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After a tour of the North East with Elysium Theatre Company, Alice will be returning to play MISS JULIE at THE HOPE MILL Manchester from 18th - 22nd June 2019: https://hopemilltheatre.co.uk/events/miss-julie/ On 'Sleeping Beauty' at Theatre Royal Stratford East: 'Alice Frankham puts in a number of striking appearances as a beaky crow and a dancing queen.' - The Guardian. '...an unexpected operatic outburst by Mirror Antoinette (Alice Frankham). Short-lived, yet stunning. That girl's got some pipes.' - TimeOut.
|Accents & Dialects:
(* = native)
|American-Southern States, American-Standard, Australian, Cockney, English-Standard, Essex, French, Heightened RP, Irish-Northern, Kent, London, Manchester, Northern, RP*, Yorkshire
|Music & Dance:
(* = highly skilled)
|A Cappella, Charleston, Choral Singing*, Classical Singing*, Contemporary Singing*, Folk Singing, Harmony Singing, Jazz Singing, Jive, Lindy Hop, Merengue, Opera, Period Dancing, R & B Singing, Rock Singing, Soprano, Swing Singing, Tango, Waltz
|Audio Drama, Children's Theatre, Comedy, Green Screen, Live Roleplay, Mask, Musical Comedy, Musical Theatre, Physical Theatre, Role Play, Theatre In Education
(* = highly skilled)
|Cycling, Snowboarding, Stage Combat, Swimming, Yoga
|Other Skills:
|Barista (experienced), Bartender, Comedy Songwriting, Computer Literate, DBS (CRB) clearance, Devising, Drama Workshop Leader, Improvisation, Puppetry, Qualified Massage Therapist
MOUNTVIEW ACADEMY OF THEATRE ARTS, BA (Hons) Performance Acting option, 3 years, 2008 - 2011
Alice is an Associate Artist of Elysium Theatre Company (Elysium TC), founded by Jacob Murray in 2016.
Alice was nominated for Best Female Performance in the Off West End Awards 2013, for her role of Virginia Woolf in Vanessa and Virginia, at The Riverside Studios.


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The Battle of Doiran and Bulgaria's Greatest Military Strategist
28.05.2012 § 1 Comment
In 1914 Bulgaria was a young state, recently gained its independence and continuing to look for the means to realize the vision of unifying all Bulgarian lands within its borders. After the humiliating Treaty of Bucharest at the end of the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria was exhausted from two wars and in an economic crisis due to the loss of wheat-producing Dobrudza.
Drinking With Bulgarians
27.05.2012 § 2 Comments
If you're ever in Bulgaria, and you're doing travel right, you *will* find yourself drinking in the company of Bulgarians. Whether it's in a restaurant with dinner, in a bar, in a city park, or on a beach slash mountain peak, here are a few essential tips.
Bulgarian Names and Naming Customs
26.05.2012 § 2 Comments
Bulgarian given names are taken from a variety of sources. Biblical, Greek and Latin (like much of Europe), but also Slavic and Protobulgarian names abound among the population, with various regional varieties and pronunciations.
Geórgi (George), Iván (John, pronounced "ee-VAN", not "I-vuhn") and Dimítar are the three most popular boys' names in Bulgarian. The first two are Biblical, after St. George and St. John the Baptist, respectively, while the last is the name of an important Orthodox military saint, St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, and is distantly related to the Ancient Greek goddess Demeter.
Seven Rila Lakes (Hiking Route)
25.05.2012 § 2 Comments
The seven Rila lakes are a group of glacial lakes in northwestern Rila. At an altitude ranging from 2100 to 2500 m above sea level, they are the most visited mountain lakes in Bulgaria, and with good reason. Layered one above the other, they are wild, picturesque and clear, and the paths between them are rocky and steep. Buses from Sofia stop at the nearby town of Sapareva Banya, which is a day's walk from the lakes. Two mountain lodges operate nearby: the old one ("Rila lakes" mountain lodge) and the new one ("Seven lakes" lodge). All lakes are located above the tree line, meaning that the vegetation around them consists mostly of grass and shrubs.
"Don Juan" at the National Theatre
23.05.2012 § 2 Comments
In the dimly lit colonnade of a villa's courtyard, a blindfolded young lady is laughingly following the call of a tiny bell in the hand of a masked gentleman. Her laughter echoes from the empty stage. Three masked figures peel away from the shadows and join their game with predatory grace. Two grab the gentleman, gag him and drag him off the stage. The third takes out a bell and lures the lady towards him. Completely oblivious, she trustingly approaches the predator calling to her with the bell of her beloved. He lunges at her and she screams in fear. Her screams attract the men from the house. Cornered and surrounded, the predator shoots the girl's father and disappears in the ensuing chaos.
Poet Profile: Valeri Petrov
20.05.2012 § 4 Comments
Poet, playwright, screenwriter and translator, Valeri Petrov (pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah) is one of the most multifaceted talents in Bulgarian literature. In prose, verse and translation, his style is crisp, light and accessible and every rhyme underscores the beauty and melodiousness of the Bulgarian language.
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The Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival is curated by Sarah and was started in 2018 in response to the growing poetry scene in Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding areas. We want to explore poetic talent, both local and national, in order to bring a community event to one of Kent's most thriving towns.
Our 2019 festival will be held on Fri 14th June – Sun 16th June based at Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells. Get it in your diaries!


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Battletech: 20 Year Update PDF
The Fourth Succession War was a victory for the Federated Suns.
The War of 3039 was a fiasco.
Now a new generation of Inner Sphere leaders are coming of age, inheriting the promises and the vendettas of their elders.
A new Marik commands the Free Worlds League. Theodore Kurita gains more and more power at the expense of his own father. The marriage between Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner has successfuly borne fruit. The Capellan Confederation is no longer under the leadership of a madman.
But things never go smoothly in the Inner Sphere. Will the fledgling Federated Commonwealth survive the coming decade or will it collapse under pressures from within and without? Can the Capellan Confederation regain its strength before the Davions decide to finish what they started 20 years ago? Can Theodore Kurita drag the Draconis Combine into the modern day without losing his own life?
The BattleTech 20-Year Update advances the storyline of the universe up to the year 3050 and provides an inside look at the next generation of heroes and villains.
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I'm in my 2nd year of residency training to become a pediatrician. During my residency training, I developed a strong interest in maternal and newborn health and became trained in a program called Helping Babies Breathe. This program trains health care providers to provide resuscitation to newborns in resource-limited settings. The program has a train-the-trainer model, intended to promote sustainability in developing countries.
Project Humanity is a non-profit NGO that has been working on Rusinga Island, Kenya for the past few years. The leader of their medical team is Kay, a registered nurse. Kay has trained many local providers in Helping Babies Breathe over the years. I had the opportunity to join her and others from Project Humanity for their most recent trip in March 2016. My role was to train more providers and to observe how the training was being implemented in one of the nearby hospitals, Mbita Hospital.
Thanks to KimKaps, we were able to deliver 9 surgical caps to the women working in the Labor & Delivery Suite at Mbita Hospital. They had never worn or used surgical caps before so this turned into a great opportunity to teach about the importance of cleanliness in the hospital setting!
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Why I Don't Use The Term "Brand"
Updated 11 June 2013
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I consider myself a conscious business woman, but have never considered the power of the word "brand." Eye opening! Thank you.
- Monday, April 11, 2011
- April R. Silver said...
Glad to share a different way of looking at things.
- Tuesday, April 12, 2011
thank-you for giving voice to what I have always in my heart, felt. Signature or unique are much better words and yes words are very important.
- Tuesday, April 12, 2011
- LaTosha said...
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- Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Thanks for this post April, I don't often have time to read during the busy day (have you considered reading your posts and creating podcasts?) but for some reason I took the 5 minutes today and am thankful I did.
I walk in this world with white skin and yet I carry the history of African & Native American peoples. I so deeply appreciate your ability to ello share the broader historical context of a word that to so many simply represents logos and slogans of Levis, Apple, etc...
I can now carry this clarity with me as I work with clients and move ever deeper into marketing, PR & social media.
with Gratitude,
- Tuesday, April 12, 2011
With all respect, I find this post to be extremely inflammatory.
You said, "I do understand that it's common for people to use words, but not know their depth or historical context."
Well do you know your history? The act of branding livestock has been around since the ancient Egyptians.
- Tuesday, April 12, 2011


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Oregon is in the midst of an epic quest to site marine reserves off the coast. These are areas closed to fishing and other extractive activities within the state's 3-mile territorial sea.
One of the top beneficiaries of no-fishing zones: the multi-colored rockfish.
So far, Oregon has two pilot reserves locked in already, after only eight years of debate and negotiation.
… OK, so that's kind of a long time.
Here's why: Many coastal communities have been fighting the marine reserves concept because their economies rely on the fishing industry. They argue supporters haven't explained why the reserves are necessary (i.e. What's the problem the reserves would solve?)
Scientists have studied the ecological value of marine reserves in other places; Their studies show the reserves increase abundance and diversity of marine life. Supporters say the reserves will be like ecological savings accounts for our ocean - like the national parks are on land.
Rockfish are one of the major currencies that these reserves would stockpile because they spend much of their lives in the same general neighborhoods at the bottom of the ocean.
As Oregon – under the advisement of community stakeholder groups – considers adding four additional reserves to the coastline, I thought I'd supply you with 5 things you should know about rockfish:
- They often go by the nickname "red snapper" at fish markets and restaurants. So, you've might have eaten one, whether you knew it at the time or not.
- There are 64 species of rockfish managed in the Pacific Ocean, and some have fun names like chilipepper, cowcod and bocaccio. Some species are protected because they're overfished. But there's also a large, federally protected Rockfish Conservation Area farther offshore, where no rockfish can be caught.
- They can live about as long as people do, and studies show that as they get older, the females produce more and more eggs.
- The groundfish trawl fishery that catches them with nets is being overhauled after decades of management that didn't do the rockfish populations (or the fishermen, as of late) much good. Canary rockfish stocks, arguably, took the biggest hit.
- Soon, you can adopt one. That's right. In one of Oregon's two pilot marine reserves - off the coast of Port Orford at Redfish Rocks, scientist Tom Calvanese, a grad student at Oregon State University, will be inserting acoustic tracking devices into five species of rockfish. He'll study their movements and see how much time they spend in the reserve, which will be closed to fishing July 1, 2011. Adopt one of the tagged fish, if you want, and you can support his research.


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The poor schmoe who does the books for Brazil's World Cup set-up was in it up to his knees this week.
We're just under two years out from that tournament, right about the time when the, "They're never going to pull this off!" hysteria begins.
Turns out they made a small calculating error. The World Cup was supposed to cost the Brazilian taxpayer about $11.5 billion. It's gone up a bit. About another $1.7 billion.
They were a little shy on the numbers for building a bunch of airports. Turns out that staging the biggest sports tournament in the world is a lot like getting your kitchen redone, only with more zeroes. The only thing you can be sure of is that it's going to cost you more than you planned.
It's further unneeded proof of the increasingly magical financial thinking that envelops world football. Invent a number. When you fall short of this s entirely imaginary figure, ask for more money. And someone will give it to you.
On the same note, Chelsea turned a profit this week, cause for no little celebration. Most of the crowing owed to the fact that Chelsea has now outstripped Arsenal to become the fifth biggest gross earner in world football. (Life was simpler when rival fans didn't need a subscription to Barron's to one-up each other.)
It wasn't much of a profit — $2.2 million. It would have been another huge loss if Chelsea hadn't earned the bonus money from an unlikely run to the Champions League title. But it is the first profit the club's earned since Roman Abramovich bought it a decade ago. Since then he's stuffed more than $1.5 billion into the team mattress.
Abramovich is not short of cash, though his fortune has been dwindling recently. He once owned a large chunk of a thriving oil and gas concern. Like a great many of Russia's sudden billionaires, he was gently asked by Vladimir Putin some time ago to sell up and leave, lest his extracurriculars turn from sports to politics. Now all he's got is football, a fleet of battle-cruiser sized yachts and a ghastly art collection (it's a second wife thing).
This is excellent news for current Chelsea supporters and future Chelsea employees because Chelsea continues to be run like a hobby farm. No amount of winning will ever balance the books for long.
Most big clubs continue to be run like aristocratic estates from a century ago — as large, unfeasible, cash-eating monsters. One suspects some of them will enjoy a similar fate — stripped from their irresponsible owners and kept on as low-cost heritage foundations by some sort of public trust.
They're creating a template in Spain over the last couple of weeks.
While sports business continues to thrive in England and Germany, Europe's have-nots are having serious trouble filling their stadiums. One of the prospective casualties is Real Oviedo, a small club with a big history.
If Oviedo cannot find 2 million euros by Nov. 17, it will be liquidated. The club is lingering down in the third division, but unlike a great many other sides in similar straits, it has the advantage of lustrous alumni.
Three Spanish stars in the Premier League — Chelsea's Juan Mata, Arsenal's Santi Cazorla and Swansea's Michu — all began their careers at Oviedo. Michu joined the club at the precocious age of 5. They've sunk an undisclosed amount into the rescue and urged fans from around the world to join a share-buying scheme.
For $15, you can own a small part of the club and get free seats for life. The shares won't earn you anything, though they reassuringly note that by making the purchase you "will in no way assume any of the responsibility for any future debts that may occur with the club."
That's a big, wet bucket of fiscal reality there.
Oviedo's plight has become a social media fetish and lucky cause celebre.
Even their old nemeses have gotten into the spirit of things. Real Madrid has donated 100,000 euros to the cause. Real keeper Iker Casillas handed over a signed jersey for auction.
Twenty years ago, Oviedo were competing with Madrid for titles. Now they're accepting their charity.
The roots of Oviedo's problems are the same as in any failing business — wretched management coupled with declining buyer interest.
That's how businesses die. It's the natural order of things. But football, and sport more generally, continue to exist in a bizarre continuum outside that ecosystem. From the biggest to the very least of them, they are all fuelled by romance rather than reality.


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No matter.
IGBTs! IGBTs! IGBTs!
LOOK AT THESE IGBTs!
Current limited by the package leads, among other things, these are the perfect candidate for some pulsed, hard-switched, power dense goodness.
And so the journey to building a QCW bus modulator begins.
In essence, the modulator portion of your QCW coil is just a buck converter capable of producing arbitrary waveforms across the bus of your DRSSTC.
The tried and true control scheme for these guys is hysteresis (bang-bang) control, which involves turning on the high side of your buck converter when the sense voltage falls below your hysteresis band and turning the high side on when your sense falls below the hysteresis band.
In lieu of a microcontroller, I opted to make my control loop out of op-amps for noise immunity and beardy-weirdy cred.
|Troller Schematic. Forgive me, for I have text overlap up the wazoo.
The outputs of the comparators are then fed to an SR latch so that the hysteresis thing happens.
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Special notes: the input signal is actually taken from an opto, which is filtered by an LC to reproduce the desired waveform. It's like L-C filterception. Additionally, this allows me to send square wave pulses optically, instead of an analog signal through a long length of coax, which is bound to
The boards are now split up into three sections: a DC-chopper motherboard, controller daughterboard, and DRSSTC with filter LC.
|Can't have too much bus cap (a work in progress)
The addition of the driver daughterboard would allow me to send out for plenty of driver revisions without having to spend a fortune on the whole 5.5" x 5.5" board. Oh, and did I mention how small everything is? :3
Current limiting is implemented on the driver side as desaturation detection: in an over-current state, the voltage drop across the switches increases to well above the typical ~2.0V, which is detected by the drivers, which do some fancy soft-turn off to prevent voltage spikes induced by the typically high dI/dt. The gate drivers also conveniently have built-in opto-isolated inputs.
Bluescooter got an overhaul to make it more of a reliable commuter vehicle than junkyard scrapper on the verge of collapse.
After eating through a current modded controller, a few things were changed:
1) Motor upgrade!
|Sweet Bajeesus
An especially squat, low kv motor, perfect for squeezing into the tiny 4" u-channel frame.
But everything changed when
I was forced to look beyond Ye' Old Hobbyking, and found a cheaper, dare I say, better option:
Even with expedited shipping, the SDSHobby motor lends itself to be a good $20 cheaper than the Hobbyking equivalent, the only downside from ordering from SDSHobby being their rather small selection of EV-sized motors.
2) The controller with the infinite heatsink
Some fresh thermal grease, three holes, and some cap screws later, a happier 'troller was born.
Even on especially hot days, I've yet to find the area around the FETs go more than 5°C above ambient.
3) It has a new caddy.
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Mountains of the Moon – 3
Previously, Shankar escapes the rural life to work in the lion territory.
The black mamba station
It was about 3pm when an excited Shankar arrived at the station. The station 'office' was little bigger than a wardrobe. The 'platform' was just a barb wired area. Behind the office room was his 'quarter', a little bit bigger. After dropping him off, the train left for Kisumu.
There was a train in the morning from Kisumu, and one in the afternoon towards it. There are only two trains a day. It wasn't much work, he would have a lot of time in his hand. And it didn't take him long to take charge from his predecessor. The previous stationmaster was a Gujerati man, he spoke English pretty well. He made Shankar tea. There wasn't much to explain to Shankar. But it appeared that the poor chap didn't have anyone to talk to for a long while. He was very happy to see Shankar. After a cup of tea, the two walked around the station.
Shankar asked: Why the barbwire?
The Gujerati gentleman replied: Oh that's nothing really. It's a quiet place you know.
It appeared to Shankar that the man was hiding something. Shankar didn't insist on an answer. The gentleman cooked roti for dinner. Halfway through the dinner he shouted: Damnit!
What happened?
Absolutely forgot to take drinking water from the train. There's no water left.
You mean you can't get drinking water here?
Nope! There's a well. But the water is extremely bitter. Only good for washing dishes. Drinking water you get from the train.
Interesting place, Shankar thought, no water, no people. Why have station in such a place.
The next morning the former stationmaster left. Only then Shankar realised how lonely he would be at this place. It was by far the least populated place he had ever seen! He was the only person in the station. There was no coolie, no pointsman, no guard, nothing!
The reason for this arrangement was because that station, and many like it, were not making any profit. Their existence was still 'on trial'. As a result, the rail company wasn't going to spend much on it.
What did Shankar do whole day? After the morning train left, he cooked, he read, after lunch he took a nap, after the afternoon train left and the sun came down, he walked around.
Around the station there was the familiar grassland, with some tall trees, and a mountain range visible in the far horizon. It was just as beautiful as the construction camp was when Shankar first arrived in Africa.
The Gujerati man told him never to venture out far into the grasslands.
Shankar asked: Why not?
The gentleman did not give a satisfactory answer. But Shankar received an answer one night the very first week.
Shankar finished his dinner rather early that evening. He was writing his journal in the office room. He decided to sleep there that night. The room had a glass door, which was ajar, not locked. Hearing a sound, he looked up to the door — beyond the glass was a huge lion. Shankar became very stiff. The door would open if the beast just nudged it a bit. And he was completely unarmed except for a wooden ruler.
The lion stared curiously at the kerosene lamp for a while. For how long? Not long at all — two minutes tops. But it seemed to Shankar that the lion was there for an eternity. This was probably not a man eater. After a couple of minutes or so, the visibly bored lion left. Shankar jumped up and locked the door very quickly.
Shankar realised then why the place was barb wired. He also realised what his predecessor was hiding. After all, many would fear lions. Shankar was half right. He only understood the danger partially. There was more to come. And it took him a few more days to grasp that.
The other danger came from a whole different side.
The next morning he told the train driver about the lion. The guard, a good man, listened and said: It's like that all over here. There's another station twelve miles down. The same deal there. Here of course there is…
He was about to say something else, but he suddenly stopped and returned to the train. From the train he yelled: Be very careful.
Shankar became really worried — they were obviously hiding something, but what? Was there something other than lion? Anyway, Shankar decided to light a fire in front of the station from that evening. He also started to shut the door before the sun set. This didn't mean he'd go to bed at sunset. He would stay up till late to write his journal, or read. Some nights he would just stare outside — into the darkness, sometimes he would listen to the wind howling through a distant tree, sometime he would listen to the jackals, or lions.
Sometimes he would think that this was the life he sought. This was his destiny. This quiet savannah, this mysterious night, this sky containing unknown stars, this risk of the unknown danger — this was his life. A safe life of a jute mill clerk, that could have been the dream of many, but that wasn't for him.
After seeing of the afternoon train that day, as he was entering his quarter, seeing something in the bamboo pillar Shankar jumped back a yard — a huge cobra, ready to bite, just a foot or two away from the pillar. A false step and it would have been over for him. But before he could figure out how to kill the snake, it climbed up the pillar and hid in the roof. Some pickle it was! Shankar had to now go into that room and cook. It wasn't like a lion that could be deterred by shutting the door and lighting a fire. Shankar quickly boiled an egg, gulped it down, and went to the station office. But what was the guarantee that he was safe there? Perhaps the snake had entered that room through some crack in the wall?
The rail company gave him supplies twice a week. The following morning, the supply was delivered by a new coolie. This guy was Indian, perhaps from Bihar it seemed to Shankar. He was giving Shankar a strange glance. But before Shankar could say anything, he left.
Shankar was now sure that something was being hidden from him. As if there's something sinister about this place, but he wasn't to find out. What could it have been?
A couple of days later, after the morning train had gone, Shankar was about to step on another snake. Perhaps it was the same cobra. Perhaps it was another.
He had started sleeping at the station office since seeing the first cobra. A few nights later, well after midnight, Shankar suddenly woke up from sleep. It was as if some sixth sense warned him about some impending danger. He had goose bumps in the darkness. He was trying to find the torch when he heard something moving in the room. He found the torch, and like a machine switched it on.
And he became stiff with fear the very next moment.
Between the wall and his bed, raising its ugly head and staring right at the torch light, was the most poisonous of African snakes — black mamba! From the floor the head was about three feet high, the whole snake could easily have been over six feet long. It was nothing sort of a miracle to survive a black mamba bite, Shankar had read.
We have seen how strong Shankar's control over his nerves was when he faced lions in the past. His nerves didn't fail him that night either.
He realised that he was safe as long as the torch was focussed on the snake's eyes. That was his only chance. But what if the torch moved a bit? What if his hand trembled?
His hand must not tremble, he told himself. His life depended on it. He could see the snake's eyes. They were like two giant balls of fires. Was there cold hatred in those eyes?
Shankar forgot about his surroundings, his bed, his table, the continent of Africa, his job, Mombassa, Kisumu, Bengal, his parents — there were only those two eyes. That was all there were. Everything else was dark, nothing else existed. Everything else was dead.
All of the truth was those eyes, and the poison gland that was next to them.
Shankar's hand started aching, his finger started going numb, he couldn't feel anything from the elbow down. How much longer could he hold the torch up? Perhaps those balls of fire weren't the snake's eyes… may be they were fireflies… or stars…
Was the torch battery dying? Was the light turning into a spectrum of colours? Why were the fireballs burning? Was it day or night? Was he looking at the earth or sky?
Shankar got a hold on himself. He was becoming hypnotised by those eyes. But he had to stay alert. It wasn't as if he could get some help — his survival depended on his nerves. But there was obviously a physical limit. His hand couldn't go on staying still forever. At some point, even a snake bite must have appeared to be more appealing!
The station clock turned to three. His life was obviously till 3am that morning. As the clock hands turned three, his hand trembled, and the fireballs were gone. But wait, the snake didn't bite! Why not?
Shankar realised that the snake was also hypnotised. This was his chance… within a second he jumped out of the bed ran out to the platform, closing the door from outside.
He stayed at the platform until dawn. Eventually the morning train arrived. Shankar told the driver about the snake. The driver said: Come on, let's have a look.
There wasn't any sign of the snake. But the guard showed Shankar holes in the ground around the station. He said: You might as well know. You're very lucky. Your predecessor left because of the snakes. The two previous ones died of snake bite in this very station. In Africa, black mamba is more feared than lions. Apply for a transfer man. And please, don't tell anyone that I told you about this.
Shankar said: It will take months to get that transfer. Please do me a favour. I'm completely unarmed here. Please give me a revolver and a rifle. And give me some carbolic acid.
I have some acid in the train, hang on.
A coolie stayed back for the day. They covered all the holes and sprayed acid around the platform. In the afternoon train the rail company sent him a rifle and a revolver.
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When I went to call Porter in from outside this evening he didn't come immediately running for his treat! Next, I hear a thump from beneath my feet. Looking over the railing, all I see is this little yellow nose peeking out, so I had to grab the camera and get another picture from the side before helping him out!
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The sky was cloudy and rain was lurking, but the sun came out for a little while to shine on the Picnic in the Park to kick off the celebrations for DCS's 30 years of providing exemplary services to families and children.
The Deaf Children's Society of BC recently received new 3-year accreditation from CARF.
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Roger Carver, a former Director of the Deaf Children's Society of BC, wrote numerous articles and essays on the subject of deafness, deaf culture, and ASL while at DCS. Mr. Carver is currently Executive Director of Saskatchewan Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His writing has always been thoughtful, useful, and ahead of its time. One such article is "To Be Visual or Not to Be Visual: The Hard of Hearing Child".
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1999 Peugeot 205 GLD 1.7 from Argentina
A car that will get you there. Always!
The alternator is a tricky one. It got stuck once and before that I had to change its belt twice in less than 10.000 km.
Apart from that, nothing else.
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The GLD model was sold in Argentina until 1999, unlike other countries so my model (1999) was one of the last 205 built around the world. And still, I don't know why Peugeot stopped manufacturing it.
Its design is simply beautiful. Needless to say, Pininfarina knows his job very well.
The car is a great all-rounder. It's cheap, it's reliable, and has one of the best performances on its category. Mind you, though, if you want a hot car get a GTI and spend your salary fueling it. That's not the idea of the GLD. It will take you wherever you want to go at minimum cost.
I've put this car at 160 km/h (100 mph) and although the handling is quite unstable at such high speeds, it means that you can do whatever you want with it. Yet street-driving is this car strongest point: No other car will behave as good as this one with such a economical performance.
The 65 HP -max engine output- comes into play whenever you get at 2500 RPM; I never got that feeling of being driving an underpowered car.
The only weak point of this car is the gearbox. It is too street-driving oriented. The gears (specially the 1-2-3) overlap each other too much for my liking. It is true that it might be appropriate for city driving, but whenever you get to 60 km/h (40 mph) the engine starts pleading for fifth gear, and it's the last one you get until the top speed.
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RANDOLPH, Vt. - Instead of gathering at a vigil to offer prayers for the safe return of a missing 12-year-old girl, residents found themselves mourning the news that her body had been found.
Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body Wednesday from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert.
"Brooke Marie, I love you so much," her mother, Cassandra Gagnon, said at the gathering later in the picturesque town of a little more than 5,000. "I just ask that justice be done for the person who took my baby away," she said, sobbing.
The girl's father, James Bennett, added, "I know Brooke knows that we love her and will always love her."
As state police announced the grim news Wednesday evening, they said Michael Jacques, the girl's uncle and a convicted sex offender, will face federal kidnapping charges.
Bennett, who had just finished seventh grade at Randolph Union High School, disappeared on June 25 after being seen at a convenience store with Jacques.
Jacques, 42, has been in custody since Sunday on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a different underage girl. He has pleaded not guilty. Jacques has 1993 convictions for kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault.
After searching in and around his home across town for days, police said they found the girl's body in a spot where the earth had been disturbed.
"The painful discovery of Brooke's body today is tragic and heartbreaking," State Police Director Col. James Baker said. He called the death "clearly suspicious" but declined to give details before a planned briefing Thursday morning.
In an affidavit unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Burlington, the FBI said an unidentified 14-year-old girl told investigators she was present on June 25 when Jacques tricked Bennett into thinking she was going to a party and took her to his Randolph home to be initiated into a sex ring.
The teenager said she was led to believe Bennett "would have sex with adult males" during the initiation. The 14-year-old said she herself had been having sex with Jacques since she was 9, as part of the sex ring.
The teen said she and Bennett watched television for a while before Jacques told her to leave and took his niece upstairs. The witness said she left the house with her boyfriend and didn't see Bennett again.
In another blow to the family, Bennett's former stepfather, Raymond Gagnon, was formally charged Wednesday with obstructing justice in the case.
He entered no plea at the federal hearing and was denied bail pending another hearing on Monday. The 40-year-old Gagnon, who lives in Texas, was on a regular visit to Vermont when he was arrested.
According to the affidavit, Gagnon told police he accessed his former stepdaughter's MySpace page from a computer at his San Antonio home after getting login information from Jacques.
Police said they have evidence that postings to the account were altered to make it appear that the 12-year-old had discussed a secret rendezvous shortly before she disappeared.
On that day, Jacques dropped Bennett off at a convenience store, and surveillance video shows they left in separate directions. She had told family members she was going to meet a friend and visit a hospitalized relative of the friend.
At the vigil for Bennett in Randolph — a site that still featured big banners reading "Come Home, Brooke, We Love You!!" — Gary Finch, Bennett's homeroom and math teacher last year, said she was an energetic and enthusiastic learner whom he loved having in class.
"She was always volunteering, always with a smile on her face. Smart, creative. It's a tragedy. It's unbelievable. It's hard to comprehend. I didn't think anything like this would happen to such a great kid," said Finch, one of about 300 people who attended.
Finch said that when school started last fall, Bennett was nervous about transferring from her small elementary school to the high school.
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Self-portraiture is like looking in a mirror covered in grease. It can be hard to make out anything clearly.
Here's a few of my sketches of a cross-section of the people from the old neighborhood.
Two blocks down from where I lived I used to sit and read outside this run down little laundry-mat. There were always bums demanding smokes and packs of screaming kids running in and out of there. Kafka and Tide packets were a welcome distraction.
Sometimes you find old friends in new places. Justin was one of them.
My friend Justin is a real fixture in the neighborhood. He is something of an urban legend in his own right for surviving being a chauffeur for blues and rock acts for 20 years - he is also known to wield a mean punchline.
Clearly intractably adorable. I have no idea why she gave me the time of day.
Above, Girl #1 that I was sick deep infatuated with. She reminded me of an Elliot Smith song from New Moon. "You're so pretty and smart, So why do you feel that you have to hold your toungue?"
Trouble comes in all varieties and shapes. This woman had seen her share of it.
Girl #2 that I was also very sick deep infatuated with. I never got more than her name out of her but she was always pretty close to where I was seeing a show at - for like 5 years. I couldn't decide if she was a New Face in Hell or just stalking me. All I really knew was that she was beautiful.
The best thing about being an artist is also the worst. Inspiration is like being drunk.
Like I said, Girl #2 would show up in the neighborhood a lot. This is a good example of something stupid that us guys think about chicks that give us ragers - she is purchasing a bagel and I am busy trying not to picture what her legs look like. However, this was not really meant to be. She ended up meaning something to me anyhow.
Also, neither one of these intensely sexy, unique women ever took it upon themselves to camp out in front of my building or testify that I was about to murder them. For that, I am eternally grateful.
Never, ever, argue with a man who has just told you he is Harry Houdini.
This guy was the craziest bum in OTR - speaking in tongues, Manson arms, the whole 9 yards. He has my lighter in his hand in this drawing. We were outside Kaldi's, when that was open in 2008, arguing about the odds of me getting my lighter back.
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- Workers Strain to Retake Control After Blast and Fire at Japan Plant (NY Times)
Japanese officials and safety workers struggled to reassert control over badly damaged nuclear reactors on Tuesday after the situation at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant appeared to verge toward catastrophe, with a huge spike in radiation levels after a new explosion and fire. Though the situation remained perilous, there were signs that workers had, at least for the moment, contained some of the danger. The higher radiation levels of earlier in the day — possibly from a fire in the No. 4 reactor — stabilized and then declined toward evening, according to the Japanese authorities.
- So far, very low risk of West Coast contamination from Japanese nuclear accident, experts say (San Jose Mercury News)
As emergency workers struggled to prevent a full-scale meltdown at a Japanese nuclear plant, public health experts said Monday that there is little risk that radioactive material could reach California and the West Coast -- unless the disaster gets a lot worse. And even then, the public health threat probably remains very small. "Based on the type of reactor design and the nature of the accident, we see a very low likelihood -- really a very low probability -- that there's any possibility of harmful radiation levels in the United States, or in Hawaii or in any other U.S. territories," Greg Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said at Monday's White House media briefing.
- Tsunami Cleanup Efforts Under Way in Local Harbors (Bay Citizen)
Ann Hardinger has worked on San Francisco Bay for 30 years with the Coast Guard and now as the Berkeley Marina harbormaster — and she's experienced many tsunami warnings. But Friday's surge was the first tsunami that made it to the bay in her career. It left her harbor with smashed docks and broken pilings. "It only looked to be a one-foot wave," Hardinger said. "But what made it particularly devastating was the speed and force of the current."
- Japan crisis may chill support for reactors (Bloomberg)
Ten years ago, Californians appeared to be warming to nuclear power. A majority of voters favored adding reactors to the state, despite a California law that bans construction of new nuclear plants. Rattled by the state's electricity crisis and worried about global warming, Californians seemed ready to give nuclear energy another chance. Japan's nuclear crisis may have changed that.
- Two sides, two versions of negotiations status (Sacramento Bee)
Hopes of reaching a budget agreement this week dimmed after several Republicans said Monday that discussions with Gov. Jerry Brown had stalled. Brown has been negotiating with a bloc of deal-minded senators that dubbed itself the "GOP 5" in an effort to put tax extensions on the ballot. But one of the five, Sen. Tom Harman of Huntington Beach, said talks went awry because of fundamental differences over whether to place pension cuts and a permanent spending cap on the ballot.
- Schools send out hundreds of preliminary pink slips (San Jose Mercury News)
Reflecting the uncertain and dire budget picture, South Bay schools have notified hundreds of teachers, counselors and other school employees -- including all administrators in two school districts and 20 percent of teachers at another -- that they may not have a job next school year. Although layoff warnings are an annual spring ritual to meet the March 15 deadline for California schools, this year the notices anticipate what may be the hardest reductions ever for schools. Many already cut art, music and electives, support staff, maintenance and supplies. Now if the state doesn't increase revenue through Gov. Jerry Brown's tax package or slash other costs, the school districts will have to deeply cut the numbers of teachers, administrators and support staff. That would mean cramming more students into classrooms, closing libraries and, in the East Side Union High School District, paring down to just one counselor per 2,000 students. And that's just the bad scenario. Far worse -- such as slicing weeks off the school year -- could come.
- Oakland gang case proving to be a tough fight (SF Chronicle)
The slow pace of a hearing over a proposed gang injunction in Oakland - which heads into a sixth day today and may not end for weeks - has opened a debate that goes beyond evidence of retaliatory violence and the claiming of colors. Oakland city attorneys, who are seeking a preliminary injunction, say defense lawyers for 40 alleged Norteños in the Fruitvale neighborhood are stalling in a bid to frustrate the process and bleed the city's resources. Defense attorneys say the city simply didn't count on them putting up a fight. Around the state, such hearings have typically lasted less than a day. But as the defense notes, most defendants named in gang injunctions have lacked attorneys.
- Tax break incentive to keep Twitter in San Francisco up for key vote (SF Examiner)
San Francisco's best shot to prevent Twitter from migrating south faces a key vote Wednesday on whether to give the microblogging service a six-year tax break. The growing San Francisco-based company has explored a move to Brisbane, where its business costs would be lower. San Francisco has a 1.5 percent payroll tax whereas Brisbane does not have one.
- After tsunami, wave of concern for Treasure Island (SF Chronicle)
It probably wouldn't have come up a week ago, but now questions are being asked about whether Treasure Island could be damaged by a tsunami. Supervisor Eric Mar, who chairs the Land Use Committee, was worried because the island where developers want to build 8,000 new housing units is directly in the path of any wave that may come through the Golden Gate.
- San Francisco police start going after loiterers, enforcing sit-lie ordinance (SF Examiner)
Police quietly rolled out enforcement of the sit-lie ordinance late last week, but it appears no one has been cited for violating the law. Park Police Station Capt. Denis O'Leary said he was advising his officers "to go easy in the beginning and just admonish people." "I haven't seen a cite yet," said O'Leary, whose district includes the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
- Homes sit empty across East Bay (Contra Costa Times)
...Many of the Contra Costa cities that grew the fastest in the lead-up to the housing crash are now littered with the highest percentages of empty homes. The cities of San Pablo and Richmond have the highest overall vacancy rates in Contra Costa -- 8.5 and 8.2 percent, respectively. Pittsburg, Antioch and the rest of East Contra Costa follow close behind. Vacancies in East County cities increased by 200 to 550 percent from 2000 to 2010.
- Calif. seeks right to sue over greenhouse gases (SF Chronicle)
California and five other states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let them sue power companies whose plants emit greenhouse gases, saying legal action is needed as a backup for the Obama administration's embattled efforts to curb pollution that contributes to global warming. The case, to be argued April 19, pits the states and environmental organizations against an unusual alliance: the energy industry, which opposes the emissions limits, and the Obama administration, which says such restrictions should be imposed by Congress and federal agencies, not the courts.
- TurboTax not updating for same-sex couples (SF Chronicle)
Reversing a promise made earlier, the makers of TurboTax disclosed on Friday that it will not update its tax-preparation software to provide step-by-step guidance for same-sex couples in California, Washington and Nevada and advised these users - unless they have very simple finances - to hire a professional to prepare their 2010 return. The decision highlights the difficulties facing people who must comply with a new Internal Revenue Service ruling that applies to same-sex couples and registered domestic partners in the three states that have both registered partnerships and community property laws.


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