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Tamra Barney Shares Shocking, Sexy Photo of Gretchen Rossi — See It!
Would you ever want someone to share a photo of you pushing some guy's face into your crotch? We're going to hope your answer is no. And that's exactly why we're thinking that the rift between Real Housewives of Orange County stars Tamra Barney and Gretchen Rossi is only going to continue to get worse.
Tamra and Gretchen have been going at it during the OC Reunion episodes, with Gretchen maintaining that she never cheated on her fiance Jeff, despite Tamra's claims to the contrary. Gretchen says that she and the guy in question were just friends, and that she successfully sued him to keep him away from her.
However, Tamra has now retweeted a photo that was taken a couple of years ago, which shows Gretchen in a rather compromising position. Seriously, this photo is beyond shocking.
Here is what Tamra retweeted:
"Hi, I'm @GretchenRossi, and I didn't cheat on my dying fiancé" #RHOC #RHOCReunion #RT @TamraBarney @vgunvalson pic.twitter.com/sIyPKq7x9V— TEAM TERESA (@teresaisthebest) August 24, 2013
Wow, right? This is quite the scandalous photo. So was Tamra right in retweeting it — or does it not really prove that Gretchen was unfaithful to Jeff, and is Tamra out of line?
"Only person I know that would Deny that!!! #liar," Tamra wrote in response to the pic. And when one of Tamra's followers criticized her for being mean, Tamra answered, "If she wants to retweet nasty things about me...I can play her game too. But hers are really nasty. Karma!" Tamra appears to be referring to Gretchen's retweet from last week.
We can't wait to watch tonight's Reunion Part 3 to see what terms Gretchen and Tamra ended things on, but judging from their recent Twitter jabs, we're thinking they aren't going to be exchanging friendship bracelets again anytime soon.
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A legal thriller in the tradition of The Verdict and The Insider.
A legal thriller in the tradition of The Verdict and The Insider.
Frozen II is funny, exciting, sad, romantic, and silly.
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"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
A video essay celebrating Antonia Bird's maligned masterpiece, Ravenous.
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A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
An early review of Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell out of AFI Fest.
A review of the new Hulu show imported from Channel 4, The Accident.
In the opening moments of "Little Odessa," a hit man played by Tim Roth walks quickly across a street toward a man on a park bench, and shoots him dead. Then he goes to a telephone to report that the job has been done. He learns that his next job will take him to the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn. Not there, he says. He can't go back there.
But he does, and we learn that he has been running from this neighborhood - settled by Jews from Russia - and from his past, ever since he was banished by his father for committing an earlier murder, maybe his first. Still living there are his father, his mother, a kid brother, and the girl he walked out on when he fled Brighton Beach.
It is, we gather, risking his life to go back there, but the hit man, named Joshua Shapira, is not too clever about escaping notice. He checks into a local hotel for several days. He visits a social club, and sits in the window. Soon even his kid brother, Reuben (Edward Furlong), knows he's back, and they meet at Nathan's on the boardwalk, on a cold winter day. He looks up the girl, Alla (Moira Kelly), and they go to a movie. And he returns home to visit his dying mother (Vanessa Redgrave), but his father (Maximilian Schell) throws him out, crying "murderer!" Soon Joshua is involved again in the local crime scene; he has been hired to do a killing, others are hoping to kill him, and there are old scores to settle. One of them is with his father, who takes off his belt to beat the younger brother, and who is eventually humiliated by Joshua - made to disrobe in a vacant field and anticipate his own death. This scene, inspired perhaps by an equally unpleasant but more plausible scene in "Miller's Crossing," brings the film to a shuddering halt.
The whole undercurrent of child abuse in the movie is unconvincing, and doesn't provide much of an explanation for Joshua becoming a hit man. I felt as if the whole crime plot of the movie had been imposed on the underlying story, to make the project more commercial.
Tim Roth is an amazingly versatile actor; compare this character from Brooklyn with his Cockney thief in "Pulp Fiction" and his foppish con man in "Rob Roy." He does what he can with his character, but the story, written and directed by James Gray, is neither a family drama nor a crime melodrama, but a series of disconnected scenes that play like exercises - some of them very good ones.
Consider, for example, the kid brother. Edward Furlong is a skillful actor, but what can he do with a role that requires him to materialize uncannily at key moments, just so he can witness things it is unlikely he would even know about? Or what about the father, played by Schell, who is written as such a ham-handed heavy that he bursts through credibility? And what, given the movie's Jewish milieu, are we to make of a closing scene in which a furnace is used as a crematorium? There is symbolism there, I'm sure, but I don't feel like working it out, and I don't think the movie has earned it.
Gray, the filmmaker, is 25 years old, and this is his first film. It plays a little as if he put everything into it that he ever wanted to say, or do, in a movie - even a closing shoot-out sequence that uses such stagy choreography it feels more like film school than any possible sequences of real events. As I watched a subtle play of shadows on sheets hanging on a clothesline, it seemed to me that the movie had raised too many serious issues to turn into a visual exercise at the end. It's a set piece when a dramatic scene is needed.
Some individual passages are very well done. A quiet, sad discussion, for example, between the father and his mistress. A conversation between Joshua and the girl he left behind.
A final talk between Joshua and his mother. None of these need a contrived crime plot to make them work, and when "Little Odessa" is over, you wonder if it wasn't really meant to be a family drama - and that the idea of making the son a hit man was an afterthought, to make the project more attractive to investors.
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SHANGHAI (MarketWatch) -- Blackstone Group LP BX, +0.29% is selling its 95% stake in a Shanghai mall to New World Development Co. (0017.HK) for CNY1.46 billion ($228 million), a source with direct knowledge of the matter said late Tuesday.
Last week, Hong Kong-listed New World Development said it had agreed to buy the Channel One shopping mall from two sellers. It mentioned Hong Kong-listed VXL Capital Ltd. (0727.HK) as a seller but did not identify Blackstone.
The deal is scheduled to be completed in early November, the source said.
Blackstone purchased its interest in the mall for CNY1 billion in November 2008, the source added.
The mall, which opened in May 2009, comprises 42,000 square meters of retail space, New World Development said in its statement last week, adding that the acquisition will boost the company's position in the department store sector in east China.
Blackstone Group is halfway through fund raising for a yuan-denominated fund, Michael Sotirhos, senior managing director of the New York firm, said Tuesday in New York. Blackstone has said it held a first close on an undisclosed amount for its yuan fund in April, a vehicle which aims to raise CNY5 billion.


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The idea of 'Enterprise' has been extensively used in recent years as a way to understand the principles underlying the reinvention of organizations and employees. It tends to be used as a counterfactual to 'bureaucracy'. However, we argue that while this approach has produced some rich insights, an over-emphasis on the notion of enterprise may exaggerate the reality of change. In this paper we focus on the ways in which top managers mediate the construct. We try to show that enterprises—even those 'liberated' from bureaucratic regulation and constraint—need not necessarily be enterprising. This linkage has in the past been asserted but too frequently left unexplored. We suggest that an analysis of enterprising forms of organization requires a more nuanced and a more empirically based understanding of the ways in which enterprise is interpreted and deployed within organizations which are apparently—on the surface at least—seemingly committed to 'achieving enterprise'.
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What are you doing? You're drooling, watching makeup tutorials and hydraulic compressions on YouTube Red, letting life pass you by. But you could be laughing in a room full of artists, musicians, comedians, and in time... friends. Mental Recess is a chance to give your mind what it really needs.
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By Sushmita Bhowmick(08 Feb 2011)
Abohoman, true to its name, flows relentlessly over its movie time, over lifetime, from here to eternity. Moving from past to present, moving over lives intertwined, over star-crossed entities, the best thing about Abohoman is it's fluidity that takes you through emotions, where you take a dip and can emerge stronger. Rituporno has proved time and again that he is a very sensitive film maker; he can identify the gamut of emotions, sometimes small passing reflections, perhaps comparable only to the range of emotions portrayed through Tagore's songs. Every character is strong ... » read more
Abohoman : The Passing On Without Breaking Grounds
By Dipen Guha(08 Feb 2010)
Rituporno Ghosh's latest venture "Abohoman" has failed to break ground. As the title suggests, the plot relates something that is in vogue down the ages. The mentor-minion/ muse rapport is irrespective of time and place. The relation between Girish Ghosh and Nati Binodini has been synchronised to the current context with the added intervention of the successive generation. Aniket Mazumdar, acclaimed to be the maker of films for the genteel society falls in with a lady of plebian class Sikha who is cast in his dream-project "Natibinodini". Now, the Pygmalian practice is ... » read more
Defining Relationships
By Aditya Chakrabarty(23 Jan 2010)
Rituparno Ghosh's films have essentially been women centric or primarily been on relationships between certain people. His latest film Abohoman, deals with the story of an art film maker Aniket Majumdar and his affair with an actress Srimati(formerly known as Shikha), whom he moulds into a fine actress and transforms her into a sophisticated human being from her rustic surroundings. He slowly gets involved with and when he has a full fledged affair with her, his entire family is affected and gives up on him though they are later shown to accept it as well. The father and ... » read more
Not Only The Relationship Between Mentor And Muse
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Rituparno Ghose's "Abohomaan" deals with the mentor's relationship with his muse. And he believes this pygmalionish relationship is eternal. It happens everywhere, it happens in every ages.Though "Abohomaan" tells the story of Aniket (Dipankar Dey) and Sikah (Ananya Chatterjee), it may also be the story of either Guru Dutt-Waheeda Rahman or Jean Lue Godurd-Anna Karina or Woody Altea- Mia Furrow or Himanshu Rai-Debika Rani. It happened in the 40's of the last century, it is happening even today.Aniket is a film maker who makes films for the class, not mass. When ... » read more
By Mrs Chandra Banerjee(20 Feb 2010)
Though the film s' title is Abohoman this is not a regular case of life! And it cannot be a typical story of film line either. The relationship of a man and a woman can be formed in thousand and one cases if not more and it is true that how people are attracted to each other no one knows.The relationship with the director and the actress with a huge age difference does not new story at all people do fall in love under srtange circumstances and brings sorrow in their established family. Rituporno is sucessful in bringing up the movie in such a manner. the cast id ... » read more
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Mandate for Nordic Information on Gender 2016–2018
The Nordic Council of Ministers has decided to place NIKK (Nordic Information on Gender) as a cooperative body at the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The assignment will last until 2022.
NIKK will:
- Gather and strategically disseminate research, policy, knowledge and practice in the area of gender equality in a Nordic and cross-sectoral perspective.
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- Assist MR-JÄM, EK-JÄM (Nordic Committee of Senior Officials for Gender Equality) or the Presidency by coordinating activities and projects and support these by sharing its expertise, experience, contacts and communication channels of relevance to the Nordic cooperation.
- Contribute with ideas and material for new prioritisations, activities and projects in connection with the development of Nordic sector, action and cooperation programmes within the field of gender equality.
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He was an adventurous, largely self-taught photographer with a burning drive to complete what would come to be regarded as one of the greatest anthropological projects ever attempted.
She was a single woman in a small Midwestern city who rose from the job of library clerk to become only the second female art museum director in the United States.
If they had ostensibly little in common, Edward Sheriff Curtis (Fig. 3) and Lulu Frances Miller (Fig. 2) shared this: each was a trailblazer and a maverick. Their lives intersected when Miller purchased Subscription Number 70 to Curtis's famed photographic masterwork, The North American Indian, for the public library in Muskegon, Michigan.
Curtis's path to that juncture began early in his life. He built his first camera at age twelve, and in 1885, at seventeen, apprenticed to a photographer in his native Wisconsin. The family moved to the Pacific Northwest and eventually settled in Seattle in 1891. There, Curtis purchased a share in a photographic studio.
On a photo-taking excursion to Mount Rainier in 1898, Curtis by chance met a group of scientists who had become lost while hiking on the dangerous and stormy slopes, and guided them to safety. He formed fast friendships with two of them: George Bird Grinnell, anthropologist and later founder of the Audubon Society, and C. Hart Merriam, zoologist and co-founder of the National Geographic Society. Through their intercession, Curtis was hired as the official photographer for railroad magnate Edward Henry (E. H.) Harriman's grand 1899 expedition to explore the Alaskan coastline. And in 1900, Grinnell brought his friend Curtis on an extended excursion among the Piegan Blackfeet in Montana.
It was on the trip with Grinnell that Curtis conceived a plan for a great project to document the vanishing way of life of the Native American people of the continent. His vision was to photograph the tribes of North America and to publish his work over a five-to-seven-year period in twenty volumes, all to be accompanied by individual photogravures, and to be sold—and indeed, financed—through subscription.
Early in his endeavor, even as he traveled to capture events such as the Hopi Snake Dance (Fig. 1) and came to be called "Shadow Catcher" by the people he photographed, Curtis was unsure he would ever realize the grand scope of his project. He was desperate for underwriting. Despite the support of his new friend, President Teddy Roosevelt, he was turned down by the Smithsonian Institution and other museums that he approached about his work. He failed to place subscriptions even in Seattle, where sales from his studio photography couldn't keep pace with his mounting expenses.
In 1906, things changed. With the help of Harriman, Curtis secured an appointment with one of the richest men in the world, New York banker and industrialist J. P. Morgan.1 At their meeting, Curtis presented Morgan with his proposal and a budget covering estimated annual expenses that included hotels and travel, equipment, assistants' salaries, food for the horses and mules and crews, rental fees for wagons, pay for teamsters and translators, and funds for the equipment to produce wax cylinder recordings of tribal music. And, there was the money to be given to the Native American subjects of his photographs.
Fatefully, Curtis proposed that he would not take salary nor money for the project's substantial production costs, confident that those expenses would be covered by subscriptions he still believed he could secure. After saying no—more than once—Morgan, moved by the photographs Curtis showed him, especially the poignant photogravure of Mosa, a young Mohave woman (Fig. 8), finally consented. The financier granted Curtis $75,000—for fieldwork only, to be paid at $15,000 a year for the following five years—a sum just over $2 million in today's dollars,2 but not without conditions.
Curtis's original idea? To print one hundred twenty-volume sets. Morgan countered with the idea that Curtis should do all the writing and that he should produce five hundred full sets to sell by subscription—ideas that likely did not feel like suggestions to Curtis.3 "Mr. Curtis," Morgan said, "I like a man who attempts the impossible."4 This agreement would come to haunt Curtis, as fewer than 250 fifty subscriptions were ever sold.
While Curtis was developing his grand vision and pitching his project, Luella "Lulu" F. Miller was turning a simple library clerk's job into a career. She was born in Muskegon around 1874 to A. John Miller, a railroad engineer, and his wife, Mary, and graduated from the local high school in 1888. She began working at the city's Hackley Public Library in 1892 (Fig. 4), and by 1896 had advanced to assistant librarian. On January 3, 1907, Miller was named head librarian.5 Within just a year of stepping into this role, Miller presented the Muskegon Board of Education with a proposal to acquire a subscription to The North American Indian. How she convinced the board to spend $3,000—roughly $80,000 in today's money—is a mystery. But the library would become the first subscriber to this undertaking in the state of Michigan.6
Miller signed the contract for The North American Indian on March 26, 1908. About a week later, she received a letter back from Curtis, dated April 6, 1908, in which he wrote:
In its entirety the aim is to make the work . . . a record . . . . In a sense it might be called "Leaves from a Field Worker's Notebook," material which those who have not been so fortunate as to have seen the many tribes in person can make use of . . . . I particularly desire to make myself clear that it is a systematic record of the various tribes, not a treatise on the Indian subject.7
Several letters from Curtis and his assistants to Miller following the signing of the contract for this work exist, but unfortunately no correspondence has been discovered from Miller to Curtis.
Miller wasted no time in showcasing the library's new prize. When she signed the contract for the subscription, Miller also agreed to host an exhibition of more than two hundred of Curtis's photographs at the library, most of which he had shipped to the library for that purpose. 8 The exhibition opened on April 27, 1908, and received more than two thousand visitors in the first ten days of its display. Hailed a "great success" in an article in the local newspaper, the writer went on to say, "Not only has it attracted large numbers to view it, but many have manifested a more than ordinary interest."9
The library, built by the Public Schools of the City of Muskegon, was named for Charles Henry Hackley, a local philanthropist who also believed in the educational value of art.10 In his 1905 will he left the Muskegon Public Schools Board of Education a trust of $150,000 for the purchase of "pictures of the best kind" to be hung in the library. The massive 1890 American Romanesque-style building proved inadequate to double as an art gallery and, in 1911, the board decided to construct a new building to house an art gallery, though it would, for its first few decades, technically be regarded as a department of the library.11
Raymond Wyer, an artist, critic, and lecturer, was hired as first director of the Hackley Art Gallery in 1912.12 Though his foresight is clear today, Wyer and his advanced view of art soon fell afoul of conservative tastes in Muskegon. His 1914 purchase of James A. M. Whistler's Study in Rose and Brown for $6,750—about $170,000 in contemporary currency—was considered scandalously extravagant. Dogged by criticism, his decisions second-guessed, Wyer resigned in 1916. Miller, head of the library, was then tapped to direct the fledgling gallery as well.13
With that, and before women even had the right to vote, Miller became only the second female art museum director in the country, an achievement that attracted national media attention.14 (The first was Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton of the Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo, New York, now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.) Throughout her career at the Hackley Art Gallery, she proved no less prescient and astute with art acquisition than her predecessor, and, demonstrated by the results, to be as excellent a negotiator. Notes and letters related to her 1927 purchase of Answering the Horn by Winslow Homer (Fig. 12) suggest that Miller did diligent research to ensure she got a sound deal on the painting, with the board's approval, from the Thurber Art Galleries of Chicago.
Miller retired in 1930. That same year, Volume 20, the final installment of The North American Indian, was delivered to the Hackley Public Library. Curtis's epic achievement marked Miller's career like a pair of bookends, a testament to her remarkable record of visionary public service and accomplishment.
Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian opens at the Muskegon Museum of Art on May 11, and will remain on view through September 10. The exhibition celebrates the photographer and his work's cultural legacy, as well as the controversies that surrounded it, and presents, for what is believed to be the first time, all 723 portfolio photographs from Curtis's masterpiece.
1 William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan, Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 (Viking Press, New York, 1982). 2 Purchasing power calculator, www.measuringworth.com. 3 Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2012), p. 109. 4 Ibid, p.114. 5 Hackley Public Library was named for Charles Hackley (1837–1905), a lumber baron and philanthropist from Muskegon. Hackley amassed a fortune of $18 million one third of which he gave to the community. His first gift, the land on which to build and $100,000 in funding, was for the construction of Hackley Public Library, given on May 25, 1888. Marilyn Verduin Andersen, Hackley Public Library: A Centennial History (M. Andersen, Hackley Public Library, and the Public Schools of the City of Muskegon, Muskegon, 1990); and Janie Lynn Panagopoulos, The Centennial Walking Tour of the Hackley Public Library (1990). 6 "$3,000 set of books for the Library Deals with American Indians," Muskegon Chronicle, April 8, 1908. 7 Edward Curtis to Lulu Miller April 6, 1908, Muskegon Museum of Art. 8 Subscription agreement for The North American Indian, March 26, 1908, ibid. 9 "Over 2,000 See Pictures," Muskegon Chronicle, May 5, 1908. 10 "Millions more for Muskegon in will of Charles H. Hackley, Filed Today," Muskegon Chronicle, February 15, 1905. 11 "Building Will Be Devoted to Art Gallery: Board of Education Plans Erection of Addition to the Public Library," ibid., August 26, 1909. Official Proceedings of the Board of Education of Muskegon Public Schools, June 11, 1911, n.p. 12 Raymond Wyer (1874–1963) trained at the Académie Delécluse and the Académie Julian in Paris, and worked for Moulton and Ricketts—importers of and dealers in foreign and American paintings, with offices in New York, Chicago, and Milwaukee that had helped assemble some of the great art collections in the Midwest—when he was hired as gallery director by the Muskegon Board of Education in 1912. Wyer later changed his surname to Henniker-Heaton, and was director of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts from 1918 to 1925. 13 Marilyn Verduin Andersen, Pictures of the Best Kind: The First Century of the Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, 2012), pp. 53–54. 14 American Art News, September 15, 1917.
CATHERINE MOTT is the curator of education for the Muskegon Museum of Art. JUDITH A. HAYNER is the executive director of the Muskegon Museum of Art.


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I should've mentioned this here earlier — but The Haunted is free on Amazon till midnight tonight, PST! :D
And also my omnibus of Dark Ink Tattoo Episodes 1-3 is out! :D
Life has been pretty dang lifey, lately, and I've been writing a ton :D — I've been much better about updating my newsletter than updating here, so if you'd like to keep track of me/new releases, it's easier to sign up here: Cassie's Mailing List — if you sign up, you can even get a copy of Dark Ink Tattoo Episode 1 for free! :D
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I've been swamped with work ever since it got released, but now I have a day off to crow — Dark Ink Tattoo Episode 2 is out!
If you haven't gotten episode one yet, I'll let you in on a secret: I'm offering it for free if you join my mailing list right now. The link to the mailing list should be to your left on the screen right now even — one-stop shopping!
If you're already a faithful mailing list member, ping me and I'll send you the link for your own free copy :D.
In other news, I started another part time job at work on top of my already part time work-work, which is combining to be some sort of Voltron-Cassie who is at work Too Much. The second job is helping develop computer training curriculum and then training nurses on it, but it's been rough so far — people aren't really excited about our charting changing, which I totally feel as a bedside RN, but we gotta keep with the times.
I'm on my way out to a writing retreat in Big Sur shortly, before I really am expected to be full time for the rest of the summer, so I hope to get a lot of fresh writing done. I'm a 100k into Dark Ink Tattoo, I should finish episode 6 tomorrow, and it's gonna be at least ten episodes long. I'm glad I'm releasing it episodically, it's been fun to get to play with each chunk, and it's nice to have a feeling of forward momentum on something even when my writing time is so piecemeal currently.
I'll be back with pretty coastline pictures shortly, promise :D
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So one of the things I've been working on went live yesterday! It's Dark Ink Tattoo — an episodic urban fantasy erotica series that I've been writing in between things for awhile now, based on my love of paranormal critters, erotica, and tattoos. I have to say, writing it's been an easy blast, so nice to work on something that's just sheer fun :D.
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Dark Ink Tattoo is an erotic urban fantasy series, which will be comprised of ten 15,000 word pieces each with graphically detailed violence, and deliciously detailed sex.
Angela, Dark Ink's owner, has a secret – she's a werewolf who used to run with the Pack, a dangerous drug-dealing motorcycle gang that services Vegas's seedier side. She's been free for the past seven years, ever since her ex-boyfriend (and Pack leader) Gray went to prison – but when the Pack starts threatening her shop she realizes she's on borrowed time.
Dark Ink's best artist refuses to show up before sundown – because he's a vampire. Vegas is the perfect place for Jack – it's an endless buffet of strangers to bleed. The only thing that haunts Jack more than his hunger is Angela….
Will Angela ever trust Jack with her secret? Will Jack be able to protect Angela from the Pack?
This particular episode contains two MF scenes, and one scorching FMF threeway.
(I know some of y'all are hoping I'll go back to regular urban fantasy soon…just keep keeping your fingers crossed for a little bit longer ;))
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I don't call, I don't write…. ;)
It's been a really long time here, hasn't it! I'm sorry about that — life started happening at a frantic pace, and it was easier to slack off here than it was on any of my other life-fronts (relationships/friendships/work/writing/e
I don't want to over promise and say I'm baaaaaack, ala Poltergeist, but I am definitely alive, and I've definitely got some new books coming out shortly! More on that as they happen, I swear :D.
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I already chirped on twitter about this, but I turned in the book I'd been working on to my agent. 8 months of effort, landing at 102k. And now…I have this strange thing called time off. I'm giving myself the whole month of Sept, because it's been a really long time since I've been off-off, and I have to say, so far it's been strange but lovely.
I went home to Santa Cruz for a few days to hang with old buddies, and then came back up to Oakland to basically…watch TV (Sons of Anarchy season 7) and play video games (Witcher 3) and cook (Blue Apron, because I'm still lazy and hate the grocery store.)
Because I suck at not working entirely, instead of working on book stuff, I've decided to reorganize a bunch of our things. I read that KonMari book (so trite, I know, but other girls at work were reading it!) and I hit up my husband and I's closets. They're both beautiful now, hopefully they stay that way.
We also watched Ant-Man in the theater — super fun — and Interstellar last night.
Interstellar I have mixed feelings on. I totally love the scope they were aiming for, but I really dislike that Anne Hathaway's character had to be the astronaut version of the girl who breaks her shoe a horror film, plus also be the one to give cheesy exposition about love. When she started talking, i started feeling my Dr Who watching goggles coming down. But I appreciated the grandeur of the difficulty the movie was trying to capture — relativity is not an easy thing to get across, muchless feel intimate and familiar. (Gotta give the anime Gunbuster a shout out here — first media I ever saw that dealt with relativity appropriately.) And I loved the way they presented the concept of time, particularly at the end, that was gorgeous.
This week is a chill week of working some and hanging out with more friends and generally being indulgent. After the past 8 months, that sounds pretty good :D.
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My dad's been visiting me these past few days, and with him comes the opportunity to disconnect from work and writing and just be a magpie again — we went to the De Young Museum for the Turner exhibit, went on a walk of SF themed around Victorian homes, went to The Long Now's Interval bar/cafe, which is the hands down coolest place to hang in all of SF, walked all over the USS Hornet, and went out to see Rhonda Benin at the Sound Room in downtown Oakland.
And also watched Nightcrawler, Whiplash, and the Nina Simone documentary on Netflix, all of which were really good in very different ways. (I have additional thoughts about Whiplash, but they're not cogent enough to share yet.) ((PS: my dad's into jazz, if you're sensing a theme.))
And then-then, I read this month's The Wicked and The Divine. (Here come spoilers!)
I came into comic-books secondhand, thru my husband reading them, and since I'm not a true believer I'm oftentimes frustrated by the medium. The art's nice n' all, but where's the meat? The stories oftentimes don't feel as fleshed out as I'd like them to be. And just when things feel like they're ramping up, they get cut off.
So the Wicked and the Divine is the only comic book I'm making an effort to keep up with, because I love the premise — that every generation a group of people are turned into the incarnations of literal gods, and they'll all be dead within two years.
And this month's Wicdiv blew me away. It was one of the most feminist things I've read recently. Because the people in the comic are actual gods, one of the characters deals with the madonna/whore dichotomy plus fame plus social media intimately. It was glorious. Especially when you realize later that the entire comic was essentially a suicide note and you realize what you're seeing is what she was seeing on her screens, right before she chose to die.
It was fantastic, just really well done, the best visual of bullying and the internet for women that I have ever seen. I would recommend it to anyone wholeheartedly.
Anyhow — I'm off in a bit to go to another jazz thing in Jack London Square with my dad and then take him to the airport — and then to recuperate and hopefully put the book I'm working on currently to bed.
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It's been two months, OMG, I have been so remiss!
In my defense, they've been two of the busiest months of my life!
Launchpad was amazing. It's a yearly astronomy workshop held for writers so that we know to get the science right when the opportunity presents itself in our work. I learned so much amazing stuff there — I swear my brain hurt every single day, in a good way. (Apart from the altitude sickness! Laramie, WY is 7000 feet up, and that's no laughing matter!) All of us stayed in an honors dorm and hung out and ate together and went to observatories together — it was really, really, fun.
Then…I worked a lot. A lot a lot. My work hired a bunch of new kids, which is great, we really did need the help, but I knew the second they got off of orientation the double-time $$$ would dry up, so I basically picked up So Many Shifts. Why? Because I wanted to pay for fun at San Diego Comiccon!
I got to go down to San Diego and stay with my brother in Oceanside and ride the train back and forth every day — Comiccon was a blast. I hung out with writer friends, went to panels when I felt like it, bought all my friends awesome shirts in the dealer's room (exhibit hall, excuse me ;)) and took pictures of amazing cosplay, plus swam in the ocean twice :D. It was a completely ace time.
Then after that, OMG, July — my folks visited, I went to Palm Springs (swimming in hotel pools, yay!) on a business trip with my husband, I worked a ton still, friends visited, and I went camping for five days — I just got back on Sunday, actually. (That was the only possibly un-fun thing — we were camping with people I adored and we were near very scenic waterfalls that I got to swim in (this is my summer theme = swimming!), but it was 111 degrees out. Hooboy.)
Annnnd, now I'm back at work. Only all the kiddos have been set free — and I have a book to finish. I started my major rehaul of it at Comiccon, on the train back and forth to the convention, and I'm just about to the endity-end. August is gonna be busy too — I have a girl's weekend coming up and my dad's visiting — but since I'm not picking up any extra shifts, I should be done, with it turned in to my agent, by 9/1.
So there. I'm caught up, phew. And I'll try to stay more on top of things from here out. It should be easier, because I don't think I'll be that busy again for a long while…until next summer, most likely ;).
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I've reached the point where I need to catch up here or I'll be so behind forever ;).
First off, Baycon was last weekend, and it was amazing. I had so much fun hanging out with friends, it was so relaxed and enjoyable. I was the pro for one of the writing workshops, which I love — talking to new writers about what makes their books tick is fantastic. And then I was on (and moderated!) a panel about the future of antibiotics, which, while grim subject-wise, was immensely fun to be on.
On Monday, I go off to Launchpad! It's an astronomy camp for writers, and I pretty much can't wait! I know a ton of people who've been in the past, and have some friends going among the current crew — it's apparently like getting a year's worth of graduate astronomy lectures crammed into one week. My brain is ready! :D
And, I've been writing. A ton. My book's coming along nicely. I usually have a horse-and-rider relationship with my manuscripts, and up until now I've been the one in charge — but this book's different. I'm the horse this time, just taking it where it needs to go. It's strange, but good.
Last, but not least, I've been keeping up with boxing. I find it incredibly enjoyable. I already talked about this on FB, but yesterday I was assaulted by a homeless guy in Berkeley.
My last boxing lesson, I was totally drained at the end of last session, and my trainer started shouting at me to imagine punching someone I hated. That didn't help because, as it turns out, I don't hate anyone. Talking to my husband about it later, he made a face and was all, "I think your boxing instructor's a psychopath," in a teasing, half-not-teasing way.
Well, yesterday I was standing by a friend in Berkeley near a main street in daylight when a homeless person came up and kicked me in the back, hard. I screamed in surprise — he kicked me hard enough to make me fall into my friend and for my sunglasses to fall.
Luckily for me, he just walked off, and things didn't escalate. We got into my friend's car and trailed him while I talked to 911, and gave them a description. There not being much other crime in Berkeley, two cars went off to look for him, while another cop came over to talk to me.
I know how many homeless people are mentally ill, I see them each and every day at work. So we basically had a, "Yeah, it pretty much sucks,"-type convo. It's not like I want to press charges. I only reported it in case this guy goes off on some sort of kicking-spree.
I know how it is. Coulda been my voice, my hair, my backpack, time of day, whatever. I hate those existential moments when there's no reason for things, things just are. I know I'm lucky that it didn't get worse. I am bemused that this happened in Berkeley, since Oakland's the far more traditionally 'dangerous' locale.
After that, I picked up my husband early from work — and he's all, "You can take as many boxing lessons as you want to," heh.
More soon, after Launchpad probably :D


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Answers to Questions
These are my responses to the questions posed at the end of a post at Sudan Watch. The original post is at http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2006/12/photos-blogged-by-african-peacekeeper.html
Question: Has the food (especially from Khartoum) for AMIS personnel improved?
Answer: I do not know, since I prepare my own food due to the fact that the food was so unbearably inadequate in both quality and quantity.
Question: Are AMIS personnel now paid correctly and on time?
Answer: No.
Question: Has night time curfew on patrols been lifted?
Answer: Yes, but currently it may be in place again. Poor communication is an unfortunate reality here.
Question: Is AMIS still doing firewood patrols?
Answer: In some areas, yes.
Question: How can you tell if the Sudanese forces and civilians you meet are Arab or non-Arab?
Answer: It is difficult, but usually our interpreters and party representatives tell us.
Question: How can you understand what they are saying?
Answer: We have interpreters and some AMIS personnel come from Arab countries, ie. Egypt and Mauritania.
Question: Are they friendly when they greet you?
Answer: Usually they are very friendly.
Question: How can you tell who is a rebel and who is a civilian?
Answer: The rebels carry firearms.
Question: How can you tell who is a bandit and who is a janjaweed?
Answer: I wish I knew. The one is politically motivated and the other is not.
Question: How can you tell who is a janjaweed and who is a government soldier?
Answer: Usually the GoS wear distinctive green camouflage uniforms and the Janjaweed do not. Otherwise I would not be able to tell the difference.
Question: Have you seen a lot of dead bodies and graves in Darfur?
Answer: I have seen mostly photos taken by friends of mine as well as those taken by AMIS.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Soldier of Africa: Answers to Questions
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Napa City Bike Tour
Donate to Napa County Historical Society and get Napa Valley's history in the palm of your hand. Your donation helps us expand and create more historical tours for you to enjoy.
Tourist Information: Napa Valley Welcome Center – 600 Main Street; Napa Tourist Information Center – 1331 First Street
Public Restrooms: Napa County Library – 580 Coombs Street
Parking: All-day parking garage – Fifth Street Garage
Brief History of Napa City
Nathan Coombs received 80 acres from the original holder of the land grant Rancho Entré Napa, Nicolás Higuera, in 1847 in exchange for some carpentry work. Coombs was only 22-years-old when he laid claim to the land. He had surveyed the land between what is now Brown Street and the Napa River extending 600 yards from Napa Creek to the steamboat landing, and in 1848 he founded Napa.
The site was the perfect location for the fledgling town since it was at the uppermost point of river navigation. Not surprisingly, the first building in the frontier town was the Empire Saloon – built originally in the middle of Main Street. A general store was erected a year later, and soon other small, temporary buildings of canvas or lumber cropped up along the riverfront. Miners fled the snowy Sierras in the winter for the milder weather of the Napa Valley, and prices reflected the abundant supply of gold.
Napa River and Waterfront Businesses
Main Street between First Street and Fifth
Historic Site – Former Site
At Fifth and Main Street, a plaque marks the spot where Gen. Charles Fremont crossed the Napa River to eventually lay claim to California for the United States during the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846. If the tide is low, you may see wooden pilings cutting diagonally through the river to the bank near Soscol Avenue. They are all that remain of the original train tracks. For the first decade or so of the railroad, it crossed the river; it was later redirected to cut through town.
The pilings running along the bank closest to you are the remains of the passenger and freight piers. The river ferry marked the beginnings of a progression of boat, stage, and rail service that greatly influenced Napa's growth. The first steamboat navigated the Napa River from San Francisco in 1850. Passenger and perishable freight traffic were carried by steamboats even after the railroad was established in 1868. Much of Napa's waterfront industry was located between First and Fifth Streets; today all that remains is the Borreo Building at Third Street and Soscol Avenue and the Napa Mill/Hatt Building at Main Street and Fifth Street.
Napa County Courthouse Plaza
Block bounded by Coombs, Second, Brown, and Third Streets
National Register building
Historic Site – Closed to the Public/No Access
This courthouse is actually the third in this location (the fourth and main courthouse is across the street on Third). The first was a wooden structure shipped over from the east. When the need for a jail became apparent, they built the second courthouse. It was replaced by the current one in 1878 after years of disrepair made it somewhat unsafe to practice court in. It was designed by Joseph and Samuel Newsom with assistance from Ira Gilchrist, the architect who also designed the Napa Opera House.
On the property is a flagpole designed to look like the Eiffel Tower (at Second and Brown), as well as a large, centuries-old communal Wappo grinding stone (at Third and Brown). The cupola was removed in the years after the 1906 earthquake. It suffered significant damage in the August 2014 earthquake and is currently closed to the public as it undergoes repairs.
Goodman Library
1219 First St.
National Register building
Historic Site – Closed to the Public/No Access
The Goodman Library was financed and donated by George Goodman, a local banker. Goodman hired Luther Turton to design the castle-like building out of native Napa field stone. It is the longest continuously operating library in the State of California. The cornerstone was laid in 1901, and it opened officially in 1902. Goodman wanted the building to function like a community center, so he had what is now the exhibit room was the billiard hall for men, the front west office was the ladies' tea room, and the front east office was Goodman's office.
In the mid century it was converted to the Children's Library, but in the 1970s when the City built the new library on Fourth Street, Napa County Historical Society moved in and established a research library for local history. It suffered significant exterior damage in the August 2014 earthquake and is currently closed to the public as it undergoes repairs.
Winship-Smernes Building
Main and First Streets
National Register building
Historic Site
Like the Goodman Library and the Semorile Building, the Winship Building was designed by Luther Turton in 1888. E.H. Winship came to Napa from Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1887, and got involved in real estate. This building has housed many local businesses over the years, including Levinson's Drugs.
Semorile Building
975 First St.
National Register building
Historic Site
Bartolomeo Semorile came to California from Zoagli, Italy during the Gold Rush as an eight-year-old cabin boy on his father's ship. The rest of his family came over in 1854, and by 1869, Bartolomeo, his wife, and their seven children moved to Napa and set up a small grocery next to the future site of the Semorile Building. A fire destroyed his original shop, but in 1888 he hired Turton to design his new brick grocery. From 1889 until Bartolomeo retired in 1924, the Semorile family lived above their store. They also owned the land to the right of the grocery extending to the Napa River, on which they built a two-story rooming house and shop, and a single-story commercial building mostly occupied by a bar.
The family moved to Piedmont, California, in 1924 and the lot passed between a furniture store, antique store, and second hand shop. By 1965 it was virtually abandoned, and had fallen victim to vandalism and neglect. Eventually it was renovated and seismically retrofitted. Today it houses a wine bar.
Land on the South side of First Street Bridge
Former Site
By the late 19th century, both St. Helena and Napa had small but thriving Chinatown districts. Chinese immigrants frequently worked as house servants, laborers, and gardeners. They built several wineries in the area, including digging the tunnels for the Schramsberg and Beringer wineries. They also developed many of the early vineyards, which involved clearing the fields of stone and building stone walls.
With the passage of anti-Chinese legislation beginning in the 1860s, life became immensely more difficult for Chinese immigrants in the United States. St. Helena's Chinatown suffered several fires, and ranches all over the valley began siding with white labor unions to deny jobs to Chinese labor crews. In Napa anti-Chinese speeches were given at the Opera House. By 1929, all of the valley's Chinese settlements were gone. In 2015, the Flood Control Project wiped out the last traces of the Napa Chinatown. On the south side of the First Street Bridge is a plaque that once stood on a now gone spit of land on the river on the north side of the bridge marking Chinatown. On the north side of the bridge are panels explaining the reasons behind the drastic but necessary alterations to Napa Creek.
East Napa/ Little Italy
First St., east side of the Napa River
Former Site
This area in East Napa was historically a working class neighborhood and is near "Little Italy." Brothers Antonio, Lorenzo, and Nicola Carbone were some of the first Italian immigrants in East Napa, arriving in 1863. Soon after, hundreds of Italians, many from the Swiss and German border regions, immigrated to Napa in the late 19th century, to work general labor and in the vineyards. Many, like the Anton Nichelini and Felix Borreo, even opened their own wineries and businesses. Because of the frequent flooding in winter, some homes were built upside down, with their bedrooms on the ground floor and expensive and difficult to replace kitchens on the second floor.
Before the Oxbow Public Market was developed in the 2000s, this area was dotted with businesses and single family homes. If you arrived by train in the late 19th century, there were several hotels right near the tracks to choose from. The two story white building on the west side of the train tracks on the north side of First Street was the old Brooklyn Hotel. For those with more money to spend, the Palace Hotel was down the street about where Soscol is today. Most of the older structures in this neighborhood were torn down starting in the 1970s. The large building on the other end of the Oxbow parking lot is the former COPIA property, a multi-million dollar arts and culture center that never managed to catch on. Visit the farmer's market here on Tuesday and Saturday mornings.
Tulocay Cemetery
411 Coombsville Road
Historic Site
Before the Bear Flag Revolt, this land was part of Rancho Tulucay, granted to Cayetano Juarez in 1841. Juarez had been a well-respected soldier and fought alongside prominent Californio Salvador Vallejo in the "Indian Wars" in the Bay Area. Acting Governor Jimeno gave him this 8,866-acre land grant, and Juarez soon built two adobes in Napa County (the second, built in 1844, is the Old Adobe on Soscol). He donated 50 acres of land to lay out Tulocay Cemetery in 1859. Tulocay is a non-profit, private, non-sectarian cemetery, and contains the plots of some prominent citizens, including Salvador Vallejo, the "Mother of Civil Rights in California" Mary Ellen Pleasant, and the Coombs and Juarez families. It also has a small Chinese burial section and a potter's field where a survivor of the Titanic is buried.


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Yesterday was fun day. It was "Media Day" up in Glacier, and that's me — a proud member of the big, bad, liberal media. : )The media was invited to join members of the Park Service and the USGS for a guided tour of Going-To-The-Sun road above Avalanche Creek. Officially the roads are closed at Avalanche and opening day is still weeks away. But because we are media, because we will tell a story the park wants told, we were escorted up to about two miles shy of Logan Pass to photograph the snow removal in process.
Snow. In June. It's just so wrong. I know I've been here more than a year, but really, I can't let it go. I hate the cold. I hate the snow. And there is a lot of it. Sigh.
Well, since I hate the cold, and since I have been warned about this photo shoot being up there in the freeze-out zone, I went home the night before to gather my gear and plan. I wanted to be prepared. I wanted to do whatever was necessary to not be cold. The problem is, I don't know exactly what not cold will require. When in doubt, bring everything.
Sorrel boots. Check.
Winter socks. Check.
Thick sweat pants. Check.
T-shirt. Check.
Another shirt. Check.
Flanel jacket. Check.
Down coat. Check.
2 pairs of gloves. Check.
Wool hat. Check.
And just like that, the word of the day is suddenly "over-prepared."
Plus there is all my camera gear.
And when we got there, we were outfitted with avalanche homing beacons, bright yellow safety vests, and hard hats.
"Oh good grief, Charlie Brown," says I.
Two things become immediately obvious with this list. One: I have finally taken all the advice I've been given about wearing layers to heart. And two: I was prepared to meet the abominable snowman yesterday. I could have walked right up and shook his hand and still been warm. Ha! Snow! I laugh. I scoff in the presence of the white shroud.
Actually, it wasn't nearly as cold as I had been led to believe. I can't help but wonder if some of my fellow co-workers weren't just having a bit of fun at my expense. As gullible as I am, it wouldn't be a hard trick to pull off. Or maybe I just didn't notice the cold because I was too busy enjoying the mountains. It's every bit as gorgeous as I remember. The clouds gathered quickly and the tops of the peaks were rapidly obscured but I still walked away with one favorite shot of the day and here it is.
If I'm reading the map correctly, and remembering exactly where I was (which means I have an above average shot at being wrong here) that is Mount Oberlin, Clements Mountain, and Mount Cannon off there to the left. And just when you thought the day would be totally gray, a splash of sunlight to bring to life the spring green of the valley along McDonald Creek. The only downside? Getting out of all that stupid gear when the photo shoot was over.


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Here are some of the srtists featured in our gallery, as well as their chosen medium:
A huge thank you to our loyal customers for your patronage in 2017. As the new business in town, Paul and I are most grateful and we want you to know that we wouldn't be here without you!
Click on our Events page to see the new events we have planned for 2018. We encourage you to check out our website and Facebook page and look for our Constant Contact newsletters for more information and updates.
Warm regards,
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Pie Factory Music
Pie Factory Music is a charity set up to provide music and related arts workshops for young people across East Kent.
Founded 2001
Mission statement
We aim to create a better cultural and social environment and a higher quality of life, through music and related arts primarily, but not exclusively, for young people.
Pie Factory Music believes that music is a superb tool for motivation, inclusion and health in its broadest sense and is dedicated to using that tool effectively and flexibly in the East Kent community.
We accomplish this by offering various sets of workshops at progressional, intermediate and entry level, along with taster sessions for local events such as play days, launches, etc. Sets of workshops generally work towards an end product such as performances or the production a CD or DVD.
Established: January 2001
Registered Charity Number: 1097561
Phone number: 01843 596777
Address: Ramsgate Youth Centre, High Street, St. Lawrence, Ramsgate CT11 0QGView charity accounts on the Charity Commission website


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What our friends, partners and sponsors have to say
We are proud to contribute to such a great cause as well as participate with a few of our own Mimosa Runners. We all stand united in the fight against cancer, a disease that has affected so many of us. And preparing for this race is a great way to stay in shape!WRETMAN ESTATE
When I received Juliette's email regarding help with the design and print I immediately knew it was a cause that I needed to support, especially after having recovered from a cancer scare 12 months earlier. The enthusiasm, positivity and pure happiness of these fine ladies team makes it an absolute pleasure to work with Mimosa Matters. The world needs charities and causes like this and I'm proud to be part of their team.Pure Design
Currencies Direct are a committed sponsor to The Mimosa Charity , they have a fantastic group of ladies that work really hard to support a very worthwhile cause We are delighted as a company to be able to be associated with this charity and look forward to working with them in the future.Currencies Direct
Christine aims to educate, inspire and motivate individuals in supporting their health through lifestyle, fitness and nutrition strategies. She has been a personal trainer for 20 years and completed a BSc in Nutritional Therapy in January 2015. A continual passion for learning more about the interactions on lifestyle and nutrition on our health, Christine is now studying an MSc in Personalized Nutrition. What is Nutritional Therapy? Nutritional Therapy applies science of how foods interact with each other inside the body to address imbalances and promote health. It is client-centered approach focusing on biochemical individuality and understanding metabolic, genetic, epigenetic and environmental differences among individuals.
Like most others Christine has lost family members and friends to cancer and being part of the Mimosa community makes her feel she is part of a very large team working towards helping others by using the health that she fortunately has. Nutrition can make huge positive changes to our health and she would like to offer the knowledge she has to support those who feel "lost" amongst internet and newspaper blurb.
Her thoughts on running: "Running has been a big part of my life since forced to give up dancing due to a knee injury. I started slowly and built up to 5km, turning running from a "chore/means of staying fit" to something I enjoyed. I ran through both pregnancies and managed a 1/2 marathon in 1hr 33 mins 8 months after giving birth, with only one long run a week. Until last year when I repeated this 21km, I have stuck to shorter distances and will run 4 times a week for 5-15 km depending on my mood. Wherever I go my running shoes travel and I find so much pleasure in getting up and running in a new city or town. So running has been a huge part of my adult life and I like sharing my enthusiasm for running with others.Christine Kjeldbjerg
Amber Design has been involved with the Mimosa Matters Team since its humble beginnings. We realised right away that the team was dedicated to providing much needed support for such a worthwhile cause, Cancer Research (tbc). We, like many others, have been touched personally by cancer. We thought it was something that always happens to someone else, however sadly this was not the case. Founder Tim Stares' Mother lost her fight with skin cancer, and ever since this has been a very personal cause. Each run has been incredibly emotional and each year the support and number of runners grow at an amazing rate.
We are proud to be a part of Mimosa Matters, and will continue to support them every year. All the best to everyone who is involved, from the trainers, organisers and of course the runners, all of whom put in so much effort.
Great work Mimosa Matters Team, you're all amazing, all the best for the training and run.AMBER DESIGN
I would just like to say how much I enjoyed working with the Mimosa runners last year. We had a great training atmosphere and everyone always gave 100 % effort which resulted in some superb performances on race day. I was amazed at the commitment to such a wonderful charity as well as all the organisation,planning and effort by you and all the team. On a professional level I met many new clients who became good friends over the many months we trained together. I think you do truly inspiring work and I was proud and privileged to be part of the Mimosa family. I wish you and everyone connected great success this year, I know many of you will exceed last years achievements in the marathon. Train hard.Phil Jeremy
It's my absolute pleasure to contribute and support the amazing Mimosa Matters Charity Organisation, it's a charity close to my heart as I know it actually helps local people within the community where I live, who desperately need support when faced with the big 'C' or maybe that should be a little 'c'. 'Mimosa Matters' for me is a fantastic positive community of people to be involved with, the high spirits and astounding dedication from the committee of ladies, many of whom are close friends is astounding and inspiring. All have an amazing positive 'get things done' attitude and can laugh along the way. On a personal level, as a sibling to a fully recovered breast cancer patient, sister-in law to a current ovarian cancer patient, and auntie to an amazing nephew with Retinoblastoma aka eye tumour cancer, I have certainly seen my share of the highs and lows that go along with the territory of cancer. All of which are daunting, frightening and all too overwhelming, just too many people are affected and need as much help and support as we can give them.
If everyone just gives a little then together the road is a little easier, by giving I don't just mean money [though this obviously is why we keep on going year after year, as the money raised really does make a difference], it's also the support and care we give each other that we remember the most…. A bit 'cheesy' but from the heart.
The money raised through the donations of my original Chris Savage Model drawings has been brilliant, I am thrilled that it helps to brighten up the new owners homes or offices, as well as raise funds for much needed resources.
I'll also be running for the Mimosa Runners Cannes Relay again this year, as its great way to get fit and have a laugh along the way, cause we can all do with a bit of lightness in our day!Chris Savage
An Irish Pub is more than a drinking house serving pints of Guinness. Even though the black stuff is an integral part of the equation, an Irish Pub is about family and community; a place to go to celebrate births, toast victories and to find consolation in bad times. It is a central hub where people meet friends, future spouses, share experiences and put the World to rights. Ma Nolan's is a family company first established in Nice in 2005. Thady Nolan named his Vieux Nice based flagship pub for his mum back in Ireland, he met Mela his wife in this pub shortly after opening and their four children have all poured their first pints of Guinness behind the same bar. We currently have three Ma Nolan's pubs, the second opened in Nice Port and third in Cannes. We are proud to be a genuine Irish Pub and all that symbolises and we put a lot of importance in supporting our communities, both in Nice and Cannes, sponsoring local charities and sports teams.
The Mimosa Foundation is an exceptional example of work in the community. In a short space of time, they have become an established charity, raising significant amounts to support cancer patients and their families through local events and hard work. We are honoured to be able to support the Mimosa Nice Cannes Marathon event for the second year. Cancer is a disease with such a long reach into our families and communities. The vast majority of us have been affected by the disease and we must all fight to prevent it from having such a devastating effect on future generations.Ma Nolans
Unfortunately most of us have either been directly touched by cancer or have seen its effects through friends or family. It was therefore with great pleasure and hope that we got out from behind our desks and put on our running shoes to help raise funds in the fight against cancer. We thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, from the training sessions to the get together party and massages afterwards, not to forget the run in between! This is all thanks to the amazing Mimosa charity members who made this all happen. Taking part in the run was an awesome experience, but raising much needed funds for cancer was our greatest achievement.Blevins Franks
When I met the "Mimosa ladies" for the first time, I was immediately impressed by the sincerity of their engagement.
Their great energy even convinced me to start running which led me in participating in the Nice-Cannes marathon!
Being an event organiser, I later had the opportunity to help the Mimosa team setting up their last year annual Cocktail Party in Cannes. Working with these wonderful and cheerful ladies and helping them raising money has been a real pleasure.
I also had to fight cancer during my youth. I know how important it is to feel love and support during the battle and that the smallest gesture or attention can give you the strength you might be lacking.
So just keep up the great work and good spirit, you ARE making a difference!Fanny Gaglio
The Spectrum IFA group and I have been involved with Mimosa Matters since the beginning. When I was approached to be a sponsor of the first Mimosa Ball in 2015 I was delighted to participate; we are all touched by the horrors and the inspirational stories connected to Cancer every day, so I didn't hesitate to find out more. This is a group of wonderful women leading a tremendous 'movement' to help a charity that does genuine good for local patients and their families and which has been so inclusive of the local expatriate community, how could I say no?
As well as being a sponsor for the ball (of the brilliant table side magician if memory serves me right)… I also wanted to get involved with more than just a wallet… so I pulled on my trainers and the ubiquitous bright yellow T-shirt and ran for Mimosa Runners in the terrific Nice to Cannes relay marathons. Rehab on an injured ankle depending, I will run again for Mimosa this year and for as long as they will have me.
My life here and my business, as one of 50 advisers in Europe (20 in France) for the Spectrum IFA Group, is deeply associated with the local expatriate community and I am proud to wear the yellow wrist band as often as I can to try and raise more awareness and money for such an important cause…even in client meetings!!
The Spectrum IFA Group is Europe's largest expatriate financial advisory brokerage; we help people to deal with their financial affairs in English across 7 European countries and are experts in finding independent solutions for individuals and businesses with cross-border operations, assets, income and taxes. I have been working for Spectrum on the French Riviera for 14 years and have been a financial planner and wealth manager for 20 years. www.spectrum-ifa.com/peter-brooke/
The strength of a community can be seen by how well everyone bands together and creates great things from bad situations and I believe that the local English speaking community on the Riviera has proved over and over again that it can perform wonders… a lot of this is thanks to the Mimosa board and the movement they have created. The Spectrum IFA Group look forward to being involved with Mimosa long into the future.
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Mr. Speaker, I think virtually all members of the House could agree that if anyone inhabits the Gestetner age, it is the New Democratic Party. Members of that party would carry our country into the economic backwater that they propose.
We have a well advanced Internet system in this country. It is not publicly regulated. At this point in time we will continue to leave the matter between consumers on the one hand and Internet service providers on the other.


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Fleetwood Mac has been added to the lineup for the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival, which will take place on September 21 and 22 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. "It is an honor to be performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival for our very first time," said Stevie Nicks. "The beauty of an event like this is that it is a true representation of the power of radio. It's an opportunity for artists across all genres to share one stage and what we all love most — music!" Justin Timberlake, Jack White, Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood, Imagine Dragons, Kelly Clarkson and Shawn Mendes are just a few of the many artists on board for the event.
A new 7″ vinyl single from Eddie Vedder will be given out as a promotional item next month at a Chicago Cubs game. The record features the Pearl Jam singer's anthem for his beloved team, "All the Way," with a 1984 recording of "Go, Cubs, Go" as the b-side. It will be given out to fans at Wrigley Field on July 6 vs. the Cincinnati Reds.
30 Seconds to Mars guitarist Tomo Miličević has formally split with the band. The group released their newest album America earlier this year, but Miličević was not a part of it and at the time it was announced he was dealing with "personal matters." Now the musician has said in a statement that he is no longer in 30TSM "but please believe me when I say that this is the best thing for me in my life and also for the band." He adds, "I want to say thank you to Jared [Leto] and Shannon [Leto] for allowing me the privilege to be a small part of their dream and to have been able to share the stage with them for so long."
Alessia Cara will release a new single, titled "Growing Pains," this Friday, June 15. Cara revealed the artwork and the lyrics via social media. The Pop singer is expected to put out her sophomore record later this year.
The Recording Academy will honor its 2018 Special Merit Awards recipients with the Grammy Salute To Music Legends, an awards ceremony and live tribute concert on Saturday, July 14, at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, the Meters, Queen and Tina Turner. Additional Special Merit Awards honorees to be celebrated include Bill Graham, Seymour Stein and John Williams, who are this year's Trustees Award honorees, and Tony Agnello and Richard Factor, who are the Technical Grammy Award recipients. Also being honored is Melissa Salguero, this year's recipient of the Music Educator Award.
Jeremih and Teyana Taylor will tour North America this summer, hitting 24 cities. The trek begins in Tampa on August 3 and wraps up September 8 in Portland, OR.


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Section 9: Further Reading
- W. Goldstein, et al., "Neutrinos, Dark Matter and Nuclear Detection," NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, Part 2, 2007, p.117.
- Wayne Hu and Martin White, "The Cosmic Symphony," Scientific American, Feb. 2004, p. 44.
- Gordon Kane, "Supersymmetry: Unveiling the Ultimate Laws of Nature," Basic Books, 2001.
- Stacy McGaugh, "MOND over Matter," Astronomy Now, Nov./Jan. 2002, p. 63.
- Mordehai Milgrom, "Does Dark Matter Really Exist?," Scientific American, August 2002, p. 43.


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I'm always thinking about how people create this "Pinterest Life" in their mind.
Even if you don't have Pinterest, you probably know what I'm talking about.
This life has it all. That home with perfectly manicured lawns surrounding a stunning infinity pool and extremely tempting sun loungers. That organised pantry filled with healthy staples which are, of course, in matching labelled jars. The worlds best wardrobe and insanely gorgeous highlighted hair in the best looking messy buns and Victoria's Secret style curls.
You get where I'm going with this, right?
My question has always been, what happens when this life is achieved? When you own the house and fill the rooms with your ideal furnishings and spend your weekends creating insane looking dishes for your beautiful friends and family?
Nothing really spectacular really. Why? Because we tend to be constantly searching for more, for better or even best and this race is leaving us mentally exhausted.
So what if you started creating an inner board in your own mind. Not focused on what it looks like. One where you focus completely on how life FEELS.
This is a life where what type of car you drive doesn't matter, but the daily reminder that you have legs that move you makes you feel that lightness of gratitude within. This life is focused on your relationships, what you can give to the people you love and how they are giving so much to you from love. This life feels complete.
And you can have it right now.
I work with women everyday and get to experience these 'a-ha' moments when they realise that the life they always wanted to improve and adjust is suddenly everything they ever wanted. These incredible clients of mine get to feel the inner working of gratitude at play and once they know it, they won't let it go. That will be with them forever. They will face all obstacles with a new sense of self, a knowing that they are in this predicament for a reason and that it was given to them because they're strong enough to handle it.
I know that not everyone has the time or finances to work with me one on one. But I also know that I want to share this feeling with everyone and after months and months of listening intently to my tribe, I have a solution for you.
The Gratitude Transformation is a 6 week journey of inner work to create that happiness and fulfilment within the life you're living right now. No crazy diets, no get rich quick plans, no suspicious supplements. Just you, me and a whole bunch of other big hearted happiness hunters working together to create a life that feels INCREDIBLE!
Enrolment is now open and will close off on 11 May 2015, so if you want to enrol to work with me in this life enhancing program, this is the time! Each week you will be sent your Gratitude Module, complete with worksheets, actionable tasks and to top it off, lifetime access to our private Gratitude Facebook page where we can all discuss our 'a-ha' moments, support each other when we need it and have weekly Gratitude Group Hangs for the duration of the program.
I made this for you. I believe in it because I've seen it completely change how other women view their lives. I trust in this structure so much that if you're not feeling it, by the half way point, you'll get a full refund (with minor conditions, obvs!).
So what have you got to loose? If you want to know more, as it happens, you can register your interest here.
Remember to mark 12 May in your calendar as the beginning of your journey, I don't want you to miss out on being a part of this inner shift.
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If you pare down your job or business — and take away all the extraneous stuff you do — the most important part is COMMUNICATION. Simple, two-way and CLEAR communication. I give you information and I get your response. You tell me to do something and I tell you when I can get it done. I explain the merits of my products and services and you buy. And on and on and on.
Here's the simple fact — it's not as easy as it looks. In fact, some people tend to screw it up most of the time and wonder why they are being listened to or why their people or clients are not doing what they've been told. Do you find yourself saying:
- "They just aren't listening!"
- "Why are my clients checking out?"
- "Why do I tell my team one thing and they do another?"
If you catch yourself saying these and other choice phrases — you might need to tighten up your communication style.
Communication is a very complex process. When you communicate, you need to keep a sharp eye on the person you are communicating to. Why? There are so many signals where you need to modulate your communication to ensure they are understanding what you're saying.
Communication is made up of two competing spheres:
- Facts & Information (F&I) - this is the 'what' of the conversation. And usually where you do a good job of transmitting.
- Emotions & Feelings (E&F) - this is the 'why' of the conversation. And usually where you do a bad job of transmitting.
To communicate effectively, you need to better balance the two. Most of the time, we spend 80-90% of our efforts in F&I and 10-20% in E&F. Unfortunately, in certain situations, you need to increase your E&F — but you don't — and this is where communication breaks down.
Why does this happen? Because communicating facts and information are easy — you just blabber away. Emotions and feelings take a certain amount of restrain — you have to ask questions, listen, and react to the other person's feelings and emotions. And that's hard for most people. It's the EQ (emotional quotient) of the conversation.
The bottom line — if you take the E&F into account and speak to it — your communication success will increase exponentially.
But how do you bridge that gap? Three steps:
1. Bring Them In.
Bring them into the conversation. If you find you are doing all or most of the talking, STOP. Start asking them questions, get their side of the conversation, issue, or situation. Then paraphrase what they said to ensure you are listening correctly, and then ask more questions. We tend to blabber on without a care about the person we are speaking with. One of my favorite phrases to use is "Tell Me More". If that fails . . .
2. Ask Them A Permission Question.
Pause and then ask one of these permission questions:
- May I offer a suggestion . . . ?
- Can we further explore . . . ?
- Would it be alright if . . . ?
- With your permission, can we . . . ?
These permission questions immediately stop the conversation, reverse it, and allow you to better understand what's going on in the head of the person you're speaking with. If that fails . . .
3. Tell Them A Story.
One of the best ways to bridge the gap between Facts & Information and Emotions & Feelings is to tell a related story, example or scenario. It adds weight to the conversation and allows the person to visualize and mentally illustrate what you're talking about.
Each of these steps allows the speaker — YOU — to better communicate, bring the client or team member into the conversation, and hopefully deliver better, faster and more clear communication to whatever you do.


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Eyyy, we made it to a new year.. Happy new year!
Ask yourself, what have you done today to make you sure you are where you want to be tomorrow?
A lot of us, (including me) are dreamers. Ambitious and excited at the chance to be the artist to our own canvas. We are sometimes lost in our future, and manifesting our dreams and aspirations verbally and in writing but we slow down when it comes to manifesting physically. What are you actually doing today to execute your dreams for tomorrow?
Triggered? Me too sis. Let me tell you about myself, I was very good at making excuses as to why I was stagnant. I never had the right resources, it was never the right time, I never had enough experience, if I did anything today and flopped it will tarnish my image tomorrow so let me just hold on.
I'm sure we can agree 2017 flew by. I don't mean to scare you but we don't always have as much time as we think we have. If you do not get real with yourself and do something TODAY, you will still be in the SAME place tomorrow. Every day counts, and every day adds up.
Everyone hits their prime at different stages of their life, some in their early twenties, some in their thirties, and others in their forties and fifties. Regardless of what stage you will hit yours, you will only hit it as long as you are in action and doing something today, and tomorrow and the day after that. No action is too small or insignificant apart from no action at all.
Imagine you have plans to be a homeowner in the future, you can't solely rely on God, the universe or your fate to place a large lump of cash for your deposit in 10 years time. You have to start today, even if it is putting £5 aside every day, in 10 years time that small £5 a day will have created a significant difference on how able you are of achieving that dream of owning your own home.
I don't want to go into too much detail of my goals for 2018 and what they were in 2017, but I have learnt that sometimes you have close your mouth and stop talking so much. I will not get so caught up in manifesting my life, dreams and plans to others. You never know what the people around wish for your life and your future.
Baby girl, face your front, actually work and let it speak for itself. Enough talking about grinding and making movements. Keep quiet and do your thing.
In 5-10 years time we will see who was really working and who got lost in dreaming.
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