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1. Consuelo, Our new housewife. Consuelo is just happy to be here, and loves cleaning and laundry. She only cooks traditional Mexican fare, so the honey loves her, and she does all the dishes, so I love her. She speaks Spanish so Little O can learn, and she adores Mama Dina, and has lots of juicy hometown gossip for her. Did I mention she's magic and if I prick her with a pin, she pops like a soap bubble and re-appears when I wave the toilet brush? Or she might be like a Roomba, and just emerge when we're not home and get it all done…hmmm, I'll have to give this more thought before I talk to Santa.
2. A real bedroom set, involving either a lovely sleigh bed OR an ultra modern platform—super clean lines.
3. A week at a beach house with MY family, not his. I love his, but I want a week with MY family. I see his all the time.
4. The gods of employment present a job that actually makes money for my Ex, so I could ask for child support (at this point I'm afraid to file because I think I make more), and co-incidentally, the Honey is given a high paying job sampling beer.
5. POOF! My car is paid off!
6. If he can't be given a job drinking beer, maybe he could just stop for a while…
7. My son is transformed into a straight A student, practicing his trombone without being forced, cleaning his room so Consuelo doesn't have to.
8. Diamond Earrings the size of hailstones. Not even golf-ball sized hailstones, just something visible from space. (I am being scolded by my cubicle-mate for being practical AND wanting magic tricks instead of THINGS).
9. A ten thousand dollar gift card for Cost Plus, or, actually, Target. I could do some serious damage. Pier 1 would be nice, but not nice like Cost Plus.
10. A laptop with wireless internet that goes the speed of LIGHT. Next year I am not blogging in November, I am going to PARTICIPATE in NaNoWriMo. I'm dragging my father and my brother with me. You, too, Kat!
11. If #6 is out, maybe a half naked cabana boy with washboard abs and, tragically, an inability to speak. He still HAS a tongue, let me be clear, but no speech. He can, however, laugh at my witty asides, and appreciates my inability to clean. I'll even share him with Consuelo if I never have to scrub anything, and never HEAR about it.
12. Hawaii. Cabo. Dublin. Fiji. Barcelona. Any of these would be acceptable.
13. A 4-bedroom house—we need an office for the computer and the Honey's out of control sports crap, er, memorabilia. The computer currently lives in the middle of the dining room, and Little O sleeps in our room. When she outgrows that toddler bed we are so screwed…
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14 May (Part 1) - We're skint, but we can afford this - click any image for photo gallery (4 images)
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go again. A road restricted for no advantage except that it provides work for
idle hands to do. Perhaps it will go the same way as the
Brampton Road width
restrictors and be removed in a few years time. Do we really need a ramp
warning before a 'No entry'?
The road shown does nothing other than serve as a parking area for the shops by Belvedere station plus a place for delivery vehicles to stop. It's not used as a race track, it's far too narrow and congested for that. Nevertheless Bexley council thinks it should spend some of your money on pointless restrictions. The delivery lorries will quite likely go up on the pavement on their way out. It's another little problem for business but Bexley council won't care about that.
A document issued by The Department of Transport a couple of days ago says "We are freeing local authorities from central government control and letting them determine their own solutions". All government departments seem to be under the impression that local authorities are competent and not vindictive money-grabbers. There are some very interesting tables and graphs in that document and I do hope the Notomob take note of the statistics when going about their business of helping Bexley's gestapo wagons.

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Pine Nuts: 'Mark Twain's America' debuts in Nevada
Some years ago now, in New York, Ken Burns presented a sneak preview of his film "Mark Twain" to 200 Twain scholars. I managed to sneak in.
I remember being in a reverie throughout, due in large part to the undercurrent of piano music that seemed to flow like the very Mississippi herself.
Little could I have known, or ever suspected, I would be on the same stage with that pianist, Jacqueline Schwab, in 2014, presenting "Mark Twain's America" in Nevada … wow.
The way it came about was quite serendipitous, really. A very nice Tahoe lady happened to attend one of Jacqueline's concerts on Cape Cod and bought the CD Jacqueline had produced, "Mark Twain's America." She then gifted that CD to me when she returned home.
I listened to it while driving around the lake and didn't want the journey to end. It was the most mesmerizing music, sending pictures of Mark Twain's America flying through my head.
I could not wait to call Jacqueline and find out if we could collaborate on a live performance.
As good fortune would have it, she had a west coast swing scheduled in February of 2014, a year hence, and she agreed. Over the next year we pieced together our program and I marveled at how her music gave Twain's words wings.
Imagine if you will, the haunting backdrop of Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer," beneath Sam's tribute to his late wife, Olivia, as only Jacqueline Schwab could play it…
"I was born reserved as to endearments of speech and caresses, so hers broke upon me like the summer waves break upon Gibraltar. Hers was the most perfect character I have ever known, and she was the most winningly dignified person I have ever known. She had a heart that was tropically warm. It is in the heart that the riches lie.
"A loving heart is riches, riches enough; without it, intellect is poverty. And Livy possessed a heart of finer metal than any gold that was ever mined or minted. Whoever fell within the fatal influence of her beautiful nature was her willing slave forever more. If ever there was a man who had reason to be thankful for divine providence, it is I. I'll say this about Olivia: Wheresoever she was, there was Eden."
I had spoken these words about Olivia hundreds of times before, but with Jacqueline's music beneath them, I actually started to well up.
Her music touched me in a place that no other music could touch … that starboard atrium of the heart. I have to believe this is what elegant music was designed to do.
As an aside, my father told me once that it was okay to cry in public — you just have to shoot everybody who saw you do it.
Now I need to fly to Jacqueline's home state of Massachusetts to notch another state on our belts with "Mark Twain's America." If we're lucky, and the creek don't rise, we might get to see all fifty states … wish us luck.
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Wood Pencil / Websites / Interface & Navigation / 2009
The web is full of top-down scrolling websites that are great for viewing information linearly, but not so good at fun things like chance and exploration. DoodleBuzz was born out of an idea to create an entirely new way of exploring information, allowing for a kind of 'quiet chaos' that gives everyone the opportunity to explore unthought-of paths and connections along their news gathering journey. The interface for DoodleBuzz is simply a scribbled line. Draw a straight line. Draw a curved line. Draw a crazy, chaotic, all-over-the-place messed up line. It's up to you how you want to lay out the information. DoodleBuzz simply provides a blank canvas for you to use and abuse. You may start at Iraq but end up finishing on Britney, while taking in the Catholic Church, global warming and 50 Cent.
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by Dvora Waysman illustrated by Melaine SchmidtThe days of the week are filled with school, chores and fun . . .but the characters in this book know exactly which day they love the most. Exciting illustrations and clever rhymes help teach preschoolers the days of the week and the joy of Shabbos.


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December 3, 2013 5:00 - 7:00 PM - Chanukah Festival of Lights and Southern Fried Chanukah. As part of Everest Studies in World Culture and Religion, we are studying Judaism in the month of December. Birmingham's Levite Jewish Community Center (LJCC) is hosting the Chanukah Festival of Lights where we will learn about Chanukah while eating Latkes and participating in a "Dreidel War." These events are free of charge and open to the public. If you would like to attend the Chanukah Festival of Lights as part of our group, please email Danielle at email@example.com by November 26.
There is also an optional "Southern Fried Chanukah" dinner on the same night. Tickets for the dinner must be purchased from the LJCC website by December 1st - $10 per adult plate, $6 per child plate. Each family is responsible for registering for the dinner on their own. http://www.bhamjcc.org/events/2013/12/03/events/festival-of-lights-southern-fried-chanukah-celebration/
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How to Use the Photoshop Elements 11 Smart Brush Tool
The Smart Brush tool in Photoshop Elements 11 allows you to paint a variety of image adjustments on all or just a portion of your image. The action of the tool is similar to that of the Selection Brush — as you brush, you make a selection and adjust simultaneously. Follow these steps to use the Smart Brush tool:
Select the Smart Brush tool from the Tools panel in Expert mode.
The tool icon looks like a house paintbrush with an adjacent gear. You can also press the F key to switch between the Smart Brush and Detail Smart Brush tools.
In the Tool Options, choose your desired brush size.
Choose additional attributes, such as hardness, spacing and roundness, from the Brush Settings drop-down panel.
Select your desired adjustment category and then a particular preset adjustment from the Smart Paint Preset Picker drop-down panel in the Tool Options.
In the Smart Paint preset panel, choose adjustments ranging from photographic effects, such as a vintage Yellowed Photo, to nature effects, such as Sunset (which gives a warm, orange glow to your image).Credit: ©istockphoto.com/billyfoto Image #2758280
Paint an adjustment on a layer in your image, where you can paint with the Antique Contrast effect.
While you paint, the Smart Brush tool attempts to detect edges in your image and snaps to those edges. In addition, while you brush, a selection border appears.
A new adjustment layer is automatically created with your first paint stroke. The accompanying layer mask also appears on that adjustment layer.
Using the Add and Subtract Smart Brush modes in the Tool Options, fine-tune your adjusted area by adding and subtracting from it.
When you add and subtract from your adjusted area, you're essentially modifying your layer mask. Adding to the adjusted area adds white to the layer mask, and subtracting from an adjusted area adds black to the layer mask.
Select a different preset adjustment for your selected area, if you want.
In fact, try them all out before you make your final choice.
If you believe that you need to refine your selected area, choose the Refine Edges option in the Tool Options.
If you'd rather apply the adjustment to your unselected area, select the Inverse option in the Tool Options.
If you want to modify your adjustment, double-click the Adjustment Layer pin on your image. The pin is annotated by a small, square, black-and-red gear icon. After you double-click the pin, the dialog box corresponding to your particular adjustment appears. For example, if you double-click the Shoe Box Photo adjustment (under Photographic), you access the Hue/Saturation dialog box.
Make your necessary adjustments in the dialog box and click OK.
You can also right-click (on the Mac, Control-click if you're using a one-button mouse) and select Change Adjustment Settings from the contextual menu that appears. Or, you can select Delete Adjustment and Hide Selection from the same menu.
After you finish, simply deselect your selection by choosing Select→Deselect.
You can add multiple Smart Brush adjustments. After you apply one effect, reset the Smart Brush tool and apply additional adjustments.


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When you are new to it, learning how to apply self tanner can be a bit tricky. Until I got it right, I used to finish with all different types of problems. White patches, brown patches, stripes, orange hands and feet, you name it, I had it.
Until I worked out my own way to do it, I spent a lot of money on spray tans. However, it is not as daunting as it would seem at the beginning. In fact, it is quite easy.
Below are few videos made by a lovely lady called Sinead Norinius from Beautisol skin care line. I have tried it, and I like it a lot. Their self tanning product gives you nice golden color with a little bit of pink grapefruit color thrown in. The best thing is - Beautisol does not smell like a self tanner. An extra bonus is that it is made with natural ingredients, so you do not have to smear a coctail of nasty chemicals onto your body.
You can use the same technique to apply self tanner whether it is cream, liquid or mousse. Just squeeze or squirt a small quality onto your gloved hand, then apply as shown.
How to Do Your Face.
Legs and Feet.
Upper Body.
Stomach and lower body.
I hope that this gives you some ideas. At the beginning some of it might feel a bit tricky, especially doing your back, but this is exactly how I do my back and it all comes great. I would advise you to start with lotions that do not give you an extra dark tan, so it does not look bad if you do not get it righ.
But, if you persist you will get really good at it in no time at all, and the reward is - you will save money on spray tanning.
Here is the best way to prepare before you apply self tanner.
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The Autonomous University of Yucatán is the largest such institution in the state. It has six campuses, including five in the state capital of Mérida, and a Multidisciplinary Unit in Tizimín, east of Yucatán.
Its history can be traced back to 1611, when an imperial decree allowed for the founding of the College of Mérida to educate local people. Over three centuries, the college went from being run by the Society of Jesus to becoming secularised and liberalised.
The university was established in 1922 by then-governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto as the National Southeast University, which taught medicine, engineering, jurisprudence and the arts. A reorganisation of the university began in 1938, when it was renamed the University of Yucatán. It was granted autonomy in 1984.
The University's 15 faculties provide 21 undergraduate and 26 postgraduate courses: from skeletal anthropology to habitat design. According to its mission statement, it exists for humanistic education, to produce graduates who contribute to human development and face local, national and global challenges.
Its "Vision 2022" programme aims to make the university the most socially significant higher education institution in Mexico. Its alumni include historian Silvio Zavala, and politicians Rolando Zapata Bello and Angélica Araujo Lara.
The university is recognised for its regular Ballet Folklorico, and its sports mascot is the jaguar.


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The World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) has developed an online questionnaire to seek the views of ID registration system users on the work being done by the Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) to harmonize formal application requirements. The information collected will be used to analyze the potential benefits, constraints and costs for SCT member states to implement draft Articles and draft Rules on Industrial Design Law and Practice. See documents SCT/28/2 and SCT/28/3.
The questionnaire on the WIPO website must be completed by March 7, 2013.
Source: cipo.ic.gc.ca
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The Universal Machine
It's 1927. Young Alan Turing is at school developing the work of Einstein and Newton while doing anything to get out of PE.
It's 1942. Newly engaged Alan Turing has done the impossible and broken the Nazi Naval Enigma Machine and secured the Battle of the Atlantic for the Allied Forces.
It's 1954. After being arrested, Alan Turing is found dead at his home next to a half-eaten apple laced with cyanide.
The Universal Machine tells Alan Turing's dense life story from his school days at Sherbourne, his time at the infamous Station X at Bletchley Park during World War Two, and his arrest for homosexuality and tragic death. This complex re-examination of Alan's life and work tells the story of a man who could make machines think but struggled to make connections with those around him.
The Universal Machine performed at New Diorama Theatre, London.
David Byrne Writer and Director
Dom Brennan Composer & Lyrics
Rich Rusk Movement Director
Natalie York Assistant Director
Sophie Wallis Producer
Suzie Foster Company Stage Manager
Patrick Stockbridge Musical Director
Catherine Webb Lighting Designer
Ben Walden Projection Design
Richard Delaney Performer
Judith Paris Performer
Leah Milner Performer
Cecilia Colby Performer
Andy McLeod Performer
Phillipa Hogg Perfomer
✭✭✭✭ "Teriffically staged"
CRITICS CHOICE! The Times
"A dynamic and imaginative production"
Time Out
Supported By Arts Council England, Royal Victoria Halls Foundation, Bletchely Park, Y! Touring and New Diorama Theatre.
The Dark Room
Inspired by Brecht's Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The Dark Room transposed the world of underworld gansters to a modern secondary school and followed new girl Ruth as she knocks her classmates out the way one-by-one.
Using projection, screens and desks on wheels along with a rock soundtrack, Dark Room played to sold-out houses the production was nominated for Best Direction at the Off West End Awards.
The Dark Room performed at New Diorama Theatre, London.
David Byrne Writer and Director
Dom Brennan Composer
Ed Cobbold Performer
Hannah Duncan Performer
Andy McLeod Performer
Madeleine MacMahon Performer
Phil McDonnell Composer
Leah Milner Producer and Performer
Catherine Webb Lighting Designer
Natalie York Performer
✭✭✭✭✭ "A superb achievement of acting, execution, set design and direction"
✭✭✭✭ "A unique vision of how theatre can not only dazzle us but also stretches our theatre-going experience into another dimension." WhatCulture
"Grade A comic timing. Fresh, frentic and very funny".
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LAIE, Hawaii – Senior outfielder Tiffany Smith's bat and strong pitching in both games led BYU-Hawaii softball to its first doubleheader sweep, 7-0 and 6-4 over Occidental College on Monday afternoon.
Smith finished 3-for-7 at the plate with six RBI, a double and a triple. Meghan Wantz (3-7) pitched a complete game shutout in the first game for the Seasiders (5-13, 1-7 PacWest), allowing only three hits. Pitisi Tualau (1-2) pitched five innings in relief for the win in the second game.
Alex Battest led the Tigers (5-9) with a 6-for-7 performance and two RBI.
Game One
BYU-Hawaii's Sarah Captain walked to lead off the bottom of the second and Lizabelle Talataina laid down the sacrifice bunt to advance her into scoring position. Alexa Barrett sent a ball down the right field line for the RBI double in the next at bat to give BYU-Hawaii a 1-0 lead.
Occidental threatened to score in the top of the fourth inning when Battest singled up the middle and Alexis Funaki advanced her to second on a sacrifice bunt. Bailey Stevens advanced Battest to third on a single up the middle, but Wantz forced back-to-back groundouts to end the threat.
The Seasiders' bats came alive in the bottom of the fourth beginning with a single from Captain. A sacrifice bunt from Talataina advanced her to second and a single to left field by Barrett sent her to third. Kalynn Latu placed a perfect bunt in front of home to reach first and load the bases. Rebecca Mawson stepped up to the plate and singled through the left side to bring home Captain. Smith tripled to deep right field to clear the bases and give BYU-Hawaii a 5-0 lead.
The Seasiders' momentum carried over into their defensive performance in the top of the fifth as Wantz struck out a pinch hitter and the next two batters grounded out to first and second, respectively.
The Seasiders added two more runs in the sixth. Latu singled up the middle with one out and Brandy Karl beat out the throw with two outs to put runners on first and second. Latu then snuck under the tag to steal third and scored on a wild pitch to make it 6-0. Smith sacrificed to right to score Karl from third for the final run of the game.
Game Two
Smith got on base on a fielding error to lead off the second game. She advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt from Roxanne Denis and then to third on a single by Brittany Vasquez. Captain reached first base on a fielder's choice and Smith came home on the grounder to short.
The Tigers answered with two of their own in the top of the second inning. Morgan Giusti led off the inning with a walk and Cora Roberts reached on a throwing error to put runners on the corners with no outs. Samantha Yee was hit by a pitch to load the bases and pinch runner Stephanie Stamnes came home on Natalie Glover's grounder to second. Battest singled to center to score Roberts, but some confusion in base running caught her off the bag at first to end the inning with the Tigers ahead 2-1.
BYU-Hawaii retook the lead in the bottom of the frame. Mawson drew a two-out walk and Karl had another infield single to put runners on the corners. Smith stepped to the plate and sent the first ball she saw to left center to score both Seasiders for the 3-2 lead.
After a scoreless third inning, Latu led off the bottom of the fourth with a single to center. After she advanced on a sacrifice bunt, Karl singled on a bunt up the first-base line and Latu scored when the throw to first went out of play.
Bailey Stevens tripled down the right-field line for the Tigers with one out in the top of the fifth, but Tualau worked her way out of the jam retiring the next two batters. In the bottom of the inning, Vasquez tripled to right field to lead off and Captain brought her home on a single, putting BYU-Hawaii ahead 5-2.
The Tigers rallied in the sixth, stringing together three singles to center field by Samantha Yee, Mackensie Priley and Battest to cut the lead to 5-4.
Mawson walked to lead off the bottom of the sixth and advanced to second on a sacrifice. Smith then singled up the middle to score pinch runner Corallee Alexander for the insurance run.
Morgan Giusti drew a walk with one out to bring the tying run to the plate for Occidental in the top of the seventh, but back-to-back fly outs ended the threat for the Seasider victory.
BYU-Hawaii returns to the diamond on Tuesday for a doubleheader with Holy Names beginning at 1 p.m. HST at the BYU-Hawaii softball fields. Live stats will be available online.


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Does anyone want to take an online course on the Civil War, starting on May 22, and last ten weeks, through La Roche College? I'm the professor, and the textbook is James McPherson's Battlecry of Freedom. There would be no paper, and the grading is on ten discussion boards and two exams. To get the three college credits, you'd have to register at La Roche College as a student. It might be possible too to do so as an auditor, without going for the credits. I've taught this twice before…Continue
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I decided to try my hand at writing a conflict simulation. It's turning out to be a very challenging exercise but I like challenges. After several weeks of work I have what I believe to be a working structure that with more work may provide a more sophisticated sim. I've attached a link to my latest documentation. Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
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The popular "Backwards Subscription" offer is back, this with eight recent magazines, Issues 71 through 78. These cover a wide range of games, with topics from the ancient world to the far future, and scaled from microtactical to grand strategic.
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To be us
Italian Children's Games
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TobeUs is a range of wooden cars developed from an idea devised by the designer Matteo Ragni in 2008. Play, material, craftsmanship, design and simplicity were the key words around which we constructed
TobeUs's image. We began with the trademark, then we designed the packaging and website and a series of other communication aids. Here again in this project illustration played a key role.
Short stories were created to inform both adults and children about the little wooden cars and philosophy behind TobeUs.
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"It's coming," she licks her lips. "Won't be long now. Can see it."
"Yes you can," I say. Through the gaps in the tangled web above me, I can see the sky is already churning, clouds of purples and greys gathering like foam. How long until it arrives? Hard to say. It's never the same.
"Can we stay up here?" She turns to me, the edges of her mouth pricking with a hopeful smile. "Miss? Would that be ok?"
"No, I don't think so," I laugh at the question. Ludicrous and yet so hopeful. "Unless you want to drown."
The datastreams slow as the Lab starts steadying itself for the storm. You can almost feel It rouse from the murky depths of Its datasort, picking up alerts from the sentinels. Reminds me a bit of a lupine-meld sniffing the air for signs of trouble. Is It annoyed? I think It is. Hel knows I would hate to be disturbed in the middle of such a handsome output, especially considering all that work we had to do first, purifying the bloodlines after the last Mating.
"You can hear the storm!" Lilla gives me that hopeful look again, as though I'm going to change my mind. Silly thing. The basket in her hands almost tips, the mushrooms almost spill to the floor. I look at her. "Sorry," she mumbles, holding it aright once more. Hel, she's young. I forget how annoying they can be when they're young.
"I can't hear anything, but it's surely close." I just want to skin this last hose before we go, strip it all clean of mushroom growth, then I'll be satisfied with a job almost well done. I slide the blade between fungi and pipe and scrape, listening to the mushrooms tumble into my basket like heavy rain. I love that sound. So satisfying. Mind you, I've always enjoyed farming up top. As I scrape, the dark skin of the hose begins to show through, even beneath the web of stubborn tendrils which look like matted hair glued tight.
My stomach suddenly pitches. "Whoo," I blow cooled air from my lips. The datastream has slowed right down, a sudden deceleration as the Lab focuses on whatever weather data It's receiving from our busy little skybound sentinels. Lilla feels it too and giggles, holding her belly like an expectant hippie. I'm glad she can laugh. It won't be long til she gets used to the streampatterns and realises what it means for a such a sharp slowing in computation. But you don't let children know that. That's what my sister says. Like with money. You don't let children know for real-real when it's all gone.
I pick up my basket. "Righty-hey, I think we're almost done here."
There's a wave of sentiment thrust at me. About time, it feels like. Oh It's annoyed all right. The Lab is mighty pissed, in fact. Got a mega storm approaching and meanwhile Its humans are dallying about so high up and uncapped. It's got bigger things to worry about. I almost want to apologise. Instead I shrug It off like a proper brat.
A distant rumble.
"Toldja I could hear it!"
"Shut up, girl," but I can't resist looking out of the big windows. The only view I'm getting is straight up through the pipework, into the grey sky, still trembling with anticipation of the oncoming storm.
I peel back the curtains of ivy and bionic tubing. The view is still much the same but somewhere northwards, you can see what looks like a dark, tight little knot of cloud. An embroidery stitch punctuating the sky. So far and yet so loud? Shit it. The gutters had better be secure or we'll all be drowning whether uncapped or safe below.
We take the lift down. Two floors and I can feel the hairs on my arm trying to stand, the gooseflesh irritating me beneath the fleece lined sleeves, tightly pinned and wrapped over with pleather strips, which took me ages this morning. The temperature has dropped something sudden and the Lab is too busy clanking away, noisily girding Its loins to bother upping the interior temperature. Lilla starts to shiver but when I look at her she stops, giving me a defiant sort of grin like it don't really bother her. This performance is one of the reasons I prefer not to train them so young. Or at least not Lilla. Bless her. She's a good worker, I keep telling myself. A good worker, just annoying. Just young.
What's the order again? I thought you were meant to feel the wind first, the bow winds, I think they're called. My old tutor used to put it like poetry: "Heralding the approach of the beam like the white wave at the prow of them old seaships." I'm sure it was the winds first, then the temperature drop and then–
We are still descending when I hear the deep-thunder. It's come. We've not gone down five floors in all but it's come. It's close enough to the city that the deep-thunder can be heard, which means if you were planning on escaping the storm, you are damn well too late, my dear. Were we still up there with only gangly ivy and metallo-ceramic piping for a roof, we'd be feeling the sky spitting down on us. Now, we're stuck in the lift and it's getting colder. The lift is slowing too. Oh, this must be some mega bad storm for the Lab to have forgotten about us.
The carbon beams straighten, bracing themselves. We just scrape past another floor in the time we should have reached the ground. The datastream, now so slow it's almost silent, trickles away from my awareness like an embarrassed spectre. I never realised how nasty the hard-Lab sounded beneath the gentle tinkery of its output, the soft-Lab we all hear in our heads. It groans, It creaks in that teeth grinding, sick making way only metal can.
I think Its scared.
"It's not real though," Lilla pipes up, her teeth chattering. I hold her close to me so she can share my warmth but the bint's shivering with more than cold. "It's not a real storm."
"And what, pray tell my lady, is a real storm? What's this then if not a real storm?" I give her a little jog, like she was a toddler. "Eh, my girl, answer me that," she's calmer now, not shivering so much. I can feel her quieten as I stroke her shaved head. Hel, but it's been a long time since I walked around all shaven like that. Certainly feels it.
"It's just a bloody Cloudshifter. A bloody Cloudshifter driven by a bloody Baron."
"Oh is that so my lady?"
We stop.
"It's too cold, Miss," Lilla says.
I shrug. "Not that bad," I say. But it is. She's right.
"You're squeezing me, Miss," Lilla says.
"Sorry love," I loosen my grip on her, though I'll be honest I didn't realise I was holding on so tight. Oh Hel, I pray to a goddess I don't own. Don't let us fall. Don't let the Lab forget about us two pathetic little humans trapped in Its metal veins. Don't, just don't the Lab let us drop.
The light-beams, they say, don't make any noise. It's the clouds they stir up. That horrible, deep screaming sound, the one like a rasping wicce's laugh, as she chomps down on metal and opens wide her bloody mouth for you to see, yes that sound (I must have watched that film a hundred times as a bint). That's the clouds the beam brings, swirling around it like foggy moths doomedly encircling a fiery pillar.
The sky beyond us is breaking, the deep-thunder now transformed into a ripping, cracking sound that clashes through the air, through the city, right through our heads. I think I hear Lilla scream. She squeezes the air out of me, holding me so tight my breasts hurt as she tries to bury her head between them.
"Thought you said it wasn't a real storm," I tease, but it's more to myself, to think of the foolish thing a silly chit of a girl apes without knowing any better.
We slip.
The maelstrum pushes against the Lab but It holds firm, It doesn't break. It bends, but It doesn't break. The Lab is concentrating in a way I have never felt before. Where only minutes ago I could hear nothing as it tried to gather all the latest news about the storm, now all I hear is the strain of it thinking as it recalibrates and recalculates – its positioning, its tautness, the tensile strain, the slight rotation. Its taking some of my memory too, though I'm not sure how much good it will do. The true meldminds, downstairs in their snug little cots, brains hooked up to the Lab's hivemind, they must be doing most of the gruntwork.
What is this Cloudshifter, passing above us? It must be a mighty palace of a thing to incur such a storm. Every now and again we slip, the jolt shocking me back to reality, to the reality of our cold, our standing at almost 45 degrees to our original position, little Lilla screaming in my arms. Little Lilla, third day of farming, thinking herself all grown enough to swear at Cloudshifters and the Barons what drive them.
Big and fast. I know they weld them together in the sky, they're that big. I was born in a ship making Lab, you see, not a scrubby spindly data miner like this shop (no offence). I'm not boasting, mind you – it's hardly a thing to boast of. You can find Labrats all over the Kingdom who've seen bits of a ship, one half gleaming, glossy coloured and smooth, the other half like the underbelly of a squashed cockroach, pipes and internals wriggling around seeking their plugs. They floated them up like that to join them in the sky and there they stay, though parts of them may come crashing down from time to time, heedless of what they might squash. Labs these days are wise to that sort of thing, but that shows how much things have changed. Even in my day was a rare Lab smart enough to react in time to a descending ton of bionised metals and ceramic wiring.
I'm babbling to myself, that's how I know for sure the Lab is skimming. Taking off the memory It thinks I can do without. Take it, I tell the Lab, though I don't need to. No wonder the Labs seem so impatient with us humans sometimes.
It's when the wind hits us the other way that we fall. One jolt, two jolts and with a shudder, the Lab releases us. Lilla's normally piercing scream sounds distant, like she's running away from me, though I have enough cerebral activity to remember she is in my arms, clutching onto me for dear life. Poor silly girl. Only her third day farming and no chip yet implanted to render her retrievable if we die.
The bigger the storm, the bigger the ship. The bigger the ship, the bigger the storm. Do they up top remember we still exist, do you think, that they keep treading paths through our Labs, through our cities. Or do they think their ships are born like magic, birthed from the clouds they live on like the mushrooms springing up from condensation on the pipes.
It's hard to think straight when one's mind is riddled with dynamic equations.
I can't count how many floors we pass, though I'm sure it's a good deal many. I think Lilla has vomited. Or pissed herself. There's a whiff of something unpleasant. Come now, Hel, I reason with the goddess I don't own. Is this how it's going to be?
After that I can no longer feel myself. I'm in the hivemind now, with all the other melders. There's a disquieting rippling sort of feeling, like something's been uprooted and is flapping back and forth in the violent wind. We turn to it, like it's some sulking little brat. The Lab resinks the foundation beam, drawing Itself nearer to the ground for safety. I never realised you did that, I think, almost like a child. Of course the Lab doesn't reply, too busy, or too offended or both. One of my meld-colleagues gives me a conspiratorial nudge.
The Lab focuses on the Cloudshifter's light-beam that has passed us by, piercing through the sky now black with thick swarming clouds that look like sickness. I think Its furious. It straightens itself, tries to get a grip on internal workings left to their own devices, and it does so with all its strength, putting what can only be described as anger – for that's how it feels to me, never mind It's a Lab – to use as the last of the storm passes by, slapping us almost mockingly with remnants from less fortunate buildings.
The Cloudshifter has long since passed and now the winds are following suit. The storm dies and dissipates until at last, it's all over. The sky is grey once more. And still.
We breathe in as one and breathe out as many. I wake, but keep my eyes closed. In spite of myself I try to keep my consciousness with the hivemind. I try, but am gently expelled. I don't particularly want to wake, though, for fear of what I might find wrapped in my arms.


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The ranch's focal feature though is the awe-inspiring mountains that surround it on all sides. These ranges offer the most incredible backdrop to the Gallatin Valley's rolling pastoral hills and crystal clear rivers. Not to mention adventure enthusiasts will be right at home with a myriad of options to explore nearby. Near to the ranch is the location where the movie classic, A River Runs Through It was filmed, and this truly gives one the feel for the beauty of the area. The rivers attract fly fishing professionals and lovers from all over the country, and Grey Cliffs Ranch offers the opportunity to partake in a few hours to a few days expedition.
And if that's not enough, perhaps the pinnacle of anybody's stay will be a daytrip into Yellowstone National Park. The park is home to an incredibly diverse amount of wildlife, and offers some of our country's most stunning landscape and natural phenomena. While on retreat, retreaters will experience the park first hand, or one might say first hoof, as we ride into the park on horseback for a full day trip.
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Botanic Choice 7X Herbal Weight Loss Complex Review
Botanic Choice 7X Herbal Weight Loss Complex ingredients include chitosan, guarana, green tea, chromax, calcium pyruvate, cayenne, and bromelain.
If you break these down, the fact is that chitosan, though speculated to work, has not actually been proven to do anything. Likewise, guarana is only effective in promoting weight loss when combined with 2 other ingredients: damiana and yerba mate. Green tea is only proven in doses of 400mg or more, and they don't provide this, and chromium has only been said to be truly effective for athletes.
Botanic Choice 7X Herbal Weight Loss Complex is not safe to take if:
- You have a pre-existing medical condition such as heart disease
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- Insomnia
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- Irregular heart beat
- Dizziness
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- Headache
- Loss of appetite
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Overall Impression of Botanic Choice 7X Herbal Weight Loss Complex:
Botanic Choice 7X Herbal Weight Loss Complex is composed of a few select ingredients. But once you get past the fluff and down to the plain and simple facts, you will find that there are really no proven ingredients or proven amounts, moreover the combination of both, provided in this supplement. Therefore, it will not work.


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After a few weeks respite, it's time for another Xperia Photo Academy tutorial, this time 'focusing' (excuse the pun) on our native Xperia app, Background Defocus.
Our first three tutorials were held by internationally renowned photographers J.N. Silva, Ben Thomas and Greg Funnell who each shared their expertise in low light, perspective and contrast photography.
The latest tutorial comes from Nicanor Garcia; a well established Barcelona based architect and photographer who shares his passion for close-up photography and the manipulation of camera focus.
Nicanor takes advantage Xperia Z3's high quality 20.7MP camera and superior ISO rating to manipulate perspective and focus in his close-up shots. In his tutorial he explains how to achieve his stunning results by getting the best out of Xperia's Background Defocus camera app.
This is in fact the first in a two part series looking at focus. In a couple of weeks time Nicanor will be sharing his secrets on how to make the best use of focus in your manual settings – so stay tuned.
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The first thing that strikes you as you enter the room is the pillow menu. You can choose from over seven different types of pillows. The Classic pillow with goose down filling provides good support without raising the head too high while the Spelt pillow adds to the softness with its Spelt chaff filling.
Nestled in a 16 and a half acre plot surrounded by rocky quarries and IT companies, Ista is a 40-minute drive from the international airport in Hyderabad. Rocks that once occupied this space still remain unearthed but the place stays 'cool' thanks to the water bodies that aesthetically dot this five-star luxury-cum-design hotel. Ista is derived from the Sanskrit word Ishta or most desirable. Ista promises personal space and total comfort along with cutting edge technology and traditional values of service.
After a quick nap I decided to explore. The 166 rooms are spread over three floors built on a split-level. The lobby was two floors above the entrance. Though only a balcony marked a difference between the luxury and deluxe rooms; it's the additional perks that make you feel special. The suites are huge with a drawing room, a kitchenette, dining room, two walk-in wardrobes, two bathrooms, a jacuzzi and a bath tub.
The lobby with its minimalist design and exquisite use of Bidri and Kalamkari shows off Andhra Pradesh's rich culture and also doubles up as an open bar that can host up to 50 guests. Continuing with my explorations, I eventually landed at the swimming pool. Temperature regulated and controlled, it also has a Jacuzzi and serves as a de-stressor. You can't miss the spa where you will definitely get lost but in a good way. My first reflexology massage had me falling asleep, blissfully unaware of everything.
Lunch at Collage, their multi cuisine all-day restaurant was my next stop. I needed something interesting to keep me awake after the massage. I didn't expect an international culinary tour; I needed a long walk just to see what was there. Salads and starters were many as were the juices. The main course comprised rice, rotis, pasta and fresh oven-baked thin crust pizzas, side dishes like dals, mixed vegetables, Mexican and a live Japanese counter. If you had room for dessert, there was yet another long walk to choose from cakes, pastries, gateaux, mousses, Indian sweets, and ice-cream. What I was happy about was that they also catered to the staunch vegetarians.
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An evening walk around the vast property was exhilarating. Set in acres of natural landscape, Ista made sure the rock formations, water bodies and lush foliage added to its elegant tranquil look. The vast space has been utilised to cater to a 10.000 sq. foot spa and a 24-hour gym besides three conference halls. The use of natural lights also adds to the 'bringing the outside into the inside' feel. Back in the spa, I noticed six rooms; each with a different form of treatment: ayurvedic, oriental and general forms of wellness programmes. I was made to feel special with the athithi devo bhava tradition. This took 85 minutes and it worked wonders as the soft tissues were manipulated against the bone to increase circulation. I decided to call it a day but my stomach led me towards Deori, Collage's Indian counterpart. The spread includes Nizami gharana and Andhra cuisine in a contemporary setting. The starters, main course and the desserts were rich, well flavoured, sumptuous and very Nawabi!
What makes Ista stand out is ecological responsibility. Ninety per cent of the water is recycled. Ista has its own effluent treatment plant and rain water harvesting facility. My stay at Ista was short but, as the cliché goes, certainly sweet.
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All the sweetness of a wedding celebration is usually accentuated by romantic decorations, sweet wedding favors or a beautiful and tempting candy bar. That is why when we read this article from wedding planner Anne Dee, we knew right away we wanted to share it with our readers! Let's see what Anne recommends her clients and our readers when it comes to creating a candy bar for your wedding!
Your wedding party or reception should be just as sweet as you are so why not give your guests something to remember by creating your very own candy bar?
A candy bar is bound to be the centerpiece of your wedding and even if you do have guests who don't have a sweet tooth, they're bound to still want to take plenty of photos. The nice thing about a candy bar is that it can complement your color scheme and you can really let your imagination run wild. It's not difficult to do, in fact it's a lot of fun – it just takes a little planning and thought in advance.
Here's how to make your very own candy bar for your wedding:
1) Decide upon your color scheme – is it going to fit in and coordinate with the rest of your color scheme or theme or are you going to go rainbow bright? You may decide that it may look more effective if you stick to just two or three colors.
2) Now you need to do the math and work out exactly how much candy you need to buy. Naturally this depends on the amount of guests you have invited – and also how many kids will be attending! You want to make sure you have enough but you don't want to be eating M&M's for the next two months so perhaps run on a guide of about 5 oz per person.
3) Decide what candy you're going to be serving at your bar. This may depend on your color scheme: jelly beans, lollipops and small candies like the aforementioned M&M's all work well however you may want to include marshmallows if your colors are pink and white or humbugs if it's a black and white wedding. Browse online stores for inspiration.
4) Next you need to buy them. This is probably not going to be cheap so plan your budget and stick to it however you will find bargains online, especially as you'll be buying bulk. Wholesalers should also let you pick and choose your colors too.
5) Now it comes to decorating your bar. Stock up on mini chalkboards , glass vases, bowls, martini glasses and champagne flutes and a table cloth that will match your color scheme.
6) On the big day you'll probably want to fill the bigger receptacles with the cheaper candy and leave the more expensive ones to the champagne flutes!
7) Next take your mini chalkboards and write …well whatever you like…on them! You could write a couple of friendly messages to your guests asking them to help themselves or you could tell them what is in each bowl or vase if you've bought quite a few mini chalkboards.
And that's it! A fun and sugary way to celebrate your wedding that will not only look fabulous but one that will have your guests wondering in awe at your creativity and thoughtfulness – and that goes for big kids as well as little ones.
Anne Dee works at Weddingstar, a designer of wedding accessories. She is a wedding and event organizer who loves to write wedding tips, DIY tutorials and contribute it to various wedding blogs. Follow Anne on Twitter @AnneDee89 and check out Weddingstar´s Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest pages for more wedding inspiration!


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Loose pucks: Gobble gobble
Three things that have us feeling better:
1) Eight friggin' goals.
The fact that Lowell went out to Amherst of all places and rung up eight on a woebegone Minutemen side fearing the kind of three-games-in-five-days joke scheduling Hockey East would never dare level at a BC or BU is really great. But more importantly, it will hopefully make Riley Wetmore and Scott Wilson feel like they can go out and hang three points on just about anyone, which is the kind of hockey they haven't been playing for pretty much this entire season. Again, it's all statistical correction on some level but when even Norm Bazin, the league's king of coachtalk, is saying, "Yeah everyone bought their own hype and we gotta figure this out," to the media, then you know he did some serious stick-throwing and foot-stomping in the dressing room after that UNH loss. Hopefully these guys are so terrified of getting shut out again this season that they a) never do it, and b) score silly amounts of goals just to make sure Bazin doesn't look at 'em funny.
2) Two points.
We went into the weekend more or less prepared to see the team concede the points to UNH at home, though perhaps not in so ugly and hapless a fashion as played out in front of Lowell fans' horrified faces. Thus, getting two points on Sunday against Amherst was absolutely crucial. We believed they could do it, but we perhaps didn't believe the win would be quite so emphatic. Perhaps you feel like these first two entries here should be combined into one, which isn't unfair we suppose, but the two points, nearly doubling Lowell's total for the season, are a positive step forward.
3) A little solace in the polls.
Something we noticed in this week's poll — apart from the fact that Lowell was very deservedly not in it, but still, bafflingly, getting votes — is that the top three teams in the country are now Boston College, Denver, and UNH. You'll also notice that those are the teams which delivered Lowell four of its five losses this season. Losses are losses and losses are bad, but it's not like Lowell's getting clobbered by awful teams every night. Just Maine. And just that once. Hopefully. Anyway, you see the point we're making.
Two things that are ruining our Thanksgiving:
1) That effort against UNH.
Hoo boy did it ever stink. Maybe the worst in a season full of genuinely bad efforts.
2) Still not in great shape.
Even with four points in the last two weekends, Lowell is still only in a three-way tie for seventh with five points. However, it's certainly (obviously) trending up, and has games in hand, but when you take into account that everyone on earth thought this team would be sitting in a nice little hammock with BC at the top of the standings, five points in seven games is still a hot-garbage showing.
Stat of the Week
As you might imagine, it's really, really rare for Lowell to score eight or more goals in a game. How rare? It usually takes playing the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the barrel in college hockey for it to become a remote possibility. Hell, it played a genuinely bad RPI team last year and only ("only") got to seven goals. So you can see why we're a little excited here to see this kind of emphatic offensive outburst.
So exactly how rare is it for Lowell to score eight or more goals against a Hockey East opponent? Well, it's only happened 20 times, if you include the most recent one.
Oddly, the last eight-goal game before Sunday came against UNH in an 8-3 win on Nov. 14, 2008. Lowell also hung eight on BC in 2001-02 (the infamous "I'm sick and tired of losing to bleeping Lowell"/Kevin Kotyluk goal game). Those are the only two since the turn of the century.
The performance against Amherst was also the first time Lowell scored eight on the road in-league since 1998.
Here are the rest:
Feb. 19, 1984: 10-4 at Merrimack
Oct. 31, 1984: 8-6 vs. Providence
Feb. 19, 1985: 8-5 vs. Northeastern
March 15, 1985: 8-5 vs. Providence
Feb. 24, 1987: 8-4 at UNH
Dec. 8, 1987: 8-7 at Northeastern
Feb. 27, 1990: 9-10 (ot) at Merrimack (yes, a 10-9 overtime loss!)
Nov. 9, 1990: 8-8 (ot) at Northeastern
Nov. 16, 1991: 8-6 at Providence
Jan. 16, 1993: 8-3 vs. Merrimack
Jan. 23, 1993: 8-5 at Northeastern
Jan. 3, 1995: 8-3 vs. Merrimack
Jan. 15, 1995: 9-0 vs. Merrimack
Dec. 2, 1995: 8-3 vs. BC
Jan. 26, 1996: 8-6 at BU
Jan. 8, 1998: 8-4 vs. Merrimack
March 12, 1998: 8-2 at Northeastern
Jan. 12, 2002: 8-4 vs. BC
Nov. 14, 2008: 8-3 vs. Northeastern
Going back for seconds
Are we willing to clamber back onto the bandwagon for this team's home ice hopes just yet? No we are not. Are we now, in the light of day, feeling as though it's not dead in the water, as we might have said at this time on, say, Saturday morning? Yes. Absolutely yes. A solid performance against Princeton on Saturday afternoon will only serve to further cement our feelings that this team is anywhere near as good as we once swore up and down that it would be. So, y'know, that's what we'd be thankful for this year.


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naiga girls: (un)imaginable by verta ayanna
my heart stopped when i first learned of the 234 young girls kidnapped on april 14, 2014 by boko haram, a militant Islamist group in Nigeria whose name literally means "western education is forbidden." i felt helpless. i felt–i could not even imagine. i find myself using that saying all too often when i hear of atrocities in the world, especially those that involve children. when a gunman kills innocent children on our city streets, i automatically think, i could not even imagine. when beautiful black boys are stolen from their homes in the darkness of night to become soldiers in wars they cannot even understand, i have thought, i could not even imagine. after 234 girls were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria and now more than 20 days later the only ones reported found are those who escaped, i think to myself, i could not even imagine.
could i really not imagine? this saying has caused me pause since hearing of the young girls abducted by boko haram in Nigeria. i realized there are parts of these things i can imagine. i am a human being. i am a mother. i have witnessed fear. as my daughter sat crying amidst shatters glass on the roof of our overturned car after a near fatal car accident, i saw fear in her eyes. as i lay on the side of the road. my blood all around us. the scent undoubtedly picked up by the wild animals in the gaming park, i heard my son's fear. "will someone come and get us?" he asked. when the Beninios doctor saw my file days later and asked, very nonchalantly i must add, "combien de morts? how many died?" i felt fear and imagined far worse. i cried as i imagined what could have been on the side of that dirt road in august of 2011.
not wanting to imagine and not being able to imagine are two very different things. so, i can imagine. and i believe that others can too. even if only for a moment, we can imagine fear. we have all experienced it on some level. recall your own or that of a loved one at some moment in time. multiply that fear by all the stars in the universe and we may each get just a few heartbeats closer to what just one girl may have felt as armed men came to steal her away from what she only seconds before considered a safe place. take a moment to simply recall your humanity and you will be able to imagine, even if just for one thousandth of a second, the fear and anguish of just one parent of just one abducted girl.
what is unimaginable is that it's been over 20 days and the only girls reported found were those who escaped. what is unimaginable is that in a world with the technology to witness my every keystroke remotely and locate me right now on this city block in harlem from outer space we have not rescued one girl. what is unimaginable is that until a few days ago we could not find space in the mass media next to the racist rants of a billionaire basketball team owner to report regularly and consistently about these girls literally stolen from their school. what is unimaginable is that in 2014 we have to use grassroots measures to allow the world to be informed and bear witness to this disregard for human life. what is unimaginable is to dwell in helplessness when the truth will always remain that our mere existence, each and everyone of ours, is an opportunity to act. to act with love and to act loudly if we must.
In verta's next post, she shares some specific actions you can take to make a difference.
verta is writing her first book, loving out loud, because she believes that love should never be silent! her purpose in this life is to love out loud, to live on purpose, to laugh a whole bunch, to create, to share stories, to inspire others, to make a difference and to leave the world better than she found her. verta shares how she is inspired by stories, by memories and by life at www.vertaayanna.com.


text: BUSINESS London's Apollo Theatre Cancels Shows After Roof Collapse 3:05 AM PST 12/20/2013 by Stuart Kemp FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire URN:18518172 (Press Association via AP Images) London's Apollo Theatre Investigators are carefully exploring the venue to determine why part of the ceiling collapsed, injuring more than 75 people during a Dec. 20 performance of the hit play "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time." LONDON -- Apollo Theatre owners have announced that Friday's and Saturday's scheduled performances of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time are canceled, after the partial collapse of the building's ceiling Thursday evening left more than 75 people injured, seven seriously. On Friday, a statement from the Society of London Theatre said customers for the sold-out show should contact their point of purchase to arrange exchanges or refunds. STORY: London's Apollo Theatre Partially Collapses "On behalf of London's theater industry, our thoughts and sympathies go out to everyone who was injured and affected by last night's incident at the Apollo Theatre," the statement said. The Society also took the opportunity to praise the emergency services in the British capital "for their calm and rapid response and all the theater staff on Shaftesbury Avenue for their professional and compassionate handling of the situation." The exact cause of the ceiling collapse is still being investigated, and the theater owners, Nimax, are working closely with the relevant authorities to establish exactly what happened. Some reports suggest that water dripped through cracks in the West End venue's ceiling before it came down, as a winter rainstorm broke over the venue Thursday evening around 8 p.m. Westminster City Council is expected to report later on a structural assessment of the Shaftesbury Avenue venue. One line of inquiry will be the effect of adverse weather on the 100-year-old, Grade II-listed building. PHOTOS: David Rooney's Top 10 New York Theater Picks for 2013 The Society of London Theater said every theater undergoes "rigorous safety checks and inspections by independent experts," pointing to the fact that "incidents like last night are extremely rare." The pre-Christmas holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for London theatergoing. The production of Curious Incident, adapted from Mark Haddon's 2003 novel about a 15-year-old mathematician with Asperger syndrome, is also among the most popular plays currently running in the West End. It transferred to the Apollo from the National Theatre in April, winning seven Olivier Awards, the U.K.'s top theater honors. One insider told The Hollywood Reporter that the last thing theater owners want are empty houses. They hope the fear factor from last night's incident does not spread and keep people away. The Society has reacted quickly to allay any worries, noting that at a meeting on Friday "all the major theater owners have confirmed that their safety inspections and certificates are up-to-date and will cooperate fully with the authorities to reassure the public that their theaters are safe." All other London theaters remain open for business on Friday and in the coming weeks. A large section of ornate plasterwork at the Apollo fell onto the audience during Thursday evening's performance. The Society of London Theater said its members host over 32,000 people in central London across its network of venues every night. The National Theatre and Apollo Theatre will advertise details regarding the future status of performances at the Apollo "once this is known." Ticket holders for the canceled performances can choose another show for free by presenting their ticket at local London ticket outlets. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Stuart Kemp firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from former Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub
The nation's highest court denied a request to look at the case of Frank Straub, who alleged wrongful termination in his ouster from city employ in September 2015. Straub was …
UPDATED: Fri., June 15, 2018
Appellate court upholds dismissal of former Police Chief Frank Straub's lawsuit against city
A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that city officials didn't wrongfully terminate Frank Straub as chief of police in 2015. Straub's attorney is …
UPDATED: Sat., June 9, 2018
Federal judge: Spokane's handling of former police Chief Frank Straub's dismissal 'a hot mess'
Hearing oral arguments in an appeal of the former police Chief Frank Straub's wrongful termination lawsuit against the city on Friday, Judge Jay Bybee said officials bungled the dismissal that …
UPDATED: Wed., April 25, 2018
Ethics Commission: Mayor David Condon honest in handling of Frank Straub questions
The final complaint targeting Mayor David Condon for his handling of the ouster of former Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub was unanimously dismissed by the city's Ethics Commission on Wednesday, …
UPDATED: Wed., April 18, 2018
Before Ethics Commission, Condon denies dishonesty in Frank Straub ouster
In testimony Wednesday afternoon at City Hall, Spokane Mayor David Condon repeatedly said his reason for requesting Frank Straub's resignation in September 2015 was prompted by letters from police brass …
Fri., Jan. 19, 2018
Ethics Commission revives complaint against Mayor David Condon stemming from Frank Straub dismissal
The panel has agreed to listen to arguments in a complaint made by former City Council President Joe Shogan, who has filed multiple allegations against Mayor Condon for dishonesty in …
UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 17, 2017
Nancy Goodspeed settles discrimination lawsuit prompted by City Hall shuffling during Frank Straub scandal
The city of Spokane will pay $165,000 to former parks employee Nancy Goodspeed as the city attempted to manage a sexual harassment scandal involving former police chief Frank Straub.
UPDATED: Mon., May 15, 2017
Spokane City Council narrowly approves former U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby as city attorney
Supporters on the council touted Ormsby's long career of public service and professionalism, but critics pointed to the continued debt of bonds issued for a downtown parking garage under his …
Sun., April 9, 2017
City Council seeks more control of how Police Department uses seized funds
The panel is set to vote on a bill Monday that will put the spending of money seized from suspected criminals under their authority and require regular public reports.
UPDATED: Thu., March 23, 2017
Culture audit: Spokane Police say they need more officers, stable leadership
Participants in a culture audit conducted by researchers at Gonzaga University say the Spokane Police Department needs additional resources and a steady hand at the wheel to operate efficiently. The …
UPDATED: Sat., Feb. 25, 2017
Investigator who learned Spokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal was white says police Chief Frank Straub didn't hire him
The investigator hired to look into Rachel Dolezal's past said Saturday he wasn't hired by then-police Chief Frank Straub, pushing back on a report published by the British newspaper the …
Thu., Feb. 16, 2017
Ethics Commission again declines charges brought against Mayor Condon
Former City Council President Joe Shogan, whose ethics complaint against Mayor David Condon has now been dismissed twice by the city's Ethics Commission, said he'll refile one more time over …
Wed., Jan. 4, 2017
Kip Hill: My favorite stories of 2016
A murder-for-hire case, a presidential election, arcades, records, a scandal at City Hall - it was all in a year's work.
Tue., Dec. 20, 2016
New deadline in works for harassment training agreed to following Condon ethics complaint
Sherry Jones, the National Organization of Women member who filed an ethics complaint against Mayor David Condon over the handling of a sexual harassment complaint against former Police Chief Frank …
Sun., Nov. 13, 2016
Spokane City Council to consider public records policy changes as part of Frank Straub settlement
Mayor David Condon proposed an addition to the city's ethics code making intentionally withholding public records a penalty punishable at the city level. The change was a requirement in the …
Mon., Oct. 10, 2016
Craig Meidl gets City Council's confirmation, will lead Spokane Police Department
After his initial appointment by Mayor David Condon caused a rift with the City Council, a majority voted Monday to confirm Craig Meidl as Spokane's permanent police chief following the …
Fri., Sept. 30, 2016
Condon, City Council clash over mayor's hiring/firing powers
The recent show of good faith between a City Council critical of human resources debacles and a reinvigorated Mayor David Condon could be sidetracked by a lingering dispute from the …
Wed., Sept. 28, 2016
Mayor David Condon settles ethics complaint, says city will work to reform harassment policies
The Spokane chapter of the National Organization of Women reached an agreement with the mayor's office calling for the formation of a new task force to address issues of sexual …
Wed., Sept. 21, 2016
Doug Clark: Mayor should abandon his fix-is-in pick for chief, Craig Meidl
Tuesday night found me parked in the West Central Community Center gymnasium to watch the latest episode of Spokane's seemingly endless game show… "Who Gets to be Police Chief?"
Tue., Sept. 20, 2016
Spokane police chief candidates address department culture in forum
Four candidates to become Spokane's police chief answered questions from media and from the public on Tuesday.
Fri., Sept. 16, 2016
Spokane releases new batch of finalists for police chief; names include finalists from last list
Spokane has announced the finalists for the top police position. They are John Bruce of Frisco, Texas, Robert "Bob" Lehner of Elk Grove, Calif., Craig Meidl the interim police chief, …
Tue., Sept. 13, 2016
City Council, Mayor Condon announce desire to move on after recall petition tossed
A visiting judge Tuesday afternoon tossed a recall petition against Mayor David Condon.
Sun., Sept. 11, 2016
Mayor David Condon faces first test in recall showdown on Tuesday
Washington Laws make it more difficult than elsewhere to recall an elected official. Armed with an independent report on Mayor David Condon's handling of turmoil in the Police Department, petitioner …
Tue., Aug. 30, 2016
Shawn Vestal: Recalling the mayor doesn't make much sense
Shawn Vestal: There are few things that make less sense for Spokane right now than a recall of the mayor.
Tue., Aug. 30, 2016
Visiting judge will review proposed recall of Mayor David Condon
The Spokane County Prosecutor's Office has submitted proposed ballot language on the possible recall of Spokane Mayor David Condon. A judge will consider if the proposed recall can move forward …
Mon., Aug. 29, 2016
City Council lays out timeline for new police chief search
The Spokane City Council is asking Mayor David Condon to name a new police chief appointment by Sept. 30. The process requested by the council would place police Capt. Brad …
Tue., Aug. 23, 2016
People involved in first round of police chief interviews cautiously optimistic about reboot
It's unclear how the next round of police chief interviews will proceed following an 11th hour deal between the City Council and Mayor David Condon to reopen the process. But …
Mon., Aug. 22, 2016
Mayor bows to City Council, will put Craig Meidl through interviews for police chief job
The deal between the City Council and Mayor David Condon on Monday came hours before a confirmation vote was to be held on Craig Meidl's nomination as police chief. Meidl …
Sun., Aug. 21, 2016
Craig Meidl faces political, salute-related challenges in bid for chief job
Craig Meidl will have to overcome a City Council that is at odds with the mayor over hiring authority and some members of the public still furious about his involvement …
Thu., Aug. 18, 2016
Meidl says he still wants police chief job, even without Stuckart's support
In an interview Thursday, Craig Meidl said he wants to focus on reducing crime in Spokane and that he's fine serving as chief without the support of City Council President …


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If you want to download a single mp3 file, go to the "Search" tab, input whatever you want to find (song, artist…) and tick the field "Audio" (1). After you click on "Search Now", then you will only see the music files that matched your search.
In case you want to download a full album and not a single or several songs, you must search for rar or zip files (by ticking the option "Other" (2) before you hit the "Search Now" button). Instead, you can also download a torrent file with Ares (which can even contain the whole discography of our favorite performer, not only a single record).
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Even more, you can go further and arrange the results by title, artist, album, genre, quality, length, size, stars… And if you right-click a song, then you'll be able to select the option "Find more from the same…" (3) and choose "artist" or "genre".
But there's another powerful tool left: the "filter" (4) field. By using it, it's easy to specify certain criteria. E.g., you can insert the name of the album you want to find and the search results will be restricted only to those containing that keyword (so only the songs that are part of an specific album will be displayed).
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While the new "Advertise on this site" feature was officially launched on Friday, the feature wasn't actually seen live until late yesterday. So if you were opted in but didn't see it, you should be seeing it now.
AdSense has a demo here. On the second screenshot of the demo, two company names are listed – epicurean.com information in the header, but the body of the text says PetPlace.com. Perhaps PetPlace was one of the original testers of this feature before it was removed as a case study.
If you are so inclined, you can opt-out of this program in your control panel – this feature was turned on in all accounts when it launched. Some publishers are concerned about losing their own advertising sales to this link, so do not want it to show. Personally, I also sell advertising directly to advertisers, and I plan on remaining opted into the "advertise on this site" feature. You also have to opt-in or opt-out of this feature completely, so you cannot choose to opt-out of only those sites you also accept advertising on while leaving this feature turned on in the rest of the accounts.
Some publishers have also turned off this feature unless they get a "bounty" for bringing in those advertisers. But this works off the premise that most advertisers who would click that link do not yet have an AdWords account. But advertisers who click the link would be site targeting that publisher, which means more ad inventory and revenue in that publisher's pocket, regardless of whether there was a bounty involved or not.
This feature should definitely result in more advertisers site targeting your ads with CPM ads, which can be particularly profitable for those sites with high page views. And it makes it an easier process for a potential advertiser to site target you with their advertising, or sign up for an entirely new account.
You can customize your own landing page – the page potential advertisers would see when they click on an "advertise on this site" link from one of your ad units, even adding your own logo. But unfortunately, you can only customize one landing page for the entire account, so you cannot customize on a site-by-site basis.
Curiously, I have not seen this feature on any of my own sites, although I am definitely opted into it. It does seem to be live on other sites though. Perhaps it is part of a rolling release where all publisher sites will begin seeing it at the same time.


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SummaryExpand Mason's Innovative Neighborhood plans (Oxbridge?) by creating infrastructure and development guidelines for mixed use development along Braddock and Shirley Gate roads.
Preliminary Plan
This plan would be greatly enhanced if the Driverless Electric Shuttles proposed in this post were implemented. Below is how the Shuttle system could be extended to support this Braddock Road project.
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Mason facilities and affiliated planners would provide specific guidelines for developers to follow. Sale or lease of property would be contingent on developers agreeing to the guidelines. The revenue potential from developers could be significant. GMU Facilities
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George Mason hosted a three-day planning workshop on May 22,23,and 24, 2017, to explore various short and long term visions for the Fairfax West Campus and Southwest Sector and its connections to Fairfax City, Fairfax County and region.
Below is a modified version of what appeared to be the preferred plan of many of the charrette participants. The overall theme was "Innovation Neighborhood" patterned after a number of similar university mixed-use projects to integrate research and education with entrepreneurial incubators and ventures.
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Fred Goodwin was able to obtain a super-injunction, which prevented him from even being identified as a banker, in a secret hearing. He was later named on the floor of the House of Commons by back-bench Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, under parliamentary privilege.
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at my most favoritest udon resturant ever, somewhere in Ishibashi (Shimotsuke City).
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Udon has been my favorite Japanese dish for a long time now... It's just a coincidence that I married a woman from Sanuki... or is it? ;-)
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That looks good, but my favorites are still ramen or soba. In Hawaii, saimin is most popular.
とても美味しそうですね。関西ならではかしら?子供の頃のファーストフードはうどんでした。 I hope to try Tochigi style udon.


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November 8, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the fiery van crash near Milwaukee that claimed the lives of the six youngest children of Rev. Scott and Janet Willis of Chicago.
Their second son, Toby Willis and Toby's wife, Brenda, now have 12 children of his own who have formed an Irish music band known as "The Willis Clan."
In August, the band performed at Irishfest in Milwaukee, and the entire family, now 34 grandkids strong, surprised the audience with a thank you video for all the first responders who tried to desperately to save Ben, Joe, Sam, Hank, Elizabeth, and Pete.