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Digital analytics provider comScore and social media marketing software company Buddy Media have entered into a strategic partnership that aims to offer marketers a more quantifiable way to evaluate their social media efforts.
Buddy Media clients—which include magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Better Homes and Gardens, Golf Digest and New York—will continue to receive the company’s analytics for free, but with an option to purchase comScore-integrated metrics at a premium, including reach/frequency, demographics, online behavior and benchmarking of competitive brands in the social landscape.
“[Brands] have largely been designing their social marketing programs on faith, without the appropriate feedback loop to ensure their strategies are maximizing returns,” says comScore CMO and EVP Linda Abraham in a statement. This partnership, she says, will “help brands gain the insights needed to design and improve their programs to deliver the greatest social marketing ROI.”
This move is the latest in a series of comScore’s efforts to enhance its digital audience measurement capabilities. In August, comScore acquired AdXpose, a digital advertising analytics company, for $22 million in an effort to enhance its ad effectiveness metrics. In June, the company announced a partnership with magazine audience ratings provider GfK MRI to measure online media habits, print readership and product brand usage. In April, it announced its development of a new tool to measure usage on smartphones, apps, tablets and shared computers. | <urn:uuid:e308b6b0-578d-433a-bed3-3d9a118e96bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.foliomag.com/2011/comscore-partners-buddy-media-offer-social-media-analytics/ | 2016-05-26T00:38:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275429.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00002-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933416 | 298 | [
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Long-term readers may recall my experiments with Vista on a Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet. Since then I’ve kept the drivers up to date as new versions appeared. The machine is stickered “Windows Vista Capable.”
It’s been OK though the annoying problem with the machine not waking from sleep persisted. Although this may sound a minor issue, it is really not good, as you can lose data. By default the laptop sleeps after a fairly short interval of non-use. I set it to hibernate instead, which works, but waking from hibernation is slower. The symptom of the sleep problem is that when you try to resume, the machine seems to start up but the screen stays blank. It’s a known issue on several Toshiba machines, and sometimes fixable by twisting the display, or toggling the display on and off, but I found that often did not work. On one occasion when trying to resume from sleep, the screen stayed dark but the CPU fan went into overdrive, making such a racket that heads turned at the conference where I was taking notes. Embarrassing.
Of course I wanted to fix the problem. Updating BIOS and drivers didn’t seem to make any difference, but I found this tech note on Toshiba’s US site, which refers to “Blank screen after waking from standby state” and says:
A firmware upgrade for a component on the computer’s main circuit board corrects this problem. This upgrade must be performed by a Toshiba Authorized Service Provider (ASP).
I called support but the UK folk denied all knowledge of the fix, and when I referred to the tech note, said that it probably would not apply to a UK machine (though I’m doubtful that there is much difference). To be fair, my local Toshiba service centre did offer to look at it, but I was busy and didn’t want to hand over the machine immediately.
Two other things happened which forced my hand. First, the FireWire port became unreliable. Second, someone knocked the machine off a coffee table, and when it fell on the carpet part of the base snapped off, leaving a jagged edge. Ouch.
I sent the machine away for a new base, adding that I would also like the FireWire and resume problems fixed under warranty. I paid for the base, of course, but Toshiba honoured the warranty on the FireWire problem, which fortunately I’d reported before the accidental damage.
No word about the resume issue, but the engineer decided that fixing the FireWire port required a new motherboard. Got the machine back, and guess what? No resume problem. So far, it wakes from sleep perfectly. I know this is nothing to do with drivers, because I removed the drive with Vista on it before sending the machine away, and refitted it on return with no changes.
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This is another pic for which I’d love to see the back view. The sleevelets appear to be part of the same piece of fabric as the obi/sash, and I’m curious how she manages it so that she can still move her arms.
Gorgeous. She vaguely resembles an actress from Sweden, Gun WĂĄllgren. Also gorgeous. By the way, saw you in our magazine Aftonbladet the other day. Camera and all. Hope you enjoyed Sweden once again. Have a good one! lol MammaLex
Getting more years doesn´t mean that you can forget your figure.This lady is very slim and I appreciate her for that.She has a nice outfit and it suits her well. The only thing that is bothering me is her hair.Grey is fine,but at her age she should have it in some other way-maybe a shorter cut or some sort of bun.
I anticipate many commenters will focus on how well this woman wears her age — but really, she’s absolutely beautiful rather than her beauty being relative to her years. And as for style — her years contribute to this. Her style isn’t despite her age but appears a function of a lifetime’s experience with presenting herself — she clearly knows her strengths well and knows how to feature them. Inspiring!
Wow! what is this fabulous (teal?) fabric around her? it reminds me of that all cotton/modal line of clothing in the early 90′s called “multiples,” where you could wrap garments in various ways depending on your whims. Lovely!!!!
I KNOW this photo will get many comments…because the woman is over twenty years old and looks fabulous! I love the scarf wrapped this way and that. I realize her hair is the natural woman sort of thing but I would love to see her have a shorter cut like another Stockholm woman you featured..it could highlight her face.
A beautiful goddess of the harvest at Lammas. Strong, tested, tried true. Elegant, ageless. What a beauty. Love the classic fashion and lady-like elegance. What a relief from the butt-cracking and crotch-skirting which passes for “fashion” in the USA. Thank you, sart! xoxo
Wow, she’s beautiful, and a fashion role model. Although I think her dress is a little too complicated, she still looks great. Her look makes sense: she’s not wearing a miniskirt and high heels, and she doesn’t seem to have deformed herself with any anti-aging beauty treatments. Thank God. And her hair is beautiful as is. But she’s still very glamorous.
I’m mesmerized! I love her! I want to be her! (Well in 20+ years or so) I want to know more about this mysterious wrapping situation going on. Are the sleeves part of it? Is this a home made affair or something store bought. questions.
you know yr blog is super great, with pictures of cool people and great looks,helpful advice, and quality commentary,it’s like the dos and don’ts for the set that doesn’t think the bands daft punk or justice came up with the whole house music thing, THANKS.
This woman is incredible- she looks otherworldly and ethereal. Knowing that there are people who look like this wandering around the planet is pretty humbling. I hope I can possess a fraction of that presence at her age.
I love how you take pictures of everyone on this site! Try to find more of fashionable older women. I keep trying to dress my mom, but she thinks she’s too old to be fashionable, but clearly, no. She needs some inspiration!
This woman is the epitome of style and grace. She is naturally elegant without being made up and looking like she’s met with the surgeon’s knife. She appears to be comfortable in her own skin and radiates true beauty. Her dress is stunning on her, and she almost makes me want to quit coloring my hair and go “au natural” (although I don’t think I could carry it off with such panache). Bravo to grace, aging, and embodying feminine style.
Why is grey hair always called “grey”? Grey is a whole range. There are warm grays, cool greys, all manner of whites, “champagne,” etc. And why aren’t grey streaks called highlights, when that is in fact their effect?
Cult of youth, that’s why. This lady shows that a thing of beauty is indeed a joy forever.
“Getting more years doesn´t mean that you can forget your figure.This lady is very slim and I appreciate her for that”
Why would you appreciate somebody for that? Would it really make her less beautiful if she was a couple of sizes bigger?
“The only thing that is bothering me is her hair.Grey is fine,but at her age she should have it in some other way-maybe a shorter cut or some sort of bun.”
You seem to have a lot of rules when it comes to other people, what they should and shouldn’t do too be considered beautiful by you. Why is it so hard to just take her beauty for what it is? I don’t know you but judging by your comment you seem too be the type of person who buys into what magazines say is beauty. The world and its beauty come in more shapes and sizes than what fits between the pages of a magazine
last night, my friend bill, asked me what i thought the sartorialist was about, because he didn’t think it was about fashion…. i gave him my inarticulate ‘idunnowha???’
he told me he thought this blog was a love letter to the human race. (i don’t think he would leave a comment like that here) looking at it through that perspective, it’s really changed the way i see your photos, i thought they were lovely before, now i think they are magnificent.
To medii—Lot´s of older people seem to ´give up´and don´t care about how they look.Sure it is very difficult to stay slim-man or woman -during your menopause, you have to watch to what you are eating and how much.Keeping up your exercise is equal important too.I should know cause I´m 56 years old.Sure-someone with a bit more flesh can be attractive too.I just happen to prefer the slimmer look.
She takes my breath away. And she isn’t any age – she is ageless – like nymphs and goddesses and landvættir spirits. Not tainted with youthful dissatisfaction – she just IS that thing you took a picture of. And how DID a mere mortal do that to her dark scarf? Is it all one scarf? Tell, Sart! Tell!
Jennine, that story was so simple and yet so great that it caught me off guard and actually almost made me cry (never fear, I regained my composure). Gosh, what a pretty interpretation.
Clothing with lots of layers and drapery involved, such as this and those of the Muslim girls below, always makes me a bit envious. This is how I would dress absolutely every day if I could stand the attention that comes when you shirk convention.
Being around her age and reading some of the comments…it’s as if “older” is when you stop being yourself and start fitting into a mold and it’s, like, soooo amazing if you don’t. Or, some think, you SHOULD fit into a mold. Really, I feel as if being in my 60′s I’ve turned into some weird “other”. Why would you not be interested in fashion if you always were? I keep waiting for the moment when I stop wanting to listen to The Rapture and get into going to the symphony. Clearly it’s inevitable and is going to happen any week now.
However I don’t know if that black shash is working, it looks a bit forced to me. She seems so carefree and swan-like, yet the sash thing really seems constrictive. I think it creates an unappealing tension that borders on the ridiculous.
But, when you’re that hot, you can pretty much do as you please, can’t you? ;)
Wow, she looks fantastic. I was considering colouring my hair because I have a little grey streak but I’m not going to now!! Are they clothes for a shoot or is it her own personal style. If the latter then she is a very classy lady indeed
Last week I was walking around Stockholm and it struck me how much fashion had changed since spring and that the Sartorialist should come back to see it so it’s a happy surprise to see that you are back!
I’ve been thinking a great deal about this photograph because one sees so few people like her in real life. She’s a model, sure. (And she’s Swedish, of course. :)) But my feeling–no certainty–is that we take a wrong-headed approach to aging in North America. I’ve recently been noticing women slightly older than I am at the office with grey roots in advance of their next colouring appointment. I’ve been thinking about an alternate course in which I will allow the grey to come in as it does in my own hair. I think that this woman has further inspired me. Furthermore, the serenity and individuality of this woman are both readily apparent. I really like it.
All this talk about age…the truth is very few people have any fashion sense at all, but you don’t notice it on young people because their bloom overrides it. Later, however, the body fades and all you’ve got going is style. So if you’ve been developing your fashion sense your whole life, really know yourself and have a clear eye about what looks good on you, then your years give you an edge and you can look end up looking even more fabulous than many people younger who just look, well, young.
I have just read enough comments of this grand lady and the way she wears her hair.I think grey hair is very charming on most people.Why hide your age.I understand that if someone is starting to get grey hair at a very young age he or she would like to color it.Long,grey hair and keeping it loose might fit in some cases.I still think this lady in question would look more beautiful with her hair tied up in some way.
This picture somehow annoys me. I agree she’s wonderful and she doesn’t hide the fact she’s not too young; I agree with every comment praising her style and beauty, and her hair being almost white makes me the happiest.
But then again, she doesn’t look like most of aged women I know, and it’s not because of the hair. Where are the menopause extra pounds? Where are the double chin, the swollen arms, the wrinkled forehead?
Naa, she might be older than most of fashionable people portraited here or anywhere else, but she’s as regular as Kate Moss can be.
You sell fashion with young faces. The consumer almost cannot avoid being influenced by all the young beauty he sees in his every day life. The cruelness of defining beauty as being young is that while we are young we are not able to appreciate our youth and as we become older we distance ourself more and more of being beautiful. It would be such a relief, if also age would be considered as something positive, something that we admire and are looking forward to achieve. You cannot become healthier when aging but more wise and if it was shown as something positive in magazines, on tv etc. even more beautiful. This foto is the best proof of how beautiful you can be even when you are older.
what a very beautiful woman. Love her hair. Love the fact that you photo just people walking along in their day. Maybe one would need a handbag to match their beauty; check out my product ‘Haida Princess Totes’ at http://groups.msn.com/HaidaDesignPurses Love your eye for art and beauty my friend. Respect all the time.
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Cary, NC - The fourth-seeded UCLA women's soccer team fell to top-seeded North Carolina, 3-0 Friday afternoon in an NCAA Semifinal match-up at the 2003 College Cup at the SAS Soccer Park. With the loss, UCLA ends its season 20-2-3 overall. UNC improves to 26-0 and earns a spot in Sunday's final against UConn. The Huskies were 2-0 winners over No. 12 Florida State.
UNC scored its first goal off a corner kick at the 23:34 mark of the first half. Alyssa Ramsey sent a bending ball into the box that flew over the head of Bruin goalkeeper Arianna Criscione. Kendall Fletcher was able to get a body on it and slip it into the Bruin goal.
The Tar Heels went ahead 2-0 in the 29th minute on an own goal by UCLA. UNC sent a ball deep into Bruin territory that was run onto by senior defender Kat Lee. Lee managed to gain control and send the ball back to Criscione for clearance. Criscione, however, misplayed the ball while trying to clear it, allowing Lee's pass to dribble into the back of the Bruin net.
Despite a 2-0 halftime deficit, UCLA came out strong to start the second half, continually testing the UNC defense. The Bruins and Tar Heels played 40 minutes of scoreless soccer before UNC scored once more to put the game out of reach. In the 86th minute of action, Heather O'Reilly punched in a left-footed shot that bounced off the right post and in for a 3-0 UNC advantage.
"I'm very proud of how our team played the whole season, and what I told them after the game was that one game doesn't define you," said UCLA head coach Jillian Ellis. "We had a great year and I'm very proud of them. I congratulate North Carolina on a good game and wish them the best in the final."
UCLA's best chance to score came in the 13th minute when Lindsay Greco's shot forced UNC goalkeeper Aly Winget to make a diving save. Greco led the Bruins with three shots on the afternoon.
Friday marked the first goals the Bruins have given up during the NCAA Tournament, following four consecutive shutouts. UCLA finishes the season tying the school single-season records for victories (20) and shutouts (15).
It marks the second time that UCLA has fallen to UNC at the College Cup, as the Tar Heels defeated the Bruins, 2-1 in the 2000 NCAA Final. UCLA drops to 0-5 against UNC.
Like he did prior to UCLA's quarterfinal match-up against Penn State, five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong called to wish the Bruins luck against UNC. UCLA has used Armstrong's story for inspiration this season, printing shirts that say, "Take Nothing for Granted."
Bruin seniors who played in their last collegiate match Friday included, Kathryn Lee, Whitney Jones, Nandi Pryce and Sarah-Gayle Swanson. Katherine Bjazevich and Jaclyn Harwood were also on hand Friday for the last match of their college careers.
The loss snaps UCLA's 11-game winning streak and 17-game unbeaten streak. UNC is the only team to beat the Bruins this year, also winning 5-2 back on Sept. 19 at the Duke/adidas Soccer Classic.
UCLA Bruins Post-Game Quotes
Head Coach Jillian Ellis:
"I'm very proud of how our team played the whole season, and what I told them after the game was that one game doesn't define you. We had a great year and I'm very proud of them. I congratulate North Carolina on a good game and wish them the best in the final."
On North Carolina's ability to come out strong and play as well as they did:
"Well, they're playing at home in front of their crowd. So, obviously, we expected them to come out like a buzzsaw and I think they did. I think we struggled to find our rhythm and weren't able to make passes. They [UNC] were playing for a lot, as were we, but I think that was the thing, that their pressure was just tremendous, and we often find ourselves doing that to other teams, but when you're on the receiving end, you tend to struggle and can't think quickly enough to deal with the pressure."
On falling behind 2-0 early on:
"Well, honestly, I think we gift-wrapped one of them. Then, with the first one, we struggled a little bit with our freshman [Arianna Criscione] in goal and when you have a freshman in a big game, that's a lot of pressure. The first goal, she called for it and it went off the back post and I think the girl [Kendall Fletcher] chested it in. I thought by halftime, we had shot ourselves in the foot a little bit, and against a good team, that's a big whole to climb out of. We knew we had an up-hill battle."
On whether not having that own goal would have changed the outcome:
"You'd like to have hoped that. Obviously, the margin was three, so maybe not. But if anyone's played a sport, and you score an own goal, it's like a kick in the stomach, and I think that was the gut-killer right there and to come back from that. But that's why, in the second half, I was pleased because I said we needed to go out there and win the second half, and we played with pride."
On the difference against UNC as opposed to Penn State:
"Well, it was a better opponent today, that was the difference. I thought Penn State was a good opponent, but Carolina, a little better. They [UNC] were able to put us under a lot of pressure and we weren't able to get our rhythm."
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Plan on spending some cash in India this winter? Try applying for an Indian American Express Platinum card (not an Indian-American Express Platinum card, that doesn't exist) and you could be the proud owner of a new Lamborhgini Gallardo. For each 10,000 Rupees you spend, you get one entry in the contest and one chance to win the Lambo or be one of the five cardmembers to win a trip to the Ultimate Lamborghini Expeirence in Rome. That means for approximately $250, or about 50 hours of work as a Dell customer service rep, you could be untouchably fast. Press release below the jump.
American Express presents Platinum Experience
American Express today announced the next experience in a series of "Ultimate Platinum Experiences" especially created for its Platinum Cardmembers. The latest experience provides a Cardmember with the opportunity to win the ultimate sports machine - the Lamborghini Gallardo. Further, five Cardmembers, including the winner of the car, will also get an opportunity to win the Ultimate Lamborghini Experience which includes a visit to the Lamborghini test drive track in Rome to experience the thrill of driving a Lamborghini!. This experience is launched to match the lifestyle of Platinum Card members and symbolizes the 'Ultimate Expression of their Status'.
The Program period is from December 1, 2007 to April 30, 2008.
Announcing the initiative Mr. Amit Dutta, Vice President- Engagement, Brand and Lending, American Express, India, said, "American Express is recognized for providing premium service and value, which resonates with the lifestyle and the aspirations of our Cardmembers. The Lamborghini Gallardo is well known as the worlds sportiest & most powerful car. From the overwhelming response that was accorded to our previous initiative with Porsche, we are confident that our existing Cardmembers and the luxury car-lovers in India will eagerly participate in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win this dream machine."
American Express Platinum is more than just a card that integrates its services and offerings into the Cardmember's lifestyle in a seamless and meaningful manner. According to a study conducted by American Express, affluent consumers in India are constantly looking for products and services that reflect their status and are a symbol of their success - exclusive, premium and world class. American Express has been at the forefront of creating services and products to match these aspirations. Over the last few months American Express has developed exclusive events and experiences collectively titled "The Ultimate Platinum Experiences". Just as the Platinum Card caters to the unique financial and lifestyle needs of the Indian affluent, the Ultimate Platinum Experiences relate to their unique expectations from a premium brand.
In September this year, American Express announced the 'Gift-a-date' experience - Cardmembers received an opportunity to gift their loved ones a gala evening filled with exclusive lifestyle experiences in the company of Abhishek Bachchan. Following this, the company announced a Platinum promotion for the Porsche 911 Targa in October. The offer to receive a Lamborghini Gallardo is yet another opportunity by the brand to provide an unmatched and exclusive opportunity to Platinum Cardmembers and demonstrate value and distinction to potential members.
All Platinum Cardmembers are eligible to participate in this promotion. Every Rs. 10,000 spent by the Cardmember on the Card during the promotion period helps earn one point or one chance to enter the draw. The more entries the Cardmember has, the greater is the opportunity to win the Lamborghini Gallardo. [AmEx India via MoneyControl.com] | <urn:uuid:462ece67-d9cd-4f01-8af4-f945aa081a68> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://jalopnik.com/339551/use-your-amex-win-a-lamborghini-gallardo | 2016-05-28T16:48:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278042.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00162-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941948 | 730 | [
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John McLaughlin Set for Paul Reed Smith's Custom Guitar Presentation at Met Museum, 10/7
American guitar maker Paul ReEd Smith will present a custom-made electric guitar to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, October 7, at 4:30 p.m. The presentation will take place at the Museum's Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing and will be followed by a musical demonstration by legendary guitarist John McLaughlin.
Paul ReEd Smith heads one of the most successful and influential guitar companies in the world and his instruments have been used by many of the most prominent electric guitarists of the last quarter century.
The Metropolitan Museum is pleased to add this guitar, representing one of the most important contemporary guitar makers, to its encyclopedic collection of musical instruments.
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2005 Lower Peninsula
Cross Country Finals LP Finals
Nov. 5 - Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn
Click here for archived audio of the Finals
Finals DVDs by Advance Video Service
Friday, Nov. 4, 2005
3:30 - 5 p.m. Packet pick up at new site:
Super 8 Hotel, Brooklyn
Finals T-shirts available for purchase at this time
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005
7:30 a.m. Entrance Opens
(Packet pickup, T-shirt sales & course review)
10:00 a.m. Division 4 Boys
10:30 a.m. Division 3 Boys
11:00 a.m. Division 4 Girls
11:30 a.m. Division 3 Girls
12:15 p.m. Division 3 & 4 Awards
1:30 p.m. Division 2 Boys
2:00 p.m. Division 1 Boys
2:30 p.m. Division 2 Girls
3:00 p.m. Division 1 Girls
3:45 p.m. Division 1 & 2 Awards
Admissions: There will be an allowance for free admission for up to 12 team members in uniform, plus a total of three coaches or managers in combination. Spectators will be charged $6 each. Free parking. Visibly worn passes will allow coaches and officials to restricted areas other than infield and course. Programs and results will be on sale throughout the day.
Details of the Course: The entire course will be laid out with a yellow line. If a sharp curve appears on the course, flags will indicate directions: “Red to left”, “Yellow to right” and “Blue straight through”. Any white lines on the course are simply for crowd control. Athletes do not have to stay between these lines, but must go around all other natural or man-made barriers.
Markers and timing clocks will designate the mile, two-mile, and three-mile marks.
The finish line will be clearly marked in front of the grandstand.
Finals on DVD -- All races will be available for purchase individually on DVD. Each video will provide single camera coverage of all runners in the race from at least four vantage points, including the Starting Line, 1 mile mark, 2 mile mark and Finish Line. The awards presentation will also be included. To order, click here.
Audio Commentary On MHSAA Internet Broadcast Network Web Site -- Fans unable to attend the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals will be able to keep up with the action through the MHSAA’s Internet Broadcast Network. Launched earlier this Fall, this new Web site – mhsaanetwork.com – is the Internet audio home for MHSAA Finals in a variety of sports; carries the new weekly commentary, MHSAA Perspective; and is providing MHSAA member schools the opportunity to broadcast audio of their athletic events. The audio commentary will be the public address feed from MIS, where a pair of announcers, working with spotters at different vantage points around the course, will be able to keep fans on site and on the Internet, abreast of race developments. In addition to the live coverage, the races will also be archived for on-demand listening following the event. The MHSAA Internet Broadcast Network is powered by EZStream.com. | <urn:uuid:d8e78e21-ba87-4abb-a095-dc18560ba82a> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.mhsaa.com/MHSAA_ARCHIVE/sports/bxc/2005final.htm | 2016-05-28T16:02:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278042.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00162-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911759 | 696 | [
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The PBS story says that "after studying five crocodilian species on Africa, Australia and North America, the team found that the reptiles can climb as high as six feet off the ground. Juveniles have been spotted as high as 30 feet. Combined with anecdotal evidence in these areas, the researchers found that the smaller crocodiles were able to vertically scale trees, while their larger counterparts relied on angled branches.
"The team concludes that tree-climbing ability allows the cold-blooded species to regulate their body temperature -- bask in the sun -- and keep tabs of their surroundings. The researchers observed that the crocodiles were 'skittish,' fleeing from their heights if observers approached too closely."
CBS News notes that "Crocodiles are usually considered ground-dwellers, but a few anecdotes suggested they climb at least occasionally. Local reports from Mexico, Colombia, Indonesia and Botswana, among other spots described crocs basking in mangroves and other trees. A photographer even snapped a shot of a croc cousin, the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in a tree about 4 to 6 feet (2 to 3 meters) above the water at the Pearl River Delta in Mississippi." | <urn:uuid:eb4e40f4-ea7f-4a06-acf6-d4dda80de1e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.nola.com/pets/index.ssf/2014/02/crocodiles_can_climb_trees_acc.html | 2016-05-28T15:59:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278042.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00162-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961274 | 247 | [
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Finc fan gets her own tale. Hot, busty advenurer discovers an outback freak farm. Sammy enjoy.
The brilliant white plane dipped its nose as its four jet engines throttled up in power. The RAF Vulcan bomber was at 10,000 feet, the scorching Australian sun shimmering off the white metal. The V winged aircraft flashed in a perfect sky like a mile high lighthouse beacon. A clipped public school accent of the pilot crackled in his microphone flight mask.
“I’m beginning run. 4 minutes to target, everything fine over.”
The bomb doors were open now; a single big blue cylinder awaiting release. A distant voice crackled back in his earphone. “Roger flight 14 dusting is a go, over.”
The pilot gripped the flight stick tightly his instruments readings critical as his plane began to swoop down. The altimeter spiralled down 10, 8, 6, the height dropping by the thousands in mere seconds. He levelled the stick near supersonic speed the plane ridiculously low to the tree line.
“T-1 minute I can see target, release in 40… 35… 30…”
His breathing increased the big white bird like an aboriginal god; the engine roar covering a hundred humid, swamp filled, but deserted square miles. Only one feature stood out; his target.
Ahead the land rose up, a boil on a flat jungle world. The hill was like a crooked witch nose on her green face.
“15 seconds to target….10, 9, 8.” He pulled back on the stick, the bomber rising showing its open under belly, the canister awaiting release.
“3, 2, 1,”
“That’s away, tally ho, repeat tally ho.”
The jet increased to full afterburner the whine turning to a screech as the plane engines spat fire as it climbed and made rapid escape from the target.
The canister fell, hurtling towards a creaking, buzzing canopy. 100 feet from the ground it exploded the whole hillside smothered in an enormous sickly yellow cloud.
The pilot didn’t see the detonation; his sweating face locked straight ahead the vibration of the stick in his hand as the plane increased its distance from ground zero at desperate supersonic pace.
Above top secret, test site B northern Australia. Ministry of defence united kingdom.14 August 1969
T+1 day. Bomb detonation was inconclusive. At this time no evidence of primary objective achieved, however impact radius continues to increase. Estimate 1000 square miles and rising.
T+3 days. Professor Hilts and ground survey team 36 hours overdue, radio contact lost. Recommend Australian Government be informed of project “Triffid” in its entirety and immediate assistant requested on quarantine.
Sammy stood with her hands on her hips head to one side. She liked adventure and adrenaline rushes but maybe this was too much?
“I’m not sure; it looks kind of risky to me?” She said looking back at metal and fabric aircraft.
The man shook his head walking around his flying machine smiling and pulling at the struts theatrically.
“Its absolutely safe trust me, I’ve flown it thousands of times.”
Her eyes wandered over towards the decrepit hangers.
“Doesn’t exactly look like you run an airline here?” She said sceptically.
The young man laughed, “on the contrary, we have 6 of these babies in the sheds. It’s just that the rainy seasons almost on us. I guess I’m in more need of the cash. Everyone else has hauled ass now the tourist buses have stopped.”
He continued his pitch, “but don’t worry’ you won’t get short changed. No ones queuing up so I can show you a real tour of the wilderness.”
Sammy gave a sarcastic smile as if to say “gee thanks!” Twenty, pretty and blonde Sammy had being backpacking all summer. She lived in Adelaide and didn’t see any point heading off around the globe. Not when she had so much to see back home. It had been a great summer of camping, swimming in the ocean and the occasional flirt with the many other happy go lucky tourists. On this day she’d stopped her jeep half way between distant towns in the northern territories at what the sign claimed was the “Ultimate thrill ride at tree top level!”
Now she was getting the hard sell from the eager but not unattractive backwoodsman pilot.
The pilot was definitely keen on the idea. Out here on his own no customers for days. Now this hot babe had pulled up. And man she was hot.
He admired her as she examined the micro light kite more closely. She was petite but with a curvaceous figure in fabric hot pants. Very firm big breast locked under a t-shirt. Those were definitely real beauties; looking melon size on her frame but in keeping with her woman like hips. She was cute too a pretty high cheekbone face with the over the shoulder flowing blonde mane.
He smiled at her again and she smiled back as his mind whispered,” she’s sure built for fun mate.”
“Fine!” she said.
“Hu what? Oh….oh great no problem miss.” His mind was distracted and his thoughts stopped wandering over her body. “I’ll fire her up then?”
Sammy headed back to her jeep to lock it as he began pre-flight checks. Once she was sure it was secure she sauntered over to the machine. The man smiled and shook his head. “Were not in the city now miss, more chance of a croc trying to get in to your wheels than somebody else.”
She had to agree. She’d been driving all day and not seen a sole on the sticky hot tree shrouded road.
“Its VIP treatment today,” he laughed’ the engine now roaring the man handing Sammy a crash helmet. “We’re fuelled for a long trip.”
To start with the micro light was a noisy nerve racking experience. Its vibrating frame ran up to the seat as Sammy sat in front of the pilot. His seat was slightly raised allowing him to look over her shoulders; his head darting from side to side as he just missed the tops of huge wide foliaged trees.
“Jesus!” Sammy thought her nerves jangling, hands gripping to white knuckles. She looked back a little worried. The man gave her the thumbs up as he increased power, the machine raising it nose and pulling higher. The view was spectacular and the micro light made lazy turns catching the breeze helping keep the machine aloft.
He tapped on Sammy’s shoulder pointing to the west.
“Nothing that way for 500 miles,” he hollered, “just jungle.”
“Government property” he then shouted wagging his finger. “No entry!”
He then pointed to north turning the machine that way following a snaking small river. “We’ll keep out of their way.”
As they went the tree canopy remained constant and time passed so quickly. When she finally looked at her watch she realised they’d been airborne almost an hour. Sammy felt a little uneasy as the miles increase without sign of road or ground feature.
“What if you have to land?” She said loudly over the whining engine. The man smiled shaking his head. “Why would I want to that?” He shouted back with a mischievous grin.
As if she had been reading his mind in that very moment he saw his target.
“There!” He pointed and the girl suddenly saw the river open on a small stretch of grassland surrounded on all sides by jungle forest.
“Hang on” he whooped and the engine began to stutter as he angled to land.
Sammy felt her stomach jump like she was in freefall as the machine amazingly seemed to rise up on its nose, descend rapidly and bump onto the stretch of grass. Within moments it had run to a halt along the shaded but beautiful river bank
The engine stopped and the noise quickly subsided. The pilot was already taking off his helmet and climbing out; Sammy’s temper rising. He’d just dropped from the sky like a stone. But she had to admit she had been excited by the rapid heart stopping landing deep in the wilderness.
He pulled a basket from behind his seat and placed it on the ground. “Tucker,” he said with another smile. He gave the impression that this was a practiced routine as he opened a beer inviting her to join him.
Sammy straightened her clothes wiping her hair from her face.
“This wasn’t part of the tour,” she said suspiciously.
He sat back shrugging his shoulders. ”Well for special tourist there always something extra.”
“Special?” Sammy said smiling. He nodded, “you’re special aren’t you? And she laughed in no doubt that his special had something to do with her been young, pretty and busty. But he was quite charming, a little arrogant for her maybe, but kind of an outback type, all crocodile wrestling sinew and tan.
She sat down in the long grass looking at his pre-designed feast and smiled.
“Smooth move,” she thought to herself,” real smooth move.” She took a sip of her beer as he looked at her with intent. He moved closer towards her. Sammy still undecided if to let him steal a kiss.
Suddenly the man gave a howl and jumped up in shock. “Jesus I’ve been bitten!”
He reeled back Sammy also on her feet looking in horror at the ground.
“Can you see it?” He gasped his hand reddening. Sammy shook her head unwilling to get any closer. He gritted his teeth looking at the wound. He appeared very worried.
“We best get back,” he said, clearly feeling pain in his hand. “Come on leave the stuff lets just get airborne.”
As he fired up the engine and spun the micro light around his face looked pale and he was sweating more. Sammy was going to suggest they didn’t take off, but the noise of the engine increased to fever pitch and within moments the kite was almost pointing vertical the propeller groaning; the earth pulling away.
He levelled out the wings wobbling more than she remembered on the inward journey. He looked around getting his bearing and pushed the stick down the micro light dipping then zooming off over the trees.
Sammy kept looking back at the pilot. He appeared as if he was half asleep. The kite bucked and the she screamed the jolt shaking him back into consciousness. He wiped his head seeming confused. “No worries miss,” he said in a less than confident voice.
The flight seemed to take ages now, the man’s head lolling from side to side the aircraft wings matching his to and thro motion. The nervous heart stopping ride reached the hour with no sign of the airfield.
Sammy was scared and confused “Is this the way back?” She just couldn’t tell. It was wide expanse of green in all directions. Any second she was convinced they’d just nose dive into the bush.
The man seemed confused himself wiping his brow eyes searching the horizon. He was cursing. He was losing track of time and his vibrating fuel gauge was saying he’d travelled far further than needed to get back home.
The pilot began to cough and hold his chest.
“I...I...can’t…” He looked shocked as if realising the impossible was happening, his plane bucking and coming dangerously close to the tree tops. But he regained control his engine now on full throttle as he searched for home in desperation.
Sammy noticed the colour of the forest had darkened for some while. A deep unhealthy green like a shadow had fallen over the land. She didn’t remember this on the way out.
She looked to the sun and made her calculations and cried back to him over her shoulder.
“We’re going west! We’re going the wrong way!”
The pilot was rocking back and forth he knew he was lost and his vision was blurring.
“I need to land,” he coughed, “we need to get down now.” But on all sides it’s was tall tree vegetation.
He knew he couldn’t turn around, his fuel wouldn’t last. He needed to keep going.
He banked the micro light and gunned the engine towards a silhouette on the horizon. Ahead about ten miles there was a raised outcrop. The only obvious feature as far as the eye could see. It was a hillock around a flat jungle landscape. The trees and land made a strange face profile; the tree sprouting, nose shaped hill was the highest point. He headed for that.
There was no where to land except in this less dense hillside. He was a good pilot he knew he had a chance as long as there was some ground to aim for.
The little aircraft began to stall as he slowed; the wings waggling like crazy his head swimming his vision so blurred. He felt like sleep was washing over him. As the girl screamed he pulled back on the stick the trees rushing up the hillside at him; the ground barely a landing patch at all. But it was better than nothing.
Even on the hillside it was amazing how quickly the jungle enveloped them, drawing its arms around their splintered craft. The impact hardly affected the ancient twines and roots. Almost instantly the noise of human machines was silenced and the hum and din of the jungle took over again.
Sammy wasn’t sure how long she was out cold; but when she awoke she was on her side. Her long blond hair was entwined around her neck, head and encroaching vegetation. For a moment she imagined horrible injuries, but thankfully she was fine.
She sat up taking slow deep pants of adrenaline fuelled relief.
Looking to her right she saw the pilot still in the mangled wreckage his eyes open his mouth dripping saliva.
“Oh heavens!” She cried realising he was dead. His skin seemed bluish and she guessed that the poison bite more than the hill had done this terrible deed.
She stood up gripping a tree branch to lean out into the daylight. Below was a drop to rocks, then more jungle on a steep slope down to dark undergrowth. She held a leaf in her hand. It was a dark and sickly green the veins on the leaf raised like it was in a constant state of tension. The whole jungle had the feel of brooding midnight menace. Below towards the jungle floor the near black foliage appeared to show a dense and impenetrable land.
“I need to stay here,” she thought looking out over the trees to the horizon. “I’ll never see a rescue plane down there.” She looked at the broken kite’s tangled yellow canopy. She could try some type of sign to attract an aircraft.
In the pit of her stomach suddenly came the gnawing realisation. “Who knows we are missing?” She felt her heart beating faster. She was angry with her thoughts. ”Concentrate on positives!” She shouted to herself. She looked at the yellow fabric structure. She could make a big flag of some kind.
She reached up to the crumpled wing of the aircraft. “If I can just…” The damaged metal suddenly snapped Sammy falling back. The ground below her was muddy and she felt her feet go from under her.
She screamed as she fell on her tummy sliding into the under growth. The hill was steep and somehow she had slipped into a gulley the soft mud more like a sluice than solid ground. Sammy twisted her body as she slid faster and faster the trees whipping her face. Suddenly the green gave way to brilliant day light and she was falling, falling and screaming until she hit a running torrent.
The water was engulfing her, the babe spinning like inside a washing machine. The stream was deep and fast flowing. She bounced and bumped along tippling over more dips until finally it eased to a slow meander after its circumnavigating of the witch face hill. It then opened into a wider tree enshrouded pool.
She was spluttering, her arms pushing out, her legs kicking to the side until she finally swam to safety and pulled herself onto the muddy bank.
Gasping for breath Sammy lifted herself to her knees. She was soaking wet her t shirt clinging to her heaving breast, her ass tight shorts biting into her crack as she sat thighs together, sneakers ruined. She was coughing and panting shaking her head like a big dog might after a shore side romp. The stream this far down was now so calm the noises of the forest vibrated all around. The creatures of the jungle seemed disturbed; bird’s squawking the undergrowth audibly alive.
She looked about with a start expecting an animal to pounce. But there was nothing. Calming herself Sammy stood and looked back up to the hill side. She had slid over 200 feet before dropping into the stream. Then had travelled double that till the water finally slowed.
“Shit! It’s going to take me hours to get back.”
Suddenly the heat of the jungle seemed to overwhelm her. Her skin was perspiring heavily her mind fuzzy. Her head lolled and she realised she was going down with heat stroke.
As her knees gave way she felt a hand grip her, another on her hip. They were big hands, strong safe hands. But it was too late. Her eyes rolled as she passed out with a puncture hissing sigh.
When she woke she was still sweating, the dark room around her humid and fly infested. A gentle wrinkled hand was dabbing her brow. A narrow faced woman, maybe sixty was looking over her. The woman’s eyes were black and sunken into her sockets. Her features were drawn; only the remnant of an elegant pout and refined cheek remained to show she once had class.
“She’s awake,” the woman said in a matter of fact way. Sammy tried to sit up the woman pressing a hand on her blanket covered chest. ”Stay still and drink this.” Sammy took a sip of sweet water her face a little socked realising she was naked under the linen, her wet clothes nowhere to be seen. She began to babble.
“I crashed, I mean we….” She remembered the pilot. The woman nodded.
“We know,” said another voice, both had an English slant. Sammy was a little startled. In the shadows she could she the skeletal features of man maybe in his 70s or 80’s. He also had deep socket eyes, black glistening pupils, his body white and almost translucent. The blue and white of bone and veins was showing on his arms. Both were dressed in tattered fabrics, sown and re-sown together.
“Our sons found the wreckage,” the woman whispered stroking Sammy’s brow.
“Oh thank God,” Sammy said realising at last the most important point. That she had been found. The woman then gave her a playful little wink,” we also found the body.”
Sammy didn’t know what to say, why was it funny?
“They found you first though,” the man said cocking his head to one side looking at her in an uncomfortable examiner type way. “Good job really by the looks of it.”
Sammy nodded and gave a slight probing smile. The smile was not returned.
He continued. “I would imagine this whole area is restricted?” Sammy remembered back to the pilot and nodded, “Yes I think so, I….we got lost and…”
Sammy changed her thoughts asking, “Can I ask, have you called for someone to come get me?”
Both bursts out laughing, Sammy shrinking back on the bed pulling her legs up to her chest. She was realising this was becoming “fucking weird”
“People stopped looking here a long time ago.” The old man said his chest crackling with the effort of laughing. “They decided to leave us here to rot,” the woman added. Then snorted in amusement, “but we didn’t, the last time the army came here they all died. But annoying for them we wouldn’t.”
“The army?” Sammy thought, trying to keep up with events.
“And why didn’t we die?” The woman asked Sammy; waiting for her answer. Sammy just shrugged her shoulders and they both laughed again
“Exactly we don’t know why either, all we know is that this contaminated hell hole didn’t kills us. It changed us, that’s for sure; but it didn’t kill us.”
The woman stroked Sammy’s cheek and the babe flinched and blushed at her embarrassing reaction. Her dark eyes narrowed focusing on the young beauty. “And now it hasn’t killed you.”
“It’s a miracle,” the woman added. The old man leaned forward, “No my dear it’s a gift!”
“I don’t understand? “ Sammy said sitting up pulling the cover up to her neck, covering her naked curvaceous body fully. The word “contaminated” repeating over and over in her head like an echo.
The old man wiped his brow again, paused, and then began to explain.
Sammy listened to the confusing tale. He and his wife were scientists; British military scientist. In the late 60s and under pressure from the US to become involved in the Vietnam War their government had been researching a super weapon to use in the jungle. It had been a weapon that could turn vegetation against those with the right DNA. And in this war it needed to be Vietnamese DNA.
“Imagine a wall of infected jungle drawn across the Ho Chi Min trail.” The old man a professor no less explained with more energy; his professional mind still excited after all these years. ”It would have been like toxic barbwire that the enemy couldn’t cross.”
They’d leased thousands of square miles of northern territory for their top secret research.
“Can’t go dropping chemical bombs all over Scotland,” the man chuckled. The woman nodded and he continued the tale.
“You’re in what was once the village that held capture Viet Cong.”
The woman, his loyal wife then elaborated without a hint of remorse; “our bomb test subjects.”
“You mean you poisoned them!” Sammy tone was one of disgusted.
Professor Hilts shrugged his shoulders with indifference. “When the bomb was dropped it covered the village the hillside and expanded out tree infecting tree. But something went wrong.”
He continued to explain. When he and his research team arrived they found all the test subjects dead. But that wasn’t all; the test had expanded further than they hoped and HQ was frantic that it wouldn’t stop. Then contact was lost the team one by one going insane. The professor and his wife had hidden; locking themselves away. They didn’t seem infected like the others and they planned on sitting tight and waiting for rescue. But they were mistaken in their hope. The air force napalmed the village the next day. Hidden in the cellar they had survived but the flames had made the green haze stronger. An unexpected reaction to fire meant it grew at an amazing rate.
“I guess it must have expanded so far they dare not bomb again.” He said the woman again nodding. ”After that, there was no more fire bombs dropped.”
Sammy tried to understand. “But how many years ago was that. Why haven’t you left?”
The man laughed. ”They wanted to kill us all. We were infected my dear. Oh don’t you worry they tried more than once since then. They couldn’t risk napalm again so they sent in troops. But I guess after the soldiers kept dying, going raving mad, killing each other etc they finally decided to just leave us here.”
“To rot!” The woman spat, repeating her earlier comment.
Sammy felt a chill down her spine. None of this made much sense but she realised that she wasn’t just going to be able to phone for rescue. The man stood up feeble and old he moved over to her bed and she shied further back now really uncomfortable in their presence.
“I’ve been searching for a cure for years, an anti dote of some type. You see we’ve change and need the dark green haze to breathe. We couldn’t leave even if we walked the fifty or so miles to the edge.”
“Tried it once in 72,” the woman sighed; “we nearly drowned in our own blood.”
The woman turned to her husband. She wanted to move the conversation on to more pressing matters.
“Do you think the boys will mate well with her?” She asked without batting an eyelid.
The man nodded “off course, off course.”
Sammy looked open mouth thinking. “Do you think they’ll mate with who? What meee!!!”
The old woman continued the debate. “But they’ve only ever fucked pigs and goats maybe they’ll not want….”
“Don’t be foolish woman!” The husband snapped; “you saw how they were with her when they carried her in. Practically drooling. They’ll do just fine. Then when the child is born…”
“What the fuck!“ Sammy shouted in frustration. The conversation had just turned from bizarre to surreal.
Pushing from the bed she pulled the blanket with her so it wrapped around her slim curvaceous physique and stood hand clasped to her heaving bosom.” I’m not mating with anyone, you sickos!”
The man ignored her and continued his animated discussion with his wife. “The child will be of our world and the outside world. A vaccine could be found.”
He turned to look at Sammy as she slowly edged towards the door. “They missed all our medical caravans when they bombed. We’ve been fortunate to have our research all these years.”
“And the boys have so helped build our little village back together,” the woman added.
Sammy didn’t wait to hear the rest. She burst out into the brighter but heavily shrouded daylight. The village was a mass of charred festering buildings snaked along a sick black stream. The trees curved in above, almost blotting out the sky. Ancient military vehicles were half moulded into the jungle earth and twines and Sammy stumbled over a cluttered central camp towards a rusted old jeep.
The machine was useless the steering wheel missing the metal body filled with water cans and wire traps. Sammy gave a howl of frustration still wrapped in her blanket.
She turned, her breathing heavy, her stance like a trapped tiger. She sensed a new presence close to her.
Suddenly her wrist felt the grip of a powerful hand. She screamed and spun. The blanket dropped from her, the babe naked, sweating and contorting as she tired to pull away.
The creature holding her wrist made her scream more. The man was a huge rotund ball. Fat arms and legs forced into too small clothes. His bare feet black with dirt, his form made more grotesque by his small head on a bull type body. His grip was amazing, easily lifting her towards his bulldozer frame. He was smiling and laughing excited by his catch.
The two old evil scientists had appeared at the door pleased with their son
Well done “Beefy,” they said clapping their hands in pride. ”Do you like her boy?”
The” boy” lifted his fat arm higher still gripping her wrist and she stretched for him till only one toe touched the floor. Her body firmed, her ass clenched, legs elongated to sexy pins. Her big tits were firm and proud thrusting upwards as she arched her back. She gave a sensuous groan pulled so easily into an examining posture.
He grunted saliva dripping from his fat lipped mouth as he smiled and nodded.
“Yes mother I do.”
“Well go on then boy,” Dr Hilts added.” Go and mate with her.”
Sammy screaming increased, shaking her head as Beefy nodded again, pulling open his baggy pants, ripping the cord so they dropped. Sammy could see down, but his overhanging belly hid what was there. He dropped her to the floor, Sammy on her ass his big bulk moving down on her.
It was impossible to push him back and she felt like she was under some avalanche or rock slide. She was gasping, her hands smacking at his shoulder. She tried to punch up to his pin head but the reams of skin acted like a wall pinning her onto her back. She groaned as her thighs opened his body in between her legs. “Hell it was difficult to open then that wide!” Her ankles tried to hook somewhere on his massive ass. He was rutting forward making stupid grunting noises, but she felt nothing. His cock appeared to be limp and she only had the sensation of flabby flesh on her sweet mound.
He was becoming frustrated as he ground himself onto her, making Sammy grunt with his weight. She was desperate to get him off as she was struggling to breathe. He felt like a boulder on her chest.
“What the hell is he doing?” She heard the professor say in frustration.
Beefy continued doing his best, grunting away and his mother encouraged him. “That’s it dear like a piggy,” but to no avail. Sammy could see his little eyes angry but also confused and frustrated. The awful creature clearly couldn’t get it up.
“Oh thank God,” she thought aware that nothing was happening of any importance around her pussy.
Suddenly she heard another more confident but nasally voice. “Get the fuck off her you half wit!”
Sammy gasped for air, now able to breathe as Beefy rolled from her, a hard boot kicked in his side. “I said get off her you fucking retard!”
Standing over her was something she could never imagine. Was she dreaming all this impossible stuff? The voice came from an angry shrivelled torso. It was a nasty dwarf type creature. She shook her head refusing to accept the sight. Pushing with her legs she moved her seated ass towards the undergrowth.
“Were do you think your going?” It hissed again.
The new brother took two big strides to catch her. Then its arms reached down. “Oh God,” the awful dwarf was coming closer now its spindle hands also gripping her and taking the opportunity to maul her tits. “Twin” grunted in desire pulling her up. “Dwarf” was groaning in delight as he felt her flesh for the first time.
The pin head sibling rolled away his bigger, older brother or was it brothers were not to be messed with. Twin was over six foot four of muscled and scars. His face was deformed but hidden well by long black hair. Down his chest at the point just below his rib cage his “dwarf” sibling sprouted from him. The nasty dwarf torso had a shrivelled head like some voodoo witch doctor curse. With its alien ET like body it spewed out of from just above the twin’s big belted trousers. The dwarf rubbed the bulging fabric and left Sammy in no doubts he possesses similar reproductive equipment of his brother, though probably smaller proportions.
“Stop wrestling bitch,” the twin growled through rotten teeth. His voice was deep and booming. He bent down gripping her wrists, then held both her arms up and wide, lifting her to tip toe. She shook her head in horror his belly mounted brother now able to fondle her big tits with ease. With his withered hands he was cupping them, lifting them, his little dirty mouth slavery over teat and dome.
It’s difficult to describe the reaction of Sammy to this new brother. Screaming wouldn’t do it justice. It was like she was on the downward run of the biggest rollercoaster ever. Her screams went on and on until she seemed to loose sense of the here and now.
“Oh yes lift her higher yes that its mggghhhhh!” Shouted the excited dwarf; in an evil child like way. His mouth sucked on her right tit with vigour. He bit hard pulling her nipples while his hands kneaded both breast with angry claw like motions “Mmmf, yesss dirty big udders like a fucking cows.”
Sammy’s extreme funfair scream was slowing, like an exhausted note on a trumpet. Her sexy mouth changed to an oval of discomfort as the dwarf took more of her nipple deep in its mouth. Sammy had fabulous big DD breasts and the dwarfs face was buried in her balloon cleavage almost choking itself on the big teat end in its mouth.
Its claw hands cupped Sammy’s tits together as it raised its head. Its torso pushed forward trying to kiss Sammy on the lips. She pulled her head back thrusting her tits out more towards it. The big twin lifted her higher by the stretched arms until her toes left the ground. It was now impossible to stop the awful dwarf. Its hands ran down her waist over her shapely hips then one hand under to her crotch, its little fingers slipping apart her slit.
Sammy began to make high pitch protest again feeling the spiny fingers testing her entrance muscles ability to resist.
Beefy was now cowering behind his parent. That’s if you can ever imagine a 25 stone man cowering behind two frail old pensioners?
“It’s not fair” he whined I saw her first.
The mother corrected him. “Well no it was Snake who actually found her my dear.”
“Well Snakes not here is he,” the nasally dwarf replied in between mouthfuls of Sammy teat. The bigger twin added a single word in agreement as he let her dangle. ”Yeah!”
The professor raised his hand a little nervous now. “Maybe you should wait boys I mean Snake did say he….”
“Oh fuck him” the dwarf snapped back, his twin again adding his agreement. ”Yeah!”
Sammy was still thrashing and screaming over their conversation and the dwarf cringed at a high pitch wail from the busty stretched girl.
He struck her across the face making her gasp but pause in catter-hollering.
“Shut the fuck up! “He said through gnashed teeth. It did have the desired effect, taking the edge of her frenzy.
Sammy’s arms felt like they would pop from the sockets, her tits were been squeezed together and she looked down in disgust at the little bizarre face. Its spindly body looked like some ancient bark covered branch. All segmented and ridged.
Suddenly Twin had become bored just holding her for his brother. He turned then lifted her over his massive shoulder hands around her legs the dwarf angry he couldn’t grope higher than her thigh. “Hey give her back.” He demanded.
But Twin just lumbered like an elephant towards a crumpled wooden building. Nearly three decades living in this wilderness and he’d never seen a body like this.
The professor came hobbling after, arm raised. “Stop boys. I do think we should wait for Snake.” Sammy was looking back at him, wailing demanding she be let down. His wife called for him to stop been a kill joy. “Let the boys have their turn.”
She then turned and gave Beefy a reassuring pat. “Never mind dear, never mind.” The big buffoon whimpered with frustration that his chance had passed..
As they reached the building Twin pulled his blonde prey from his shoulder holding her arms behind her back. He bent her forward as his brothers little fingers quickly wrapped cords around her wrists. The big man then pulled her shoulders back and she stood upright the dwarf delighted again as he was now able to reach around holding both her big breast feeling the weight; his bony hands looking like some cupped bra.
Sammy looked up at the heavy overhanging canopy. The dark underside of the forest trees were accentuated against the brilliant daylight above. “Oh God no ones going to find me down here,” she thought wincing at her continued breast examination. And with that Twin pushed her inside the shack.
Once in the building Sammy was unceremoniously flung onto the fungus covered 30 year old mattress.
This big barn like room was clearly the brothers”hole” and was littered with brick-a-brack they had collected. There were old vials and instruments from the expeditionary team. On the wall were bloody uniforms and rusted old military rifles. They had the carcass of a huge crocodile; head still intact hanging like a curtain. And to her horror a number of skulls were decoratively placed wearing army helmets or fashioned into oil lamps. The bed was three old prisoner beds spliced together and showing years of half hearted repair. The cracked fly meshed windows allowed beams of light to fill the fetid dank wooden den.
The twins looked at her the dwarf rising and falling on the panting chest of his big brother. Both were admiring the view. Sammy looked amazing. Naked the sweat glistening on her body like she’d been dipped in oil. That wondrous blonde hair like a lion’s mane framed her cute face. She was beautiful with narrow nose and sharp features.
Sammy too was panting her body undulating from smooth legs up over her full hips, then in to that tight waist. The boys drooled looking at her heaving tits. Big and round like melons the dwarfs claw handprint still showing as a reddening shadow on one side of her pendulous bust.
“Now look…” Sammy said in an indignant tone. Then she stopped herself. What was she planning on doing? Was she going to threaten them with law? She realised how ridiculous her arguments would be. What could she say to dissuade a man, no more like “two things” that had blood spattered kit and remains of soldiers on their walls.
Twin was unfastening his braces letting his boiler suit type clothes drop.
“Oh God... I… oh shit….”She was realising that events were out of her control and she was been swept along on the tidal wave of insanity.
As soon as its pants had fallen the dwarf wasted no time in gripping its own hard cock. Its member maybe 5 inches long sprang up like a trap door, the thin shaft gnarled and bark-like similar to the rest of its body. Below under its stone like balls its brother body continued a few inches till the groin was reach. There Twins bull like cock was semi erect lifting and sniffing towards her; razing its head like an animal perched on two hairy bulbous spores.
The twin, like some huge long haired rock band roadie moved forward. Its brother, hanging from it waist like a baby harnesses monster. Sammy was pushing her body up the bed looking for some way of escape. As the twin bore down on her she wished she had chosen not to have an adventure that day.
From the broken old medical van the hot babe’s screams of refusal could be heard above the hum of the jungle. The professor and his wife; his loyal assistant for so many years were mixing test tubes. They’d taken a sample from her blood before she had woken and now they could see it react under the microscope with the green death agent that had held them here so many years.
“Incredible,” The professor said the faint holler of Sammy drifting into the van. “Her blood is actually breaking down the agent. She’s not just resistant. It seems her blood actual kills the virus.”
“My dear could it be true?” He so wanted to cure his wife. She’d been his best student at Oxford and when they married there was scandal but he didn’t care. She was as beautiful as she was a brilliant biochemist. Thirty years trapped in the jungle had been her reward.
His wife was surprised but confirmed his diagnosis. ” If we can isolate those cells we might be able to cure ourselves.” She then tutted as Sammy’s vocal refusal broke her train of thought.” Damn it boys, “she continued in annoyance,” can’t you shut her up?”
As if in reply the noise from the other shack went quiet and the professor finished his wife’s thoughts. “It could cure us,” he agreed. But aware that they had evolved to live here added. “Or it might just kill us too?”
Back in the twins shack Sammy had stopped hollering. She was finding it difficult to make any understandable noise. She was sat on the bed back against the wall, knees together. Twin was straddling her; the whole bed groaning as he sat across her thighs. His cock now angrily erect was like a big brown marrow thrusting up to a weeping eye hole. The foreskin was drawn back and the whole sickly brown skin looked like it never saw the light of day.
His cock was long and fat. The 8 or more inch long monster was pressed between her tits pushing her back into the wall. The greasy length was pumping up and down between her fantastic fleshy valleys. Her tits were gently wobbling up and down massaged and animated by this big truncheon.
But Sammy couldn’t look down; she could feel drool dripping from her chin onto her round bust. But her head was held tightly upright by two spindly hands. No wait four hands, the twin’s big paws on her shoulders and around the back of her head. As they held her the dwarfs stiff cock was been stuffed with vigour into her lovely sweet mouth.
“Suck it! Suck it you big titted blonde bitch!” The nasal shrill of the tiny horror filled the room
Sammy’s eyes were crossed focusing on nasty hard length. The dwarf was wriggling his torso and pumping into her gargling throat. Sammy wanted to pull out but all the hands on her head forced her to keep almost to the beast hilt as he gyrated; his member bouncing about inside her skull.
She coughed and spluttered the rigid cock rubbing the top of her mouth pushing deeper.
Sammy’s crossed eyes widened in horror. “Mmmmf!”
“That’s it little miss perfect choke on it,” the angry goblin snarled. But Twin could see she was indeed choking on it; her eyes rolling. So he pulled back releasing his hand. He also pulled his little brothers spiny claws from her too. Sammy gasped immediately spitting the cock from her mouth. The taste had been disgusting, his end dripping pre-come almost instantly it had touched her soft fleshy lips.
“Hey fucker!” The dwarf snapped, his prey becoming more distant.
“It’s my turn!” Twin replied and raised his body onto his knees, the big cock rising up through her cleavage like a rocket from a silo about to launch.
Now able to look down Sammy was open mouthed with disgust. “Oh shit ohhh!” She made a noise of panic just before his tip pushed into the hot mouth, his hands now back on her head pulling her onto him.
“Suck, suck, suck!” He growled Sammy rocking heavily back and , her tits bouncing, the bed squeaking, her mouth now very full of brown greasy skinned cock. “Oh God,” she thought; “this is worse than the last one!”
As the twin pumped her mouth, above over her head the belly sprouting dwarf was jerking his own frustrated cock. “So close. So fucking close!” He snarled in annoyance. But then he increased his wanking, while grunting loudly. His satisfaction was returning. He liked the view below. The blonde hottie was amazingly swallowing so deep he thought his brothers cock might pop out of the back of her skull.
“Yes go on swallow him all the fucking way, yes, yes, ugggh ugghh!” His hand was tightly wrapped around his cock pointing straight over her as he milked himself to explosion.
“Oh I’m comminnnggggg!!” He shrieked in a high pitched voice Sammy gulping to choking point on big brother.
Her eyes looked up for a second, a bad mistake. The dwarf was spraying over her head into her hair. The spattering white filth was showering down, hitting her face on her lashes and nose. She tried to shake her head but was not able. Twin was holding tight continuing to pump her throat and she had to concentrate on not swallowing too far while dwarf jerked three then four more streams into her lovely blonde tresses.
The twin pulled out his long wet cock glistening from her spittle effort. Sammy coughed and spat. She shook her head cum flying everywhere. “Uggh, cough, you filthy little bastard!”
But her cussing was cut short and she yelped as the big creature gripped her ankles and yanking her down the bed onto her back. With her hands still tied behind her she arched her back presenting two mountainous domes; nipples pointing to the roof.
The room was incredibly hot and she glowed in the dim half light. Her head was swimming and she felt the light headed sensation again like when she was at the jungle stream. “Oh please,” she thought, “please let me pass out again!”
But it wouldn’t happen. She groaned as Twin crawled up and over her. His body opening up, her until now, tightly closed thighs. His big waist pushed her kness so achingly wide she groaned with muscle sapping effort. He was over her now and she could see then feel his cock on the inside of her thigh. As he pushed between her splayed body his tummy buddy rose up over her hips, then above her tits. He had a big grin on his face, drool dripping from his jaw onto her breasts. His claw hands reach for her heaving globes but were swatted away as bigger firmer paws of his brother wanted their turn.
As Twin gripped her tits like handles to steady him, he pushed his hips forward and slid his fat sickly brown skinned cock all the way up inside her.
The immediate gut filled feminine wail and the ecstatic masculine growl were thunderously loud. But even that couldn’t travel the 100 or so miles to the micro light hanger. There the empty remote station had new visitors. Two military helicopters stood rotors gently turning, engines on idle; their black shapes silhouetted against the dusk sky. Men in green combat fatigues were examining a hire jeep, others searching through the excuse for an office looking for flight logs.
A rugged looking man with camo paint streaked across his face turned to a senior suited official.
“The radar blip tracked was very small. It may have been one of these cowboys who broke the cordon? But if so, why?”
The official didn’t answer just turned to look out at the jeep. He was visibly annoyed and could think of many reasons. Stupidity, bravado or more worryingly they could be working for another government.
“How long have we been letting civilian this close?” He said in anger. His department had almost forgotten about this place, it had been that long.
The soldier picked up his weapon and strode past. He signalled his men with a theatrical rotor blade movement over his head. As the soldiers hurried back to their ships and the helicopters began to power up he replied.
“The more you make restricted the more people want to know what’s in there. What would you have do quarantine all of northern territory?” He didn’t much like these clandestine types. Nothing ever seemed to be their fault.
They ran to the deafening military bird now unable to speak above the dim. But it didn’t matter both knew the shadowy officials answer would have been yes.
Back in the shack the sensation of the Twin’s stiff fat cock sliding up her made Sammy moan like a wounded animal. His tip pushed all the way to her limit, his hands on her tits, big paw grips of flesh. As he slid out then pushed back in, the dwarfs torso moved up her flat tummy. Its awful body was between her and the Twin. His spiny hands unable to grip her jugs had not given up. They now tried to hold onto to her long firm teats. But the bigger brothers twisting mauling constantly broke the pink nuts free only for the dwarf to grab again like it was some game.
Like Sammy, Twin also moaned like a big bull type beast. The feeling of been inside her wondrous body unimaginable up until moments ago. Her elegant frame was putty in his hands; the girl’s hands behind her back, her spine arched presenting him her melons to squeeze. And the noises; her gasping big lipped pouts of sensation mixed with the tight “slopping” fit of his cock up her shaft.
The dwarf was tittering with delight as he moved faster and faster up and down her body. The big man was making the bed creak and pitch as he increased his rhythm. Sammy rolled her eyes, tongue out concentrating on accepting each hard deep thrust. She was trying to zone out from the indignity. She didn’t know which was worse. The rampant pummelling her pussy was receiving or the gloating dwarf with his grandstand view of every indignant expression on her face.
“Ugh, uggh, ugghh!” She was grunting uncontrollably, hair over her face nipples pinched till numb her breast pushed up under her chin. The twin continued to fuck hard up her, deep and forcefully the bed groaning as much as Sammy.
Suddenly his cock slid from her with a wet “slock” noise and Sammy wriggled to break free. But it was pointless the big titan easily spun her around onto her face. He pulled her ass up, her head still on the filthy mattress and then gripping her hips pushed his cock all the way back in her pussy. As it reached its limit she felt the hands of the Dwarf on her prize rump. It was kneading and squeezing pulling her checks apart examining her pucker asshole as his brother pumped back and forth.
“Oh, oh, oh, ooohh fuck fuckkk!” Sammy was gasping biting the mattress at each hard thrust. On her knees, face down, a monster fucking her from the rear.
“Oh God, no please not in there!” She coughed between ruts as she felt dwarf spittle on her anus. The little man was hard again watching such arousing scenes. He pushed his cock head to her ass, holding it tightly. Sammy groaned looking over her shoulder in horror the dwarfs cock pushing in her asshole. As he rutted forward, his brother gave that extra push and he felt the sensation of it sliding up her rubbery back tube.
Twin gripped her hands pulling then back making her arms scream in effort; lifting her shoulder and head. With his other hand he gripped under her holding a dangling udder his rhythm now hurried and intense. He was delirious with pleasure. On her waist she felt the claws of the dwarf his own cock stabbing like crazy in her ass. He was whining in delight her tight anal walls making his cock feel for him and Sammy like it was twice as thick as they knew it to be.
Sammy was groaning with room filling resonance. Her body rocking forwards her arms cantilever support letting her tits hang down, the big bags swinging back and forth. Both cocks were sliding in and out simultaneously a rhythmic double shafting, her anus on fire her pussy slurping on a rotten thick sausage of meat.
“Oh my ass is on fire!” she thought, desperate for it to be over.
The little man spunked first, her hot tight void unbearably arousing. Her ass muscles were squeezing him so much he thought his eyes would pop out. He desperately thrust up making her gasps and stopping her strong muscles shitting him out. Just in time, his balls tightened his cock spitting a long grateful stream into her bowels. His fingers bit into her wobbling ass as he snorted and grunted like a pig.
Sammy groans turned high pitch; her eye lashes flaring her ass feeling the sticky deposits arrive. She made a gasp of indignant rage but in seconds felt another eruption inside her. Twin was coming also. Her tube was awash with his spunk the hot friction fucking suddenly cooler more lubricated as he smeared himself all along the inside of her pussy tunnel.
The panting beasts held her tight on them still pumping as they began to relax. Making sure both emptied every last drop inside her; before finally extracting themselves from their lover.
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Chik-fil-A Honors the Memory of Our Fallen in an Awesome Way
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Sometimes progress seems elusive or may be taking place but it is hidden beneath the surface and cannot be measured.
While Obama continues to overreach and misread the meaning of his reelection, Americans, I believe, are taking note and doing a lot of soul-searching and Constitution reading. While Obama mocks and tries to marginalize traditional Americans and traditional American beliefs and values, traditional Americans are quietly listening and secretly offended. Many — like myself — think, ‘who is this man and who does he think he is?’
No matter what the left throws at us, or how loud they scream that they have won, the game is over and Obama has succeeded at transforming America for good, most Americans secretly laugh. More and more, Obama is seen as the boisterous, pathetic bully that he really is and people actually are listening to him less and less.
Sometimes in the heat of the battle, the louder voices seem to be winning. Then the Roves in our own party — terrified at the progress conservatives and Tea Party Americans are making — start to clamor in panic and, in essence, join in agreement with Obama that traditional Americans and conservatives are losers and has-beens and must be destroyed.
And I laugh.
I guess I’m an optimist and see how all of this is going to ultimately turn out for the good of the nation. I see how the Constitution is working and how it is a constant thorn in the flesh to Obama and the left in general, preventing them from forcing their agenda on us completely.
Conservatives need to worry less and trust Americans more. The core of who we are is still there. And two terms of an administration that basically hates most everything that makes America good and wonderful will not defeat her. To the contrary, she will come through this renewed and strengthened in her resolve.
I have another Psalm scripture, today. Don’t you love the Psalms?
For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee. Psalm 84:11,12
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Warryn Campbell Jr. is Erica’s little man. The singer gave Twitter fans an adorable sight to see a few days before giving birth to her third bundle of joy. Erica tweeted, “Hey Everybody say hi to my son lil Warryn!!! Love my little man!!!”
In addition to making time for family, Erica is involved with The Choice Group charity that serves to benefit disadvantaged children. As Campbell explains, “The Choice Group is run by my cousin who was in the foster system and a victim of drugs. His goal and aim is to help young children in L.A. urban and low income areas by teaching them music, skills and give them encouragement. It’s a music program. We want the kids to come and feel welcomed and valued. We’re teaching skills that will help them make a difference in their lives and others. We’ve been working with him for four years. You can find it at www.thechoicegroup.org.”
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It’s the 3rd of May 2009. The cold Afghan winter is already went. Spring has showed its impatient for many weeks. But now it is raining and it doesn’t seem to stop. Some military, foreign vehicles are patrolling along the main road that from Herat, chief town of the homonymous western province, goes south, to Shindand and from there to Farah, where insurgents are still keeping even Americans in check.
Along the road, crouched and hidden, there could be insurgents. It doesn’t make a big difference whether they are there or not. Soldiers are still afraid. Afraid of an unexpected attack, afraid of nearly improvised devices, IEDs in bureaucratic terms, Improvised Explosive Devices, lethal explosives operated by a simple transmitter, even a domestic remote control. These are insurgents’ favorite tools, the deadliest arm, together with suicidal attacks, of any asymmetrical war. A war that makes it difficult to distinguish between friends and enemies, between good and bad ones.
Soldiers inside those vehicles are tense, nervous. They look around with suspicion. They know the Afghan war has its own rules. Some are not written. Among these, one states that is better to anticipate the enemy’s moves. If you are in doubt, shoot first. If then you find out it was not an enemy, it will be declassified under the accounting of collateral victims.
Under the rain, on that same day, a white Toyota “sarache” is driving. The Toyota “sarache” is a particular car, a family car, with a big van. “Sarache”, in the local language, means “little house”. The Toyota sarache is a little moving house. Inside there is a whole family. 12 people altogether. The driver is Ahmad Rahimi, a joyful man carrying his 2 daughters, Sina and Fahim, 5 and 2 years old, and his wife, Nilofar.
On Ahmad Rahimi’s right is the mother in law, respected and loved, the mother of Nilofar and Fawzia Shahim. Fawzia is sitting on the back seat, on her sister’s right. She is a no longer young woman, her face has started to fade, showing the signs of hard work. She has to look after a big family. She has a husband, Mohammad Arif Khan, a general provincial prosecutor in Farah province, and 6 daughters.
On that day her husband is not there with her, he is busy at work, but all their daughters are in the Toyota sarache. There is Hadisa, the youngest one. She is now 3, wears coloured dresses, has lively eyes and the contagious happiness of those who discover the world. On May 3, 2009 she is only 27 days old and is sitting on her mother’s knees, hugging her with love. Together with Hadisa is Tarfa, 15 years old at the time. There are Sahar, Shakila and Sheila, 10, 8 and 5 years old. And there is Benafshah, aged 13.
It is a celebration day for everybody. Having left Farah on that early morning, the family is going to Herat for the wedding of Nilofar and Fawzia’s brother. The air is thoughtless and merry.
Benafshah is the happiest and most excited of the family: she has not lived with her parents and sisters in Farah for 2 years now. She lives with her grandmother, left alone, in a village outside the city, Tawesk. She is there to help her with the housekeeping. For Benafshah, that journey is the occasion to spend some time with her family, her sisters, her uncles and her mother. The youngest ones play and sing, they fight and make jokes. Some cry, because they suffer for the long journey in the car. The elders tell stories and, after Shindand, can relax a little: the most dangerous part of the journey, where shootings are more frequent, is at their back.
But around 10.30 am, not far from Mir Daud, a few kilometerss from Herat gate, the little moving house meets the foreign armored vehicles. Foreigners, on this occasion, are Italians. “Tricolore”. A few seconds later Benafshah is dead. Shot to the head, her face wounded and completely unrecognizable. The tragedy has taken place.
Whoever lives in Afghanistan, and whoever in Afghanistan decides to take the duty of travelling around, outside the Kabul enclaves, out of the embedded or 5 star hotel journalism, knows. He knows that is impossible to be prepared for the catastrophe. It is impossible to preview, impossible to escape completely the eventuality of death, that is ‘immanent’, over here.
Still, this story appears to be different. With little Benafshah’s story the suffering is higher, the feeling of injustice is more abrasive, more painful the idea that the tragedy could be avoided, more persistent the thought that there was nothing ineluctable in her death. This is what the parents, the mother Fawzia and the father Mohammad Arif, firmly believe. After months of research and misleading information, I find them living in Farah. I reach them by land, from Herat.
On May 3, 2009, around 10.30 am, when her daughter was killed, Fawzia was sitting next to her, on her left. Hers is a direct experience. And is the first time she tells it to a journalist. Nobody ever looked for it. She lives with the family in Dasht-e-Qal’e-ye-Arbab, a ‘suburb’ of Farah city that takes its name from the nearby mountain of Qal’e-ye-Arbab. Her story is detailed and precise, interrupted only by hiccups. “We were going slowly, I was particularly careful on the road, because I was afraid of some attack from the rebels. We saw some military vehicles approaching, I think there were 2 of them, coming from the opposite direction, from Heart towards Farah. Then, suddenly, the shots”.
According to the official version of the Italian Army, the car where Benafshah was driving on did not halt at the stop, despite soldiers having adopted all the alarm procedures set in these situations. Benafshah’s killing then, is just a “fatal incident”, like former Italian Ministry of Defence Ignazio La Russa then said. “There have been no alert signs”, replies with confidence Fawzia, who continues: “the fire shots came through the front windscreen. Bullets left holes in the front window. The back car glass broke into pieces. I believe shots came from the second vehicle. The first one pass by and went after us. Maybe they fired as well, to the rear window, I am not sure”. Fawzia adds details: “Gunshots were coming from the top, right in front of us, bending from left to right. Initial shots nearly reached my mother, who was on the right seat, next to the driver. The following ones were fatal”.
When she heard the gunshots she told her brother in law to stop. It was too late, though. “I realized Hadisa, then 27 days old, was covered with blood, like me. On her body there were pieces of flesh, brain material. I was going to clean her up, but when I turned my head to the right I saw Benafshah. Half her face had blown up”. Fawzia goes on. She tells of the desperate cries, of the terrified daughters, of her mother, Zubeida, “who picks up some of Benafshah’s teeth and a piece of her cheek and she puts them in a handkerchief”. She tells of her husband despair, when he knew Benafshah was dead.
Mohammad Arif is a handsome 48 years old man who wears black mustaches with confident elegance. When I met him for the first time, last year, I was quite surprised: I was expecting a rancorous man, full of anger for his daughter’s death. Instead, I discovered a man in a compound, severe suffering.
Still now, a year after our first meeting, he seems to excuse himself for being the unintentional witness of a story that modifies the natural order of things. The order that, for a 13 years old girl, only meant dreams and utopias, illusions and lightheartedness. He is a provincial general prosecutor. In 19 years of work he has seen almost everything. He is used to dealing with thieves, impostors, traffickers and robbers. He is not corrupted, like many judges and attorneys in Afghanistan. He is not resented. He only asks for justice.
The day after his daughter’s death, while setting up the three mourning days prescribed by Islam, Mohammad Arif receives a call. It is Farah’s provincial governor, who invites him in his office to meet 2 generals. “I went to the governor on that day, I waited for a long time but the generals never showed up” he says. The day after the governor invites him again. Mohammad Arif first refuses but then the local notables, members of Farah’s Shura (council), manage to convince him. In the governor office he meets two generals: “They were top officials, I believe generals, an Afghan and an Italian one”.
The top officials pay their excuses, but do not convince him. “The Italian General told me that his soldier had not killed intentionally: fire was shot on the road not to the car. The shot that had killed my daughter had bounced on the ground, before shooting her, the Italian General said”. Mohammad Arif is deeply offended. “I replied I did not want to be fooled. That fire shot was direct, it had hit the front car glass directly. To stop a car you shoot the wheels or the engine. The Italians did not do that, they shot the windscreen. They wanted to kill, not to stop the car”, he says.
What mostly outrages Mohammad Arif and Fawzia is the Italian soldiers’ behavior after the shooting: “They did not stop, they didn’t even come down from the armored vehicles. They went on like nothing had happened, even though it was evident they had shot and they had done it against a civil car”. What kind of menace was that car, full of unarmed women and children, Mohammad Arif asks himself? And the Italian soldiers, what were they thinking on that day, once back in their bases? An ordinary day? Or did they feel the painful sensation of having killed a girl that could have been a daughter of theirs? He is looking for answers. He is trying to understand whether “killing an Afghan civilian is a crime or not”. “What happened to the person who killed my daughter?” he asked the Italian General, on that day, in the Governor’s office. He was replied that the soldier was under custody, waiting for the trial. “But later on I was not shown a picture, a judicial file, a verdict, a name, absolutely nothing. I believe it was a total mocking”.
For this reason Mohammad Arif asks to consult the judicial file on his daughter’s case. His wife instead, is simply asking Benafshah’ story to be told. The story of a 13 year old girl, killed by one or more Italian soldiers on May 3, 2009 around 10.30 am nearby Mir Daud, right outside Heart. Benafshah now lies in Qal’e-ye-Arbab cemetery, a few minutes away from the parents’ house. “We buried her here, not in our family’s cemetery in my birth village, to be able to visit her more often”, father says.
Tombstones are short and long, simple, without flowers. Benafshah’s is externally protected by some raw bricks and internally is decorated with light-coloured tiles. “Once there were 2 tombstones but local children broke one of them into pieces”. On the one that is still there Benafshah’s name is carved onto it, together with Quranic verses and with her story, the story of a distinguished school pupil, “the second best of the whole school”, the mother confirms proudly. A girl student who became a “martyr, killed by foreign soldiers’ cowardice, by ISAF Italian soldiers”. These are the exact words on the tombstone. Next to her name 2 red tulips are drawn. Fawzia explain why: “Along the journey Benafshah was a bit carsick. But when she saw a red tulips field she wanted to stop the car. She picked 2. We buried them with her. Together with all her hopes”.
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A retired management consultant from Tucson, Arizona...
1999 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $2,500.
|Carolyn appeared in the following archived game:|
|#3329, aired 1999-02-11||Andrew Maly vs. Carolyn White vs. J.J. Todor||1999 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.|
|#3236, aired 1998-10-05||Carolyn White vs. Reed Rankin vs. Heather Bell||Carolyn White game 5.|
|#3235, aired 1998-10-02||Carolyn White vs. Jordan Lees vs. Lawrence Brown||Carolyn White game 4.|
|#3234, aired 1998-10-01||Carolyn White vs. Liz Holmlund vs. Tim Appling||Carolyn White game 3.|
|#3233, aired 1998-09-30||Carolyn White vs. Lorraine Berry vs. Bob Phillips||Carolyn White game 2.|
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JO-ANN ARMAO: "The Big Easy's School Revolution"
"Most of the buzz about the city’s reforms focuses on the banishment of organized labor and the proliferation of charter schools, which enroll nearly 80 percent of public school students, up from 1.5 percent pre-Katrina. But what really distinguishes New Orleans is how government has redefined its role in education: stepping back from directly running schools and empowering educators to make the decisions about hours, curriculum and school culture that best drive student learning. Now, state and school-district officials mostly regulate and monitor — setting standards, ensuring equity and closing failing schools. Instead of a traditional school system, there is a system of schools in what officials liken to a fenced-in free market."
VENKAT BALASUBRAMANI: "Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Speech Protected by the First Amendment-Bland v. Roberts"
"Bland and his cohorts worked in the Hampton Sheriff’s Office, under B.J. Roberts. Roberts ran for re-election against Jim Adams, and the plaintiffs were lukewarm in their support of Roberts. In fact, three of the plaintiffs went so far as to "like" Adams' Facebook page. Roberts won the election, and he decided to not retain the plaintiffs. He justified the terminations on cost-cutting and budgeting grounds, but plaintiffs argued that their termination violated their First Amendment rights."
CONOR FRIEDERSDORF: "Paranoia About CISPA is Justified"
"The legislation is trying to strike a balance: to permit government access to potentially sensitive information without making citizens vulnerable to dangerous abuses. Before the Bush Administration's illegal spying, it was easy to imagine that the legal penalties for exceeding the bounds of the law would be one check on government officials and corporate leaders tempted to abuse their access to data. We now know that when national security is invoked, these people are treated as if they're above the law. If legal violations aren't going to be punished after the fact, it's prudent for concerned citizens to push for even more elaborate preemptive safeguards."
ANTITRUST - Mexico Regulators to Vote on $1 Billion Fine vs Tycoon Slim
"Regulators are due to vote on Monday on one of Mexico's biggest antitrust cases, a $1 billion fine for tycoon Carlos Slim, which has been bogged down in court appeals and disputes for a year."
TRADEMARK - Designer Louboutin Hits Back in Red Sole Lawsuit
"Louboutin, who is suing fellow French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent for trademark infringement in a U.S. court, argues that he is not trying to monopolize the color red. The designer said Monday he is defending his ownership to 'a specific color in a specific place' of a shoe."
INNOVATION - Social Gifting: The New Buzz-Word in E-Commerce
"Start-ups such as Sweden-based Wrapp, which is launching its U.S. business on Monday, are getting millions of dollars in venture-capital funding, and retailers like Best Buy Co Inc, Gap Inc and Starbucks Corp are scurrying to be a part of it. [...] Wrapp is essentially an app that can run on smartphones, tablets and computers. It allows Facebook friends to buy each other gift cards from participating retailers either individually or by teaming up, which they can store on their mobile devices and redeem either online or inside physical stores. Retailers like it because there is little marketing cost and because customers often end up buying more once they are inside the store." | <urn:uuid:b5e0f0ce-70c5-4c8c-9517-7712370755c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | https://cei.org/blog/todays-links-april-30-2012 | 2016-05-26T09:14:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00022-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960776 | 743 | [
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What makes you think that there is a need to hide your IP Address when browsing the web? I usually hide mine when replying emails that contained sensitive information such as bank accounts, pins and etc. (I guess I am paranoid) I believe that prevention is better than nothing (or cure). We have many choices of software, right now I am currently using virtual private network hidemyass.com. We can also use proxy servers and etc. | <urn:uuid:8e1a0109-5590-401d-bb71-1fd86b7a363a> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | https://www.androidpit.com/forum/544204/do-you-need-to-hide | 2016-05-26T09:14:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00022-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957249 | 90 | [
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The players that the Broncos selected were as follows. In the fourth the Broncos selected another Safety, Quinton Carter. Here is some quotes from EFX on drafting the two Safeties:
On where he sees S Rahim Moore and S Quinton CarterFox: "I don't like really defining the players before they get here. If you were looking at it, generally speaking, you would probably say that (Rahim) Moore is probably more the free (safety) and (Quinton) Carter is more the strong (safety). I hate to pigeonhole them at this point; they will kind of define what they can do. They have some veteran guys to learn from and that will speed the process. We needed some youth there and we think we picked two very good ones."
On Brian Dawkins' futureFox: "I don't think we have so many that it would affect Brian Dawkins, let me put it that way. I don't think this affects anybody. We will be the team we will be when we get to practice and they will do that. This is in no way jeopardizing our thoughts on any of the guys we have. We just needed some youth and depth and they were the best guys available."
The Broncos followed up these picks with these three. They took two Tight Ends and another LB to fill out the linebacker corps and special teams. With the fourth pick in the draft they got from trading with Green Bay they took Tight End Julius Thomas. They followed that up with picks of Mike Mohamed LB in the sixth and Virgil Green TE with a seventh. Here are some points from EFX on these guys:
Xanders: "(TE) Julius Thomas was the player at Portland State that played basketball for four years, and he tried out for football this year. He's a guys that's 6-5, 250 (pounds) who is very athletic and has very good ball skills from playing basketball. His athleticism in and out of breaks was great, and his football knowledge-Clancy Barone worked him out at Portland State, and he had very good football knowledge for a one-year player. He's got a big athletic upside, and if he can gain some weight and lift weights, he could be a 6-5, 260 (pound) guy that can run in a couple years here. We're excited about him."
Fox: "One of the other things, too, with Clancy Barone-he was part of the developmental process with (San Diego TE Antonio) Gates. When he was at San Diego, Clancy was there. We did do a private workout. Clancy was involved in that and was very impressed, and that was also part of that decision."
On TE Virgil GreenXanders: "Virgil Green was the second tight end. He's in the same mold; he's a little bit shorter. He's 6-3, 245 (pounds), but he's very fast. He had a great combine; he had a 42-inch vertical. He's tough. He's physical. He has that athletic upside, and he may have some versatility."
On the team's plans for the tight endsFox: "I think there is no question that (Julius) Thomas is what we call a wide tight end, an end-line tight end. He has a bigger frame-most of your top tight ends do have bigger frames. I think it helps the quarterback. It is the closest receiver for the quarterback to throw to. Developing that, we have (TE Richard) Quinn in place already. He is that type of body and I think he can grow a lot like (TE Antonio) Gates did in San Diego. Yet, they are built well enough and powerful enough to learn how to block. Every tight end ever been brought in this league-the No. 1 adjustment coming out of college into pro football is the blocking. We think we have an outstanding coaching staff that can help that process. As far as (TE) Virgil (Green) goes, he more of an ‘F' tight end, a ‘move' tight end. He has great vertical speed-he tested off the charts at the combine as far as the physical aspects. He can stretch the field, yet he is still a physical guy who can line up in the backfield from a wing alignment and has a physical-enough presence to block."
On whether the team set out to draft linebackersXanders: "We think we are going to add competition at every position group and we are happy with those draft picks. We really think they can help our football team. So, we are going to have a plan for success for each one of these guys-including the tight ends, the linebackers and the safeties. We feel really good about those guys that we brought in."
Fox: "We are making a switch from a 3-4 to a 4-3. So, we need more speed at linebacker. One of the main criteria of this draft was to get faster on defense. That is something that we felt like was a deficiency and I think we accomplished that in a pretty big way."
The Final pick in the draft was a Defensive End in the seventh round by the name of Jeremy Beal, Beal was considered one of the top defensive end prospects in this years NFL Draft. A 3-year starter for the Sooners, Jeremy earned 2010 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors while finishing 2nd in OU history with 29 career Sacks, and 2nd in school history with 56.5 tackles for loss. He also caused 10 Fumbles and broke up 14 passes in his career, intercepting one. The reason he dropped so far in the draft was because of his poor timing at the combine. But like Doom his production speaks for itself, he should be a good pick.
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Wrestling for mma camp 17th july at kaobon any one can attend
Wrestling for mma camp at kaobon any one is welcome from any level of wrestling this camp is perfect if your in preperation for a fight or a grappling tournament.
Coach michael grundy
head wrestling coach at team kaobon
beijing olympic team
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|Publication number||US4039822 A|
|Application number||US 05/683,257|
|Publication date||Aug 2, 1977|
|Filing date||May 5, 1976|
|Priority date||May 5, 1976|
|Also published as||DE7714203U1|
|Publication number||05683257, 683257, US 4039822 A, US 4039822A, US-A-4039822, US4039822 A, US4039822A|
|Inventors||Kingsley Chan, Neil Russo|
|Original Assignee||Lightolier Incorporated|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (43), Classifications (12), Legal Events (1)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is in the field of lighting fixtures, and particularly lighting fixtures intended to be used in so-called hung ceiling installations.
2. The Prior Art
In a conventional hung ceiling lighting installation, a structural support element or frame is mounted above the ceiling. A reflector assembly including a light source at its upper end is arranged to be secured to the frame. In order to change bulbs, make repairs to electrical components of the assembly, or gain access to the space behind the ceiling, it is necessary or desirable that the reflector-light assembly be removable in a downward direction from a position below the ceiling.
Heretofore, in lighting fixtures of this type, the reflector assembly and frame were provided with interfitting detents, slots and like fastening expedients which required, for installation, an accurate positioning of the respective components carried by the frame and reflector assembly. In the event the frame were installed improperly, i.e. if the spacing of the frame from the ceiling were greater or less than intended, the reflector would fail to seat firmly against the ceiling or might hang a distance below the ceiling.
In order to minimize defects of prior devices of this type, a lighting fixture in accordance with U.S. Pat. No. 3,872,296 was devised. In accordance with such device, the aperture in the ceiling through which the reflector assembly is to be mounted was framed about by a bezel fixed to the frame, the bezel including portions which underlap the ceiling. The reflector assembly included spring members having cam portions which coact with the bezel to maintain the reflector assembly in position.
While the noted patent represents a substantial advance in the art, it does not, after mounting of the frame, provide as full a range of weightwise adjustment of the reflector as might be desirable. Further, if the spring force exerted by the above referred to support members was too great, a good deal of difficulty was experienced in removing the reflector from its mounted position in the ceiling. If, on the other hand, the supporting spring force was reduced to facilitate removal, there occasionally existed, especially upon improper installation, a tendency for the reflector to sag, leaving a space between the flange of the reflector and the ceiling.
The present invention may be summarized as directed to an improved lighting fixture for hung ceiling installations characterized by providing a firm interconnection between the reflector assembly and the supporting frame, the reflector being readily removable from its mounted association with the frame from a position beneath the ceiling. The connection between the reflector and frame further provides a substantial range of adjustment so as to compensate for relatively large errors in installation of the frame, including heightwise and angular errors.
The device is characterized by the frame including a series of spring elements mounted thereon having free end portions which project inwardly into the path of the reflector member as the same is inserted into position. The spring elements include inclined lips or barbs which are angularly related to the horizontal and define, in essence, short segments of helices having a common pitch and inclination and being located in coplanar alignment.
The lips support the reflector by engagement with an external surface of the same. The substance of which the reflector is fabricated, normally aluminum, is substantially softer than the material of which the springs and lips are fabricated, normally hardened spring steel. As the lips may bite into any of a series of vertically displaced portions of the reflector, depending upon the degree to which and angle at which the reflector is inserted, a substantial range of heightwise and tilting adjustment of the reflector relative to the frame is possible.
In order to remove the reflector, it is merely necessary to rotate the same in the direction of inclination of the lips. The harder lip portions which have supported the reflector by biting into the substance thereof will cause the reflector to be cammed downwardly, cutting a shallow thread in the external surface of the reflector and permitting the flange of the reflector, which is now spaced from the ceiling, to be manually grasped and pulled downwardly.
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide an improved recessed lighting fixture for a hung ceiling installation or the like.
A further object of the invention is the provision of an improved recessed lighting fixture of the type described wherein insertion of the reflector into position and removal thereof is greatly simplified, and wherein a substantial range of heightwise and tilted adjustment of the reflector relative to the ceiling may be effected without compromising the force with which the noted elements are interconnected.
To attain these objects and such further objects as may appear herein or be hereinafter pointed out, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which:
FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing a fixture in accordance with the invention in the environment of a typical hung ceiling installation;
FIG. 2 is a magnified section taken on the line 2--2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a further magnified fragmentary section taken on the line 3--3 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a section taken on the line 4--4 of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a horizontal section taken on the line 5--5 of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating the position of a portion of the reflector assembly following initial rotary movements for removal.
In accordance with the invention, the fixture assembly 10 includes a frame component, identified generally as 11, which is mounted to the building structure above the ceiling C, and reflector-light source assembly 12 which is adapted to be removably mounted to the frame 11. The frame 11, the support components of which are essentially conventional, includes a plurality of mounting brackets 13 (one only being shown), which brackets are fixed to straps or crossbars 14 fastened to structural elements above the ceiling assembly.
Suitably mounting brackets and appurtenances are illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 3,872,296 and, accordingly, further discussion thereof is not considered necessary. The frame assembly 11 carries the usual junction box 15 housing electrical connections to the fixture.
The electrical wiring (not shown) is disposed within a flexible conduit or shield 16, the outer end 17 of which is secured in a cable clamp 18 forming part of the bulb support fixture 19.
The support fixture 19 includes the usual bulb socket 20, and a spring harp 21 or like machanical member which functions to link the reflector 22 to the fixture 19.
The reflector 22 includes an upper cylindrical portion 23 having opposed pairs of slots 24, 24, 25, 25. The harp 21 of fixture 19 includes outwardly sprung detents 26, 26 which may enter one or the other of the sets of opposed slots 24, 25, whereby the reflector is secured to the fixture 19.
The fixture 19 may include release plungers 27, 27 which, when pressed radially inwardly, deflect the detents 26, 26 from the slots to enable removal of the reflector from the socket support fixture. The detents 26 may include inclined cam portions 28 to facilitate insertion of the reflector 22 into position.
The frame 11 includes a base plate or portion 29 terminating in a cylindrical bezel 30. The bezel 30 and base 29 are fixed to the brackets to permit heightwise relative adjustment therebetween, such adjustment being provided by machine screws 31 which extend through vertically directed slots 32 and brackets 33 of the base plate into complemental threaded apertures 34 formed on arms 35 of the brackets 13. Although only one slot and screw connection has been shown, it will be appreciated that a number of such structures are provided.
The cylindrical bezel 30 extends downwardly through a complemental aperture 36 formed in the ceiling C. While the lowermost edge of the bezel is shown in the illustrations as being precisely flush with the under surface of ceiling, in practice such ideal adjustment is not always accomplished. Where there exists a heightwise misadjustment, and where the reflector 22 is constrained to occupy a predetermined heightwise position relative to the support assembly, as is the case with conventional ceiling fixtures, it will be readily recognized that the inaccuracies of installation of the bezel are carried over to the reflector.
In accordance with the attachment assembly next to be described, the heightwise adjustment of the bezel and reflector may be varied within relatively wide limits without compromising the security with which the reflector assembly is supported to the frame. This connector assembly, which comprises the principal advance of the present invention, includes a plurality of spring fingers 37, four such fingers being preferred. The fingers are secured to the bezel 30 and, in their relaxed position, project inwardly to intrude into the vertical space above the mouth portion or aperture 38 of the bezel and into the path of the inclined sides 39 of the reflector.
Referring more particularly to FIGS. 3 and 4, the lower ends 40 of the springs 37 are mounted within pockets 41 formed at angularly spaced positions about the inner circumference of the bezel. The pockets 41 include spaced parallel walls 42, 43, the wall 43 incorporating a vertical centering slot 44.
The spring fingers 37 include, adjacent the lower ends thereof, a centering tongue 45 which, in the mounted position, is disposed within the vertical slot 44 to prevent tilting of the springs relative to the pockets. Deflected barb portions 46, 46 project to the opposite side of the springs 37 from tongue 45. The springs 37 are made of hardened resilient material, such as spring steel.
From the foregoing description it will be understood that the springs are mounted within the pockets 41 by forcing the same downwardly into the pockets, whereby the barb portions 46 are compressed into the uppermost ends of the pockets and will embed themselves into the softer die cast metal of which the frame is formed, precluding their subsequent upward removal from the pockets.
Each of the springs 37 includes a lip 47, the lips 47 coacting with external surface portions of the reflector 22 to achieve the desired mounting of the reflector in position.
As best seen in FIGS. 3 to 6, the lips 47 are inclined to the horizontal, defining in essence short segments of a helix. The pitch of the lips is, in all cases, essentially the same and the lips are aligned at the same height relative to the bezel.
By virtue of the inclination of the lips 47, it will be recognized that each said lip acts as an element of a thread or screw. Preferably the lips 47 are so formed as to provide an inwardly facing, sharpened corner portion 48, which corner portion actually contacts the external surface of the reflector. The reflector 22 may include at its lower end portion an outwardly directed flange 49, the flange 49 underlapping an annular recess 50 in a circular mask 51.
The operation of the device will be apparent from the above description.
Specifically, after the frame and bezel assembly has been mounted at a proper height within the ceiling or as near thereto as feasible, the reflector assembly 12 may be moved upwardly from the dot and dash to the solid line position shown in FIG. 1. In the course of such upward movement, the inclined portions 39 of the reflector 22 bear against and outwardly bias the springs 37 by reason of the engagement of the lip portions 47 of the springs with the inclined portion 39. The reflector assembly 12 is continued to be pressed in an upwardly direction until the mask 51 is sandwiched against the ceiling, the under surface of the mask being engaged by the flange 49 of the reflector 22. In view of the gradual nature of the curved surface of the reflector engaged by the lips and the readily deflected nature of the springs, a substantial range of relative upward movement of the components is feasible, and the reflector may be positioned to compensate for irregularities in the ceiling or situations in which, for instance, the bezel is installed at a slightly tilted position. The fact that the bezel is thus tilted does not, in accordance with the present invention, mandate that the reflector also be tilted.
The reflector assembly which, as noted, is made of a softer metal than the springs, preferably aluminum, will be firmly retained in its raised position by the action of the sharpened edge portions 48 of the lips 47 embedding themselves into the sides of the reflector. The retaining force of the lips is such that the reflector could not be manually removed in a downward direction responsive to downward pull, particularly since there is no part of the reflector which might conveniently be gripped to enable substantial downward forces to be exerted. By virtue, however, of the inclined nature of the lips 47 and sharpened edges 48, an initial lowering of the reflector assembly may readily be achieved by simply bodily rotating the entire reflector assembly. A rotary force may readily be applied by pressing the fingers outwardly against the interior surfaces of the reflector. Such rotary force will cause the inclined lips 47 in essence to score or cut a thread on the outer surface of the reflector by reason of the substantially softer nature of the reflector material as compared with the hardened spring material. Such rotation will lower the reflector sufficiently either completely to release the reflector from the springs or to enable the flange 49, which is now spaced from the ceiling, to be gripped and pulled free, especially as the springs now engage a narrower portion of the reflector.
Additionally, the connective force of the springs may be such that continued rotation of perhaps a half turn must be effected before the reflector is sufficiently released from the grip of the lips.
From the foregoing it will be observed that both the removal and replacement of the reflector may be accomplished without aligning slots, detents or components of the parts, and that a gripping force is exerted on the reflector throughout a substantial range of heightwisely displaced relative positions of the parts.
While the principal function of the threading effect above described is to facilitate removal of the reflector from the frame support, it will be understood that in some circumstances a reverse rotation of the parts may be employed to achieve a more intimate seating of the reflector in an upward direction.
It will be readily recognized by those skilled in the art in the light of the foregoing disclosures that variations in structural details may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. By way of example, the circular mask may be eliminated, the configuration of the springs and lip portions may be varied, etc. Accordingly, the invention is to be broadly construed within the scope of the appended claims.
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South Dakota Public Utilities Commission Meeting
Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 9:30 A.M.
State Capitol Building, Room 412
Pierre, South Dakota
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1. HP07-001 In the Matter of the Application of TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP for a Permit under the South Dakota Energy Conversion and Transmission Facility Act to Construct the Keystone Pipeline Project. (Staff Analysts: Martin Bettmann/Bob Knadle/Nathan Solem, Staff Attorney: Kara Van Bockern)
On April 27, 2007, TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP, (Keystone) filed a siting permit application for the South Dakota portion of the Keystone Pipeline Project (Project). The Project will transport crude oil starting in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada and ending in Patoka, Illinois. The proposed 30 inch diameter pipeline will have a nominal capacity of 435,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) with a possible expansion to 591,000 bpd. The proposed route will enter South Dakota at the North Dakota/South Dakota border in Marshall County and extend in a southerly direction, exiting the state at the South Dakota/Nebraska border in Yankton County. The length of the pipeline in South Dakota will be approximately 220 miles and it will cross the counties of Marshall, Day, Clark, Beadle, Kingsbury, Miner, Hanson, McCook, Hutchinson and Yankton. The Project also includes four pump stations in South Dakota located in Day, Beadle, Miner and Hutchinson counties along with 15 mainline valves with an average spacing of 15 miles between valves.
TODAY, shall the Commission Assess a Filing Fee not to Exceed $351,100 with an Initial Deposit of $8,000? AND, shall the Commission Authorize the Executive Director to Hire a Consultant and Enter into Contracts with the Consultant? AND, shall the Commission Approve Hearing Locations and a Hearing Schedule?
Heather K. Forney
Deputy Executive Director
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I'm sorry this is so long - I need some advice from some of the more experienced players out there. I play in a Ladies 2.5 USTA League and I need to vent after playing the worst match ever. Between our opponents' continuous bad calls, their captain strolling onto the court during a point to tell them how to play the point, and non-stop sideline coaching by thier coach, we didn't stand a chance. After the third bad call in the second game (my partner was serving and we were up 1-0 games), I was so frustrated, I called them on the bad calls (in a nice way) just to let them know I knew what they were doing. A few games later (we were winning) their captain strolled onto our side of the court (I'm not kidding) , called them over, and proceeded to coach them. I told them they couldn't receive coaching during the match and it was distracting. They denied what they were doing but I heard them. We lost the first set 7-5. Despite the constant bad calls, we won the second set 6-2. Then the fun really began. We we're getting ready to start the 10 point tie-break when their coach called them over the court next to us and was coaching them, telling them how to play us, strategy, etc. (he was talking so loud we could hear every word). We were standing over to the side talking to our captain and another member of our team when I mentioned it was the worst match I have ever played. We went and told them that they could not receive coaching during the match (we even called our coach to confirm it). They said they could and ignored us. One of our opponents came over to me started yelling, screaming, waving arms, and pointing at me and said to me "You're a B****! And that we take the game way too seriously. I was horrified at her behavior and reminded her (in a civilized manner) that they were ones that brought their coach along. We started the tie-break (I was completely rattled) and were playing awesome. They kept winning points by calling all my serves out (I have a pretty good hard fast serve) because they could get their racquet on it - it was obvious to everyone else watching that th e serves were in by at least a foot. Well, all that cheating won them the match - they won the tie break 10-8. I guess they felt the only way to beat us was to cheat. This team has a history of being cheaters. Do we have any grounds for grievances against that team? We have to play them next season and hopefully try to stop it from happening again. Thank you !!!!!! | <urn:uuid:13e760c4-4387-4e14-a71d-0d5c72783a17> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/i-just-played-the-worst-match-ever.245106/ | 2016-05-31T16:39:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051417337.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005657-00097-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.99574 | 558 | [
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Breaking NewsLegendary comedian David Brenner has died at the age of 78 ... and he went out with a joke.
Brenner's rep says David passed away peacefully Saturday evening at his NYC home surrounded by family.
As we previously reported ... Brenner slipped into a coma this week after his cancer got aggressive and started spreading rapidly.
D.B. holds the record for most "Tonight Show" appearances with 158 couch sessions. He also hosted the show a handful of times.
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Yarmouth Justice Centre.Tina Comeau photo
By Tina Comeau
A 49-year-old man arrested near the Atlantic Superstore and NSLC on April 26 carrying a loaded rifle – alleged to have been stolen – has been charged with nine Criminal Code offences that includes weapons, threats and theft charges.
Stacey Eugene Beals, whom court documents refer to as having no fixed address, appeared briefly in court on Monday, April 28. He is due back in court on Thursday, May 1, for a possible bail/showcause hearing. Lawyer David Curry, who spoke on Beals’ behalf in court on Monday, said more time was required to prepare a bail package. He also requested video footage shot from the NSLC location off Starrs Road.
Beals consented to remain in custody until his next court appearance.
On Saturday, April 26, shortly after noon, several RCMP members were dispatched after receiving reports of a man carrying a rifle near the Atlantic Superstore in Yarmouth. Both the Superstore and the adjoining NSLC were put in lockdown until the RCMP located the suspect.
In a media release issued that day, the RCMP said Beals appeared to be intoxicated when he was arrested.
The rifle is identified in court documents as being a black Mossberg International 22 calibre bolt-action rifle. Beals is accused of having stolen the rifle from a Herbert Street residence during a break-in.
The weapons charges Beals is facing include possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, careless use of a firearm, possession of a weapon and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
He is also charged with pointing a firearm at Constable Gary Bartlett and he is charged with threatening to cause death to the officer. The charge before the court alleges that Beals threatened to shoot the RCMP member and/or shoot at him through his police cruiser.
Beals is also charged with threatening to shoot RCMP Constable Jonathan Cook.
Beals is also facing charges of theft, of possession of property obtained by crime and of break, enter and theft.
There was no discussion in court on Monday about the April 26 incident.
Shortly after Beals’ arrest on April 26, RCMP spokesperson Sergeant Alain LeBlanc had told the Vanguard, “Thankfully nobody was hurt, but when you're carrying a rifle in the town and police respond, there is the potential for someone getting hurt.” He also said the RCMP must always presume in any case where a firearm is involved that the weapon is loaded, which further heightens the seriousness of the situation. | <urn:uuid:8fb0e97a-222f-44aa-805f-2777a7b9bfa6> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.novanewsnow.com/section/2014-04-28/article-3704632/Man-faces-9-charges-following-arrest-with-loaded-rifle/1 | 2016-05-29T07:45:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278417.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00202-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980977 | 526 | [
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Welcome to 'Fright Night'... Again
The casting of Fright Night, Craig Gillespie’s mostly faithful 3-D take on the 1985 cult favorite starring Chris Sarandon and the late Roddy McDowall, is so spot-on that it’s almost enough to justify the movie’s existence. Yet once again we find ourselves frustrated by the shortcomings of second-hand goods, in the too-familiar form of a remake that never needed to be made.
That detracts little from Colin Farrell’s delightfully roguish turn as the ghoul next door, whose dashing good looks and slick charm (however transparent) are enough to lure busty go-go dancers into his sparsely furnished bachelor pad. That they never depart is the first tip-off that some things are rotten in Vegas, and one happens to be Farrell's 400-year-old vampire, impeccably preserved and snacking at will.
He is not, however, above suspicion. Lurking in the surprisingly sleepy Sin City suburbs is every bloodsucker’s worst nightmare: a comic-book nerd (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) incapable of distinguishing reality from fantasy. He views every unexplained school absence as proof of foul play and patrols his neighborhood armed with wooden stakes and holy water.
Funny thing is, Ed, the bespectacled geek with the overactive imagination, is right. There really are vamps in his ’hood, and nobody else – certainly not Charley (Anton Yelchin), his onetime BFF who has taken to hanging with the cool crowd – can see it.
Only after Ed disappears, falling victim to his own hyper-awareness, does Charlie begin to investigate in earnest. From there, the movie follows the trail blazed a quarter-century ago by the original Fright Night, which is not exactly a classic but retains a certain nostalgic charm. One timely tweak: Peter Vincent (David Tennant, of Dr. Who), the supposed vampire expert Charley enlists for guidance, is no longer a late-night spook-tube host but a Criss Angel-style Vegas showman with a weakness for Midori.
Gillespie uses 3-D sparingly, and when he does, the extra dimension actually adds to the visual experience: Slain vampires burst into a cloud of smoldering ashes, which seems to explode off the screen and into your lap. It’s one of the movie’s niftier coups, along with the choices of Farrell, who is not given nearly enough scenery to chew, and Mintz-Plasse, who shines once more (after last year’s Kick-Ass) as a bitter misfit.
So where does it all go wrong? Despite a few laughs and some diverting visual effects, the movie is as distressingly bland as the cookie-cutter Vegas condos where Charley and his bloodthirsty rival uneasily co-exist.
For all its stylistic flourishes and minor alterations, Fright Night feels stale; there’s a sameness to the proceedings that neither Gillespie nor screenwriter Marti Noxon (TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer) manages to overcome. Troubling too is the movie’s tonal inconsistency; the film works better as black comedy than as horror, but the filmmakers seem hesitant to commit one way or the other. | <urn:uuid:ed05e29a-c9d8-4410-a6bf-7779000500b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/welcome-fright-night-again | 2016-06-01T01:14:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464053252010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524012732-00117-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937156 | 704 | [
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So, as a catechumen, I've been strictly fasting for Lent, and we have mostly observed the Wednesday/Friday fasts for some time in our house, even prior to my inquiry and subsequent catechism, out of respect to my wife's Orthodoxy.
I've heard that technically, after either Vespers or Compline (I forget which) on a given day, that day, liturgically speaking, is over, a concept that is not new to me what with having Sat. eve masses in the RC church. In light of this, ou of curiosity, exactly when is one technically supposed to fast? After a certain hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays until a certain hour on Wed and Fri, or just rising to sleeping on Wed and Fri? I'm sure there are threads that have addressed this, but I have an awfully poor time digging anything but the simplest of subjects out of the search function! | <urn:uuid:ebe0041c-6eb0-4f1b-8205-7700f34ad362> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=34943.msg551895 | 2016-05-31T23:56:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464053252010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524012732-00117-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97269 | 190 | [
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USA employees were recognized for their service to the University on Oct. 24 during a program and luncheon at the Mitchell Center. Honorees included the six recipients of the 2013 Christie Miree USA National Alumni Association Outstanding Employee Award. These employees were selected from the members of the USA-Team, which honored outstanding employees in each of the University’s divisions.
The honorees are seated, from left, Russell Bartlett, maintenance mechanic II, housing, Crafts/Trades Category, Student Affairs; Susan R. Sansing, director of health sciences, finance and administration, Administrative Category/Health Sciences; Kathryn Vrachalus, clerk IV, Clinical Laboratory, UMC. Clerical Category/Health Systems; Angela J. Morehead, RTN Inservice Specialist, staff development, UMC, Professional Category, Health System; Bernice A. Robinson, custodial worker 1, custodial services, Service Category/Financial Affairs; standing, from left, Dr. John W. Smith, USA acting president; Ann Sirmon, president, USA National Alumni Association; Karen Edwards, executive director, USA Alumni Affairs; and Dr. Joe Busta, vice president for development and alumni relations. Not shown is honoree Philip J. Fishel, police lieutenant, University police and parking services, Technical Category/Student Affairs. | <urn:uuid:af0cd4e6-2aa5-40b4-9bab-96deb90d9a9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.southalabama.edu/publicrelations/pressreleases/2013pr/112013.html | 2016-05-31T23:46:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464053252010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524012732-00117-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903 | 278 | [
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UEFA Champions League holders Liverpool FC progressed to the third qualifying round as late goals from substitutes Steven Gerrard and Djibril Cissé earned a 2-0 win against FBK Kaunas at Anfield, the Lithuanian champions losing out 5-1 on aggregate.
The home side failed to create clear goalscoring chances for much of the game against determined opponents, and although Kaunas struggled to make any attacking impact they maintained their defensive shape admirably. It took the introduction of Gerrard to break the deadlock in the 77th minute before Cissé volleyed in a fine second late on.
Fernando Morientes had the first chance for Liverpool on 14 minutes as he latched on to a long throw from Boudewijn Zenden, directing his header goalwards only for Sarunas Kilijonas to save. A fizzing free-kick from Nukri Manchkhava forced Carson to make a good stop three minutes later, but that proved a rare chance for Kaunas. Mohamed Sissoko looked bright on his full debut after joining from Valencia CF, but positives were rare for the hosts in a disappointing first half.
Half-time substitute Cissé looked bright after the break and he unleashed a fierce right-footed drive which flashed just wide of the Kaunas goal eight minutes into the second period. Manchkhava then had two chances to open the scoring on 56 minutes - his initial low drive was met by Sami Hyypiä but the defender's attempted clearance was straight at his opponent, whose powerful strike flew over.
Kaunas's goalscorer in last week's meeting, Giedrius Barevicius, was introduced on 66 minutes as the visitors sought to mount a last-ditch attempt to overturn the first-leg deficit. It proved a forlorn hope, however, Liverpool threatening again two minutes later as Hyypiä headed Dietmar Hamann's corner against the crossbar.
The breakthrough did then arrive, with Gerrard's 74th-minute introduction the catalyst. Within three minutes, the Liverpool captain lifted Anfield; his effort from the left following a corner looked harmless enough but Kilijonas allowed the ball to squirm under his body and into the net.
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So, here is without further ado, my room board for a teen or tween girl which is girly and fun, but not overly so:
The curtain panels, blinds, table lamp, mirror, night stand, purple blanket and wall art are all Ikea. The white headboard could be DIY. The rug was from google images, and I am not sure where to find something like this. As for the dresser - this could be easily found on craigslist and refinished. The slipper chair was also from google images.
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|tanithryudo (tanithryudo) wrote,|
@ 2014-12-26 23:56:00
Down Under Day 6
Continued from previous entry... So, the flight from Australia to New Zealand was not quite uneventful.
One family apparently joined our tour group using a third party tour company from China. Everyone else are from the USA using the actual tour company (Ritz Tours). The problem is whoever hooked that guy up only got him a visa for Australia. Now, apparently if you have a US passport, you don't actually need a separate visa for NZ. But a chinese passport? SOL. The guy ( who was there with two twin daughters maybe 12 years old) had to stay behind in Melbourne. Not sure if he can get a last minute visa to join the rest of the tour eventually or figure out a way to go back to Sydney and stay there until the return flight at the end (which has a connecting stop there).
Another thing that took everyone by surprise was how stringent Customs was in NZ about bringing in anything resembling food products. One family got fined $400 for a container of commercial honey they bought in Australia. My mom got pulled aside because their k9 unit caught a sniff of some shreds of curry beef jerky in her backpack (the rest of it had been eaten in the flight and it was just some spilled remnants, thank god). There was also a camera guy there taking pictures of everyone being pulled aside. When asked he said that the film was going to go on TV. Ugh. Dick move.
Anyway...after the almighty struggles with Customs, we finally left the (very...small) airport into the city proper. Queenstown, though, is also a very small city, for all that it's an almost 100% tourist city. It is maybe ten blocks by six blocks in size, and at most a 30 min walk to cross the whole place. Then again, NZ itself is a sparsely populated country; I think the entire population might be smaller than some chinese cities.
The hotel is called the Millennium Hotel. Decent for a small town I guess. WIFI is only freeform the lobby for 30 mins out of every day, so I'm actually purchasing my internet use for an outrageous price. Bleh.
Dinner was just some random chinese restaurant in the town. Tomorrow is another full day.
EDIT: Forgot to add...we did get some time to wander the town after eating. We took a short stroll through along Lake Wakatipu and then through the local rose garden. The flowers were mostly in bloom, and they were beautiful.
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You have decided to join the freelancing industry months ago.
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- You are wasting time
- You think you can earn money by staring at the monitor
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The national media is reeling today after yesterday's high-profile grilling of Mike Ashley, the billionaire who runs Sports Direct andwho is at the centre of a scandal over the mistreatment of workers in Shirebrook.
Despite previously stating he would attend the committee hearing to stand up for his company and had 'nothing to hide', there were numerous revelations that came out of the questions to both him and the heads of recruitment agencies who provided thousands of zero-hours workers over the past 10 years.
Here's a few:
Mike Ashley has lost control of the Sports Direct ship
The billionaire tycoon, in a roundabout fashion, admitted that he's lost control of the company, which has led at least one major shareholder to doubt confidence in his leadership of the company, and there was even a suggestion that Ashley may be taking a bullet and stepping down from the helm. When asked if it's time he find someone who can 'sail the oil tanker' that his company has become, he answered: 'Probably'. Again, when asked: "Do you think it may have outgrown your ability to manage it?" He said: "Possibly a long time ago."
Some workers, at one particular point in time, may possibly, have been paid less than minimum wage
Mr Ashley admitted that some workers have been paid less than minimum wage. When pressed he said: "On that specific point for that specific bit of time, yes." This follows a Guardian investigation which found just that, and Mike has already said he will review this and make sure workers all receive above minimum wage, which is a legal requirement.
Workers still aren't being paid for time spent in security queues
The Guardian revealed that staff spend upwards of 40 minutes going through security checks on their way in and out of the Shirebrook complex, effectively making their pay drop below minimum wage. But rather than pay them more the boss has focused on tackling the 'bottleneck' which leads to long waiting times. Reportedly, this has been dealt with.
Mike admitted that some cultures at Shirebrook are 'repugnant'.
Using a variety of language, Mike damned the revelations about his business, and claimed to be unaware of them. He called the level of zero-hours contracts 'unacceptable' and agreed there should be more permanent workers. And when it came to a culture of sexual harassment, where fresh female employees are called 'new meat' by some members of staff and sexual exploitation in the workplace is rampant, he said it was 'repugnant'.
On that note, Mike Ashley doesn't know what sexual harassment is called
When it came to addressing the culture, he had to ask for advice mid sentence, and was quoted as saying... "Are you absolutely sure there's no, what do you call... sexual... within the office [Mike Bishop gives him a cue: 'harassment'] harassment, happening in Sainsbury's? I think there probably is."
He later astonished tweeters who were following the inquiry when he answered: "Sports Direct has to pull its socks up. Simple as that fellas. Not just fellas. Girls. Sorry." Others described this as a win for Ashley as he 'trolled' the panel.
"Anonymous face-to-face" surveys don't work
A Transline director who provides staff for Sports Direct said only a few weeks ago a survey was undertaken among workers, and an amazing 96 per cent returned positive results on their experience of working at the company. When asked about the nature of the survey it transpired to not be an 'anonymous' one, but was conducted face to face with Transline staff. MPs were left puzzled as to how the company thought this yielded reliable results. | <urn:uuid:c19ae10e-b389-4115-81d8-22ce9cecae17> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/six-astonishing-things-we-learned-from-the-sports-direct-inquiry-1-7953478 | 2017-06-22T11:57:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00392.warc.gz | en | 0.982962 | 760 | [
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Here’s another interesting case submitted by Geoff Dayne.
79 y/o male c/o non-provoked SOB without CP.
Patient was found sitting upright, tripodding, 1 word dyspnea.
Lung sounds: extremely decreased tidal volume. EMS crew was unable to tell if there was rales or wheezing.
Past medical history: HTN, dyslipidemia, CHF, pacemaker (recently implanted within a week or so), diabetes, emphysema.
Drug allergies: Sulfa
Current meds: Glipizide, Omerprazole, Hydralizine, Lovastatin, Lasix, Albuterol
Pulse: 134 Strong/Irregular
SpO2: 84 on RA
They treated w/ O2 and put him on the patient’s home BiPAP and transported.
A 12-lead ECG was captured.
And a rhythm strip.
I think this case is an excellent example of the real-life difficulties paramedics face in the field when it comes to the triage of possible ACS patients.
What would you do next as the treating paramedic?
Found on the Lifenet Receiving Station (LBBB with concordant ST-depression in leads V3 and V4)
62 year old male CC: Chest pain (LBBB with ST-elevation > 0.2 the QRS complex)
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Nov. 29, 2012
No. 2 Duke (7-0) 73, No. 4 Ohio State (4-1) 68
Nov. 28, 2012
Cameron Indoor Stadium - Durham, N.C.
Ohio State and Duke met for the seventh time Wednesday. Duke holds a 4-3 advantage in the series. It was the first game of the series played in Durham.
The game was the 11th all-time for the Buckeyes in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. They are 5-6 all-time in the annual event.
As a ranked team (AP), No. 4 Ohio State is 430-117 all-time. Ohio State is 309-68 when ranked in the Top 10.
Ohio State has an overall record of 147-232 vs. teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. The Buckeyes are 7-16 against the No. 2 ranked team all-time. Ohio State defeated No. 2 Syracuse 77-70 March 24 in Boston to reach the 2012 Final Four.
Ohio State is 38-27 all-time against teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Three players scored in double figures for Ohio State: Deshaun Thomas (16 points), Lenzelle Smith Jr. (11) and Aaron Craft (11).
The Buckeyes held Duke without a field goal over 10:26 of play in the first half, outscoring the Blue Devils 21-12 during that time.
OSU held the Blue Devils to their lowest first half point total of the season (previously 29 vs. VCU).
The Buckeyes held a 16-7 advantage in offensive rebounds.
Matta is 225-66 during his career at Ohio State and 327-97 overall as a head coach.
During the Matta era at Ohio State, the Buckeyes are 43-6 in November.
Scored a team-high 16 points against Duke.
Passed 1,000 points for his Ohio State career (81 games). With 1,009 points to his credit, he ranks 47th on the all-time scoring list at OSU.
Grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds.
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We spent American Thanksgiving in Tulum, it was lovely… busy and expensive, but lovely. We flew into Cancun and rented a car at the airport with a few friends. From Cancun, the drive to Tulum is simple and stress-free. We even stopped in Playa del Carmen for lunch! There are buses that you can take, but we decided to go with the car because it would allow us to travel in and around Tulum conveniently.
Matt and I stayed at Hotel Cabañas Los Lirios Tulum for four nights. The room was spacious and comfortable and the hotel was right on the beach (and had a pool!). Breakfast was delicious (and included, which always feels like a bonus) and the bartender made perfect piña coladas!
Here is a list of some things we did:
Went for a run on the beach, then lounged on the beach all afternoon and made friends with bartenders (so much for the calories burned) and of course also made friends with a golden retriever.
Ate dinner at the most delicious and romantic restaurant I’ve ever been to, Posada Margherita. A colleague recommended this Italian restaurant to us and I’m so glad we took her advice. If you ever find yourself in Tulum, Posada Margherita is a MUST.
Visited the Mayan Ruins of Tulum. Many people biked or walked, but we decided to drive to save time. It was incredible! We went first thing in the morning before the huge crowds and heat of the day.
We tried our best to search for some cheaper food alternatives than the beach-front hotels. One of our favorite places was called Mateo’s Mexican Grill.. where we found ourselves eating fish tacos and burritos more than once.
We also took a drive to Akumal to swim with the sea turtles. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone. There were turtles to see, as well as what felt like 100s of people paying for life-jackets and snorkeling gear (which is mandatory to enter the beach site). Overall, it was touristy and what felt like a very unnatural way to experience sea turtles.
Matt went scuba diving in the cenotes (I was too scared and opted out to lounge on the beach a little bit more). He loved it and luckily over a year later I was able to make it back to this region to check them out for myself.
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It's hot that day and i'm starving. Actually, me, sweetheart(My GirlFriend), and her friend are planning to eat Lotek, but we didn't find any warung open that serve lotek. So we decided to go to Bakso stall near campus (we go to the same college, Institut Teknologi Telkom), but again, it's closed. I don't know why there are so many warung closed, it's not even holiday yet. Starvingly, we go to a place that sell Mie Ayam near campus.
This is the Mie Ayam. I like the braised shredded chicken, it's sweet and this is where the mie ayam taste mostly from. The broth is just any regular mie ayam broth, almost perfectly bland in taste if don't served with the oil, added salt and MSG. The mie (noodle) is OK even with a little bit floury taste. Overall, this is a good regular mie ayam. I find myself enjoy eating this till the last speck on the bowl. Hey, i'm hungry you know. LOL
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The chance to see an early English drama that is not produced very often is one of the benefits of the American Shakespeare Center. As their last production of the Actors' Renaissance Season, the repertory company presents Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. A retelling of the famous doomed romance from Virgil's Aeneid, this early work can be difficult to make compelling given the script's challenges. While there are problems due to some jarring jumps in the narrative that are the fault of the script, this story of the gods interference with man and destiny exudes passion.
Aeneas and his men flee the destruction of Troy. After wandering the seas for seven years, the goddess Juno causes a storm to wash the Trojans ashore in the kingdom of Carthage. They meet the Queen, Dido, her sister, Anna, and Dido's suitor, Iarbus who provide the Trojans with comforts and support, rebuilding their tattered fleet. The goddess Venus, who is Aeneas' mother, replaces Aeneas' son, Ascanius with the god Cupid who uses his love dart to make Dido fall passionately in love with Aeneas. She does and a jealous Iarbus offers a sacrifice to the gods to win Dido's love back. However, before any revenge can be made, Jupiter, king of the gods appears to Aeneas in a dream and he is also urged by a visit from the god Mercury, that it is his destiny to go to Italy and found Rome. He obeys and leaves a devastated Dido. Aeneas' abandonment of the heartbroken queen leads to a fiery tragedy for Carthage.
It is believed by scholars that Dido, Queen of Carthage is one of Christopher Marlowe's earliest plays. It may also have been partially written by Thomas Nashe. As such the play shows elements of the transition from narrative poetry to actual drama. The poetry is beautiful and the talented actors deliver it with aplomb. There are a few jarring transitions. Now, Shakespeare has scenes in which the action happens offstage and in which the audience is told what has occurred. Here the most difficult transition in the play comes just after Dido and Aeneas declare their very passionate love for each other in a violent storm. Shortly thereafter Aeneas tells us that he just had the dream in which Jupiter tells him to go found Rome. If the play was written in a later period that scene would have happened on stage (with Jacobean masque effects).
There is also the opening scene of the play which might make some audience members uncomfortable as it depicts the love between Jupiter, king of the gods and his cupbearer, the male Ganymede. The scene is mild compared to some productions portrayal of the male love story in Marlowe's Edward II. Benjamin Kurns as Jupiter and Gregory Jon Phelps as Ganymede portray this relationship honestly. It is theatrically heightened without taking it over the top.
Mr. Phelps also gives a delightful performance as the playful Cupid. Allison Glenzer is perfect as the meddling Venus. Brandi Rhome assays her roles as the vengeful Juno, the admonishing Mercury and as Dido's sister, trying to support her queen while pining for the Queen's cast off suitor, Iarbus. Aidan O'Reilly as the noble Iarbus strikes a balance between jealousy and the truth that Iarbus is really just a nice guy in love with the wrong woman.
At the heart of this production are Sarah Fallon and Rene Thornton, Jr. as Dido and Aeneas. They have a natural chemistry on stage. The actors are fearless in portraying the doomed lovers heightened emotions. Mr. Thornton delivers a lengthy recitation of the fall of Troy that is riveting for the audience as well as the attentive company on the stage. His dilemma in leaving his love to follow the orders of the gods is sympathetic and poignant.
Ms, Fallon must navigate what could be over-the-top hysterics in a lesser actor's hands. In Ms. Fallon's outstanding performance Dido's desperate love is as beautiful a tragedy to behold as any Shakespeare heroine. Her attempts to prevent Aeneas's departure are heartbreaking and her death will bring you to tears.
Dido, Queen of Carthage will be presented as part of the Actors' Renaissance Season at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia in repertoire with William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III, Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, and A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton through April 7, 2012. For tickets and other performance information, please visit www.americanshakespearecenter.com.
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Then an unearthly yowl of despair and misery echoed through the bathroom. I looked around and saw no cats. I spun in a circle, searching for unhappy felines in the shower, behind the toilet, in the greenhouse window. Nothing.
Then I realized the sound was coming from inside the bathroom vanity.
Yes, Ivan the Scarable had opened the drawers, climbed in, slipped or jumped behind the drawers, and got stuck there.
No matter how I tugged or lifted, the drawers wouldn't come out of the vanity. Nor would he come out.
Finally I had to go wake the Kitty Mommy herself, housepet, who coaxed him out. He trusts her. She told me Bear had been waking her at half-hour intervals since 1:30 this morning. I bet he knew Ivan was trapped and was trying his best Lassie imitation.
What bizarre interspecies encounters have you had lately?
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Tereasa Sowers, a middle school math teacher for six years, knew the lesson cold. She’d walked hundreds of students through solving systems of linear equations. It was the 360-degree digital camera planted at the front of the classroom that she wasn’t sure about.
The guest appearance by Sowers in an eighth-grade pre-algebra class at Jefferson Middle School was an audition, part of an effort by the District to bring more rigor and selectivity to its hiring.
With research showing that teacher quality is the dominant in-school factor driving performance on standardized tests, the District is joining a national movement to push cameras into the classroom. The objective is to capture the elusive recipe for teaching’s “secret sauce” — the attributes and practices that make educators effective.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is spending millions of dollars in an effort to define “measures of effective teaching,” a project that compiled video recordings of more than 24,000 classroom lessons in Pittsburgh, New York, Tampa and elsewhere. The District also has received a Gates grant to develop a video library of clips showing the school system’s top teachers in action. It will be rolled out as a professional development tool in the next school year.
The D.C. Public Schools hiring initiative is unusual because officials are relying on cameras at the front end, using classroom video to help screen job candidates.
“For many years DCPS was known as ‘Just show up and you’ll get a job,’ ” said Jason Kamras, chief of human capital for the school system. He is also an alumnus of Teach for America, a recruiting program known for selectivity.
“We would like to be one of the elite places to teach in America and for people to know that you’ve got to be really good to teach in DCPS,” Kamras said.
Teacher recruiting has traditionally been about resumes, references and interviews. Tryouts under actual classroom conditions remain rare. For example, a new survey of Los Angeles teachers by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that only 13 percent were asked to do a sample lesson as part of their screening.
With its audition requirement, the District is seeking to set a higher bar than its high-performing suburban schools. Neither Fairfax nor Montgomery county schools require a sample lesson, officials said, although some principals have asked for them. Fairfax is one of many systems that use the Gallup Teacher Insight Survey, an online test designed to screen candidates for core beliefs and capacity for engaging students in learning.
For Sowers, 29, who has taught in Prince George’s County and now works at Francis Hammond Middle School in Alexandria, the audition was the final hoop in a regimen that included an online “pedagogical content-knowledge test,” asking her to analyze a math problem a student had gotten wrong and to devise a strategy for re-teaching the material. Next came a 30-minute interview at D.C. school central offices, where she was asked to teach a 10-minute lesson in front of senior teachers on a topic of her choice. Sowers chose multiplication of polynomials.
Her 30-minute turn at Jefferson Middle — an actual class at the Southwest D.C. school — will be reviewed by school officials, who will use the 360-degree camera to gauge not only her performance but how students responded.
If they like what they see, they will upload the video with the rest of her application to an online portal principals can access to view job candidates. The District, which employs about 4,000 teachers, expects to hire 600 to 800 for the coming academic year. That number reflects the usual turnover along with vacancies expected to emerge in the summer with the dismissal of instructors who receive poor evaluations.
Sowers received 48-hours’ notice for what she was expected to cover in the taped lesson. But she entered the room knowing nothing about her students or their relative abilities. That meant showtime came with some surprises.
“When you add a 9y plus a negative 3y, what are you going to get?”
“Negative six,” came a scattering of voices.
“Very good. Okay, do you understand why it’s a positive six?”
What no one knows yet is whether any of the video recording will lead to higher student achievement. Debra Reeder, director of employment services for Fairfax schools, which must hire about 1,300 teachers before the next school year starts, said she isn’t sure the time and effort is worthwhile.
“What I would like to see is some data once this has been put into practice in D.C.,” she said. “I’d like to see the data around the success of the program. It looks very time- and work-intensive.”
Kamras acknowledged that the research on the subject is incomplete. “We still think auditioning a candidate is the right thing to do,” he said. “There’s no better evidence of how someone will perform in the classroom than watching that person perform in the classroom.”
Sowers appeared to hit many of the marks D.C. officials look for in the classroom, combining traditional, “teacher-centered” talk at the white board with small-group work in which students collaborate on solving problems. She circulated the room to check individual work and offer different levels of instruction, spending five minutes with one boy who was having difficulty adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers.
“How y’all doing? You understand? Do you guys understand how you’re substituting for the variables?” she asked.
Plucky and confident, Sowers said the District’s process was tougher than others she has encountered. But she didn’t mind it. She expects to hear soon whether she makes the “recommended” pool from which D.C. principals will fill their openings.
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This blog is looking for wisdom, to have and to share. it is also looking for other rare character traits like good humor, courage, and honor. It is not an easy road, because all of us fall short. But God is love, forgiveness and grace. Those who believe in Him and repent of their sins have the promise of His Holy Spirit to guide us and show us the Way.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Let's see how long it takes for You Tube to take this one down!
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MFI Directory: Baseline Survey of the Microfinance Services Operating on the Chars in CLP–2 Districts
This document contains a directory of all of the branches and microfinance institutions (MFIs) identified that are offering MF services in the surveyed areas on the chars of NW Bangladesh and presents key data on the types of services offered and the portfolio of the various MFIs. It is based on research conducted by the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP), alongside an external consultant Md. Harun-Or Rashid (November 2011 - January 2012). The directory and baseline data are intended to provide a useful reference document for stakeholders including large national MFIs, as well as smaller local MFIs, and organisations such as Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) for their future work on the chars.
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Sleep Dealer (2008)
Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi2008 Year 90 Mins 5.9 Imdb
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.
- Production Co: Likely Story
- Released: 10 December 2008
- Imdb Rating: 5.9
- Runtime: 90 Mins.
- Writer: Alex Rivera, David Riker
- Director: Alex Rivera
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A Most Auspicious Day:
Akshay Tritiya is one of the most auspicious days in the Hindu calendar. It is considered a day for charity and new beginnings. Good deeds and offerings made on this day never go to waste. It is believed that anything good done on this day lasts forever and forever. People make special purchases on this day, start new ventures, get married etc. 'Akshay' means eternal and 'Tritiya' stands for the third.
Legends and myths:
The sun and moon, on Akshay Tritiya day, are both on their pinnacle of brightness and glory. This day falls every year on the third day of the brighter half or "Shukla paksh" of the "Vaishakh" (around march-April) month. Every moment on this day is considered auspicious or a 'muhurat'. Many legends and myths are associated with the Akshay Tritiya day that signify its importance.
* It is believed that the great poet Ved Vyas along with Lord Ganesh started writing the epic Mahabharat on this day.
* This day is also considered the first day of Satya Yuga or the beginning of time. Satya Yuga is the first of the four yugas.
* It is also believed that Goddess Ganga (Ganges river) decended upon earth from the heavens.
* The poor brahmin Sudama visited his childhood friend Lord Krishna in Dwarka with a handful of beaten rice (poha) on this day.
* The Pandavas received the 'Akshaya Pathram' (bowl) from Lord Krishna (in the Mahabharata) on this day.
* The Vaishnavites believe this is the birthday of Lord Parshuram. Lord Parshuram is also the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu. Performing Shri Maha Vishnu Pooja on Akshaya Tritiya eradicates sin and helps in attaining salvation.
* 'Akshay' means that which is eternal, continuous, imperishable. Good deeds done on this day are blessed forever. Lord Krishna, it is believed, revealed to Yudhisthira the importance of charity, good deeds,reciting of mantras, and performing prayers on this day. The effects of which last for an eternity.
* Akshay Tritiya is believed to be one of the most blessed days in the year. Buying gold or any other assets is said to multiply and expand, bringing with it good luck and fortune forever.This is a great day for new beginnings.
Akshay Tritiya is marked with great pomp and celebrations all over India. People mainly worship Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesh on this day. They want to usher in a golden beginning full of fortune, wealth and good luck. Goddess Lakshmi is also prayed along with her husband Lord Vishnu. People visit the temples of Lakshmi-Narayan and Lord Krishna and offer 'daan' or endowments for eternal prosperity.
* Akshay Tritiya is known as 'Akha Teej' in Rajasthan, 'Sukal Tritiya' in Uttar Pradesh and 'Akshay Tadige' in Karnataka.
* The people of Bengal start a new audit book on this day called Halkhata to attract a new period of profits. They also keep Satya Narayan puja in their homes. People take dips in holy rivers across India on this day
* In Bikaner, Rajasthan, people fly kites and celebrate the teej day with fun and colors.
* The Jat farmers predict rain and crop yield by looking at all the birds they encounter on their way to the field on this day.
* In Karnataka this day is the end of a month long celebration. The celebration lasts from the third of the month of 'Chaitra' to the third of the month of 'Vaishakh'. It is believed to be a resting period for Goddess Durga or Shakti. This period comes after she slayed the two destructive and mighty demons - Sumbha and Nisumbha. In Bengal, preparations for the Durga puja starts from this day.
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Yeah I know it's a bit early but....I don't know if I will have internet in the next two weeks sooooo...
This month's Spotlight is on Lady Aryanhwy merch Catmael
Lady Aryanhwy merch Catmael lives in Caermyrdin, Wales, in
the early 11th century. The only child of a minor lord,
she married young to another minor lord, with whom she ha
three children before he was killed in a scrap with the
Vikings. Now she runs her household, raises her children, and
occasionally visits London in the late 13th century.
Sara Uckelman joined the SCA a few months before her 14th
birthday, and has been a member for over 12 years. In
July 2008 she became the Pelican Queen of Arms, one of
the three chief heralds in the SCA, and spends most of her
evenings researching and writing articles on medieval
names and naming practices. By day, she is a Ph.D.
candidate working on a dissertation in medieval logic,
which she hopes to defend in June 2009. A support staff
of a wonderful husband and two cats keeps her from going
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I may be a little biased, but I think Texas has the best Mexican (next to Mexico of course).
There’s nothing like driving up to a taco stand on any given day and ordering some of the most mouth-watering tacos “you never knew you were missing in life.” And right next to nearly every taco stand is a small cart filled with corn that you can smell down the block. Yes, elotes.
At the risk of oversimplification for those that haven’t had chance to try this awesomeness, elote is corn on the cob with butter, mayo, chili and lime. Essentially, it’s everything good in this world wrapped up in buttery, savory kernels.
And despite how good it tastes, it tends to be very high in calories with a lot of saturated fat.
So, with a few tweaks here and there, I got busy in the kitchen to put my FitMenCook spin on a popular Mexican street food. This version is equally tasty and MUCH lighter on the calories!
To gather the ingredients, I went to my neighborhood Kroger. It just so happened that corn was on sale so I took it as a sign that I was meant to make this dish.
- 5 ears – corn on the cob (medium size, raw)
- 3/4 cup 2% Greek yogurt
- 2 heaping tablespoons lite safflower mayo (or more if desired)
- 1/3 cup Private Selection crumbled goat cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 medium bell pepper (chopped)*
- 1 tablespoon olive oil (or coconut oil)
- 1/2 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- juice from 1 lime
- sea salt & pepper to taste
- chipotle chili
(*) – denotes an optional ingredient
- Set a grill or oven to 350F.
- Peel back the husk from the corn to remove the silk. Add the husks back to the corn and soak the corn on the cob in water for about 10 minutes (to prevent burning when roasting). Place the corn on the hot grill (or on a baking sheet for the oven) and roast for about 20 to 30 minutes, until the corn is soft.
- While the corn is cooking, mix Greek yogurt, mayonnaise, goat cheese and the seasonings together in a large bowl. Season to taste and set aside.
- When the corn is ready, use a sharp knife to shave the corn into a separate bowl. Set a nonstick skillet on medium heat and add olive oil. When the oil is hot, toss in the chopped red onion. Sear the onion for about 3 minutes.
- Add the shaved corn to the skillet and mix together with the onion until the corn has a slight sear on the edges, about 7 to 8 minutes. When the corn has a slight sear on it, add it to the bowl with the cream and mix together. Season to taste using fresh cilantro, cumin, sea salt & pepper.
- Garnish with freshly chopped cilantro and chili powder. Serve the dip warm with fresh tostadas, or my favorite, roasted jalapeños!
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As you've probably noticed, I have neglected the blog for a month or so, I was unwell for a couple of weeks, I then started a new job, so I've not really had the time.
Excuses, excuses I know! I promise to be back very soon! I have some great posts coming up! I've had the chance to try out a new 'cult' skincare brand, the newest MUA palette and I treated myself to 3 more Revlon Lip Butters today which I must share with you!!
Tomorrow I'm gonna type up a post on my favourite ever Self Tan!!
I can't wait to get back into the swing of things!! I also have my 500 follower as soon as I get there!!!
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Wahaa..saya rasa honoured, sungguh. Diberi penghargaan yang sebegitu tinggi untuk menerima award hebat ini. Beautiful tuh, macam salah orang ja..hahaha. Rasanya ranking blog ini melonjak naek since saya iklan kan servis amah dan buruh hari yang lalu. So, I believe that special thanks should be addressed to Anton Higuan for he has put up a very good impression on our amah image throughout Malaysia as well as Indonesnia. And not forgetting my followers too, peeps and silent readers. *Kepada mak dan ayah di kampung, adik-adik, guru-guru saya, terima kasih kerna menyokong karier.... *mengaruttt*
So here are the rules before the award is finally mine:
1. Thank & link the person who gave you the award. Thanks to budak bernama mcjust.lol =)
3. Contact them on Blogs and let them know they have won the award: DONE! :D
4. State 7 things about yourself:
-I'm exotic; I could eat peppers and chilies like snacks. -I'm the double Cs; Cat lovers, very! and Caffeine addicted. *tegar punya. -I loathe mournful Monday most; that's the center point where fantabulous weekend ends. -I'm blinding. -Night crawler, active after 10pm to dawn -Extreme shopaholic, and hardly saving. *I admire those who are stingy, really. -I'm abnormal. I giggle, laugh, cry, weep, yawn and smile at most times..alone.
Tertekan dengan timbunan pinggan dan cawan di dalam sinki? Stress dengan pakaian tidak berbasuh? Bosan melihat carpet rumah berkepam?
Usah bimbang. Kami ada penyelesaian efektif untuk semua masalah anda!
Memperkenalkan amah terbaru kami, Dompok CRV yang didatangkan khas dari Mongolia Utara menerusi MasKargo khusus untuk memerangi semua bebanan anda.Kini tiada lagi kerisauan, hanya senyuman! =)
Nama asal (Mongolia): Anton Higuain Santosh
Nama komersial (Malaysia / Indonesia):Ahmad Higuain
Umur: 20 tahun (amah kami muda dan bertenaga)
Status: Sudah berkahwin di Mongolia, namun mengisyhtiharkan diri bujang di Malaysia (tidak dibenarkan kahwin sehingga kontrak tamat)
Pendidikan: Pernah menumpang kelas pra-tadika AMAN ketika di Kashmir, persekolahan tergendala akibat desakan ekonomi dan rusuhan sebelum menjadi mangsa sindiket human trafficking pada tahun 2008. Amah tidak pernah berputus asa untuk menimba ilmu. (bersemangat waja)
Ketinggian: 2 depa kurang dari tiang lampu (1.67m)
Berat:154 pound (awas, kenderaan berat di sebelah kiri)
Pengalaman sebagai amah: 2 tahun (termasuk praktikal & ROS)
Kehebatan dalam mencuci pakaian, pinggan mangkuk, menanggalkan kesan gris pada kolar baju & lengan. (tanpa Vanish / Mr Musle etc)
Keupayaan mengemas, mengemop & mengvacuum dalam satu masa.
Kuasa moto pada kaki & lengan.
Kurang makan namun sentiasa bertenaga.
Tidur hanya waktu malam (selepas 12)
Tahap puncak produktivi ialah sekitar jam 11 pagi - 5 petang.
Tidak mudah diperdaya oleh orang yang tak dikenali (kecurian @ jualan lelong rumah ke rumah dapat diatasi)
Boleh berjenaka (caj extra dikenakan)
Boleh menyanyi (caj extra dikenakan)
Tiada implikasi kesihatan & bebas dari segala penyakit sampingan.
Menyayangi segala bentuk kemudahan awam (tidak vandalism)
Menghormati tuan rumah (dan isteri tuan rumah)
Pendek tangan (amah kami tidak mencuri)
Tidak mudah berputus asa (sentiasa mencuba)
Bayaran harga akan dirunding setelah mereka yang berminat menelefon dan membuat appointment di no ini: +17775674322
Email kami untuk sebarang pertanyaan di: [email protected]
Amah terbaek pilihan kami, anda bagaimana?
p/s: kami juga mengendalikan servis buruh kasar (terhad) seperti ini:
24 march 2010; 10.05am -nothing's up. all are crashing down. all as in ALL. *sigh -is gaining weight, very. -currently working on assignments. ok skip! -craving for pizza. sangatttt! *see, food lagy. -horizontally challenged. mentally.? oh YES! -longing for some outing, day out, half-day break or of any sort. Life is choking enough..ergh.
here's the wishlist of the week, tadaa!
-last night you made me mad I wish I could just slap slap slap you thrice on face! pfft. -want to cut out fats. sangat.sangat.sangat! ada sapa nak.? -wish I could be there right in front of you -proper time management. oh I really need this! -wishing the worst for you and YOU!heh.
-want love-charming-spell and happy-magic-chants so that I could turn every single sorrow faces in this world into this; =)
I want people all around me to be happy, really.
Tapi bukan itu:
tips.kecantikan.hari.ini: wanna be HAWT? easy; wear a full black clothes to class. I've learnt the lesson >.<"
Friday has came and I'll be leaving home so soon. Oh why-the-heck am I still feeling reluctant even I've had a splendid 3 weeks of holidays? Yeah I shouldn't but right now I just couldn't to. Leaving home will mean I gotta be ready for torture and punishment days cause I paid no attention to tasks and assignments I hardly finished none. Read my lips, people. N-O-N-E. Haha! Also gotta start saving again after spending so lavishly last weekend I was nearly declared myself broke. huahh. and it's about time. time for me to finally jump back down to my reality world that no fun will exist for sure. how I hate it, you can tell from my words I'm sure but that's the sickness of being real - you gotta face it.
The-dots for nako abdullah is never means more than an effing boredom. and this is what I loathe most. I'm not burning myself, still. Flames that alighted in ashes once upon ago is now sparked my will out. and here I am again and again trying hard to find little twigs and pebbles to start over, but often I tumble and lost everything I've found. Shaking faith always keeps me wondering that I'm going to go nowhere but fall. Falling deep under my own jet black nightmares that I'll never reach to see sunshine again. I need to hold on tight but just didn't know where and who to. and even if I found one, deep down, something there is still missing. missing and I feel incomplete to move on.
I'm writing this to let you know how I hope you will get better soon. I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you right when you needed me but you know I'm always there for you, aren't you? :) Shhh..it's okay. Cry sweetie cry. Pour your tears out. Spill your pain away. No worries everything's going to be alright. Everything's going to be just right... Have no regret in your life, love Things happen for reasons Yes your world crumbles into pieces But that's what make you stronger inside.
*Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with. Darl you are one. Sometimes someday you'll find the right person I assure. Just stop looking for it, let love find you. At times people don't see what they need to see when they start searching. So stop looking around and let it all comes to you :)
Sape yang baca paper hari ni mesti familiar dengan gambar di atas..hahah. Mula2 aku tengok ingatkan budak tu kene public canning ke ape, rupanya kaki dia tersepit di celah2 jeriji longkang akibat asyik sangat membaca buku time pulang dari sekolah. See, membaca pun kadang2 boleh beri impak burok, apetah lagi stadi ;p *tiada kena mengena* Kejadian macam ni pernah jadi kat maktab aku, tahun 2010. Time tu pagi semua orang bergerak nak gi kelas. Cina, India, Melayu semua jalan berlenggang2. Melayu biasa la lambat sket so tak ramai time tu. Aku ngan Una jalan melepasi blok F, dah nampak ade amoi cina duduk atas jalan raya kat selekoh nak gi rumah Pengetua.
"Nako, asal cine tu duduk tepi jalan? Penat berjalan ke?" "Ahah, ntahnye. Fail jatuh kot. Dah tu tak reti nak bangun2 plak.."
Aku ngan Una ingat dia buang tebiat pagi2, rupanya kaki die termasuk lam jeriji longkang sampai ke paras atas betis. Disebabkan kaki dia agak montel so memang lebam teruk la betis dia tu, kulit melelas macam kena kikis..hohoh. Sakit je aku tengok. So aku ngan Una tolong la tarik. Memang la sakit tapi tahan la sikit, kalau tak macam mana nak klua kan dari benda alah tu kan. Usaha kami gagal sebab dia meraung2 sakit. haiya. Orang makin ramai datng tengok. Tak lama lepas tu ade kakak JPP datang, dia ni ganas sikit. Manyampah ngan cina tu asyik melolong gamaknya dia marah soh amoi tu diam sambil tarik kaki budak tu keluar. Berjaya! Kebetulan Pengarah lalu nak pegi kerja so dia brenti nak tengok sape yang buat mogok pagi2 lagi. Nasib baek Pengarah yang brenti, boleh naek kereta free gi klinik. Try kalu traktor biru tu yang sampai dulu, mau amoi tu naek traktor pagi2..haha.
So aku and Una blah la pastu, fers period Mr Earnest. Sampai kat klas dorang tanya apa jadi ramai2 berkumpul tepi jalan. Dah nampak cam sambutan 1Malaysia dah dorang cakap..
Budak tu asyik sangat bersembang sambil baca majalah, natijahnya kaki masuk longkang. Haa, len kali time berjalan mata tengok lah ke depan, ok? Ni baru baca buku dah tersepit lam longkang. Agak2 kalau baca playboy sambil jalan apa jadi.? hahaha
No update for yesterday, nothing much really; I observed 3 Cemerlang and 6 Ekonomi students and invigilated Form 4 addmath exam. Monday was pretty boring, all watching and listening to what teachers taught, jotted down field notes. Exactly at 1.20pm, I went home.But today is something. I didn't have any plan on what to do for the whole Tuesday until I came to school at 7.15am. So I waited for staffroom to be opened, wandering around taking pictures of classrooms where students were bugging to be snapped too and went back to staffroom. Feeling today is going to be another boring day, I brought along my laptop. Well facebook could diminish my boredom - at least ;p
3 practical teachers from UPSI become my friends today. Not that I didn't bother senior teachers here but you see, I practically need someone who are more or less around my age, so that I could easily walking around to get to know school building, have brunch and plan what to do together. For the fers time in my SBE history I went to teacher cafetaria to eat; sounded pathetic but yeah, true indeed..hahaha. Before this tade geng ;p Thanks to Kak Yati, Kak Jihah and Kak Laila for including me wherever they go :) I feel no longer like an alien.
The best part is that today have to invigilate another f4 class, English paper -- Sains Pertanian Class and took care another relief class of 3 Budiman. Invigilating wasn't that hard, just asked them to send the papers early & gave them an early break; they would be happily leaving the class ;p
The 3 Budiman inhabitants were a real tough thing to deal with; the last class of f3. I planned to play game with them, wanting to have a role play but it turned out to be I was the only one who dumbly acting in front of them. They never listen; not to any teachers and hardly seated. All they would do is running around, kicking each other legs while the girls formed their own group; gossiping. The fers 15mins I was struggling to make them seat, screaming my voice out and another 15mins to make them shut their mouths up but to no avail. >.<"
The boys are the ones who topped school's discipline's list, so you could imagine how they behave. They dislike books, they fear English and they hate learning. But if you could tackle those who lead the class, the problematic students; they will make the others listen to you. Glad I managed to tame Anas, the class gangster-star ;p He's cool; if his friends failed to listen to me, he would go kick the girls and punch if it is a boy. And walla, it did work. Everyone listened to me; with the help of Anas :))My role play thing; of course it didn't work out. They are all too shy to act out so I didn't want to force them. Almost gave up to teach, suddenly four of them came to me and said, "Cikgu, kami reti shuffle." while the other said, "Cikgu jom ah shuffle, tak boh blajo arini." Without waiting for my permission they straight away went in front and started to shuffle. The rest cheered as if that was the only thing they are interested in and I was like, wow! Totally amazed!They are real good, talented! I found out that four of them are part time shuffler; they took part in every shuffle competition in Terengganu district and even won the second place in previous year competition! Seriously I was surprised! I gave them treat for their little show; although were just 4 bottles of 100 Plus from kooperasi, they did happy, what more me. Before I left to staffroom, they asked me, "Cikgu nati Sabtu ni mari la Mayang Village. Ade shuffle competition, sek ni masok cikgu. Cikgu ade baru sedak sket." Definitely I'll be coming :) So I gave my phone number, asked them to text me the date and time. Then I walked to my table, smiling to myself without I even realized.It might seem so micro that people can't even see how special they are. I made a mistake by judging how naughty they behave without realizing their hidden talents. These kind of kids, they might hate learning but don't you ever label them as silly or dimwits who you have to spank them hard to read. They are more than you ever expected. Never give up on them cause they will always show you the way if you are willing to gamble on some patience.Anas, thanks for the assist :))
1.27pm: Waiting for KO-KO meeting at 2pm; I join police cadet, my only fav uniform body ever since I was 13
^^Walaupun saya tiada berpakaian uniform, kepakaran saya terserlah ketika membuat air oren ;)
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Bathrooms: 2 "1 Half"
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The living area has multiple comfortable sofas to relax on and a flat screen TV. The kitchen has all the stainless steel appliances, granite counters and a breakfast bar. Experience dinning on your private outdoor dining balcony, or relax on your separate lounge balcony. The master bedroom come with a king size bed, concealed safe, in suite bathroom and doors that open up directly to your dining balcony. The second bedroom has a queen size bed and in suite bathroom, while the third bedroom also has a queen size bed with a third full bathroom just down the hall.
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Halloween is not a holiday I tend to go all out for. First of all, I hate how the horror industry has stolen it from little kids and made it terrifying for them. Have you seen what some people do to their yards and houses to make them “festive” for impressionable young kids to stop by for candy??? Seriously people!
Nope, you’re never going to see severed heads decorating my front porch, but I do have a family room in need of some improving.
We have only been in our new house for about 2 months and we only just got the family room furniture delivered last week, so I had been procrastinating about what to do with our mantle. I’d just let the unhung pictures and mirrors lean up against the fireplace and moved on to something else. Thankfully, our friends came to visit from Texas and I HAD to do something to make it presentable before they came. Rather than commit to permanent decor, I decided to use what I had or could get on the cheap and go seasonal.
Some creepy gauze fabric, lanterns and bat vinyl wall stickers from Target (under $10 for all) were paired up with old kids art frames (bought about a decade ago from PB Kids) and some candle sticks (also about 10 years old – Target clearance) and I had a start.
Reusable pumpkins made with fabric from my stash. I started with this tutorial and made some changes. Once I’d made one pumpkin according to the tutorial, I started playing with the size and scale of the pumpkins so I’s have some short and fat and others tall and narrower. I like the variety. I also played around with the stems, making some curly to give them a little spunk. I really love how they look on an old tea stand I’ve just inherited from my grandmother.
I’ll get to enjoy these for a few more days and then I guess I’ll have to pack them away for next year and actually think of something to do with my mantle! | <urn:uuid:02e8891a-2a19-495d-8a72-0f5d195e5273> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://spoolbeans.com/2014/10/28/halloween-decor/ | 2017-06-28T22:47:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323807.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628222452-20170629002452-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.975656 | 430 | [
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Racing 92 hooker Dimitri Szarzewski has been ruled out for the rest of the season due to a hernia operation.
The former France international will miss Racing’s bid to make the Top 14 play-offs with the final few weeks of the campaign remaining.
Szarzewski’s injury comes as a major blow for Racing, with promising young France hooker Camille Chat still on the road to recovery after suffering a biceps tear.
Szarzewski is also Racing’s captain and his presence will be missed with the defending champions right in the middle of a tight chase to make the knockout stages.
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A blog about the trial by fire journey of a first time home owner with absolutely no idea what she's doing when it comes to renovating an old house and the funny stories that result.
It IS cute! What a nice place for morning coffee.
Very nice--both the room AND the patio furnishings! Now, I hope you get some energy back to do more cute stuff!Love, mom
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This self-drive four-night/three-day itinerary enables you to complete the 45.6km section of the Bibbulmun Track from Mutton Bird Road to Eden Road between Albany and Denmark - and enjoy comfortable accommodation and meals each evening.
The entire package is arranged for you and includes:
- all meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner
- car shuffle transfers (from cottages to the Track)
- Bibbulmun Track Guide Book and
- map 8 (Denmark/Albany).
From $1410* for two people.
Optional extra: Extend the above package: stay another night and walk a fourth day to complete a 58.9km section of Track from $340* extra for two people.
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The coming earthquake won't be no great shakes
Let's take a walk down hypothetical avenue: You are sleeping soundly in your bedroom in the spacious and surprisingly unaffordable new Downtown lofts. Suddenly your cocker spaniel begins to paw at you and whine. As you wake, you think, “That’s strange, Buster usually doesn’t bother me at this hour. Is there a midnight prowler outside?”
It's then that you feel the rumbling under your feet. Your nightstand begins to dance like R2D2, and the mirror on your wall crashes to the floor, shattering into hundreds of jagged shards, each of them reflecting your horrified image back to you. That’s seven years bad luck, starting this second.
“The Rail Runner doesn’t run this late,” you realize. "It barely even runs at all." Your mind races to explain this wholly unfamiliar sensation as you get out of bed to look out your large picture window. What could it be?
At that moment, the window shakes out of its frame, fracturing into 20 dagger-like fragments that plunge into your pajama-covered body, slicing your skin, your muscles, your organs.
Bleeding, disoriented and in terrible pain, you stumble away from the now empty window frame. The cool midnight air enters your loft, a strangely welcome sensation. In the distance, you can hear a chorus of car and fire alarms. You collapse on your back, near your bookcase, and then everything goes black. Next you wake to the sound of screaming. Your blurry vision clears to reveal your unanchored heavy bookcase has fallen on your legs. A sick sensation washes over you as you realize that the screaming is coming from you! As you drift back into unconsciousness, you whisper regretfully to yourself, “If only … I’d been … more … prepared … for … the earthquake.”
Do you know what to do when the earthquake hits our city? The best weapon with which to arm yourself is knowledge, and we'll get to that, but let's back up a bit: Is there really any reason to believe that a destructive event like this would actually happen in Albuquerque? As you read on, you will find, sadly, that the answer is a resounding "yes."
Long ago, when single-celled organisms roamed the Earth, in the same location where Albuquerque exists today, geological processes were set in motion deep within the planet, leading up to what we have on our smooth mammalian hands today: A cauldron of trouble a-brewin'. Yes, we cruise down old Route 66 in our Chrysler LeBarons thinking everything is A-OK, but few of us consider the geological threats taunting us from below. We can only imagine how the Earth trembled millions of years ago, or how it will soon tremble again.
Fred Lawrence, a rock scientist, also called a "geologist," at the University of New Mexico, is a person in the know regarding our tumultuous geological past and our troubling future. "We know from the rocks at the crest that Albuquerque was once at, or below, sea level. Over time, the Western U.S. has been uplifted to over a mile above sea level, some mountains are almost 2.5 miles above sea level. To do this takes a lot of energy over a long period of time. Since then, entire mountain ranges have come and gone, and trying to understand how and why this happened is captivating. What makes New Mexico so nice for this is the exposure. Unlike Pennsylvania, in New Mexico you can actually see the rocks, and the rocks tell stories."
This story tells the tale of ominous geological activities, and of a very near future when massive upheavals, marked by terrible volcanoes and hyper-jiggly earthquakes, will return to this land and bring the city of Albuquerque to its quivering knees.
"In all seriousness, the U.S. Geological Survey considers Central New Mexico, namely along a feature called the Rio Grande Rift, to have a reasonable risk of earthquakes," says Professor Lawrence. "Since about 2 million years ago, the state has been relatively quiet. However, there are still many small earthquakes, particularly around Socorro. In the early ’70s, the West Mesa was rocked by a magnitude-6 earthquake: Many goats and chickens were lost."
Will there be another earthquake? "Yes," says the Professor. "Can we predict it? No."
The Rio Grand Rift, which extends from Central New Mexico to Central Colorado, is a regional tectonic feature wherein the ground is pulled apart while a chunk of land sinks into the Earth. "As the crust pulls apart,” says Lawrence, “the reduced pressure at great depth results in a lower melting temperature for the mantle, which then melts, and following an earthquake, the magma may be able to escape to the surface. With time, the Southwest U.S. will continue to extend, and the Rift will likely continue along with it. This in turn means we will, for the foreseeable future, have earthquakes and possibly active volcanoes."
When we Albuquerqueans look to the west, what do we see? The Albuquerque Volcanoes (the largest of which some like to call "Maneater"1), threatening to vaporize our citizens and turn our city into a pool of molten lava. The last eruption was roughly 150,000 years ago, which is only one millisecond ago in geological time2. "This event was a fissure eruption that produced the volcanoes visible on our skyline,” says Lawrence, “and the West Mesa escarpment through Petroglyph National Monument. Since then nothing much has happened; there has been some erosion of the original cinder cones, but otherwise, quiet ... perhaps a little too quiet."
According to Professor Lawrence, the state's largest magma pool3 is located 10 kilometers below the surface of Socorro. While the Albuquerque Volcanoes are considered to be dormant, he says there are rumors that Socorro's magma pools extend to our volcanoes via some linear feature. This would mean the Albuquerque Volcanoes could potentially become active. Let's assume this is true. What would happen?
Well, Rio Rancho would be in trouble, that's for sure. Is that actually a problem, though? "I have always wanted to see Rio Rancho be covered by flood basalts4 from a fissure eruption," says Lawrence. So have we, Professor, so have we.
"Unzip the old fault line that underlies the Albuquerque Volcanoes, and we could have another fissure eruption,” he continues. “It would likely last for days, possibly months. So much for all that cheap land."
"Wow," you say, "that's heavy. What can I do to protect myself and my family?"
The best way to protect yourself from the dangers of earthquakes is to be prepared. First, stock up on supplies such as a battery-operated radio with extra batteries, a flashlight, bottled water (sparkling or still), at least two weeks worth of food, tools, a shotgun with plenty of shells for home protection or foraging, blankets and pillows, a first aid kit, a pint of whiskey5 and, most importantly, a positive attitude. Store these supplies in a cool dry place (the same place you put your potatoes) or an earthquake-proof trunk. Next, take a long look at your house and ask, “Is this place earthquake-safe?” A good way to find out is to grab your nearest bookshelf and shake it violently. Anything that falls off and breaks should not have been placed where it was. Try setting heavier books and objects on lower shelves or on the ground. Lock up small breakable items in secure cabinets, and be sure that any hanging mirrors or pictures are nowhere near any place that people generally congregate in your home. The next step is to educate yourself on how to turn off all the gas and water valves in your house. Be sure to practice as sometimes these valves can be sticky or confusing.
If you are indoors when the big one hits, quickly find cover under a strong desk, a strong table or a strong man. Avoid going near any windows, hanging pictures, mirrors or gigantic chandeliers. If you are outside, move quickly away from any tall buildings or tall people as either of these things could topple over onto you and kill you. Also avoid standing under power lines or large trees. Those who are driving should come to a smooth, controlled stop and wait for the shaking to cease6.
The first few minutes following the quake should be spent turning off gas and water, unplugging appliances and dipping into the whiskey. It's important to note that, contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous part of the earthquake is not the initial violent shakes, but the hours and days after a major quake has hit. It is during this time that our city could be rocked with devastating aftershocks (not just the physical earth tremblers, but the emotional aftershocks of having braved such a traumatic experience), freezing avalanches of regret, wave upon wave of Poseidon’s Wrath (tsunamis) and, most tragically, the rebirth of Maneater.
Preparing for the volcano is similar too preparing for the great quake, just add disposable gas masks for everybody in the family. During the eruption, take note of where you are in relation to the volcano as dangers change according to proximity. If you find yourself very close to the awakened fire beast, beware of hot lava, mudslides and pyroclastic flow7. It is best to have an escape route planned, hopefully to higher ground. However, if you are trapped inside, close all windows and doors and bring pets in with you. Those caught outdoors should seek shelter inside or, failing that, curl up into a ball to protect their heads from falling rocks (this safety system also “works” for bear attacks). If you find yourself far away from the eruption, you are not out of harm's way: Giant boulders can be shot many miles from the central eruption point of a volcano, so seek shelter indoors or keep looking up. Be sure to wear long sleeves, goggles and your disposable gas mask to protect yourself from raining ash, and don’t stay in one place too long, lest you get buried.
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Continuous Delivery is the Holy Grail driving many companies to initiate Agile and DevOps programs with the hope for rapid software development, enhancements, and fixes. In a competitive business world, quality applications are a big differentiator between the top organizations and those merely treading water. CD helps enterprises manage their development process in a more efficient manner.
Screwdriver is an application from Yahoo that facilitates Continuous Delivery; the company recently released it into open source status. Let’s take a closer look at the software to see if its features make it worthy of exploration as part of your company’s CD program.
A Closer Look at Screwdriver
Offering scalable continuous delivery, Screwdriver is a tool well-suited for organizations with a widely distributed application infrastructure. Yahoo developed the app for its own array of internal applications. It is possible they are open sourcing it before the company is fully acquired by Verizon.
James Collins, Yahoo’s senior director of engineering commented on the tool’s major advantages. “Screwdriver handles over 25,000 builds per day and 12,000 daily Git commits as a single shared entry point for Yahoo. It supports multiple languages and handles both virtual machine and container-based builds and deployment,” said Collins. Enterprises with large development teams stand to benefit from the application as part of their own CD initiatives.
The application’s architecture is relatively straightforward. A front-end manages handles users input and receives status messages from the rest of the software. The back-end includes a stateless API, which controls and launches builds and other functionality. Docker Swarm is used within Screwdriver to manage environment clusters.
According to Collins, the three main benefits of the application are making deployment pipelines easy, optimizing for trunk development, and to facilitate change rollbacks. Yahoo wanted their trunks shippable, so they leveraged Selenium to handle automated testing as part of Screwdriver’s build process. In short, Screwdriver allows for the efficient management of the build process – an important component of any Continuous Delivery initiative.
Screwdriver has been in use at Yahoo for over five years and is a major part of the company being able to implement CD and DevOps. Collins feels the tool lets programmers fully control the state of an application’s production infrastructure – a key part of the company’s DevOps organizational structure.
The Future of an Open Source Screwdriver
Yahoo is still planning to make enhancements to Screwdriver. These include the storage of build metadata, improved metrics and reporting, system templates, as well as more detailed log analysis. All these features are expected to let companies better refine their Continuous Delivery processes.
With a great proprietary CD-optimized build tool, what prompted Yahoo to release the application to the vibrant open source community? It appears to be an act of charity with a potential benefit to many organizations hoping to implement Continuous Delivery. These companies need to fully explore what Screwdriver brings to the table to ensure they are able to stay competitive with the rest of the business world.
James Collins sums up how Screwdriver enabled CD at Yahoo. “Yahoo’s engineering has modernized as it has embraced Continuous Delivery as a strategy for improving product quality and engineering agility. All our active products deliver from commit to production with full automation and this has greatly improved Yahoo’s ability to deliver products,” said Collins.
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Pete the Cat Saves Christmas* is a good book for kids to read for Christmas and has fun-looking illustrations. We love to do activities that go along with the books (see our book-themed crafts category here). I love the way the cover looks and thought it would be cute to recreate our own version inspired by it. We came up with a Pete the Cat Saves Christmas footprint craft that is pretty easy to make in less than an hour.
*This post contains Amazon affiliate links to the book mentioned in this post. Please see our full disclosure policy here.
How to make the Pete the Cat Saves Christmas Footprint Craft
- black, white, and yellow paint
- construction paper
1. Start by painting the foot with black paint and making a print in the center of the page.
2. Next, paint just the palm black. Make a print on top of the heel. This will be Pete’s head.
3. Add ears, a tail, and arms.
4. When it has finished drying, make yellow eyes with black and white parts in the center of each.
5. Draw on a Santa hat.
6. Draw and color presents.
7. Write, ‘Pete the Cat!’
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas Book Review
You may have already read a book from the Pete the Cat series. This one is about how Santa gets sick on Christmas Eve so he calls Pete to save Christmas. He helps Santa by delivering toys in his red bus. The book touches on ‘giving it your all for Christmas,’ – even though Pete felt so small when reading Santa’s list.
It’s a cute Christmas book for preschoolers through early elementary aged kids. We got ours from my son’s Scholastic book order from school. The Pete the Cat series was often used with his past teachers so he is familiar with many of the books.
What book-based crafts have you done in the past?
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Paul McCartney: Tug of War [Columbia, 1982]
Most rock-and-rollers look like simps or cynics by the time they hit thirty-five. Others retain the irrepressible exuberance of a Stevie Wonder, or grasp it again in magic moments the way Carl Perkins does on this album's most affecting cut. A few rare ones age gracefully into fresh-eyed wisdom, like Neil Young and John Lennon. But no matter how serious and sensible he gets, McCartney's perpetual boyishness conveys the perpetual callowness of a musical Troy Donahue. I don't think this is intentional--in his personal life he seems at least as adult as anyone I've named, and he's put his hard-earned craft to mature use on this LP. But it might almost be dumb love songs. | <urn:uuid:e4dfa826-dd81-45da-a8c4-46e343892685> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=5428 | 2017-06-23T12:04:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320057.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623114917-20170623134917-00192.warc.gz | en | 0.937819 | 176 | [
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Tenco is one of New Zealand’s largest exporters of forest products. We have built to this position since 1991 when the company was set up to export lumber to growing Asian export markets. Experience and reputation count; from small beginnings Tenco has become the largest independent exporter of New Zealand lumber and New Zealand’s 4th largest log exporter. Tenco has a regular shipping program of their own log vessels and in combination with these and other ships currently calls at 7 New Zealand ports (5 North Island and 2 South Island).
Tenco buys standing forests. Tenco currently has a number of forests which they purchased at harvestable age to log over a number of years for export and domestic markets. Tenco also regularly buys smaller tracts of forest to harvest immediately or immature forests to hold until harvest time. Tenco is interested in broadening the base of owners from whom it purchases forests and stands of trees. A deal with Tenco is a certain transaction. The owner and Tenco will agree on a value of the tree crop and then Tenco will pay this amount to the owner either in a lump sum amount or on rate per volume unit out-turn from the forest depending on the nature of the tree crop.
Tenco knows there are a lot of farmers who have trees that are close or ready to harvest and will be asking themselves how they should proceed with the sale of their trees. For some farmers the kind of certain transaction with money in the bank could well be appealing. Tenco is actively interested in buying harvestable forests or trees from areas including all the North Island (except the Gisborne and East Coast districts) and Nelson & Marlborough in the South Island .
If you own a forest in this area (16 years and older) and are ready to enter into this kind of agreement Tenco is interested to develop something with you.
Please contact: [email protected]
Work: +64 7 357 5356 Mobile: +64 21 921 595 www.tenco.co.nz
President's Comment February 2013
From the President
Greetings and welcome to the first Tree Grower issue of 2013. I trust that you all had an enjoyable festive season, and managed to incorporate that, with what is normally a busy time out on the farm. The agricultural sector remains robust, albeit with some areas of the east coast experiencing a summer dry. Forestry is producing solid and steady, but not spectacular, economic returns.
The NZFFA annual showcase conference is approaching, and is being hosted by the Lower North Branch from 20 to 24 April at Orewa, just north of Auckland. They have put together an extensive and exciting programme which will prove enjoyable and informative. If you have not already booked then use the form in this magazine, and send it off. The conference is the highlight of the year for many farm foresters.
Forest Growers Commodity Levy
The main thrust of activities within the forest industry at present, is in preparation for the upcoming vote to establish a compulsory Forest Grower's Levy. I have been very involved with the Forest Owners's Association to ascertain what form the levy will take, the rate and the collection mechanism. I am also a member of the levy trust incorporated society, the legal entity initiating the vote.
As there has never been a forest levy in New Zealand, it would be fair to say that this whole process is still evolving. When considering a levy, the respective groups involved need to be aware of and adhere to the Commodity Levies Act under which levies are made. The vote will happen in March this year, with the publicity campaign kicking off in February.
A Levy Referendum Board has been established to accomplish the actual vote and all that is entailed in the lead up to that vote. The chairman of this board is a woodlot owner and lawyer, Geoff Thompson. Also on this board and Hamish Levack, NZFFA executive member, and Peter Berg, who will be an NZFFA executive member ager the AGM in April. Another member of the board is Teven Wilton of Forestry Enterprises who manages forestry partnerships made up of many small investors. So the concern of small-scale forest owners are well represented.
Much debate has centered on the levy rate, which has now been settled at 27cents a tonne, with an allowance to increase to 30 cents during the initial six year period. Any higher levy rate would have met with resistance from some industry players, so for the sake of getting a levy established, the lower rate was settled on. While the lower rate will mean that some of the objectives may not be achievable, at least the forest industry will have a common, cohesive base for co-operation, and a united voice in the political and research fields. With ever-changing criteria and administration for funding research, a pan industry levy is now imperative.
Non-affiliative members and the harvest spike
As a result of the 1990s planting boom, there are thousands of tree growers who are not affiliated to any organisation. Their trees will be due to harvest in the 2020s and will produce a massive increase in wood production. In response, the Wellington Branch lead by Hamish Levack, has initiated a programme to identify these growers.
I draw your attention to the two articles written by him in association with Howard Moore and Chris Goulding in the November 2012 issue of Tree Grower, and the article from our patron Wink Sutton in this issue. This harvest spike will need some co-ordination and co-operation among growers so that these trees reach the market at an acceptable price and in an orderly fashion.
Identifying these non-affiliated growers is the first step in the process. Once we know who they are, the NZFFA may gain some new members, and perhaps some unity among the small-scale forest growers. It is my intention to have a full discussion of all aspects involved, during the meetings at the Orewa conference, so please some along fully informed and prepared for the discussion.
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A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani told convicts Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur that their counsel have completed his arguments and asked them if they wanted to say anything more to the court.
Both of them told the court that they have put their defence through their counsel and they have nothing more to say. However, Vinay asked the court to see the video footage where he with another convict Pawan Gupta was seen attending a music concert on the night of Dec 16.
The bench said that video footage has already been shown by counsel and the judges have seen the video.
The court had issued warrants for Vinay and Akshay and sought their presence in court to give them a chance to put their submissions. Their counsel could not turn up in the court.
The court Jan 3 reserved its verdict on confirming the death sentence and appeals of four convicts in the Dec 16 gang rape and murder case.
The bench had reserved its order after prosecution and defence counsel concluded their arguments.
The court Wednesday also asked defence counsel for convicts Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Akshay Thakur to file their written submissions by Jan 15, and again reserved the order.
"If they (counsel) want to give anything in writing, they can do so by Jan 15. Order reserved," the bench said.
The high court started hearing the case Nov 1, 2013, on a daily basis.
The prosecution wrapped up its arguments in the first week of November, seeking confirmation of the death penalty.
Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan earlier told the court that by awarding death penalty to the convicts, a message would be sent out to the society that "deviant behaviour" would not be tolerated.
He also argued that all the convicts had conspired to rob and rape the physiotherapist intern Dec 16 night in 2012.
Defence counsel, however, said their clients were falsely implicated in the case and that the dying declaration by the woman was "fake" and "fabricated".
Counsel also told the court that police did not follow the proper procedure while arresting the four on the basis of media reports, and without having any evidence in hand.
The 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was brutally raped by the gang of six men, including a juvenile, in a moving bus in Delhi Dec 16, 2012.
The six then threw the woman and her male companion out of the vehicle, stripped of clothing and severely injured, to die by the roadside on the cold December night.
The woman died of grave intestinal injuries Dec 29, 2012, at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where she was air-lifted for specialised treatment.
One of the six accused was found dead in a cell in Delhi's Tihar Jail. The juvenile involved in the crime was sent by the Juvenile Justice Board to a reform home for three years, the maximum term under the juvenile law.
A trial court Sep 13 awarded death sentence to Mukesh, 26, Akshay Thakur, 28, Pawan Gupta, 19, and Vinay Sharma, 20. The court referred the case to the high court for confirmation of the sentence.
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6 chart topping hits from New Zealand's favorite hit maker Roy Irwin. It's been just under 2 months since his last release and this time he means business. With pop classics like "Love Song" it is clear to see why Roy is now the new Prince of Pop. This amazing EP wraps up in just over 13 minutes and with all the pop gems included we're sure you will be touching yourself in no time.
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Michael Jones, former chief technology advocate of Google, has joined Silicon Valley’s Wearality Corporation as the startup’s new CEO. In this role, Jones will oversee the launch of today’s most innovative virtual reality (VR) wearable technology, including the recently launched Wearality Sky, to help users experience the true power of immersive 3D worlds.
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“The opportunity to be at the forefront of the next computer revolution was something that I could not pass up. Wearality’s Sky headset has stunning emotional impact. It will revolutionize VR through its astonishing 150-degree field of view, which gives limitless ways to experience the world. Wearality has created a VR experience that is simultaneously dramatically better and also less expensive than even the highest-rated products in the current marketplace. This means incredible access for the consumer that will change the way we all look at and use VR, and will finally realize the promise of making computing a ubiquitous part of the human visual system.”
Prior to joining Wearality, Jones served as chief technology advocate for Google, representing technology’s benefit to users and societies around the world. He came to Google through its acquisition of Keyhole Corp., the digital-mapping software company based on his patents that more than a billion users enjoy as Google Earth. He was also engineering director of the team that created OpenGL, a cornerstone of the computer graphics industry. His experience redefining the possible for users and developers exemplifies the character of Wearality.
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Description - The Art of Listening by Les Back
Our culture is one that speaks rather than listens. From reality TV to political rallies, there is a clamour to be heard, to narrate, and to receive attention. It reduces 'reality' to revelation and voyeurism. The Art of Listening argues that this way of life is having severe and damaging consequences in a world that is increasingly globalized and interconnected. It addresses the question: how can we listen more carefully? Social and cultural theory is combined with real stories from the experiences of the desperate stowaways who hide in the undercarriages of jet planes in order to seek asylum, to the young working-class people who use tattooing to commemorate a lost love. The Art of Listening shows how sociology is in a unique position to record 'life passed in living' and to listen to complex experiences with humility and ethical care, providing a resource to understand the contemporary world while pointing to the possibility of a different kind of future. 'This is a wise and human piece of writing, concerned to break out of sociology's academic straitjacket and speak to a wider audience...If anything can recover the somewhat tarnished reputation of sociology amongst the general public, then it is a book like this.
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Mud festivals... missing it. Jealous of those people making it to Latitude this weekend.
Last month I was commissioned to work on a load of illustrations for their programme.
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The impact of DCU’s commitment to supporting young men and women to excel in both the academic and sporting fields through the DCU Sports Academy was in evidence at the recent 2017 IUAA outdoor Track & Field championships hosted by Cork Institute of Technology. The DCU Athletics team successfully retained all the overall team titles at the championships and in doing so, achieved six new DCU club records in addition to two new IUAA records!
The Ladies team accumulated a total of 161.5 points with 10 individual event winners, 9 runner ups and 4 bronze winners. The new club record breakers were Cliodhna Manning in the 200m (24.16s), Grainne Moynihan in the 400m (55.22s), Kate Veale in the 1500m Walk (6.23.08) and Elizabeth Morland in the Javelin (40.58m). Other DCU winners were Sarah Murray in the 100m, Lilly Ann OHora in the 60m Hurdles, Sarah Mc Carthy in the Long Jump, Saragh Buggy in the Triple Jump, Sophie Parkinson Brown in the Discus and both 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relay teams! In winning 23 individual medals in the ladies events, another club record was achieved!
The Men’s team established 2 new Club and IUAA records with Stephen Rice in the Javelin (61.18m) and Adam King in the Hammer (63.51m). There was also individual wins from Matthew Behan (110mH), Michael Carey (3000m steeplechase), Oisin Taylor in the Triple Jump (14.06m), Eoin Sheridan in the Discus (48.58m) and Shane Aston in the Combined Events (3166 points). In total, the Men’s team won 21 individual medals with 7 wins, 7 runner ups and 7 bronze medals. In total the Men’s team accumulated 144 points, well ahead of DCU’s nearest rivals UL with 67.5 points.
Final tallies in the various categories saw the DCU squads retain all titles – Middle Distance, Sprints, Jumps and Throws. After 2 days of impressive action, DCU were crowned the IUAA overall team champions for the 11th consecutive year – the Men’s 11th in a row, surpassed by the ladies with their 12th team title in a row! The weekend was a magnificent success for our Athletics Club and Academy and great thanks must go to Cork IT for hosting a wonderful outdoor championship.
The DCU Athletics Team acknowledged the many supports they have received that contribute to their success including the excellent coaches who work tirelessly with the team throughout the year, sponsorship from Bank Of Ireland, the DCU academic departments who provide some flexibility when required, the Exwell Medical and ATT faculty who provide injury and treatment supports and the testing laboratories and blood analyses provided by the faculty of Sports Science and Health.
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[Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tharon Smith, Managing Director of LendIt China. Tharon is an expert in fintech in China and is also the founder of Strontium Group, a firm specializing in cross border investing.]
Wealth management in China is growing rapidly. According to China Daily, total balances of wealth management products held by banks totaled 23.5 trillion yuan ($3.6 trillion) at the end of 2015. This is an increase of 56 percent year over year. The portion held by banks accounted for 26 percent of the total 90.36 trillion yuan for wealth management products held by other financial institutions.
Peer to peer lending companies account for the majority of non-bank financial institutions in China and most have transitioned to wealth management service providers. These firms prefer to be acknowledged as wealth management institutions and have practically insisted “P2P” is a bad word in the industry. This is partially due to companies distancing themselves from the bad actors in the space such as Ezubao, but these companies truly are starting to become more than p2p lenders.
The Wealth Management Specialists of the Future
They want to be seen as capital service providers, specifically wealth management specialists for the future, utilizing technology and reflecting the values of younger generations. To cater better to the Chinese market, the inaugural Lang Di Fintech conference we are hosting later this month focuses on much more than p2p lending.
Ru Bing, Chief of Wealth Management department of Creditease in a short conversation told me that the main reasons for this shift to wealth management are the following:
- A single product such as P2P has never been a good way to attract clients.
- Good quality P2P products are rare to obtain; as P2P concept is so competitive.
- Wealthy clients have different tastes in investing.
- Clients should have different asset classes in their portfolio for optimal diversification.
- More products and cross-selling can help develop deeper relationships with clients.
As more wealth managers come online they will be challenged to develop these relationships with limited online products. Chinese internet based wealth management institutions will need to devise creative and unique investor relations activities in order to combat this challenge. Although, with respect to driving and developing deeper relationships with investors, China may have an embedded cultural advantage with norms such as “guanxi” and “saving face” that guide relationship building over the long term. How companies execute on this will indicate likelihood of success.
The Transition to Wealth Management Will Not Be Easy
In addition to developing long term relationships with investors, Chinese online wealth management companies will need to take actions to improve technical areas of asset management as the Certified Financial Advisors society pointed out in a recent report. Many investors expect a complete online experience and are willing to move on to a different provider should a company not meet their needs.
Companies focused on high quality wealth management should aim to provide appropriate strategic allocation across diversified products, mechanisms to avoid behaviorally driven mistakes, tactical adjustments, opportunistic investments, best-in-class investment managers and assets spanning different geographies. They should also help manage taxes, provide timely reporting as well as maintain discipline in market turbulence.
The CFA Society suggests further that the best wealth management companies need to be trusted to act in a client’s best interest, demonstrate the ability to generate high returns, show commitment to ethical conduct, develop business via trusted recommendations, maintain compliance with industry best practices, and manage the amount and structure of fees associated with service. Chinese P2P companies that are in transition to online wealth management will have some distance to cover before they achieve these goals industry wide.
Chinese platform RenRenDai has aggressively transformed to wealth management via its platform Wealth Evolution. Acting in the best interest of their customers RenRenDai has built an entire business dedicated to providing wealth management products online to investors who started as P2P investors. Wealth Evolution believes as disposable incomes in China rise along with the country’s economic development, the demands in wealth management service will also see a rapid growth. However, the demands are far from satisfied by the traditional wealth management institutions. People with different amounts of wealth have varied levels of access to wealth management resources. As a result, very few people are provided with high-end wealth management service while the majority of the Chinese population are deprived of such service even in its basic form. RenRednDai want to provide these services to everyone and make it inclusive.
SoFi is Leading the Way in the United States
Like internet finance companies in China, SoFi (short for Social Finance), backed by Chinese venture firm RenRen (not to be confused with RenRenDai), aims to provide a new banking solution for investors who demand a better product, better customer service and overall reflects the type of company future generations expect when dealing with financial advisors and money managers. SoFi offers wealth management services starting as low as $5 a month but is free for current borrowers. This is the first company in the US to transition from a marketplace lender to a full-service wealth management firm.
SoFi CEO Mike Cagney has said he wants to expand into:
Initiatives in wealth management, banking account alternatives — things that allow us to give a holistic solution [that will lead] people to leave their existing banking relationship and just work with SoFi.
Social finance in China has a deeper meaning, reflecting the fact that the majority of transactions are taking place within social media such as Tencent, WeChat, JD.com, and Alibaba Taobao. Innovative Chinese companies are building better financial products and services that reflect the social nature of commercial transactions and incorporate wealth management practices within these channels. The innovation in social finance reaches further into the nature of Chinese culture and community as they tackle the social nature of trust and building models for credit based on your social network online.
Chinese companies have an even greater opportunity to build these finance platforms for the future with larger sets of social data and analytics focused on credit, credit worthiness, purchasing trends, customer buying profiles, and overall commercial outcomes for decision making. Since China is not bound to the outdated system of traditional credit scoring, companies are able to build new models and craft more inclusive methods for assigning lending products and services on the borrower side.
The New Generation Has Different Expectations
Recently Deloitte reported on the 10 most disruptive trends in wealth management. They point out that the new generation of investors think differently about financial advice, they bring new attitudes and expectations to wealth management. Chinese investors still need to be educated on proper investment expectations, such as a more complete understanding of product offerings, complexity of monitoring and rebalancing of portfolios over time, and general understanding of the difference between guaranteed return and risk adjusted return.
Beginning with P2P investment products was a good place to start and now Chinese companies are paving the way for the future of finance through innovative wealth management platforms. The leading wealth managers of tomorrow in China could very likely have had their roots in P2P lending.
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You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up; you understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, You know it altogether.
You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.
If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me,
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.
Hi there! It’s been a while, yet it’s good to have you around still. Today, in the spirit of the season, I’ll have you understand briefly the love and friendship we have in Christ and this I have entitled Come Say Hello To A Friend.
Dear Purple Reader, in spite of our weaknesses and failings, God is unrelenting with love. Christ maintained a strong personal relationship with God, from which to fulfill His commitments to His friends. He loved us, for he laid down His life for us.
It will also amaze you to know that Christ was regard as a friend of sinners, as He subjected Himself to living in a fallen world to be in a relationship with the world:
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds. [Matthew 11:19]
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [Romans 5:6-8]
Jesus made it clear that He had come to seek and to save the lost [Luke 19:10]
Being a “friend of sinners,” Jesus showed that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance [Romans 2:4]
As a believer, you are automatically a friend of Jesus. We will recall that Jesus called His disciples friends rather than servants, He will not call them servants, though they call Him Master and Lord. He also went on to entrust them with everything He had heard from His Father in [John 15:15]. He trusted the disciples to use the information for the good of His Father’s kingdom:
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. [John 15:15 ]
He celebrated with them and shared a common life without holding back.
These other bible verses may also interest you:
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. [John 15:13]
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. [Proverbs 18:24]
You are my friends if you do what I command you. [John 15:14]
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. [Proverbs 17:17]
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. [James 2:23]
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. [John 3:16-17]
Sweet thought it is. We have a friend above!
Thanks for spending time with me. Do drop a comment; sharing with us how this truth shapes you.
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31 Days of Horror T-Shirts - Day 5
One of my older shirts, this is my beloved Miskatonic University t-shirt. Sadly it's seen better days...
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LOS ANGELES - Pop star Jennifer Lopez will exit television singing contest "American Idol" as a judge but could return as a guest, possibly as a mentor, she told the show's host Ryan Seacrest in a radio interview on Friday.
Lopez would follow Aerosmith's Steven Tyler out the door of the top-rated US TV show which is headed for a major shakeup when it returns in the fall season and struggles to reverse a slide in viewership during recent years.
"I just don't feel like I can be there every single day all the time like I have been for the past two years. I feel like I have to do other things," Lopez told Seacrest on his morning radio show in Los Angeles.
A spokeswoman for the Fox TV network, which airs "American Idol," said the broadcaster had no immediate comment.
Lopez has for weeks been the subject of much speculation over whether she would stay on the program, and as recently as Thursday in an interview on NBC's morning news program "Today," she indicated she would leave.
But she used the strongest words yet to indicate she had made up her mind in the interview with Seacrest, who is the host of "American Idol."
"You dread a conversation like this," she told Seacrest. "I honestly feel like the time has come that I have to get back to doing the other things that I do, that I've put kind of on hold because I like 'Idol' so much," she said.
Seacrest asked, "is the door open," and she replied: "I feel like no matter what you guys need over there, I'm always gonna be here. Like if you need me to come and be a mentor."
Seacrest's radio sidekick, Ellen K., then said "it sounds like you've made up your mind," and Lopez replied. "Yeah."
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Human beings are constantly trying to change reality. I don’t object to this characteristic. In fact, I’ve spent a good deal of my life opposing some of the worst realities of the species: war, poverty, racism, sex discrimination, environmental destruction. What I have never tried to do is diminish anyone’s constitutional rights. But this is the chosen work of some in this country when it comes to women’s control of their reproductive processes. | <urn:uuid:91eab39e-4bd3-43e8-8f6b-0f310f20106a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://texasfreethoughtjournal.net/tagstopics-index/reproductive-rights | 2017-06-25T22:31:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320593.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625221343-20170626001343-00713.warc.gz | en | 0.952656 | 96 | [
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Luisa Tetrazzini, Nellie Melba, John McCormack, Rosa Ponselle, Giovanni Martinelli, Amelita Galli
Curci, Beniamino Gigli, Lauri Volpi, Tito Schipa, Toti Dal Monte, Lily Pons, Afro Poli, Emilica Vera, Gino Bechi, Lauritz Melchior,
Antonio Cortis, Aureliano Pertile, Miguel Fleta, Galiano Masini, Giuseppe Lugo, Achille Braschi,
Jussi Bjorling, Franco Corelli, Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Luciano Pavarotti,
Nelson Eddie, Jeannette MacDonald, Mario Lanza, John Charles Thomas,Gregory Kunde, Marika Rokk, William
Matteuzzi, Lando Bartolini, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Jolsen, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Elvis
Presley, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Soul Sisters: Gloria Gaynor, John Denver,
Barbara Streisand, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Billy Holiday, Tony Bennet, Perry Como, Freddy
Mercury (Queen), Paul McCartney (Beatles), Shirley Bassey, Eagles, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,
Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Bono (U2), Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Brian McKnight, Beyonce, Vanessa
Amorosi, Michael Bubble, Delta Goodrem, Tom Jones, John Farnham, Christine Aguilera, and many more.
Their singing techniques, ever so similar, respecting scientific laws of natural singing physiology
and acoustic principles (IN VARYING DEGREES more or less!!!) are what have made them originals and
immortals of their times and eras in all genres, styles and musical backgrounds.
Singing lessons at Melbourne AML Golden Voice Studio (for Singers, Artists, Actors and Performers)
are headed by Antonio Maria Lancuba, a master of ‘Natural Vocal Production’ and ‘Mother-Natural,
Physiologically Strain-Free, Vocal Production.’ The former emphasising the (correct and exact) evolutionary
nature of Speech-Level sound quality and timbre production and the latter specifying the freeing
processes and means of complete Open-Throated mechanics! Students learn to sing in the most natural
way possible and this tuition is exclusively rare to find!!! Singers learn to sing with a true art
of correct vocal management. They learn to sing perfectly balanced with rich, powerful, projecting,
theatrical volume. The voice, like wine, matures healthily to a homogeneous ringing tone quality
coloured amply with velvety and silky timbre. It also acquires perfect intonation and range flexibility.
During our singing
lessons every student experiences a journey of exciting vocal discovery learning to sing with one’s
entire body vibrations and resonances by perfecting the art of vocal focus through osseous placement
as opposed to muscular effort.
Through this they achieve maximum power and richness of tone at a cost of very minimum physical
effort. There is no usage of electronic aids and amplifications while learning this natural acoustic
approach to singing.
Antonio’s guaranteed teaching system and principle is focused on achieving clear, audible,
theatrical projection. He and his self-trained teaching staff have helped and continue to help heal
many kinds of vocal ailments, aural deficiencies and problems such as:
- TONE DEAFNESS!!! Bad pitching and musical intonation difficulties!
- Common tongue muscle tension and laryngeal tension
- Common neck tension, body tension and jaw muscle tension (Drop the jaw ! NOT Pull on the jaw)
- Common facial tension and mouth (lip & palatal) tension
- Tired and strained voice
- Facial ticks and speech stuttering
- Bad vocal cord and throat conditions! Forced vocal cords and pathological vocal conditions (eg.
- TMJ syndrome
- Raucous voice, croaky or husky voice, hoarseness, gravelly voice
- Irregular Vibration: unnatural and untuned wobbling muscular tone, tremolo tone, goat bleat voice,
nasally voice, shrilly voice, (instead of : Perfectly Pitched, Fine-Tuned, Steadily-Spinning,
Full Open-Throated, Rounded and Velveted, Ringing Tone)
- Vocal violence (violent singing physiology)
Antonio’s years of experience conducting singing lessons promises singers a happier more
satisfying healthy production. This is achieved with effective overnight vocal therapy techniques
and exercises catered to suit each individual need and problem.
Antonio’s study programs incorporated in his singing lessons:
- Vocal Technique
- Vocal Coaching
- Voice Therapy
- Speech Therapy
"… DO MAKE NOTE !!! that the ART of "BEL CANTO" (translated as "BEAUTIFUL
SINGING") IS NOT!!! a vocal technique AS MANY SO IGNORANTLY believe it to be … it is a way
(or manner) of singing technically, musically, stylistically and interpretatively … it is therefore
founded on solid vocal principles:
melodic singing executed on the vocal sustainment of vowel sounds (NOT sustainment of consonants
as in JAZZ)
PURE LEGATO singing and phrasing ("LYRIC" singing) concentrated on vowel sound sustainment
as opposed to sustainment of consonants
REGULAR VIBRATION for the purpose of remaining true and correct to acoustic pitching and tonality
(NOT wobbly, bleaty, tremolo tone!)
Clean and gentle vocal attacks and cut-offs during melodic emission
Maximum intelligibility of the word (CLEAN ARTICULATION + CLEAN ENUNCIATION = CLEAR, INTELLIGIBLE
Refined execution of deeply heart-felt vocal expression (and vocal emission) plus sentimental
and stylistic melodic invention
A technically perfected plus musically mastered knowledge and know-how of the practical use
of the vocal APPORTAMENTO
NON -VIOLENT singing plus NON-VIOLENT VOCAL expression.
Complete musical and vocal technical mastery of the MESSA DI VOCE … SMOOTH TONE
SWELLING (ie. SPINNING vocal tone expanding and broadening in TONE RESONANCE while also increasing in volume loudness without loss of tonal FOCUS and tonal PROJECTION!!!) … and … SMOOTH TONE DESWELLING (ie. SPINNING vocal tone contracting and narrowing in TONE RESONANCE while also decreasing in volume loudness without loss of tonal FOCUS and tonal PROJECTION!!!) … plus vocal CRESCENDOING (raising volume loudness)
and vocal DECRESCENDOING (lowering volume loudness)
PURE VOCAL LINE The Art of Perfect and Imperfect vocal LINE delivery (ie.
consistent forward flowing vocal energy (Not retrieved and witheld, uneven flow of vocal energy
) + even volume + even tone + perfect pitch + smooth legato phrasing )
Mastery of inventiveness in rhythm and timing through the interpretative use of the ACCELERANDO,
DECELERANDO, ALLARGANDO, RITENUTO, plus RUBATO (for acting purposes and interpretation of drama)
… these vocal and musical , stylistic characteristics if achieved and perfected with refined
musical taste will result in the singer succeeding in producing "BEL CANTO"
"… don’t hold your tone…let it hold you …"
"… a great technique is a hidden technique …"
"… don’t relax … let go! …"
"… when singing, look with your ears … not with your eyes … listen with your ears
… not with your eyes …" (ie: do not rely on looking at piano or instrumentalists for musical
"… One sings songs when one has a voice … not when one is trying to find their voice…"
"… do not listen to your voice externally… listen to it by feeling it internally …"
"… don’t let the emotions affect the quiet nature of the intense vocal mechanism while
"… sing through the bones … do not sing through the muscles …"
"… bigger breath shortens the phrase and diminishes the power, richness,beauty and resonance
of the tone … smaller breath does the total opposite …"
"… freedom is the absence of effort …"
"… openness feels like the absence of touch …"
"… form of mouth places the voice …"
"… the word forms, shapes and commands the tone … the tone must not cover the word …"
"… focus the glottis … purr the tone …"
"… do not push, press or grind the tone …"
"… SING THE WAY YOU TALK … DO NOT TALK THE WAY YOU SING …"
"… find the placement … do not find the tone … the tone will find you …"
"… let the voice take you … do not you take the voice …"
"… the middle voice position is the full open throat position … learn to focus it …"
"… the verbal lips and the vocal cords are directly linked …"
"… the HUMAN WILL is MASTER of the VOICE … the conscious and sub-conscious must agree
as one …"
"… the natural tone is original and unique and doesn’t resemble any other singer’s voice
… it has no premeditated aural sound … no prepared vocal positions … it is spontaneous and
liberating … the word is the commander in chief …"
"… by not holding, pulling or pushing, the body does it for you …"
"… let go of your voice and your body … and they will let go of you …"
"… don’t and it will …"
"… the centre of the voice’s tessiture is the most potent, most-easy-to-tune, most flexible
and agile tone … find it … and when you’ve succeded never move away from it or problems will
"… the dark and reedy bass resonance (from the vibrations in the chest cavity) adds size
and magnitude to the tone … the middle voice resonance (from the "OPEN" vibrations in
the larynx, pharynx and mouth cavities) coats it with silky and velvety flavour and beauty … the
bright, shrilly, ringing head voice resonance (from the vibrations in the cavities of the skull
) gives it liveliness, carry and ringing vitality … learn to blend and mix them into one homogeneous tone throughout the entire vocal range! …"
"… natural singing is the direct extention of speech … it does not delimit nor differentiate
between musical styles – especially between pop and classical – when it is fully matured and refined
it looks, sounds and feels effortless to achieve and is aesthetically appealing …"
"… NOT Belted Singing!!! But FULL OPEN-THROATED Singing …
"… the lips are the hands … the vocal cords are the reins … the voice is the horse
"… always work from inside-out … NOT from outside-in!!! …"
"… energy goes down and voice (pitch) goes up … energy goes up and voice goes down …"
"… small breath focuses tone … large breath does the opposite …"
"… open throat is the unimpeded, non-bloated, unpressured, hollow sensation in the larynx,
pharynx and mouth…."
"… singing correctly feels like RELEASING & LETTING GO!!! … it is intensely energetic
and focused … there is no relaxing at any time … no feeling stiff … and no violent notted-up
or twisted, physical, muscular sensations anywhere in the body!!! …"
"…VIBRATION is the touch sensation of the bones in motion while phonating the voice …"
"… RESONANCE is the echoing noise emanating from the bones in motion while phonating the
"… seal the vocal tone … seal the diction … seal the vocal expression …"
"… there must be no air escape in the voice (breathy tone, husky tone, etc.) … only
sealed, vibrating, vocal tone …"
"… when humming there must be no air escape from the glottis, nostrils and mouth and no
bloating in the cheeks or under the chin and neck at any time …"
"… NOT violent glottal attack … but gentle glottal attack …"
"… do not open the jaws yourself … let the voice open them for you …"
"… when opening the mouth wide (especially for high notes!) … open vertically and horizontally
to avoid jaw tension … think of the CHRISTIAN CROSS!!! …"
"… when expressing and emotionalising ones interpretation of song one must not let the
vocal expression alter the natural speaking tone quality of the voice…but instead one should learn
to explore the differing shades of ones tone through the varying colours of vowel and consonant
pronunciations … be careful, however, to not distort the natural shape and sound of the vowels
and consonants by making them unintelligible and distant to the natural speech …"
"… regular vibration … not irregular vibration …"
"… NO to rigidity! … YES to tonicity (elasticity)! …"
"… when singing, talking, and orating … NEVER pull or push from the waistline … just
release and let go …"
"… when singing, talking and orating … abdomen steady (not shaking or trembling) and
released in outward direction from waistline plus back straight and head straight …"
"… without adequate and proper lower-back lumbar muscle support and frontal abdominal
support (plus correct, tightly focused glottis!!!) the diaphragm can do very little to sustain and
support the breath and entire vocal instrument …"
"… appoggio is the leaning pressure sensation of compressed breath felt against the upper
chest cavity which gives the vocal tone the sealed, riding and purring sensation during tone release
"… a wrong and unnatural singing method may feel comfortable for many and be misleadingly
attractive at first … but the fruits (in the long term!) will render obvious the wear-and-tear
effects of its injurious and deceivingly fallacious nature …"
"… a correct and natural singing approach (wholly based on truth!) may appear and sound
initially unattractive…if granted, however, a non-pressured and non-rushed time period for the
voice to evolve according to its nature, the singer will experience a fruition of aesthetic, vocal
beauty and vocal appeal plus vocal health longevity …"
"… The correct GENTLE VOCAL ATTACK ("Colpo di Glottide" – "Hitting of the
Glottis" ie: starting of the vocal tone) is exactly like biting the breath and tone gently
without any violent bumps, pushing or nudging …"
"… let the pronunciation straighten up the voice … do not let the voice bend the pronunciation
out of shape … do not let the tone distort the word … instead let the word focus and straighten
up the tone (as does a magnifying lense focusing sunlight into a narrowed beam of light) …"
"… to feel hollow from head to waistline while vocalising is the natural sensation and
the only hygenic way to sing …"
"… if while singing you feel the root of your tongue muscle stiffening uncomfortably …
or your neck and jaw muscles contracting and stiffening (either slightly to very excessively) (NB:
leading eventually to more serious and varying degrees of uncontrollable facial, jaw and tongue
muscle spasming, ticking, trembling and shaking) … or your body hardening or contracting in a
stiffening manner while singing in any vocal range (high or low) … you are unfortunately on a
path of rapid vocal destruction…plus mental, physical and emotional health degeneration …"
"… Natural Singing feels and sounds like open-mouthed humming …"
"… the correct balance properties of a technically complete vocal tone must explore the
full OPEN-THROATED SENSATION … it feels deep-throated-reflected, high-headed -reflected, back-throated
placed and forward mouth projected …"
"… FOCUS is the eye-of-the-needle point (or converging resonances) of one’s tone floating
and radiating in the centre of one’s skull … it never loses its point nor its buoyancy at any
time while phonating from the moment of the attack of the tone plus the sustainment of the tone
(between breathing in phrasing) and the (cut-off) ending of a tone …"
"… Natural Singing and correct vocal balance can be compared and assimilated with (circus)
high-wire walking or ballet dancing on the points of one’s toes … when mastered one feels no leaning,
nudging, pushing or pulling in any direction … instead one experiences a floating and gliding
sensation … making one feel liberated from effort … thus opening one’s mind and heart to the
possibilities of truthful expression and artistic imagination …"
"… be true to what you hear … not to what you think you are hearing …"
"… always sing outward and empty your mouth of tone … never sing inward by holding or
singing your tone in your mouth, pharynx or larynx … this puts too much pressure on the throat
when it is not built for handling excesses of compressed air pressure …"
"… when singing soft, loud, crescendo or diminuendo the body (NOT the throat muscles!)
supports the release of the tone … the only changes occur in the release of vocal energy and resonance
"… a competent singing teacher never subjects a vocalist to feel physically uncomfortable
in order to make them sound the way they imagine them or want them to sound vocally … instead
they spend more time and effort trying to lead the vocalist to sound like their original self (like
one’s own speaking tone) and to sing the way their body and throat prefer to feel physically comfortable
(NB: not relaxed!) …"
"… when singing DO NOT LOWER THE LARYNX at any time!!! … do you do this instinctively
"… Artificial Lowering of the LARYNX is achieved through a conscious effort of lowering
the middle and back section of the tongue muscle thus pressing unnaturally onto the voice box (larynx)
triggering an "unnatural" backward tilting action of the epiglottis towards the pharynx
causing a narrowing of the openness of the throat organ and attracting excessive deep-throated air
pressure … allow therefore instead the larynx to remain unimpeded by the tongue muscle and to
feel free to rise and fall (of its own accord!) … it prefers to synchronise its movements harmoniously
in a most natural way of behaviour in accordance with the rise and fall of the tongue muscle and
soft-palate during pronunciation and pitch level changing …"
"… Beware! Deep OPEN-THROATED singing is NOT "Lowered Laryngeal" singing!!!
"… in natural singing every throat organ coordinates and contributes to say the word …
therefore, one cannot have a moving and active jaw but a lazy pair of lips, tongue, palate and larynx
… nor can one have an active pair of lips, tongue, palate and larynx … with a lazy, stiff and
locked, immobile jaw …"
"… never try to fix the vocal tone or vocal sound (by manipulating, contorting and distorting
vocal physiology, pronunciation and diction) … instead fix the vocal machinery and the vocal mechanism
… for the beautiful tone will appear most certainly as an unexpected guest …"
"… the Natural Open-Throated singing technique can only guarantee the singer total vocal
freedom and technical ease of vocal production … it can allow the voice to acquire all of its
properties necessary to sound full, complete and musically accurate … it can help to beautify
the voice in a major way but it cannot, however, add warmth of character to a vocal tone which in
reality is a reflection of who we are … the essence that originates from the personification and
core of one’s soul … one’s being! …"
"… a great singer/musician always thinks ahead of where they are singing … therefore
practice the art of foreseeing and predicting what is ahead … but always remember to be listening
to what’s present in the moment …"
"… while in the act of singing, a fraction of a second of lapsed concentration is enough
to cause a technical imbalance in the voice and a musical mishap …"
"… in order to be musically and technically apt in singing one must be very visual and
gifted in prophesying what’s ahead … as do psychics, mystics and visionaries before events and
happenings occur …"
"… always sing with a critique’s third-eye consciousness outside of oneself …"
"… when singing always keep a cool head (remain calm and aware of the happenings in the
present moment!) and a warm heart … do not be tempted and allow yourself to be hot-headed (become
overly nervous and lose total awareness of the happenings in the present moment!) …"
"… until every ligament, muscle fibre and skin tissue within the throat and body elasticise
equally on both sides … and muscle tension and support on both sides are equally distributed and
coordinted into one entire instrumental effort … the body, mind, ear and voice will not be able
to refine, balance and coordinate perfect pitching, tuning and regular vibration …"
"… when studying singing and doing technical vocal practice do not lean on the throat
or body in any direction … most voices are crooked because the body is generally more weaker on
one side compared to its counterpart … therefore the prime aim in singing practice is to exercise
and strengthen the weaker side …"
"… stylistic singing requires that a singer has the appropriate feel, groove, beat and
musical understanding of what they are singing …"
"… the WORD is the necklace … the consonants and vowels are the beads or components
strung to the necklace … therefore do not let them fall away from the string by letting the word
fall away (backwards into the mouth) … instead aim to project the word forward into the auditorium
to which you are singing …"
"… NATURAL VOCAL PRODUCTION is most effectively achieved through the study of physical
sensations and sense of touch … NOT through the (popularly) applied teaching approach of metaphoric
"… Singing Technique is not just breathing!!! … It is Breath + Placement + Diction …"
"… correct Natural Vocal Production feels like one is emptying their body of vocal tone
(NOT filling it up with vocal tone!) … in other words one must never swallow one’s tone by singing
backwards from the mouth cavity towards the pharynx then downwards through the larynx and into the
chest cavity … one should instead be trying to reflect the deep resonances by singing outwards heading
upwards from the chest cavity towards the larynx then penetrating via the reflections off the back
of the pharynx through the mouth cavity and out of the mouth orifice into the opposite-end surrounding acoustic
"… let the word move the throat organs … do not let the throat organs move the word
"… to feel natural and vocally FREE and OPEN the singer must feel hollow from head to
waist while singing … there is no twisted or contracted muscle rigidity in the throat muscles
or in any part of the body whatsoever especially in the top abdominal area (causing the diaphragmatic
muscle to lose its mobility and tonicity and suffer a hightened state of rigidity) … the consequences
are also reflected tragically on the throat organs as they stiffen intensely causing major loss
of tonicity and mobility of movement …"
"… natural COMPRESSED BREATHING correctly induces DEEP-THROATED "CONNECTED" singing
… it alleviates the throat and voice of undesired pressure and strain … UNCOMPRESSED BREATHING
induces the opposite …"
"… never take large gulps of air when breathing … this induces relaxation of the breathing
organs and the loss of the focus of the tone …"
"… a great breathing technique is a hidden technique … it is invisible to the naked
eye and inaudible to the listener’s ear …"
"… a correct natural breath is tiny just like a thimbles-full size …"
"… the smaller the size of the breath … the better the focus of the glottis … the
more compressed the air in the lungs … the larger the resonance, volume power and size and magnitude
of the voice …"
"… remember to take repeated breaths constantly while practicing small and minimised COMPRESSED
breathing … for if not, the lungs will begin to experience an uncomfortable sensation of collapse
(feeling of suffocation in chest cavity) … thus igniting a strong feeling of anxiety…which is
against the natural laws of human anatomy and physiology …"
"… when running short of breath, vocal energy starts to drop … when vocal energy drops,
vocal placement drops and projection suffers … when vocal placement drops and projection suffers,
tonality and pitch drop … when tonality and pitch drop, the word contorts and bends and no longer
projects forward … so therefore do not run short of breath …"
"… the human will and mind work as one … they are the conductor of our entire vocal
mechanism and instrument … their mental processes (while singing) are what speed up or slow down
vocal activity … therefore one must always think ahead of what one is about to do musically in
order to not be inadequate musically …"
"… DROP THE JAW!!! … DO NOT PULL ON THE JAW!!! DO NOT LOWER THE JAW! …"
"… when vocalising or singing, the singer MUST NOT LISTEN TO nor be the judge of their
own voice which they hear in their head, for what is often pleasing to the ear of the singer is
commonly not as pleasing to the ear of the audience … and what is pleasing to the audience is
commonly not as pleasing to the singer …"
"… learn to play with CLOSED and OPEN TONE by narrowing the distance of the jaws … NOT
by impeding by altering the shape and position of one’s tongue, lips, mouth, palate, pharynx and
larynx in an unnatural way …"
"… when practicing COVERED TONE singing DO NOT LOWER THE LARYNX!!! … instead play with
the bright and dark shaded pronunciations of the vowel sounds …"
"… one cannot sing well if one has not mastered the artistic balance of CONNECTED full-bodied-toned
DEEP-THROATED SINGING and HEAD VOICE SINGING …"
"… PRONUNCIATION is the unified vocal mechanism of ARTICULATION (placing, shaping and
positioning movements of throat organs to prepare and vocalise combinations of consonants and vowel
sounds) and ENUNCIATION is the vibrated utterances (vocal noises) emanating from the voice-box (phonating
resonances) during the organic, physical actions and movements of vowel and consonant formations
"… DICTION is the transparent result of intelligibilty of the WORD through the marriage
of "natural" ARTICULATION and ENUNCIATION … it is achieved through the juxtapositioning
of vowels and consonants to form syllables to be combined to form words and phrases that express
specified meanings of human thought …"
"… remember to always carry the tone over the back of the soft palate to avoid forced
masked singing and nasality …"
"… learning to sing correctly and naturally is learning to abandon old,
"unnatural" habits … it is also learning what not to do …"
"… correct pitch helps to place the voice correctly … placement of pitch is therefore
situated at the meeting point where organs meet and articulate vowels and consonants …"
"… let the word create the natural mouth formation and position the throat organs …"
"… a weak effort to pronounce the consonant will cause a drop of the placement of the
vowel (at the point of attack) and therefore jeopardise pitch and diction …"
"… consonants must always be pronounced smoothly and must carress (not bump!) the vowels
that follow …"
"… when singing naturally in an acoustic environment (without a microphone) if one feels
as if they are not yelling out (EDUCATEDLY!!!) every musical note (loud and soft volume)… then
one is relaxing too much …"
"… when pronouncing darker vowels such as: latin U (as in ‘book’), latin ‘closed’ O (as
in ‘more’ or ‘for’) , ‘open’ O (as in ‘hot’ or ‘not’), E (as in ‘her’ or ‘shirt’), or U (as in ‘food’
or ‘smooth’) always pronounce with tonicly tensed (elasticised) pouted lips … never with stiffly
tensed, puckered lips … this helps to coordinate and focus the throat organs on an OPEN-THROAT
without falling into a state of rigidity …"
"… a NATURAL VOICE on an OPEN-THROAT position (while in its early stages of vocal training)
will expose all of its innate flaws: cracks, croaks , unsteady passaggios, register breaks, yodels,
flips, shifts, slips, slides, scoops, ticks, muscular throat tickles, muscular throat spasms, and
more, because it is loose and free to do so (and is therefore able to be trained, exercised and
corrected) … whereas an UNNATURAL VOICE … is always rigid and locked in the throat while falsely
appearing to be steady and in control … when in reality it is boiling with major problematic upheavels
just like a quiet and dormant volcano, deceivingly brewing and simmering in its bowels, building
slowly – over a long period – its explosive forces to erupt unexpectedly (causing major caos and
"… never sing only with one’s chest tone … never sing only with one’s middle tone …
never sing only with one’s ‘falsetto’ or ‘head voice’ tone … a voice that only uses one of these
properties but excludes the other two is an incomplete, incorrect and unnatural tone …"
"… a natural tone has the right balance of CHIAROSCURO (bright and dark) shaded tone
in the same sound … this can only be achieved successfully through a crafted blend of TIGHTLY
FOCUSED chest voice, middle voice and head voice …"
‘… to sing only with chest tone ‘unnaturally’ increases SUB-GLOTTAL PRESSURE thus enforcing
and attracting disastrous consequences … it induces damaging vocal hygiene … and the preservation
and prosperity of the speaking and singing vocal mechanisms are highly compromised …"
"… the CORRECT fully FOCUSED action of the MIXING of the three resonances (NOT REGISTERS!!!)
– CHEST (dark and reedy) , MIDDLE (soft, silky and velvety) , HEAD (bright and ringing) – is completed
when the voice feels and sounds like one unified register (from Low to High vocal range) and has
a smooth fluidity of vocal timbre and tone colour modulation…"
"… the characteristic of a natural tone is manifested when it has 1.CHIAROSCURO (Bright
and dark shade) 2. CONNECTED FULL TONE 3. CONNECTED HALF TONE (Mezza Voce) 4. BABY CRY "SQUILLO" (Italian
translation: "Squeal") pervasive throughout the voice’s entire vocal range … (NB: All
the vocal timbres, colours and resonances of the CHEST, MIDDLE and HEAD REGISTERS must merge and
mould together to form a UNIFIED TONE & REGISTER. This is only possible when the behaviour of
the GLOTTAL ACTION has been trained to focus tightly without any instance of loosening action whatsoever
throughout the entire range’s vocal mechanism) …" 5. FLESHY TONE & ROUNDED TONE (to soften
and beautify the voice’s aesthetic appeal and magnify the tone’s dispersion within an acoustic environment)
… it is the external pulp of a tone, the velvety coating to the natural tone’s central CORE (the "SQUILLO" –
carrying, piercing and projecting nature of laser-tight, shining, mettalic, ringing ‘OSSEOUS’ tone)
"… HIGH VOICES tend to be less sensitive to the sensations of osseous vibration in the
body because their tone reflects primarily more of the HEAD TONE RESONANCES (noises of vibrations
in the skull) than CHEST TONE RESONANCES (noises of vibrations in the chest) … it is the chest
cavity which creates large vibration movement in the bones of the body … the head cavity does
the opposite … osseous vibration is more commonly felt in the low register of a voice because
low tones are primarily reflected in the chest cavity…"
"… PRIMARY SENSATIONS are sensations which are common to all natural vocalists … SECONDARY
SENSATIONS are transitional sensations which appear and disappear and maybe reappear to redisappear
over and over at different stages of one’s technical studies … the student must not hold onto
these secondary sensations but must instead allow them to come and go as they please …"
"… since most HIGH VOICES find it difficult to feel their voices through the sensation
of physical touch (vibration in the body) especially in high range … they must instead make more
effort to HEAR the echo noises of their vibrations internally in every zone of their body (especially
deep in their chest cavity) …"
"… vocal tone must always be compressed and sealed at all times within the body … from
the beginning of the attack of the vocal emission to the cut-off point of the vocal emission during
open and closed mouthed singing … (NB: no air escape in the tone via the glottis, nostrils or
"… if energy rises in the body vocal placement drops and tone and pitch suffer … if
energy descends the opposite occurs …"
"… natural singing is more effectively taught via concrete physical approaches as opposed
to metaphoric imagination and meditational methods …"
"… natural singing in some instances takes longer to develop and evolve as opposed to
artificial, muscular, throaty singing … this is because OSSEOUS RESONANCE requires more time to
grow and expand throughout the body as focused resonance is being established … whereas on the
other hand, throaty tone, at an instant, will produce much volume and power in close up confrontation
but over time will shrink, shrivel and turn into a wavered, out-of-tune, unimpressive and unbearably
ugly, wobbly vocal tone …"
"… if opting to sing with a throaty voice (which for some singers doesn’t necessarily
feel bothersome or uncomfortable) initially all seems steady and in control (especially if the voice
is young and tender in its age category) but with more vocal abuse to the vocal instrument the voice
eventually begins to collapse into unsteady, wobbly tone (Aged Voice!)… a prematurely aged voice
manifesting these vocal signs also develops reactions of uncontrollable facial ticks and spasms
of the vocal tract organs … a healthier natural approach to singing, on the other hand, promotes
vocal hygiene and longevity of youthful singing … it just grows … and grows … and grows …"
"… the better the quality of the vocal instrument the better the technique must be for
the voice to respond and expose its hidden treasures … whereas a poor quality voice (although
may improve phenomenally with correct training) is more resilient and capable of bearing incorrect,
bad vocal techniques and singing for long periods without collapsing or feeling damaged and compromised
"…. voice classification is established through careful observations and deductions of
a vocalist’s innate vocal behaviour … these directly relate to VOCAL RANGE (length of vocal pitches
easily and comfortably attainable!), TESSITURE (the general, comfortable vocal range (zone) of singing
throughout a vocal work), VOCAL FLEXIBILTY (speed and agility), VOCAL TEMPERAMENT (light, lyric
or dramatic) …"
"… when attacking (or commencing) a tone or the beginning of a vocal phrase , the emission
of the first tone on the first syllable of the phrase must be executed without any bumps or waverings
(ie: the consonant must be pronounced gently and smoothly and progress smoothly onto the vowel that
follows and vice-versa and so forth!) … the tone is then sustained and spun with regular vibration
throughout the vocalised syllabifications of the entire phrase as smoothly as possible and the cut-
off at the end of the phrase is completed without any bumps or waverings of the tone …"
"… never deliberately and artificially cover the tone through the PASSAGIOS & REGISTER
BREAKS with muscular manipulation of the throat organs … instead allow for the vibrations to reflect
deep in the larynx and chest on an open throat in the search for darker overtones and resonances
… CHIAROSCURO will be balanced and established … and this will help the voice to feel lighter
on the throat and will lower the high range and make it easily attainable …"
"… sealed tone finally feels like one is drinking one’s vibrated tone and soaking it
into the major resonance cavities of the body: SKULL, MASK, MOUTH, PHARYNX , LARYNX and CHEST …"
"… the WORD always takes control and guides the tone … not vice-versa …"
"… learning to sing correctly and naturally enforces the necessity to abandon old and
new wrong approaches and vocal habits … one must therefore learn what not to do to discover what
to do …"
"… do not enlarge, oversize or bloat natural breathing (as in speaking) in any direction
whatsoever (ie: exit of carbon dioxide from lungs or entry of oxygen to lungs) … keep it returning
always at the replenished size (100% no more and no less) …"
"… when the tone is sealed in the body and tightly focused throughout the entire range
of the voice without loose air escape it feels as if one is drinking it …"
"… it is dangerous to head off into a singing career when a singer has not completed and
mastered the natural vocal technique and lacks musical refinement of all other skills required …"
"… placement of pitch meets at the same point of articulation of the word …"
"… one cannot teach how to breath for one has always known how to do it instinctively
since birth … however, one can disturb correct breathing by applying wrong breathing methods that
displace and manipulate muscles artificially … one must make a conscious effort to not deviate
from the natural mechanism of breathing … the diaphragm cannot be taught how to move for it rises
and falls (of its own accord since the time of birth!) with the aid of abdominal and back muscle
movements to move oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of the lungs so that the body breaths comfortably
… tensing and stiffening wrong muscles in the body and throat will only impede this natural mechanism
from working efficiently and causing unnecessary discomfort …"
"… one must NOT woof-up, bloat, puff-up, expand, engross or enlarge one’s tone muscularly or
pharyngeally (as if yawning or almost yawning!) more than its natural size and shape … does one do this to talk? … this will compromise
natural, osseous, focused tone …"
"… when air escapes through the tone the body loses compressed breath energy …"
"… when singing do not tilt the head backward or forward … instead keep the head straight
and project the tone ahead horizontally to avoid intrinsic laryngeal and tracheal throat narrowing
"… when studying and developing the "Natural Voice Technique" always sing through
(NOT around, over, or under!) the laryngeal tickles, throat spasms, vocal cracks and croaks … by doing
so this will trigger a whole new network of intrinsic muscular throat actions that will aid in releasing
and relieving other overly tensed extrinsic mio-activity … beyond these momentary passing obstructions are the
riches of vocal freedom and vocal beauty…"
"… the shorter the depth of one’s tone the shorter the height of ones tone … the larger
the depth of one’s tone the larger the height of ones tone …"
"… for immaculate pitching and tuning, practice the vision of listening and emulating
… not the vision of seeing and emulating … close the eyes to perfect this even more for quicker
"… when singing high notes the head must not pull away from the cervical vertebrae in
the neck (ie: move forward) thus disconnecting one’s chest tone from the voice … nor must the
jaw stiffen, lock or protrude exageratedly forward … nor must the root of the tongue muscle, chin, jaw and
neck muscles contract rigidly … to stop this from occurring focus the point of the vibrated voice
on the back of the pharygeal wall and carry the tone over the back of the soft palate (when ascending into high range!) making certain
at all times to not distort the shape of vowel sounds and consonant sounds in diction …"
"… it is a known fact that while singing, friendly TONIC (Elastic!) TENSION (as opposed
to RIGID (Rock hard! Stiff!) TENSION) helps to distribute and disperse proper vocal energy to the vocal support mechanism
(throughout the body) and eliminate unwanted and discomforting vocal pressure away from the throat
"… a correctly developed voice with a completed and focused tone (READY for CAREER!) must
possess: 1. a holistically focused "Natural Tone" 2. FULL Open-Throated, Open-Toned RANGE
with CHIAROSCURO (bright & dark shaded timbre) evenly distributed throughout the entire vocal
range 3. CONFIDENT EASE of "Vocal Emission" throughout the entire range 4. complete control
and capacity of Full (Connected) Tone and "Mezza Voce" (Half voice) 5. ability to sing
loud and soft and execute vocal swellings and deswellings evenly and with flexible ease 6. Vocal
AGILITY (in ALL VOICE sizes and categories) 7. an excellent musical ear for tuning and timing 8.
refined stylistic knowledge of music and excellent spiritual sensitivity and musical feel …"
"… the VOICE … (when completed its technical vocal studies) … should sound and feel
like a rodded tone with a cutting-edge blade (like a sword or lazer beam) capable of penetrating
and slicing through any conducting surface … capable of guillotining the air, space and orchestra
and travelling vast distances just like the chirping of forest birds penetrating and projecting
throughout vast country valleys …"
"… when starting the tone, bite the breath and bite the voice … when finishing the tone
bite the end into silence and lock the air in the lungs (without escape) while replenishing the
lungs with new oxygen …"
"… "Natural Voice Production" relates to the physiology of the sound of the
natural tone and voice … "Natural Vocal Production" relates to the anatomical mechanism
(body mechanics!) of the vocal phenomenon …"
"… BREATH ENERGY descends and voice rises and falls in pitch …"
"… always develop the length and range of the voice … then the width will evolve immediately
"… never pull on the tone backwards but release it and always let it flow forwards …
VOCAL ENERGY always moves forwards and never retreats while pitch and volume fluctuate upwards and
"… A GREAT TECHNIQUE is an invisible and hidden technique!!! …"
"… VOCAL ENERGY is the strength of focus of tone and the intensity of the flow of the
Natural Vocal Tone throughout the body … BREATH ENERGY is the strength of compression of air in
the lungs and chest cavity plus the compression of focus of tone in the body and the intensity of
compression of diaphragm and supporting muscle mechanism …"
"… we study assiduously and indefatigably the Art of "Natural Voice Production" and "Natural
Vocal Production" (till the work is completed and perfected!) to be able to feel physically
free to express truthful and believable, heartfelt expression of the SOUL …"
"… correct, natural mouth formations and articulated positions of vowels and consonants
are vital for avoiding and loosening JAW TENSION …"
"… real "Natural Focused Tone" (from convergence of bone resonance! NOT muscular
tone!) cannot be induced artificially (consciously) … but with obedience to natural physiological
laws of vocal phonation it arrives and finds you as an unexpected, important guest … this can
only eventuate when the body and voice physiology centralise and balance both intrinsically and
extrinsically and UNANIMOUSLY! …"
"… most female high voices find it physically easy to sing in high range mainly due to
the fact that their voices are head-placed naturally … the plight of the high-ranged voice is
learning to connect to the chest voice resonances … male voices are naturally placed in chest
tone and are plighted (in most cases) with the task of connecting to head voice resonances …"
"… when the voice is placed deep in the chest cavity resonances pitch is refined, perfected
and grounded … as long as it remains grounded the pitch will not falter in its tuning …"
"… CORRECT "Natural Vocal Technique" (instinctive, unprepared and non-premeditated)
ENERGISES the body and voice … INCORRECT "Artificial Vocal Technique" (prepared, premeditated,
timbred and shaped differently to speaking tone) degenerates and ages the body and voice quickly
"… NEGATIVE mental and emotional thinking depletes the body and voice’s energies … POSITIVE
mental and emotional thinking does the opposite …"
"… just like two lovers making a strong effort in getting to know each others’ likes and
dislikes to make their relationship work out comfortably …. so too do the voice and vocalist need
time to get to know each others’ likes and dislikes … it is clearly a mutual love affair that
needs time to establish harmony and compatibility between reciprocal parties … when the relationship
is ripe it may then be presentable to public as a tool for edifying and educating and as an instrument
of expression for adding meaning and purpose to life itself …"
"… VOCAL ENERGY originates from compression of air … not from size of air …"
"… the more tighter the tension of the vocal cords and the more narrowed the opening and closure action of the glottis during vocal phonation (throughout the entire vocal range! ) the more sealed compressed BREATH ENERGY will be (no lung collapsing in breathing!) … the more one’s vocal phrasing lengthens … the more effortless singing becomes …"
"… to achieve a longer capacity of breathing and vocal melodic sustainment one needs to avoid oversized and undersized breathing … never increase or decrease the exact proportionate amount of air exiting and re-entering the lungs during vocal phonation … maintain the same thimbles-full amount of air flow (as in talking) to keep the tone tightly focused … remember to breath often throughout a melodic phrase to avoid lung collapse … breath in the middle of a word if necessary to avoid lung collapse … if practiced for months and years the breath capacity will increase enormously! …"
"… to achieve longer vocal phrasing with minimum intake of oxygen in the lungs one must learn to focus the glottis more tighter and increase Breath Energy and (pressured) Deep-Throated vocal energy …"
"… the more tighter focused the ‘Breath Energy’ and ‘Vocal Energy’ the more lighter the weight of the voice throughout the entire vocal range …"
"… smaller the size of one’s breath or the less one breathes the more energy one saves in the body …"
"… correct SEALED TONE feels like drinking one’s tone into the head cavities and chest cavity … and not like blowing or aspirating air escape through one’s vocal tone … remember to always lock and seal vibration … do not allow air bubbles to escape through vibrated tone and break the even fluidity of compressed vibration"
"… an excellent vocal guide always aims to help a vocalist develop osseous vibrations and resonances and evolve their own unique and original spoken-sung-like tone … and doesn’t insist on fabricated tone production that sounds foreign to the vocalist’s natural speech-like timbre …"
"… when teaching natural singing the teacher should not listen to nor observe the aesthetic sound appeal of the voice … the teacher should instead pay more attention to the physical behaviour of the voice by correcting the mechanical vocal behaviour of the voice … the beautiful and powerful tone are guaranteed to appear …"
"… VOCAL ENERGY is weakened or strengthened in accordance to the intensity of the focusing action of the glottis and the intensity and power of compressed BREATH ENERGY … when the two energies are focused coordinatedly and harmoniously in both body and throat, intense ring of tone is achievable thoughout the entire vocal range thus giving it great carrying power and ability for theatre without the aid of electronic devices …"
"… VOCAL ENERGY is the intensity phenomenon of the ringing tone and the fluctuations of its varying degrees of intensity …"
"… intense vocal energy … not flax or forced vocal energy …"
"… to classify a voice the teacher needs to feel the temperament of the voice by observing its desires and behaviours (ie: whether it prefers and wishes to rise higher or to deepen lower) … this may not suffice enough, however, for the final deciding factor for categorising a voice is not through determining whether or not one possesses high or low tones (for many unusual voices can cross over into other vocal territories and handle similar vocal extensions quite satisfactorily) but instead through determining the central vocal tessiture (general range of vocal comfort and vocal strength and power) of a voice …"
"… OPEN-THROATED HUMMING helps to merge and mould passaggios (bridges) and breaks and does away with them permanently (if executed correctly!) … it helps to converge all the vibrations and resonances throughout the body into a single-bladed and pointed, focused tone … it blends the Chest, Middle and Head registers into one HOMOGENEOUS tone and does away with register breaks and separations and isolated singing …"
"… on an OPEN THROAT when large melodic leaps and small melodic step intervals feel the same technical distance apart during vocal phonation … you can sing! …"
"… on an OPEN THROAT when your voice feels as though it is beneath you and not above you … you can sing! …"
"… on an OPEN THROAT when one’s high notes feel as if they are beneath one’s head and not above it … one can sing! …"
"… correct forward projection of both tone and word feels like the voice is resonating and echoing out of one’s mouth from the opposite end from where one is standing …"
"…when the tone focuses in a correct supraglottal position healthy FLOATING TONE is achievable … when the tone focuses in an incorrect subglottal placement, unhealthy grinded tone results … this excess subglottal air pressure is the cause and ruin of many excellent voices and leads the vocal instrument to premature ageing (uncontrollable wobbles and waverings of one’s tone plus depletion of clarity and purity of vibration and resonance) …"
"… Vocal Energy and Breath Energy work together as one … if one of the two incorrectly relaxes or is excessively forced in its application the counterpart always suffers and is consequently weakened …"
"… Vocal Energy must originate from deep within the body and derive its strength from intense, deep pelvic, diaphragmatic sustainment + tonic (Elastic!!! NOT Rigid!!!) anterior abdominal and posterior lower-back lumbar mio-support + compressed breathing + fully focused glottal action … when all coordinate into one harmonious effort, regular and intense vocal energy is sustainable …"
"… when compressed breathing is at a point of locking itself air-tight-sealed in the lungs the physical sensation throughout the body is initially one of suffocation … but with repetitious thimbles-full-sized breaths throughout a phrase (even within a word) the suffocated feeling gradually subsides and disappears over time and breath intake ironically decreases in size while the capacity to hold and sustain a long phrase increases to vast lengths and proportions …"
"… intense compressed Breath Energy and intense Vocal Energy are required for intense focus action of the glottis (for soft and loud singing) …"
"… compressed breathing connects and unifies the registers into one homogeneous tone … it also does away with register breaks, register isolations, voice cracking, disconnected tone … and it helps to blend and merge all of the body’s resonances into a unified, resonant tone …"
"… in Natural Singing one must try to keep the breath and voice the same size, measure and focused shape as in speech … one must also try not to deviate by artificially oversizing, overbloating and exaggerating the production of one’s tone …"
"… we perfect the art of merging the registers to rid ourselves of tessiture limitations and vocal strain and forcing …"
"… in Natural Singing one must minimise to maximise …"
"… searching for the natural voice is like searching for a precious hidden treasure …"
"… vocal pitching is achieved independently and separate from the body’s posture (ie: DO NOT change or alter the body’s posture for the sake of pitching!) …"
"… NOT oversized breathing … NOT undersized breathing … but YES to CENTRALISED BREATHING (as in speaking) … …"
"… Natural Singing requires intense energy, intense baby-cry-squeal (focused tone!), intense vibration and resonance, open-throated vocal mechanism, and a naturally coordinated breathing mechanism … it all collapses and weakens if one relaxes the body and voice into a state of flaxity …"
"… when long vocal interval leaps feel the same physical distance apart as a short vocal step interval one has found the centre of their vocal balance …"
"… a Natural Singing vocal technique connects the voice to the Mind Body and Spirit and homogenises and merges the registers and resonances … an unnatural and artificial technique disconnects the voice and does the total opposite …"
"… an immaculately completed Natural Open-Throated vocal technique signifies a thorough understanding (both theoretical and practical) and complete knowledge of the Natural Voice vocal mechanism … one should not attempt a serious soloist singing career if one has not completed and refined (in full) the journey of natural vocal discovery … it would be foolish otherwise to do so for popular and classical musical works and compositions have never altered their tessitures and musical demands since the time of their inventions in written musical manuscript format and recorded format … therefore with a deficient vocal technique one places their vocal balance and health in a state of immediate negative compromise …"
"… VOCAL ENERGY requires strong abdominal and lumbar support action + COMPRESSED BREATH + FOCUSED OPEN THROAT mechanism + VIBRATION and RESONANCE … it is responsible for the correct application and distribution of tonic (elastic tension!) action of the throat and body organs and is the spark that feeds the impulses of the focusing glottal motions …"
"… small voices with small physically proportioned vocal instruments tend to possess lesser sized resonances, colours and timbres in comparison to large voices … they are therefore more easy and rapid to teach … large voices with large vocal instruments are more difficult to teach because the vocal properties they possess are multiple in size, resonance and weight and therefore require more time and patience to teach and balance them …"
"… all voices must focus and thread themselves through the narrowest eye-of-a-needle pinhole to crack open TRUE FOCUSED OSSEOUS TONE RESONANCE … smaller voices therefore have an easier task narrowing into the focus point because of their lighter, narrow-weighted tone … larger voices are generally more challenged … finding it more time-consuming because of long periods of unrushed rigorous vocal training … this is because large voices require more training to learn to narrow in bigger and broader vocal artillery through the same pin-hole focus point…"
"… there are so … many … many … many … more elements, subjects, ingredients and topics to discuss about VOCAL SINGING TECHNIQUE than just BREATHING … any so-called vocal expert who continually talks ONLY about breathing and nothing more in relation to the topic of vocal technique knows very little if anything at all about the entire subject or topic …"
"… VOCAL ENERGY aids in the set-up of tonic tension in the throat organs of the vocal tract to produce and sustain correct and exact pitching … if vocal energy is lessened or weakened pitching suffers as a consequence …"
"… NATURAL SINGING energises … it does not drain one’s energy … it cleans up, heals and restores youthfulness and clarity to a damaged and aged voice … after long periods of natural singing the speaking voice still vibrates cristal clear and feels lighter to talk on than before …"
"… the term "NATURAL" must not be underestimated, overlooked, nor snubbed with indifference … for its significance in singing is HUGE and POWERFUL … there is no other more potent and challenging way to sing than NATURAL SINGING …"
"… in natural singing one must learn to let go of and abandon bad vocal habits (totally) to permit and allow salutary and healthy vocal habits to instill themselves and take precedence …"
"… it is extremely important how one prepares the start of a melodic vocal phrase … the instinctive preparation establishes the success of one’s freedom of tone emission … never start the tone in the larynx at any time … take special care to avoid starting in a stopped (closed) glottal position to avoid a violent glottal attack (violent hitting of the glottis) … always start the tone at the back of the throat on the pharyngeal wall (directly behind the tongue in low tones) … and always carry the tone (on the pharyngeal wall) over the back of the soft palate in middle and high tones to penetrate the head resonances … but make certain (at the same instance) never to disconnect with deep-open-throated laryngeal and chest-toned resonance …"
"… a great (vocal) technique is a hidden (vocal) technique … therefore it must remain both aurally (quiet and silent) and visually hidden (physically effortless!) …"
"… in natural singing one must be prepared to lose one’s old self to find one’s new self …"
"… an exceptionally gifted teacher of singing always listens to a voice by feeling the natural sound and visualising the bio-mechanics of the throat organs and body organs … the teacher also makes haste to correct the unnatural, compromising fault features of the physical aspect of one’s tone production … the teacher must also try to avoid the practice of altering and modifying the natural timbre characteristics of a voice …"
"… a great singing teacher always approaches their art of teaching Natural Singing from a physical analysis of natural physiology of body and voice … and avoids teaching solely based on an approach of vocal audio manipulation and modification only …"
"… to tune the voice the singer must tune the SQUEAL (SQUILLO or Baby Cry) of their tone both in ear and head … when the squeal drops out of pitch (even if the broader sounding part of the tone sounds pitched in the mouth and head) the singer is more likely than not out-of-tune or off-pitch … (ie: either sharp or flat) …"
"… strong physical energy … not hard physical effort …"
"… PRIMARY SENSATIONS are common to all singers. They remain as permanent sensations and are guiding beacons for the natural singer … SECONDARY SENSATIONS are personal and variable to each individual … they are ever changing and alter constantly by appearing and disappearing and reappearing and redisappearing … learn to distinguish the difference between the two …"
"…. opening wide by smiling into wide horizontal position (creates brighter shaded ringing tone by lifting the vibrated sound more into the skull and mask and narrowing off chest resonances) or opening vertically by extending the jaw low (creating darker shaded reedy tone by lifting the vibrated sound from the chest cavity into the mouth orifice) are both correct mouth formations if the tongue does not dip downwards at the back end of the mouth orifice near the pharyngeal wall causing a disrupted lowering of the larynx which narrows and closes off the throat artificially …"
"… when singing the vocal technician must create lots of space at the back of the throat (between back of Tongue, Pharyneal wall and Soft Palate) to open the throat sufficiently so that the tone remains fully connected with the entire body resonances … to achieve this space DO NOT yawn or semi-yawn! This creates artificial spreading of the vocal tone which in turn destroys focus and compressed breathing … the open space at the back of the throat must not be constricted or narrowed or the vocal tone will disconnect from the chest tone and thin out into head voice squeal (which is only 50% of the real picture of the voice) … the full connected tone has head voice squeal (Chiaro – Bright ringing tone) plus chest voice expanded breadth tone (Scuro – Dark reedy tone) in its complete natural make-up… instead extend the jaws lower (on the AH vowel) without dipping the back of the tongue down onto the larynx allowing for dark chested tone to come up from the chest cavity through the larynx over the back of the tongue and to pour into the mouth orifice and fill it completely … do take precaution for a narrowing back-throated space stops dark tone from pouring into the mouth orifice and the singer will suffer by settling with only singing with head resonant squeal which can lay extra strain on the singer’s laryngeal tendons and ligaments … the voice is also denied of its complete full picture of beauty when the tone is not completely connected …"
"… short low-ranged songs with slow moving melodies and long sustained notes tend to make voices fill out with more tone and timbre and with some voices they may become heavier and less agile in nature … for voices requiring more development of speed and agility and easier tessiture sustainment, longer ranged songs with fast sequences of melodic runs generally may help to narrow the tone and extend higher and deeper in length and render it more lighter and agile in respect to vocal flexibility … therefore different operas require rebalancing, readjusting and rethinking of the vocal technique in order to accommodate for different stylistic vocal approaches for compositional vocal writing …"
"… fast agile singing over a fairly long range generally narrows the tone of one’s voice and renders it much lighter and easier to sing … singing in more slower tempo with lyric-sustained melodies and in a fairly central range and tessiture may swell and expand the tone of one’s voice adding more weight to its natural size …"
"… when one feels completely void of bloated pressure and empty of tone and sound throughout the entire body … and it appears to be filling the external auditorium with reverberated sound … one is singing correctly! …"
"… a tone without the full breadth of the entire body’s resonances in it, is a cut-off, disconnected tone … and therefore an incomplete tone …"
"… every NATURAL VOICE must possess a piercing and penetrating (dark and bright) osseous ringing tone … and must be bladed and edged like a shining excalibur to add life and energy to the natural sound of the voice … the NATURAL VOICE must ultimately resemble an iron fist coated and covered in a velvet glove with projecting power, beauty and aesthetic appeal …"
"… one’s mental thought prepares and sets up vocal energy, vocal organs and body organs for singing accurately … it starts, sustains and finishes a vocal phrase with equalised focused tension … therefore if the mental state of preparedness is not actively ready or is either somewhat disrupted or interrupted … pause one moment … allow the mind and body to reset their activities … then recommence …"
"… an OPEN-TROAT feels empty and hollow in the larynx, pharynx mouth, skull and chest during silence and vocal phonation …"
"… REAL, TRUE and PURE BELCANTO can only be achieved on a full OPEN-THROATED Natural Vocal Technique … it is rediculous and ludicrous to think and believe that despite an eminent artist’s commendable efforts of achieving most or possibly all of the technical musical demands and characteristics of the Belcanto style of singing … that it therefore suffices enough to make up for an unnatural voice …"
"… a Natural Voice is the real deal like pure 100% leather hide or a very tasty and rare vintage wine … an unnatural voice is fake and worthless like an imitative leather jacket made out of vinyl … it lacks life from its very core and vocal source … it is dull and unattractive to the ear and appeal of the listener … the unnatural singer must therefore work much harder on the musical, emotional and acting interpretative aspect of their performance to compensate for the great lack of an essential natural vocal technique …"
"… a teacher must first be a vocal guide (during vocal technique stage) … and then evolve in becoming the singing teacher (when teaching the music and musical interpretation) …"
"… strong physical energy … NOT strong physical effort …"
"… on the VOCAL ATTACK bite the tone and bite the breath (from a CENTRALISED LUNG POSITION just as we do in talking) and seal the vibration of your tone into your bones to make them vibrate and resonate as intense as possible … take many small "quiet" sips of breath via a discreetly open mouth to sustain strong, vividly-tuned tone and to avoid lung collapse … during vocal emission the vibration must not be cut or interrupted with intermittent bubbles of air escape …"
"… a correct approach to voice studies always parts from a physiological intention of working inside-out as opposed to outside-in … "Vocal Truth" can only be revealed via means of feel and touch and NOT via auditory means (listening to one’s own vocal tone) …"
"… in Natural Vocal Technique studies learning to mould, merge and unify the registers and passaggios into one homogenised tone feels like sewing and weaving notes and patterns on a same string …"
"… for DARKER vocal timbre the mouth opens (by dropping the jaw NOT pulling on the jaw!!!) more VERTICALLY and allows the dark chest resonances to pour from over the back of the tongue into the mouth cavity … for BRIGHTER vocal timbre the mouth opens more HORIZONTALLY … and … while fidgeting with different timbres, colours and shades of the natural tone beware of also NOT TO LOWER THE LARYNX by depressing the back of the tongue onto the larynx otherwise the throat becomes stiff and immobile plus narrowed, constricted and restricted by an unnatural and incorrect lowering action of the epiglottis and an unnatural and incorrect contracted and receded action of the tongue muscle towards the pharyngeal wall… "
"… don’t force the tone deep-throated artificially by pressing on throat muscles … instead hear the tone by feeling its vibrations and resonances echoing and resounding a reflected deep-throated tone (dark resonant timbre in Natural Voice) …"
"… when singing naturally one must taste PITCH deep in ones throat and chest cavity …"
"… those who suffer the most will reap the most …"
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Lyft Drivers in New York Accuse Company of Cheating Them Out of Wages
A driver group is calling for an investigation into Lyft's New York fare policies.
The Independent Drivers Guild (IDG), an affiliate of the International Association of Machinists union, has accused Lyft of "large-scale deception" and improperly deducting more than 11 percent of drivers' fares on interstate trips, according to The Washington Post. The group claims Lyft collected taxes and surcharges on interstate trips that should only apply to in-state trips, and disguised them as administrative charges.
In a letter to the New York attorney general's office and the Department of Taxation and Finance, IDG called for a full investigation into the matter. New York State Assembly member Robert Rodriguez, who represents a district in New York City, backed the request.
The IDG accusation relates to the same New York state taxes and surcharges that have attracted controversy at Uber. New York levies a 9 percent sales tax on rides, as well as a 2.5-percent "black car fund" surcharge, which covers workers' compensation and death benefits. (These fees are supposed to be paid by passengers, but a recent New York Times report indicated Uber may be taking them out of drivers' pockets.) The charges don't apply to interstate trips, but IDG claims Lyft is adding them to those trips anyway.
Fees the company claimed were administrative charges matched the amounts for the sales tax and "black car fund" surcharge, the group said. Even for in-state trips, Lyft should not be subtracting these fees from driver pay; they are supposed to be added on top of the fares paid by riders.
A Lyft spokesperson told The Washington Post that there is "no merit" to the group's allegations.
While Uber has endured scandal after scandal in recent months, Lyft has cruised along with relatively little bad press. The company has tried to position itself as a more ethical alternative to Uber, which will be harder to do should IDG's accusations prove true. Because companies can treat ride-share drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, it's all too easy for those drivers to be exploited. It's an issue the industry will likely continue to grapple with going forward.
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VANCOUVER -- The Los Angeles Kings have conquered the NHL's presidents.
The eighth-seeded Kings pulled off a stunning victory over the President's Trophy winners on Sunday, defeating the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 in overtime in Game 5 to clinch the best-of-seven series 4-1.
Jarret Stoll scored 4:27 into the extra session as the Kings stormed into Rogers Arena and won their third straight game in Vancouver's rink.
The Kings' Jonathan Quick was terrific in goal and Brad Richardson, who missed the first three games of the series after an emergency appendectomy, sent the game into overtime with his third-period tally.
Henrik Sedin had the lone goal for Vancouver, which managed just eight markers in the series.
The Kings were outplayed through 40 minutes but, sensing they could send the NHL's best team packing, came out with a frantic third period and continued that pace in overtime.
They were rewarded early in overtime when Stoll pounced on a Dan Hamhuis turnover -- the disappointed crowd felt that Hamhuis was hauled down by Trevor Lewis -- and scored on the ensuing 2-on-1. Stoll fired a rocket shot short side just under the crossbar for his second goal in the past 40 games.
The win sends Los Angeles into the second round for the first time in 11 years.
The Canucks' best period during the regular season was the third period, but not in this series. Los Angeles won Games 1 and 3 after the teams were tied through 40 minutes, and on Sunday they overcame a 1-0 deficit heading into the third.
After an unsuccessful power play early in the third, the Kings took advantage of a center-ice turnover to tie the game.
Drew Doughty snapped up an errant pass, outwaited Cory Schneider and fed Richardson, who outbattled Henrik Sedin and Alex Edler in front to snap the puck in for his first goal of the series.
Prior to the third period, Quick was the only reason L.A. was within one goal.
With time waning in the second frame the confident Kings netminder held his ground against Jannik Hansen on a 2-on-1, and then stopped sniper Daniel Sedin with a right pad save on a clear-cut breakaway.
Schneider, making his third straight start in favor of Roberto Luongo, was strong as well.
He robbed Willie Mitchell early in overtime, and made an amazing second-period stop on Mike Richards that brought many people in the sellout crowd of 18,690 to their feet.
The Canucks led 1-0 after 40 minutes thanks to a power-play marker from Henrik Sedin.
Vancouver killed off two early first-period penalties, then had four consecutive man-advantage chances of their own.
The second opportunity proved fruitful.
Canucks defenseman Hamhuis blocked a Matt Greene clearing attempt, then Henrik and Daniel Sedin worked a pretty give-and-go with Henrik finishing the play into an empty net after Daniel's pass fooled Mitchell and Quick.
NOTES: Canucks F Dale Weise dressed in favor of Zack Kassian on the fourth line and was effective with Manny Malhotra and Mason Raymond. ... Canucks forward Ryan Kesler did not score a goal in his final 17 games of the season. ... Kings forwards Anze Kopitar (one goal, three assists) and Justin Williams (four assists) had their four-game points streaks snapped. The Canucks led 1-0 after two periods, but could have had a wider edge if not for the heroics of the Kings' Jonathan Quick. | <urn:uuid:9e84c8c5-e8fb-44da-b58f-8991bea890ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://sports.yahoo.com/news/kings-2-canucks-1-ot-051731344--nhl.html | 2017-06-26T20:39:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320863.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626184725-20170626204725-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.969167 | 749 | [
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"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. "
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Strategic Thinking The Strategic Thinking process provides a format for developing specific strategies, converting those strategies in a business planning process and establishing measurable and attainable organizational goals. It is a process that involves not only determining where a company wants to and needs to go, but also, how it is going to get there.
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Customer Loyalty Through the introduction of this Customer Loyalty process each individual will develop a thorough understanding the organizationís values and philosophy regarding customer service. The participants will be able to properly identify what customers want, and how their individual interaction with every customer contributes to the creation of customer loyalty and overall success. | <urn:uuid:bb914f5d-f9fe-4c13-948e-13766687deb9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://therussellgroupllc.com/leadershipdevelopment.html | 2017-06-27T13:52:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321426.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627134151-20170627154151-00153.warc.gz | en | 0.936902 | 529 | [
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Posted 6 years ago
8 By 35 photo
U.S. Naval Training Station San Diego California Company 39-2 Jan.1939
Note on the back mentions "Regular Navy-- All Volunteers"
Local bar owner in San Francisco I had never met until last night gave this to me.
Her bar dates back to the 40's, Economy forces bars close. Some similarities to my family's pub. sad to see such local history lost.
I can't help but notice the smiles on these men's faces.Then think of what contributions they gave.How many if even 1 are still with us today. They're stories.....
They're individual contributions as a whole on our lives today.
Love it. A keeper in my book.
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We all know that some pet owners dote on their pets like children. In our journeys, we have interacted with folks traveling with their pets.
But this one’s probably have a manicurist as his owner. We were walking along the small shopping streets of Ubud when we spotted this fella lying on his side. Didn’t think it was a stray since we spied someone (probably owner) calling out to him.
Not a care in the world about the whirling tuk tuks that zip around. Look closer at the photo. Does it appear that his eyebrows are drawn dark? | <urn:uuid:005ad7bc-5c1f-4cae-aac2-87d9321bc7a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://travelingmatters.net/2017/02/07/manicured-dog-in-bali/ | 2017-06-27T14:08:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321426.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627134151-20170627154151-00153.warc.gz | en | 0.987731 | 126 | [
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Sexual Predator Honored With U.S. Postage Stamp
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Franklin evidently failed to envisage today’s postmodern left. For the conservative, there exists at least one other certainty, and it is this: The degree to which “progressives” attack you corresponds precisely to the degree with which you challenge any among their assorted, distorted and sordid sacred cows.
What would you call a 33-year-old man who both had and axiomatically acted upon a deviant sexual appetite for underage, drug-addicted, runaway boys? (No, not Jerry Sandusky.)
What would you call a man of whom, as regards sexual preference, his own friend and biographer confessed, “Harvey always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems”?
In a recent interview with OneNewsNow.com, I called this man “demonstrably, categorically an evil man based on his [statutory] rape of teenage boys.”
But you can call him Harvey Milk.
Harvey Milk’s only claim to fame is that he was the first openly homosexual candidate to be elected to public office (San Francisco city commissioner). His chief cause was to do away with the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic. In 1978 Milk was murdered over a non-related political dispute by fellow Democrat Dan White.
And a “progressive” martyr was born.
Merriam Webster defines “pederast” as “one who practices anal intercourse especially with a boy.” It defines “statutory rape” as “the crime of having sex with someone who is younger than an age that is specified by law.”
Harvey Milk was both a pederast and, by extension, a statutory rapist. After I publicly addressed this objective reality in the above-mentioned interview, the liberal blogosphere reacted in, shall we say, an informatively defensive manner.
A Huffington Post headline screamed: “Harvey Milk Was An ‘Evil Man’ Who Raped Teenage Boys, Unworthy of Postage Stamp: Matt Barber.”
The always-amusing Right Wing Watch blog breathlessly posted my comments with the header: “Barber: ‘Harvey Milk Was Demonstrably, Categorically an Evil Man.’”
And so on.
Here’s what’s especially telling about their reaction. Not one of the dozen-or-more publications that reported on my comments even challenged their veracity. Not one attempted to refute or deny that Harvey Milk was, in fact, a pederast and a sexual predator.
That’s because they can’t.
One of Milk’s victims was a 16-year-old runaway from Maryland named Jack Galen McKinley. As previously mentioned, Milk had a soft spot in his, um, heart for teenage runaways. Motivated by an apparent quid pro quo of prurience, Milk plucked McKinley from the street.
Randy Shilts was a San Francisco Chronicle reporter and close friend to Harvey Milk. Though Shilts died of AIDS in 1994, he remains, even today, one of the most beloved journalists in the “LGBT” community.
Shilts was also Harvey Milk’s biographer. In his glowing book “The Mayor of Castro Street,” he wrote of Milk’s “relationship” with the McKinley boy: ” … Sixteen-year-old McKinley was looking for some kind of father figure. … At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him.”
In a sane world, of course, the only direction his “new lover” should have pulled him was toward San Quentin. But, alas, today’s America – a burgeoning relativist land of make-believe – is anything but sane.
Randy Thomasson, child advocate and founder of SaveCalifornia.com, is one of the nation’s foremost experts on Harvey Milk. Of the Shilts biography, Thomasson notes, “Explaining Milk’s many flings and affairs with teenagers and young men, Randy Shilts writes how Milk told one ‘lover’ why it was OK for him to also have multiple relationships simultaneously: ‘As homosexuals, we can’t depend on the heterosexual model. … We grow up with the heterosexual model, but we don’t have to follow it. We should be developing our own lifestyle. There’s no reason why you can’t love more than one person at a time.’”
Whereas McKinley, a disturbed runaway boy, desperately sought a “father figure” to provide empathy, compassion, wisdom and direction, he instead found Harvey Milk: a promiscuous sexual predator who found, in McKinley, an opportunity to satisfy a perverse lust for underage flesh.
Years later McKinley committed suicide.
Another teen who crossed paths with Harvey Milk was Christian convert and former homosexual Gerard Dols. In a 2008 radio interview with Concerned Women for America, Dols shared of how – as a physically disabled teen – the “very nice” Harvey Milk had encouraged him in 1977 to run away from his Minnesota home and come to San Francisco.
According to Dols, Milk told him, “Don’t tell your parents,” and later sent him a letter with instructions. Thankfully, the letter was intercepted by Dols’ parents who then filed a complaint with the Minnesota attorney general’s office.
The incident was evidently swept under the rug.
So what does a man like Harvey Milk get for his apparent crimes? While most sexual predators get time in prison and a dishonorable mention on the registry of sex offenders, Harvey Milk got his own California state holiday (“Harvey Milk Day”) and, more recently, his own commemorative postage stamp, awarded by the Obama administration’s USPS.
God bless America?
As troubling as the postage stamp may be, to me – the father of a soon-to-be-teenage boy – the specter of having a “Harvey Milk Day” forced upon millions of California children, parents and educators is even more troubling. Especially in light of Milk’s own sordid history with minors.
Even so, and quite obviously, not everyone agrees. Some have said that my reality-based assessment of Harvey Milk is “uncivil.” Our historical revisionist friends on the left tend to get a bit snooty when you publicly deconstruct one of their meticulously fabricated mythical martyrs.
I find that odd.
To me, even the mere notion of elevating, to hero status, a man who statutorily raped teenage boys, is what’s uncivil.
(First published Oct. 2013)
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Author – Rikin Khamar
Soon after the beautiful young Padmini becomes Queen of Chittor – the most important city in Rajputana – she finds her happiness clouded by an ancient curse. Her life is then torn apart when the scheming Sultan of Delhi becomes obsessed with possessing her and her kingdom.
When the Sultan besieges the city, the Rajputs are pushed to the brink of destruction, and Padmini is faced with a terrible decision – one that will determine the fate of her home, her people, and her love
Set in the backdrop of 14th Century Rajasthan, The Lotus Queen richly blends fact and fiction and weaves together a tale of love, friendship, and inner courage, in the face of extreme adversity.
My thoughts –
I remember hearing about Chittor and Rani Padmini from my mother first. She used to tell us about this brave Rajput queen who chose death over dishonour and became immortal in history. Thereafter I remember reading about this legend here and there, in bits and pieces, but never had I known the full story. And so when I came across this book I picked it up to know some more about this brave Rajput woman. And also, I loved the cover of the book which has patterns similar to the ones we find in the palaces of that era.
THE LOTUS QUEEN is a work of fact & fiction. It is the story of Rajput Queen Padmini of Chittor, wife of Rawal Rattan Singh. She was well-known for her beauty & wit, so much that it reached the ears of the Sultanate of Delhi. Alauddin Khilji, Sultan of Delhi, came forward with a proposal to the Rawal of Chittor that he might be allowed a glimpse of the Queen, of whose beauty he has heard a lot. Now this was an insult to the Rajuts since as per their customs, women do not come infront of strangers without a veil. But an outright refusal to the powerful Sultan was like directly inviting him to attack Chittor. So to evade a confrontation and also to keep their customs intact, the Rajputs decided to show the Sultan a glimpse of the Queen in a mirror. And this was what was done. However, as expected, the scheming Sultan was not to be content with only a glimpse and now wanted to make Rani Padmini a part of his harem. And hence followed a series of attack & defence, over a period of 8 months. But the small Chittor was not a match for the mighty and powerful Delhi Sultanate for long. The story ends with the final war of Mewar with the men committing Saka and the women committing Jauhar, thus choosing death over dishonour.
The book talks about Queen Padmini’s show of wit, extreme courage and the willingness to sacrifice her own life for the honour of her land. The author has altered between present (the ongoing war) and past (the events that led to the war) in the story from the viewpoint of various characters but with the same kind of values and feelings from all of them. This was something which I liked in the book. Also, it isn’t a biography and hence I could ignore the fact that the author did not delve too deep into the character of Padmini. But then there is a comment at the end of the book by the author which says that there isn’t much in history books about Rani Padmini and it still is a mystery whether this tale is an actual one or a tale made up by a bard to glorify the Rajput bravery, galour and honour.
The choice of words for describing the battle scenes and the also the emotions of the people – both men & women, going for the ultimate sacrifice has been another highlight of the book for me.
Final words – I loved this book. Written with a mood that captures the essence of the traditions, landscapes and emotions & values of the Rajputs quite nicely, it also gives you a peep into the rich history. A delightful read that makes you keep turning the pages till the end. 🙂
- The book was bought by me and my opinions expressed here are honest & unbiased.
- Padmini in Sanskrit means ‘she who sits on the lotus‘ hence the name The Lotus Queen.
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