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PREVIEW: Giants vs. Silvertips (Preseason Game #6)
This afternoon in Langley, the Vancouver Giants will look to put a bow on what has already been a terrific exhibition season. After rattling off three consecutive victories and winning four of their last five in total, the Giants will battle the Everett Silvertips on home ice today with the goal of finishing this weekend off with the best record among the four visiting clubs.
Head Coach: Dennis Williams
Preseason Record: 3-1-0-0
Preseason Scoring Leaders: Connor Dewar (4GP – 4G – 3A – 7PTS), Matt Fonteyne (2G – 5A – 7PTS), Patrick Bajkov (3GP – 3G – 2A – 5PTS)
Connor Dewar: The 18-year-old Dewar looks poised and ready to break out in 2017-18. Last season he was no slouch collecting 14 goals and 16 assists for 30 points while playing in all but one of the Silvertips 72 games. He leads all Everett skaters with four goals so far in the preseason.
Patrick Bajkov: The 20-year-old has been the epitome of consistency and durability in recent seasons. He's played in 71 games in each of the past two seasons for Everett and is coming off a season where he potted 29 goals to go alongside 49 assists for 78 points. In his swan song season, look for Bajkov to improve further upon those totals in 2017-18.
Kevin Davis: With Noah Juulsen likely headed to the pros a lot of the defensive onus is now going to fall on the shoulders of Kevin Davis. Last season he played in all 72 games for the Tips and managed nine goals to compliment his 50 assists. He was a +17 as well which means he can be trusted in all areas of the ice.
Jake Christensen: The 18-year-old is another player that will look to make the most in the increased minutes and responsibilities coming his way. Last season he also appeared in all 72 games for Everett and had a six goal, 13 assist campaign to go along with a +17 rating. He has one goal in three preseason outings to this point.
Carter Hart: Though he's not here this weekend because of his NHL duties with Philly, Carter Hart is going to once again receive the lion's share of starts this season for Everett. He's worth the price of admission almost every time he mans the crease. He's the two-time reigning WHL Goaltender of the Year for a reason.
New Coach: The Dennis Williams era in Everett has arrived and there is no shortage of intrigue to compliment his arrival. His predecessor Kevin Constantine was notorious for his defence-first approach to the game, which led to a ton of sustained success in Everett. But the addition of Williams has already created a buzz and with that buzz will likely come some system changes that could make for a new and exciting brand of hockey in the Pacific Northwest.
Head Coach: Jason McKee
Preseason Record: 4-1-0-0
Preseason Scoring Leaders: James Malm (4GP – 3G – 3A – 6PTS), Ty Ronning (2GP – 3G -2A – 5PTS), Bowen Byram (4GP – 2G – 3A – 5PTS)
Milos Roman: The talented Slovak has now registered goals in back-to-back games and more importantly seems to be looking more comfortable and confident with each passing game. He's shown very promising signs that he'll be an impact player on this Giants team and will be another exciting reason for fans to come and watch this team play.
Tyler Popowich: Through four preseason games, Tyler Popowich has quietly registered a goal and two assists to go with a team-leading +5. The draft eligible forward has it all: Size, smarts, physicality and finish around the net. He's also going to be highly motivated, and if Popowich can consistently contribute in all areas of the ice, he's going to be a fun player to watch.
Bowen Byram: With the game tied 2-2 late in the third, the 16-year-old rookie took it upon himself to make a play and win the game for his team. Byram's wrap around goal with 5:20 to go in the third was his second of the preseason and he now sits tied with Ty Ronning for second in team scoring for the preseason.
Alex Kannok Leipert: The Regina native added another assist to his preseason totals yesterday and is now a +4 through four games. He's very confident offensively but has also not looked out of place on the defensive side of the puck either. He'll be another key building block for this Giants team and he's doing everything within his power to show that he's ready to step into the lineup full-time and contribute in 2017-18.
Pick Your Weapon: In five preseason games up to this point the Giants can proudly claim that their goaltenders have been sharp in all five. Whether it's young Trent Miner or Todd Scott or a veteran like David Tendeck or Ryan Kubic – These four goaltenders continue to battle and continue to push one another. It continues to be an intriguing battle and all four goaltenders deserve a ton of credit for how they've battled and competed up to this point. At this point the Giants can't go wrong with whomever they select to tend goal this afternoon.
Power Play: One of the major strengths of the Giants throughout the preseason has been their power play which is now clicking at a 38.9 percent success rate through five preseason games – The top total in the WHL. Special teams are always such a key factor, and the Giants have now struck at least once on the power play in all five of their preseason games.


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Weaponizing Absurdity
For me, an absurd state of mind hovered in the air this past weekend in Philadelphia. Saturday, over 50,000 people showed up for the Women's March lobbying for sane government on Benjamin Franklin Boulevard between City Hall and the "Rocky steps" of the Art Museum. Watching the local Action News later that Saturday, the first half of the show was devoted entirely to the football playoffs -- scheduled for the next day! Action News did do a brief piece on the march; it felt like an obligatory afterthought. On Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles brutalized the Minnesota Vikings 38 to 7. Afterwards, some 6,000 joyous and drunken fans took over Broad Street. As Philadelphia fans are notorious for, fans jeered and threw beer cans at the Vikings players as their bus passed by to their hotel. NFL games start with sexy flyovers by the Air Force Blue Angels and too often end with a drunken mob that has all the magnanimity and grace of National Guard members tuning up captured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib. It's Trump America in miniature -- the NFL as a classic fascist pincer: beer-guzzling mob thuggery at the fan level and plutocratic greed at the owner level. This is where NFL football loses me. As in the real militarism game, the word is Minnesota fans will be looking for revenge when Philadelphia fans get to the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. As for the post-game hooligans on Broad Street, the Philadelphia police did a fine job controlling the mayhem. One man was arrested for punching a police horse in the mouth.

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This week, Room 7 students have been eating lunch outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. On Tuesday during lunch, we visited with Brenda and Joe Brainard, who head the 4j NATIVES program. They are stripping bark from the tree that the upper elementary will use to carve a totem pole!
Next week, the University of Oregon students will wrap up their presentations about science fair projects. Project Fair is scheduled for late April. Please talk with your student about science or history research projects they would like to present. If your student would like to present at the University's Science and Invention fair, please visit http://spicescience.uoregon.edu/uo-science-fair to find out more information. Display boards are available for purchase in the office.
Students in Room 7 have been asking about an end-of-year overnight trip. If you are interested in helping to plan this trip, please contact me.
Many students have been planning individualized field trips, or "Going Out" activities, this week. If your student is planning a "Going Out," you will receive all pertinent information (name of chaperoning adult, date, cost, and other students traveling) on their permission slip. Parents who are asked to drive for a "Going Out" must be cleared with the office to drive Ridgeline students (background check, drivers' registration and current insurance on file). The "Going Out" will NOT BE APPROVED until authorized parent chaperones are added to a student's plan.
The pre-lottery information session is this Saturday, Feb 27 at 10am. All CURRENT UPPER ELEMENTARY families are invited to learn more about middle school at 10:45. I hope to see you there!


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The movie brings in Anastasia Steele, a college student, who agreed to represent her roommate/best friend and an aspirant press, Kate, to interview the strange business magnate, Christian Grey. Uncomfortable and tense, Ana caught Christian's eyes.
Though Mr. Grey is restraining, at first, to get involved with her, they both figured out a romantic attachment that made Christian sets up Ana to control her in his playroom.
E.L James crafted the story from the Twilight: Master of the Universe and revised it to a more distinct story. Fifty Shades Of Grey was released in 2011 and became very much popular. After an auction, Universal Focus acquired the rights to the story. And Mr. Grey's followers have been hanging on every detail and progress about the film since then.
The soft copy was sent to me by a workmate four years ago. And so I can't resist reading it because everyone does. And they're talking about it. As expected, it is crammed with stifling moments. Love, pity and tragic secrets were hurled as Ana discovers Christian's back story.
Thank goodness, the director and the screenwriter shred the squirming dialogues from the book while still complying with the narrative's basis. The scenes from Fifty Shades Of Grey are authentically crafted. The vanilla pleasure, handcuffs, Ana's punishments; it would always leave the audience tongue tied.
There is an amusing appeal right from the start; a charming approach between Ana and Christian in their meet-ups.
Nevertheless, I regret that Jamie Dornan never showed anything apart from the good looks and hot packs. I'm looking for that blaze described by James in the book. Where's the storm in Christian's eyes? It also seems that he is not as much as creepy in the movie. There's uncomfortable next to awkward shrugs too in some part. It is not connecting.
But Dakota Johnson is surprising. She's so faithful to the character. She digs the art portraying Anastasia Steele in or out of the bedroom; very much persuading.
Ana was improved into a gorgeous, remarkable character admirable of her complex and interesting scenario than the book. Johnson has set personality and uniqueness of her own. She's sharp and feisty than the Ana I expected.
Although Fifty Shades Of Grey is full of steamy scenes, I want to focus on the unadulterated emotional intensity of the movie.
Further than the erotic scenes, the core of this romantic movie is that someone with an unkind and resentful personal history was transformed totally different from what he has been in the past. It's because of his one great love.
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Genre: Romance
Directed By: Sam Taylor-Johnson, Sam Taylor-Wood
Written By: Kelly Marcel, E.L. James
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min.
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A paedophile is an individual with intense, recurrent sexually arousing fantasies and urges involving prepubescent children. Such feelings are beyond "sick." To act on such feelings, to make them reality, is evil.
The predatory paedophile is a danger to all children. He/she abuses quietly, and his/her presence becomes known only by the horrendous damage he/she leaves. He/she may be a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a judge, a scout leader, a police officer, clergyman, old or young, rich or poor, educated or uneducated and of any race. They are protected not only by our ignorance of their presence, but also by our unwillingness to confront the truth.
Predatory paedophiles are clever, calculating criminals. They manipulate and exploit their victims with great care, working themselves into positions of trust. They study children as carefully as any psychologist, and their camouflage is our unwillingness to see the predator stalking a prey.
The consequences of their depravity can be found in our psychiatric wards, our prisons and our graveyards: The runaway who turns to child prostitution, the violent juvenile criminal, the teenage suicide…all too many members of this army of victims can be traced to a predatory paedophile's original attack.
The ultimate protection of such criminals, the near-immunity they enjoy, is the perception that any individual who sexually molests a child must be "sick." That trump card is only played when they are caught and prosecuted. That rarely happens. And the "rehabilitation" of predatory paedophiles is fast becoming a growth industry. Paedophiles will not simply stop offending !
What can be done ? The answer is simple: raise the stakes.
The essence of criminal rehabilitation is remorse. Even if it is true that predatory paedophiles are "sick," that does not mean they can be treated.
Sexual molestation of children is a volitional act. It is a matter of choice.
Viewing indecent or abusive images of children is not a victimless issue. Every picture or video involves a "real child" being abused or sexually exploited
Incest is not "family dysfunction." It is rape-by-extortion.
Most child molesters are not strangers to their victims. We are far more endangered by those who have our trust than by the relatively rare kidnapper. Most paedophiles will groom the parents
Paedophiles do not regret their actions, they glory in them. They regret only the possibility of consequences to themselves, not the certainty of damage to their victims.
Paedophiles are not "homosexuals." We would not call a man who molested a five-year-old girl a "heterosexual." Whatever the sex of the adult and the child, the proper description is simple: the adult is the perpetrator, the child is the victim.
The new paedophile defence is "addiction." They cannot help themselves. If true, such individuals will remain dangerous, and must be treated accordingly.
We debate "solutions" to the drugs problem. The solutions come down to two: interdict or legalize. Neither is possible with predatory paedophiles. Therefore, if we cannot eliminate evil, we must increase its consequences to perpetrators.
This is how we raise the stakes:
Every paedophile convicted should receive a complete internet ban
All paedophiles should be GPS tagged when released from prison, thus ensuring they stay away from parks/schools or areas where areas where children play
"Significant incarceration" for offenders. Child molesters are among the least likely criminals to be prosecuted and, when prosecuted, are first in line to receive "alternative" sentencing options such as probation with psychiatric treatment. We have no problem with treatment programs for addicts. But we also have no problem with criminal sentences for those addicts who commit crimes to "support" their addiction. Nor with life sentences for those who traffic in drugs. Is child sexual abuse a lesser threat to the youth of this country?
The crime of "incest" should be eliminated, and replaced with a flat law against sexual intercourse with minors, regardless of the biological relationship between perpetrator and victim. An offender should not enjoy a lesser exposure to prison simply because he grew his own victim.
Enhanced penalties for child sexual offences involving more than one offence against any victim. Second offences must result in mandatory life sentences.
Increased penalties for "networking" of any kind, including: child sex rings, trafficking in children, distribution of child abuse images (and the use of telephone and computer lines to promote or distribute the same).
Intensive probation supervision for released paedophiles, with specialists assigned to each. More focus on the offenders after a prison term. Over 70% of all convicted paedophiles re-offend
Training of specialized police units, both investigative and prosecutorial. Increased support for those already in existence. Most forces in the UK only have between 2 and 5 qualified and dedicated officers who are actively seeking paedophiles who are actively grooming online. It is time to really start hitting online groomers and abusers hard.
Let all "rehabilitative" experiments with predatory paedophiles continue. But let them continue behind bars.
A public online database of all paedophiles for the UK, mirrored on Americas Megan law. America has proved that although hundreds of thousands of sex offenders names, addresses and crimes are made public, vigilante behaviour or attacks are almost non existent.
Some predatory paedophiles will be deterred, and children will be spared. Some will not, and the enhanced penalties will keep them away from their new victims for much longer periods of time. Either way, we benefit.
The trend today is toward accountability. It seems the ultimate irony that while some are demanding children be tried as adults on ground of "accountability," there is still no groundswell of support for the proposition that predatory paedophiles are responsible for their crimes. If we are truly concerned about crime in the UK, if we truly understand that today's victim is tomorrow's criminal, we must act.
We must raise the stakes in this most evil of games. The predatory pedophile has upped the ante to include not only our country's children, but its future as well. It's time to start fighting back against paedophilia
Paedophiles attempt to gain the child's affection and interest by being friendly, often fixing on children who are otherwise deprived of affection. It is not uncommon for paedophiles to go to great lengths over considerable periods of time to place themselves in situations where they can access children. Because paedophiles are, by definition, attracted to children, often of a fairly narrow age range, their attraction to any one child is only of limited duration. As the child grows older, the paedophile ceases to be attracted and seeks a younger replacement. Thus there is an in-built tendency to commit offences against a large number of victims.
Paedophiles work hard at stalking their targets and will patiently work to develop relationships with them. It is not uncommon for them to be developing a long list of potential victims at any one time. Many of them believe that what they are doing is not wrong and that having sex with a child is actually "healthy" for the child.
Most Paedophiles that have been caught during their middle age for abusing a child will generally have at least one victim !
The majority of children who experienced sexual abuse had more than one sexually abusive experience; only indecent exposure was likely to be a single incident.
Three-quarters (72%) of sexually abused children did not tell anyone about the abuse at the time. 27% told someone later. Around a third (31%) still had not told anyone about their experience(s) by early adulthood.
Almost all paedophiles have a collection of child abuse images, which they protect at all costs. Many of them also collect "souvenirs" from their victims. They rarely discard either their porn or collections for any reason.
One factor that works against the paedophile is that eventually the children will grow up and recall the events that occurred. Often paedophiles are not brought to justice until such time occurs and victims are angered by being victimized/exploited and found the courage and strength to speak out and to protect other children from the same consequences.


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Fri, 30 December 2016
Taylor + anesthesia = Your holiday gift from PiMC. You're welcome.
We will be back sometime in January!
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Wed, 14 December 2016
Happy Holidays from Rodan and Gambit, Taffy and Tank and Taylor and Babaloo! We hope you all have a wonderful and prosperous 2017. See you all next year!
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Wed, 7 December 2016
We set up our tree the weekend before Thanksgiving, per Babaloo's request. This is a video of that.
LOTS of unflattering angles, kids. Lots of them.
Look for the Christmas Episode next week!
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Wed, 30 November 2016
Post Thanksgiving goodness.....
Next week is our annual Christmas show - please send us your holiday themed questions!
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Mon, 21 November 2016
Here it is, kids! For those late night baking sessions before the family gets here, or that long drive in the back of your parents' car....even though your 40. Or for sitting home alone, just like you like it, with a bottle of wine and your resentment to keep you warm. Whatever your reasons are for listening this year, we are thankful for you and hope you enjoy this year's mixtape!
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Thu, 17 November 2016
The latest on Rodan's Disney Cruise! All three cohosts together !! Taylor is tired while he writes this!!!
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Wed, 9 November 2016
I had reservations about releasing a video Taffy created yesterday, but I think it's important enough as it shows the future of this country and that so many of us are doing the right thing by raising our children to be loving and caring individuals. Ladies and gentlemen....The Littlest Huffington.....
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Wed, 2 November 2016
The top of the group returns.
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Wed, 26 October 2016
Taylor's over modulation goes away after the first 30 seconds or so, promise
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Wed, 19 October 2016
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Places to eat near Paris Opera: our concierges' selection
Le Lazare: Friendly Atmosphere, traditional French Cuisine
Chez Flottes : Amazing Family Restaurant with seasonal menu
Les Jalles : Located between the Madeleine and the Opera, Art Deco Restaurant with delicious French specialties
Bistro Marbeuf : Specialties from the city of Lyon, delicatessen meat, barracuda quenelles, Saint Marcelin Cheese
Lucas Carton : Gastronomic Restaurant in Paris since 1839, historic building, elegant food & wine paring
Le Grand Véfour : A true masterpiece in terms of Art Deco, exquisite French Cuisine Restaurant, Chef Guy Martin
Le Cinq : 3 Michelin Stars, bold flavours mixt, culinary journey by Chef Guy Martin
Le 114 Faubourg : 1 MichelinStar, Gastronomic Restaurant, Chef Eric Frechon
Pierre Gagnaire : Aesthetics, emotions, exquisite cuisine, Chef Pierre Gagnaire
L'Arpège : 3 Michelin Stars, vegetable ultimate recipies, Chef Alain Passard
L'Atelier, La Table de Joel Robuchon : Based on the famous Champs Elysées, seasonal products, cosy atmosphere.
Bistro Paul Bert: Traditional French Cuisine, Parisian Décor, varied wine selection
Brasserie La Lorraine: True Parisian Reference, delicious Sea Food, located between Place des Ternes et Place de l'Etoile.
Chez Monsieur : Only a few steps from Place de la Madeleine, excellent wine selection and traditional French Cuisine.
Pompéi : Italian Restaurant, only a few minutes' walk from the Olympia, warm welcome and homemade pasta
Mori Venice : Venice specialties and fine decor, friendly atmosphere and recipes from the North of Italy
Le Blue Elephant : Elegant Thaï Restaurant
Chez Bebert : Authentic Oriental Restaurant, Moroccan and Tunisian specialties
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Missouri unemployment edges up slightly
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's unemployment rate has edged up slightly.
Data released Wednesday by the state Department of Economic Development show the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate went up to 3.5 percent in December. It was 3.4 percent in November.
The unemployment rate was at 4.4 percent a year ago in December 2016, a little less than 1 percent higher.
Employment in December dropped by about 18,000 jobs while the seasonally adjusted civilian labor force also lost about 16,000 people. The labor force counts people with jobs and those who are on unemployment but looking for work.


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Who wants wind turbines?
Wind turbines benefit rent-seeking crony capitalists… that's about it.
Wind turbines benefit rent-seeking crony capitalists… that's about it.
The amount of money flowing into European green energy from governments and the private sector collapsed from $132 billion in 2011 to $58 billion last year.
Denmark's government abandoned plans to build five offshore wind power farms Friday amid fears the electricity produced there would become too expensive for Danish consumers.
It was on the evening news. And then in the morning papers. The Arctic ices were melting with unprecedented speed. Turns out it was Greenland and not very unprecedented.
by Einar Du Rietz
The old issue of whaling seems to be an ever controversial issue, in the EU, as well as internationally. Chris Butler-Stroud,CEO of Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) writes on the subject and is particularly concerned that Denmark still holds on to the Greenland exception.
The ban on whaling dates decades back. Furthermore, commercial whaling, industrial way, is generally acknowledged to be unacceptable. This might be a sound position, given unclear property rights in what is often no mans water.
The three exceptions to the international ban are represented by Japan, Norway and Denmark, an EU country, incidentally also holding the rotating presidency of the EU. Naturally, no whaling goes on right outside Copenhagen. There has been rare sightings up north (even a stranded whale at least once in the area), but basically the strait would be too narrow. For Denmark, it's an issue of the exception for the – highly autonomous – region Greenland, where – as Butler-Stroud correctly points out – "Historically the IWC [International Whaling Commission]has granted Greenland an aboriginal subsistence-whaling (ASW) quota based on its hunters' nutritional and cultural subsistence need – a classification that excludes commercial trade."
And Greenland is not a member of the EU, in spite of being a part of Denmark.
by Einar Du Rietz Denmark, taking over the rotating EU presidency has outlined its priorities for the next half year. Not surprising, really, but still awkward. Reports Euractiv: "Environment Minister Ida Auken called for making energy efficiency legally binding, dismissing concerns that weak economies and the eurozone debt crisis would trump the environment in EU policy […]
A cloudy day for global warming zealots Climate science is anything but settled. For years, physicist Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Institute (who has presented at conferences organized by CFACT and EIKE) has been asking inconvenient questions about the relationship between the sun, clouds and climate. He demonstrated in the lab that cosmic […]
Plans for North Pole dominance expose Danish climate hypocrisy A leaked document titled "Strategy for the Arctic" lays out Denmark's plans to lay formal claim to the North Pole. Yet the Danish Commission on Climate Change recently released plans to make Denmark "oil free" by 2050. What exactly do the soon to be oil free […]
by Einar Du Rietz Finally the trial against the hooligans posing a security threat to the Queen of Denmark during the Copenhagen conference is starting. Naturally, Greenpeace is doing it's best to ridicule the process, pointing out that "the eleven are also facing the obscure charge of having committed an offence against Denmark's Queen." , "… […]
by Einar Du Rietz
That the activities behind the scenes before, during and after last year's circus in Copenhagen were everything from strange to dirty is no surprise. For example, CFACT Europe, together with the paper Berlingske Tiderne in Denmark, discovered the sudden shift in the official Danish attitude towards Dalai Lama, an apparent effort to offer the difficult Chinese delegation something to chew on.
With the recent publication of the eneourmos amount of documents at Wikileaks, even more light is shed on the power play and virtual extortion to get tax money in so called climate aid.
The UK paper, The Guardian – a publication which has, for some strange reason, always been very interested in CFACT – is one of the first to compile the climate related documents. Draw your own conclusions, but please admit that it's entertaining reading.
Wind corporations paid not to generate electricity when a strong wind blows The Daily Telegraph reports that thousands of pounds per day will be paid to compensate the wind industry when the British national grid can not use the power. The intermittent nature of wind power requires traditional efficient power generation to remain the mainstay […]
CFACT has been participating in an energy debate sponsored by the National Journal.
Commissioner Hedegaard wrote, "Craig Rucker claims that had it not been for Denmark's oil in the North Sea we could not afford "such feel good luxuries" as renewables like wind. Wrong. Back in 1973 Denmark experienced two oil crises and the last one, when Saudi Arabia cut off oil deliveries, was so bad that it was necessary to prohibit driving private cars on Sundays. I remember this from my childhood. Can you imagine that? That was at a time where we were 99 % dependent on imported energy. Today Denmark is self-sufficient in energy, and has been for many years already. Oil and gas supplies from the North Sea are part of the explanation but definitely also the fact that today around 30 % of Denmark's electricity stems from wind energy. AND since putting up the first wind turbine back in the mid 70s Denmark has developed a world brand in wind technology. That means not only that the wind sector today creates thousands and thousands of jobs, often mainly in rural areas, but also that is one of our fastest growing export areas, earning billions for Denmark. The sector continued to grow its exports even in the crisis year 2009."
Here's Craig Rucker's response to the Commissioner:
Anyone who tells you that restricting prosperity and redistributing wealth will alter the climate is selling something. CRAIG RUCKER EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard today posed the question, "can the U.S. afford not to have ambitious legislation that paves the way for a more energy-efficient future?" CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker responded that […]
As Noël Coward put it in a song, "Why do the wrong people travel?" It should not come as a surprise, yet the cheerful way in which some groups exploit international events to hijack the agenda is quite astounding (just imagine for a second free-market groups doing the same thing, and the reaction that would ensue).
In today's Metro (Danish only), a German activist involved in the network Climate Justice Action is disarmingly frank about his presence at the conference :
"[The conference] does not mean anything. The UN cannot solve the world's climate problems as it thinks that the solutions may be found in today's capitalist system."
By Einar Du Rietz, Copenhagen
Maybe these guys are serious about the Copenhagen treaty after all. Wednesday evening it became clear that Denmark has reversed its policy on China and Tibet by abruptly recognizing Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. Denmark promised to act with "caution" in future contacts with the Dalai Lama,
The London Times Reports that only a quarter of people in the U.K. rank climate change as the world's most serious problem and only half accept that any climate change is man-made. Global warming proponents have been caught in so many falsehoods and exaggerations that it is only natural for the public's faith in […]
Einar Du Rietz is watching the President's game, or is it Gameboy?
Acting EU President Reinfeld has been busy the past two weeks, partly as he has declared the Copenhagen summit in December the most important event during his six month stint. So far, my congratulations go both to him and to his spin doctors.
Last week, the EU leaders gathered to form a mandate before the summit. A mandate; not any obligations before Copenhagen. According to both the President's staff and the media, the meeting was, in spite of immense difficulties, a success. Indeed it was. It was simply solved by giving the nine – out of 27 – dissenting countries – what they wanted. They now do not have to pledge to pay a euro cent in this billion euro project for the next ten years.
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Easy Jamberry Wrap Removal
Here is a short video on how to gently (and easily) remove your Jamberry nail wraps. I hear that Jamberry has fantastic remover, which I haven't tried out yet (shhh! Just being honest here…) but I will be getting some soon. I'll add a link to their remover after the video in case you want to try it out!
Whatever you do, DON'T peel the wraps off!!! It can damage your nails, and this way really is quick and easy.
Here is the link to the Jamberry's Nail Wrap and Laquer Remover.
The best part of removing the old wraps? Finding new ones to put on!!!
(Hi, My name is Becky and I'm a Jamberry addict… The first step is acknowledging it, right?!)


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In the wake of recent nationwide social unrest, and on the 50th anniversary of a major turning point in the American Civil Rights Movement, Hartford will welcome one of the leaders of the movement to speak to the importance of nonviolent conflict reconciliation in today's communities.
Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. will appear at Hartford Public Library on Thursday, February 5 at 5:30 p.m. as keynote speaker of the MLK Nonviolence Leadership Institute, a program presented by the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence in partnership with the Library Dr. LaFayette's talk is free and open to the public, and all are invited to attend.
As a seminary student in Tennessee, Bernard LaFayette studied nonviolence under well-known activist James Lawson, and began to use the techniques to opposed racial injustice in the South, participating in sit-ins at restaurants and businesses practicing segregation. In 1961, he joined other students in the Freedom Rides movement, and faced brutal attacks and arrest. In the summer of 1962, LaFayette became director of the Alabama Voter Registration Campaign, working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to begin organizing in Selma, Alabama. The Selma marches that took place three years later would become a critical turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, eventually leading to the landmark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Dr. LaFayette was an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and appointed national coordinator of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign.
Dr. LaFayette comes to Hartford as part of the MLK Nonviolence Leadership Institute, a Level I Certification Training in Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation, taking place January 24 through March 28 at the Library's Downtown location. The ten-week program teaches the Six Principles of Nonviolence, developed by Dr. King, as well as basic concepts, strategies and tools that individuals and communities can use to address conflict without resorting to violence. The curriculum for the Institute was co-authored by Dr. LaFayette and David Jenhsen.
The keynote event will feature a conversation surrounding recent social unrest throughout the country, including protests against the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, where Dr. LaFayette worked on the ground with community activists. Remarks from local leaders will open the program. All are invited to this unique opportunity, and community organizations, school groups and activists are particularly welcome.
The Institute and keynote event are made possible in part byafunding provided by the Challenging Hartford to Engage Civically and Keep Improving Together (CHECK IT) Initiative of the City of Hartford Department of Families, Children, Youth and Recreation –Division of Youth. For more information about the keynote event, please visit hplct.org.
For information about the MLK Nonviolence Leadership Institute, please email email@example.com or call 860-567-3441.
February is just around the corner, and we've got a great lineup of Black History Month programs and events to educate, inform and entertain. Join us!
Youth: History Makers
Monday, February 3, 3:30 p.m., Mark Twain Branch
Ages 8 and up. Join us in a celebration of Black History month as we create a History Tree with quotes from people who inspired others through their words and actions.
More info: 860-695-7540
"American Promise" Film Screening and Community Conversation
Saturday, February 8, 2014, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Center for Contemporary Culture, Downtown Library
Hartford Public Library hosts on of the first screenings in the nation of the PBS documentary "American Promise," a rare and compelling exploration of race, class and opportunity in America. Following the film, a conversation moderated by Fox CT's Stan Simpson will engage a panel of local educators, community leaders, and attendees in a dialogue surrounding issues of race and education in local communities. Panelists will include Adam Johnson, Director of Secondary Education at Capitol Region Education Council (CREC), Milly Arciniegas, Executive Director of the Hartford Parent University , and others. "American Promise" debuts on PBS Monday, February 3rd.
American Promise is an intimate and provocative account, recorded over 12 years, of the experiences of two middle-class African-American boys who entered a very prestigious–and historically white–private school on
Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Dalton School had made a commitment to recruit students of color, and five-year-old best friends Idris Brewster and Oluwaseun (Seun) Summers of Brooklyn were two of the gifted children who were admitted. The boys were placed in a demanding environment that provided new opportunities and challenges, if little reflection of their cultural identities.
This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS. For more info: www.pbs.org/pov. View the"American Promise" trailer
Native Son by Richard Wright
Sunday, February 9, 2014
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The Kitchen @ Hartford Public Library
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Sunday, February 16, 2014
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The Kitchen @ Hartford Public Library
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.
For copies of the book or questions, contact book club leader Sarah Pelletier at 860-695-6377 email@example.com.
February's Book Club is made possible in part thanks to the generous donation of books by CT Humanities.
A Conversation with Butch Lewis: The Black Panther Party in Connecticut
Sunday, February 23, 2014, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Center for Contemporary Culture, Downtown Library
Hartford Public Library and the Hartford History Center, in partnership with the magazine Connecticut Explored, presents a Black History Month discussion recalling the Black Panther Party in Connecticut during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s featuring Butch Lewis, 1960s activist and co-founder of the Hartford Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Featured scholars will include Dr. Stacey Close, Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity at Eastern Connecticut State University, and Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Vice Provost for Diversity at University of Connecticut. Connecticut Explored also celebrates the launch of its newest publication, African American Connecticut Explored. Books will be available for purchase.
Family Poetry Night
Wednesday, February 26, 5:30 p.m., Downtown Library – Youth Program Room
Ages 4 and up with adult friends. Bring your whole family to celebrate Black History Month! Come recite your favorite poems and enjoy a night of music, soul food and poetry.
More info: 860-695-6330
People That Could Fly
Friday, February 27, 3:00 p.m., Camp Field Branch
All Ages. Celebrate Black History Month with a read aloud and discussion of Virginia Hamilton's tale, The People That Could Fly, then enjoy a soulful treat afterwards.
More info:860-695-7440
Amistad Center Historic Photo Collection
Throughout February, Library visitors will be able to a view a kinetic "exhibit" of historic photos of important events and figures of the Civil Rights Movement, courtesy of the Amistad Center for Art & Culture, projected in a giant display in on the wall of our Downtown Atrium. Exhibit is visible from all floors, and will be projected during afternoon hours.


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Strategies for Scaling the World's Largest NetworksPosted by shidoshi1000 in Geek Speak on Apr 18, 2017 8:03:00 AM
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds Chief Technology Officer
It can be truly astounding to think about the scale of today's largest government networks, which are growing larger and more complex every day.
As a public sector IT pro, it may seem like an impossible challenge to manage this growing behemoth. Ever-increasing numbers of network devices, servers, and applications give you less leeway for downtime, hiccups, or problems of any sort.
There is a range of strategies that government IT pros can employ to support network growth and scalability while helping to ensure that all architectural and infrastructural requirements are met, and system failover scenarios are accounted for.
As the IT environment expands, it becomes more important for monitoring and management systems to scale to keep up with growth. Most monitoring systems are built with the following elements, each with its own requirements and challenges to scale:
- A server that hosts the monitoring product and polls for status and performance
- A database where the polled information is stored for historical data access and reporting
- A web console for software management, data visualization, and reporting
Within this environment, three primary variables will affect a system's scalability:
- Infrastructure size: The number of monitored elements (where an element is defined as a single, identifiable node, interface, or volume), or the number of servers and applications that can be monitored.
- Polling frequency: The interval at which the monitoring system polls for information. For example, statistics collected every few seconds instead of every minute will make the system work harder, and requirements will increase.
- The number of simultaneous users accessing the monitoring system.
Those are the basics of understanding the feasibility of scalability. Now, let's move on to ways to manage that environment.
A command center is particularly well suited to agencies with multiple regions or sites where the number of nodes to be monitored in each region would warrant both localized data collection and storage. It works well for regional teams that are responsible for their own environments and require autonomy over their monitoring platform. While the systems are segregated between regions, all data can still be accessed from the centrally located console.
Additional scalability tips
There are several additional strategies that will help manage an agency's growing infrastructure:
Add polling engines: Distributing the polling load for the monitoring system among multiple servers will provide scalability for large networks.
Add web servers: Additional web servers can help support increasing numbers of concurrent monitoring sessions, helping to ensure that more users have uninterrupted web access to network monitoring software.
Add a failover server: To help ensure the monitoring system is always available, install a failover mechanism that will switch monitoring system operation to a secondary server if the primary server should fail.
Agency networks will certainly get large. It's the nature of an increasingly technically driven government. While it may seem overwhelming, implementing these few tactics will help IT managers embrace the growth and ultimately realize its value.
Find the full article on Government Computer News.


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Adam Schefter Says BlackBerry More Important than Some Bodily Organs
- In a recent interview regarding his BlackBerry, Adam Schefter of ESPN states that his BlackBerry is more inportant than some of his organs!
Great read.
How important is your BlackBerry to you?09-14-11 03:22 PM
- ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter is well-known for his first-class reporting and inside information.
The key to all of his work is a small but handy cell phone.
He works day and night and around the country through his phone.
To understand how important his phone is, Schefter tells this story of when he first started at ESPN:
"I told the lady in charge of cell phones that I needed unlimited texts and calls. I emphasized that I need that, and she said she would take care of it.
"Well, she didn't take care of it. And my first month's cell phone bill turned out to be for about $6,114.
"Needless to say the next month I had unlimited texts and phone calls."
Front Row had the chance to sit down with Schefter and discuss the key to his knowledge.
FR: How would you describe the importance of your phone?
AS: My Blackberry is more important to me than some of my bodily organs. For my job my Blackberry is vital. Everyone has something that is vital for their job, and for me it happens to be my Blackberry. My phone is always by my side.
FR: Since your phone is so important to you and vital for your job, would you say you're doing something on your phone most of the day?
AS: Look right here: I'm eating dinner and as I talk to you, it's in my hand.
FR: How many calls, texts and emails do you go through a day?
AS: Overall it depends on the day. During the height of free agency and around the draft, texting is non-stop. Couple hundred emails for sure. Calls are different because there isn't that much phone call contact anymore. I just try and make five or six meaningful telephone calls a day.
FR: Do you have a speed dial or a most contacted list?
AS: No, I don't have a most contacted list. I use almost all of my contacts, some more than others, but no one stands out. General Managers, coaches, scouts and agents are the ones I'm in contact with the most.
FR: What is the background picture of your phone?
AS: A picture of my wife and kids — as it should be.
FR: Speaking of your family, how do they feel about you and your phone?
AS: They understand it because it's part of my job. I try to be sensitive to my family. I try to be fair. It's always with me, but I try to make an effort when I'm home to concentrate on them. Sometimes I'm successful, sometimes not.
FR: Is your phone on when you're sleeping?
AS: The phone is always on. It's the first thing I look at when I wake up and the last thing I look at before I go to bed. The worst is waking up in the morning with an inordinate amount of messages because that means people are trying to reach me, which usually means something big happened. It's only happened a few times, when I've slept through breaking news. The last time was when the [New York] Jets traded for Santonio Holmes. It was a Sunday night and I fell asleep right before 11 p.m. because I was so wiped out from the first week of free agency, working nonstop. When I woke up at 4 a.m., I saw a flurry of messages around 11:19 p.m — and I knew that wasn't a good sign. So I just missed the story by 19 minutes. Bummed me out.
FR: Who contacts you the most?
AS: It changes a lot depending on what's going on in the league. I'd say the two constants are Seth Markman, Senior Coordinating Producer for all NFL Studio Production, or my wife. But there are a few coaches who I speak with a lot.
FR: How would you describe your relationship with your phone?
AS: It's great for my job just like it's great for everyone's job. I'm not any different, but I have a love/hate relationship with it. It's an incredible device, but it actually reduces the amount of contact you have with people. I deal with everyone through my Blackberry. It's just different than it used to be. [Blackberry phones] today are highly productive, but way more impersonal.09-14-11 03:27 PMLike 3
- Man this guy is probably connected with that thing at the hip. I wonder how his family deals with him being so impersonal. I also wonder if he has given them Blackberry's too? I wouldn't want my child to have one after seeing the example I set with mine they might think it's cool. Great Article though, was surely a fun read.09-14-11 08:54 PM
- Well it his job, and his job is related to his happy children... i can understand him somehow. he is working hard and he couldn't do it without his Blackberry.
It's all about CRACKberry09-14-11 09:45 PM
- But is it worth missing his kids activities?they are kids today,but adults tommorrow.The way the bb rules his life,his kids will pass him by.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-15-11 12:05 AM
- We are paying a steep price as a society by being ruled by technology,it is taking personal relationships to each other away.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-15-11 12:19 AM
- I think the fact he is able to be HOME while getting all the calls, and actually not even calls now but more texts, I would bet his wife has a BlackBerry too so they can BBM as would many of his KEY contacts since SMS just doesn't say enough,
It is very positive that he can spend time with his family and isn't trapped in a Home office, or off site office waiting for calls, yes he is on call all the time, but he is also able to be with his family more, and can have physical time with them, not having to ask them to be quiet while he is on the phone since most is data.09-15-11 07:33 AM
- Having actually seen Adam Schefter (both pre and post-Lasik), I have to wonder whether he had any use for those body parts anyway.09-15-11 08:25 AM
- Man this guy is probably connected with that thing at the hip. I wonder how his family deals with him being so impersonal. I also wonder if he has given them Blackberry's too? I wouldn't want my child to have one after seeing the example I set with mine they might think it's cool. Great Article though, was surely a fun read.
It's not the technology, it's the person.09-15-11 12:29 PM
- avt123O.G.Heh, five or six calls a day. Sounds like my voice use. Hundreds of texts and IMs, tons of emails and barely any calls.
I would hate to be so tied to my phone though. I mean, I never shut mine off, but when I put it to the side and don't bother to look at it for 20-30min, it feels really nice. lol09-15-11 01:39 PM
- The question I'm wondering is, which BB does he have?09-15-11 02:01 PM
- That's what I want to know too.09-15-11 06:00 PM
- I know when he was working with the NFL Network, he had the 8830. He probably has a 9700 or 9780 today.09-15-11 07:55 PM
- He has 9000 last time I saw. I'm a hardcore sportscenter morning watching and love shefty. Great insider for the nfl. And I'm sure he does what's best for his family and making the money he prob makes its great! Keep on shefty!
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-15-11 08:45 PM
- I'd be willing to give up my appendix, but that's about it...09-15-11 08:54 PM
- I remember when the lockout was over and that 10 day period where there was a free-agent
frenzy began. He was sitting on the Sportscenter set talking and had to actually take his
phone out on-air to check it because those were a really crazy 10 days. A lot of these NFL
guys like to be the first to report things. Especially if you work for ESPN. They put a lot of
pressure on their guys.09-16-11 02:54 PM
- Great reading his balanced (for him) outlook.
Surprising in a sea of phone-focused posts to read one not crammed with phone details, but just uses!09-17-11 10:36 AM
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December 9, 2013 Press Release, Groton, CT: John M. Johnson, D.D.S., received the Top Dentist recognition again from CT Magazine for the category General Dentistry. Dr. Johnson received Top Dentist in 2010, 2011, 2012 and now for 2013, having been recommended to the magazine by his peers.
"Although I am honored for the recognition, it would never of come to fruition without my great staff." says Dr. Johnson in reaction. For those who know him, "Jack" is an affable, witty man, and this reaction does show how much it means to him. He has practiced for over 25 years, and enjoys his work so much, he doesn't even begin to think about retirement.
Connecticut Magazine publishes the Top Dentists Guide annually, and polls every dentist licensed in the state of CT, asking them to recommend a dentist they would send a loved one for care to, in seven categories. The only way to make the list is to be recommended by those dentists who return those questionnaires. The magazine considers the survey to have a high response rate.
Dr. Johnson grew up in Berwick, PA, a small town near the Pocono Mountains, and became interested in dentistry in middle school. He attended the University of Scranton on an athletic scholarship, and received a B.S. in biology. His dental degree comes from the Georgetown University School of Dentistry, where he joined the faculty following graduation, teaching the specialty of crown and bridge. He continues his athletic interests still today on the golf course.
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#Nanowrimo : The Rat Pt4
Word of the rat's presence soon spread throughout the keep, and from everyone's reaction, the small creature might as well have been a dragon come to roost on the battlement and lay siege to the castle: the nobles locked themselves in their apartments with their card tables and tea, the servants lifted the hems of their skirts and searching about their feet with chariness, the yeoman favoured their various employments to distract themselves from the heightened bustle in their quarter, and though everyone was in some manner aware of the creature lucking about, no one was more sensible of its presence than Alasdair.
The moment that the commander conveyed the news, the king replied with a discomposed "Oh…" and directly stood from his seat in the library, shuddering in disgust. His eye wandered unconsciously under tables, around corners of chairs, even beneath his parchments. "Well," he said after a moment's pause, "I'm glad I didn't eat anything this morning."
"I daresay, Alasdair, it wandered in from the square," the commander said, making no attempt to hide her amusement. "It is collection day. It probably came from one of the waste carts."
Alasdair was instantly horrified. "That makes it worse. That means it's going to bring its filth here." He shivered in quiet aguish and stood close to the commander, looking about his feet with a chary expression.
"Diras Castle is the cleanest home on the Two Continents. One rat shall not ruin your reputation as shining master of the grand Frewyn house."
"It might gnaw on my jerkins and my bow strings," he exclaimed, ignoring the commander's attempt to quell his anxiety. The horror of such a statement moved him to quit the library directly and hurry towards his chambers where he might find his tailored garments and his fiddle all in perfect order.
He had been used to neatness more than affluence in his youth, and the notion of the very symbol of refuse hiding in his keep, skulking about every corner, bearing its teeth, nestling within the stone walls, compelled him to call for a trapper the moment he could crawl out from the royal chambers. The call was made, the trapper would come, but his apprehensions could not be assuaged until the creature should be caught. Carrigh should placate his terrors, and he hastened down the main hall in quest of her, pretending not to be terrified and aghast, when observed her coming from the tailor to greet him. He ran toward her in protracted leaps, gathered into the bend of his arm, and before she could ask his meaning by forcing her back into the tailor, he was closing the door and locking it behind them. He sighed in relief and began spying the corners of the small room.
Carrigh regarded Alasdair with a sense of bemusement. "What is it, sire?" she said in a half whisper.
He grabbed her and held her close, and nearly climbing her in terror said, "It's going to touch me," with a terrific expression.
She had heard the buzzing of there being a rat in the keep from the commotion in the servants quarter, and while this granted little to distress herself, the news bore a very different character by Alasdair. She held his cheek to her shoulder and dotingly cooed, "Alasdair, it has been nowhere in this tailor."
"Excellent. Then we can hide in here until it's caught."
Carrigh must indulge his horrors, for however irrational they might be, his expression and his clinging to her affright warmed her heart with delight. She must laugh at him, but he would tolerate a little mockery for having trapped her in the tailor. She said her acquiescences, prying him from her and calm him by professing that there were many new doublets and jerkins to be fitted him, and set out to find various diversions for however long they should be caught in the tailor.
A small room with a locked door and his stunning wife standing in the midst of it offering him the perusal of a few new pieces was the most prepossessing object in the world, and after some minutes of trying on a few shirts and having them tucked and tightened, connivance soon has its way and Alasdair's agitations were soothed, finding added comfort in osculating his dear wife and asking her to try on one of her new gowns without the use of the folding partition to change. His wishes were readily obliged, and with sly smiles Carrigh began to untie her bodice when the handle of the tailor door began to wriggle. They turned to observe their intruder, and before either of them could declare the room locked and occupied, the door was forced open and Commanded Dobhin stood in the entrance.
Carrigh scrambled to retie her bodice, and Alasdair leapt in front of her with an exclamation of, "Dobhin!" in a complaining tone.
Dobhin stepped forward and bowed, knowing he had interrupted something but hardly thinking it worth checking his conduct, as the Majesties were both dressed at not beside one another at present. "I apologize, Your Majesty, for the intrusion," he said with all his usual complacence, "but I thought you should know there is a-"
"Rat in the keep," Alasdair heatedly interposed. "Yes, thank you. We're very well aware of it."
Dobhin glanced at Carrigh, whose cheeks were in a glow, and then at Alasdair, who was endeavoring to have him gone with conscious looks. He would not leave, however; he must first subject Alasdair to some humiliation for having been caught sulking away with his wife while the keep was in a state of animated trepidation. He had no horror of the rat, but he knew that Alasdair must, given his time in the barracks of Tyfferim Company he had been used to suffer. He gloried in seeing Alasdair terrified, especially over something so inconsequential as a rat when the peace of a kingdom was all his concern. He made a sly grin as Alasdair stepped close.
"May I ask what you're doing here?" Alasdair said in a fevered hush.
Dobhin seemed affronted. "I came to look after the wellbeing of my king and queen, as a commander of Frewyn should do."
It was said with a mock dutifulness, but Alasdair would not betray his agitation whilst his wife was present. "Thank you," he said with forced composure, "but I'm in the middle of something rather important." He glanced askance at Carrigh, but in looking back at Dobhin suddenly realized, "How did you know I was in here?"
Dobhin smiled and raised his brows. "Where else would you be but in Her Majesty's arms while everyone else is running about in terror?"
The inference was easily drawn, but how Dobhin had entered without having broken the lock was a matter unsettling to Alasdair. He remarked the handle and hinge intact before he asked, "How did you unlock the door from the other side?"
"That lock hasn't functioned since His Majesty Good King Dorrin's time."
Alasdair regarded him from the corner of his eye. "And may I ask how you would know that?"
Dobhin stood close and said in a low voice, "You're not the only one who enjoys sulking about the servants quarters and taking advantage of a well-placed sewing table, Brennin." He made a momentary glance at the large table in the corner and was gone directly.
The king was left with some uncomfortable sentiments to feel: how did he know all the uses for the stationary sewing table? was a question to vex him far more than ideas of rats being near him ever could. He stared at the closed door for some time, contemplating Dobhin's meaning and making his suppositions, when a touch from Carrigh roused him from his cogitations. He turned to remark her: her bodice was now gone and all of his notions of Dobhin's intrusion gone with it.


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My name is Ann Marie and I'm a homeschooling mom with two kids: Kate and Oliver. We live with their daddy and my husband, Seth, and 2 cats, Bowie and Blackberry, a few blocks from the beach just south of Los Angeles.
Food is Medicine
While I love food and cooking, it's more than that for me. I believe food is medicine.
When I was 25 years old, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The pain in my knees was so bad, it would wake me up at night. And the arthritis was spreading to my fingers and elbows. I was also suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivities, chronic sinus infections and colds, and seasonal allergies.
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That said, I think most "health food" is vile. As Chef Mario Batali said once to Gwyneth Paltrow, "Soy milk tastes like dirty sheets."
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I advocate eating traditional foods that humans have been thriving on for thousands and even millions of years. Butter, cheese, meat, gravy, and yes, bread and wine. This post sums up my health food philosophy: Top 5 Reasons Cheese, Bread and Wine are Health Foods.
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Life goes by fast and one day it's over. You don't want to be lying there at the end of your life, thinking yeah, I never did much of anything. Maybe your life is boring. Maybe you're broke. Maybe you're miserable. It might just be because you haven't taken enough risks.
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