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The Sydney Puppet Theatre specialises in Theatre of Delight for the family audience. Currently, they have 7 shows in repertoire using a variety of puppetry styles including shadow puppets, hand and rod puppets and exquisite marionettes. They have toured extensively in Australia and have performed by invitation at international puppet festivals and events in Hungary, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Austria and Germany.
The Sydney Puppet Theatre (since 1989, principally Steve Coupe and Sue Wallace) was formed in 1984 with fellow puppeteers Greg Howard and David Collins. From 1992 to 2004 the company managed the artistic direction of The Rocks Puppet Cottage. From 1998 to 2005, they directed the "One Van" International Festival of Puppetry in the beautiful village of Blackheath, the Blue Mountains, NSW.
They have been puppetry consultants for various clients including the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Roads and Transport Authority, Sydney Water, the NSW Fire Department, Australia's Wonderland and the Powerhouse and Australian Museums.
Sue Wallace has devised workshop programs for children for the Casula Powerhouse (2012), Tarrengower Puppetfest (2012), the Powerhouse Discovery Centre (2011), Kids First and Giant Steps (09). For adults she has devised programs for Enmore College of Design TAFE (2000 to 2013), ImaginArta (2012), Canberra University (2011) and various workshops for the Sydney Puppet Theatre. In 2012 she devised 2 intenstive workshops for high-school students participating in the Hunter Regional Drama Festival.
Sue Wallace was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2005 and Sue and Steve spent 3 months in 2006 researching Puppet Centres around the world with a view to creating a working model for a puppet centre in Australia. In 2010, Sue and colleagues created ImaginArta - the Australian Puppet Centre Inc. a not-for-profit association. The first event for ImaginArta was held at the Annandale Creative Arts Centre in January 2011. They are currently in negotiation for a permanent home in Sydney.
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I've probably had, maybe 20 bananas my whole life. Whenever we get fruit smoothies, I always get mine without banana and I'll never understand the appeal of strawberry-banana flavored candy. Blech. But something strange happens every once in awhile..
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1 tsp vanilla extract
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1 banana (you can use 2 or 3, depending on how much banana you like)
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-In a bowl, add the egg yolks, the rest of the sugar, and add the cornstarch and whisk until combined.
-Once the half 'n half comes to a simmer, take a ladle of the hot milk, and while whisking the eggs, slowly pour the hot milk into the bowl of egg yolks. This is called tempering. You're slowly raising the temperature of the eggs so that they don't scramble when they hit the hot milk.
-After you've added and whisked about three(3) ladles worth of the hot milk, go ahead and dump the bowl of eggs into the pot and whisk together.
-The cornstarch will now start doing it's job, by thickening the mixture. So keep the heat on medium/low, and stand there and whisk until you see it start to bubble like thick porridge. This should only take about 2-3 minutes.
-Once thickened, take off the heat, and at this point, you could pass the pudding through a strainer just to make sure you don't get any solids in it. Add the butter and vanilla, and stir in your bananas. It may seem a little thin right now, but as it cools in the fridge, it will set.
-You can make these into cutesy parfaits, but I don't own any of those glasses, so I opted for a simple dish, and garnished with the vanilla cookies. There's no specific method for this… just add 'em however you want! I add the cookies right away because I like how soft and cakey they become. If you want your cookies to stay crunchy, wait until the pudding is completely cooled before adding them.
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(Critical Survey of Contemporary Fiction)
When his uncle sends Triton, an eleven-year old boy, to work for Ranjan Salgado, bachelor scientist obsessed with the destruction of the Sri Lankan coral reefs, the young servant is so impressed by his master's intellect and demeanor that he attempts to emulate him. As Triton recounts the details of his education, he focuses on cleaning and, especially, cooking skills, but this coming-of-age story is about Triton's complete education. He resists a would-be rapist, experiences both lust and fear at the sight of Salgado's naked mistress, learns about Western exploitation, listens unwillingly to leftist political propaganda, and witnesses sexual betrayal and revolutionary violence. After the death of Dias, one of Salgado's cronies, Triton and Salgado flee to England, where Triton opens and successfully operates a restaurant.
Although REEF may not contain the traditional well-made plot, it is rich in description that is poetic in its metaphorical and symbolic language. Cooking is Triton's creative outlet, and his development as a chef parallels that of a writer (REEF is Gunesekera's second book and first novel). The reef itself, threatened by pollution, is a microcosm of the island nation threatened by corruption; and the abyss next to the reef surely symbolized Sri Lanka's possible future. Robert, the Westerner who steals Nili, Salgado's mistress, and later abandons her, reenacts the familiar colonial experience. A colonial experience that seems to benefit the colonized is embodied in the relationship of Triton, trained by a master who knows when to let go and return home, as Salgado eventually does to Sri Lanka. Unfortunately, like Gunesekera, Triton remains a creative expatriate in exile.


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the nightsounds were loud above us as we slept. i lay awake to the music of heavy icy rain pinging off the metal roof that covers our bedroom. the darkest part of night. the rumble of sleep and stella's frantic hunt for warmth as she snuggles under the duvet and into my arms. i stayed in the dark snuggling and listening until the other cats began pacing and whining for me to start the day with them.
the rain has stopped. the cats are fed and the fire is warming the library. the kettle is on the boil and blueberries rinsed for breakfast. the day is on it's way.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 19:59 UTC
"Windows Vista brings with it a new era of DRM and restrictive license agreements that aren't going to sit well with even your basic power user and some are looking for an escape route. These changes are making some users question their commitment to Microsoft. The obvious step is to make the leap to Linux. But what's holding people back from escaping Microsoft's shackles and moving to a free, easy platform? My guess is that the platform isn't everything. In fact, it's only a small part of the equation."
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I don't think Linux is ready either.
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However, it is very close. All that needs to be done is someone to mix Ubuntu's usability and SuSE/Linspire's mulitmedia support, then everyone will be happy. There is the driver support problem, but that is improving every day.
Note, though, that if you are an advanced Linux user, things are pretty much fine the way it is, except support for NTFS and the GTK-Qt rivalry.
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Big Brother invasion or simply big business? You be the judge.
As more and more employers ask their employees to wear tracking sensors on their clothing (yes, it's just what you think it is to track your movement), they're actually compiling compelling data in the process.
According to a piece in The Wall Street Journal, researchers found that productivity surged at one specific tech company when workers ate at tables designed for 12 people instead of four.
In another situation, a bank call center moved to group breaks instead of individual ones and productivity increased by 10 percent.
In some instances, employers aren't the only ones to have access to information. In some cases, employees may get a report on their group's interactions (sans names) and individuals can see their own data.
As for the good news? Typically individual names aren't on reports so it's not like a manager has access to data from a specific person on their team (in case you were wondering about perhaps taking one too many coffee breaks throughout the day).


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With her last novel, Wise Children (1991), Angela Carter revisits many of the topics that defined her career: the text is wittily metafictional, pondering questions such as the unreliability of both memory and narration; it continues Carter's project of deconstructing the (Western) literary canon; it questions the roles assigned to both women and men in a heteronormative society; and, finally, it includes elements reminiscent of magic realism. "Welcome to the wrong side of the tracks" (Carter 1), Carter's narrator greets her readers: Wise Children is told from the narrative perspective of Dora Chance, who – in an often achronological and at times almost associative manner – is assembling the memoir of her own …
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And like that, Cider Week is over. First off, thanks to everybody who took some time to read my posts. I know this is a beer blog, so I was stoked to see so many people willing to read about something different. It appears a lot of people in Toronto are interested in Cider! I also wanted to take some time and put some thoughts and reflections down that I had through the course of the week. If you're just tuning-in you can get caught-up on Cider Week here: http://www.torontobeerblog.com/tag/cider-week/
The Bottom Line
In measurable terms, this has been the most successful week ever for my blog. The top three most single day hits in over two years were in this past week. I know part of this is consistency. Posting every day certainly keeps you folks coming back. I think as well, though, that a lot of craft beer enthusiasts are curious about cider. To a lot of you, cider is sort of somewhere between a beer and a cooler. Not really something to give much consideration to. They all taste like apples, right? But I hope this week has opened a lot of people's minds. Try some of these drinks out. I won't promise you will love them, but you might be surprised. And yes, I'm already planning on doing Cider Week next year. First week of May, be here, okay?
Because I know people will ask
I don't play favourites. All the ciders I reviewed this week had different good things going for them. Some have great market appeal, some are pushing consumer's boundaries, none were bad and all were quite refreshing. That being said, it would be impossible not to give another shout-out to Spirit Tree Estate Cidery. Everything about what they do (and I'm thinking beyond just cider, check their website to see what I mean) impresses me. I'm going to go into a bit more detail about the struggles, but in the face of a difficult uphill battle, they are shining. And even excelling. Check these dudes out.
Feeling Grateful
And not just because I got to drink some amazing ciders this week. Though that helped. But for what we've got going in Ontario with craft beer. I've alluded to parts of this in posts this week but here goes: Craft beer drinkers moan and grumble about the lack of selection of amazing craft beers in the LCBO compared to other provinces and the USA. There is no doubt, it is easier to get excellent beer in Quebec at a dep. But shift your focus to cider for a minute, next time you're lamenting the craft beer selection in your local LCBO. There are some amazing craft cideries, and you won't find most of them in the LCBO. There are a variety of reasons for this, but take a moment and be thankful: we can find at least one great local craft beer in nearly any LCBO.
Rage Against the Machine
It would be irresponsible to not follow-up the above paragraph with a call to action. For the sake of great small cider producers, we need change. And I'm not even talking about non-LCBO sales. Cideries get taxed like a winery. Not a brewery. They are taxed as if they are producing a 10+% product. But most of them aren't. Over half what most of them charge for their products goes directly to the government. This is insane. It is, in part, because when the laws were made, commercial cider production was a non-issue, compared to beer, wine and spirits. But that is hardly an excuse. When you think about some of the more archaic liquor laws in our lovely little chunk of Canada, don't forget our hard-working cider-makers. They deserve a better kick at the can.
Final Thoughts
This has been a heap of fun. I can't promise that I will post seven articles this coming week, but the positive feedback and stats from the week served as a good reminder to not neglect posting here as much as I can. I'll be doing a few reviews for this week later tonight, and am hoping to keep the volume up.
If you've made it all the way down here, I'm sure I'm probably preaching to the choir, but drink cider. Such a lovely drink, totally different from beer or wine, but still with such a range of styles and profiles. Ontario has some amazing apple producing regions; if we can encourage more cideries to start-up, all the better.
And again, thank you for reading. I don't take much time to say it, but I know I should more often. I certainly wouldn't be writing if people weren't reading, and I love writing here, so I owe thanks to you all.


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Resident in Italy for over three decades, Tim Parks has had ample opportunity to suffer his name's rendition by Italians. "Tim Pax" is what usually comes out, as if in deadpan rebuke to the peace he seeks in this book: from the pains in his abdomen, perineum, back, thighs and penis, and, later, from the roar in his head, the continual vigilance that makes him a writer.
This is from his novel Destiny: "There is always a paradox at the heart of character . . . some contradiction that ties the knot, holds two conflicting halves together . . . A sort of stable schizophrenia you could call it, an enigma at the core." Many years later, in Delhi for a conference on translation, where he outrages his audience by talking of the impossibility of translating from one culture to another, he goes to see an ayurvedic doctor. (He wants to see a "respectable" ayurvedic doctor. "They are all respectable, as far as I know," he is told.) After describing his symptoms (which also include having to pee several times a night) and listening to a brief piece of nonsense about an enema of sesame oil and "various herbs", he is startled by the doctor saying: "This is a problem you will never get over, Mr Parks, until you confront the profound contradiction in your character." "I can't recall," Parks writes, "being more surprised by a single remark in all my life."
Like Parks, I am firmly of the western, evidence-based frame of mind when it comes to the claims of healers. Parks, the son of a clergyman who eventually became an adherent of the more evangelical, charismatic mumbo-jumbo (speaking in tongues, the laying on of hands, and so on), is not the kind of person who goes straight to alternative medicine. The conventional avenues are explored first. But these disappoint him, and baffle the practitioners themselves: they can see nothing wrong with him, even after the most rigorous internal examinations. And yet, as his nocturnal visits to the loo and the constant pain remind him: there is something wrong with him. (There was a nice review of this book by Dan Gunn in the TLS, which begins with Gunn beginning to worry that an introductory speech he was giving in 2006 about Parks was, through its banality, causing him great, writhing torment; he realises now that at the time, Parks couldn't sit down for more than a minute without suffering.)
So I was a little worried about Parks when I first heard about this book. It was, I gathered, a hymn of praise or thanks to Vipassana meditation – not that I am familiar with the different forms of meditation – and I was worried whether this was a case of a noble mind being overthrown.
You need not worry. Parks, who as he puts it here, fell in love with Beckett around the age of 15 (a very good age to do so) and who has absorbed his style for his own excellent novels, is not going to let his mind turn to mush that easily, even when his last guru, one John Coleman, would seem to speak as if that were desirable. Contemplating Coleridge's relationship to his own illnesses (which may have been imaginary), Parks writes: "Resolution. If I ever write about this 'illness', it would only be when I had recovered and it was no longer a 'complaint'. And then in the simplest of words . . . No fancy literature at the expense of well-being."
Luckily, Beckett does not fall into this category. How can one not smile when one of the chapters, in which he comes across such concepts as Nibbida, "awareness that this existence is disgusting" – is called "Personally Of Course I Regret Everything", a line that comes from one of the greatest passages in all of Beckett? (Watt, in case you're interested.) Beckett's comic disgust with life – "a cat's flux" – is, he discovers, "the essence of Buddhism".
This is one of the most interesting and revealing testaments you will ever get from a writer. From one of Parks's calibre, it is remarkable, and I sometimes found myself wondering if he had given too much of himself away. But if he has, then we should just be grateful for his generosity. Peace be unto him.


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"Come on, get up!" I say nudging Draco.
"Hmmmhff," He mutters rolling over to face away from me.
"Come on," I whine as I get up and change out of my pajamas. "You said you would help me decorate the baby's room today."
Draco rolls over and opens one eye at me. He groans as he sits up. It looks like he hasn't gotten any sleep the night before. "Do we have to?" He mutters trying to keep his eyes open.
I sit on the bed, concernly looking at Draco. "What happened? It looks like you haven't gotten any sleep."
His eyes instantly light up. "I'll tell you after we go shopping," He jumps out of bed and rushes to get his clothes on.
"Why don't you tell me now?" I say following him to the closet.
"Later," He says kissing me on the nose. "Let's get this done first, my news is going to ruin our day plans."
I look at him funny. "Okay," I say laughing as I put on a sweatshirt. "Let's go then!"
We walk into Wizard Children store and look around. "All pink this time around!" I say smiling at Draco. I look around some more at the many aisles of baby blue and tickle-me-pink. "Okay, if you look at cribs, I'm going to pick out wallpaper."
Draco nods and walks in the opposite direction. I walk towards the many wallpapers and paints. I quickly decide on a tickle me pink color with a banner that would wrap around the top of the wall. It had tiny golden sparkles that would glitter and shine. I pick out a couple of things and towards Draco who is talking to a salesperson.
"Well this must be your wife!" A blonde haired man says walking up to me and shaking my hand. I look closely at the sales person and study his face.
"Gilderoy Lockhart?" I say studying his facial features.
"Who's this Lockhart?" The man says flashing a smile. "Why I'm Jim, Jim Foreman, manager of the Wizard Children Store!"
"No, you're Gilderoy! I remember having a crush on you and reading all your books" Draco tugs on my sweater and I lean in and he whispers in my ear.
"You might want to drop it," He says. "It's Gilderoy, a well aged Gilderoy, but he lost his memory, he now thinks he's Jim and is the manager of the store. Just play along. He seems happy."
I nod as I look to Gilderoy- I mean Jim. "I'm so sorry," I say smiling. "I thought you were someone else!"
He smiles and turns to Draco. "So, what were you're thoughts on a crib."
"Sturdy one, preferably a dark wood color, can be pulled out to be a bed, and a reasonable price," Draco says as if he was reciting it. You could tell he wasn't going to take any crap from a salesperson.
Jim nods. "Alright," He smiles. I can feel myself melt still! "Well I would say this one," He gestures toward a beautiful looking crib. "It's spell resistant inside and out."
Draco doesn't even look at the price. "We'll take it," I look at the price.
"Draco, it's 200 galleans," That's 1,400 in muggle money! My eyes go wide.
"It's fine, I'll take care of it," He says taking out his wallet. "What did you find?"
"Well.." I say as I turn around as I've already filled two full carts of various clothes, toys, blankets, and more.
He sighs and rolls his eyes. "Alright, let's go," He laughs as we check out. I don't even look at the price in fear of fainting. Draco shows no expression as he pays for the stuff, so I'm guessing it's okay.
"How are we going to get this home?" I ask Draco.
"I have my ways," He says grinning. "You just take the floo home, be careful."
I floo home and instantly Draco shows up with everything.
"You're brilliant!" I laugh as I hug him. "Tell me your surprise now!" I say dying to know.
"Okay, but you might want to sit down," He says smiling. I sit down and he smiles. "We did it!" He says.
"Did what?" I ask.
"We got up the death eaters again!" Draco says. "Father and I, it's happening!"
"But, the Dark Lord died," I say thinking. "What's going to happen?"
"Well, I got a letter a while back. Father and I met a couple of times and discussed it, but we have it down to a plan now. Father was thinking maybe I could do it," Draco explains. "Not going crazy like the Dark Lord did, but I would just lead the group into the right direction."
"That's great!" I say smiling and hugging. "I'm so proud of you."
"And we were thinking you could also help me lead them."
"Be like a dark queen?" I ask.
"In a sense," Draco says laughing. He stands up and walks to his office.
I feel my stomach flip flop, do I really want my child to go into a world of hate?
"Hermione, what's the title going to be for tomorrow's paper?"
"Hermione, what's the front picture?"
"Hermione, the obituaries are late!"
"Hermione, we need a funnies section!"
"Grand Reopening of Ollivanders, the picture of the new Ollivanders with the fireworks blasting the background and the red ribbon clipping open, owl Lisa Newman, she should have them! And do a blast from the past and pick an old comic," I say as I rush into the safety of my office.
"Oh, Hermione!" My secretary calls from her desk. "There's someone in there from a book company!"
"Alright, thanks," I say tiredly smiling as I open the door to my office. A woman stands up and confidently walks toward me. She automatically notices my bulging stomach and takes a step back as if she were judging me.
"Hi," I say smiling as I ignore the snide look. "Hermione Weasley, Editor of the Daily Prophet, how can I help you today?" I shake her hand as I sit down. "Can I get you something to drink? I have butterbeer?"
"Oh no I'm fine," The flashy woman says as she sits down. She studies my photos on my desk of a family picture, a picture of Ron and I, and Rose and Hugo. She looks back at me.
"So, are you looking for a job at the prophet," About ten people come in for a job each day, I automatically thought she was one of them.
"Actually," She says straightening her skirt. "I'm not here for the Prohpet, I'm here for you," She flicks me a card. "Janette Silverson, from Florish and Blotts publishing company."
I study the card. "Flourish and Blotts has a publishing company?" The woman nods. "Alright Miss Stine, how may I help you."
"Well," She says running a finger through her curly brown hair. "I'm really here for you. Florish and Blotts want you to write a book."
"A book?" I ask as I lean back in my chair. "Why would I write a book?"
"Well, as you know, the 25 for the Second Wizarding War is coming up."
I nod thinking of Fred, Tonks, Mad Eye, and Lupin. "Yes."
"Well we want you to write about that."
"Why?" I say pondering. "And how?"
"Well, as we heard, you were a part of that war when you were very young."
"Yeah," I say. "I was about 17-18."
"Well we want you to write about it from the point of view of you," She says. "We want the details of the action, to what side you were on, to the pain of the loved ones lost, and anything else you can remember from it," I swear, she's acting like I'm 72 1/2.
"So the second wizarding world in the point of view of my teenage self?" I ask.
"Yep and remember, you're a teenager, we want the love and hate. Not to mention the love triangles. We were thinking of the title-"
"What a minute, wait a minute, love triangle?" I say looking at her puzzled.
"Of course, what between you, your husband, and your brother in law."
"You mean Harry? There was nothing between us."
"What we're trying to say is-"
"I don't want any rumors going around that I have a love triangle! Harry is my friend, brother in law, and a great uncle to my kids. Nothing else."
"Look are you in on the deal or not?" Janet asks.
"I don't know," I say. "There's just too much stuff going on in my life. I'm pregnant with twins, I have a brand new job, my daughter has a boyfriend, all this stuff is going on and I don't want to add more to it."
"It's going to be an easy book to write," She says looking at me. "It's going to be simpler than writing an article for the daily prophet. There's no facts or dates involved in any of this. Just you and your experience. Think of it as a diary almost, except for the fact that we don't want it to be in the style of the journal."
I look down at my stomach. I wouldn't want to add any more stress on the babies. I look up at her and bite my lip. "Okay, well I'm about 7 months pregnant and my doctor asked me to really not put stress on the babies. I don't think there's a way to work around tha-"
"Oh no, there's no deadline set in stone, at Flourish and Blotts, we see the only person to write this was you."
"See there's the thing I don't get," I say. "You could've asked Harry. I think he would be better at this."
"No," She shakes her head. "He politely declined our offer. So we'll let you have some time to keep your stress down and we'll talk maybe two months after your children are born?"
I smile, at least she's trying to help me. Thank goodness she's letting me take a break. But, I can't help but think that I wouldn't be able to do it. I can't go back to the horrid day, it would be too emotional. "Can I think about it?"
She sighs. "Alright, but you're making a mistake. But please, just think about it?" She says shaking my hand firmly. I follow her out the door and give a stressed look to my secretary.
"Any owls?" I ask afraid of the answer.
"Just one, from your daughter," Judy says handing me it.
"Oh bloody hell what did she do now?" I say as I open the letter.
Just a reminder that our planned dinner is tonight! I knew you would forget! See you soon!
A short, yet sweet letter, but why am I so scared about this? I'm glad Rose has found somebody, it's about time she does! But, I still can't help but wonder that this is all going to burn down in flames.
I completely forgot about this dinner too. It was planned about two weeks ago but so many things have been going on, I forgot about it.
I rush out of my office. "Where's the fire?" Judy asks standing up. "You might want to slow down, you don't want to fall!"
"Cancel all my appointments for the rest of the day!" I say as I run to the floo network and floo home.
"Ron!" I say rushing through the house. I knew he was home, he has a day off today.
"What?" He says getting off of the couch and rushing towards me. "What's going on?"
"Rose is coming to dinner. With Scorpius."
"Like hell they're not," He says staring at me.
"Ron, please, do this for your daughter," I plead. "I'm not too excited about this either. Just paste on a smile and it'll be all good. But first we need to clean up," I study his face. "You do too, please shave and shower and find some decent clothes please."
"She said she hated me though," He says quietly.
"She didn't mean it and you know it, Ron. She loves you."
He sighs and looks at me. "You're crazy for doing this, but okay," He runs upstairs and begins to clean himself up.
I look around the house, there wasn't much to do, but I should straighten up a little bit. I charm the scrubber to scrub the dishes in the sink, I straighten the pillows in the living room and I dust all visible places and place out the nice tablecloth and nice utensils. Ron comes back down 45 minutes later. I look at him and laugh. "You take longer than me!" I say smiling.
"Does this look good?" He asks adjusting his white button down shirt and his best dark jeans.
I study it and shrug. "Yeah, it's cute."
"Cute?" He asks. "I'm supposed to look intimidating to Scorpius."
"Oh, you look *very* itimidating," I say laughing.
"Seriously," He says. I knew he wanted a legitimate thought on his outfit choice.
"Well," I say thinking. "It definitely shows that you weren't trying to dress up, but you ended up anyway because you're so sophisticated," I joke laughing. I walk upstairs and change into a dress that I can still fit into. It's a flowy dress, meant for the summer, but it'll have to do. I walk downstairs and Ron smiles at me. "What?" I ask.
"Nothing," He says straightening some magazines. "It's just, you look great."
I smile and blush as I go to hug Ron, just as I was about to, the doorbell rings and I jump. I open the door and Rose and Scorpius are standing there with linked arms.
"Hi Mom," She says meekly.
I hold my breath as Scorpius and Rose walk in. "Scorpius," Rose says looking at me. "This is my Dad," Scorpius reaches out a hand and I shake it.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Weasley." He says smiling. Why is he so confident? He's supposed to be quaking in fear from me. Maybe I'm being too nice. I add a firm hand grip in there so he remembers I'm Rose's Dad.
I stare down Scorpius as Hermione coughs, hinting that I should stop. "Shall we go sit in the living room?" She gives me a threatening look. I hate to say it, but Hermione is more intimidating than me!
She begins to pour some tea as we silently sip it and stare at the floor. "Rose," Hermione finally pipes up. "I hope you to like steak, because that's what we're serving for dinner."
"Yeah that's great Mum!" Rose says. "It's Scorpius's favorite also."
She looks to Scorpius and smiles at him. This is absolutely disgusting how Hermione is liking this kid. "How has your Mom been?" She asks.
He shifts in his seat. "She's doing great. They're having a girl."
Hermione nods. "I heard about that. Are you excited about that?"
"I'm not really sure yet." Scorpius says looking down at his hands.
"It's not going to be bad," Hermione reassures. "Your parents are still going to love you no matter what," She smiles.
He nods. "I know that, just the thought of me being a big brother is scary."
"You're going to be a great big brother. There's nothing you need to worry about," She looks to Rose. "Hugo on the other hand, he might have some problems." She laughs as Rose smiles.
"Word has gotten out a Hogwarts that we're dating now," Rose says talking to her Mum like the old days. She doesn't look at me.
She laughs. "Oh yeah? How's that treating you?"
"Dom called us the 'hot new couple'." Scorpius says.
Hermione shakes her head and laughs. She looks to Scorpius. "What else?"
"Well everyone wants to get a look at us. I feel like we're under a microscope all the time," Scorpius says.
Hermione laughs. "Hogwarts never changes." She looks at me and smiles as she hold my hand. "It was like that when you dad and I were dating," She squeezes my hand to motivate me to talk to Rose.
"How.. erm, has your school work been coming?" I say looking at my feet.
Rose picks at her pink skirt. "Um great," She says quietly.
"Rose," Hermione says not taking one more moment of this pain. "You hurt your fathers feelings," She's back to her mother ranting. "Did you know for the past 16 years he's paid for you to go to Hogwarts, got you a new owl after Snowy died, pays for your robes and clothes, gets you everything? He's watching you grow up into a young lady. Watching you find a boy and seeing that you're happy with him. And what you said to him, it crushed him. And you decide to act like a spoiled brat. I did not raise you to be a spoiled brat. Now you better appologize before I get out those baby pictures!"
Rose's face goes red. "Sorry Dad," She says truthfully. "I felt bad the moment I said that to you. I didn't know it would hurt you so much. I really do love you."
I look at her and smile as she gets up and hugs me. Hermione smiles and I could tell was proud for what I did. Scorpius looks to me and I pat him on the back. "You're okay too," He takes a sigh of relief. Maybe I was that intimidating.
Scorpius finally speaks up. "So, what about those baby pictures?" He grins at Rose whose face has gone completely red.
I sit down next to Astoria the next morning at breakfast. "You ready?" She asks looking at me.
I gulp as I nod bravely. "Yeah. What time are they coming again?"
She laughs. "We went over this countless times, dear," She begins to take her plate from breakfast and gives it to Binky who runs off to clean it. "They're coming at 10, I'm to serve tea to the others and to not speak unless spoken to," She smiles. "I'm invited to the meeting in the grand dining room and I'm supposed to take notes. When they show up at 10, I'm to be sitting in the living room reading not the daily prophet, but something else. I was thinking Witch Weekly. After tea, I'm to go and pick up Scorpius to join us in the meeting. Like father like son," She explains to procedure as if she was going off of a list.
I nod. "Great," I say applauding at her memory skills. Despite having everything planned out to the last second, I can't help but be nervous about this. It's been almost 20 years since the Death Eaters have been plotting. Father said he had big plans for revenge on the Order.
The doorbell rings and I jump three feet into the air. Astoria laughs at me as she puts a hand on her stomach. She's about 5 months pregnant now and is officially starting to show. It's so cute how she hugs her stomach.
I open the door and walks in Father and Mother. The smile grimly as he rushes to the grand dining room to set up. I look weakly to Mother as she looks to Astoria and beams. "I was getting worried that you weren't showing!" Astoria laughs and looks down at her stomach. "Did you start decorating the baby's room yet?"
Astoria smiles. "I did! Would you like to see it?" Since she finished the baby's room, she's been so proud of it and is happy to show anyone the room. The two run upstairs as I'm left with my stressed father. I walk into the grand dining room and look as he's frantically setting each chair up and re-setting everything that Astroria has already set.
"Nervous, Dad?" I say as I walk in.
"Very," He says not looking up. "But this is probably a good day for you. You're going to be voted the new leader of the death eaters."
"I know, I'm nervous too," I say looking down at my feet. The doorbell rings again as I look to the clock. Ten 'o' Clock. Show time.
The herd of deatheaters walk in and take their designated seats without saying a word. They all look nervous too. Astoria and Mum walk in and take their seats too. Dad walks up to the front of the table and gulps. "So. Welcome back all," He says smiling weakly. He goes back to seriousness. He can't seem to say anything so I take over from here to shield him from the embarrassment.
"You are probably all wondering what you all are doing here," Crabbe and Goyle look at me as well as Pansy along with glares to Astoria. She hasn't gotten over her jealousy, I guess. "Well, we've had this plan."
"Well go on with it!" Crabbe says at the end of the table. "Some of us haven't got all day."
"Okay," I take a deep breath. "We want to bring the Death Eaters back. We want it to rise again. It's been too long that the Order and Ministry have been in charge. Too long," I got many nods from that statement. "Things need to change in the wizarding world. We need to take action."
"So what does that mean?" Pansy ask. "We can't just flick our wands around and the Death Eaters rise all at once."
"Well, we would first need to elect a leader, not one as strong and powerful as the Dark Lord, but someone who can lead and take action when it's needed," Astoria pipes in. I glare at her. She's not supposed to say anything unless spoken too. I did this so that she's not at a risk of danger. I might be taking this too seriously, but she has another person to worry about, not just herself.
Blaise looks to me then back at his hands. "I elect you, Malfoy," He says looking up at me.
"Well, we never really came up with a plan for this sort of thing, I say we write it dow-" I begin to say
"I second that," Crabbe says looking at me.
Dad looks at me. "Well I think it's decided," He smiles nervously. "Draco Malfoy, you're now the leaders of the death eaters."
The others applaud as I nervously smile and laugh. Astoria looks at me beaming. She then stands up and pushes in her chair, she's off to get Draco.
Pansy looks to her. "Would you mind picking up Penelope too? She should be here."
"Yeah!" Blaise says. "We need to start recruiting young."
Astoria nods and rushes out to get Scorpius and the others. I can't believe it. This is actually working.
"Oh and look!" Mum coos turning the photo album. Someone needs to kill me now. "Rosie taking a bath. Look at that toothless smile!" I can feel my face burning from embarrassment.
"Mum?" I say looking at her. "Must we do this now?" I hiss.
"Aww come on, Rosie," Scorpius says nudging me. "We're just having a little fun."
"Well can we eat soon?" I say making some lame excuse. "I'm starving."
"Aww," Dad says walking down the stairs. "The fun was just about to start," He shakes the box. "We were just going to get to the dance photos."
"Oh yeah, bummer," I say sarcastically.
We sit down at dinner and engulf ourselves in fine cooked steak and wild rice.I look at my Mum who's laughing at Scorpius's jokes. And not the fake laughing, for real laughing. Dad might have said that Scorpius was "Okay" but you could still tell that he was uncomfortable around Scorpius and still didn't like him. Well, at least I have half of my family liking him.
"And so I said to him 'that's not a snitch your buying, that's a bludger!'" Scorpius says telling his joke. Mum and I laugh at that joke for a long time. Dad weakly laughs along, it's a step!
Scorpius takes a bite of his steak. "This is delicious Mrs. Weasley," He says nodding and enjoying his steak.
"Why thank you Scorpius," Mum smiles. Once we all finished our steak Mum stands up to grab the plates. Scorpius gets up before Mum does.
"Please, Mrs. Weasley, let me get this for you."
Mum pauses and look at Scorpius and then to me. "Are you sure? I mean, you're the guest, I could get it."
"No, come one Mrs. Weasley, I can do it.
"Scorpius," She begins to argue with him. "Just because I'm pregnant with twins doesn't mean I lost total control of my legs."
"Mrs. Weasley, Please," Scorpius pleads. "I want to do this," He begins to clean up the plates and walks off into the kitchen.
Mum leans into Dad. "I like this boy. Such a gentlemen," She winks at me and smiles. "You picked well Rose."
I blush and smile as Scorpius comes back in. "This cake was for us right?" He says holding a platter of cake. "Because I already took a piece," He says timidly.
Mum laughs. "Yes that's the cake," We serve ourselves pieces at the dinner table and begin to eat our decadent dessert.
"Mum, where did you buy this cake?" I say taking another bite.
"Umm, I made it," She says quietly and timidly.
"What?!" I say.
"What? Can't I make a cake and make it taste good?" She asks.
"No it's just," I start.
Scorpius looks at me. "What Rose is trying to say Mrs. Weasley, is that we don't expect your cooking to be store bought good."
Mum puts her hands on her hips. "What? So now I can't cook now Rose?!" She laughs. "I've learned a thing or too from your Nana," She says as she takes a chunk of her cake.
"Why don't you cook all the time?" I ask. "This is delicious!"
"Eh, things came up," She says looking at Ron who smiles. She looks down at her watch and jumps. "Goodness! You guys need to get back to Hogwarts!" She stands up and begins to shoo us to get our jackets.
Mum hugs me goodbye and looks to Scorpius. She hesitates to hug him for a moment, but can't help herself but does. Scorpius is taken back a bit by this movement but then hugs her back. Mum lets go and looks into Scorpius's eyes. "You can come back anytime," She says smiling.
"Thanks Mrs. Weasley," He says grinning.
"I'm serious though," Mum says. "I know what a family is like and if there are any problems, don't hesitate to come to us," She grabs Dad's arm, almost as if she was making him agree to what she just said. Dad nods firmly as we say our goodbyes.
Using the floo network, we get back to Hogwarts. He grabs hold of my hand as he walks me to the Gryffindor corridors. "Well that was a nice dinner," He says.
I scoff. "More embarrassing than nice."
"Scorpius!?" I say looking at him shocked. "The baby pictures of me?!"
"They weren't that bad!" He says. "You had a nice bum in a couple of them!"
"Ew Scorpius!" I giggle hitting him playfully. "Dont' say that!"
I sometimes wonder if this is real sometimes, me and Scorpius. I feel so lucky to have him, but sometimes it just seems fake. The way he treats me is different than other boys. I see him around his friends and he looks like any other teenage kid. But when he's with me, it's like he's a gentlemen. He treats me with respect and loves me the way I am and never tells me to change. I've heard the horror stories of how girls are treated by their boyfriends. I vowed to myself to never let that happen, which is why I was so careful to pick out boyfriends. From being the annoying, high pitched voiced kid that would make fun of me for my hair, to the boy that I'm in love with, he's living proof that people can change and that you're not a spitting image of your parents. As I look to Scorpius who is holding my hand and silently continuing to walk with me, I realized something that moment.
Scorpius may be the one.
"Hugo," McGonnagal says walking towards me before I walk into Transfiguration class. "You're parents are here to get you." You could tell by the way she said it that she wasn't happy that parents (especially my parents) were barging into Hogwarts picking up their children whenever they wanted.
"Ok, thank you Professor," I say smiling. I walk towards the main door. Mum and Dad are standing there.
"You ready to go?" Mum asks me.
"You want to come to see if the twins are boys or girls?" She asks.
My face lights up. I don't know why I'm so excited about this, but I am. "Yeah! Let me go get Rose and then we can g-"
"Rose said she couldn't come," Dad says. "She's worried about her schoolwork. You can just bring her a picture later."
"So it's just the three of us today," Mum says smiling. We begin to walk out of Hogwarts and into Hogsmeade where St. Mungos is located right outside of.
We walk into the sterile smelling waiting room and Mum signs in. She sits down next to me and smiles. "I'm excited you're here with us today."
I nod as I open the Quidditch magazine and read up on the new brooms. I really want to get a new broom, but some of the good ones are so expensive now a days.
"What are you hoping they are going to be, Ron?" Mum says asking Dad.
"I guess boys," He says reading the Quibbler.
"Aw Ron." She says putting a head on his shoulder. "I was thinking maybe both girls."
"You don't want twin girls, that'll cause major drama between the two."
"What do you mean?"
"Hello?! They're your offspring! They're going to be just like you! Rose turned out the same way!" He says laughing and not looking up from the Quibbler.
Mum laughs at Dad. "Well maybe one boy, one girl. Even out you know?"
"That's rare. What did Rose say she wanted?"
"Two girls of course," Mum says.
Ron sighs and nudges me with his elbow. "If that happens, you're going to be the only one of our kids to carry on the Weasley name," He laughs and so does Mum.
"Ron don't pressure him," She giggles. "But I don't care if it's a boy or a girl, I'm going to love them the same."
"Mmmhhmm," Dad says reading an article in the Quibbler, obviously not paying attention to Mum.
"Ron, don't read that, Rita Skeeter works there now, it's a load of bull."
"But Luna is the editor now."
"Oh don't get me wrong I love Luna to bits, but it's a different thing when it comes to writing."
"But they're talking about nargals," He whines.
"And that magazine is the enemy of the Daily Prophet."
Dad puts it down to stop arguing with Mum. "Happy now?"
"Yes, very," She smiles to herself and pauses for a minute "Hugo," Mum whispers at me. I look up from my magazine at her, she's smiling. "Want to feel something wicked?"
I nod as she takes a hold of my hand and places it on her stomach. A couple of minutes of nothing and I swear my Mum is going cra-
Kick. I gasp. Kick. Another kick! I look up at Mum who is smiling.
"What is that?" I ask.
"It's the babies silly!" She laughs. She then grabs Dad's hand and does the same thing. Dad smiles and laughs.
"Crazy that is," Dad says looking at Mum's stomach.
"Ahem," The rude lady from behind the counter coughs. "I hate to break up this heart warming moment," This was obviously put in a sarcastic tone. "But Healer Wood is ready to see you," I gulp as we walk in. Healer Wood was the mother of Quinn Wood who is the hottest girl at Hogwarts. All my friends have a huge crush on her. This is going to be an awkward moment for me.
Dad and I sit on the stool as Mum gets to lie down on the crinkly paper. We wait an awkward couple of minutes before the door squeaks open.
"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Oh and hello Hugo!" She says shaking my hand. "Gosh you got so big! How's Hogwarts treating you?"
"Great," I say smiling back. I can feel my hands shaking I'm so embarrassed.
"Well, I guess you guys are here to find out what you're having!" She says smiling. "I'm also excited to find out with you guys."
She does a couple of tests on Mum before she walks out to see what they are. "Finally," Mum says laughing. "I can now call the babies he or she instead of it."
I laugh as Healer Wood walks back in with the results. "Well," She says smiling. "Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, I'm happy to announce to you three that you guys are having a boy and a girl!"
Mum smiles and laughs as Dad and I are both smiling. A boy and a girl!
"Um, Doctor," I say awkwardly. What am I supposed to call her?
She laughs at me. "Call me Melanie." She smiles.
"C-can I get a photo of the babies to show to my sister?"
"Of course!" She goes out of the room and hands me a picture. "There's the boy and there's the girl," She says pointing it out for me. She begins to walk out. "I would love to stay and chat but I have been loaded with appointments, Gladys can set you up with the next appointment."
Mum smiles at Melanie as she walks out. "A boy and a girl!" She says again. "I can't believe it. We need to start thinking of names!"
Dad stands up. "One thing at a time," He laughs. "We need to get Hugo back to school. McGonnagal didn't look too pleased with us."
"Ron, she hasn't been pleased with our performance since the day, you, Harry, and I became friends!" Mum laughs.
"True, but still," He puts a hand on my shoulders. "Come on let's take you to Hogwarts."
It's around 8 when we get to the common room. Rose and I sit on the couch. At first, it was weird to be in the Gryffindor common room when you were a Slytherin. People would give you weird stares and treat you like dirt. But now, since Rose and I have been dating, people began to accept me, well all accept Hugo.
"So you didn't think that the dinner was .... uncomfortable?" She says shifting in her seat. I could tell that she was uncomfortable asking me this.
"No not all," I say reassuring her. "It was great."
"You weren't.... intimidated by my dad?"
I shake my head. "No, it was fine, Rose!"
"What is wrong with you?!" She cries.
"Are you for real?"
"What do you mean?"
"I can't believe you!" She begins to stand up and approach me. "It's like, unreal!"
"Rose," I grab her arm to bring her closer to me. "What are you talking about."
She jabs me in the chest. "You that's who! It's like your unreal!"
"You're so perfect! You're like every girl's dream guy! Are you real?" She begins jabbing me in the stomach.
"Ow! What are you doing Rose? What are you talking about?"
"Making sure you're real! You're perfect! You respect me! You don't tell me what to do! You don't openly cheat on other girls! You aren't a total jerk around your friends! Like you are so different! What's wrong with you?!"
"Rose!" I grab her by the shoulders and shake her. "You're going insane. It's called being mature."
She looks me in the eyes after calming down. "You're perfect." And she leans in to kiss me until she backs up when she hears the door to the portrait open.
"Hey Hugo," Rose says as Hugo walks through the portrait. He grimaces and continues to walk to the third year boys dormitory. Rose looks at me sympathetically. "Scorpius I-"
"It's fine," I say shaking off the look that he gave me.
She lightly touches my arm. "No. You look hurt."
I shrug. "It's fine, Rose. It doesn't matter," She wasn't going to let this go. She begins to get up. I grab her by the arm to keep her from getting up. "No, come on it's okay, it's fine just stay her-"
"I'm going to go talk to him," She says standing up. I sigh as I stand up and laugh.
"Alright, well I'm going to go to bed. Goodnight."
"Goodnight!" She begins to walk up the steps.
I walk down the hallway and hear footsteps behind me, rushing footsteps. I turn around to see Mum rushing behind me.
"Scorpius. You need to come home."
"I can explain it later, but your Dad wants you to be present."
"Mum what's going on?" I ask as we floo to our house.
"You're father wants you to be a part of something that's very important to him," She says as she turns the key to the front door. "Just go to the main dining room and take a seat, he'll explain it all to you."
I walk to the dining room with butterflies in my stomach. I don't know why I was nervous. Was didn't Mum tell me what was going on? Since when were there meetings in the dining room? Why was Mum so nervous looking to pick me up?
"Scorpius!" Dad says looking at me. His old piers were all around the table along with some of my friends.
"What's going on?"
"It's great!" Penelope exclaims smiling. "Your Dad's a bloody genius!"
I sit down next to Dad as he continues to explain a plan that he has. "So for the death eaters new plan to come back."
I stand up quickly, anger seething through my body. "Whoah, wait death eaters?" I say looking at Dad. "Are you crazy?"
"Son, we want you to be a part of this," He says staying calm.
"I don't want to!"
"Scorpius, you don't want to?" Penelope asks looking at me.
"No! I-uh-eh-uh," I can't even pick out the right words to say. I stare at my Dad who looks as if he's been punched in the gut. I stare at Mum who looks equally shocked. I run out the door, not knowing where to go next.
I floo to the quickest place I can think of and knock on the door.
"Scorpius, what's wrong?" Mrs. Weasley asks opening the door.
"My parents are planning on bringing back the deatheaters! They're going to attack the ministry."
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The suspect's mother praised the lord as she left court--but had no comment about her son. And this alleged crime spree, part of which was captured on video. Matthew McCorkle is accused of trying to carjack two cars including a yellow taxi. Mohamed Milogo was behind the wheel.
"Then I tried to go from the left to the right to get him off the car," he said.
When Milago sped off, McCorkle hung on. Vlane Carter taped the unlikely scene with his cell phone Monday morning.
"I drive closer and I see the guy on the side of the vehicle and it was really mind boggling, so I said I had to do something," Carter said.
The recording spans an 8 mile stretch as the cab speeds along the Bruckner Expressway. The suspect can be seen standing on the running board of the taxi minivan--at one point McCorkle raises his leg and tries to kick in the window.
In another section he loses his footing and his legs are dangling coming into contact with the road below.
"The thing that made me really nervous was the fact the guy fell off the car in the left lane, I would've smashed him," adds Carter.
The cab slowed down in traffic which is when police say McCorkle successfully carjacked a 61-year old man eventually crashing the vehicle into a truck.
No one including McCorkle was hurt. According to court documents, the 26-year old suspect told officers, "I popped a Molly. I was smoking some weed. I was mixing drugs."
"I asked the police what happened to him, and the police told me he was not normal," adds Milogo.
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Phoenix resident Tim Lake travels a lot, so he very wisely installed some security cameras around his house to keep an eye on things for him when he's out and about. The seemingly-paranoid tactic paid off recently, when Lake's phone received a screen shot of a random woman at his door, and he realized that the bumbling blonde was actually stealing his Amazon package in broad daylight.
While a lot of people might be pretty pissed that some woman would just jack their stuff like this, Lake is having a pretty darn good time trying to track down the culprit and humiliating her in the process. In an interview with Phoenix's KPHO news, Lake pretended to cry over his stolen square ice cube tray, as he compared her appearance in the security footage to Dog the Bounty Hunter, before he read the hilarious flyer that he posted throughout his neighborhood.
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Recent salary study: Buyers in Austria's energy industry are top earners
"Until now, Austrian companies had no benchmark allowing them to classify their buyers in terms of salaries", says Bibiane Sibera from the Purchasing Forum of the ÖPWZ. "They did not know: Is the salary I pay in line with market requirements? Do I pay too much or too little? That's why the ÖPWZ, together with Penning Consulting and Kerkhoff Consulting, recorded the average salaries of Austrian buyers for the first time."
"The industry sector determines the earnings potential in purchasing", says Stephan Penning, Managing Partner of the personnel consultancy Penning Consulting and author of the book "Personal im Einkauf" (Wiley Publishers VCH 2010). "But the size of the company and the amount of purchase volume also crucially affect the compensation of buyers in Austria." The study shows: Heads of purchasing in large companies with sales of more than EUR 100 million annually receive significantly higher compensations. Their salaries are about 40 percent higher than that of their colleagues in companies with sales of under EUR 100 million. Last year, the average annual salary of purchasing managers in all sectors of the industry in Austria came to EUR 82,000. "Despite the clear correlation of company size and salary, however, the top salaries in surveyed companies are not paid exclusively by the largest companies", says Penning. "Due to flat hierarchies and the resulting possibility to assume executive responsibility rather fast, companies with 100 to 250 employees also pay top salaries." Moreover, in large and small companies, the salary gap is not as big for specialists or experienced employees in charge as for executive personnel. Thus, "strategic buyers" in large companies receive, on average, only 20 percent more salary.
Only one third of the buyers in Austria receive variable compensations in addition to their basic salaries. Even with regard to executive personnel – i.e. the purchasing managers – just every second of them has a bonus agreement. And it's even only 41 percent for purchasing managers of smaller companies. Their average bonus is about EUR 4,000. On average, purchasing managers of large companies with more than EUR 100 million annual sales receive four times the aforementioned bonus figure as their variable salary component. "Buyers are not sufficiently motivated to do an excellent job", says Stephan Penning. "Surprising is not only the low rate of heads of purchasing who get any variable salary at all, but also the small amount of bonuses. It's difficult to get high potentials interested in a purchasing career."
The bonus assessment basis also provides no incentive for top performance. Only one fourth of the bonus can be realized through individual objectives. Another 36 percent of the bonus will be due when corporate objectives are met; 27 percent when divisional objectives are reached and 12 percent for team objectives. "Currently, Austrian purchasing departments hardly have any differentiated compensation systems on the basis of specific control and measuring parameters", says Gundula Jäger, Managing Director of the Viennese office of the purchasing consultancy Kerkhoff Consulting. "But that's also due to the fact that Austrian companies still do not have any adequate ratio-supported systems available for performance measurements of purchasing departments. In this respect, companies urgently have a lot of catching up to do."
As opposed to their colleagues in sales, Austria's industrial buyers are not well motorized. Only 17 percent of those surveyed have a company car. Even purchasing manager frequently cannot hope to get a car from their employer. Only two out of five purchasing managers have a company car. Even other company benefits are available for only a few buyers: Barely one fifth of them obtains employer-financed pension provisions; eight percent have a private accident insurance from their employer and only four percent a supplementary health insurance. Especially parents in purchasing departments get little support: Only one percent of those surveyed obtains child care allowance.
"Even when taking into account the total package with bonuses and extra benefits, buyers frequently still earn comparatively significantly less than employees in other business areas", says personnel consultant Stephan Penning. "This can be explained such that, despite its huge impact on a company's operating results, purchasing had not been considered a serious management discipline for many years", says Gundula Jäger. "But recently, there has been a paradigm shift. Those at the helm of companies discovered just how important an optimally managed purchasing department actually is for their companies' earnings. They had to learn this especially in the 2009 economic crisis when sales suddenly plummeted and everybody was desperately looking for savings solutions."
Penning says: "In coming years, the greater strategic importance of purchasing will bring about increases in salaries. Today already, companies in Austria have a hard time finding recruits. On average, it takes eight months or more to fill vacancies." Moreover, 83 percent of the queried companies indicated that they have no successors for strategic key positions in purchasing. "It's now important for companies to correctly point the way ahead in incentive systems and get top young personnel on board so that such young talents can be developed to become responsible executives over the years."
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In October 2011, the survey was electronically conducted by the personnel consultancy Penning Consulting, the purchasing consultancy Kerkhoff Consulting and the Purchasing Forum of the Österreichische Produktivitäts-und Wirtschaftlichkeits-Zentrum (ÖPWZ). A total of 175 Austrian companies from all sectors of the industry participated in the study. These companies provided the salary data of a total of 264 job positions. Further information about the study is available from Mr. Christian Pfeiffer, +49 211 62 180 61 148, email@example.com.


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[Kellie Leitch On Immigration Screening For Canadian Values]
[Kellie Leitch (PC OOnt MP, is a Conservative MP in the Canadian House of Commons):] Source: LYBIO.net
Hi, I'm Kellie Leitch and I'm running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Over the last several months, I've been traveling across the country, speaking to thousands of Canadians.
Canadians who are both members of the party and those who are not.
Everywhere I go, I hear the same message.
Canadians are proud of their country – and they proud of their unified Canadian identity.
They're proud of their values – that is like hard work, generosity, freedom and tolerance.
A quality of individuals and a quality of opportunity – oh no matter where I've been in this country – I've heard the same thing Canadians want a leader who will protect and promote our unified Canadian identity and these shared values.
This is the direction I received from Canadians and it is the reason why I'm running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Canada is an opportunity an opportunity – an opportunity to work hard and provide for oneself and ones family – it's an opportunity and responsibility to give back to one's community once one has enjoyed success and to help those who need a hand.
And Canada is a place where we can each choose how we wish to live, in freedom and with tolerance and to prosper together.
This is why so many people seek to come to Canada to this place – each year because a better life is possible here – a life that is prosperous and generous freer and more tolerant and it is not something we can take for granted.
[Kellie Leitch:] Source: LYBIO.net
It is something we must work everyday could build and protect.
Now one of the ways we can do that is by ensuring face-to-face interviews with trained immigration officials for all people who seek to come here.
Through these interviews we can make sure that the people who come to Canada share our historic values the values enshrined in our Constitution.
Today only nine to fifteen percent of immigrants receive an interview with a trained immigration official before they come to Canada.
This is something that concerns the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defense and that is why they called for more face-to-face interviews.
Today our immigration system is more concerned with quotas than it is with ensuring that immigration officials are able to counsel newcomers to Canada.
I encourage you to read Dr. Satzewich book, Points of Entry; where he describes what goes on in the immigration process.
Some of the officers he interviewed have said that the focus on quotas means that sometimes you have to overlook things to get the program numbers – risk management means closing your eyes.
[Kellie Leitch:] Source: LYBIO.net
This is a problem it is a problem – it is a problem because the priorities placed on numbers rather than individuals and some people are in the words of immigration officers themselves being allowed into the country that would otherwise not be admissible.
This is what I'm hearing from Canadians; this is why when I become Prime Minister I'm committed to ensuring that all immigrants refugees and visitors to Canada receive a face-to-face interview with the training immigration officer.
Now this is in line with the recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defense – the committee called for a pilot project and I will ensure that this is implemented across the board.
There in the second part to my proposal that is to screen all immigrants refugees and visitors to Canada for their agreement with Canadian values do they support the ideas of hard work, generosity, freedom and tolerance; do they
believe men and women are equal?
Do they agree that violence has no place in political disagreements?
Do they agree that all should be left to worship how they seem fit?
Do they agree that there is one law that applies to all Canadian equally?
These are the values that are enshrined in our Constitution, they are the value that all of us are expected to endorse – we're a tolerant society; our tolerance makes a strong nation, a diverse nation that draws on the strength of many people who come here from all corners of the globe, this is the Canadian way.
[Kellie Leitch:] Source: LYBIO.net
You are free to practice your faith.
Men and women are equal.
You are free to love whomever you choose.
Violence and misogyny will not be tolerated.
Hate speech will not be tolerated.
Newcomers to Canada are already tested on their knowledge of these values.
Under my proposal we will ensure that they agree with them as well, this will have an effect on immigration rates as the program is established – but our immigration system is to important to get hung up on numbers and quotas – that is the error of past governments.
So I cannot tell you what the number will be – the only commitment I can make to you is that every immigrant refugee and visitor will receive a face-to-face interview.
We must protect and promote our shared Canadian values and our unique Canadian identity – that is what you've asked me to do and that is what I will do – no other candidate in this race will do this – they have attempted to twist their positions to sound like mine – but they will not do this -they like those before them are focused on numbers – and not on Canadian values.
I made this video today because I wanted to speak to you directly – this is a common-sense policy that the media and my opponents in this race have attempted to portray us something it is not.
Do not do not listen to them.
[Kellie Leitch:] Source: L Y B I O . N E T
This is a common-sense solution that has the support of more than two-thirds of Canadians and 90%t of Conservatives.
I am the only candidate who will implement it.
I need your support today.
I need you to visit kellieworks.ca and make a donation and purchase a membership.
I stand alone in this leadership race on this issue.
I need you to stand with me. Thank you so much for watching
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Lincoln, Nebraska
There are 5 nursing schools in Lincoln, Nebraska. The largest nursing school in Lincoln, by student population, is Southeast Community College Area, which has 11,556 students. The school's website has a Google Page Rank of 5. The school appears to maintain its site on a regular basis, as is indicated by the fact that there are not many broken links just one click away from the homepage.Visual Preferences
The colors used on the largest Lincoln nursing schools' websites are as follows:
- Southeast Community College Area: white 22%
- Nebraska Wesleyan University: blue 10.7% and yellow 5.7%
- Union College: white 21% and grey 2%
The largest Lincoln nursing schools' websites use the following fonts:
- Southeast Community College Area: Verdana
- Nebraska Wesleyan University: Lucida Grande
- Union College: Bitstream Vera Sans
Social Presence
Exactly 4 nursing schools in Lincoln have Facebook pages. On average, each of these schools has 1,933 "likes" on their Facebook pages. The Lincoln nursing schools with the greatest number of "likes" are:
- Nebraska Wesleyan University: 3,945 "likes"
- Union College: 2,045 "likes"
- Southeast Community College Area: 1,408 "likes"
The only nursing school in Lincoln with a YouTube channel is BryanLGH College of Health Sciences. Its YouTube channel has 8 subscribers.
The Lincoln nursing schools whose websites have been bookmarked the most number of times on Delicious are:
- Nebraska Wesleyan University: 60 Delicious bookmarks
- Southeast Community College Area: 10 Delicious bookmarks
- Union College: 3 Delicious bookmarks
Web Metrics
The Lincoln nursing school website that receives the greatest number of unique visitors belongs to Southeast Community College Area. This is indicated by the fact that Southeast Community College Area's site has a Compete Rank of 59,057, the highest Compete Rank of nursing school websites in Lincoln.
And the Lincoln nursing school website that is considered the most authoritative by SEOMoz belongs to Nebraska Wesleyan University. It has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 71.5.
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5035 Everett
Lincoln, Nebraska 68506-1299
- (402) 481-3801
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Kaplan University-Lincoln Campus
- Lincoln, Nebraska
1821 K St
Lincoln, Nebraska 68501-2826
- (402) 474-5315
- www.kucampus.edu/kucampusPortal/kucampusCampuses/Nebraska/Lincoln/
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Nebraska Wesleyan University
- Lincoln, Nebraska
5000 St Paul Ave
Lincoln, Nebraska 68504-2794
- (402) 466-2371
- www.nebrwesleyan.edu/
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- Lincoln, Nebraska
301south 68th Street Place
Lincoln, Nebraska 68510-2449
- (402) 471-3333
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Union College
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3800 S 48th Street
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- (402) 486-2600
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But do you also use these apps that can help to simplify your life?
Imagine a virtual file cabinet containing all of your important documents, notes and life details — and having the ability to access it anywhere, online or offline, at any time. That, my friends, is Evernote! An app available for your desktop, tablet and smartphone that allows you to create notebooks in which you place your "notes," which can be created by typing text into a new note, taking a photo within Evernote or clipping an article from the web. All of your notes become "searchable" so it's super easy to find anything you've stored in any notebook. And Evernote allows for collaboration — so you can share notes and ideas with co-workers and family members. You can even create presentations from your notes!
Here are a few ways that I use Evernote:
The best way to simplify your life is to have every appointment, task, to-do and reminder in one place. Most smart phones come with a built-in calendar app that allows you to add events and tasks and then view those items in a calendar format or as a list, and also allows you to share calendars with co-workers and family members. iCloud calendar is the one that comes standard with iOS, and Google Calendar is available as an app for Android and iPhone, but you should also know that you can use either one of these apps to view a calendar that is created and maintained in the other simply by sharing that calendar.
But are you getting the most out of your calendar app? Here are a few tips:
A fantastic way to simplify your financial life is to use Mint, which allows you to view everything related to your money- your bank accounts, investments, budgets, and expenses. Mint syncs to nearly every financial institution that's on the web, and it only takes a few minutes to securely hook up your bank accounts, bills and credit cards. Mint helps to categorize all of your spending so you can understand exactly where your money has been going — information you can use to construct a budget to help you better manage your money! You can check your progress each month on the app and set up notifications to alert you when you are over-spending in a particular category.
Want to eat healthier? Exercise more? MyFitnessPal is one of the best apps to help you achieve that goal. With a food database of over 5,000,000 items, it is easy to track what you've been eating, including calories consumed, and compare that to calories spent exercising. I love how it keeps track of my meals and snacks!My Fitness Pal is compatible with practically every fitness tracking device made, so you can easily integrate your step counter and more.
If you are like me and sign up for every rewards and loyalty program offered in the hopes of scoring coupons and deals, then you already know it is a ridiculous notion that you would actually attach all those plastic tags to your keychain (I'd never be able to find my keys on the ring). Key Ring allows you to put all of those loyalty cards right on your phone, and they can be scanned at checkout right from your screen.
To me, simplifying is about cutting through the clutter and organizing things, but it is also about creating some inner peace. And for me, nothing creates a sense of calm and control more than spending a few moments reflecting and appreciating all that is in front of me. This app gives you that space to write down five things you are grateful for every day, add images and journaling as well as the ability to share what's in your heart with your social media accounts. This is truly one of the greatest ways to end each day!
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According to those doombringing ancient Mayans, 2012 is meant to be the end of the world. According to everyone else, it's going to be the year of the London Olympics, Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee and even something else that isn't to do with Britain.
Weatherman doesn't actually think it's going to be the end of days this year, but that doesn't mean he isn't going to take the mickey out of it all with a parody forecast on Richmond, Virginia's CBS 6 news channel, no sir.
As well as Mr. Justus here, there's also a whole heap of baby pandas on a slide, some bulldogs playing swingball and a spoof of that egg timer Barclays advert that'll have you grinning from ear to ear.
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Parents: Drugs were too much for child
By Elaine Bennett and Prakash Gandhi
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS - An 8-year-old girl who collapsed in August at a dentist's office and died a day later had received excessive dosages of drugs and gas, the child's parents claimed Tuesday in a lawsuit.
The suit flied in Seminole Circuit Court accuses dentist Dwight T. Barron of Altamonte Springs of negligence in the Aug. 17 death of Jennifer Crenshaw. Her parents, Barbara and Scott Crenshaw, are seeking more than $10,000 in damages.
Barbara Crenshaw of Altamonte Springs said she sued to highlight what she described as lax controls on use of anesthetics in dental offices.
"It is something people don't imagine when they go to a dentist," Crenshaw said. "You expect them to know what they are doing."
Barron declined to comment Tuesday. One of his attorneys, Clay Parker, said Barron has "genuine anguish and concern" over Jennifer's death and for her family, but denies any liability in the case.
Parker declined to comment on the parents' allegations because that would be "trying the suit in the press."
The results of the child's autopsy have not been released.
A Seminole County sheriff's detective has investigated the case for several months and is expected to finish his report soon. The state attorney's office then will determine whether criminal violations were involved.
Jennifer, who was about to start second grade at Spring Lake Elementary School, went into convulsions Aug. 16 at Barron's office on Douglas Avenue after being medicated for removal of eight baby teeth.
After several attempts by the dentist and nurse to revive the girl, she was taken to Florida Hospital Altamonte, then taken by helicopter to Florida Hospital Orlando, where she went into a coma.
Jennifer died the next morning.
According to the suit, the child received anesthetics in dosages unsafe for a child. In addition, one drug given to counteract an anesthetic was two years past its expiration date, the suit claimed.
Other allegations dealt with procedures in Barron's office.
According to the suit, the office lacked full face masks to help deliver oxygen to patients or proper equipment to monitor the pulse and rate of oxygen going into Jennifer's bloodstream.
Barron also had no written instructions for employees to follow during an emergency, the suit said.
Three of Barron's dental assistants had not completed a course required by the American Dental Association on pain and anxiety in dentistry, and one assistant had no formal training in dentistry, the suit claims.
According to the suit, 38 minutes elapsed between the time Jennifer first showed signs of distress and when medical help was called.
No hearing on the lawsuit has been set, but the Crenshaws' attorney, Russell Troutman predicted the case would go to trial in nine months.
Jennifer's mother said she struggles to cope with her daughter's death.
"I can't imagine my life without her. She was very special," Barbara Crenshaw said. "I think about her a million times a day."
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Company: Synexus Limited
Location: North Teeside
Reference: synexus/TP/3074/713
Closing Date: 19 Apr 18
Type: Permanent
Salary (£): 20,000 - 30,000
Benefits: DOE/Neg + up to 30% quarterly bonus + benefits
Excellent opportunity for a Research Nurse 2
Are you looking to advance your career into the clinical trials space? Do you want to work for a leading multinational organisation, renown throughout the industry for its meteoric rise to success and dependability to deliver on global contracts across multiple therapeutic areas and phases? Are you looking to play an integral role in the future of medicine across the globe? If so, this may be the opportunity for you:
This is an excellent opportunity for a nurse with experience in the clinical trials or the pharmaceutical industry to play an implemental role in driving this organisation towards success.
Package description
Synexus has a great team of professional, smart and energetic people. We focus on continued professional development, engaging and supporting the team within in order to reach the common goals of the business. We also offer a competitive benefits package consisting of, but not limited to, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance, Private Health Insurance*, Target Bonus Scheme, Profit sharing bonuses*, Childcare Vouchers, high street discount scheme.
* Dependent on role
Main responsibilities
As a Clinical Research Nurse 2, you will participate in the creation and maintenance of a high quality clinical research environment, to initiate and manage nursing activities related to clinical trials, from initiation to termination, according to ICH/GCP guidelines and to ensure the commercial success of the Centre by recruiting and maintaining optimum patient numbers.
Your key accountabilities will be:
Ideal candidate
As a successful Clinical Research Nurse 2, you will likely have:
About the company
Head Office
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