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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2008-10-03
Leading Off:
Slap Shot
, F-Bombs and Surviving the 70's
By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter
Photo by Robert Hanashio / Sports Shooter
Two of Hanashiro's prized posesions: His DVD of "Slap Shot" and his new 3G iPhone.
We're gonna win that f***in' championship tonight. But we're gonna win it fair and square. Old-time hockey, none of this wrestling shit. You know? What the hell? It's my last game. I'm gonna go out with style! Play it straight!.
- Reggie Dunlop, Charlestown Chiefs player/coach
During my years attending Fresno State in the 70's, there were a lot of defining moments: Getting my first photograph published in the
Daily Collegian
. Being named the editor of the journalism department's feature magazine
. Buying my first Nikon. Covering the Bulldogs' PCAA football championship in 1977...
Probably the one thing that has stuck with me through the years was watching
Slap Shot
with my buddy Steve Cavallaro. Neither one of us was a hockey fan, by any stretch of the imagination and we just sort of wandered into the theater on a Friday night. We laughed hard for 90 minutes and loved the film so much we went back the next night!
Through the years
Slap Shot
has made it's way on many of "Top 10 Sports Movies" list (always #1 in my book --- sorry
Bull Durham
fans) and the movie's lovable goons, the "Hanson Brothers" are still an attraction in hockey rinks around North America.
But the character that had the most influence on me was the aging player/coach Reggie Dunlop.
It wasn't just the wardrobe --- platform shoes, fur collared full-length coats, the polyester shirts and the bell-bottom plaid slacks --- it was, well, his language.
Reg knew how to motivate his players and he knew how to use the f-bomb.
I have to admit that bell-bottom slacks, platform shoes and a polyester shirt or two made it into my closet. Heck, it was the 70s!
But the creative use of the f-bomb was one of those little things that helped me survive my days on the staffs of the
Fresno Guide
and later at the
Visalia Times-Delta
There was many a staff meeting that I imagined myself in the Chief's locker room and I needed a turn of a phrase to make a point and I would ask myself "What would Reggie Dunlop say?" So I'd throw in an f-bomb ---or two or three --- into my talk just for a little emphasis. As the old joke goes, the f-word is the world's most versatile…verb, noun, adjective, preposition, conjunction … and heck even interrogatives!
In this politically correct age the use of the "bomb" does not pepper my language like it used to, at least outside of my home office or when I'm talking to Rabbi Bob.
If you haven't watched
Slap Shot
or it's been a while, dust off the DVD or put on your Netflix list and take a nice trip back to the swinging 70's!
Thanks to Reggie Dunlop and the rest of the Charlestown Chiefs for helping me survive the 70's.
"Violence is killin' this sport. It's draggin' it through the mud. If things keep up the way they are, hockey players'll be nothing but actors, punks. Well, I'm not playin' my last game that way."
- Reggie Dunlop, Charlestown Chiefs player/coach
Reggie Dunlop (AKA: Paul Newman)
1925 - 2008
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A few notes from the past month:
• Anyone that tells you "taking a break" from your cellular phone/BlackBerry/PDA is a "refreshing experience" is either a monk, friendless or a total loser. Having gone a weekend without my mobile phone--- during the Sports Shooter Academy Boot Camp no less! --- I can attest that "taking a break" from using it is a definite NO-NO. When my 2-year-old Treo died an undignified death, I thought I could make it a few days without a phone. WRONG. The feeling of being totally disconnected not only from friends and colleagues, but from the WORLD, was horrible but had a happy ending: I'm the proud new owner of an iPhone 3G! (Now if I could only resurrect my address book from that dead Treo!)
Photo by Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY
The sidelines at the Ohio State vs. UCLA game were a LITTLE crowded.
• Everyone that covered the recent USC - Ohio State showdown at the LA Coliseum will tell you right at the top: That was the WORST sidelines EVER. How in good conscience you could allow the sidelines of a football game to be that packed is beyond me ... not from the perspective that it makes my job all that harder it's a safety hazard. Most of the fans/boosters/hangers-on that clogged the sidelines was more interested in being seen, making calls or using their camera phone. USC made one consideration to those of us really working the game and the front line was suppose to be for photographers and the rest had to stand behind us. Of course when I looked at over at
Peter Read Miller about 20 yards down from me in the 2nd quarter, I saw that he was kneelling on the line, sandwiched between two "photographers" ... one using a cellphone camera, the other a small point & shoot.
• Thanks to Paul Meyers, Joe Gosen and Brooks Institute of Photography for having me in this week as part of their regular speaker series. It was a bit of a departure for me and I talked about covering the entertainment industry for
, particularly backstage at the Academy Awards. The turnout was a lot more than I expected and the questions were very, very good. Thanks to all of you that took time off from work or your studies to come see The Kahuna in Ventura!
• And lastly, stay tuned to SportsShooter.com for an announcement very soon on ... Sports Shooter Academy VI.
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This issue two features two great contributions, one by baseball fan Keith Birmingham, recounting a trip he made with three other photographers to New York to pay homage to Yankee Stadium and the other from Allen Murabayashi who takes a 180-degree approach in discussing how to succeed in the photography business.
Greg Cooper writes about the importance of turning the camera on yourself and your colleagues once in a while. Myung Chun writes about the new Nikon D90 digital still and video camera. Recent grad Zach Honig writes a very personal piece on finding work in this tough economy and moving away from photography. Our regular "Ask Sports Shooter" column tackles a common question about breaking into photography through assisting, written by Shawn Cullen and Jordan Murph.
Sports Shooter continues its search for cool assignments, this one written by Jared Dort. Donald Miralle tells us what's in his bag when he covers football and David McIntyre tells us about covering the Olympic Games that were staged AFTER the Olympic Games ... the Paralympics Games.
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This month's reading material you'll find on my nightstand is:
Tuna: A Love Story
by Richard Ellis (recommended reading Grover and Allen!!!) and
Kirby: King of Comics
by Mark Evanier. What's on heavy rotation on iTunes:
Rambling Boy
by Charlie Haden family & Friends and
Sweet Spot
by Sugarman Three.
As always, thanks to Special Advisors & Contributors: Deanna & Emma Hanashiro, Brad Mangin, Rod Mar, Trent Nelson, Jason Burfield, Grover Sanschagrin, Joe Gosen, Paul Myers and Bob Deutsch.
Thanks this month to: Keith Birmingham, Allen Murabayashi, Myung J. Chun, Greg Cooper, Donald Miralle, Shawn Cullen, Jordan Murph, David McIntyre and Zach Honig.
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I have a feeling that Premier Li Keqiang himself may be doubtful about his optimistic outlook for the Chinese economy in this year's World Economic Forum in Davos. Instead, let's turn to academic studies based on solid data and objective analysis, which can serve as a more reliable gauge.
In my last commentary, I cited the assertion of Michael Pettis, a professor at the Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, that a firm's earnings or a country's economy built on borrowings with an inverted balance sheet – of which liabilities are inversely correlated with asset values – may advance by leaps and bounds in its heyday, but if the bottom unravels, things will start tumbling down.
Yet overconfident policymakers will typically stick to such strategies even when they are becoming less and less effective.
The ratio of China's overall credit versus its gross domestic product is an important index. My estimate is that the figure can be well over 300 percent (comparable to that of the United States), although it's not rare for debt-laden local governments to gloss over their financial standing.
Still, the Chinese central bank continues to shore up loan supply to offset the economic slowdown and the ratio can only climb higher this year. Beijing knows only too well that it must doggedly pursue structural reforms, but since rapid economic expansion is the only way to maintain social stability, it cannot withstand the impact of a lower growth rate.
The stock market presents another example of China's retrogressive policies.
When Beijing tried to curb rampant speculation through margin trading, the Shanghai bourse immediately suffered a single day loss of up to 8 percent earlier this month. This prompted the security watchdog to loosen the reins, and the amount of new margin loans soon soared by 20 billion yuan (US$3.2 billion).
To have another insight into the Chinese economy and its prospects, I would like to introduce one more research paper: Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean by Larry Summers and Lant Pritchett, two scholars at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In the paper, Summers and Pritchett notes that the rise of Asia is "a story in at least four parts" – 1) Japan's ascent to the first world in the 1980s; 2) the boom of four "Asian Tigers" (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea) since the 1960s that sent them to the elite club of advanced economies, and the economic advancement of Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia; and 3) China and India's revival as major powers. The fourth part is yet to be written.
The significance of the paper is that its findings offer a convincing argument against the overly optimistic notion that the Chinese economy may still be able to expand at a fast pace. Advocates who buy the theory of China's sustained growth simply project their forecasts based on past data and statistics in a routine, linear correlation. One example is Robert Fogel, professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who sees China's GDP exceeding US$123 trillion by 2040 (and notes that even that figure is on the conservative side).
Yet, as the paper points out, past figures cannot serve as a reliable reference, especially in the volatile and constantly changing world of finance and economy.
Examples abound. One is Nobel Prize laureate Paul Samuelson, who predicted in 1961 that the Soviet Union would surpass the US in economic clout in the 1980s, when in fact the union was dissolved at the end of the 1980s.
So what will be a more accurate model to forecast GDP growth? The paper deduces a "regression to the mean" phenomenon. What does mean here refer to? A comprehensive study shows that the mean of the global economy's growth rate – throughout the periods in which there are data available – is 2 percent with the same standard deviation of 2 percent. China's high growth rates in the past decades, therefore, have been exceptionally rare.
The paper sums up another common characteristic that can be applied to all economies: developing countries are more likely to experience sharp, frequent acceleration or deceleration in growth rate. In other words, past record is largely irrelevant to future performance, particularly in nations where policies are always formulated and executed in the form of administrative orders.
Not so many economies can bear comparison with China in terms of the continuity of rapid GDP growth. Only Taiwan and South Korea had been on a 30-year winning streak with GDP growth rate of over 6 percent. (Taiwan's record is 32 years while last year was the 36th year for China.) Yet, after the speed peaked, both Taiwan and South Korea have, inevitably, regressed to a lower annual rate of 3-4 percent.
The paper draws the conclusion that China can hardly be an exception to the "regression to the mean" trend and its future annual rate can only be around 3.98 percent.
There has also been a lot of talk about the "middle income trap", where an economy, after its people attains a certain income level, will get stuck at that level.
But in a research paper he co-authored, Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, warns that there are in fact two such traps: one is when a country's per capita GDP (purchasing power) reaches the level between US$10,000-11,000 and the other is when it reaches US$15,000-16,000. Last year China was already in the danger zone of the first trap.
Given all of these, I believe that the nosedive in China's growth rate – from the 2007 peak of 14.2 percent to last year's 7.4 percent – may not have touched the bottom yet. And, judging from the economic fundamentals at this juncture, there are three potential setbacks lying ahead: 1) the first middle income trap, 2) the second trap if China can sail through the first one without a hitch, and 3) the fate of "regression to the mean".
This article first appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Jan. 30.
Translation by Frank Chen
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The potential of cameras with on-board Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and compasses to aid in archaeological fieldwork are substantial. While my experience is limited to the Nikon Coolpix AW100, there are several point-and-shoot cameras on the market that can expand our current practices to create more robust photo logs using data exported directly from the camera.
From a business perspective, this decreases the time needed to create (then digitize) photo logs associated with field projects, and provides viewers with an improved contextual experience. While for some it has become second nature to think in terms of N246/E132, there are some of us (myself included) that would benefit greatly from a better system. This is not to say that the provenience data should not be included in the catalog; far from it. Rather, it provides a method by which it is possible to view each photo (and the direction the photo was taken, to include a variety of other attributes assigned by the user) within a more dynamic context.
In most cases, the photos would be renamed (perhaps inclusive of the provenance data), but for this demonstration, I chose to keep the default names (i.e., DSC8302, etc.). In the map below, you can view the selected attributes for each photo by clicking on the red balloon (I did not include the photos since they were quite large), which can change depending on your application, for photographs that I took at the Townsend Recreational Area in the Angelina National Forest this week.
This is a dynamic map – zoom, click and otherwise manipulate it!
This could also aid the efforts of cultural resource managers by allowing them to track fieldwork progress using a single file (when photos are included). In addition to Google Maps, these files can also be opened in Google Earth. To transfer photos from the Nikon Coolpix AW100 to Google Earth, follow the guidance in the .pdf below (from http://www.iwinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nikoncoolpixgeotagging.pdf).
Having the capacity to include the location and the direction of each digital photograph (along with a wide range of additional attributes) is useful in practice, and can also help to better illustrate progress to clients by emailing them a .kml (Google Maps) or .kmz (Google Earth) file that includes the photographs and various attributes associated with that day (or week's) work.
For those of us that are a bit more nerdy, the .kmz/.kml files can also be converted to a shapefile for use in GIS (see below), where custom maps can be created to capitalize on each of the various attributes (including hyperlinked photographs). While I did not change the names of the photos (or pull out the various attributes/hyperlinks), I'm sure that you can imagine the possibilities here.
These new point-and-shoot cameras have a short learning curve and a lot of potential when it comes to archaeological projects (among many others; including those elusive…vacation projects). I have been using this technology for a few years now to map the sand sample collection areas for our petrofacies project, and have had some great results. Since the AW100 is sealed and has no external moving parts, you can also take underwater photographs (or, like me, just not worry about it getting it wet in the rain or dropping it in the river [note – attach a flotation device to the strap so you don't lose it!]).
I've been very impressed so far with this little camera, and am hoping to get many more years of use out of it. Note – there is a much-upgraded version available currently, and you can view the specs on the Nikon Coolpix AW130 by clicking here.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Vanguard University is no longer just a women's basketball power. The Costa Mesa school's men's team defeated defending NAIA champion Georgetown of Kentucky, 93-85, on Friday to reach the NAIA Division I Final Four.
The Lions (30-6) will meet St. Gregory's of Oklahoma (24-9) in the semifinals on Monday at 2 p.m. PT at Municipal Auditorium.
No. 6-seeded Vanguard had not advanced past the second round in its two previous NAIA Tournament appearances. But Coach Rhett Soliday's squad, which claimed the Golden State Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships, has won seven in a row, including three straight in Kansas City, and is the highest seeded team remaining in the 32-team tournament.


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Sorry I missed a day in the Diary, guys - I should have done it yesterday, but I didn't and asking me to think back to what I ate two days ago is asking just a bit too much from my "brain like a colander" (as my Sir Father once called it! :D)
Day 9 had me racking my brain for something new to make. I decided to make "bacon egg baskets" and they were a great hit with my Lady Mother and all the children. (My Lady Mother afterwards informed me that they are to be put on the weekly menu!)
Lunch was dubbed "Leftovers Thursday" and so I had a bowl of reheat veggies with shredded ham topped with Parmesan cheese - yum!
Dinner was a late affair for which my Lady Mother showed me two bags of meat and told me to cook all the vegetables I could find as the next day was fresh veggie day. I made quite a feast with crispy potatoes, fried sweet potatoes, corn, beans, squash and zucchini. It was very yummy accompanied by pepper steak for some and tasty rissoles for others.
Here is an interesting observation for you: my Lady Mother likes her steak cooked all the way through with not a speck of pink; my Sir Father likes his steak cooked at about medium. Somehow, the plates got switched and they noticed the mistake after each had eaten about half of what was on the plates. So they swapped. :) Sir Father had had gravy on "his" steak but my Lady Mother had not. When they swapped, she unavoidably ate some of the gravy that had been on his dinner. The instant gravy we use is just wheat flour with seasoning, and flavorings. My Lady Mother told me afterwards that about two minutes after she ate the gravy, her stomach started churning and even this morning, she has had intense stomach pains. We can only put it down to the gravy as it was the first taste of wheat she has had in many many days.
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When we came home from our autumn holiday I noticed that all along the back of our house, scattered over the tubs and flower-pots there were a quantity of little polystyrene balls. I could only think that they were packaging from something my son had bought while we were away but he said not. So where had they come from? Since no others appeared I soon put it down to one of those things you never find out and forgot all about it.
Then, last Tuesday as I was getting ready to go out, with a weather forecast of rain and possibly sleet, I glanced out of the kitchen window and noticed a few spots of white stuff floating down. I assumed it was the promised sleet. When I went out to the car however it was not raining, nor was it raining when I returned home at mid-day. Again glancing out of the kitchen window I noticed a few little puffs of the white spots floating down quite close to the window and realised it was more little polystyrene balls. I went outside to investigate.
Looking up at the back of the house I could see a hole in the wall just above the waste water pipe from the bathroom where it angles to join the soil downpipe. Every now and then a little puff of polystyrene balls came floating out of the hole. My husband came up from working at the bottom of the garden and asked what I was looking at so I pointed out the hole. Now, a few years ago we re-jigged the bathroom and this hole was where an overflow pipe had emerged. The pipe was no longer needed and had been removed. The hole had been mortared over, quite badly, and some mortar had fallen out! What was floating out was obviously our cavity wall insulation. Then we noticed a slight movement in the hole. "Must be a mouse or something," said hubby and we wondered how a mouse had got up there. Something moved again. "No, it's a bird."
As it moved yet again, pushing out more polystyrene balls we could see a beak and a white head marking, but not much else. It had to be a small bird to fit through the hole so my first thought was that it was a Long-tailed Tit, being small birds with white head markings. We assumed it was nest-building there. I wasn't quite sure about my identification as Long-tailed Tits are gregarious birds flying around in gaggles of half-a dozen or more and it seemed strange that one should choose to snuggle up for the winter and nest alone.
Hubby got the ladder and climbed up to enlarge the hole by removing some of the mortar and peer in, but he couldn't see anything and nothing moved. He then decided to knock out the half-brick that was next to the hole. Still nothing flew out and nothing pecked him when he stuck his hand in. Quite clearly we were concerned about having the bird nest in our wall and tossing out our insulation. Having stood on watch for a while with nothing emerging we decided to go indoors for lunch. While sitting at the kitchen table, underneath the hole I suddenly caught a glimpse of a bird flying from the wall into our neighbour's hedge so we immediately went outside again. Up the ladder once more, my husband began to fill in the cavity wall around the hole with glass-fibre insulation that he just happened to have spare and then, when we were as sure as we could be that there were no birds inside he found another brick, cut it to size and filled in the enlarged hole properly. I watched carefully over the course of the afternoon but no distressed bird returned trying to get back in so I assume it was the only occupant.
Not being sure of my identification I thought about it some more. The beak and bit of head that we did see seemed too sleek to my thinking to be a Tit so I looked in my bird books and I now think it more likely that it was a Pied Wagtail as these are known for being more independent and for nesting in walls. Whatever it was it had chosen a good spot – the angled waste water pipe provided a 'doorstep' in front of the hole and it was only a few short yards to a ready supply of food at the bird feeders. It had found itself a cosy bijou residence for the winter! We really could not leave it to nest in our cavity wall but I can't help feeling a bit guilty about evicting it. I just hope it has found somewhere else cosy to build its nest.
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At the World Wide Developers Conference yesterday, Apple announced iOS 11, its latest iteration of its mobile operating system. While the new OS doesn't bring any major UI upgrade, which is slightly bit disappointing, it is indeed loaded with features especially geared towards improving productivity on the iPad.
Let's take a look at what's in store when iOS 11 releases for the iPhone and iPad sometime later this year:
New iMessage Features:
With iOS 10, Apple upgraded the look and functionality of the iMessage with stickers, emojis, and more. In iOS 11, Apple is making it even more accessible with a dedicated applications tray that allows you to access your favorite stickers and applications without having to navigate through menus.
The update will also improve synchronization across all devices, so if you sign in to another device, all of your iMessage chat history will be transferred over. Deleting a message from a chat will be affected across all devices.
Finally, Apple has integrated Apple Pay with iMessage where you will be able to exchange money with another user using the new person-to-person transactions.
One-handed Keyboard Mode
A small but extremely useful feature: the iOS keyboard is getting a one-handed mode, where the keys are squeezed to the side of the screen for better reachability. Now we can finally type while sleeping!
A Brand New Control Center
Apple has crammed all of the Control Center settings onto a single screen, so you will no longer have to manage two separate slides to get to your favorite settings. Each of the settings is now Force Touch-enabled, which brings more controls and information when used. What's more, the Control Center is entirely customizable where you can remove and add new toggles (like Cellular Data) onto to the pane.
New Compression Formats for Videos and Pictures
iOS 11 will now record videos in HEVC format, which Apple claims give better compression and use less space while maintaining the same quality as the old H.264 format. Even pictures will be captured in a new HEIF format, which is again designed to take up less space. Despite the use of new formats, Apple says users will be able to share the media with others just as before.
The Photos app has also received a few nifty upgrades. Users can now create loops out of Live Photos, which works pretty similar to the Boomerang effect found on Instagram. Live Photos also packs a number of effects - such as adding a long exposure effect onto a video. Users can also pick out a single frame from a Live Photo and make it the 'main image' for that particular picture.
Siri, Can You Translate This?
Siri can now translate languages on the fly. At launch, Siri will support the translation from English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. More languages will be added in the months to come. Apple has also made Siri sound a lot less robotic and more human, with a much more natural way to speak words and phrases.
Do Not Disturb While Driving
iOS 11 is now fitted with a new Do Not Disturb feature that blocks non-important notifications if it detects you are driving. You will still receive all of the notifications but they will not be shown while you are driving. If someone texts you on iMessage, it will automatically respond with a message saying that you will get back to them later. However, if the message contains the word 'urgent', it will let that message pass through the filter. The feature can be easily disabled just in case you are in the passenger seat.
Maps for Malls
Apple has added indoor maps for shopping malls and major Airports in its updated Apple Maps app. The feature will support only a few countries in the USA at launch, but Apple has promised to spread the love to other countries throughout the year. We cannot wait for this feature to come to Dubai, as it will make navigating the often complex and maze-like malls in the city an absolute breeze. Only now if it could automatically detect where we parked our cars in Dubai Mall…
A Redesigned App Store
The App Store has received a major facelift that will definitely show an impact on how users discover new apps and games. Now you have a new Today tab which features the hottest and most popular apps at a glance, with daily 'Game of the Day' and 'App of the Day' picks. The store is also visually streamlined with bigger pictures and richer app descriptions.
New iPad Features
iOS 11 is big for iPad users, as it has received the biggest visual UI lift as well as a host of productivity upgrades.
The dock on the iPad now behaves like the one found on Macs, and holds a greater number of apps and intelligently moves the most used apps to the right. Users will be able to easily drag and drop apps on the dock, and also use it to open two apps side by side in a multi-task view. Paired apps stay together on re-launch. There is also a new UI to switch between apps and is easily enabled by flicking four fingers from bottom to the top.
Apple Pencil users can now take notes instantly by tapping the Pencil on the lock screen. All of your scribbles will be saved in the Notes App, which can now also scan documents using the camera. Documents will be automatically straightened and presented for you to edit and save, much like the popular app Scannable.
The New Files App
iOS 11 will bring a new app called Files, which is sort of a file manager to easily sort and manage your files on your various cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive and more.
iOS 11 is scheduled to release in the Fall, most likely with the launch of the new iPhone. However, those curious to get their hands on it right away can do so by installing a developer profile on their device and downloading the latest developer preview of the OS. However, doing this can be quite risky and might destabilize your device, so make sure you have backed up all of your files before attempting it!


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Ghaziabad: Mother kills newborn girl, stuffs body in washing machine
A 22-year-old woman has been arrested from Patla town here for allegedly smothering her newborn girl child as she wanted a boy.
Aarti, who gave birth to a baby girl just three months ago, said she was frustrated and angry at herself for not having a son," Senior Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.
In a fit of rage, Aarti, allegedly killed her daughter, Shivani, by suffocating her with a pillow on Sunday around 8 am. Other family members, including her in-laws, had gone out of the house.
The woman later called up police emergency number 100 and claimed that her daughter had been abducted by some unidentified persons.
The family members of the woman claimed that they had never pressurised her for a boy, police said. An investigation is underway.
Aarti is from Khanjarpur village near Modi Nagar and got married to Mohit over a year ago.
In a similar incident, the mother of a four-year-old girl was arrested after she allegedly forced her daughter to sit on a hot frying pan in Hyderabad. The child had reportedly damaged a laptop of an inmate at the hostel. Infuriated by this, Lalitha thrashed her daughter.
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What I Wore When the Year Was New
It's been a minute hasn't it? Once again, I've been hard at work on an exciting new project for the blog that you are going to love! Problem is, once I dive into a project I forget to come up for air...and new blog posts.
The new year and new semesters (am I the only one who still divides the year into semesters?) have always brought about a need for starting fresh for me. When I was in college, before the new semester began I had to do all my laundry, change all my bedding, wash and gas up my car, plan 2 weeks of meals and buy the groceries, clean my apartment top to bottom, buy all my books, and do anything that could possibly take my time aside from school and work. I needed to be distraction-free while I focused on the new schedule change.
I'm still that way, and New Years is always time for cleaning, purging, organizing, laundry, and prepping for the new semester. I mean year. We emptied a room for my new office. If you are a member of the Stunning Style Society Facebook Group, exclusive to those who purchase the Stunning Style Wardrobe Guide, you got a tour of my current office and my new office. I'm waiting for my desk to arrive next week, and then I'm moving in and setting up!
We cleaned out and purged the storage room, which I do every year when I take down Christmas on December 26 (and I ALWAYS take down Christmas on December 26), the kids' rooms, our room, hung pictures, meal planned for the entire month, set new budget goals, grocery shopped, loads and loads of laundry, and more. This ritual cleans my soul and gives me mental space to focus on my focus for the year. I'm actually planning to do a seasonal purge in my closet and am considering videoing it. Is that something you would like to see? Comment below if that would interest you.
My New Focus for a New Year
I may be the only blogger on the planet who has yet to share my New Year's Resolutions or Word or whatever you want to call it. I call it a focus. Last year my focus was Health. I've been very sick for about 7 years, and was kind of sick before that. I've been actively working on it this whole time, but last year it was my focus, and I finally made major headway. In fact I had a doctor appointment today to discuss my latest labs, and I got lots of smiley faces instead of frowns.
This year my focus is simplification. I feel overwhelmed, and have for a long time. I think a lot of us do. There is so much sensory and workload overload in our society. We can be more places, communicate with more people, and get more done than ever before, and we fill every minute of our lives with it. We are chronically tired and stressed. My husband and I have been looking at how we can simplify our lives and get some control over the overwhelm. We've put a few things in place that have already made differences, like planning a month's worth of meals. I added an alarm on my phone at 1 p.m. to do any dinner prep that I can. Those two things have simplified dinner on a whole new level. We have more plans to put in place, but in order not to overwhelm ourselves, we are taking it one thing at a time.
If you are looking for simplification, saving time, effort and money, my Stunning Style Wardrobe Guide is 31 Classic Pieces (I bet you have a lot of them in your closet already), and 100 outfits. No thinking to get dressed or to shop! I provided all the shopping links!
So, on to what I wore when the year was new, I was cleaning, purging, adjusting, planning and preparing for a fresh start.
These are outfits #29 and #62 from the Stunning Style Wardrobe Guide. Something as basic as a black and white flannel can be worn multiple ways. Today I showed 3 ways. There is the obvious way of wearing it alone with jeans and boots, which can be perfect for a day around the house, but you are still ready to answer the door, run to an unexpected doctor appointment, or purge the storage room. Next I paired it with a red coat for a punch of color. I love wearing colorful outerwear to make a statement that I can take off when I want. I don't have to commit to wearing color for the entire day. Last I made it a little edgier with a black leather moto jacket, which is how I wore it when I left the house that day.
Shirt (on major sale right now!!). Jeans. Boots similar here. Coat similar here, here. Moto jacket similar here.
This is outfit #51 from the Stunning Style Wardrobe Guide. Black + white + red + stripes = happiness for me. Always.
Sweater similar here. Jeans. Shoes similar here. Necklace similar here.
Shopping and getting dressed can be this quick and easy for you too with the Stunning Style Wardrobe Guide! You'll save time and money because any shopping will be focused and purposeful, and you'll already know how to incorporate it into your wardrobe.
Are you noticing a lack of color this week? Me too. I've gotten a lot of requests to share the scarf tying tutorial, so I did my first Facebook Live in the Stunning Style Society Facebook group to show this one. I'm figuring out how to wear this leather vest in a way that doesn't make me uncomfortable. Basically, zipped up is the only way.
Tee similar here. Vest similar here. Scarf. Jeans. Boots similar here.
Speaking of purging, this sweater is going. I love the leather patch pockets, the quality is incredible, but this year I can see it's not a flattering length of fit for me. I become blind when leather is involved. There's my little sidekick. We do everything together.
Blue and white today. I love, love, love this tissue tee turtleneck. I swear I can't feel it at all! I'm also really excited about this navy corduroy skirt I got over the holidays. I've wanted one for a while, and this is THE ONE. I can't decide if I'm going to paint the buttons silver or remove them. I use those pockets, so it stays unbuttoned on at least one side. Also, do I really want to draw the eye to the widest part of my body? Probably not. The stripes in the tights mimick the stripes in the top.
Shirt similar here, here. Skirt. Tights similar here, here and here. Boots similar here.
School is back in session, and I went on a school field trip with my second grader. I love doing that, and love that I'm able to. I'm pattern mixing here, which isn't something I do a lot of, partly because I don't wear a lot of patterns. Stripes are my favorite color, so I consider them a neutral. The jacket also cuts down on the amount of stripe showing, making it less busy for someone who doesn't like a lot of action in their clothes.
Tee similar here. Jacket similar here, here. Scarf. Jeans. Boots similar here.
A vibrant blue flannel, boots, and jeans are easy to wear, easy to wash, and easy to move (furniture) in. I would wear this everyday. It's one of my go-to uniforms.
Shirt. Jeans. Boots similar here. Necklace similar here.
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For Immediate Release XBIZ Honors Wicked Sensual Care With 2017 Sex Lubricant Company of the Year Nomination
LOS ANGELES, CA – (December 13, 2016) – Wicked Sensual Care, the acclaimed creator of luxurious lubricants and enhancers for women and men, is a finalist nominee in the 2017 "O" Awards. The award-winning line of cruelty-free and PETA-certified products has earned three major nominations. Wicked Sensual Care's 'Awaken' received the 2017 "O" Award nomination for Outstanding Supplement / Enhancement Product. A clitoral massage gel, Awaken is designed to heighten sensitivity and enhance libido with a finely crafted herbal blend of botanics and aphrodisiacs. Wicked Sensual Care's 'Wicked Hybrid' and 'Cinnamon Bun' were both recognized in the Outstanding Lubricant Product or Line category. A silky-smooth water based lube that's toy and latex friendly, Wicked Hybrid is blended in harmony with a rich bodied silicone. Cinnamon Bun brings out the delightful taste of weekend mornings with fresh-baked pastries. Both products are carefully crafted to inspire sexual creativity and passion. "The 'O' Awards are designed to recognize the best of the best in the pleasure products industry, including design, innovation and marketing," event organizers announced in a prepared statement. "Finalists were culled from pre-nominations submitted by various companies, including manufacturers, distributors and retailers, and then voted on by a panel of industry experts." Sunny Megatron—sex educator and host of the Showtime original series Sex With Sunny Megatron—will host the 8th Annual "O" Awards. The ceremony is scheduled for 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas during the 2017 AVN Novelty Expo. The new "O" Awards nominations represent the culmination of a year of growth and innovation for Wicked Sensual Care. The company further solidified its position as a major contender in the personal lube space with increased media attention, an emphasis on education, and multiple award nominations. The brand has long been associated with quality, having earned the 2014 AVN Award for Best Lubricant Manufacturer, as well as earning Best Enhancement Product nominations for its OverTime Delay Cream for Men from both AVN and XBIZ. The line's Toy Love Gel for Intimate Toys earned an additional XBIZ nom for Outstanding Packaging, while the collection itself received the East Coast News Distributors' Choice Award for Best New Lubricant in 2013. Most recently, Wicked Sensual Care received the 2016 IVD / ECN Fall Show Award for Best Body Care Product. To learn more, please visit www.wickedsensualcare.com. About Wicked Sensual Care Crafted to enhance and satisfy intimate adventures, the Wicked Sensual Care Collection offers luxurious, intimate lubricants and enhancers perfect for partner and solo play. A leader in sexual wellness, Wicked Sensual Care uses exclusive formulas and clean ingredients to create the highest quality lubricants on the market - all products are vegan, PETA certified, and paraben free*. Wicked Sensual Care is dedicated to producing conscious products for women, men, and couples, which include natural extracts, such as olive leaf and aloe, providing additional enrichments for increased comfort and peace of mind. Wicked Sensual Care's water based "Aqua" collection provides long lasting formulas that satisfy without ever becoming sticky or tacky during use, while the "Ultra" collection uses 100 percent pure premium silicone to create unsurpassed glide and comfort. "Specialty" products include Enhancers & Cleaners designed to boost intimacy and heighten sexual health and wellness. Whether consumers are searching for something sexy, therapeutic, or romantic, Wicked Sensual Care can provide the ideal compliment to all erotic experiences. For more information, visit www.WickedSensualCare.com, www.Twitter.com/WickedSensual, orwww.Facebook.com/WickedLubes. About Sunny Megatron Sunny Megatron is a sexuality educator, award-winning blogger, media personality, and pleasure products expert. She's also the host and executive producer of the groundbreaking, sex-positive Showtime original television series Sex with Sunny Megatron. Named one of the six most savvy sexologists in North America, her work has been featured in Cosmo, Playboy, Jezebel, Buzzfeed and CNN. Sunny's passion is helping people become their authentic, sexual selves by learning to overcome shame and shed inhibitions. As a lifestyle BDSM enthusiast, much of her work centers around normalizing alternative sexual practices and ending sexual stigma. Keywords: Wicked Sensual Care, WickedSensualCare.com, Wicked Sensual Care Collection, 2017 Sex Lubricant Company of the Year, 2017 XBIZ Awards, Cassie Pendleton, marketing director, Brand Ambassador of the Year, 2017 XBIZ Executive Awards, personal lubricants, enhancers, sexual health & wellness, clean ingredients, vegan, PETA certified, paraben free, education, intimate, sex, love, romance


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Friday 23 January
DJ from
Amsterdam: Age Akkerman
Dancing from
8pm to midnight
previously DJed at Carablanca as
part of a DJ duo with
Sebastián. Sebastián is
spending some time in Buenos Aires
and while he is there Age is DJing
alone. We are delighted to
welcome him back.
Age has researched in depth the
correct speed of many songs, so you
may hear some familiar music retuned
to its original tempo and pitch. As
before, he will use a projector to
show information about the music
being played.
For more information about his
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On this visit to London Age
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At our most recent Ofsted inspection in March 2015 we were awarded a Good grade. We are aiming to be Outstanding at our next Ofsted inspection. Indeed, our recent performance data suggests we are operating at that level.
However we are not complacent – we can always do better. Guided by an external advisor (who is an Ofsted inspector), the school's senior leadership team and governors create a Learning Improvement Plan each year. This itemises the changes we are making across the whole school.
Below is an overview and some highlights of the 2015 Ofsted report:
'St Michael's CE Primary School is a good school. Teaching is good and ensures pupils achieve well from their starting points. Standards are well above the national average in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.'
'Leaders have an exceptionally effective system for supporting teachers to improve their performance. Leaders at all levels set high expectations of what pupils can achieve.'
'Leaders, including governors, are continually improving elements of the school's work. This ensures that the quality of teaching remains good and that outcomes for pupils remain high.'
'The curriculum engages pupils and ensures they enjoy learning. Projects such as the enterprise initiative in Year 6 prepare pupils well for secondary school and life in modern Britain. Strong provision for music, science and sports ensures pupils receive a well-rounded education.'
'Provision in the early years is vibrant and engaging. Children are more than ready to start Year 1 because they achieve well in the early years provision.'
'Pupils feel safe and have an in-depth understanding of how to stay safe because the school's work in this area is outstanding.'
'Pupils behave well, they are courteous and polite. Relationships between adults and pupils are very positive.'
'The school is fully committed to promoting equality of opportunity. Leaders check the achievement of different groups to ensure that all make equally good progress. The school's strong moral stance and clear values mean there is no place for discrimination. Diversity is celebrated and pupils are very clear that prejudice is completely unacceptable. Relationships among pupils, and between pupils and teachers, are very good.'
'The school promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development exceptionally well.'
'Partnerships with the local authority and the diocese are strong and have contributed to the improvements made.'
Download the full 2015 report or our previous reports
Statutory Inspection of Anglican Schools
As a Church of England school, we are also inspected under Section 48 of the Education Act (2005). Our most recent Section 48 inspection in 2012, found that:
'The distinctiveness and effectiveness of St Michael's CE School as a Church of England school are outstanding.'
'St Michael's is an outstanding Church School because it demonstrates the Christian values it promotes in every part of its school. Because of this, Collective Worship, Religious Education (RE) significantly contributes to pupils' development whilst the strong partnership between school, church and community enriches pupils' lives. Prayer and faith thread through the school uniting stakeholders and affirming both those of faith and no faith.'


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February 18, 2012
Stone Town
I woke up this morning knowing it was my last sunrise in Africa and that in just a few hours I would start my journey back home, back to Toronto, my husband, my darling cat. Breakfast on the beach was lovely and after eating and packing up we all boarded a shuttle van that took us back to Stone Town.
Instead of taking the ferry back to Dar es Salaam I had decided to take a small plane off Zanzibar and fly directly into the Dar airport. I had some time to kill so a few of us wandered around Stone Town one last time and indulged in a delicious lunch at a hotel I could only dream of staying at.
When it was finally time to go the group said goodbye with promises of open doors and dreams of future travel plans. It was a sweet, earnest moment filled with hope and honesty. And then it was over. The hugs stopped, a cab pulled up and I was on my way home.
Zanzibar airport was a sweltering, sweaty, crowded mess. I sat myself in front of a fan and waited until my flight number was called (no displays or loudspeakers in this place), there was just a guy at the door who called out airlines and numbers over the din of the crowd. Luckily I didn't have to wait too long and when my plane pulled up everyone just walked across the tarmac where a moment ago another plane had landed. Crazy!
From Zanzibar I flew to Dar es Salaam, then onto Nairobi, followed by Amsterdam. I had an 8 hour layover in Amsterdam (and I arrived at 5am) so I checked into their airport hotel (called Yotel) for 6 hours and was able to shower, catch a nap and watch some tv. It was awesome and for $100 totally worth it.
Feeling all fresh from my shower and change of clothes I boarded my last flight home and 8 hours later arrived in Toronto, into the loving arms of my husband. 24 hours earlier I had been on the gorgeous island of Zanzibar, not wanting it to be over and now, in the midst of a Toronto winter, finally home with my husband and kittycat, I didn't want to be anywhere else.


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Mike and Emma
Today we have the stunning wedding of Mike and Emma that too place at Top of the Rock in New York on 23rd December 2015. Enjoy!
Both of us have been married before and we know how stressful planning a conventional wedding can be. We also know that after the wedding can feel like an anti-climax. So we planned our wedding in our favourite city and made the holiday - not the ceremony - the focus.
Mike was in charge of the holiday part of it: he booked the flights for us, our close family and four friends and arranged for beautiful suites in The London NYC. I was in charge of the wedding itself and arranged the location, officiant and all of the vendors. Sharing out the tasks according to our strengths meant we were pretty relaxed about the planning; keeping it simple meant we had very little to do in the weeks leading up to the wedding so we really enjoyed the whole period. We also produced an information pack about New York so everyone could get the most out of their holiday.
We cut out the things that weren't important to us - cake, DJ, seating plan: - and instead organised for everyone to see our favourite basketball team, the New York Knicks, two days before the wedding. Mike arranged a surprise message to be displayed on the Jumbotron screen for me and we all got goodie bags. A few of us also took part in an escape room experience, where you are locked in a room and have an hour to solve clues to work your way out, which was great fun, especially as we escaped!
I kicked Mike out of the hotel room at 6.30am so I could get ready! The wedding was at 9.30am because it gets very crowded at the Rockefeller Centre during the day, especially at Christmas time, so we had to start early. I had a lovely time getting ready - we ordered breakfast from room service for me, my bridesmaid, Kelly, and my makeup artist, Eden. We chatted, laughed, ate and enjoyed ourselves until it was time to go.
Christmas in New York is absolutely magical for weddings - the city comes ready-decorated and no one does glitz and glamour quite like the Americans. I met Mike under the famous Christmas tree and we then went up to the Top of the Rock to join our guests who were waiting for us. The staff at The Rock were wonderful and so many members of the public came up to us to wish us well throughout the day that it really felt special. We didn't get the view from the Top of the Rock that we wanted as it was foggy but in the end it worked out well because it meant we had The Rock virtually to ourselves and the photos have a beautiful, ethereal look.
After the ceremony, we whizzed round the city with our photographer, Brian Friedman. We were happy to be guided by his experience and so got some great shots in places we love. We then joined everyone for lunch in The Australian NYC, a good, old-fashioned pub! We'd booked a table for 20 and when we turned up in our wedding finery we got a really warm welcome from Josh, the manager, and all the staff. Highlights were hot cider with hokey-pokey foam and Tim Tam sundaes!
I knew I wanted a 50s-inspired tea-length gown but found it hard to find just what I wanted. I went into Hayley J's shop and saw the perfect gown hanging up but when I tried it on, I was somehow disappointed. Immediately, Hayley began pinning and moving bits of fabric and the dress was transformed before my eyes; she knew exactly what would suit me and sketched out a design for me. The lace is French and my coat was made from teddy bear fur from the company who makes teddy bears for the royal family! I absolutely loved my dress and it was so comfortable.
I didn't want to pay lots of money for fresh flowers that we would leave in the hotel room a day later so I bought artificial bouquets and boutonnières. Betty from Bespoke Vintage Castle added beautiful details to the flowers to match my dress and headband. So many people couldn't believe they weren't real and I have them as a keepsake.
I think people are the most important part of the wedding - invite who you want to, not who you feel you have to and choose vendors who you can work with over a period of months in potentially stressful situations. All of our vendors were lovely and we have become good friends with many in the process. And enjoy your day - it goes so quickly.
We didn't ask for any presents from guests as they had travelled all that way to be with us. But we did give each other presents. Mike got me a pair of beautiful Jimmy Choos and I bought him a flight in a Spitfire - we were both very happy with the other's choices!
With thanks to:
Wedding venue - Top of the Rock, New York City
Photography - Brian Friedman at B-Freed Photography
Dress - Hayley J Bespoke Bridal Wear
Hair and makeup - Eden Di Bianco
Flowers - Bespoke Vintage Castle
Reception venue - The Australian NYC


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"nainam chindanti shastrani
nainam dahati pavakah
na chainam kledayanty apo
na sosayati marutah"
(Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 23)
"Sri Krishna said: The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind."
According to Bhagwat Gita, the Soul, or Atman, is impenetrable, incombustible, all pervading, stable and immobile (Chapter 2.24).
"acchedyo 'yam adahyo 'yam
akledyo 'sosya eva cha
nityah sarva-gatah sthanur
achalo 'yam sanatanah"
(Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 24)
"Sri Krishna said: This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same."
According to Bhagwat Gita, the Soul, or Atman, is invisible, imperceptible and immutable (Chapter 2.25).
"avyakto 'yam acintyo 'yam
avikaryo 'yam ucyate
tasmad evam viditvainam
nanusocitum arhasi"
(Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 25)
"Sri Krishna said: It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body."
"atha chainam nitya-jatam
nityam va manyase mrtam
tathapi tvam maha-baho
nainam socitum arhasi"
(Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 26)
"Sri Krishna said: If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty-armed."
"prakriteh kriyamanani
gunaih karmani sarvasah
kartaham iti manyate"
(Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Three verse 27)
"Sri Krishna said: The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature."
Lord Krishna knew the limitations of human consciousness to gauge the true nature of the inner soul. So in the Bhagwat Gita it concurs that no one can exactly know what a soul is. Someone looks at It with great surprise, another speaks about It with great surprise, some another hears about It with incredulity and yet another after hearing about It knows it not (Chapter 2.29).
"ascharya-vat pasyati kascid enam
ascharya-vad vadati tathaiva chanyah
ascharya-vac chainam anyah srnoti
srutvapy enam veda na chaiva kascit"
(Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 29)
"Sri Krishna said: Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all."
Below verse tells how Soul is superior to matter; mind, senses & intelligence:
"indriyani parany ahur
indriyebhyah param manah
manasas tu para buddhir
yo buddheh paratas tu sah"
(Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Three verse 42)
"Sri Krishna said: The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence."
So in this way Soul is a Mysterious thing & can be understood if you have faith in God & in religious scriptures.


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A grateful thank-you in advance to all who choose to participate in this special fundraising opportunity for the Center.
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Here is the information from the VA site that I missed yesterday. Please click "in Blogroll" on Women Veterans to read the topic: "OUR ACTIVITIES". Listed immediately below the above information.


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I really had my hands on Fern last night. Not that I don't handle her on a regular basis, but last night, I was really "feeling her up." Darned, she's built like a prize fighter: very, very compact and muscular. She feels wonderful. That lead me to think, is there such a thing as a five-month-old puppy being too muscular? Probably not. All the running she does has really built her up.
It is interesting how you see patterns that you didn't see before. Gel is a fussy eater. He's better than he was, but he still doesn't eat as well as I'd like to see. I've noticed that Fern is starting to show signs of being too busy to eat. This morning, I put a bowl of turkey gizzards down on the floor. What does Fern do, run around the house stashing them for later. I do not think this is abnormal behavior for a dog or a puppy, but I'd rather not find petrified turkey gizzards lying around the house. She even put one on the couch which I of course I sat on before I found it.
I need to start putting her in her crate with a bowl of food, leaving her there for 15 minutes or so and whatever she doesn't eat gets put away until the next meal.
Gel did the same thing as a young dog, he was too busy to eat. Today, I look at his lack of appetite as a sign of chronic disease, but now I wonder if it isn't just a created habit.


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Bethesda have revealed Arkane Studios' Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, releasing worldwide for Xbox One, PS4 and PC on September 15th.
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Xanderghul (pronounced ZAHN-dur-gool)[1] was the Runelord of Pride, Satrap of Cyrusian, and first amongst equals. Xanderghul claimed that the lands of Cyrusian were the ancient heartland or capital of the Thassilonian empire and he was probably right. He wanted Cyrusian to be a paradise for the elite of Thassilon, better than all of the other domains. Xanderghul held himself above all of the other runelords, priding himself on avoiding the mere squabbles of the other six. He was a master of diplomacy and singlehandedly held the empire together. He was the only runelord who worshiped the Peacock Spirit. His features were said to resemble those of First King Xin. He was a patron of the arts and master of his weapon of rule which was a lucerne hammer. While this may make Xanderghul sound like a wise and noble ruler, in truth he was arrogant beyond all reason. His ego grew with every new achievement and every passing year.[2]
- ↑ Erik Mona et al. (2008). Campaign Setting, p. 247. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-112-1
- ↑ Wolfgang Baur. (2007). The History of Thassilon. Burnt Offerings, p. 77. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-035-3


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Call Me
In the midst of being on tour together with Kill The Noise and Seven Lions, Chad Cisneros and David Reed aka Tritonal have released a new single called "Call Me". This year has been a productive one for the duo, having already dropped a number of originals like "Strangers", "Wild Kind", "Good Thing" and more... "Call Me" is a blissful pop/dance hybrid with radio appeal, perfect for easy listening or as a mild dance tune. The feel good vibes are all over this one thanks to a sweet melody and an even sweeter vocal performance. Give the track a spin and check the link below for all possible streaming options. Enjoy!
Get/Stream "Call Me" by clicking HERE
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