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Neil McDonald wants his Blackpool side to turn "nasty and ugly" for tomorrow's long trip to Southend.
A dreadful run of form has seen the Seasiders lose five games on the bounce and fall back into the League One relegation zone.
While their league position doesn't appear to be a huge long-term worry for the boss, the lack of aggression in his players does.
McDonald said: "At times my team are too nice. We need to be more nasty.
"In certain games we have got into the opposition but at times we've sat back and allowed they to play too much.
"We have to stop the opposition more. I keep telling the players they are too nice.
"Hopefully they'll grow and can be a little more ugly to play against when we haven't got the ball.
"When we have the ball I want us to express ourselves and play good football, though.
"We've certainly got an ugly defender in Tom Aldred and one in midfield in David Norris, but sometimes we have to be in people's faces."
Southend, who have lost just one of their last seven games, welcome the Seasiders to Roots Hall for the first time since 2006.
While a win would do his side the world of good, McDonald admits he'd happily take a draw.
He said: "We'd take a point tomorrow if we can't get a win. It's about stopping the losing run. That will push us on and allow us to grow in confidence again.
"We have to go to Southend and be much tougher to beat. We also have to defend much better than we have done in the last five games. And at the other end we have to be more clinical."
Blackpool have managed just 16 points from their 17 League games so far, a return which leaves them 21st in the table.
But McDonald hit back at comparisons with last season's disastrous relegation, insisting his team are in a much better position.
"We are in the bottom four but it's only on goal difference," added the Pool boss.
"We aren't struggling right at the bottom, so we can draw comfort from the fact a couple of positive results will draw us away from the bottom.
"Every game is difficult and in this league everyone is beatable.
"We have to get back on a run like we had before, when we picked up lots of points."


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Solemn Ceremonies to Mark Sept. 11
Associated Press Writer
At 8:46 a.m. Sept. 11, bells will ring in firehouses and churches across the country. The strains of Mozart's Requiem will be heard in time zones worldwide, sung by symphonies and school choirs.
Splinters of the destroyed buildings will be on display in states such as Nevada, Tennessee, Ohio and Wyoming. Americans will gather at public plazas and government buildings in cities and towns across the country for moments of silence and remembrances.
At the epicenters of the attacks, in New York City, the Pentagon, and a rural Pennsylvania town, government leaders will join victims' families in remembering the first anniversary of the attacks. In Boston, where terrorists boarded the planes that destroyed the World Trade Center, all takeoffs and landings will halt for a minute at the moment the first tower was struck a year ago.
But the day will also be marked in smaller ways, with candlelight vigils, music and prayer services in thousands of American communities that felt the shockwaves.
In places such as Wilmot, N.H., the loss was intensely personal. One of the town's 1,110 residents, Thelma Cuccinello, 71, died aboard a hijacked flight. Using money raised at farmer's markets and car washes, the town has built a bandstand that will be dedicated Wednesday.
"It will give the town a reason to come together," said Rhonda Gauthier, the town selectman's secretary and chairwoman of the bandstand committee. "We are dedicating it to all the victims and heroes."
In other cities and towns, the commemorations were inspired by a more general sense of national loss.
"We know people are looking for a way to remember what happened and experience something that will help them heal," said Lauren Kirby of the Annapolis, Md., Symphony Orchestra, which will begin playing Mozart's Requiem at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane struck the World Trade Center.
As part of the so-called Rolling Requiem, organized by a group of Seattle singers, Mozart's work will be performed at 8:46 a.m. local time in at least 21 time zones around the world, including 43 states and 24 countries.
In addition to remembering those who died and honoring police, firefighters and the military, event organizers are using the anniversary to honor the fundamental American freedoms that were attacked that day.
At ground zero, New York Gov. George Pataki will read the Gettysburg Address and New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey will read parts of the Declaration of Independence.
The Library of Virginia will display the state's 1789 original manuscript copy of the proposed United States Bill of Rights, with its original 12 amendments.
In Lincoln, Neb., 20 immigrants will be naturalized as U.S. citizens at an evening memorial ceremony.
Public schools in several states will honor the day with special events, including a moment of silence at 9:40 a.m. in all Washington, D.C. classrooms. That is the time when a plane carrying three of the district's students and three teachers struck the Pentagon.
In Augusta, Ga., children at some elementary schools will dress in red, white and blue, while other students will gather around the flag pole to sing "God Bless America."
Traffic will stop for a minute at 9 a.m. in Carlisle, Pa. Planes will perform flyovers in states including Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois and Oregon. Flames of remembrance will be lit in New York City, Tomahawk, Wis., and Atlanta. Doves of peace will be released in Reno, Nev.
And in Hawaii, the last U.S. state where Mozart's Requiem will be played, the islands' four mayors are inviting people to step outside their homes, classrooms and workplaces to observe a moment of silence.
"The important thing is to never forget what happened on Sept. 11, 2001," Gov. Ben Cayetano said.

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People trust their smart phones, more than the person he sees; he has begun a war which ever has been but is now no more a hidden tale of his human rights. He has inevitably perceived that his own kind is his worst enemy and he is suffering from post traumatic stress.
The perceptions today about who a man is has not only been limited to the way he speaks but also his skin color, his appearance and any other person's appearance who may have his skin color or his nativity. The idea that one man is better than another does not even relate anymore to his background or his achievement, it goes way beyond that and sadly the problem begins at home.
Racism, religious conflict and nativity seem to be the badly informed subject that no one aside from rulers debate about. The way and manner in which people now see one another is more disturbing because without seeing you, they judge you. There are now more conclusions about who a person is or should be before we meet them and sadly, those who started the freedom rights don't live in the small communities where it begins.
It is no more news, that most black people are considered drug dealers, gangsters, unsuccessful individuals who roam the society looking to make quick cash. It is also no more news that most Muslim males are seen as suicide bombers but who can blame those who have perceived this? The news has always been told to reveal happenings and so they do.
The idea of how things should be done no more applies because it is even discriminating for a white lady to be seen with a black man or a black man to be seen as a friend of a white man. It is unappealing for a black man to be the boss; not because he isn't fit to be but because people just see it as a wrong idea and all these and more prove the extent to which many and more people are ignorant of the fact that not only are people human, we also have the same blood colour.
It may be called racism but it can be because of inferiority complex, it may be called religious conflict but it can be that someone does some kind of brain washing to other people, it may be called a belief that everyone from a certain community does this and that so don't trust them but it can also be because one is ignorant of what people are.
A child who is born neither knows color, time, space, race, religion or danger; he or she grows into the society and whatever we teach it, it perceives and sends out to the society. When a child is born, whatever color it is or whatever religion/ nativity or parental background no one ever understands their language; science may claim it can use a technology to assert what a child says but what child can say "nurse he's black get him out of the ward?"
Our backgrounds have patterned our lives to believe in whom we can relate with or date or even trust, sadly so does the society and its tales. We are beginning to blame others for what happen in our community. Like always, we never blame ourselves and our actions and decisions.
Racism and religious conflict can be controlled but it may never come to an end. People separate themselves from whoever they think can or would be a threat but no man can be man all by himself. We often fear what we don't understand and the truth is; when you ignore others either by what is happening to them or what you think might happen to them if they do not perform certain things, you suffer for it at the end.
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Yes, thats true. I do feel ressentful. I feel like he has friends and money and I don't. And he has the choice to go off when he wants, while I am at home depressed. Its not his fault that I feel that way. But sometimes I feel like I'm playing a mother. I don't mind cooking or cleaning the flat, since these things I enjoy doing/had to do when I'm alone anyway. But he didn't make the effort of doing little things around the place much, which working people have to do too really. Of course, I am a student and he is working, so I saw it as fair. But to do all that and then have the energy to see other people was very difficult for me, so I started feeling very alone and lonely. All my energy was focused on getting my work done for school and on him. I know I should have just made time for myself and stopped focusing on him but since our relationship was a little off I wanted to do my best to make him happy and not be unsupportive. I told him this, and that I felt lonely and asked him why couldn't I come with him. Its a place I've never been and I really rarely go with him when he sees his mates (who are far away, so he doesn't often either).
He didn't really want me to, which I understand because he said he wanted to be with his mate. I don't think he understood how lonely I'd been feeling. So when he told me they were having a party with a load of people that day, I thought: Well why couldn't I be there, too? Whats wrong with me? And so the depression (which I get pretty bad when stressed up, worried and lonely but don't have it all the time) started settling in over myself and my life; and the anger and ressentment towards him took over.


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Hello all,
I was wondering where a good place to purchase veggie plants in bulk. I haven't had much luck finding anything at local nurseries since most of the plants start at @ $3.00 per plant. I have found some as low as $1.87.
I did find a company online called Evans Plant Co. but I am very hesitant to order from there since they have allot of bad review and a bad rating from the bbb.
So, where would you go to buy 100 green pepper plants or 100 tomato plants?


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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is the eagerly awaited sequel to the acclaimed medieval combat simulator and role-playing game Mount & Blade: Warband. Set 200 years before, it expands both the detailed fighting system and the world of Calradia. Bombard mountain fastnesses with siege engines, establish secret criminal empires in the back alleys of cities, or charge into the thick of chaotic battles in your quest for power.
Construct, position and fire a range of heavy machinery in sieges that will test your wits and skill like never before. Experience epic, sprawling combat across ramparts and rubble as you desperately hold on to your castle or seek to seize one from the enemy.
Engage in diplomacy, with meaningful consequences that impact the world. Strike historic peace deals that win land for your kingdom or free you to take on a new foe. An all-new barter system gives players flexibility in cementing deals, from marriage offers to treason pacts, offering all the options available to NPCs. Use a new influence system to direct your faction's energies or strangle the aspirations of a rival.
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2.Install the game (select the options you want) You will have the option to copy the crack files automatically
3.Start the game from the desktop shortcut we created or you can manually start from the game executable
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- Storage: 40 GB available space
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If you're contemplating eradicating previous flooring adhesive, I would suggest testing a small area to see what's going to be just right for you. Despite so, it's nonetheless a very resilient form of flooring that's finest known for top water-resistance properties and skill to withstand heavy foot site visitors. We have a number of bedrooms within the basement which are carpeted, however we determined to make use of tiling for the remaining flooring. This glossy vinyl floor is ideal for particular events, commercials, and trend promotions.
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Alvaro Alhambra
The Jarzynski and Crooks fluctuation theorems are two very important equalities that appear in the context of stochastic thermodynamics. These control the non-equilibrium fluctuations of work in stochastic processes, in a way much stronger than the second law. One of the ongoing research lines that these results have set off is that of understanding the right quantum analogues of such fluctuation theorems. We here suggest a particular way to answer this problem, embedded within the quantum resource theory of thermodynamics, a framework for analizing non-equilibrium quantum dynamics which is heavily inspired by the theory of quantum entanglement. In doing so we see how the Petz map, a non-commutative generalization of "Bayesian inversion" of classical conditional probabilities, naturally appears in the formulation of these theorems.
We further show how to exploit the structural similarities between the resource theories of thermodynamics and of pure bipartite entanglement to derive an entanglement analogue of work fluctuations, from which one obtains analogous statements to those of Jarzynski and Crooks'. These "fluctuations" are now a type of resource, akin to embezzling states, that serve to extend the set of possible transitions between entangled states at the single-copy level.
Joint work with Jonathan Oppenheim, Lluis Masanes and Chris Perry
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Cynthia is the Monster-Baby of Your Nightmares
Check out the new horror film from Girls and Corpses Magazine's film label.
By Chris Morse
Girls and Corpses Magazine is breaking into new territory, moving from newsstands to the big screen (and home video) with the impending release of their first film via Indican Pictures. Cynthia is a horror-comedy featuring an adorable baby... monster? This isn't quite Rosemary's Baby, but this one might charm you in another way altogether. Check out the official synopsis for the film below.
Robin and Michael are college sweethearts who have everything – a perfect marriage, adorable cat, a beautiful home, but one thing is missing from this idyllic setting – a baby. After years of fertility treatments their dreams come true when Robin finds out she is pregnant! Is this a dream come true or a nightmare come to life?
Judging by the trailer above, we are hoping for a little of both, but are guessing the "nightmare" part is more likely what's in store for us. Cynthia has a well-rounded cast of horror actors you are sure to be familiar with by now. Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie's Halloween, Halloween II) joins Sid Haig and Bill Moseley (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Three From Hell) to headline the cast in what is sure to be a unique horror-comedy experience.
Cynthia took home the Best Horror Film honors at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase IFS Film Festival in Los Angeles, while actor Sid Haig received the nod for Best Supporting Actor.
With this being a monster film, the importance of creature design can't be overstated, so that aspect of the film was certainly in good hands with Mario Torres on board, who worked on such projects as The Shape of Water, Hellboy, Starship Troopers, and The Strain.
Cynthia was written and produced by Robert Rhine, founder of Girls and Corpses Magazine, and directed by Devon Downs and Kenny Gage. The film is due to hit theaters in a limited run starting on August 31st with a home video release of September 18th following shortly thereafter. Keep an eye out for Girls and Corpses Films Presents' other upcoming horror-comedy, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet.


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Remembrance Service At Queen Anne's
Friday 13th November 2015
On Wednesday 11 November, the community of Queen Anne's came together for the school's Remembrance Service to commemorate Armistice Day.
The service was led by Queen Anne's Chaplain, Reverend Rachel Ross Smith, and began with a reading by Headmistress, Mrs Julia Harrington, of "Marching Men" by Majorie Pickthall. Staff and pupils then listened to stories of men and women whose lives were destroyed by wars in the last hundred years, presented by staff members Dr Juliet Ingram, Mrs Lyndsey White and Mrs Deborah Storey and pupils Charlotte Leaver and Rosemary Griffin.
Before the Remembrance Day service, pupils and staff had been encouraged to share any names of those that they wanted to remember during the day. The names had then been gathered and formed into the symbol of the poppy which was then shown during the service. Reverend Rachel Ross Smith spoke about how the poppy is "a symbol that speaks to us of the sacrifice made by others so that we have freedom to choose a society where all humanity is valued whatever our, creed, colour, gender, disability, sexual orientation and wealth."
During the service, the Chamber Choir performed "So they gave their bodies for the Commonwealth", written by Peter Aston, and the Chamber Choir performed Salvator Mundi by David Bednall. The prayers were also led by pupils Isabella Marino and Hannah Stronach and Beulah Waritimi read a bible reading from John 15.12-17.


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Ten ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier matches will be broadcast live to 200 countries by Star Sports and other official broadcasters.
- This will be complemented by six minutes per hour of near live match content through digital clip partners across 180 countries and more content than ever before across ICC digital platforms
- Stellar seven person commentary panel including Ian Bishop, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Lisa Sthalekar
- Match schedule infographic attached
Ian Bishop: "The phenomenal rise of Afghanistan as a cricketing stronghold in such a short time, serves as a cautionary tale to anyone who isn't aware of how fast and how skilfully the game is growing at all levels. With this in mind I am excited to be a part of the broadcast panel that will be on hand to keep you updated as to which two nations will be standing on the pedestal of success on March 25 as they tread the path to leave their mark on the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019."
Lisa Sthalekar: "The ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier is a very important tournament in the cricketing calendar as it is the last chance for teams to qualify for next year's Cricket World Cup in England and Wales. What that means is that there will be some delightful cricket that will be played with new heroes emerging. I am eager to be part of the broadcast team and I'm looking forward to all the excitement it will bring."
Pommie Mbangwa: "I so look forward to working on the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Of course being back in Zimbabwe will be enjoyable, but more entertaining will be getting to call games where so much is at stake for all the teams. It means a great deal to be at the Cricket World Cup and this is the last chance teams get to earn a place in the sport's most coveted tournament."
The ten matches to be broadcasted at Harare Sports Club are as follows:
Saturday, 10 March – Windies v Ireland
Monday, 12 March – Windies v Netherlands
Thursday, 15 March – A1 v B1
Friday, 16 March – A2 v B2
Sunday, 18 March – A2 v B3
Monday, 19 March – A1 v B2
Tuesday, 20 March – A3 v B1
Thursday, 22 March – A1 v B3
Friday, 23 March – A2 v B1
Sunday, 25 March – FINAL
5 February – Media accreditation process opens for ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier
6 February – Ireland look ahead to the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier
7 February – Hong Kong hoping to secure dream ICC Cricket World Cup qualification spot
11 February – The Netherlands ready to shine on the big stage
12 February – PNG preparations geared towards ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Glory
13 February – ICC confirm match officials and squads for ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier
14 February – Afghanistan committed to achieving ICC Cricket World Cup Qualification
15 February- Zimbabwe looking to home support at ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier
18 February – Nepal to rely on raw talent, UAE's first target is Super Six
19 February – Hong Kong, PNG have the confidence of individual performances
20 February – Netherlands and Scotland aim high in World Cup qualifier
20 February – Reminder: Media accreditation process for ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018 closes today
21 February – Afghanistan bank on spin, Zimbabwe look to home advantage
22 February – Ireland confident of team balance, Windies not taking anything for granted
23 February – Schedule of captains' pressers, teams' practice and warm-up matches in Bulawayo, Harare and Kwekwe.


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5th London Kurdish
Film Festival
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Call from Manchester
Kurdish Film Festival
Celebrate Newroz with
Shiva Rose at David &
Layla premiere in San
Kurdish films at 37.
Rotterdam International
Film Festival
Film about Kurdish
female PKK leader
Nuriye Kesbir
Musikliebe, new
documentary of Yusuf
Kurdish School of
Kurdish director Hiwa
Screening of "Crossing
the Dust"
5th London Kurdish
Film Festival will kick off
Paris Kurdish FIlm
Festival was successful
David the Tholhildan in
Yilmaz Guney Short
Film Festival in London
Call for 5th London
Kurdish Film Festival
Kurdish director
Shewket Amin Korki
Ghobadi is a jury in San
Sebastian Film Festival
Amsterdam Film
Second Iraqi short film
Half Moon in Melbourne
Great success of Half
Moon in Spain
Bahman Ghobadi in
Half Moon in London,
France and Germany
Premiere of David &
Layla in Beverly Hills
Ghobadi will work with
Free screening of
David & Layla in Verona-
Italy-Jalal Jonroy's
message to the festival
David & Layla at
American Cinemas
Half Moon at Tribeca
Film Festival
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The First Hamburg
Kurdish Film Festival
The Fist Paris Kurdish
Film Festival
Half Moon in Portugal,
USA and Germany
Melbourne Kurdish Film
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Call from Manchester Kurdish Film Festival (MKFF'08)
KurdishCinema.com - 19 March 2008
Third Manchester Kurdish Film Festival 20th - 27th September 2008.
The Manchester Kurdish Film Festival,
previously known as Zamawhand,
returns in September for seven
intensive days of screenings,
seminars, and special events.
Created in 2005 to provide a space
wherein members of the region's
Kurdish community could come
together to celebrate their native
culture and introduce it to a wider
audience, the festival has since
expanded to include a mixture of
international work, from throughout
the Kurdish Diaspora, and locally-
produced work by Kurdish refugees
based in the North West Region,
many of them making their debut as
This year's festival will take place at
Odeon Printworks and the Contact
theatre in Manchester, and will include
60 short films, 7 features, 15
documentaries, and Q&A sessions
and filmmaking workshops with
feature film directors. At the opening
and closing ceremonies there will be
traditional Kurdish food and music,
and the Minister of Culture of the
Kurdistan Regional Government will
be invited to attend.
MKFF would also like to invite professional film Directors such as Bahman Ghobadi, Shawkat
Amin, Mano Khalil, Hisham zaman and Jano Rojbayany etc to run filmmaking workshop and
script devolepment.
This will be a competitive festival, with prizes for best short film, director, director of photography,
male actor and female actor. The films selected will then form the basis of a programme of
Kurdish film and music which will be touring the North West region during November and
New to all other Kurdish Film Festivals there is a series of script development workshops with
feature film directors. We are currently seeking pitches and proposals from new writers and
filmmakers, five of which will be selected to be developed into finished screenplays, and from
there into films to be screened at the festival in 2009. It is our intention to set up a mentoring
system, whereby up-and-coming filmmakers can look to those already established in the
industry for advice and support.
We believe filmmaking should be accessible to all, and are operating an entirely open
submission policy for films and script proposals, extending our call to professionals and
amateurs alike.
For further information, contact Festival Director Alan Amin, The Kurdish Creative Film Centre,
Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St, Manchester, M4 1LE, www.kurdishcreativefilm.
com email@example.com 0044(0)7916288095.
Manchester Kurdish Film Festival (MKFF'08) Submission Form
Hosted by
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20 September 2008 to 27
September 2008
KCFC are delighted to announce
the opening for film submissions
for the MKFF'08. MKFF'08 will be
hosted by KCFC, based in
Manchester and will run from
20-27 September 2008. Films will
be screened at The Odeon
Manchester and The Contact
theatre. MKFF'08 will screen 60
short-films, 7 feature films and 15
documentaries along with Q&A
sessions with feature filmmakers
and 5 workshops on a variety of
filmmaking topics.
We are calling all Kurdish
filmmakers and/or films with a
Kurdish connection for
submission to panel selection for
the festival. Entry is free and the
only criteria are that films have
some Kurdish connection. Each film entry must include a separate submission form.
1. All films must have a Kurdish connection.
2. All films must be in English or have English subtitles; NO film without one of these will be
3. More than one film maybe submitted but each individual film must have its own
completed submission form.
4. Each film submitted must supply one full quality still picture from the film on CD, JPG
5. No film is guaranteed to be shown, as all films will pass through a selection panel
6. All viewing copies must be on DVD screening.
7. Films selected for final screening must be on DVD, mini DV, DV cam, beta cam, beta SP,
digi beta, 16mm or 35 mm.
8. Director, producer, Production Company or distributor must sign all submission forms.
9. The person submitting this film must have the legal right to do so and ensure all relevant
permissions have been sought e.g. music, talent etc.
About the Film
1. Name
2. Synopsis (50 words)
3. Long synopsis (200 words)
4. Audio format
5. Screening format
6. Length
7. Language
8. Has this film been screened anywhere previously, including other film festivals?
9. Has this film won any awards?
About the Director
1. Name
2. Date of birth
3. Address
4. Telephone
5. Email
6. Is this the director's first film? (If not please list previous film titles)
7. Short filmography (200 words)
About the Writer
1. Name
2. Date of birth
3. Address
4. Telephone
5. Email
6. Is this the writer's first film? (If not please list previous film titles)
7. Short biography of the writer (200 words)
About the Producer
1. Name
2. Date of birth
3. Address
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New Cuba Cruise Season Opens – Other Cruise News: More Reports From China – Individual Ship News
by Kevin Griffin
Last week saw the beginning of a new Cuba cruise season, with regular callers Thomson Cruises, Cuba Cruise and Star Clippers now being joined by small ship operator Variety Cruises. Meanwhile, the competition heats up in China as both Carnival Corp & plc and Royal Caribbean Cruises make another move. And finally, Costa abruptly withdraws the Costa Celebration while Semester at Sea announces the withdrawal of its Explorer and her charter to Celestyal Cruises from next June.
Cuba Cruise Season Opens
The Cuban cruise season opened with its first arrivals last week. The market has taken a beating in recent years because of the US ban on its citizens travelling to Cuba, but it once again beginning to show signs of growth.
For the winter of 2015, Thomson Cruises' 1,506-berth Thomson Dream will circumnavigate Cuba during its 7-night "Cuban Revolution" itinerary, which includes a night and two days in the old colonial capital of Havana as well as first-time calls at Santiago de Cuba and Holguin. The round-trip from Jamaica's Montego Bay calls at Grand Cayman as well.
Thomson Dream will be refurbished with updated sun decks and lounges and new a la carte restaurants. This is the second Cuban itinerary for the Dream, which also offers regular 7-night "Cuban Fusian" cruises from Jamaica to Playa Del Carmen. This includes an overnight in Havana and returns to Jamaica via Georgetown in the Cayman Islands.
The move follows Cuba Cruises' launch of a round-Cuba itinerary in 2013 on board the 966-berth Louis Cristal. This Friday, Louis Cristal leaves Piraeus for a 25-night Transatlantic crossing, calling at Marseilles and Barcelona, and then heading off for calls in Portugal, Morocco, Barbados, St Lucia and Jamaica before arriving in Cuba. The cruise includes calls on four of Cuba Cruises' six regularly scheduled ports, Montego Bay, Cienfuegos, Isla de la Juventad and Havana.
Departing from Montego Bay or Havana, the Louis Cristal is returning for its second winter in 2014-15, running from December through the end of March.
Cuba Cruise is a joint venture of Louis Cruises and Canadian investors and this is reflected in the on board experience. Purchases are billed in Canadian dollars and fresh Alberta beef and other Canadian produce are flown in each week.
Star Clippers have offered Cuban itineraries since February 2014. This year, Star Flyer sails from Cienfuegos, with itineraries taking in Cuba's offshore cays and colonial towns, as well as the Cayman Islands.
Variety Cruises enters the Cuban cruise trade this winter with its 50-berth mega-yacht Panorama, offering 7-night cruises between Havana and Cienfuegos. The season will last from December 2014 through March 2015.
Plantours' 400-berth Hamburg and Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines' 1,747-berth Balmoral and 930-berth Braemar will also be among the cruise ships calling on Cuba this winter.
Meanwhile, Semester at Sea's 840-berth Explorer will arrive in Havana this week. Semester at Sea, sponsored by the University of Virginia, returns to Cuba for the second time on November 29.
Academic visits were resumed in December 2013 after a 9-year absence caused by travel restrictions imposed by the Bush administration. Havana is the last stop of the program, and there will be 624 students and 42 professors on board (see below for latest news).
Cuba is expecting the arrival of more than 200 cruise ships at various ports on the island during the winter season, which will kick off this month and last until April 2015. In 2013, the island welcomed about 2.85 million foreign tourists, with Canada being in the lead, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.
More Reports From China
Further to our earlier reports on the development of the Chinese cruise market, three more pieces of news came to light last week.
Royal Caribbean Cruises and Ctrip.com International announced last week that they have agreed to form a strategic partnership called SkySea Cruises, a joint venture that is designed to serve the Chinese cruise market. Royal Caribbean and Ctrip will each own 35% of the new venture, with the balance being held by SkySea management and a private equity fund. The transaction is expected to close this month.
The cruise line will begin service in mid-2015 with one ship, which is now operating as the 1,814-berth Celebrity Century, although it is believed that others will join the fleet as new vessels continue to be delivered to Royal Caribbean International.
Meanwhile, in association with Carnival Corp & plc, Italian cruise ship builder Fincantieri, has signed two memoranda of understanding, one with Carnival Corp & plc, and another with China CSSC Holdings Limited, controlled by China State Shipbuilding Corp.
These agreements aim to explore the possibility of joint ventures in cruise ship building for the Chinese market. This would be a three-way collaborative effort to build the first-ever cruise ships in Chinese shipyards.
Based on its own experience, Fincantieri would work with CSSC to develop cruise ships production capacity in China, and could also provide special services and components to support CSSC shipyards.
Carnival would work closely with CSSC and Fincantieri to contribute its expertise to create the vision, definition, and specifications for these Chinese-built cruise ships.
In other news, WorldCruise.cn has announced the launch of a new online cruise booking platform catering to Chinese-speaking travellers and travel agents worldwide. WorldCruise.cn will provide data and information from more than sixty cruise lines, along with real-time booking capabilities.
Chinese-speaking travellers will be able to search and book cruises as well as air and land travel packages. Ship reviews and destination backgrounders will be included, along with special offers. Chinese travel agents will be given a user name and log access to WorldCruise.cn, where they will be able to book their clients immediately.
The Chinese Ministry of Transport projects China to be the second largest global cruise market after the US in the next several years. China could see 4.5 million cruise passengers by 2020, and could even become the world's largest cruise market, given time.
Two Chinese cruise operators already operate local cruise services. HNA Tourism Cruises operates the 1,450-berth Henna while the Bohai Ferry Company operates the 840-berth China Taishan. Both ships were acquired from Carnival affiliates.
Individual Ship News
The interesting news broke last week that Costa Cruises was cancelling its program of cruises for the newly-acquired 1,494-berth Costa Celebration that was due to start on Saturday. The ship had only just come off drydock in Marseilles from her transfer from Spanish subsidiary Iberocruceros, where she had operated as Grand Celebration.
The ship was built in 1978 as Carnival Cruise Line's Celebration.
Although no formal announcement has yet been made of a buyer, her sister ship Jubilee now sails as the Henna in China, while the third of this trio, the former Holiday, will join Cruise & Maritime Voyages as the Magellan next eyar.
Passengers booked to sail this weekend have been transferred to one of the other fifteen ships in the Costa fleet or refunded.
Meanwhile, the 1,578-berth Costa neoClassica, third ship of the Costa neoCollection fleet will replace the Costa Celebration for her planned 2015 summer program of 7-night cruises between Venice and Istanbul.
Elsewhere, the Institute for Shipboard Education, which operates as Semester at Sea, has chartered its Explorer (see above) to Celestyal Cruises, the new cruise brand of the Louis Group, for a period of three years. To become the Celestyal Odyssey, she will join fleet mates Celestyal Cristal and Celestyal Olympia (1,450 berths) in the new Greek-based brand. The Odyssey will join the Celestyal fleet in June 2015 to operate 3- and 4-night cruises in the Aegean Sea.
In July, the Institute for Shipboard Education signed a standstill agreement with the German bank financing the ship to prevent action by creditors after payments were missed on an $83.5 million loan.
The agreement required the ISE to pay $400,000 up front and $100,000 each month as the institute attempted to sell the vessel.
ISE purchased Explorer in 2007 after forty-five years of chartering vessels. But rising fuel costs and the impact of the economic crisis on registrations are said to be among the reasons for selling the ship.
ISE will seek another ship to charter and is also searching for a new academic partner, after it was announced this June that the University of Virginia in Charlottesville would end its sponsorship of the program from May 2016.
(Kevin Griffin is managing director of specialist cruise agency The Cruise People Ltd in London, England. For further information concerning cruises mentioned in this article readers can visit his blog)
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Introducing Agatha Raisin
Paperback(First Edition)
Beloved author M. C. Beaton has delighted readers and fans alike with her Agatha Raisin mysteries. The Quiche of Death and The Vicious Vet, the first two books in the series, are now together for the first time in one volume. . . .
The Quiche of Death
Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely, and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest. Despite the fact that Agatha has never baked a thing in her life, she is sure the pie she has secretly bought from an upper-crust London quicherie will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when the judge not only snubs her entrybut falls over dead!
The Vicious Vet
Agatha Raisin hasn't quite adjusted to the slow pace of village life, or to the failure of her overtures to her handsome neighbor, James Lacey. Since the new vet in town is young and good looking, Agatha's perfectly healthy tabby endures a nasty physical exam in the name of romance. Unfortunately, his sacrifice is all for naught when the vet is soon found dead. The police call the death a freak accident, but Agatha convinces James that playing amateur detective might be fun. Unfortunately, just as curiosity killed the cat, Agatha's inept snooping is soon a motivation for murder. . . .
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About the Author
M. C. Beaton has been hailed as "the new Queen of Crime." She is The New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, including As the Pig Turns and Busy Body, set in the English Cotswolds, as well as the Hamish Macbeth mysteries set in Scotland. She has also written historical romance novels and an Edwardian mystery series under the name Marion Chesney. Before writing her first novels, Beaton worked as a bookseller, a newspaper reporter, a fashion critic, and a waitress in a greasy spoon. Born in Scotland, she currently divides her time between Paris and a village in the Cotswolds. She was selected the British Guest of Honor for the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in 2006.
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MRS. Agatha Raisin sat behind her newly cleared desk in her office in South Molton Street in London's Mayfair. From the outer office came the hum of voices and the clink of glasses as the staff prepared to say farewell to her.
For Agatha was taking early retirement. She had built up the public-relations firm over long hard years of work. She had come a long way from her working-class background in Birmingham. She had survived an unfortunate marriage and had come out of it, divorced and battered in spirit, but determined to succeed in life. All her business efforts were to one end, the realization of a dream—a cottage in the Cotswolds.
The Cotswolds in the Midlands are surely one of the few man-made beauties in the world: quaint villages of golden stone houses, pretty gardens, winding green lanes and ancient churches. Agatha had been taken to the Cotswolds as a child for one brief magical holiday. Her parents had hated it and had said that they should have gone to Butlin's Holiday Camp as usual, but to Agatha the Cotswolds represented everything she wanted in life: beauty, tranquillity and security. So even as a child, she had become determined that one day she would live in one of those pretty cottages in a quiet peaceful village, far from the noise and smells of the city.
During all her time in London, she had, until just recently, never gone back to the Cotswolds, preferring to keep the dream intact. Now she had purchased that dream cottage in the village of Carsely. It was a pity, thought Agatha, that the village was called plain Carsely and not Chipping Campden or Aston Magna or Lower Slaughter or one of those intriguing Cotswold names, but the cottage was perfect and the village not on the tourist route, which meant freedom from craft shops, tea-rooms and daily bus parties.
Agatha was aged fifty-three, with plain brown hair and a plain square face and a stocky figure. Her accent was as Mayfair as could be except in moments of distress or excitement, when the old nasal Birmingham voice of her youth crept through. It helps in public relations to have a certain amount of charm and Agatha had none. She got results by being a sort of one-woman soft-cop/hard-cop combination; alternately bullying and wheedling on behalf of her clients. Journalists often gave space to her clients just to get rid of her. She was also an expert at emotional blackmail and anyone unwise enough to accept a present or a free lunch from Agatha was pursued shamelessly until they paid back in kind.
She was popular with her staff because they were a rather weak, frivolous lot, the kind of people who build up legends about anyone of whom they are frightened. Agatha was described as "a real character," and like all real characters who speak their mind, she did not have any real friends. Her work had been her social life as well.
As she rose to go through and join the party, a small cloud crossed the horizon of Agatha's usually uncomplicated mind. Before her lay days of nothing: no work from morning till night, no bustle or noise. How would she cope?
She shrugged the thought away and crossed the Rubicon into the outer office to say her farewells.
"Here she comes!" screeched Roy, one of her assistants. "Made some special champagne punch, Aggie. Real knickerrotter."
Agatha accepted a glass of punch. Her secretary, Lulu, approached and handed her a gift-wrapped parcel and then the others crowded around with their offerings. Agatha felt a lump rising in her throat. A little insistent voice was chattering in her head, "What have you done? What have you done?" There was a bottle of scent from Lulu and, predictably, a pair of crotchless panties from Roy; there was a book on gardening from one, a vase from another, and so it went on. "Speech!" cried Roy.
"Thank you all," said Agatha gruffly. "I'm not going to China, you know. You'll all be able to come and see me. Your new bosses, Pedmans, have promised not to change anything, so I suppose life will go on for all of you much the same. Thank you for my presents. I will treasure them, except for yours, Roy. I doubt if at my age I'll find any use for them."
"You never know your luck," said Roy. "Some horny farmer'll probably be chasing you through the shrubbery."
Agatha drank more punch and ate smoked-salmon sandwiches and then, with her presents packed by Lulu into two carrier bags, she made her way down the stairs of Raisin Promotions for the last time.
In Bond Street, she elbowed a thin, nervous business man aside who had just flagged down a cab, said unrepentantly, "I saw it first," and ordered the driver to take her to Paddington Station.
She caught the 15:20 train to Oxford and sank back into the corner seat of a first-class carriage. Everything was ready and waiting for her in the Cotswolds. An interior decorator had "done over" the cottage, her car was waiting for her at Moreton-in-Marsh station for the short drive to Carsely, a removal firm had taken all her belongings from her London flat, now sold. She was free. She could relax. No temperamental pop stars to handle, no prima-donnaish couture firms to launch. All she had to do from now on was to please herself.
Agatha drifted off to sleep and awoke with a start at the guard's cry of "Oxford. This is Oxford. The train terminates here."
Not for the first time, Agatha wondered about British Rail's use of the word "terminate." One expected the train to blow apart. Why not just say "stops here"? She looked up at the screen, like a dingy television set, which hung over Platform 2. It informed her that the train to Charlbury, Kingham, Moreton-in-Marsh and all further points to Hereford was on Platform 3, and lugging her carrier bags, she walked over the bridge. The day was cold and grey. The euphoria produced by freedom from work and Roy's punch was slowly beginning to evaporate.
The train moved slowly out of the station. Glimpses of barges on one side and straggly allotments on the other and then flat fields flooded from the recent rain lay gloomily in front of her increasingly jaundiced view.
This is ridiculous, thought Agatha. I've got what I always wanted. I'm tired, that's all.
The train stopped somewhere outside Charlbury, gliding to a stop and sitting there placidly in the inexplicable way that British Rail trains often do. The passengers sat stoically, listening to the rising wind whining over the bleak fields. Why are we like sheep that have gone astray? wondered Agatha. Why are the British so cowed and placid? Why does no one shout for the guard and demand to know the reason? Other, more voluble, races would not stand for it. She debated whether to go and see the guard herself. Then she remembered she was no longer in a hurry to get anywhere. She took out a copy of the Evening Standard, which she had bought at the station, and settled down to read it.
After twenty minutes the train creaked slowly into life. Another twenty minutes after Charlbury and it slid into the little station of Moreton-in-Marsh. Agatha climbed out. Her car was still where she had left it. During the last few minutes of the journey she had begun to worry that it might have been stolen.
It was market day in Moreton-in-Marsh and Agatha's spirits began to revive as she drove slowly past stalls selling everything from fish to underwear. Tuesday. Market day was Tuesday. She must remember that. Her new Saab purred out of Moreton and then up through Bourton-on-the-Hill. Nearly home. Home! Home at last.
She turned off the A-44 and then began the slow descent to the village of Carsely, which nestled in a fold of the Cotswold Hills.
It was a very pretty village, even by Cotswold standards. There were two long lines of houses interspersed with shops, some low and thatched, some warm gold brick with slate roofs. There was a pub called the Red Lion at one end and a church at the other. A few straggling streets ran off this one main road where cottages leaned together as if for support in their old age. The gardens were bright with cherry blossom, forsythia and daffodils. There was an old-fashioned haberdasher's, a post office and general store, and a butcher's, and a shop that seemed to sell nothing other than dried flowers and to be hardly ever open. Outside the village and tucked away from view by a rise was a council estate and between the council estate and the village proper was the police station, an elementary school, and a library.
Agatha's cottage stood alone at the end of one of the straggling side streets. It looked like a cottage in one of the calendars she used to treasure as a girl. It was low and thatched, new thatch, Norfolk reed, and with casement windows and built of the golden Cotswold stone. There was a small garden at the front and a long narrow one at the back. Unlike practically everyone else in the Cotswolds, the previous owner had not been a gardener. There was little else but grass and depressing bushes of the hard-wearing kind found in public parks.
Inside there was a small dark cubby-hole of a hall. To the right was the living-room; to the left, the dining-room, and the kitchen at the back was part of a recent extension and was large and square. Upstairs were two low-ceilinged bedrooms and a bathroom. All the ceilings were beamed.
Agatha had given the interior decorator a free hand. It was all as it should be and yet … Agatha paused at the door of the living-room. Three-piece suite in covered Sanderson's linen, lamps, coffee-table with glass top, fake medieval fire-basket in the hearth, horse brasses nailed to the fireplace, pewter tankards and toby jugs hanging from the beams and bits of polished farm machinery decorating the walls, and yet it looked like a stage set. She went into the kitchen and switched on the central heating. The super-duper removal company had even put her clothes in the bedroom and her books on the shelves, so there was not much for her to do. She went through to the dining-room. Long table, shining under its heat-resistant surface, Victorian dining chairs, Edwardian painting of a small child in a frock in a bright garden, Welsh dresser with blue-and-white plates, another fireplace with a fake-log electric fire, and a drinks trolley. Upstairs, the bedrooms were pure Laura Ashley. It felt like someone else's house, the home of some characterless stranger, or an expensive holiday cottage.
Well, she had nothing for dinner and after a life of restaurants and take-aways, Agatha had planned to learn how to cook, and there were all her new cookery books in a gleaming row on a shelf in the kitchen.
She collected her handbag and made her way out. Time to investigate what few village shops there were. Many of the shops, the real estate agent had told her, had closed down and had been transformed into "des rezzes," or desirable residences. The villagers blamed the incomers, but it was the motor car which had caused the damage, the villagers themselves preferring to go to the supermarkets of Stratford or Evesham for their goods rather than buy them at a higher price in the village. Most people in the village owned some sort of car.
As Agatha approached the main street, an old man was coming the other way. He touched his cap and gave her a cheerful "arternoon." Then in the main street, everyone she passed greeted her with a few words, a casual "afternoon" or "nasty weather." Agatha brightened. After London, where she had not even known her neighbours, all this friendliness was a refreshing change.
She studied the butcher's window and then decided that cookery could wait for a few days and so passed on to the general store and bought a "very hot" Vindaloo curry to microwave and a can of rice. Again, in the store, she was met with friendliness all round. At the door of the shop was a box of second-hand books. Agatha had always read "improving" books, mostly non-fiction. There was a battered copy of Gone With the Wind and she bought it on impulse.
Back in her cottage, she found a basket of pseudo-logs by the fire, little round things made out of pressed sawdust. She piled some up in the grate and set fire to them and soon had a blaze roaring up the chimney. She removed the lace antimacassar which the decorator had cutely draped over the television screen and switched it on. There was some war going on, as there usually was, and it was getting the usual coverage; that is, the anchorman and the reporter were having a cosy talk. "Over to you, John. What is the situation now? Well, Peter …" By the time they moved on to the inevitable "expert" in the studio, Agatha wondered why they bothered to send any reporter out to the war at all. It was like the Gulf War all over again, where most of the coverage seemed to consist of a reporter standing in front of a palm tree outside some hotel in Riyadh. What a waste of money. He never had much information and it would surely have been cheaper to place him in front of a palm tree in a studio in London.
She switched it off and picked up Gone With the Wind. She had been looking forward to a piece of intellectual slumming to celebrate her release from work, but she was amazed at how very good it was, almost indecently readable, thought Agatha, who had only read before the sort of books you read to impress people. The fire crackled and Agatha read until her rumbling stomach prompted her to put the curry in the microwave. Life was good.
But a week passed, a week in which Agatha, in her usual headlong style, had set out to see the sights. She had been to Warwick Castle, Shakespeare's birthplace, Blenheim Palace, and had toured through the villages of the Cotswolds while the wind blew and the rain fell steadily from grey skies, returning every evening to her silent cottage with only a new-found discovery of Agatha Christie to help her through the evenings. She had tried visiting the pub, the Red Lion, a jolly low-raftered chintzy sort of place with a cheerful landlord. And the locals had talked to her as they always did with a peculiar sort of open friendliness that never went any further. Agatha could have coped with a suspicious animosity but not this cheerful welcome which somehow still held her at bay. Not that Agatha had ever known how to make friends, but there was something about the villagers, she discovered, which repelled incomers. They did not reject them. On the surface they welcomed them. But Agatha knew that her presence made not a ripple on the calm pond of village life. No one asked her to tea. No one showed any curiosity about her whatsoever. The vicar did not even call. In an Agatha Christie book the vicar would have called, not to mention some retired colonel and his wife. All conversation seemed limited to "Mawnin'," "Afternoon," or talk about the weather.
For the first time in her life, she knew loneliness, and it frightened her.
From the kitchen windows at the back of the house was a view of the Cotswold Hills, rising up to bock out the world of bustle and commerce, trapping Agatha like some baffled alien creature under the thatch of her cottage, cut off from life. The little voice that had cried, "What have I done?" became a roar.
And then she suddenly laughed. London was only an hour and a half away on the train, not thousands of miles. She would take herself up the following day, see her former staff, have lunch at the Caprice, and then perhaps raid the bookshops for some more readable material. She had missed market day in Moreton, but there was always another week.
As if to share her mood, the sun shone down on a perfect spring day. The cherry tree at the end of her back garden, the one concession to beauty that the previous owner had seen fit to make, raised heavy branches of flowers to a clear blue sky as Agatha had her usual breakfast of one cup of black coffee, instant, and two filter-tipped cigarettes.
With a feeling of holiday, she drove up the winding hill that led out of the village and then down through Bourton-on-the-Hill to Moreton-in-Marsh.
She arrived in London's Paddington Station and drew in great lungfuls of polluted air and felt herself come alive again. In the taxi to South Molton Street she realized she did not really have any amusing stories with which to regale her former staff. "Our Aggie will be queen of that village in no time at all," Roy had said. How could she explain that the formidable Agatha Raisin did not really exist as far as Carsely was concerned?
She got out of the taxi in Oxford Street and walked down South Molton Street, wondering what it would be like to see "Pedmans" written up where her own name used to be.
Agatha stopped at the foot of the stairs which led up to her former office over the Paris dress shop. There was no sign at all, only a clean square on the paintwork where "Raisin Promotions" had once been.
She walked up the stairs. All was silent as the grave. She tried the door. It was locked. Baffled, she retreated to the street and looked up. And there across one of the windows was a large board with FOR SALE in huge red letters and the name of a prestigious estate agent.
Her face grim, she took a cab over to the City, to Cheapside, to the headquarters of Pedmans, and demanded to see Mr. Wilson, the managing director. A bored receptionist with quite the longest nails Agatha had ever seen languidly picked up the phone and spoke into it. "Mr. Wilson is busy," she enunciated, picked up the woman's magazine she had been reading when Agatha had arrived and studied her horoscope.
Agatha plucked the magazine from the receptionist's hands. She leaned over the desk. "Move your scrawny butt and tell that shyster he's seeing me."
The receptionist looked up into Agatha's glaring eyes, gave a squeak, and scampered off upstairs. After some moments during which Agatha had read her horoscope—"Today could be the most important day of your life. But watch your temper"—the receptionist came tottering back on her very high heels and whispered, "Mr. Wilson will see you now. If you will come this way …"
"I know the way," snarled Agatha. Her stocky figure marched up the stairs, her sensible low-heels shoes thumping on the treads.
Mr. Wilson rose to meet her. He was a small, very clean man with thinning hair, gold-rimmed glasses, soft hands and an unctuous smile, more like a Harley Street doctor than the head of a public-relations firm.
"Why have you put my office up for sale?" demanded Agatha.
He smoothed the top of his head. "Mrs. Raisin, not your office; you sold the business to us."
"But you gave me your word you would keep on my staff."
"And so we did. Most of them preferred the redundancy pay. We do not need an extra office. All the business can be done from here."
"Let me tell you, you can't do this."
"And let me tell you, Mrs. Raisin, I can do what I like. You sold us the concern, lock, stock and barrel. Now, if you don't mind, I am very busy."
Then he shrank back in his chair as Agatha Raisin told him at the top of her voice exactly what he could do to himself in graphic detail before slamming out.
Agatha stood in Cheapside, tears starting to her eyes. "Mrs. Raisin … Aggie?"
She swung round. Roy was standing there. Instead of his usual jeans and psychedelic shirt and gold earrings, he was wearing a sober business suit.
"I'll kill that bastard Wilson," said Agatha. "I've just told him what he can do to himself."
Roy squeaked and backed off. "I shouldn't be seen talking to you, sweetie, if you're not the flavour of the month. Besides, you sold him the joint."
"Where's Lulu?"
"She took the redundancy money and is sunning her little body on the Costa Brava."
"And Jane?"
"Working as PR for Friends Scotch. Can you imagine? Giving an alcoholic like her a job in a whisky company? She'll sink their profits down her gullet in a year."
Agatha inquired after the rest. Only Roy had been employed by Pedmans. "It's because of the Trendies," he explained, naming a pop group, one of Agatha's former clients. "Josh, the leader, has always been ever so fond of me, as you know. So Pedmans had to take me on to keep the group. Like my new image?" He pirouetted round.
"No," said Agatha gruffly. "Doesn't suit you. Anyway, why don't you come down and visit me this weekend?"
Roy looked shifty. "Love to, darling, but got lots and lots to do. Wilson is a slave-driver. Must go."
He darted off into the building, leaving Agatha standing alone on the pavement.
She tried to hail a cab but they were all full. She walked along to Bank Station but the tube trains weren't running and someone told her there was a transport strike. "How am I going to get across town?" grumbled Agatha.
"You could try a river boat," he suggested. "Pier at London Bridge."
Agatha stumped along to London Bridge, her anger fading away to be replaced with a miserable feeling of loss. At the pier at London Bridge, she came across a sort of yuppies' Dunkirk. The pier was crammed with anxious young men and women clutching briefcases while a small flotilla of pleasure boats took them off.
She joined the end of the queue, inching forward on the floating pier, feeling slightly seasick by the time she was able to board a large old pleasure steamer that had been pressed into action for the day. The bar was open. She clutched a large gin and tonic and took it up to the stern and sat down in the sunshine on one of those little gold-and-red plush ballroom chairs one finds on Thames pleasure boats.
The boat moved out and slid down the river in the sunshine, seeming to Agatha to be moving past all she had thrown away—life and London. Under the bridges cruised the boat, along past the traffic jams on the Embankment and then to Charing Cross Pier, where Agatha got off. She no longer felt like lunch or shopping or anything else but to get back to her cottage and lick her wounds and think of what to do.
She walked up to Trafalgar Square and then along the Mall, past Buckingham Palace, up Constitution Hill, down the underpass and up into Hyde Park by Deciumus Burton's Gate and the Duke of Wellington's house. She cut across the Park the direction of Bayswater and Paddington.
Before this one day, she thought, she had always forged ahead, always known what she had wanted. Although she was bright at school, her parents made her leave at fifteen, for there were good jobs to be had in the local biscuit factory. At that time, Agatha had been a thin, white-faced, sensitive girl. The crudity of the women she worked with in the factory grated on her nerves, the drunkenness of her mother and father at home disgusted her, and so she began to work overtime, squirrelling away the extra money in a savings account so that her parents might not get their hands on it, until one day she decided she had enough and simply took off for London without even saying goodbye, slipping out one night with her suitcase when her mother and father had fallen into a drunken stupor.
In London, she had worked as a waitress seven days a week so that she could afford shorthand and typing lessons. As soon as she was qualified, she got a job as a secretary in a public-relations firm. But just when she was beginning to learn the business, Agatha had fallen in love with Jimmy Raisin, a charming young man with blue eyes and a mop of black hair. He did not seem to have any steady employment but Agatha thought that marriage was all he needed to make him settle down. After a month of married life, it was finally borne in on her that she had jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. Her husband was a drunk. Yet she had stuck by him for two whole years, being the breadwinner, putting up with his increasing bouts of drunken violence until, one morning, she had looked down at him lying snoring on the bed, dirty and unshaven, and had pinned a pile of Alcoholics Anonymous literature to his chest, packed her things and moved out.
He knew where she worked. She thought he would come in search of her if only for money, but he never did. She once went back to the squalid room in Kilburn which they had shared, but he had disappeared. Agatha had never filed for divorce. She assumed he was dead. She had never wanted to marry again. She had become harder and harder and more competent, more aggressive, until the thin shy girl that she had been slowly disappeared under layers of ambition. Her job became her life, her clothes expensive, her tastes in general those that were expected of a rising public-relations star. As long as people noticed you, as long as they envied you, that was enough for Agatha.
By the time she reached Paddington Station, she had walked herself into a more optimistic frame of mind. She had chosen her new life and she would make it work. That village was going to sit up and take notice of Agatha Raisin.
When she arrived home, it was late afternoon and she realized she had had nothing to eat. She went to Harvey's, the general store-cum-post-office, and ferreted around in the deep freeze wondering if she could face curry again when her eye was caught by a poster pinned up on the wall. "Great Quiche Competition" it announced in curly letters. It was to be held on Saturday in the school hall. There were other competitions listed in smaller letters: fruit cake, flower arrangements, and so on. The quiche competition was to be judged by a Mr. Cummings-Browne. Agatha scooped a Chicken Korma out of the deep freeze and headed for the counter. "Where does Mr. Cummings-Browne live?" she asked.
"That'll be Plumtrees Cottage, m'dear," said the woman. "Down by the church."
Agatha's mind was racing as she trotted home and shoved the Chicken Korma in the microwave. Wasn't that what mattered in these villages? Being the best at something domestic? Now if she, Agatha Raisin, won that quiche competition, they would sit up and take notice. Maybe ask her to give lectures on her art at Women's Institute meetings and things like that.
She carried the revolting mess that was her microwaved dinner into the dining-room and sat down. She frowned at the table-top. It was covered with a thin film of dust. Agatha loathed housework.
After her scrappy meal, she went into the garden at the back. The sun had set and a pale-greenish sky stretched over the hills above Carsely. There was a sound of movement from nearby and Angela looked over the hedge. A narrow path divided her garden from the garden next door.
Her neighbour was bent over a flower-bed, weeding it in the failing light.
She was an angular woman who, despite the chill of the evening, was wearing a print dress of the type beloved by civil servants' wives abroad. She had a receding chin and rather bulbous eyes and her hair was dressed in a forties style, pinned back in rolls from her face. All this Agatha was able to see as the women straightened up.
"Evening," called Agatha.
The woman turned on her heel and walked into her house and closed the door.
Agatha found this rudeness a welcome change after all the friendliness of Carsely. It was more what she was used to. She walked back through her own cottage, out the front door, up to the cottage next door, which was called New Delhi, and rapped on the brass knocker.
A curtain at a window near the door twitched but that was the only sign of life. Angela gleefully knocked again, louder this time.
The door opened a crack and one bulbous eye stared out at her.
"Good evening," said Agatha, holding out her hand. "I'm your new neighbour."
The door slowly opened. The woman in the print dress reluctantly picked up Angela's hand, as if it were a dead fish, and shook it. "I am Agatha Raisin," said Agatha, "and you are … ?"
"Mrs. Sheila Barr," said the woman. "You must forgive me, Mrs … . er … Raisin, but I am very busy at the moment."
"I won't take up much of your time," said Angela. "I need a cleaning woman."
Mrs. Barr gave that infuriating kind of laugh often described as "superior." "You won't get anyone in the village. It's almost impossible to get anyone to clean. I have my Mrs. Simpson, so I'm very lucky."
"Perhaps she might do a few hours for me," suggested Agatha. The door began to close. "Oh, no," said Mrs. Barr, "I am sure she wouldn't." And then the door was closed completely.
We'll see about that, thought Agatha.
She collected her handbag and went down to the Red Lion and hitched her bottom onto a bar stool. "Evening, Mrs. Raisin," said the landlord, Joe Fletcher. "Turned nice, hasn't it? Maybe we'll be getting some good weather after all."
Screw the weather, thought Agatha, who was tired of talking about it. Aloud she said, "Do you know where Mrs. Simpson lives?"
"Council estate, I think. Would that be Bert Simpson's missus?"
"Don't know. She cleans."
"Oh, ah, that'll be Doris Simpson all right. Don't recall the number, but it's Wakefield Terrace, second along, the one with the gnomes."
Angela drank a gin and tonic and then set out for the council estate. She soon found Wakefield Terrace and the Simpsons because their garden was covered in plastic gnomes, not grouped round a pool, or placed artistically, but just spread about at random.
Mrs. Simpson answered the door herself. She looked more like an old-fashioned schoolteacher than a charwoman. She had snow-white hair scraped back in a bun, and pale-grey eyes behind spectacles.
Agatha explained her mission. Mrs. Simpson shook her head. "Don't see as how I can manage any more, and that's a fact. Do Mrs. Barr next to you on Tuesdays, then there's Mrs. Chomley on Wednesdays and Mrs. Cummings-Browne on Thursdays, and then the weekends I work in a supermarket at Evesham."
"How much does Mrs. Barr pay you?" asked Agatha.
"Three pounds an hour."
"If you work for me instead, I'll give you four pounds an hour."
"You'd best come in. Bert! Bert, turn that telly off. This here is Mrs. Raisin what's taken Budgen's cottage down Lilac Lane."
A small, spare man with thinning hair turned off the giant television set which commanded the small neat living room.
"I didn't know it was called Lilac Lane," said Agatha. "They don't seem to believe in putting up names for the roads in the village."
"Reckon that's because there's so few of them, m'dear," said Bert.
"I'll get you a cup of tea, Mrs. Raisin."
"Agatha. Do call me Agatha," said Agatha with the smile that any journalist she had dealt with would recognize. Angela Raisin was going in for the kill.
While Doris Simpson retreated to the kitchen, Agatha said, "I am trying to persuade your wife to stop working for Mrs. Barr and work for me instead. I am offering four pounds an hour, a whole day's work, and, of course, lunch supplied."
"Sounds handsome to me, but you'll have to ask Doris," said Bert. "Not but what she would be glad to see the back of that Barr woman's house."
"Hard work?"
"It's not the work," said Bert, "it's the way that woman do go on. She follows Doris around, checking everything, like."
"Is she from Carsely?"
"Naw, her's an incomer. Husband died a whiles back. Something in the Foreign Office he was. Came here about twenty year ago."
Agatha was just registering that twenty years in Carsely did not qualify one for citizenship, so to speak, when Mrs. Simpson came in with the tea-tray.
"The reason I am trying to get you away from Mrs. Barr is this," said Agatha. "I am very bad at housework. Been a career woman all my life. I think people like you, Doris, are worth their weight in gold. I pay good wages because I think cleaning is a very important job. I will also pay your wages when you are sick or on holiday."
"Now that's more than fair," cried Bert. "'Member when you had your appendix out, Doris? Her never even came nigh the nospital, let alone gave you a penny."
"True," said Doris. "But it's steady money. What if you was to leave, Agatha?"
"Oh, I'm here to stay," said Agatha.
"I'll do it," said Doris suddenly. "In fact, I'll phone her now and get it over with."
She went out to the kitchen to phone. Bert tilted his head on one side and looked at Agatha, his little eyes shrewd. "You know you'll have made an enemy there," he said.
"Pooh," said Agatha Raisin, "she'll just need to get over it."
As Agatha was fumbling for her door key a half-hour later, Mrs. Barr came out of her cottage and stood silently, glaring across at Agatha.
Agatha gave a huge smile. "Lovely evening," she called.
She felt quite like her old self.
INTRODUCING AGATHA RAISIN: AGATHA RAISIN AND THE QUICHE OF DEATH © 1992 by M. C. Beaton and AGATHA RAISIN AND THE VICIOUS VET © 1993 by M. C. Beaton. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Had a really enjoyable time reading this book. Not the usual fare. Miss Raisin is a hoot. Spooky and lol funny!
cosy-mystery, amateur-sleuth, women-sleuths, england, situational-humor, verbal-humor I'd never read the series before and decided to watch a few episodes on TV. It was more fun than I expected so I wanted to read the real thing so I could compare. The screen let me see the village and enjoy another version of the characters. I do like that visual version of Bill Wong, Roy, and Doris as well as a totally different Agatha, but the books are better, just as I expected! While I have trouble visualizing unfamiliar scenery, books are so much better for characters. The books are a lot funnier as well! The first book gives the backstory for Agatha and sets her up as an amateur sleuth with her solving the poisoning of a nasty philanderer and making friends with DI Bill Wong. The second book is the murder of a philandering veterinarian and the acquaintance of the new neighbor. Both are good cosies and a lot of fun! I read the audio, one narrated by Penelope Keith and the next by Diana Bishop, each was marvelously performed!
Interesting and Unique. Quite a page turner.
I think i am going to like this series but i have to take off points for the misspellings and the many times agatha is called angela.
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We describe a numerical model to simulate the non-linear elasto-plastic dynamics of compressible materials. The model is fully Eulerian and it is discretized on a fixed Cartesian mesh. The hyperelastic constitutive law considered is neohookean and the plasticity model is based on a multiplicative decomposition of the inverse deformation tensor. The model is thermodynamically consistent and it is shown to be stable in the sense that the norm of the deviatoric stress tensor beyond yield is non increasing. The multimaterial integration scheme is based on a simple numerical flux function that keeps the interfaces sharp. Numerical illustrations in one to three space dimensions of high-speed multimaterial impacts in air are presented.
The solution of complex rarefied flows with the BGK equation and the Discrete Velocity Method (DVM) requires a large number of velocity grid points leading to significant computational costs. We propose an adaptive velocity grid approach exploiting the fact that locally in space, the distribution function is supported only by a sub-set of the global velocity grid. The velocity grid is adapted thanks to criteria based on local temperature, velocity and on the enforcement of mass conservation. Simulations in 1D and 2D are presented for different Knudsen numbers and compared to a global velocity grid BGK solution, showing the computational gain of the proposed approach.
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