found himself saying aloud.
Sienna quizzically gazed at him sidelong at the sound of the one word. "Gretchen? Oh no, dear, that's not Gretchen. That's her sister Danie. They look very much alike don't they?"
"They do," Orlando admitted absently, still reeling over the staggering resemblance to Gretchen. "I knew that Gretchen had sisters, but I didn't think…"
"That they looked so much alike? I know. But Danie is so gorgeous…" Suddenly Sienna stopped and looked at him, a sudden understanding in her eyes. "Oh Orlando…are you and Gretchen…?"
In the middle of a Manhattan sidewalk, amid the hustle and bustle where he was as normal as the people rushing to work around him, Orlando merely smiled meaningfully, making Sienna squeal in delight. She enveloped him in a tackling hug, making some people stare at them in bewilderment, some in irritation. Orlando was so stunned that he didn't move to stop her. He just breathed in her scent and decided to wait until she was done.
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Meanwhile, some yards away, Irene Thomas-Wolfe saw Sienna hugging Orlando tightly and frowned.
She was having a nice lunch with her husband at their favorite restaurant when the sight of Orlando Bloom and Sienna Miller together crossed her vision. She knew little about the slender blonde who had caught the eye of the comely Jude Law—only to be betrayed by him later—and despite the reasoning that you could not judge a book by its chic, brightly-hued cover Irene could not think of her agreeably.
Sienna bounced away from him, her eyes glittering with mirth, and there was more touching and affectionate squeezing. Yes, Irene Thomas Wolfe was part of the persuasion who could easily mistake Sienna Miller and Orlando Bloom for a couple. And the fact didn't make her feel any better.
She had heard the rumblings. Apparently her daughter was going out with Orlando Bloom, and their relationship was in its early stages. Gretchen had not spoken to her since The Masked Mistress had premiered and she had to finish promotion on the film. So she had no say in the budding romance that she candidly frowned upon.
At the moment, David Wolfe was in the bathroom, and Irene was on her own. She had no one to discuss this with, had no one with whom she could share her misgivings. Because she had to be her own counsel, she did the first thing to come to mind.
She took out her phone, a nifty contraption with a built-in camera that her son had brought her for Christmas, pointed it in the direction of the dark-haired man and his blonde companion, and pushed the ok button.
A sound emulating a shutter opening and closing told her that the picture had been successfully taken.
Irene snapped her phone shut as her husband came back to the table. Noticing that she was distracted by the set of her shoulders, David came up behind her and massaged her shoulders.
"Irene, darling?" David inquired. "Is there something wrong?"
He was her husband. He was the father of four of her children. They had vowed to spend the rest of their lives together, through sickness and health, for better or for worse. However, Irene decided that she would keep this to herself…
Herself…and eventually her daughter…
Irene tilted her head to look at him. "Oh, no. I'm fine." A smile curved her lips. "Quite well actually…"
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Several nights later, Gretchen dabbed perfume behind her ears and sighed.
She couldn't help it, but she was a little bit nervous. Even though she had talked to him almost every single night, she hadn't seen Orlando in nearly a week, and she felt the butterflies of anticipation flitting around in her belly as she showered and dressed for her date with him. Of course, she also felt a bit nervous because of the decision she had come to earlier that day.
Orlando Bloom was going to be the first man she ever made love to.
She hadn't told anyone about this. Not Jessica, not Emma or Melanie, and certainly not her mother. She hadn't even told Orlando that she had made her decision; they had discussed it at length, and Orlando was willing to wait until she was ready. She wanted to keep it to herself because she didn't feel like hearing the ridicule of others. You're going too fast. Do you know what you're doing? You are not really in love with him! He will take your innocence and run!
Shaking her head of those thoughts and stepping away from the mirror, the robe-clad Gretchen padded to her bedroom where her outfit lay draped on her bed. It wasn't too provocative, just a nice pair of jeans and a pinstripe ruffled front blouse in black. She had decided not to blow dry her hair and let it form into the sexy ringlets she rarely wore. She hoped Orlando would like it.
That…along with the sexy underwear she'd dropped almost a hundred dollars on at Victoria's Secret…
Thinking about the idea of Orlando's approval when he would start the unpeeling process made her stomach jitter. Half of her was so nervous that she wanted to call Orlando right that moment and cancel the date. But then the other part…
The other part of her wanted to go through with it. That part of her wanted nothing more to make love with Orlando, to feel his bare skin against hers. That part of her imagined the bliss in the afterglow and craved it more than she had anything in her life. So she walked to her stereo and slid in a collection of songs that she knew would get her in the right frame of mind.
As music flowed from her speakers, Gretchen let the robe slide from her body. She picked up the lingerie and donned it carefully, liking the sensation of satin and lace. She sang along with Lisa Stansfield idly, finding that her apprehension abated a bit more with every passing moment.
I've got to keep you pleased in every way I can
Gonna give you all of me, as much as you can stand
Make love to you right now, that's all I want to do
I know you need it boy and you know
I need it too, 'cause
I've found what the world is searchin' for
Here, right here my dear I don't have to look no more
And all of my days I hoped and I prayed
For someone just like you who makes me feel the way you do
She carefully rubbed creamy lotion into her skin, a curve to her lips as she swung her hips to the music. Was this how all girls felt when they knew? When they knew they had met that special person with whom they could share the most intimate part of themselves? She hoped that all the girls in the world got experience this loveliness, this strange mix of anxiety and assurance that made them feel human. No—like a woman. Even though she was twenty-six years old, tonight, she would fully become a woman. She would be part of that exclusive club that she had been denied access to all her adult life.
Never, never gonna give you up,
I'm never ever gonna stop
Not the way I feel about you babe
I just can't live without you
I'm never ever gonna quit 'cause quitting just ain't my shtick
I'm gonna lay right here with you and do all the
things you want me to
She had just pulled on her jeans and started to button up her blouse when her phone vibrated. Frowning, Gretchen stepped over the cat, who had just decided to emerge from the depths of Gretchen's bed and show herself, and walked to her phone on the nightstand. She wondered who that could be…
I hope it's not Orlando, she mused, nerves coming back in full force again. I mean, if he's canceling the date, that is. Nervously she stared at the screen, finding that she had a new text message instead of a new call.
"A text? But who…?" Then she made a face when she saw who had sent her the message. "Mama? What in the…?" Shaking her head, she opened it, wondering what her mom possibly could have to say.
Mija I hate for you to have to find out this way. Better than seeing it in the tabs. Love you. Call me if you need anything.
"What is she talking about?" Gretchen muttered aloud, her heart lurching. In the back of her mind, she heard a voice telling her to put the phone away and look at the damned message later. Unfortunately, her interest was piqued and she couldn't help herself. When she scrolled down in the message more, she saw it. What her mother had warned her about.
It was a picture of Orlando while he was in Manhattan. She knew this because recognized the scenery behind him.
She also knew that he was not alone. He was with Sienna Miller in this photo…and they were hugging and laughing. There was a familiarity in this scene that made Gretchen believe in the worst. She knew that they had dated in the past—at this point, who didn't—and the fact did nothing to reassure her.
Her heart had stopped cold. Gone were the butterflies; they lay dead at the bottom of her stomach in a heavy lump. She suddenly felt sick, and she swallowed the bile that had been making its way up the back of her throat. Had I been about to…? "Oh God," she uttered aloud. "This…this can't…"
Torn in-between disbelief and anger, Gretchen grabbed her keys and her purse on her way out the door. There was a certain man she had to confront.
* * *
Orlando sat in a private corner at the swanky restaurant he and Gretchen were going to have their date. He had been there for almost half-an-hour alone, and his concern for Gretchen grew more and more as the seconds ticked by. He glanced at his watch again, wondering if he had misunderstood the time they were supposed to meet. Or had she? Why hadn't she called? And where could she be?
They had spoken just the evening before, and then things sounded fine. Gretchen did sound like something was weighing on her mind, and she hadn't opened up when prodded about it, but she'd assured him that nothing was wrong. She'd said that she couldn't wait to see him the following evening. Did she get cold feet for some odd reason?
Maybe I'm overreacting, Orlando said to himself as he glanced around the dining room for any sight of her. After all, I did come a little early. But then again, she hadn't called him or anything, so maybe she was running a bit late. Nothing out of the ordinary. Right?
But Orlando slipped his phone from his blazer pocket, just in case. Nope. No new messages, no missed calls.
Uttering a sigh of frustration because he was giving in to worry, Orlando dialed Gretchen's cell phone number and listened as it rang five times before going to voicemail.
"Bloody hell," Orlando swore under his breath as he listened to Gretchen's bright voice telling him to leave his name and number and she would get back to him. When he heard the beep, he merely said, "Gretchen, love? It's Orlando. Where are you? Is everything alright? Call me as soon as you can. Bye."
He ended the call and scanned the dining room again. Even though no one had really noticed him, he felt awfully conspicuous sitting here by himself. He hadn't counted on sitting thirty minutes at a table made for two all alone.
As if some sort of higher power had sensed his loneliness and confusion, a female voice rang out over all the others at that moment: "Orlando!"
The sound of it was vaguely familiar. He had heard this voice somewhere, and that one fact somehow amplified his hopes. He stood abruptly, automatically, before he could tell his legs to calm themselves. He looked in the direction of the sound of the voice and found a familiar face. But it was not the one he was expecting.
"Sienna," Orlando found himself saying as his hopes were dashed a bit. Then his eyes shifted to the attractive woman next to her. "And Miranda…"
Miranda Willard was a statuesque brunette with honey-colored skin and shrewd brown eyes. While she could easily slip into the skin of a seasoned businesswoman with the wardrobe to match, tonight she was dressed for a carefree night out on the town with her girlfriends. A satiny off-the-shoulder top in black and white paired with a black skirt and vibrant red heels completed the carefree look. When she met his gaze, her smile was as easy as it was friendly.
"Hello, ladies," he greeted them, trying not to reveal his prior anxiety about Gretchen show. "I just have to say, the both of you look absolutely smashing tonight."
"Well, thank you, Orlando," Sienna responded. Her eyes flickered over Orlando's table and Orlando barely suppressed a wince as she tilted her head and inquired, "So…are you meeting someone here, Orlando? You look awfully lonely here by yourself."
Orlando laughed, but it came out a bit nervously despite him. He averted their eyes and scratched the back of his head as he thought of an adequate response. This had to be worse than the Spanish Inquisition. Had to be. "I'm meeting someone here…"
"That's obvious, silly. Who is it?" Sienna pressed.
And the same higher power that had sent Miranda and Sienna over in his direction (a blessing? A curse? You decide) suddenly perhaps wanted to spare him some major discomfort and sent him a diversion in the form of the person he least expected to encounter that night.
Miranda, as Sienna had started to grill Orlando, had been scanning the room for a familiar face herself. Upon her eyes settling upon aforementioned face, she waved and yelled, "Chica! ¡Estamos aquí!"
Meanwhile, Sienna was expecting the answer of her question and was looking at Orlando with those piercing dark blue eyes. To kill some time, Orlando let his eyes drift to the exchange between Miranda and the mysterious woman to whom she'd been calling.
She was tall with long raven hair pulled back to reveal her striking face. The dark lavender halter top and white skirt that she wore were a nice contrast to her olive skin, and the shirt brought out her amazing eyes. As she came closer and her face became clearer, Orlando found himself shifting, his casual veneer slipping. He was thoroughly and utterly flummoxed.
That's…! She looks like…!
"Orlando?" Sienna asked.
Miranda and the woman spoke in rapid tones, and it took him a full ten seconds to realize it was not in English. He looked away, thinking he was crazy. This whole getting stood up business—he hated to admit it, but that was what it was—was making him into a complete nutter.
When she broke her gaze from Miranda's face and looked at him, a twinkle in her eye appeared, and he recognized it as interest. It awed him that she looked so much like, well, her, that he swallowed under her gaze…
"This is Orlando," Miranda said to the woman after noticing the shift, breaking though Orlando's reverie. "¿Recuerdas cuando te dije sobre el? El otro día?"
"Oh sí, sí," she recalled, nodding. She then looked to Orlando. "Hi, Orlando. Nice to meet you," she said, smiling. Then, with two words, she changed the rest of his life. The rest of their lives. "I'm Danie."
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An hour later, Gretchen finally arrived at the scene of her supposed date with Orlando. The scents of the lotions and the perfumes she had so lovingly, carefully applied were overwhelmed with the stench of outdoors. She had pulled her hair back because it was a curly mess, and the knees of her jeans had grass stains on them.
She was tired. She was through with being mad for the moment. She was even willing to call herself an idiot for rushing out of her house the way she did and busting one of her tires on the way to Orlando's. It was a lucky thing that she knew how to replace a tire since her phone had decided it was not going to work for her. Of course, that was just another entry on the list of things that made this a fucked up night.
Gretchen walked up to the hostess stand, knowing that she would get a look of disdain due to her appearance and smell. Instead, the petite redhead standing there looked at her politely and asked, "What can I do for you?"
Gretchen surreptitiously brushed a lock of hair behind her ear as she thought of the best way to vocalize her response. "Well," she began, "I was supposed to meet a friend of mine here and I had a flat tire on the way. It was just my luck I ended up smashing my cell phone with a tire iron." The hostess raised an eyebrow. "It wasn't getting any service and I was really, really frustrated with it. I ah…"
The hostess smiled and cut through Gretchen's barrage of words with, "Who was the person you were supposed to meet?"
Figuring she wouldn't get star struck as she looked like she saw celebrities every day, Gretchen replied, "Orlando Bloom."
The hostess nodded calmly. She wasn't fazed at all. "Alright, ma'am. Give me one second while I find out."
Gretchen leaned against the host stand, feeling conspicuous in her dirty clothes and mussed hair. The hostess stepped away and flagged down a guy with an apron tied around his waist. She asked him a question Gretchen couldn't hear, then Gretchen's heart sank when she heard the words he left with. And Gretchen was relieved of the dilemma of what exactly she was going to say to him for the moment.
Orlando left? Gretchen mused, frowning. With whom?
The hostess came back over looking mildly apologetic. "I just spoke with Mr. Bloom's server and he said that Mr. Bloom left about thirty minutes ago. He was with his agent and her best friend and…" The hostess frowned as she tried to recall the name. "I forget her name. What's her name? The really pretty blonde that used to date Jude Law?"
A flash of anger seared Gretchen's veins. Somehow she found the calm to merely say without shouting or shredding the host stand to bits with her bare hands, "Sienna Miller."
"Oh yes! That's her name. Sienna Miller. Yeah, they all left together." The hostess, now realizing what this meant, started to placate Gretchen. "I'm sorry, ma'am that—"
Gretchen shook her head as the anger drained out of her and left her with immense exhaustion. "It's fine. It's not your fault." She mustered up a small smile. "Thank you for your help."
Without waiting for a response, Gretchen turned and walked out, thinking about her down pillow and her copy of Continuum. Her cell phone was a mass of broken plastic and circuits, her perfect date night had been ruined, and, honestly, she didn't want to think about it anymore. She was going to go home, wallow in her despondence, and work it out in the morning. Or the next day. Or after Christmas.


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Road Infrastructure Fails Our Children
United Nations Want Action While Road Infrastructure Fails Our Children
The United Nations (UN) is calling on Governments worldwide to act, with a Save Kids Lives campaign. Here the recent tragic event where 3 school children were knocked over by a car illustrates that New Zealand's road infrastructure fails not only our youngsters, but also innocent drivers. So Lucinda Rees from NZ School Speeds is joining with the UN and calling for "action rather than rhetoric" from the Ministry of Transport.
The UN urges individuals and organisations especially schools to help by signing the 'Child Declaration For Road Safety', then take a 'Safie' with their road safety message and send or deliver these messages to decision makers. This all culminates on 4th to 10th May for Global Road Safety Week when events can be organised and Ms Rees will deliver road safety messages on behalf of New Zealand's school children to our Minister of Transport.
School zones are used by children, yet speed limits vary greatly from 40km/h on some urban streets to a shocking 100km/h outside some rural schools. Drivers have told Ms Rees that they would happily slow to consistent speed limits in school zones, "yet our Government sits on their hands and does nothing. How many more tragedies are needed for something to happen?"
Consistent low speed limits of 30km/h maximum are recommended outside schools at peak times by the World Health Organisation and are widely adopted in Europe. Studies show that if children are hit by a car travelling at 30km/h or less they have a high chance of survival, but as speeds increase the likelihood of survival decreases. To keep school zones safe at other times of the day the speed limit should be no more than 60km/h.
"Minister of Transport Simon Bridges claims to be in favour of the Safer Journeys programme and its 'Safe Systems' approach, but is obviously deluded. For some years now, 40km/h as posted outside urban schools is no longer considered safe and speeds above are just plain dangerous for children trying to cross the road. Posting these speed limits in school zones is misleading drivers to think the speeds are safe.
"Children learn valuable life lessons when allowed to cycle or walk to school and will ultimately free roads of school drop off traffic, easing congestion. First rules need to be put in place to protect them. Schools need to get involved and inform children of safe routes to school and teach road safety and cycle skills. Children will continue to make mistakes, but if there are key safe places were they can cross, these mistakes are less likely to be their last one.
"Download the signboard, write a message, take a photo and post it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #Safie and #SaveKidsLives or send it to email@example.com and get involved," says Rees who set up NZ School Speeds organisation to rally for safer speeds outside schools.
Although there is one rule in place to protect school children getting on and off the bus - the 20km/h school bus rule - those who needed to cross roads in school zones are continuing to be ignored. This leads to lack of culture in slowing consistently near children, leading to few drivers abiding by the school bus rule.
"Speed limits are in place for children who get on and off a school bus and even for adults who work in road works, yet there is no consistent speed limit in place when children cross the road to school. Introducing consistent road rules for school children will protect all who have a right to learn. Mr Bridges this is your time to act and avoid being delegated to the naughty chair."


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World Famous Photographer Rankin Awarded Honour at Prestigious London Awards Ceremony
- British photographer known for his iconic pictures of the world's most famous faces
- Britain's 180 years heritage of image-making celebrated at inaugural event
- British Photography Awards is a not-for-profit competition that benefits 16 UK charities
Rankin, one of the world's most famous photographers, has received a Fellowship Award at an awards ceremony held at London's Savoy Hotel on Monday 28th January.
The British Photography Awards were founded in 2017 to celebrate outstanding achievements in British image-making.
After receiving his award, Rankin said: "I'm not a big award enterer, so I haven't received loads of awards, but to receive an award from the photographic community is massive to me. I love photography, I'm obsessed by it and I loved all the entrants and winner tonight."
Rankin is a world-renowned portrait and fashion photographer who co-founded the influential British magazine Dazed & Confused. He has captured some of the most famous faces in the world, including British icons The Queen, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and model Kate Moss.
Hugo Donnithorne-Tait, Awards Director, British Photography Awards, said: "These awards are pivotal in celebrating the rich heritage of our photographic culture. They inspire new practitioners and influence established artists.
We are very fortunate in having such a distinguished Fellow to award in 2019, someone who has been a great source of inspiration to so many photographers the world over."
The British Photography Awards is a not-for-profit competition that recognises Britain's rich heritage in image-making dating back 180 years and strives to celebrate British artistic innovation on the global stage.
The competition donates money to 16 UK charities, including Shelter, Help for Heroes, The Wildlife Trusts and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
For this year's British Photography Awards, over 3,700 British photographers submitted their work to a team of expert judges. 16 honours were awarded across a range of categories including: Best Portrait Photographer, Best Drone Photographer, Best Documentary Photographer and Best Selfie Photographer.
The celebrity photographer Richard Young was amongst the winners. He was awarded the British Photographic Associateship accolade.
The competition's People's Choice Awards attracted 74,000 votes from the British public. A People's Choice Winner was announced for each category, alongside the overall winner chosen by the judges.


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[IMPORTANT] Toddle only offers HALF-DAY program (8am - 1pm or 12pm - 6pm). Please visit http://toddle.org/pricing-and-programs.html for more details. The minimum drop-off hours is 2 hours. The maximum is 4 hours in the morning or up to 6 hours in the afternoon. --- Toddle is a play-based preschool for children ages 2 through kindergarten. We offer regular preschool programs as well as Preschool on Demand for as little as an hour a month. We believe if children -- who are naturally capable, self-motivated learners -- are in a well-designed, natural environment in the hands of talented and passionate teachers, they will thrive and grow to their unique potential. We believe children are naturally capable, self-motivated learners. Decades of research indicates play is the most effective way children learn.
is a gifted Early Childhood educator. She supports and partners with families to encourage each child's unique social, emotional and intellectual growth through their natural play and bright curiosities. In addition to her leadership role at Toddle, Maria provides workshops in Early Childhood Education to preschool programs around the Bay Area. Previously, Maria was the Education Coordinator at Genentech's Second Generation where she developed curriculum and trained and mentored the teaching team.
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Site performance versus traffic: it is a tough battle to fight. When working with PHP applications we usually have to face this issue sooner or later, as a site becomes more popular it can begin to suffer from performance issues. There are several ways that you can improve your site's performance to help solve this problem, but one of the easiest ways is to set up PHP caching. PHP Caching is an excellent solution for Web sites that wish to improve their site performance by allowing their dynamic pages to be stored client-side by your application. These solutions… View full post »
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That year of launching a small business, holding down a full time and part time job, our family became deeply involved in operating the food truck, it was exhausting, and near the end of the market season, we had realized that this was not sustainable use of time.
To add insult to exhaustion, we had an anonymous complaint filed to the city of Hamilton, stating that we had a commercial vehicle parked at our Ancaster home.
To add insult to exhaustion, we had an anonymous complaint filed to the city of Hamilton, stating that we had a commercial vehicle parked at our Ancaster home.
The market ended the 16th of October and the city graciously gave us till Nov 1st to remove our awesomely loved travel trailer from our driveway.
I resigned from my contract position with the BIA as Market Manager fulfilling all the requirements of the contract in the hopes that they would still allow ojo's to continue to operate at the Farmers Market in 2014. We paid full vendor fee's to have Ojo's at the market along with the market membership fees. Ojo's was a member in good standing by Farmers Market Ontario Standards,
On November first we rented a warehouse at 1632 Wilson Street West home of Soldaats poultry. Since this was private property and we we renting we assumed that the city of Hamilton Food truck by-law would allow us to operate
We followed the city guielines and filed for a zoning verification to operate our food truck at 1632 Wilson Street West.
The city told us that M3 Prestige Industrial Zone did not allow for food trucks. Wait a minute we thought, we have met all the conditions of the food truck by-law, no restaurant in site, and far away from the BIA. So we argued our position with zoning and city hall, and in February 2014, we were given permission to operate a food truck at 1632 Wilson Street West.
During this 4 month period where we were going back and forth with the city we continued to pay rent at our location despite not being allowed to operate.
4 months, a very cold winter and a 1000 sq foot warehouse space, we tried to find a loop hole to allow a food truck to operate.
We applied for a SEAT application, for a special event Holiday market, we were advised by the city that we did not need permission as we were on Private Property, so on Dec 21st we held our first market called the OJo Shop Local Solstice Market. We operated the food truck, froze the truck solid in the seasons worse ice storm, but all in all had lots of fun and the market was well received.
With the encouragement from the market vendors we decided to form a Farmers Market for the west end of town. We first contacted the Ancaster Farmer Market and asked them if they wanted to collaberate. We were advised that the AFM would not support a second market in Ancaster.
We decided to move ahead regardless of the opinion of the AFM, we contacted Farmers Market Ontario and asked for support, we contacted the health dept of the city of Hamilton and advised them our our intentions, we had two health inspections prior to opening, we installed wash basins and hand sinks. On March 21st we founded the OJO shop local spring market, with a handful of supporting vendors.
During this period we remained in contract with the then manager of the AFM, and submitted our vendor paperwork for the 2014 season, after reviewing our application with the management team of the AFM the manager told us that our application had been refused because of starting a new market. We shook our head, accepted the position and moved on.


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UN: In less than a week 263 civilians killed in Donbass
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Over the period from January 31 to February 5 at least 263 civilians have been reported killed due to hostilities in the Donbas, according to a statement the UN has posted on Twitter.
"Ukraine: from 31 January to 5 February, at least 263 civilians were killed and 674 injured in the fighting," the statement reads.
In addition, the UN reported that from March 2014 to February 6, 2015 the number of children who died in the Donbas reached 59, with 153 being injured.
The UN has also said the World Health Organization is stepping up its activities in the health sector in eastern Ukraine.
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Hey there, I'm Markus. I would describe myself as an easy-going, positive, creative, enthusiastic, fun person. You will find me most happy producing music, playing it on stage, creating and connecting with people.
Always happy to explore new places, meet new people, discuss new ideas, try new things. I'm a fast learner so it's a lot of fun for me trying new things and figuring out how to get better at them!
I love traveling respectfully and slow pace. I'm very clean and like people who share those two aspects and aren't the typical party tourist.
I love to learn about hobbies and skills my hosts/guests have, especially if you are a fellow creative!
As I'm currently traveling my friend Sara helps me with managing the flat and she will be welcoming you to this beautiful place!


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Coeur d'Alene Mines
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation
is a major silver producer which explores, develops, and operates silver and
gold mining
properties. The metals offered to end users are utilized in various industries such as the production of jewellery, silverware, and photographic films. The Company produces close to 15 million ounces of silver and 0.11 million ounces of gold. The silver reserves stand at 75 million ounces and the gold reserve is approximately 4.5 million ounces. The 2008 income stands at $1.33 million. The Coeur d'Alene Mines shares are listed under the symbol CDE at the NYSE and under CDM at the TSX. The company is a mid-tier gold producer.
The corporation was established in the 1920s, and its production levels grew by 30 percent in 1933.
Coeur d'Alene Mines
merged with the Silver Standard Mining Company and the Rainbow Mining and Milling in the 1940s. In 1979, the corporation joined the
Hecla Mining Company
, the Silver Dollar Mining Company, and the Sunshine Mining Company in a joint venture to reopen the Silver Summit Mine. The first public offering of the company`s
raised $18 million in 1983. Subsequently, Coeur d'Alene Mines purchased the operating lease of the largest silver mine in the USA, the Rochester Mine. The merger with Royal Apex Silver gave Coeur d'Alene ownership rights over the Rochester Mine.
Currently, the company develops six mining sites. The Guadalupe gold and silver deposit at Palmarejo, Mexico holds 43 million ounces of silver and 0.53 million ounces of gold reserves. Since 1986, the Rochester Mine has been producing 110 million ounces of silver and 1 million ounces of gold. The Bolivian San Bartolom mining site is designed to deliver 9 million ounces of silver. The proven and probable reserves stand at 135 million ounces. Contained in a silver bearing gravel, the material is directly transported to the processing facilities. The Argentinean Martha Mine delivers 2.7 million ounces of silver and 3.313 ounces of gold. The Broken Hill Mine in Australia produces about 1.4 million ounces of silver. The mine has delivered about 500 million ounces since 1885. Finally, the Australian Endeavour mine is expected to produce 0.9 million ounces of silver per year.
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