 I will give you a call tomorrow. Thanks for coming." He turns back to a crowd of fans waiting for him to resume his performance. I walk off the stage.
The night was a lot of fun. Micky really can get a crowd going. Lots of singing and dancing. Needless to say, I am exhausted today... we didn't get home until 3:00 this morning.
"I told you not to go, Paige. I knew you would be tired today," says Jean Robert as I lay in the hammock in the middle of the afternoon... you're right Jean Robert... one of my 600 brothers looking out for me.
Doesn't surprise me that Paige goes up CENTER STAGE without hestitation. Different set of rules in Haiti than U.S.A., huh? Rules or no rules....Paige is still VERY comfortable in the limelight!!!
wow paige. now if you could only get that kind of treatment in the states! never going to happen!!! enjoy it while you can....you think your so cool!More than 100 jobs will be created if plans for a new garden centre are approved.
Elveden Estate, in Suffolk, has lodged plans with West Suffolk Council to build a garden centre, with replacement farm shop and restaurant, within its walled garden along with an extension of its car park.
Michael Douglas, from Elveden Estate, said that the centre will boost the economy in the surrounding area.
He said: "Elveden village is already a visitor attraction and destination for retail and leisure activities that helps to support the Estate and benefit the rural economy.
"The application proposals are designed to build upon the heritage of the Estate through the provision of an attractive garden centre facility that will complement the existing on-site retail and leisure uses.
"Blue Diamond is the proposed operator of the garden centre and will sell a comprehensive range of garden goods and related home wares and accessories."
The site is located at the eastern edge of the village, at the courtyard access road to Rectory Cottages.
Documents on West Suffolk Council's planning site state there are currently 47 employees working at the existing farm shop and restaurant, which would be transferred to the new centre.
The proposed site would also generate a further 110 part-time and full-time employment opportunities for people in nearby areas.
Along with the extension of its current parking facilitates which would increase to 394 car parking spaces.
Mr Douglas said: "The new centre will provide an increase in the number of jobs in the village.
"It will be served by a landscaped parking area which will include facilities for buses, cycle and motorbike parking as well as purpose-designed car parking spaces for wheelchair users, families and electric vehicles."
"The landscaping scheme will also provide in tree-planting and the installation of bird-boxes and invertebrate boxes to enhance the ecological value of the site."
Despite concerns raised about the impact on nearby garden centres in neighbouring towns, including Thetford Garden Centre, Elveden Estate have said that they have been required to demonstrate that the proposed development would not have a negative impact on any town centre.BioShock Infinite
You can picture happy gatherings
'Round the fireside long ago,
And you think of tearful partings
When they left you here below.
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Is a better home a-waiting
In the sky, in the sky?
—Will the Circle Be Unbroken, as sung by Elizabeth
BioShock Infinite is the third game in the BioShock series, released on March 26th, 2013. It takes place in 1912, in the floating sky city of Columbia, "designed to demonstrate to the world by example the founding democratic principles of the United States, the product of American ideals, endeavor and industry." However, a visit to China by the city during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 revealed a much darker purpose on the part of its makers: the city revealed itself to be heavily armed, and bombarded a group of Chinese civilians. This incident prompted the American government to disown Columbia and cause it to go rogue and disappear into the clouds. Now it exists as a Death Star without an Empire, a roaming boogeyman imposing its will on whatever unfortunate target it chooses.
The player is Booker DeWitt, a disgraced Pinkerton Detective sent to the city by a mysterious stranger to find a woman named Elizabeth who was locked up in Columbia since she was five. Only giving DeWitt a few sparse details, he tells Booker that he'll transport him to the city if he decides to accept.
But predictably, this mission won't be simple or easy: since it went rogue, the city has fallen into a violent civil war between the Founders, the ultranationalist, xenophobic ruling class, led by Zachary Hale Comstock; and the Vox Populi, a group led by Daisy Fitzroy which initially sought to open Columbia to people of all races and religions before years of conflict morphed them into a terrorist group that fights out of blind hatred. Both factions believe that Elizabeth is the key to winning the conflict, which will inevitably prove to be a problem.
There is also the matter of Songbird - a massive clockwork creature that looks like a deranged cross between a bird and a gargoyle and is often referred to simply as "Him" - whose sole purpose is to retrieve Elizabeth, and violently kill anything that tries to stop it...
While game head Ken Levine has said that BioShock Infinite takes place in a different universe from the original games, a key game mechanic is the manipulation of portals that lead to different timelines.
- Action Girl: Elizabeth has shown to be pretty skilled in using her powers to destructive effect in tandem with Booker.
- The 15-minute gameplay trailer also shows her kicking a member of Vox Populi in the balls in background while Booker fights the main horde. Since the developers didn't want the game to be one long escort mission, they made sure that Elizabeth could take care of herself in most situations. The support she needs from Booker is more psychological than physical.
- Adorkable: Elizabeth, if the new two minutes preview is anything to go by. It's both cute and a little sad how much she tried to cheer (or make rapport) Booker and how fast she went to frightened out of her mind.
- Air Jousting: Sort of. The preview shows Booker one-shotting an incoming hostile citizen with a wrench while moving along the sky rail.
- All the Myriad Ways: Columbia is somehow full of "tears" between alternate universes, and Elizabeth manipulates them.
- Anachronism Stew:
- The phonograph in the gameplay preview seems to be playing a ragtime-waltz version Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". Saltonstall's badge also briefly turns into the Communist hammer and sickle (which didn't exist as a symbol in 1912) at one point.
- Recent previews reveal that these may be connected to "tears" in the space time continuum scattered thorough Columbia.
- In addition, the E3 2011 demo has Elizabeth accidentally open a tear into the future with a theater in the background that's playing Revenge of the Jedi, the dropped title of "Return of the Jedi". That timeline is similar but different from our own (although it does have the Tears for Fears version of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World").
- Apathetic Citizens: In the gameplay preview, Columbia is falling apart, and the citizens seem largely self-interested and without care. Mortar launcher just explodes outside your bar? Not your problem! (Subverted when they all start attacking the PC. When you shoot a man dead in their midst...)
- To say nothing of the woman sweeping the front porch of a burning building. Word of God says that, yes, something weird happened to the people here.
- Artifact Title: It does look like BioShock is now going in a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest like direction, where each game is thematically linked with some recurring elements but ultimately self-contained.
- Artistic License Physics: The skyrail concept. The force from falling and grabbing those rails would be enough to tear your arms out of your sockets in real life. But it's an Acceptable Break From Your Shoulder, er, Reality to make a really interesting game mechanic. At least this is acknowledged by making significant falls from rail to rail hurt Booker.
- Art Shift: Unsurprising, since it's now set in a turn of the century city in the sky. The Dragon is pretty Rapture-like, however, aside from the fact that he's designed for aerial use rather than underwater.
- Awesome but Impractical: Elizabeth forging a cannon was the single biggest show of power in the entire BioShock franchise... and a complete waste, since it would have been easier (and less dangerous for her) if she simply: pushed the carts, threw the pans with great force, force lifted the shooters, or anything really. Of course, she's new to her powers, and not a soldier.
- Badass Abnormal: Booker is already a fairly badass man, but it's only enhanced with his use of tonics.
- Badass Moustache: The Handymen have some serious old-timey mustaches going on.
- Bait and Switch: The trailer begins with an underwater shot and a Big Daddy... which turns out to be the inside of a fish tank. Cue the sky.
- Casual Danger Dialog: Occasionally.
Booker: (While contemplating how best to escape a turret