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Published by Mills & Boon Historical on December 1st 2018
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From one snowy Christmas…to a sizzling-hot reunion!
A Matches Made in Scandal story.
Kirstin Blair has spent seven years trying to forget brooding Cameron Dunbar. Now self-made man Cameron needs her help to recover his missing niece, and Kirstin must face the truth—seeing him again sparks the same irresistible attraction that first brought them together!
She must decide: resist, or give in to temptation and risk Cameron discovering everything she's fought so hard to protect…
Matches Made in Scandal miniseries
Book 1 — From Governess to Countess
Book 2 — From Courtesan to Convenient Wife
Book 3 — His Rags-to-Riches Contessa
Book 4 — A Scandalous Winter Wedding
Chapter One
Handing her portmanteau to the hackney cab driver, Kirstin gave the address of the hotel where Cameron Dunbar had taken up residence. It was by no means the grandest establishment in London but it was, she knew, formidably expensive, not least because it had a reputation for offering the utmost discretion, which suited certain well-heeled guests. She wondered how Cameron had come to know of it. The friend he had mentioned, Max, who had recommended The Procurer's services, no doubt. She remembered Max. A difficult, but ultimately satisfying case, and the first one in which Marianne had been involved.
The cab rattled through the crowded streets, and Kirstin's heart raced along with it. It was not too late to turn back, but she knew she would not. Her farewells had been said. 'We'll be fine,' Marianne had told her with a reassuring smile, and Kirstin hadn't doubted it, having come to trust her completely over the years in both business and personal terms. But it had been a painful parting all the same, astonishingly difficult to pin a smile to her face, to keep the tears from her eyes. 'Go,' Marianne said, shooing her out the door, 'and don't fret. Concentrate on completing this case, which sounds as if it will require all of even your considerable powers. It will be good for me to have the opportunity to be in charge, stand on my own two feet.'
Marianne, discrete as ever, had refrained from asking why Kirstin was taking on this case personally, something she had never done before, though it was Marianne who had, albeit inadvertently, put the idea into Kirstin's head, when she had pointed out that she possessed exactly the attributes the client had specified. As The Procurer, Kirstin could have found another suitable female, she always did, but it would have taken time, and Cameron had none to spare. It therefore made perfect, logical sense for her to make the momentous decision to step into the breach, she told herself as the cab neared her destination. It was clear to her, from the sketchy information Cameron had provided, that the situation, though not necessarily a matter of life and death at present could, if unresolved, easily become one.
Though had it been any man other than Cameron Dunbar who came seeking her help, would she have acted in a similar fashion? No. Kirstin's habit of being brutally honest with everyone, including herself, was ingrained. She would have moved heaven and earth to find a suitable female candidate, but she would not have dreamed of offering her own services. She was here to help Cameron Dunbar resolve his terrible predicament, but she was also here for her own reasons. It meant depriving another woman of the opportunity to make a fresh start for herself, but after their wholly unsatisfactory meeting the day before yesterday, Kirstin had been forced to acknowledge that she too needed a fresh start. Far from closing the door on the man, it had merely served to let him stride through. She had to know more about him, and she had a very legitimate reason for needing to do so. The time would come when she could no longer field questions with feigned ignorance, and it was not in her nature to lie. Six years ago, she had taken the decision to be true to herself, to live her life in her chosen way, independent of everyone, answerable to no one. In order to continue to do so, she must reassure herself that her decision was the correct one, which meant excising Cameron Dunbar from the equation.
And keeping him completely in the dark while she did so. Kirstin smiled grimly to herself. It was hardly a difficult task for one who made a living from extracting information while offering none in exchange. She must assume that Cameron would remember Kirstin Blair, but he would have no idea that she and The Procurer were one and the same. The Procurer's own unbreakable rules that no questions could be asked, no personal history need be revealed, would protect her, and the notion that she would ever confide in him of her own free will – it was ludicrous. Kirstin, as Marianne had once said, could give lessons in discretion to clams.
Reassured, confident in her decision, as the cab came to a halt and the hotel porter rushed to open the door, she turned her mind to the coming reunion, telling herself that her nerves were everything to do with her determination to prevent the matter becoming one of life and death, and nothing at all to do with the man she was going to be working in close proximity with.
In accordance with the letter from The Procurer, which had arrived yesterday, Cameron had reserved a suite of rooms in the name of Mrs Collins. He had instructed the Head Porter to inform him when this lady, whom he was to claim as an old acquaintance, arrived, and to issue her with an invitation to take tea with him.
His own suite overlooked the front of the hotel. Unable to concentrate on the stack of business letters which had been forwarded from his Glasgow office, Cameron had spent the last two hours gazing out of the window, monitoring every arrival. He had no idea what to expect of Mrs Collins, though he had formed a picture in his head of a smart, middle-aged woman with faded hair, a high brow, intelligent eyes. The relic of a man of the church, perhaps, who had worked in London's slums, or with London's fallen women, and was therefore no stranger to the city's seamy underbelly, but who had also solicited London's society for alms. At ease with the full gamut of society, Mrs Collins would be tough but compassionate, not easily shocked. The type of woman who could be trusted with confidences, and who would not judge. Since her husband died, she would have been continuing with his good works saving lost souls, but she'd be finding her widowed state confining he reckoned, and since she'd always had a penchant for charades, which they played in the vicarage every Christmas, the need to assume various disguises would appeal to her. Cameron nodded with satisfaction. An unusual combination of skills no doubt about it, which made it all the more surprising that The Procurer had found someone to suit his requirements so quickly.
He leant his head against the glass of the tall window, impatient for her to arrive. The ancient female dressed in a sickly shade of green matching the parrot she carried in a cage, whom he had watched half an hour ago emerging from a post chaise, could not be her. Nor could this fashionable young lady arriving with her maid, one of those ridiculous little dogs that looked like a powder puff clutched in her arms. A hackney cab pulled up next, and a slim female figure emerged, dressed in a white gown with a red spencer. She had her back to him as she waited for her luggage to be removed, yet he had the impression of elegance, could see from the respect she commanded from the driver and from the porter rushing to meet her, the assurance with which she walked, that she was a woman of consequence. Intriguing, but clearly not his Mrs Collins.
Cameron turned his back on the window, inspecting his pocket watch, debating with himself on whether to order a pot of coffee. A rap on the door made him throw it open impatiently, thinking it was the arrival of yet more business papers.
'I've been sent to tell you that your acquaintance has arrived,' the messenger boy said. 'She's happy to hear that you are staying in the hotel, she says, and she would be delighted to join you for tea.'
'Are you sure? When did she get here?'
But the boy shook his head. 'Nobody tells me nuffin', save me message. Head Porter says to expect her with the tea directly,' he said. 'If there's nuffin' else…' He waited expectantly.
Cameron sighed and handed over a shilling. He must have missed Mrs Collins's arrival, or perhaps there was a side entrance. A few minutes later there was another soft tap on the door. He opened the door only to be confronted with the elegant woman who had emerged from the hackney cab.
His jaw dropped, his stomach flipped, for he recognised her immediately. 'Kirstin.' He blinked, but she was still there, not a ghost from his past but a real woman, flesh and blood and even more beautiful than he remembered. 'Kirstin,' Cameron repeated, his shock apparent in his voice. 'What on earth are you doing here?'
'I wondered if you'd recognise me after all this time. May I come in?'
Her tone was cool. She was not at all surprised to see him. As she stepped past him into the room, and a servant appeared behind her with a tea tray, he realised that she must be the woman sent to him by The Procurer. Stunned, Cameron watched in silence as the tea tray was set down, reaching automatically into his pocket to tip the servant as Kirstin busied herself, warming the pot and setting out the cups. He tried to reconcile the dazzling vision before him with Mrs Collins, but the vicar's wife of his imagination had already vanished, never to be seen again.
Still quite dazed, he sat down opposite her. She had opened the tea caddy, was taking a delicate sniff of the leaves, her finely arched brows rising in what seemed to be surprised approval. Her face, framed by her bonnet, was breath-taking in its flawlessness. Alabaster skin. Blue-black hair. Heavy-lidded eyes that were a smoky, blue-grey. A generous mouth with a full bottom lip, the colour of almost-ripe raspberries. Yet, he remembered, it was not the perfection of her face which had drawn him to her all those years ago, it had been the intelligence slumbering beneath those heavy lids, the ironic twist to her smile when their eyes met in that crowded carriage, and that air she still exuded, of aloofness, almost haughtiness, that was both intimidating and alluring. He had suspected fire lay beneath that cool exterior, and he hadn't been disappointed.
A vision of that extraordinary night six years ago flooded into his mind. There had been other women since, though none of late, and never another night like that one. He had come to think of it as a half-remembered dream, a fantasy, the product of extreme circumstances that he would never experience again. He wasn't at all sure what he thought of Kirstin walking so calmly back into his life, especially when he was in the midst of a crisis. Were they to pretend that they had no history? It had been such a fleeting moment in time, with no bearing on the six years after, save for the unsettling, incomparable memory. Cameron supposed that it ought to be possible to pretend it had not happened, but as he looked at her, appalled to discover the stirrings of desire that the memories invoked, he knew he was deluding himself.
'Cream or lemon?' Kirstin asked.
'Lemon,' he answered, though he habitually drank his tea black and well-stewed, a legacy of his early days on board ship. He held out his hand for the saucer, but instead she placed it on the table in front of him, drawing an invisible line between them and bringing him to his senses. Whether they acknowledged their history or not, it had no bearing on the reason she was here now. 'Are you really the woman chosen for me by this infamous Procurer? Do you know what it is I need from you? What has she told you of me? The matter…'
'…is one of life and death, you believe,' Kirstin answered gravely. 'To answer your questions in order. Yes, I am here at the behest of the Procurer. She has outlined your situation, though I will need to hear the details from you. I know nothing of your circumstances, save what you have told her.'
'She has told me nothing at all of you. Is Collins your married name?'
'My name is what it has always been, Kirstin Blair.'
'You're not married?' Cameron asked. It was hardly relevant, yet when she shook her head, he was unaccountably pleased as well as surprised. Because it would be impossible for them to proceed if there was a husband in the background, or worse in the foreground, he told himself. 'I'm not married either,' he said.
She nodded casually at that. Because she already knew from The Procurer? Or because she had deduced as much from his appearance? Or because she was indifferent? This last option, Cameron discovered, was the least palatable. He began to be irked by her impassive exterior. 'You do remember me, I take it?' he demanded. 'That night…'
The faintest tinge of colour stole over her cheeks. She did not flinch, but he saw the movement at her throat as she swallowed. 'This is hardly the time to reminisce.'
Their gazes snagged. He could have sworn, in that moment, that she felt it, the almost physical pull of attraction, that strange empathy that they had both succumbed to that night. Then Kirstin broke the spell. 'It was six years ago,' she said pointedly.
'I am perfectly aware of how many years have elapsed,' Cameron snapped. He had never disclosed his reasons for having made that journey to anyone. He had been interested only in trying to forget all that he had left behind, during the trip south, and he had succeeded too, temporarily, losing himself and his pain in Kirstin. He'd thought the mental scar healed. It had been, until Louise Ferguson had written to him as a last resort, begging for his help in the name of the very ties she'd so vehemently denied before. Compassion for her plight diluted his mixture of anger and disappointment that she should turn to him only in extremis. He was long past imagining they could be anything to each other, but it forced him to acknowledge that he had, albeit unwittingly, been the root cause of her past unhappiness. There was a debt to be paid. Doing what she asked would salve his conscience and allow him to put the matter to bed once and for all. He wouldn't get another opportunity, and he needed Kirstin to help him, so he couldn't afford to allow their brief encounter to get in the way. It was the future which mattered.
Cameron swallowed his tea. It was cold, and far too floral for his taste. He made a mental note to stick to coffee, and set the cup down with a clatter. 'I recall now, that your Procurer's terms specify that there should be no questions asked, either you of me, or me of you. It's a sensible rule and allows us to concentrate on the matter that brought us both here,' he said, deliberately brusquely as he leaned back in his seat, crossing his ankles. 'However, I am paying a small fortune for your assistance. I think that gives me the right to ask what it is about yourself that makes The Procurer so certain you will suit my extremely demanding, if not unique, set of requirements.'
~~Reviewed by Shell~~
I received this ARC from the author in return for a honest review, all thoughts are my own.
This was an absolutely fantastic book, and a fitting end to what has been a brilliant series, and for me I can highly recommend not only this book but all the others as well.
When I think back to the first book and all the other books, I was always curious about the Procurer, mainly why she started and what circumstances lead her to this profession, because as we know for a woman to have a career and earning her own money wasn't the done thing.
So for me all the questions I had going round in my head were slowly being answered, and of course we finally have a name Kristin Blair is the Procurer. Obviously Kristin has secrets…but those secrets come to ahead when Cameron Dunbar gets in touch to find his niece.
To find out what happens you will just have to read the book. There is one thing I must say is thank you to Ms Kaye for writing such a great series and I'm so looking forward to finding out what Ms Kaye's next book will be.
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Secretary LaHood Addresses MTSNAC
Secretary LaHood for the Department of Transportation addressed the Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council on July 23, 2009. Consistent with America's Marine Highway Program's mandates to reduce congestion, conserve energy, and improve the environment, the Secretary charged the Council to better integrate the Marine Transportation System into the surface transportation system. By relocating freight from highways and urban corridors to commercial waterways (where applicable), the same system which provides the transportation of individuals and families in and between cities can provide a more efficient means to move goods to the shelves of retail stores throughout the United States. Secretary LaHood comments to the Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council are as follows:
"We're here today to begin a new chapter in the long and proud history of marine transportation in the United States. One of President Obama's top priorities is making sure that we strengthen and revitalize our transportation sector – including our waterways. The President and I are looking for new and creative ideas that will enable us to move goods more efficiently, conserve energy, protect the environment, and ensure we can compete globally in the 21st century. Over the last 9 years, the Council has done a very good job describing the maritime and intermodal freight challenges we face. We're grateful for the Council's analysis over the years. Your work has helped us to put the industry in very clear perspective.
"But the time for talking about our problems is over. It's time to start solving them. And that means setting a new direction that will help us meet this Administration's strategic, economic, and environmental goals for all modes of transportation. It also means meeting a Congressional mandate to make better use of our marine highway infrastructure. Today's challenges will require a new version of this advisory committee—one that will be able to begin figuring out how we might achieve these goals in the fastest time possible. Specifically, we're looking for the new board to focus on two tasks:
First, the administration is seeking advice on how to better integrate our waterways into our existing intermodal freight transportation system. We should take advantage of inherent environmental and energy benefits of marine transportation wherever possible – while reducing congestion on highways and rail lines.
Second, we're looking for advice on how to address the Congressional mandates of the Marine Highway Program. We must find ways to take better advantage of our existing waterways. This will help reduce land-based congestion and emissions, decrease our dependence on oil, and offer an alternative to building and maintaining costly new highway and rail systems.
"This is precisely the right time to launch this ambitious new agenda for the Council and the marine transportation system. As Congress and the Administration begin to debate the future of reauthorization for surface transportation, we will want advice on how the maritime industry can help us achieve integrated and environmentally sensitive transportation solutions.
"Change is never easy, but this is a golden opportunity to maximize the power and value of our marine transportation assets. We've got the goods – let's make the most of them. I wish you much success with your agenda this week, and we look forward to your sound advice in the future.

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For sale £85,000 - Restaurants
City Business Brokers are pleased to market this authentic lovely restaurant in the heart of this beautiful village of Kinver
This top rated restaurant is now a reluctant sale due to the partners wishes to retire after many years within the industry
Established for 10 years this stylish 60 cover restaurant boasts award winning reviews and appeals to locals and tourists . Operates on a consistent level of turnover with still plenty of potential for growth and continued on-going cost savings. The sale includes all fixtures, fittings and equipment plus many years of goodwill .
The business would suit a couple or partnership to owner run this business to maximise profit potential. Current turnover is in the region of£300000 per annum with scope to increase . The premises are being offered with the benefit of a renewable 5-10 year lease issued by a private landlord with approximately 19 months left on the present lease .
The current rent stands at £19500 per annum includes potential staff accommodation, storage and cellar. We are advised that the business are £7500 per annum
Trading Hours are Monday 6-10pm Tues-Sat-12-2pm &6-10pm Sunday 12-2pm
Staffing levels are – 3ft (owners ) and 9part time
Reason for sale –i Retirement PROPERTY DESCRIPTION Fitted and presented to high trade specifications throughout, this substantial and well maintained two-storey leasehold character parade premises provide excellent and highly functional internal business accommodation to the ground floor which briefly comprises an inviting single-fronted public entrance directly off the high Street into a welcoming customer service and bar area with prominent menu board which houses a large glass-fronted refrigerated delicatessen-style food display and electronic till/food ordering point, chilled drinks display units, modern coffee machine and small open preparation area The main customer service area, in turn, affords feature open archway access through to an attractively furnished and fully licensed restaurant and bistro dining area which may comfortably accommodate up to 60 covers for the provision of a full and varied menu of classic English food
The restaurant has a functional kitchen to the rear which leads on to its own carpark (10 parking bays ) plus further council parking to rear Externally Occupying an outstanding and highly visible trading position among other complementary outlets in Kinver," to the exterior the premises are well signed and presented and afford ample and inviting display window space onto a busy commercial thoroughfare.
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A prime trading position – Stylish 60-cover parade premises on 2levels – Good consistent levels of turnover on seven day week -long established reputation and regular customer base -Lots of year-round passing trade benefits – Huge scope for outside catering and increased Sunday trading valuable inventory of equipment included -Adaptable to host of alternative licensed hospitality styles – New Lease available
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Part 1 – Paris – Poster for tomorrow
A year ago I was invited as part of the International design workshops held at École Intuit Lab. During 1 week at the end of January my students worked on designing a poster for the best social project in the world: Poster for Tomorrow's 2017 – Freedom of Movement.
Getting from Melbourne to Paris took almost 36 hours but it was worth every minute. A very intense week in which I met amazing people, drank a lot of coffee —and wine—, ate an insane amount of croissants and cheeses; but most important of all enjoyed and learnt from working with a multicultural class made of super enthusiastic students from France, China and India, all willing to share their ideas, thoughts and process.
It was also great meeting other guests, starting new friendships and re-encountering with old friends: Ginette Caron from Canada, Eduardo Aires from Portugal, Benito Cabañas from Mexico, Minal Nairi from India, Yiwang Li from China and my great french friends Michel Olivier and Hervé Matine.
The final results of the workshop are shown below. A wide variety of concepts, graphic solutions and points of view on a very relevant world issue nowadays: freedom, migration, asylum seekers and the peaking refugee crisis. Designed briefly after Trump´s travel ban was announced it encouraged very interesting ideas and discussions in the classroom.
(Note to students: if I'm missing any poster please let me know!)
The exhibitions and competition catalogue published at the end of 2017 feature 3 of the student´s posters among the top 100 winners, while another one made it to the top 300 shortlist. Congratulations to everyone for the hard work!
In this video you can listen to some of the student´s experiences, and from 1:45 look at our workshop and what seems like I´m teaching Tai-chi instead of design.
Thanks to École Intuit Lab, Michel and Patrick for the opportunity. Emmanuelle, Lucy, Angèle and all the staff . But mostly to the students for your passion and energy. It was a beautiful experience and one of the best in my career as a graphic design teacher 🙂
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I have to let you know, the girl in that picture creeps me out. Thanks for the Halloween scare.ReplyDelete
Ventriloquists make me want to cry. But I think you're right! YA is lacking in this area.ReplyDelete
Cynthia, I hope it was a good scare!ReplyDelete
And Kaitlin, you might be the perfect person to pen this dummy frightmare....
Anna Dressed in Blood is a good YA Halloween read.ReplyDelete
I'll second Anna Dressed in Blood.ReplyDelete
I find that even in my non-horror projects, that I'm generally dedicating a lot of page space to stuff that scares me. Isolation, loss of identity, losing those close to me, feeling powerless, etc.
Happy Halloween!
Charlie Higson's "The Enemy" series is perfect for halloween. Lots of zombies!ReplyDelete
Thanks all, I will have to check out these recommendations!ReplyDelete
Oh that was good. I haven't read a good scary book in so long. I'm adding those to my list to check out ASAP. Yes everyone has fears that are to some...strange or silly. Irrational fears are always interesting too, phobias. Personally, i'm deathly afraid of chickens/roosters. I never liked them with their weird talon feet, their beaks for pecking, that red thing that hangs from their mouth, the way they run...but after being attacked twice in my own backyard a couple years ago I no will not go near them. See not scarry to most but to me...YIKES!ReplyDelete


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When you've had one too many, you just end up not caring about anything. Like how you have a few streaks on your arm from your fake tan or that one of your false lashes is starting to lift off. That's all down to alcohol, my beauts. The thing is though... would you believe vodka when it tells you that you can dance? Because I do.
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An Edinburgh lawyer who lost her hands and feet following a serious illness and then set up a charity to provide people in developing countries with prosthetic limbs so they can walk has been named winner of a global humanitarian award in honour of the Scots Bard.
Olivia Giles OBE (pictured above) was presented with the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award (RBHA) 2015 at a special ceremony at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway – Robert Burns' place of birth – by Minister for Europe and International Development, Humza Yousaf MSP.
[Pictured left to right: Bill McIntosh, Leader of South Ayrshire Council; award runner-up Sompop Jantraka[; Humza Yousaf MSP Minister for Europe and International Development; award winner Olivia Giles OBE and South Ayrshire Provost Helen Moonie.]
The Robert Burns Humanitarian Award – launched in 2002 and supported by South Ayrshire Council and EventScotland as part of Scotland's Winter Festivals with sponsorship from William Grant & Sons and The Herald, Sunday Herald and heraldscotland.com – recognises those who have saved, improved or enriched the lives of others or society as a whole, through personal self-sacrifice, selfless service or direct humanitarian work.
Olivia was selected as the winner from an incredible 120 nominations – the highest number ever received for the RBHA.
It was 13 years ago, after contracting meningitis and needing emergency surgery, that Olivia had to be told the devastating news that her hands and feet had been amputated to save her life.
Once back to full strength and very conscious how lucky she was to be alive, Olivia began to raise both money and awareness for the likes of the Meningitis Trust and other charities.
During this time, Olivia learned about the difficulties experienced by amputees in developing countries, who didn't have access to the same kind of healthcare and support that she herself had experienced.
Instead, many of these people – including large numbers of children – were ostracised from their community and Olivia set out to tackle this by founding the charity, '500 miles', just five years' after the loss of her hands and feet.
500 miles is all about supporting the development and delivery of prosthetic and orthotic services to people with impaired mobility in Malawi, Zambia and, to a lesser degree, in Zanzibar. Thanks to Olivia's efforts, 500 miles now has two centres in Malawi, run in cooperation with the Malawian Ministry of Health. Together, these centres now provide more than 1,650 devices each year to people who badly need them.
The charity also funds and subsidises people to receive prosthetic and orthotic devices in Zanzibar and Zambia. Olivia's work for the charity was recognised in 2010 when she was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty The Queen.
Olivia is in the throes of organising 'The BIG Dinner' on 7 March 2015, when she aims to raise £500,000 on one night with hundreds of dinners held in homes and restaurants across the country and donations being pledged.
Humza Yousaf MSP, Minister for Europe and International Development, said: "The Robert Burns Humanitarian Award recognises the selfless vital work that is undertaken around the world, every day of every year, to help others. Olivia's tireless work has undoubtedly improved the lives of the many people that don't have access to the same levels of healthcare as we do. Countless people with impaired mobility in developing countries have benefited from the leadership that Olivia has provided and live a better life thanks to prosthetics. She is a well-deserving recipient of this award and an inspiration to others.
"Now in its fourteenth year, the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award continues to be one of the highlights of Scotland's Winter Festivals programme which draws to a close on Burns Night. Scots and Scots at heart all over the world will be celebrating Robert Burns this weekend and I would encourage everyone to take the time to honour the life of our Bard and his enduring message of humanitarianism, egalitarianism and equality."
Olivia said: "I'm both shocked and overwhelmed to receive this award and thank the judges for this unexpected recognition. I consider myself lucky to have the opportunity to help out the people we work with and firmly believe that I got my second chance so I could help others get theirs.
"It's impossible to describe how it feels when you see a young girl walk for the first time thanks to a prosthetic leg we've provided or to hear that men who had to depend on family and friends to get around are regaining some form of independence because they are now mobile. It really means the world and I'm very privileged to be part of that.
"As a proud Scotswoman, it's a tremendous honour to receive the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award and I will continue to do all I can to live up to his beliefs of treating everyone as equals and working towards a fair and just society throughout the world."
The runners-up for the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award 2015 were:
Sompop Jantraka – Sompop is a Thai activist who has worked for more than 26 years to rescue children from exploitative labour, prostitution and child trafficking. In 1989, he founded the Daughters Education Programme (DEP), funding education in order to prevent vulnerable girls being forced into the sex industry. His work directly saved young women from an unimaginable life and also showed that women can be more valuable to their country as educated members of the work force than as sex slaves. Since then, Sompop has established numerous projects focused on helping young people reach their potential, find independence and contribute to their communities. And he continues to deliver anti-trafficking programmes throughout the region regardless of the threats this presents to him.
Sompop said: ""I would like to formally congratulate Olivia for winning this prestigious award. I believe it is vitally important that we who are looking to change the world and give voices to the down-trodden and the forgotten band together and support one another in our efforts. I am so incredibly honoured to have made it this far. Just bringing attention to the plight of the victims (survivors) of human trafficking and the vital work of the Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Subregionis more than enough of an award for me, and I thank RBHA for giving me that platform. I look forward to keeping up with Olivia's mission and her future achievements, and to returning to DEPDC/GMS and the children there, who are the real heroes."
Dr Sanduk Ruit – Dr Sanduk Ruit has dedicated his life to ridding the world of unnecessary blindness – eye conditions that are preventable but are left untreated due to poverty or poor access to healthcare. Dr Ruit founded the Tilganga Eye Centre – the first out-patient cataract surgery facility in the Himalayan region – in 1994. He also co-founded the charity, Himalayan Cataract Project, with the sole aim of bringing eyesight back to anyone who needs it, regardless of their ability to pay. The Tilganga Eye Centre now treats 7,000 patients a week, with surgery fees waived for the neediest. And Dr Ruit often treks into remote parts of Nepal and throughout the Himalayas to treat those who can't come to the clinic. He has personally restored the sight of more than 100,000 people across Asia and Africa.
Dr Ruit said: "Being shortlisted for this award truly touched my soul. The RBHA award means a lot to the dozen organisations that I am involved with globally for alleviation of blindness and for the profile of Nepal and my congratulations to Olivia."
Councillor Bill McIntosh, Chair of the RBHA Judging Panel and Leader of South Ayrshire Council, added: "My warmest congratulations to Olivia on being named our Robert Burns Humanitarian Award winner 2015. All three of our finalists recognise that not everyone has the same choices, freedoms and opportunities – and what they have done to address this has changed tens of thousands of lives.
"Olivia's work to get people walking – some for the first time – is truly outstanding and has given people back their dignity and their independence. These are qualities that can be sadly lacking for people with disabilities in developing countries, yet Olivia shows them how worthy and valuable they are as individuals and shows them that they matter. And her selfless efforts are all the more inspiring when you realise that she has done all of this after losing her own hands and feet and having to adjust to a very different kind of life than she had planned.
"If Burns was alive today, I'm sure he would agree that Olivia is all that a humanitarian should be and a very worthy and deserving recipient of an award named in his honour."
Paul Bush OBE, Chief Operating Officer for EventScotland said: "Scotland is the perfect stage for events and the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award is a key date on our cultural calendar each year. Each of this year's nominees are truly inspirational and embody the values of this famous award. Olivia, our winner for 2015, has demonstrated an incredible drive to improve the lives of others and has shown how such acts of selflessness can have a lasting impact."
For further information on the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award – including details of the previous winners – visit www.robertburnsaward.com or to join our RBHA mailing list, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
• The RBHA takes place during the annual Alloway 1759 Festival, which is a unique commemoration of the birthplace, life and works of Robert Burns. Celebrating its seventh anniversary in 2015, Alloway 1759 offers a fabulous four-day range of events, from food and drink, to song, dance, poetry and fun events such as haggis hurling – offering something for everyone –and finishes on Sunday 25 January with a big birthday bash finale in the main street of the village. You can explore this year's programme at the Alloway 1759 website: http://alloway1759.com/2015/.
• The Award is supported as part of Scotland's Winter Festivals, which begin with St Andrew's Day on 30th November and include Christmas, Scotland's Hogmanay celebrations on 31st December, culminating with Burns night on 25th January. Funded by the Scottish Government, Scotland's Winter Festivals are delivered EventScotland, part of VisitScotland. Find out more about celebrating Scotland's Winter Festivals at www.scotland.org/winter.
• Burns' Night on 25 January marks the end of Scotland's Winter Festivals. Burns, our national bard, is one of Scotland's favourite icons encapsulating the very essence that makes Scots Scottish – creative, proud and confident. On 25 January each year, the life of Robert Burns, our national poet, is celebrated worldwide at Burns Suppers.
• To find out more about taking part in the BIG dinner for 500 miles, visit http://bigdinner.co.uk/.
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Understanding Image Resolution in Photoshop Elements 9
The number of pixels in an image determines its image resolution. When you open a picture in Photoshop Elements, you're looking at a huge mass of pixels. These pixels are tiny, colored squares, and the number of pixels in a picture determines the picture's resolution. This relationship between pixels and resolution, relates to creating selections, printing files, and sharing files.
Understanding resolution
If you have 72 pixels across a 1-inch horizontal line, your image resolution is 72 pixels per inch (ppi). If you have 300 pixels in 1 inch, your image resolution is 300 ppi.
Image resolution is critical to properly outputting files in these instances:
When you print images: If the resolution is too low, the image prints poorly. If the image resolution is too high, you waste time processing all the data that needs to be sent to your printer.
When you show images onscreen: Just like images have resolution inherent in their files, your computer monitor displays everything you see on it in a fixed resolution. Computer monitors display images at 72 ppi (or 85 or 96 ppi or higher). That's all you get. What's important to know is that you can always best view photos on your computer monitor at a 72-ppi image size in a 100-percent view.
In the following figure, you see an image reduced to 50 percent and then at different zoom sizes. When the size changes, the resolution display on your monitor changes. When the size is 100 percent, you see the image exactly as it will print. The 100-percent size represents the image displayed on your monitor at 72 ppi, regardless of the resolution of the file.The same image is viewed at different zoom levels.
This relationship between the image resolution and viewing the image at different zoom levels is an important concept to grasp. If you grab an image off the Web and zoom in on it, you may see a view like the 800-percent view shown above. If you acquire a digital camera image, you may need to zoom out to a 16-percent view to fit the entire image in the Image window.
The reason that these displays vary so much is all image resolution. That Web page image you grabbed off the Web might be a 2-inch-square image at 72 ppi, and that digital camera image might be a 10-x-15-inch image at 240 ppi. To fill the entire window with the Web image, you need to zoom in on the file. When you zoom in, the resolution is lowered. The more you zoom, the lower the resolution on your monitor.
When you zoom into or out of an image, you change the resolution as it appears on your monitor. No resolution changes are made to the file. The image resolution remains the same until you use one of the Photoshop Elements tools to reduce or increase image resolution.
Choosing a resolution for print or onscreen
The importance of resolution in your Elements work is paramount to printing files. Good ol' 72-ppi images can be forgiving, and you can get many of your large files scrunched down to 72 ppi for Web sites and slide shows. With output to printing devices, it's another matter. There are many different printing output devices, and their resolution requirements vary.
For your own desktop printer, plan to print a variety of test images at different resolutions and on different papers. You can quickly determine the best file attributes by running tests. When you send files to service centers, ask the technicians what file attributes work best with their equipment.
For a starting point, look over the recommended resolutions for various output devices listed in the following table.
|Output Device
|Acceptable Resolution
|Desktop laser printers
|300 ppi
|200 ppi
|Desktop color inkjet printers
|300 ppi
|180 ppi
|Large-format inkjet printers
|150 ppi
|120 ppi
|Professional photo lab printers
|300 ppi
|200 ppi
|Desktop laser printers (black and white)
|170 ppi
|100 ppi
|Magazine quality — offset press
|300 ppi
|225 ppi
|Screen images (Web, slide shows, video)
|72 ppi
|72 ppi


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Late Life Crisis - October 2018
Buying some items from Paperchase, I saw that their bag describes themselves as "Stationery Lovers Since 1968". In 1968 I was in Paris on a school trip, walking down the Boul' Mich' and pretending that I had been there earlier in the year during the student riots. I also fell in love with a Northern Irish girl from another school trip, but she never replied to my letters after we got home. I thought then that I was at the forefront of being cool, but today 1968 is a 50 year heritage point. Life moves on.
The 2018 Evening Standard Art Prize has been won by Ashton Attz, for an interesting-looking work called "Don't Stay in Ya Lane". Reading through the Standard's piece, I found Attz described as "they". I was initially confused - was Ashton Attz a studio? Towards the end of the piece it became clear that Attz is transgender, so the "they" is this person's pronoun of choice. Some would cry political correctedness, or virtue-signalling by the Standard. But language evolves, and what today initially seems odd and awkward may slip into convention over time - that is how it works. So good on you, Ashton Attz.
And on the subject of language, a local pizza joint proclaims on a board outside the establishment a newspaper review that it is one of the best pizzeria in London. Now that noun is a plural, and students of Italian will know that pizzeria is the singular and that the plural is pizzerie. I could take to social media and poke fun at the usage, or I could accept that this would simply confirm me as a ghastly pedant, and keep quiet.


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0 Buttons Game Roundup
August 31st, 2010
August's ZERO BUTTONS theme had a whole mess of quality games, 40 to be exact. While a few games broke the rules and opted to use a button or two most followed the theme creating a bunch of awesome mouse-only game, with some microphone and camera based games thrown in for good measure! Hopefully September will be as fruitful – we'll have a fun announcement tomorrow for next month's theme.
Until then, get to the gamin':
Capz Machinery, by Harry Trautmann
A glimpse into the glamourous life of the bottle capper. An addictive, additive mouse-only game.
Shake the whole world using the mouse to get the cube to the star. Sharp visuals, and a fun mechanic work together really well.
Keep the UFO on screen as long as possible. Love the grainy, retro look.
Avoidal, by Hybrid Mind Studios
Lure enemies into mines to destroy them – has a nice combo sytem and a good difficulty ramp. The retro aesthetic works very well.
Somnius ex Machina, by Nathan McCoy
Discovering the meaning is half the fun. The best I've managed is 13 dreams – anyone done any better?
An interesting experience, and a literal example of why the games-to-movie comparison doesn't work. Play the game once, then a second time after reading the spoiler.
Dragonflute (Microphone Only), by Tobias
A fly and collect game powered by the sound of your voice.
Balance, by Zink Interactive
Guide the blue cube to the green zone in this level-by-level physics based game. Lovely visuals and good song choice here.
Control the entire level with the mouse to guide the ball to its goal. Left and right movements control one set of items, while up and down control the others.
Legacy of Wisdom, by Jeremy Kang
Avoid trees, collect powerups in this metaphorical game with a strong Asian-calligraphy theme.
A physics toy which has you shattering cubes until they're completely destroyed. Pretty mesmerizing.
A Field of Beartraps (Microphone Only), by Mr. Alistair
Talk into the microphone to make your character jump over incoming beartraps. I really wish it recorded and used my scream when I died.
Stairs to Heaven, by Michalebe
Never ending vertical platformer – use the mouse to guide your character ever higher.
Bug Invaders (Webcam Only), by Marco
Crush bugs with your webcam and barehands. Man I look awkward playing this game.
Auto-created jigsaw puzzles that get increasingly difficult as you proceed. Mouse-only, but does involve pressing some mouse buttons.
Story based, zombie-escape game. Use the mouse to guide your character and escape the cosmetics building.
Use the mouse to determine the amount of electricity you fire. Don't let any of the clouds get past you.
Draw lines to protect the red ball from incoming enemies. A little buggy, but it strikes a good balance.
Avoid enemies, while using them to explode each other.
A dodge-and-destroy game pitting you against an endless field of evil red dots.
Move the mouse back and forth quickly to reach the cone before time expires.
Smite the People, by Juan Bosquecillo
Presentation is nice, but it feels like there needs to be more variety/challenge. Scrubbing the screen with the mouse seems to be the best strategy.
Cube Dodger, by Roan Contreras
Navigate a field of evil cubes. Gets increasingly more difficult as new enemy types are added.
Dodge meteors and try to survive as long as possible with your auto-shooting ship.
I Was Throwing Bubbles to the Sky, by Mark Skyzoid
Use the mouse to control the angle of your bubble canon. I would love to see this expanded further, and it feels like the bubbles shoot a little too slow.
Dodge incoming meteors, which can come from either direction of the screen.
Don't Die Fat Man, by Joe Gribbin
Guide the fat man to the flag without touching the walls.
A 2-player fight over the mouse kinda game. Could get violent, don't play with strangers.
A simple grab and dodge game.
A scrolling path-tracing game. Avoid touching the black parts of the screen.
Ultimate Ninja Attack, by Ben Brunton
Protect yourselves from ninjas with your ridiculously big sword.
Catch the Green Square, by Guhritta
Avoid the red squares while grabbing the green ones.
Dodge incoming evil mouse curors.
Banana Defense, by Scott Washington
Position canons to defend the banana from incoming enemies.
Suicidal Sojourn, by MisfitByte
A top-down dungeon tile-pushing game, inspired by Karoshi and the Final Fantasy series.
Give umbrellas to men jumping off of buildings to save them. Like the idea, but it was a little hard to see the umbrellas.
Ultimate Bomb Escape, by Aizen Sousuke
Avoid squares with bombs as long as possible. An odd, odd game.
The Mouse Eats the Cheese, by Matt Perrin
It's all in the title, really – and the sound effects are quite charming.
Deflect projectiles back at enemy circles.
Mouse over anything that moves to kill it.
Use mouse gestures to defeat incoming tanks. Love the idea, but I had difficulty picking up trees.
I got 14 dreams, but I don't know how. I just waited and did nothing, I think. Whenever I try to do something, I get 0 ;-)
And there – 32 by doing nothing. How curious, the only winning move is not to play.
Hey guys!
Sorry we are late, but here is our entry.
It's a flash 2d physics puzzle game called Balance.
We had to cut some levels since we didn't have time to finish them. We hope to be able to add them later on, we'll post here if that happens!
Read more and play here:
Again, apologies for the late submission!
/Hannes and Alfred
What bugs did you find in Poin? :O
40 Dreams while actually trying! Take that Bertieb!
I think I'm a bit late too, but it's only 11:12pm on 31st August here!
PIXELSPACE EGP Edition is available at http://dcfgames.com/download/?v=12
It's my Ludum Dare game with a lot of tweaks and (of course) all the buttons removed!
Ah, my name is spelled wrong again… I probably should just have used my real name instead of my gaming handle!
It took me a while to figure out what was going on with Somnius ex Machina. Pretty clever though, forcing you to take things slow in keeping with the sleepy theme.
Really liked the mechanic for Jitter, wasn't expecting that.
Still another 30+ games I've yet to try :)
Nooo, I'm late (ofcourse)! The game is basically done but I'm having some troubles recording audio (sfx and music) from my gba (nanoloop). Can't capture a clean sound :(. Hopefully I'll have it up by tomorrow. I will be back!
87 dreams, trying really hard.
Hi guys,
the link above for Legacy of Wisdom takes you to the post mortem, instead of the main game page.
You might want to check the game out at the main page first, before reading the post mortem :
Any feedback about the game is welcome.
My first EGP game ;D
Avoidal's presentation is really slick. Cool music, smooth animations. Nice work.
Ben, I'm not sure how you're pulling off 87 dreams but you're a beast.
Nice lighting in Shatter.
Shouting through a field of bear traps connects with my inner barbarian.
So many to go through. Good stuff so far.
Here's my entry for this month. It's called "Marty the Miner." It was made in 6 days. Instructions are included in the game.
This is my first EGP entry, so I hope you enjoy! Had fun making it.
Hey, my game should be named "Cube Dodge" not "Cube Dodger"… LOL
Anyway, nice list of games! Got to play some of them :)
Sorry Katsew, my brain always flips out on your name for some reason. Should be fixed now. :)
Hey Daniel – it could have been my mouse, but the size of my trail (when starting the game) seemed all over the place. Maybe I was inadvertently collecting green balls and didn't notice. Either way, Poin was pretty fun.
@Kylegray It was originally designed to be played on a smart phone/touch device. I guess I didn't spend enough time polishing the computer version :/
eheh my first egp game ^^ yeah!
Hey, I'm also complaining about spelling my name right. 40 games is really amazing amount, I didn't belive that it will come so many :P
Sorry I'm late.
Here's my entry:
Come on, people, get a blog or some other method of getting feedback / comments! I want to tell you what I think after playing your game, but spamming 20+ comments down here doesn't look so ideal…
Sooooo I finished my game :P. The reason for the delay was that I had to get a hold of a DS to record the track I made for the game. It has actually been finished since the beginning of last week but I really wanted to use my track because it's the first one I've ever written.
The sound quality is rather shitty but you should have heard it when I tried to record it off of my GBA.
Anyway here's my entry:
I hope you at least try it out!
Sooooo I finished my game :P. The reason for the delay was that I had to get a hold of a DS to record the track I made for the game.
I had came across your website and was wondering if you was hosting any contest for 2015.


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Chitimacha Louisiana Open presented by MISTRAS
Thursday Mar 19 - Sunday Mar 22, 2020 Broussard, LA •
- Broussard, LA
Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club
100 Club Boulevard
Broussard, LA 70518
Phone: 337/856-9005
From I-49 North of I-10
From I-10 West or I-10 East
From South of Broussard
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By Eliot Kleinberg, Palm Beach Post staff writer
Neon lights atop the two-story building shined in the crisp air of a South Florida winter's night. On the street, men in tuxedos and women in shining, white full-length gowns stepped out of idling black limousines. They mingled with the dayworkers who'd walked from home or had to park their late-model sedans blocks away. As many as a thousand people jammed the corner of Eighth and Henrietta.
From inside, the music floated out. The music Thelma Starks can still hear a half-century later in the living room of her home.
The Count. The Duke. Ella. Ray.
If you need to ask their last names, you can't appreciate how the Sunset Cocktail Lounge was once one of the most important venues in America for such giants. Giants who were good enough, but not white enough, to play the resorts across the water. So while blacks poured into the Sunset to see them, whites did, too.
The Sunset Cocktail Lounge anchored a strip of restaurants, clubs and shops along Rosemary Avenue in the center of West Palm Beach's northwest neighborhood. But integration killed the Sunset. Once performers could play where they wanted, and people could watch performers where they wanted, the club's fame dwindled.
The lime-green and fuchsia building, the letters of its signs dangling and weeds growing around it, stands like a dinosaur a few blocks northwest of the towering Palm Beach County Courthouse. The cavernous second-floor auditorium is gone, sectioned off into apartments. And Dennis Starks, who owned the place in its glory days and whose rule was that you behaved like a lady or a gentleman or you didn't come in, has been gone for 18 years.
Three years ago, consultants for the city suggested creating a jazz district, with the 73-year-old Sunset as its keystone. In November, the city's Community Redevelopment Agency included the idea in a plan for a $16.2 million renovation of the neighborhood.
Thelma Starks, 89, says the drug deals, vandalism, and violence that plague the area around the place would break her late husband's heart. She has hinted she'd like to just sell the property and be done with it. But she also said there are big plans for the place.
"Gonna be some changes," she says with a mysterious smile. "Something's in the works."
Starks' home, just a few blocks northwest of the Sunset along Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, is filled with knickknacks and photographs. And a large collection of record albums. She opens her scrapbook and the faces on the album covers jump out. Duke Ellington behind the piano. Count Basie in his skipper's cap. Lionel Hampton standing next to her husband.
When Thelma came to West Palm Beach from North Carolina in 1935, the Boom had busted. But black residents, barred from other parts of town, patronized their own grocers, doctors, barbers and pharmacists.
"We had everything," she said. "The Sunset is about the only thing that's left now." The top black groups, barnstorming through the South, would work their way down Florida: Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Miami. The Sunset's second-floor auditorium possibly was the largest dance hall of any black club in Florida, Starks said. Dennis Starks and his staff, armed with posters and invitations, would drive north to Stuart, Fort Pierce and Vero Beach, south to Delray Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, and west to the Glades.
"They filled the place. It was elbow to elbow," Thelma Starks recalled.
Many of the maids and chauffeurs who worked in Palm Beach would come. At times, they'd mention to their employers that Duke Ellington or some other big performer was playing on the mainland, and the limos would soon be crossing the bridge. Huge flowers, rising almost to the balcony, adorned tables. Other tables lined the balcony and looked down onto the dance floor.
Starks seemed to know everyone. And he quickly earned a reputation for both musical talent and a genteel atmosphere. Patrons dressed appropriately. Decent clothes for downstairs, a jacket for upstairs. Swearing was just not tolerated. White or black, rich or otherwise, you followed Dennis Starks' rules. If someone acted up, Starks refunded his money and said he was welcome back in the club when he'd convinced Starks he was worthy.
Thelma recalled the day Count Basie told her husband he was feeling ill. With most hotels off limits and only a few in black neighborhoods, the acts often stayed in rooming houses. "If I could just go somewhere and sleep two, three hours, I'd feel better," Basie told Dennis Starks. So Starks sent him to his home, where he caught some rest in the Starks' bed, woke up refreshed and went back to the Sunset for his show.
Thelma recalled the night James Brown did one of his famous splits on stage and split his pants. He had to run off for a replacement.
She also recalled how Duke Ellington always told his band the bus left at midnight, with or without them. One member who'd spent quality time with a companion showed up for the bus at 1:30 a.m. The Duke had kept his word. Dennis drove the lad to the Greyhound station the next morning.
When segregation ended in the 1960s, "it was not too long" before the Sunset felt the effects, Thelma Starks said. In 1978, the Starkses partitioned the upstairs lounge into apartments. He retired and rented out the first floor to a group of 23 members of a social fraternity. The downstairs lounge continued to draw the likes of James Brown and Ike and Tina Turner and eventually went disco. Young employees from the nearby courthouse and school district building plunked down the $2 cover and danced to 2 a.m., later on weekends.
Dennis Starks died in 1987. The Sunset "was his life," Thelma Starks said. "Sometimes I told him, 'You think more of this club than you think of me.' "
But, she said, "Since he's been dead, his grave is worn out from him turning over."
Starks has tried to raise money for renovations, with little success. In 2005, the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser valued the property for tax purposes at $318,384. Thelma Starks owns Eighth Street from Rosemary to Douglass and still has renters at the Sunset and an apartment house behind it. The Starkses had no children. Nieces in New Jersey have expressed no interest in the place.
Randy Graham had come as a teen in the 1970s. "I used to win most of the dance contests," he said. Now 43, he's been the Sunset's general manager for the past four years. The first floor seats about 470 and still hosts birthday parties and banquets, card nights and "Old School Sunday," featuring golden-oldies, Graham said.
"We have more of a family type atmosphere," Graham said. "We're known as the black Cheers, where everybody knows your name."
Graham said he could be working at a Palm Beach hotel. But, he said, "There was something about this place. About the historic value. We don't have a lot of history left.
"A lot of times," he said, "when I'm here by myself, I could hear their music playing."
In February 2006 Thelma Starks recalled the club she and husband Dennis ran in its heyday. Click the image below to listen to her recollections and see historic photos:
They played at the Sunset:
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Lionel Hampton
Cab Calloway
Ray Charles
James Brown
Louis Armstrong
Dizzy Gillespie
Cannonball Adderly
Earl 'Fatha' Hines
Fletcher Henderson
Billy Eckstein
Wild Bill Davis
Erskine Hawkins
Buddy Johnson
Bill Doggett
Source: Thelma Starks
This story appeared on page 1B in the print edition of The Palm Beach Post, Tuesday, February 14, 2006.


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Myosin Binding Protein C (MyBP-C)
MyBP-C was discovered as a myosin binding protein in 1970, but its structural organization and function have remained elusive. There is currently renewed interest in this protein because in cardiac muscle it is known to modulate contraction, and it has been implicated in inherited heart and skeletal muscle diseases. Early antibody labeling studies showed that MyBP-C is located in a series of stripes (one at every third level of myosin heads) in each half of the A-band (left figure), but its 3D organization remained unknown. We have recently collaborated with Dr. Pradeep Luther (Imperial College, London) who carried out electron tomographic observations of especially well preserved muscle sections prepared in our lab. The tomograms show that MyBP-C, far from being confined to the thick filament surface, actually extends out to the thin filaments, to which it attaches (Luther et al., 2011). This is seen as the extensive disk of density (pink) in right figure below. This is the first demonstration that MyBP-C-actin interactions previously observed in vitro may have relevance in intact muscle. Bridging between myosin and actin would provide a physical basis for understanding MyBP-C's ability to modulate contraction. For details of MyBP-C's interaction with actin see Interaction of MyBP-C with Thin Filaments.
Organization of MyBP-C in striated muscle. Left: rabbit muscle labeled with antibodies to MyBP-C, showing periodic organization in each half of the A-band. Right: Part of tomographic reconstruction of thick filament, showing MyBP-C extending from the thick filament backbone (grey) as a disk-like cloud of density (pink; Luther et al., 2011). Orange shows C-terminal MyBP-C domains on thick filament surface (Zoghbi et al., 2008).


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Peer Review was included in the ENQA-VET Work Programme 2008-2009.
A Thematic Group on Peer Review was set up in spring 2008 involving 12 European countries. Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Additionally, the European Training Foundation (ETF) which has substantial experience with Peer Reviews on a system level participated very actively.
Between May 2008 and September 2009 the group dealt with the future of transnational Peer Reviews on the European level. In particular, the group's mandate was to develop a sustainable process and structure for European Peer Reviews.
The following four issues were tackled:
- European Peer Register
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- coordinating body and structure for European Peer Review
- integrating countries with no Peer Review experience.
In 2009, the sub-groups were restructured to work a) on the structure and the common principles for European Peer Reviews and b) on the support for European Peer Review necessary in a European implementation project. The contributions of these work groups were the basis of the "Proposal for a sustainable process and structure for transnational European Peer Reviews", the group's major product.
Demand for a continuation of transnational European Peer Reviews
In a survey of ENQA-VET member states (Jan.-Feb. 2009), so far 18 member states have voiced their interest in participating in further Peer Review activities on the European level, 14 of which have also given a first forecast of the number of transnational European Peer Reviews between 2010 and 2013, which add up to almost 250 Peer Reviews within this four-year-period.
If implemented properly, European Peer Review as a practical, tangible and concrete tool to implement the EQARF recommendation has the potential to become one of the main pillars of European VET quality policy in the next five to ten years encompassing all relevant actors – VET providers, social partners and other stakeholders as well as the VET systems of the participating member states.


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Meaty issues on the radio
Ehizogie Ohiani, a Producer/Trainer for BBC Media Action in Nigeria, discusses how radio is raising awareness about the lack of hygiene amongst the butchers of Benue State, Nigeria.
A meal without meat is as good as no meal for most people in Benue State, North Central Nigeria. Considering its importance, one would expect that hygiene surrounding the preparation and sale of meat would be held in the same high esteem. This is not the case.
A murky mix of flies, blood, water, muddy walkways, sweaty bodies and smoke combine to make the abattoirs in the marketplaces of Benue State a perfect breeding ground for disease. Lack of adequate sanitation knowledge, lack of enforcement by market associations and insufficient supervision of animal slaughter by qualified veterinary officers conspire to create major health challenges for communities.
I was at Harvest FM, a local radio station in Benue State, to train producers. We were brainstorming ways we could use their popular early morning show "Good Morning Benue" to help serve the public interest. For the producers, an obvious choice was to discuss hygiene in abattoirs.
The programme explored a number of problems in the state's local abattoirs: an absence of toilet and handwashing facilities and the practice of washing meat with untreated water sourced direct from the River Benue.


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Healthcare professionals are in high demand across the country in clinics, nursing homes, hospitals and other settings. Nurses are healthcare experts who specialize in assisting physicians and other medical staff with basic healthcare procedures. They also guide patients and their families about different conditions, treatments and other health issues. There are some nurses that carry out basic tasks while others specialize in a particular field, surgery would be a good example. Medical surgical nurses are healthcare professionals with knowledge and skills in surgical and medical diagnoses. They may work as a scrub nurse who works directly with a surgeon during an operation or a circulator nurse who is responsible for observing and managing operations to create a safe and comforting experience for the patients. Just as other nurses, career outlook for these nurses is very bright. This is why pursuing a career in medical surgical nursing can be a great career move.
The medical-surgical nurse certification is offered by the American Nurses Credential Center. Students will go through classroom lessons as well as practical training in the operating room in this program. The test includes multiple-choice questions and covers complementary therapies, evidence-based practice, cost-effective care and pain management under delivery of care. Interventionism assessment, and evaluation and outcomes measurement are covered under nursing process. Students who want to get a certification need to have a RN license. They must also have two years experience.
Students who would like to benefit from the most rewarding jobs in this field should get into a master's degree in med/surg nursing. This degree may take 2-3 years to complete. Other than classroom lectures, students will also complete a practice and research in this advanced program. Common courses in a graduate degree in nursing with focus in Medical surgical nursing include health care, family nursing, economics, pharmacology and nursing educator.
Med surg nursing professionals can find a number of rewarding jobs in hospitals and other settings. As employment for nurses are projected to increase by 22% between 2008 to 2018, the career outlook for these medical experts is very bright. On average these nurses can earn about $67,000 to $89,000 on an annual basis. They can also enjoy a number of benefits in the form of bonuses, life insurance and more. Nurses with advanced degrees can find the most lucrative opportunities.
A number of online schools also offer nursing programs, allowing students to study from the comfort of their home. The online programs can be a suitable option for working professionals who want to get into the field of nursing without giving up their jobs as well as registered nurses who want to pursue more rewarding jobs. Classes in the online programs are managed online and students can communicate with the instructors through chat and email. They can make use of a number of learning tools and technologies such as online databases, online libraries, videos, chat forums and more.
Q:I'm researching about medical surgical nursing online and want to know what the medical surgical nurse certification entails?
A:The medical-surgical nurse certification is offered by the American Nurses Credential Center. Basically, students will go through classroom lessons as well as practical training in the operating room in this program. The test includes multiple-choice questions and covers complementary therapies, evidence-based practice, cost-effective care and pain management under delivery of care. For specific information on the test please visit the ANCC website. Students who want to get a certification need to have a RN license. They must also have two years experience.
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A:With a medical surgical nursing certification you can hold positions such as--Scrub Nurses, who assist surgeons during the actual surgical procedures. Or as Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), RNs assigned to the PACU are responsible for caring for patients immediately following their surgery. An advanced position or surgical nurses is also that of Circulating RNs who are part of the nursing management of the surgical unit or floor at hospitals.
Q:What is medical surgical nursing and which organization oversees this field?
A:Medical surgical nursing is a broad specialty field that is emphasizes the care of adult patients. This is the foundation of all nursing practices. There are many colleges offering programs in this field. The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nursing AMSN is the main organization that oversees professionals in medical surgical areas.
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Last weekend, continued two other European championship matches, the RBS Six Nations Women's event, and the second tier Men's European Championship.
England and Ireland prevailed to go 4-0 and to set up the grand finale in two weeks for the 2017 Six Nations' title. England had an easy time thumping Scotland 64-0 in a shutout. Ireland narrowly beat Wales 12-7. Elsewhere, France beat winless Italy 28-5.
England are the reigning Women's World Rugby champions, winning the crown in 2014 in Paris defeating Canada. Ireland enjoyed the upset of that competition beating favored New Zealand in pool play.
The Six Nations standings follow:
Country Wins Losses
Ireland 4 0
England 4 0
France 2 2
Wales 1 3
Scotland 1 3
Italy 0 4
Men's European
Georgia continue to dominate this event, going 4-0 with only Romania to beat in the final match. Georgia defeated Russia 28-14 while Romania beat Belgium 33-17. Spain crushed German hopes 32-15.
Of note is the wide spread difference of attendance among the six countries. Georgia average 27,500 fans as compared to second highest Spain 7,500.
The standings are:
Country Wins Losses
Georgia 4 0
Romania 3 1
Spain 2 2
Germany 2 2
Russia 1 3
Belgium 0 4
Germany started out the season with a historic upset against Romania but have been flat since.
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THE LINE KING! Kid Maurice can showcase his talent on Sentimental journey in our race.
LOOK OUT for a name to remember in the Mirror Punters Club Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle (12.45) at Sandown today.
Our race is the starting point of a 10-race series that leads to the Grand National meeting at Aintree in April.
And by the time of the world's greatest steeplechase you should be familiar with claimer Maurice Linehan, who partners Sentimentaljourney for trainer Jonjo O'Neill and owner JP McManus.
Linehan, 20, looked a potential star of the future when landing a gamble on the O'Neill-trained Tarvini in the famous McManus silks at Huntingdon last Sunday.
The punt, from 4-1 to 5-2, looked to have gone west as Linehan's mount needed to be urged along at the back of the field with over a circuit to run.
But Linehan, son of a pointto-point trainer in Fermoy, Co Cork, never gave up.
Relentless throughout the final half of the three-mile, two-furlong race, he looked every inch the equal of his professional rivals as he forced Tarvini's head to the front in the final strides to net the money.
"It was only my second ride for the boss (O'Neill), and after pushing him for so far it was a great thrill to cross the line in front," says the modest Linehan, first influenced by Norman Williamson and Adrian Maguire before finding inspiration in the diverse styles of Tony McCoy and Paul Carberry.
The fact McCoy and Linehan have the same employer comes in handy - there's no better man to steer a young rider in the right direction than the winningmost jump jockey in turf history.
"'AP' would help you any way you need," adds Linehan, who rode one winner under Rules in his homeland before relocating.
"A few times he has been schooling and he has said a few words and given me a bit of advice. It's amazing to have a guy like him around. The conditionals' title is a bit out of my reach, but I'd like to have a crack at it, anyway. Hopefully if I keep my head down, the opportunities will arise and I can get established."
Linehan bids to fill McCoy's boots after the 16-time champion drove Sentimentaljourney to victory at Ffos Las at the beginning of last month.
"I've ridden him a few times at home, and he seems to be going nicely," observes the jockey, able to claim a valuable 8lb allowance this afternoon. "With a bit of luck he should have a good chance."
Sure to lack nothing in assistance from the saddle, SENTIM ENTAL-JOURNEY looks a sound bet to follow up his win at Britain's newest racecourse.
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SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A CONDITIONAL JOCKEY? Conditional jockeys are the jump racing equivalent of Flat racing's apprentices. To compensate for their initial lack of experience and success in comparison to fully licensed riders, young jump jockeys claim a weight allowance at the beginning of their career. Conditional jockeys must be aged over 16 - but under 26 years. Generally they claim 7lb until they have ridden 20 winners, 5lb until 40 and 3lb until 75.
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Multiple holiday lets sleeping up to 24 guests in total
5 cottages sleep 2 - 6
Wooder Manor nestles in a picturesque valley in the environmentally sensitive area of the Dartmoor National Park and is only a level 0.5 mile from the world famous Widecombe-in-the Moor village. Widecombe Fair dating back to 1850 still takes place every year.
Wooder Manor is surrounded by unspoilt woodland, moors and granite tors and is the perfect antedote to the stress of modern life. Walkers are spoilt for choice with walks to suit everyone starting from the doorstep from a leisurely stroll to a hike on the moor. The Dartmoor National Park also organise guided walks.
The cottages sleep 1-6, are clean and very well equipped. Central heating, colour TV / DVD, fridge / freezers, electric cookers, microwaves. Laundry room. Gardens and easy off-road parking.
Wooder Manor is an ideal central location for touring Devon and exploring Dartmoor by foot or on horseback (stables 1 mile), and there are also good opportunities for painting, birdwatching, fishing, golfing, cycling, canoeing, rock climbing and letter boxing. A lot of our visitors take a keen interest in the local archaeology. Dartmoor is rich in prehistoric remains with the nearby medieval settlements at Hound Tor and Grimspound being very good examples and at nearby Haytor the granite tramway is still clearly visible. Our guests also enjoy the many legends and folklore for which Dartmoor is renowned "Jay's grave, hairy hands, the Hounds of the Baskervilles".
Places to visit include National Trust properties at Castle Drogo, Buckland Abbey, Lydford Gorge and Saltram House. There are a good variety of attractions to suit all the family including Woodlands Leisure Park, Pennywell Farm, Miniature Pony Centre, Dart Valley Railway Steam Train, Becky Falls. Widecombe-in-the-Moor has a Church known as the Cathedral of the Moor, Post Office/General Stores, National Trust Information Centre and gift shop, Tennis Court with play area, Riding Stables, Wayside Café, The Green Café, The Old Inn and The Rugglestone Inn (real ale).
Wooder Manor is open all year with short breaks available out of the peak weeks. Two of the properties are on the ground floor with level access and parking. Lower Chinkwell and Lower Hameldown (wheel-in shower).
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Anima visited EFM once again. This time 90% of Anima's meetings in Berlin were related to China.
Bridging the Dragon and the European Film Market organised the first Sino-European Production Seminar for selected European producers. The programme was an in-depth 'immersion day' consisting of interactive working sessions on how to approach the Chinese film market. The sessions ranged from expert talks to case studies, covering practical aspects of working with Chinese film industry professionals.


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Monday, April 30, 2012
Momaholic: Crazy Confessions of a Helicopter Parent Book Review
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I am a helicopter mom cause my life is constantly spiraling from trying to find a job to helping raise my three year old grandson and trying to find a new house.ReplyDelete
I believe some days I am. My oldest has some special needs & with two other sons & the hubs- it'll make your head spin.ReplyDelete
I don't think I am , at least not anymore. I survived raising my son. :)ReplyDelete
I try not to be a helicopter parent.ReplyDelete
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I try really hard not to be!ReplyDelete
I'm not one-- I'm not a mom yet!ReplyDelete
I am a helicopter parent to my son who has special needs and one of my daughters who is super clumsy and always getting hurt. I am not to the other two girls who are tom boys who are always climbing trees and riding bikes all over our neighborhood.ReplyDelete
To my son yes, he is special needs and needs someone to protect him but my daughter I'm not.ReplyDelete
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Nope - but I interact with a lot!ReplyDelete
som days, I think so.....ReplyDelete
Yes I am a helicopter mom! I drive my husband nuts how I circle around my 8 year old son as well as our daughters ;)ReplyDelete
after having 6 kids naw i laid back now but with first few i was a express copterReplyDelete
I'm not a helicopter parent. I think it's easy to become one if your child is sick as a young child. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.ReplyDelete
I think I am, especially with my 9 year old who has hypothyroidism and ADHD although I try really hard not to be!ReplyDelete
I am not, but I feel like I am sometimes because my son broke his leg last summer and I don't want that to happen again.ReplyDelete
I think some days all parents are but I dont think I am always !ReplyDelete


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College students often enjoy social events that allow them to take a break from their classes and studies, and many of these events include large amounts of alcohol. Some students attempt to increase their levels of intoxication by consuming alcohol before each occasion. This is known as frontloading, and it can have dangerous consequences.
Why Do College Students Participate in Frontloading?
Scientists believe that students take part in frontloading for enhancement and coping purposes. The students may drink prior to the party to alleviate nerves or to make the event more enjoyable. They may also join their friends who are frontloading because they don't want to feel different or be left out. Other students may do it because they like the feeling of being intoxicated and want to feel the effects for as long as possible. Researchers found that men are drawn to frontloading to enhance their experiences, while women participate in it to cope with their feelings. College freshmen are also prone to using frontloading as a technique to help them experience their newfound freedom and to help them cope with the many changes that they experience during their first year away from home.
The Consequences of Frontloading
While college students may enjoy frontloading before each party or event, the practice can lead to some serious consequences. Studies have found that those who participate in pre-event drinking may be involved in unprotected or unintended sexual intercourse, and many suffer from falls or injuries. Frontloading can also lead to blackouts, toxic blood alcohol levels and participation in vandalism.
What Can Be Done?
Since it is estimated that three in four college students are frontloading, university health professionals are dedicated to overcoming the trend of frontloading among their students. They are spreading awareness about the practice and its effects through counseling, college newspaper articles and pamphlets. Many universities have also implemented policies that reduce the likelihood of experimentation and excessive use of alcohol during their homecoming festivities and spring vacation periods.
Frontloading is a serious activity that has attracted the attention of many college students. By spreading awareness about the practice and finding the motives behind the behavior, colleges and parents can work closely with students to minimize the negative effects of their excessive drinking habits.
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