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Will Beyonce Be At The Women's March On Washington? The Movement Is Right Up Her Alley
Who runs the world? Girls. Some of Hollywood's most prominent stars are expected to turn out on Jan. 21 at the Women's March on Washington. But will Beyoncé be standing arm-in-arm at the capital with fellow feminists Katy Perry, Amy Schumer, Zendaya Coleman, Scarlett Johansson, and more in protest of the incoming organization and its highly sexist agenda? Beyoncé seems like the Women's March type, to be honest. You know, if her music is any indication. And also her activism.
After doing a bit of research, I've learned that there is no solid evidence suggesting that Bey will be in attendance — not yet, anyway — although the event certainly speaks to the "Run The World (Girls)" singer's staunch activism for women's rights. I mean, she basically lives and breathes feminism in her music and visual albums and also proved to be a highly notable supporter during Hillary Clinton's campaign, so it would seem that the march would be a can't miss event for the superstar, right?
Perhaps Mrs. Carter is keeping her attendance under wraps as to not cause a stir of pandemonium from fans. The organized protest has already gained astonishing momentum since being started on Facebook mere hours after Donald Tump was elected to become the country's 45th president, now boasting more than 100,000 registered participants, according to a recent article by the Washington Post.
Celebs such as Cher, Debra Messing, and Julianne Moore have showed support for the movement and will reportedly either attend or participate in other ways. Meanwhile, Chelsea Handler will be leading a demonstration in conjunction with the cause in Park City, Utah, while America Ferrera will serve as a chair of the "artist table."
As the Women's March continues to grow, more than 30 civil rights groups have partnered with the movement, including Define American, United We Dream, Muslim Women's Alliance, the Trayvon Martin Foundation, Girls Who Code, and Black Girls Rock, as well as abortion rights groups Naral Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood.
Other celebs slated to lend their support at the rally include Orange Is The New Black's Uzo Aduba, Lea DeLaria, and Diane Guerrero, along with actor, Constance Wu from Fresh Off The Boat. Needless to say, the effort stands to be a momentous day in the history of our country – with or without Beyoncé. But hopefully with.


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James Goldman's brilliant historical drama pits King Henry II of England against the strong-willed Eleanor of Aquitaine. Back stabbing, spying, double crossing, and rampant infidelity – a typical family Christmas. Typical, that is, for the Plantagenets. Kathleen Chalfant and Alfred Molina bring to life the witty, eloquent battle of the sexes that was immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Lars Carlson, Kathleen Chalfant, Kevin Daniels, Spencer Garrett, Laurel Moglen, Alfred Molina and Steven Sutcliffe.
Featuring: Lars Carlson, Kathleen Chalfant, Kevin Daniels, Spencer Garrett, Laurel Moglen, Alfred Molina, Steven Sutcliffe

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at Warwick Arts Centre, Saturday 12th February 2011
It's rare that one sees a production of student drama which is so impressive it could have been created by professionals. Scripts as complex and unusual as Fin Kennedy's How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found are difficult enough to do justice with a huge team of creatives, a large budget and ample time to rehearse, but Gwilym Lawrence has created a production which explores all the intricacies of the original text with extraordinary performances to boot.
Charlie Hunt, a twenty-nine year old brand manager, is stuck in a rut. His life is repetitive, dull and unfulfilling, He turns to drink and drugs, but still this isn't enough. After a terrible incident he runs to Mike, who gives him all the advice he needs so that he may disappear completely and become Adam, starting a new life for himself. Even with a new identity, however, nothing changes; life is just as repetitive, just as dull, just as unfulfilling. The plot sounds deceptively simple, but Kennedy injects new twists, revealed identities and unforeseen relationships which keep us hooked throughout.
How to Disappear Completely… is ostensibly a play about identity, asking us to think about what makes us who we are. Under Lawrence's direction, however, many more elements of Kennedy's script are extracted. Focus is laid on conformity; external characters seem to be stereotypes, standing in straight lines and wearing matching clothing, suggesting they have been conditioned by the society in which they were raised. The darkly comic aspects of the script are extrapolated, showing the futility of our lives and how much in our existence is laughable.
Set, sound and lighting highlight these aspects perfectly. Charlie Ash's simple but ingenious five-sided table design, around which the audience sits, allows Hunt to stow away memories, leaving pieces of himself behind to find later while hinting that all situations in which we find ourselves are simply reconfigurations of the same thing. John Lawson's lighting design, with red bulbs dotted around the audience's periphery, is subtle enough to go unnoticed but constantly suggests the nature of a scene. Jonathan Moss' sound, supported by Thom May's soundscaping, gives us an insight into Charlie's mind, never silent, and although at times it is a little distracting, it is usually an excellent addition to the text.
But it is in the performances that this production excels. The cast of five play multiple roles, all of which have been meticulously constructed. As most of the female characters, Emma Jane Denly offers many facets of womanhood, all of which verge on caricature but remain believable. Michael Murray in the comic roles provides welcome relief throughout, deftly handling Kennedy's subtle wit and creating characters which would be annoying enough to drive anyone mad. As the pathologist Sophie, Eleanor Adams is calm, guiding us through the plot carefully and giving a way in for the audience. Richard Wing fills the other roles, and is particularly impressive as Mike, the con-man who gives Charlie his way out, showing a man who, although working against the law, is still perfectly likeable. His speech asking us to enjoy the "Little Things" in life forces us to sit up and listen, and is delivered beautifully.
The best should always be saved for last, and in the central role of Charlie Hunt, Ed Davis is spectacular, grabbing our attention right from the outset and never allowing it to wane. He hurtles through his set monologues with startling intensity and can switch to quiet meditation in an instant, contemplating the smaller details of life with zeal. Indeed at times it feels like this role was written for him.
There are no revolutionary concepts or groundbreaking techniques here, just a simple and effective piece of theatre which puts the story first. An intelligent text is handled with skill but never feels overwhelming, and performances take centre stage. If this production of How to Disappear Completely… doesn't get into the National Student Drama Festival, there is some gross injustice in the world.


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Release Date: December 24, 2013
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Genre: Urban Fantasy
The tenth book in the bestselling and "outstanding" (Romantic Times) Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series finally reveals for the first time the origins of Gin Blanco's career as the deadliest of assassins.
For the first time, the origins of Gin Blanco's career as the deadly assassin "the Spider" are revealed in full. In a story that pre-dates the other nine books in the series, Gin Blanco goes through her paces to become the most feared assassin in the Ashland.
LEE: No, thank you for being so patient with me! I've had to take a break from blogging since I moved and it's been nice to have these reviews with you to remind me I need to hurry up and get back to it!
BRAINE: You moved? Okay I'll ask you about that offline and you're welcome, you've been missed. On to business… did you like this little throwback?
LEE: Overall, yes, I did like it. And I think you know that I was not looking forward to reading THE SPIDER. I had no interest in an origins story so I went into this with a certain amount of "let's move onto the next one!" but I was wrong. It's a good story; actually, a story pivotal to fully understanding how Gin became the Gin we know - cold, untrusting, haunted, and lonely.
BRAINE: That's true and after reading the blurbs for the next two books I'm speculating that maybe JEstep wrote this to open the new Monroe arc. That said, I think THE SPIDER is genius, I don't know where JEstep is getting her ideas from, it's just amazing! I have to say I miss "the gang" meaning Gin's victims including Fletcher Lane.
LEE: Yes, it was nice to see Fletcher in the "father" mode. He cared for Gin and his training was old school and aimed at keeping her alive. It was nice to see those moments with Fletcher but also with Finn! The brother-sister bonding was in full swing and very sweet.
BRAINE: Yup although I feel awkward every time Gin and Owen mention their little fling... THE SPIDER made me sad a little bit because I always took Fletcher for granted. After reading this I wish he didn't die too early in the series.
LEE: Yes, in a way his character left before his time but it was his death that really put a lot of things in motion for Gin. There were a lot of "winks" in the story to characters we've come to love like how Roslyn and Finn met, Bria, and even Owen. I thought they were fun but it also made me want to go back and skim past books to see if the connections were true to what we've learned so far. What did you think of these connections?
BRAINE: Some parts felt orchestrated like her run in with young Owen but at the same time I guess it's expected because they're moving in the same circle and Fletcher made sure that Gin wasn't too far from Mab.


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By definition, murmur is a soft sound made by a person or group of people.
ex. Eliza heard the murmur of the crowd inside the gymnasium as she drew closer to the door.
One can also reach a little further to conclude that when a person falls in love, the heart murmurs softly as that love reverberates through his/her soul. Maybe a little far-reaching, but hey, it sounds romantic enough and I am nothing if not a hopeless romantic ♥
But then we have something completely different when speaking of murmurs of the heart. These murmurs are scary.
Very scary.
A medical prognosis: Heart Murmur – sounds during the heartbeat cycle (such as swooshing or swishing) made by turbulent blood in or near your heart. Read here for more information because I really suck at explaining medical jargon. Basically, a heart murmur is a sound in the heart that shouldn't be there, either considered an innocent murmur or an abnormal murmur. If innocent, the murmur can go away on its' own or last a lifetime without ever causing further issues. If abnormal, the murmur could pose serious heart problems right away or later in life.
When I conjure up images of murmurs of the heart in my head, the images always have an aura of romance…cuz you know, that's me.
Never in my wildest dreams did my daughters' face appear before my eyes when I thought about murmur.
But alas, my little girl….my sweet, innocent little 6 y/o daughter so full of life and excitement is scheduled for an echocardiogram coming up soon in order to gain further understanding of the heart murmur (according to the doctor) discovered during her well child check-up.
And this mama is as nervous as all get out. You see, my sweet little girl was born with a heart arrhythimia. Thankfully, it went away within the first couple of weeks after she was born.
I have always considered myself pretty blessed in regard to my children's health. Outside of my twins who spent 3 weeks in the hospital after they were born, none of my children have had any major medical concerns other than the normal 'wear and tear' of childhood: bumps, scrapes, bruises, a concussion, stitches, a couple broken bones…..none of these issues have been as serious as they could have been. I've been thankful for that. Very thankful.
Now, I am completely inside out with worry.
So, I'm going to step outside of my 'normal' (I'm kind of an 'in-house' problem solver) and ask of all who read this
Please, please, please say a prayer for my little girl.
It would mean the world to us.
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For the cake (everything at room temperature):
- 150 g dark chocolate (I used Tesco 74% Ivory Coast)
- 120 g butter
- 100 g xylitol (powdered) plus a little bit for decoration
- 4 eggs
- 100 g ground almonds
- 2 tbs. Cocoa powder
- ½ tsp. baking powder
For the pears:
- 200 g (about 1 ¼ medium pear)peeled and cut into long strips
- 1 cup of water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 star anise
- Bring to boil water with cinnamon and star anise. Add the pears and cook on a very low heat for about 5 minutes. Do not overcook the pears. You want them to be in nice whole pieces. Place aside to cool down.
- In a large bowl, over simmering water, melt the chocolate until smooth.Set aside to cool down a bit.
- Using electric mixer beat the butter with xylitol until mixture gets light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one by one, beating continuously.
- Add the melted chocolate and mix until all nicely combined.
- Combine ground almond, cocoa and baking powder together. Add it to the chocolate mixture and fold it in gently.
- Pour the batter into the tin and place the pears in a circle (kind of star shape)and bake for about 30 – 35 minutes (check with the skewer if the cake is ready).
- Cool it down and dust with powdered xylitol.
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Whole Cake
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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 137,253 pages of information and 220,095 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Iron founders of Scotland; at one time the largest makers of pig-iron in Scotland.
1816 Alexander Baird leased the coalfield at Rochsolloch (New Monkland); one son, William, aged 20, managed it, and another, Alexander, was responsible for sales.
1822 Took a lease at Merryston but in the boom of 1825 the landlord reclaimed it
1825 The brothers opened a new pit on the estate of Gartsherrie.
1828 James Beaumont Neilson patented the Hot-blast process; the brothers erected the first Gartsherrie furnace which commenced production on 4th May 1830.
1830 William Baird and Co was formally established when Alexander Baird made over to five of his eight sons the non-agricultural leases he held in the Monklands iron and coalfield[1].
By 1843 the works had 16 furnaces and a capacity of 100,000 tons per annum, making them the largest single pig-iron producing unit in the world. They had also acquired control of the lion's share of the vital splint coal and blackband ore needed to feed these furnaces.
1845 Construction of a new works started at Eglinton; over the next twenty years extensive mineral leases were acquired and the ironworks at Blair, Muirkirk, Lugar, and Portland were purchased and operated as the Eglinton Iron Co.
Between 1878 and 1896 all 16 furnaces at Gartsherrie Iron Works were replaced and by-product recovery plant was installed (the invention of John Alexander and Andrew Kirkwood McCosh the Gartsherrie managers who were two of the new management team which had taken over following the deaths of the original brothers).
Mines were purchased in Santander and in 1893 the company became the first foreign firm to become involved in southern Spain when it purchased the Monte de Hierro (mountain of iron) mineral field. The development of their coal interests was an even more significant departure, as the company expanded its sales, instead of restricting itself to supplying its own furnaces.
1910 Lanarkshire output reached a pre-war peak of 1,737,584 tons in 1910,
1913 Estimated Ayrshire output was 1,640,000 tons in 1913.
Post WWI: Colvilles rose to dominate the Scottish industry as steel took over from iron. Only Bairds, thanks to their financial strength, were able to hold out against this.
1931 the company's Ayrshire coal interests were combined with those of the Dalmellington Iron Co in Ayrshire, to form Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd. The new company, 75 percent owned by William Baird and Co Ltd, controlled 70 percent of the Ayrshire coalfields.
1938, the company underwent reorganisation and entered voluntary liquidation. William Baird and Co Ltd was reconstituted, and the company's Lanarkshire interests merged with the Scottish Iron and Steel Co Ltd of Glasgow, to form Bairds and Scottish Steel Ltd, pig iron and steel manufacturers.
1939 Bairds and Scottish Steel linked their Gartsherrie works with the Northburn Steel Works.
Between 1946 and 1951, the whole of William Baird's coal, iron and steel interests were nationalised and the company began to diversify into other areas of business, including the textile industry.
The nationalised enterprise, still under McCosh management, finally began rebuilding but only one furnace was constructed.
1961, the company merged with Northern Mercantile out of which the groups' engineering division was formed.
William Baird and Co declined the chance to buy the works back on denationalisation and, when a consortium bought it in 1963, the old Baird management withdrew. It was no longer viable and the new owners closed it in 1967.
The company continued to diversify and acquired the raincoat manufacturing company, Dannimac Ltd, London, England, in 1981 and in 1988 acquired the Windsmoor Group.
Between 1992 and 1994, the company disposed of its engineering and building services.
1994 acquired the Melka and Tenson menswear brands.
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Right as the music industry and the MPAA have launched a plan to try and control the Internet comes word that the free market has kind of already taken care of that pesky piracy thing.
Even more embarrassing, this isn't some hippie independent researcher (most of whom have been insisting for years that piracy actually encourages higher music sales), but rather a music lobbying group, the International Federation of The Phonographic Industry:
Most revenue streams – downloads, subscription, advertising-supported, video, performance rights, synch – are growing. in some markets, such as India, Norway, Sweden and the us, digital has outstripped physical revenues, and more will follow. This has helped nearly half of our top 20 markets achieve growth in 2012.
So what happened? Essentially, the music industry gave the people what they wanted: Cheap, convenient, simple access to music the way they wanted to listen to it, whether over Internet radio, buying single tracks on websites, and so on. Basically the industry stopped piracy by, uh, offering fair prices and being more convenient and easier to use than a torrent. While the IFPI can't help but pretend suing single moms for six figure sums somehow worked as a deterrent, the repeated takeaway for the overall report is that if you give the people what they want, they'll gladly take it.
What this means for the "Six Strikes" law is unclear, but we imagine that once the actual data comes in, it might quietly go the way of the dodo. In the meantime, enjoy setting up a VPN, pirates.


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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Who'd have thought?
I've always been more of a panster than a plotter. I start with a basic story idea, give the story two characters, a basic history and conflict and write. I let the story unfold from there. Even though that has basically always worked for me I have run into troubles from time to time. I've written myself into corners or realized that something doesn't fit and had to go back to change it. I've decided to try and shake things up a bit by being a bit more conventional. I have a story that I really need to finish. While my fingers danced on the keyboard yesterday waiting for my characters to tell me what they wanted to do next I realized I spend a lot of time doing that. Waiting. Starting a line and then hitting backspace.
Unfortunately, that isn't getting my story written any faster.
So I decided to try and plot out my whole book this time. I got out my trusty notebook and pen and started writing. Ideas popped into my head I hadn't thought about and I wrote them down. I organized things in the order they should happen and before I know it I had most of my story on paper. You know what? I think it's really going to help. Don't ask me why I did see it before but I think it will be much easier for me writing off an outline rather than searching my brain while I write. Don't get me wrong, I always know a few key scenes that will be in my book but I usually file them away in my head while I write and now I have them on paper, where I can see them, in some logical kind of order. Who'd have thought that would be so helpful. LOL. Sitting back now, yeah, I should have known this a while ago. Makes perfect sense but I'd always just seen myself and a pantser kind of author. Now that I'm getting busier, with deadlines I'm realizing that some times you have to step out of what you've always done. Some times you have to look for a different way to do things and in the end, it just might be a better way. I definitely think my time at the keyboard will be more productive and being a mother of two children not yet old enough for school, I need that.
Are you a plotter or a panster? Have you always been that way?
10 comments:
- Regina Carlysle said...
I think you've been reading my mind, Kell. I've always been a pantser, pretty much doing as you do and have a BASIC idea. Lately I've found that sometimes that works for me and then there are other times I just stall out. I've been thinking lately about writing a synopsis or loose outline and maybe it'll speed things up.
- March 25, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Anny Cook said...
I'm a mix. Half n half so to speak. Start with a really general outline, fill in as I go.
- March 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Kelley Nyrae said...
Great minds, Reg!
- March 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Kelley Nyrae said...
Straight up the middle, Anny. That's a good way to go.
- March 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- BrennaLyons said...
I've always been a pantser... Complete pantser...far to the left of the see saw...no chance of a recount. I have a character-driven process, so it works best that way for me. Even when I've tried to plot, I can't, because the characters keep dragging me other directions.
- March 25, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- Genella deGrey said...
I do both. I've been known to plot an entire book, and then turn around and pants another.
Sometimes I get to a point in my pantsing and polt to the end, sometimes I get through a plot and pants more situations to the end.
I wish I could nail down a way that works, but they all seem to work in one way or another.
- March 25, 2009 at 3:14 PM
- Anne Rainey said...
I used to be a pantser (most of the time), partly because epubs don't generally offer a contract unless they've gotten the entire story in their hands. So, there was no need to do the synopsis ahead of time. Then my Kensington editor said she wanted a synopsis of one of my full lengths and I about choked because I didn't have a synopsis as I haven't written the story yet! So, I realized I needed to change things around and start doing the synopses ahead of time. I'm finding I like it a LOT better, too! I write faster and I'm definitely more productive.
- March 25, 2009 at 6:25 PM
- Kelley Nyrae said...
LOL, Brenna. I've had my characters drag me around too.
Genella, as long as they get you where you need to be stick with whatever works on whatever project!
Anne, I think that will help me too. Things already feel like they'll go easier for me.
- March 25, 2009 at 7:34 PM
- Liane Gentry Skye said...
I'm a pantser in her fifth attempt at recovery. :D Like you, I have some stories that have to be done fast, and I can't afford to give my muse full reign and trust her to be punctual. She's going to need help this time. ;)
- March 26, 2009 at 3:04 AM
- BrennaLyons said...
Actually, I've had e-pubs contract me for books that aren't written, both in established series and stand-alones. I've had ONE publisher ask me to do an outline of what I intended to do in the book (stand-alone). I sent her two paragraphs that amounted to a very rough long blurb and a title. She signed it.
Eventually, anyone who works with me long enough resigns themselves to the idea that, if I have a title and a couple of characters, the book WILL get written.
Will Kensington go for that? Who knows? I seriously doubt I'd change my style much, because that's the way I write.
Now, I could do one of a few tricks I used in high school and college. Grinning... I can bang out large portions of the book and write the synop/outline backward from that. That's how I've written every research paper I've done in my life. Make my note cards (because it's research), write three drafts of the paper, then write the outline from the first draft. If the teacher has major changes suggested (they don't), I am prepared to write the paper a fourth time.
- March 26, 2009 at 8:08 AM


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Trump's Cabinet Candidates at Odds on Foreign Policy
Donald Trump's short list of candidates for key foreign-policy positions, including secretary of defense and secretary of state, lack a cohesive view on intervention abroad. WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains how that could cause problems down the road -- but also open up opportunities.
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... you can learn alot about an incoming president for the kinds of people he surrounds itself with this he fills the top jobs ... in an incoming administration ... it's hard to know exactly know what we're learning about Donald Trump are the kinds of people he's considering Rosary put into top national security jobs ... I think maybe what we're learning is that there's no hard stance clear ... worldview according to Donald Trump ... but rather a variety of different thoughts and impulses ... and that the to be a good thing or can be a bad thing some of the contradictions are born on the kinds of people that that Donald Trump is seriously considering putting an opposition's net Romney has a tough choice to be sectors States for example is on record as having said Russia is the Number one geo political foe of the US ... but General Mike Flynn who's going to be the national security advisor ... is it going on record as saying the USO to be working with Russia to try to combat Islamic State Threat since Syrian particular doll Trump himself has been a staunch opponent of the war in Iraq saying it saw the biggest mistakes that the US is made in recent history ... but he also considered for top job John Bolton who sneak We staunch proponent of that war in Iraq ... so maybe this tells you that is not a coherent wrong view of the world the maybe that's a recipe for later infighting among ... advisors who come from different points of you in some these key subjects in you don't have some Northstar to guide them as they make decisions when you're an tells you that Donald Trump is simply going to be a pragmatic decision maker somebody who's not guided by a ... partisan loyalties or by ideological points of view ... maybe that produces a better set of decisions ... in any case I think we're gonna have an interesting time as this Dusza Street incomes of the place ... and they get quizzing confirmation hearings about some of these difficult issues ...


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Mackie Academy's Shaunileigh Malone (17) narrowly missed out on a gold medal at the recent World Kickboxing Championships in Florida.
She lost out to an English fighter in the light contact final in Orlando, which was determined by a split decision by the referee, and she was awarded silver.
Shaunileigh has been kickboxing since she was nine years old, training at Lions Den Martial Arts Academy in Stonehaven. She not only dominates the Scottish competition for her weight and age category, but has also medalled in British and international events.
Shaunileigh also took home bronze for the semi contact after extra time in the quarter-final due to the fighters being tied on points throughout the match.
However, this is not the first time she has been placed in international events; she became world champion in the World Kickboxing Championships in 2015 for light contact kickboxing at her age and weight division, 13-15 girls +60kg.
In 2016 she moved up a div-ision to girls 15-17 +65kg and earned a silver medal in light contact and a bronze in semi contact.
When I asked how she felt about her performances so far, Shaunileigh said: "I'm very proud of all that I have achieved, but the focus now is on next year.
"I will be training even harder to ensure the gold medal is mine."
Shaunileigh trains twice a week, and this regime is only increased when big competitions are coming up.
"Kickboxing has become part of my life, and I'd be lost without it," Shaunileigh added.
Shaunileigh's incredible talent has enthused many to start martial arts, and indeed Lions Den Martial Arts Academy is a very popular club for many in and around Stonehaven.


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I am in pretty much the same position as the author of this post. I understand my post is something of a duplicate but the link is a few years old and I wonder if the situation has changed any?
I have a client who runs (and loves) a WordPress website and uses Dropbox for sharing files with their clients (typically digital copies of contracts & machine manuals). They don't like using Dropbox as its not integrated with the website and isn't branded. I had hoped there was a Dropbox API that allowed for user/group based access to folders but there doesn't seem to be.
Are there any plugins/services out there that fit the bill or is the only option still to use Amazon S3?


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'Bachelor in Paradise': 3 engagements and a breakup
The spinoff of ABC's extremely popular "Bachelor" franchise ended with some fireworks, but not all of them were of the romantic variety.
(CNN) -- Tuesday night's "Bachelor in Paradise" gave you what you came for.
The spinoff of ABC's extremely popular "Bachelor" franchise ended with some fireworks, but not all of them were of the romantic variety.
While we could go on and on about all the love, what with the three engagements and such, let's get right to the part everyone is talking about: the breakup.
Nick Viall split with Jen Saviano and it was all types of awkward.
By now we know that Viall is the new "Bachelor," but it was still uncomfy to watch him explain to Saviano after a night in the fantasy suite that though he wished he could tell her he was in love with her but nope.
Viall tweeted "Not easy saying goodbye to someone as incredible as @jennifersaviano. So lucky to have had her in my life. She deserves the world."
Naturally Twitter came for his throat.
But some cheered Nick for following his heart... and heading on off to "The Bachelor."
Saviano said during the "After Paradise" special that she is fine.
"Nick is the Bachelor, there's definitely mixed emotions about that, but I've moved on and I'm doing good," she said.
There were three engagements, however.
Evan Bass, Grant Kemp and Josh Murray all proposed to Carly Waddell, Lace Morris and Amanda Stanton respectively.
By Lisa Respers France
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One of the most frustrating aspects of selling a timeshare is determining its fair market value. It's common knowledge that a timeshare depreciates once the ink is dried on the contract--anywhere from 30% to 60% off the developer's price--but most timeshare owners don't have a good estimate beyond this range.
If you are in the market to sell or buy a timeshare, here's how to get a realistic appraisal of the resale value.
The first thing is to know that your timeshare is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. To this end, you can figure out what your timeshare is worth by placing a bunch of for-sale ads, and asking potential buyers to "make an offer." The responses you receive will give you a rough idea of the timeshare's market value.
If you don't get many responses to your ad, or the responses cover a huge range of prices, the next thing you can do is hire a licensed broker to evaluate your timeshare. Be wary of timeshare brokers who charge a hefty upfront fee for an appraisal, especially if they make no guarantee of selling. And always check their credentials.
Another way to come up with an appraisal of your timeshare's fair market value is to browse ads for condo, townhouse, or hotel room timeshares that are similar to your own. What is the average price of a timeshare in your location? During your week? What is the average selling price of a unit similar in size?
If you like making spreadsheets, this can be fun to do in Excel. Keep in mind that many people who sell timeshares by owner have no idea what to sell for, so take a large enough sample size.
Know the factors of timeshare depreciation and deduct accordingly from the developer's price. Typically, you can expect at least 20% depreciation right off the bat. Then another 10%-20% if the resale market is saturated with units like yours. Expect 10%-20% for having an off-season week, and another 10% if timeshare owners in your resort have little say in how the property is managed.
For example, if the resort sells units like yours for around $15,000, and you calculate the depreciation rate to be around 20+10+10+10 = 50%. That works out to a resale value of $7,500.
Each method gives you a different rough estimate. To get the most accurate appraisal, you should compare all the estimates that you calculate.


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Using an aesthetic approach to treating breast cancer, oncoplastic breast surgery preserves and rebuilds the breast while still removing the cancer. Working with your breast oncology surgeon, Dr. Dawli will aim to create a strategy to remove the cancer in a way that preserves breast tissue and breast skin to recreate a natural breast contour and shape. Oncoplastic surgery is designed to not only remove the cancer, but to also prevent excessive scarring and deformities after breast cancer treatment.
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Bringing Meath Communities Together Online
We are a small group of local people who are interested in cleaning and tidy-up of our local cemetery. We got together in August 2011 and this year we hope to get started with our project. Some gravestones date back to the late 1700's. Grangegeeth is located Northwest of Slane village 4km outside the village.
We will keep you updated as soon as the work gets started and hope to upload some photos shortly.
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We will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. Believe me. Hundred percent. They dont know it yet, but theyre going to pay for the wall. And theyre great people and great leaders, but theyre going to pay for the wall. On day one we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. We will use the best technology, including above and below ground sensors, thats the tunnels. Remember that above and below. [ makes hand gesture ] Above and below ground sensors. Towers, aerial surveillance and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal cartels and Mexico, you know that, will work with us. I really believe it. Mexico will work with us.
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Realistic noses are probably the most hardest thing to come by. These little structures are obviously part of the human face. It also gives a proper characteristic to a human being. Learning "how to draw a realistic nose" is time consuming if you're a novice in drawing the different facial features. Once you've accomplished the problem areas of drawing a face, you'll finally be able to draw your own styled faces. Who knows, you could probably come up with a girl with flawless skin, perfect nose, and asian/white eyes. There are so many rules to break once you master a skill.
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The Department of Engineering and Built Environment at Northern Regional College recognised the best performing students on their Further and Higher Education programmes at the recent annual award ceremony.
The Concorde Cup was presented by Oliver Reid, former Head of School for Engineering, to Gregory Hewitt for Best Student Achievement on BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering.
Karla Kosch, course coordinator of Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma in Engineering programme, said: "Gregory Hewitt had completed BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering with an impressing overall D*D*D* grade profile achieving Distinction in all 18 subjects studied over the two years.
"Gregory, a former student of Parkhall Integrated College in Antrim decided to follow his career in engineering with an outstanding commitment and dedication from the first day in the College.
"His dedication, performance and attitude towards an engineering career was also illustrated in the extra-curricular activities he was involved in - Formula 1 competition and Career Ready programme.
"Gregory's participation in Formula 1 project over 2 years contributed highly in rewarding the team with 2nd place in Northern Ireland in 2015 and a well-deserved 1st place in 2016. The Career Ready programme offered Gregory great employability skills. As well as a 6 weeks work placement in Hutchinson Aerotech Antrim, where he was highly appreciated for his work ethic and engagement, he continued his employment on a part-time basis during his 2nd year of studies.
"His final year project of designing and building a remote controlled stunt aircraft highlighted Gregory's passion in aerospace engineering.
"He will continue to progress his studies in engineering with Queen's University in Aerospace Engineering course. Having the privilege to teach Gregory, a brilliant student and a modest, altruist and excellent person, I wish him great results and achievements in his engineering career hopefully designing supersonic aeroplanes with even better performances than Concorde airliner."
The Higher Education award was presented in the memory of an outstanding former student, Dayle Smyth, who tragically died as a result of a road traffic accident in July 2014.
Dayle was employed by RLC (UK) Ltd at Langford Lodge and studied for five years at Northern Regional College, starting with Level 3 and completing Level 5 HND in Manufacturing Engineering.
The Dayle Smyth Endeavour award was conferred by Geoff Smyth, Dayle's uncle, on behalf of the family, to another exceptional student Owen McAuley.
Bill Watson, co-ordinator of Foundation Degree Engineering full-time course, said: "Owen has completed the Foundation Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with overall grade averaging 87%.
"During his course at Northern College he completed 2 industrial Work Based Learning projects with Randox Laboratories in both Antrim and Donegal. Owen now intends to complete an Engineering Degree in Letterkenny Institute of Technology."
All lecturers in engineering wish best achievements to Gregory and Owen in their engineering career.
The award ceremony was concluded by Gordon Kane, Assistant Head of Department and Course Director Foundation Degree in Engineering, who commented: "It's great to formally recognise the achievements of the students at the end of their programme.
"This year's further education students were particularly good and all deserve recognition for their achievements, some of these students are progressing to Queen's University, Belfast, others to the Ulster University, some returning to continue on our Foundation Degree programmes and others are entering the world of employment.
"This also is the first year for students to complete our new Foundation Degree programmes. Owen is a very worthy winner of the Dayle Smyth endeavour award and he continually demonstrated ability and commitment throughout the two year programme and obtained remarkable grades in all modules. I wish all the students every success in their future endeavours."


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At first, it seemed like a routine request when architect Scot Frontis, owner of Frontis Studio, appeared at this month's regular meeting of the Ocean Beach Planning Board.
He told the board May 3 he represented an owner who wanted to build a second house on a property at 4925 Saratoga Ave., which currently contains one of those one-story, craftsman-style cottages abundant in this beach community.
The sister structure would be two stories built over a four-car garage with bedrooms, office, and outdoor decks. The design boasted solar panels, drought-tolerant landscaping, and other green detailing impressive enough to qualify for expedited approval under a special city program.
All in all, a dandy place for the owner to call home — and perfect opportunity to do the right thing for an aging parent, Frontis said.
"The owner is planning to move into the (proposed) back house and put his mother in the (existing) front house," he said.
But Mercy Baron, a resident in the adjacent 12-unit apartment, was locked and loaded. She passed out copies of websites listing the existing house as a short-term vacation rental.
Despite a determination in March by the San Diego city attorney's office that the practice of renting out homes in residential neighborhoods to short-term vacationers is illegal, the city council has been unsuccessful in crafting an ordinance.
Baron pointed out the online platform vrbo.com lists the existing two-bedroom, 800-square-feet house as accommodations for up to 10 people at a total price of $274 per night. Baron distributed an online photo of two bunk beds, or a total of four beds, in one room alone.
She read out loud the owner's description: "I have other properties in Mission Beach and La Jolla so (I) have been a vacation owner for a number of years. All my homes are very successful rentals and I understand the needs of clients."
For his part, Frontis never pushed back as the planning board deliberated. When board member Numan Stotz commented, "I don't like the lack of transparency" and praised Baron for presenting "O.J. Simpson evidence," Frontis stood in stone silence.
The board voted unanimously to deny, arguing that the development would not enhance the community's stock of housing and would run counter to affordability goals called for in the Ocean Beach Community Plan.
Baron said she and her neighbors had received two, $100-per-month rent increases in the last six months. She charged the increased popularity of vacation rentals in residential zones as partly to blame. "You don't think landlords have figured out how much money they can make?" she asked.
With the uproar over the short-term vacation rental issue, developers have been known to be less than truthful about their proposals, Chairman John Ambert asserted. He said the developer of Three on Abbott at the corner of Abbott and Voltaire streets said those units would not be used as vacation rentals when the board voted its approval in September of 2014. Today, the two-bedroom units are available on airbnb.com for $299 per night.
"The fabrication that happens live — that's not new to us," Ambert said. "This is the first one we've put our finger on."
Frontis has gained a degree notoriety for his practices of late for other reasons as well. A performance audit from the city auditor last December said 30 percent of all projects that were granted expedited approval through the city's Affordable/In-Fill Housing and Sustainable Buildings Expedite Program from 2011-15 were single-family homes — but the law requires at least four units.
A subsequent report from Voice of San Diego revealed the city's Development Services Department had improperly allowed 70 houses to qualify under the program since 2006. With nine houses approved, Frontis Studio was one of the top five beneficiaries of the unwarranted advantage, the report said.
Perhaps the most hotly contested instance in which Frontis used the program to push through a project occurred last May. Frontis won an appeal when the Peninsula Community Planning Board tried to stop him from demolishing a craftsman-style cottage at 2257 Froude St. and replacing it with two, two-story single family homes built over garages that some charged was out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood.
Though the city no longer allows houses to get expedited approval, the Saratoga Avenue proposal qualifies because Frontis applied before the city auditor report was issued, the city said in an email.
More from SDReader
- Mayor Faulconer's short-term rental idea — pro and con — July 13, 2018
- Del Mar anguishes over short-term rentals — May 15, 2017
- O.B./Point Loma McMansion plans spark border war — May 27, 2016
- The party house next door — April 23, 2015
- City council mum on vacation rentals in Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Pt. Loma — Aug. 13, 2008
While it's good to see the bad guys get exposed, don't be too satisfied to notice three things:
Even though "a determination..that the practice of renting out homes in residential neighborhoods to short-term vacationers is illegal, the city council has been unsuccessful in crafting an ordinance." The only reason the council has been "unsuccessful" is that they're being bought off by developers and absentee owners (on this as so many other topics). So long as they don't specify what is legal and/or any punishments, then the practice can continue unimpeded.
Even though "developers have been known to be less than truthful about their proposals," there's no legal consequence when they lie. There are no fines or enforcement tools available to make them use the property as promised. And even when there are, code enforcement in this city is effectively nonexistent.
Even though "the board voted unanimously to deny" this project, this decision is likely to be dismissed by the planning commission, which is packed with developers appointed by the mayor (in whose pockets he resides) and increasingly hostile to community planning groups. If the community doesn't show up to protest this when it does go before them, then I guarantee they will accept any statement of faux contriteness by the owner to give it the go-ahead.
We need to understand that almost every quality-of-life issue is at bottom a land-use issue. Until we start tackling them as such, we're boxing at shadows.
Well put. You do a great job of cutting through the underbrush and getting to the heart of the matter.
For me, I found the description of the hearing to be hilarious. He got caught red-handed, stood stony faced, and watched his proposal get rejected by the advisory board. I'd have loved to be there to see the theater as it played out.


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I'm obviously familiar with Babla (and posted a couple of his albums too), I knew he collaborated with (and played drums for) his older brothers but I don't think I was aware of the extent of his influence, nor that it began so early.MFT3Fhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569016246595696762.post-17719318593952213832019-03-06T13:49:53.352+01:002019-03-06T13:49:53.352+01:00Some trivia for you : Arjun hingorani - the prod...Some trivia for you :

Arjun hingorani - the producer & director to both films, who passed away a fee years back - always named his film titles with a K.

Most of his successful films had Dharmendra in the lead role AND had Kalyanji Anandji as composers

Kalyanji Anandji's sonic change from 1970 onwards can be categorically assigned to Babla , the younger (and super talented ) sibling, who did a lot of their arranging, along with Frank Fernandez . Even on slower , maudlin soundtracks like SAFAR (1970), there are uptempo instrumental breaks in the songs , which give them extra pizzaz

Kahani Kismat Ki also has Hingorani playing the role of a villain in it, and a song featured on him. It's enjoyable fare, with multiple plots of deciet, double crossing galore, and fantastic background score action a plenty, with lots of way wah pedal on the organ (possibly fed through an amp & miked up as well, for added grit & bottom end). The songs on the super 7 are mostly butcherings of the full length versions, which is a bit of a boo boo. Full length non ERS variants are likely to be found on YouTube.

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Across the Street
Miss Emily Inchpenny sighed in exasperation as her stocking snagged on the rough wood of the cheap, deal stool on which she perched. Already they were more darn than stocking, but Uncle Theophilus would make such a fuss if she asked for some money for some more.
She sighed, and bent to her work again, writing steadily in a neat, round hand. And then, covertly, she peeked out of the window, to see if she could see Him in the building across the street.
The building across the street belonged to Loveday Shipping, and it was plainly a prosperous building. Why, only recently Mr. Loveday had installed the new gas lighting! And even before that, they had burned enough candles to light the ball of a debutante of one of the upper ten thousand! Not, mused Emily, that she had any real idea what that might be like, but it sounded good, and the office had always blazed with light, not like the thin, inadequate light cast by the evil-smelling tallow dips here.
He was there.
He was a handsome young man, seeming well built, and dressed most dashingly, with coats so tight that he must have a valet to help him on and off with them. One could see him so easily in the bright light across the way. He surely could not be a mere shipping clerk!
However, even the shipping clerks from Loveday Shipping dressed better than anyone she had ever seen here, where her uncle's chief clerk resided in a shabby frock coat of times gone by, with the resigned inevitability of a plant grown so long in a pot that it has taken on the shape of the pot.
Emily missed plants. She was able to go to the park on Sundays, but the little breath of green was enough to almost make it worse. She blinked hard on an unbidden tear and returned to her writing.
"Papa, have you any idea who that beautiful young lady is? The one who sits writing in the window, with the most extraordinary clothes?" asked Lawrence Loveday. He had finished the accounting for the day and had taken his figures to his father to be looked over.
"What, the girl in Pinchpenny and Eke, you mean? Inchpenny and Peake, I should say," said his father.
Lawrence laughed.
"A good name for them," said he. "Yes, she. Or do I mean her?"
"I don't know why I sent you to a good school if you don't know one from t'other; and it's no good asking me, all my education came from being a chandler's boy until I was able to lay information about a plot to engage in barratry I overheard."
"I know, Papa, up to no good, and creeping about the inn with intent to startle your master and his inamorata with fireworks. You were a hell-born babe."
"Yes, wasn't I? but Lloyds were generous with their reward, and it saved the lives of the poor devils of sailors who would have been murdered when the cheating captain scuttled the ship after passing off the cargo to another, to gain both cargo and insurance money. And I think you mean she."
"More than likely," said Lawrence. "Which being so, do you know who she is, or not, Papa?"
"She is the niece of old Inchpenny," said Mr. Loveday. "As I understand it, her father was a parson, the elder son going in for law, and the younger for the church, and having been orphaned she lives with her uncle who has turned off his junior clerk to save money, since she writes a fair enough hand to work for him for nothing."
"Nothing?" Lawrence was shocked.
"Not a penny. And you wonder why she wears odd clothes. I suspect she has had to resort to raiding the attic for any garment not in rags, regardless of its age. Either that or her parents were so unworldly that they failed to notice that the nineteenth century had dawned and passed its first decade," he added dryly.
"And I thought myself hard done by on the wage you make me live on!" said his son.
Mr. Loveday frowned.
"You manage to dress up well enough like a dandy," he said.
"Give you my word, sir, if you saw a dandy, you'd eat your words," said Lawrence. "I purchase my own fabrics at the wharf and have a man make them up for me. It costs a fraction of what a coat like this would set me back if I bought it from a fashionable tailor who bought his own fabric."
Mr. Loveday managed a half-approving grunt.
"Literally cutting your coat to suit your pocket," he said. "You look well enough. And you'll not regret learning economies when I make you my partner on your birthday."
"Uncle, it is unseemly that I should be seen in public with holes in my stockings and a gown almost in rags, almost showing that my underwear is indecent," said Emily.
"Ingratitude! Base ingratitude! Have I not given you a home out of the goodness of my heart?" demanded Theophilus Inchpenny.
"No, you gave me a home because I threatened to write to the newspapers to draw the attention of your clients to my plight had you turned me out of doors penniless," said Emily.
"Yes, and it is nothing short of blackmail!" cried Inchpenny.
"Which, having attempted it once successfully emboldens me to consider the same ploy," said Emily. "In that I shall take myself to the park and beg on Sundays, explaining that I am not paid a wage for the hard work that I do, and thus must beg for my clothing. The rags I am wearing, which also need washing as I have nothing to change into, will bear me out on that."
"Good G-d! how did you come by such a brazen idea?" Inchpenny was horrified.
"By having a child press a penny into my hand as I walked home yesterday, and saying 'please, beggar-lady, buy something to eat," said Emily. "Bless the child, I could not refuse such a generous spirit."
"And you did not give the penny to me? You thieving wench!" cried Inchpenny.
"It was given to me, sir, not to you. And I did buy myself something to eat, since I knew that by the time I had delivered all the letters you had sent me to deliver I should be late for dinner, and you would tell me, as you indeed did, that I must go hungry for being slow," said Emily, with asperity. "And how my poor father must turn over in his grave to have his daughter trudging the street looking like a beggar."
"It prevents you from the unwelcome attentions of any who might take you for something else," said Inchpenny, then beamed in satisfaction. "It is for your own protection."
"That is the most specious argument I have ever heard," said Emily. "And if I had a couple of decent, modest gowns, then I should not be mistaken for such an unfortunate woman in any case. You have my ultimatum; fifteen shillings for a couple of new gowns and Saturday afternoon off to purchase them, or I shall spend Sunday telling the people of Hyde Park how I am treated. I have a good voice. Perhaps I shall write a song about it, and sing it to a popular tune."
Theophilus Inchpenny went purple.
"I will lock you in your room!" he declared.
"Then I shall leave the office on Monday and do it then," said Emily. "You will not keep me incarcerated forever; you need me to do all the junior clerk's work since you turned off poor Mr. Jukes."
"Infamous! You will beggar me!" cried Inchpenny.
"Unlikely. I've seen your accounts, and you could afford to show off your only female relative in gowns that cost pounds, not shillings," said Emily, bitterly.
Muttering, Inchpenny dug into his pockets.
"Fifteen shillings. Not a penny more," he declared.
"Even a tweenfloors maid has her clothing provided and five pounds a year," said Emily. "And had you paid me half what you paid Jukes, I should have been able to be a pretty advertisement to the firm. But I thank you, though you have had more work out of me than one hundred times that amount."
"Just get out of my sight, and get on with your copying!" shouted Mr. Inchpenny.
Emily got out of his sight adroitly, breathing very hard and trying not to be sick. It was one thing to know that she needed to stand up to the miser, and quite another thing to do it. She whispered a prayer of thanks for the strength given to her to do it.
And if she had a decent gown or two, depending on what she might find second hand, she might then covertly write for positions as a governess.
She sighed. It would take her away from Him, if she managed to gain such a position, but then, He was only a dream; did not even know that she existed.
Lawrence watched Her slip out of her seat, and sighed. Poor girl! There had to be something one could do; her every movement showed that she was ladylike in all particulars, and yet so miserable.
"Papa, can't we employ her as a clerk?" he asked.
His father raised a quizzical eyebrow.
"And where would the poor girl live?" he asked. "We have a bachelor house, since your dear mother died. And would she not think it odd to be offered a job that is never done by women?"
Lawrence sighed. "I see her so bowed down and … and crushed," he said. "Pinchpenny will work her to death, and before that he will make her old before her time."
"There is nothing you can do that a respectable girl would countenance for one minute," said Mr. Loveday.
Lawrence, who was only half listening to him, gasped as he saw Emily return.
"Why, Papa! She has almost a spring to her step! Do you think she has told him that he might go to Hades?"
"I doubt it," said Mr. Loveday, dryly. "But as I shall not get any sense out of you otherwise, you may leave work early and loiter to see if you might fall into conversation with her."
Lawrence's face fell.
"I doubt she even knows I exist and will think me some lewd fellow to thus approach her," he said.
"You will not know if you do not ask," said Mr. Loveday, who had noticed Miss Inchpenny's glances no less languishing than his son's. It was a respectable match, and moreover if it survived the imaginations of two young people separated by a street that might as well have been an ocean, then it would cock a snoot at old Inchpenny.
Mr. Loveday had no hesitation in cocking a snoot at Theophilus Inchpenny whom he had loathed since his days as a chandler's clerk, when the junior partner of Inchpenny and Peake, when Peake was still alive, had treated him with scorn.
"Miss Inchpenny! May I have the pleasure of escorting you?" Lawrence lifted his high-crowned beaver to her. That was the single most expensive item of his apparel; it was no good skimping and getting a cheap beaver made of rabbit fur. They fell out of shape in the rain.
"You have the advantage of me, sir," said Emily, blushing violently. Why never in her wildest dreams had she thought He might speak to her.
"Lawrence Loveday, at your service," said Laurence, with a bow. "We ought to be introduced by a third party, of course, but I can't see your uncle doing that."
"Not without charging for it, anyway," said Emily. "Oh dear, that was not proper of me."
"Oh, I've heard stories about your uncle from my father," said Lawrence, cheerfully. "He's a man who'd skin a flea for its hide and tallow."
Emily giggled. She was already quite drunk with her success, and the laugh escaped.
"What a pretty giggle you have, not like some of the silly titters some girls give," said Lawrence. "Miss Inchpenny! You will think me dreadfully rude, but there is something personal I wish to ask you!"
"Why I am such a dowd?" said Emily, wearily.
"Lud, no, the man couldn't stretch the hide of a flea round you to give you a decent pelisse, and only one would bite him for he hid his blood in a vault," said Lawrence.
Emily laughed right out at that.
"Mr. Loveday, I wish I could say that was a calumny on my uncle!" she said.
"But you can't. So I know why you're dressed like a … forgot what I was going to say."
"Beggar? I know. A little boy gave me a penny yesterday, and it gave me an idea."
"I say, Miss Inchpenny, I know some beggars make good money, but it ain't a job for a nicely brought up young lady," said Lawrence. "All I was going to ask you was how it was you suddenly came back to your stool looking buoyant earlier."
"You … you noticed me?" Emily's eyes widened.
"I've been watching you for weeks and trying to pick up courage to talk to you," said Lawrence. "And I thought I might scare you. But today you have an air of … of steel," he said.
"Well, it does not redound to my credit," said Emily, "but I must have more than one gown and preferably one or two that are not threadbare."
"And other essentials too, I wager," said Lawrence. "I don't know the details, never having had any sisters, but, well, men have more than top things."
"And so do women," said Emily, blushing again. "I would not, I think, really beg, but I threatened my uncle that I would, and tell everyone why I was. So I have a whole fifteen shillings!"
"Mean old skinflint!" said Lawrence. "That won't go far."
"I was planning to purchase second hand garments," said Emily. "I'm not a ship owner's offspring."
"Oh, I'm on a salary until my birthday next month, when I'll be a partner," said Lawrence. "I have second hand garments too, but only the ones you can't see. I know a tailor and I buy fabric off the wharf."
"How very enterprising you are," said Emily, admiringly. "I had thought that a man so handsome could not possibly be clever as well! Oh dear, I am not accustomed to conversation with strangers, I did not mean to be rude," and she covered her mouth with her hand.
"Oh, I don't take offence at being told I'm clever and handsome," said Lawrence, "Especially by a beautiful woman!"
"Oh, I pray you, do not mock me," said Emily.
"I'm not. The costume may not do anything for you, but your lovely titian hair and wonderful profile have brightened my days. And I almost feel I know you, watching your conscientious work, your studied patience, your frustration and anger in your shoulders. But you will think me a terrible Paul Pry to have watched you; and I hope you will forgive it."
Emily blushed.
"Oh, Mr. Loveday, I have watched you, too, and seen how you work diligently, and how you have bent over another man's work and shown him how to do something, and so patiently!" she said.
"Well then! We did not need an introduction for we already know each other!" said Lawrence. "Oh Miss Inchpenny! I hope it would not offend you, but would you like to leave your uncle's employ?"
"It can scarcely be called employ, since he doesn't pay me. I hoped to find some other situation," said Emily.
"Well, Papa said we could not offer you a home, so it would not be right to ask if you would be the new clerk we need, since Mama died some years ago, but I have a plan! I have my shirts made by a girl who takes in sewing, and her sister has just got married, and she wanted to share her apartment with another girl; would that suit you?"
"Mr. Loveday, you are going very fast," said Emily. "You overwhelm me!"
"Well, you don't have to decide right away," said Lawrence.
Emily came to a stop.
"Yes I do," she said. "And if you'll take me to her right now, and she likes me, I will stay with her, if the offer of a job is genuine. I am as good a clerk as any man, and I would like a job for pay. And I may as well do the same job and get something for it, so long as it will cover my rent and my food."
"Oh a junior clerk starts at forty pounds a year," said Lawrence.
"Oh my," said Emily, for whom that was untold riches.
"Share with a gentry-mort? She'll look down on me," said Betty Hardcastle.
"I assure you, Miss Hardcastle, I'll do nothing of the sort," said Emily. "I'm sure we can come to an amicable arrangement about living together. And if you don't like me, perhaps I can stay until I find somewhere else."
"Well that won't take long," said Betty, casting a look at Lawrence. "Well, dearie, if you don't mind that I'm as common as muck, we'll deal extremely well together. I ain't a trollop, so there won't be no unwelcome callers, and there's a poker by the door to discourage any that think otherwise."
"I like the way you think," said Emily.
Theophilus Inchpenny was furious that his niece did not come home; and then worried that something had happened to her, and that someone would manage to blame him when anything that happened to her would be her own stupid fault.
Emily had delivered the letters she was supposed to deliver, which was one thing at least, or rather he received enough replies to suppose she must have done. She had probably spent that hard earned fifteen shillings on stupid clothes and got herself used and thrown in the river.
After the weekend, Inchpenny glanced out of the window and was almost apoplectic to see a well-known red head seated on a stool in Loveday Shipping's office. He hurled out of his own office to demand an explanation of her, and was brought up short by Lawrence himself.
"You have my niece in there! Disporting herself in an unladylike fashion doing a man's job!" he howled.
"Oh, funny that it wasn't unladylike when you had her doing the same for you but without pay," said Lawrence. "She's rather good; fluent in French and Italian, a great boon to the firm. Papa had no hesitation in raising her wages to seventy pounds a year, with promise of a raise in three months."
Inchpenny's eyes started out of his head.
"He's paying her seventy pounds a year? A girl?"
"A linguist," said Lawrence.
"I want to talk to her!" howled Inchpenny. "She need to know what's due to her own flesh and blood."
"Funny, I didn't think you understood what is due to flesh and blood," said Lawrence. "Ah, Miss Inchpenny."
"I saw Uncle Theophilus, so I came out," said Emily.
"Ah! Regretting it, I see, my girl! I don't know where you are living, but I wager you miss a real home!"
"I do miss a real home," said Emily, and went on as he smirked, "But the last one I knew was with my parents. You have a house in which you live, with poorly-cooked food from the cheapest of cuts, badly served. I am able to afford a servant, who knows how to shop and cook. As you might have, if only you paid proper wages and did not employ the cheapest slattern you could find."
"Oh, I see! You have set up house living in sin – what would your poor father say? Well let me tell you, when this fancy man of yours tires of you, he will discard you…..Hey!"
Inchpenny managed no more as Lawrence took him by the shoulders, rotated him, and frogmarched him out.
"Oh Lawrence, I mean, Mr. Loveday, you are quite splendid!" said Emily, when he returned.
"By Jupiter, Miss Inchpenny, I'd fight any dragon for you," said Lawrence.
Emily blushed.
"Oh, Mr. Loveday!" she managed.
Theophilus Inchpenny was not invited to the wedding several months later. Betty however was, and was delighted to know that she was to be the modiste to the wife of the 'and son' of what was now Loveday and Son, Shipping.


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Here's a question on RMT registration: When running rmt-client-setup you get a message stating that the client machine is registered with the RMT server. But is there any way to tell from the perspective of the RMT server what devices have been registered? I couldn't find any version of the rmt-cli command that provides that info and I couldn't locate any file on the RMT server containing information on "registered" devices. It seems that the only way to tell a device is "registered" with the RMT Server is to go to "Software Repositories" in YaST on the client and see URL(s) for the RMT Server listed there. Is that the case?