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Newcastle United central defender Paul Huntington has joined Leeds United for an undisclosed fee. That's the surprising news this evening.
Paul has not been sent out on loan but has left the club. This is breaking news from the official Leeds United web site so we feel it has to be official.
No confirmation yet on the official Newcastle United site, although we expect all Newcastle's transfer dealings today to be released in a single communication from the club later tonight.
Paul Huntington – surprisingly sold to Leeds United
19 year-old Carlisle-born Paul Huntington, who turns 20 in September played 11 times for Newcastle United and scored one goal. Paul, who won the Jackie Milburn Trophy in the summer of 2005, an award given to the most promising young players in the north east, made his Newcastle debut last season and scored his only goal for the club against Tottenham Hotspur in January.
Highly-rated Paul started out with Newcastle United's Academy – he joined up with the first team squad for their EUFA cup matches in 2005 – and has represented England at under-18 level.
This was completely unexpected since Paul seemed to have a future on Tyne-side, and we were assuming he would be sent out on loan this season. Leeds are also struggling at the moment so even the club he has moved to is not in the best of shape. Leeds are bottom of League One with -6 points.
This seems extremely strange to us and we can only assume that Big Sam didn't rate young Huntington.
We are also waiting for confirmation from Newcastle on the transfers that may have been completed tonight – no news yet and under 4 hours to go to the transfer deadline.
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Brand new posters for the sequel to "The Hunger Games" have been released.
In the new posters to promote "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," Jennifer Lawrence poses with co-star Josh Hutcherson.
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Jennifer plays Katniss Everdeen in the franchise. Josh plays Peeta Mellark.
The posters celebrate the pair's victory in the 74th Hunger Games, which were shown in the first film.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — New Posters Revealed!
(Click HERE to see the set of new posters.)
"Catching Fire" hits theaters on November 22, 2013.
Jennifer previously told Access Hollywood that following the Oscars, which air this Sunday on ABC, she'd be hopping a plane to Hawaii to continue filming the project.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: 'Hunger Games' Bombshell Jennifer Lawrence
"We paused [filming on] it," she told Access at the Oscar nominees luncheon in early February. "I fly out to Hawaii the day after the Oscars. I don't think I would be able to do it - flying back and forth [without the break]."
-- Jolie Lash
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text: Gaby Sanchez' first full season of pro ball was a mixed bag. Which seemed fitting considering the various gloves he must carry around in his equipment bag. On the plus side, the former Miami standout made a strong showing with the bat at low Class A Greensboro, where South Atlantic League managers named him the player with the best strike zone judgment in the annual Best Tools survey.


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Yes, studies show that c-sections delay the milk.
I had plenty of milk after my 3 c-secs, but I failed at breastfeeding my first 2 c-sec babies simply due to the pain factor. I just could not get through the early weeks of painful nipples and engorgement while I was dealing with so much pain from my surgical recoveries. By the 3rd baby (also c-sec), I was determined to have a successful breastfeeding relationship, even if that meant crawling through broken glass...and it was nearly that painful, but we did it, and I nursed her for 2 years. After my 4th baby, born normally, breastfeeding was still challenging with engorgement and painful nipples, but I wasn't deterred at all, because I had basically no physical recovery after my very easy vaginal delivery.


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Aaron Madeley a.k.a. aaronm04
How old are you and what's your occupation?
I'm 39 years old and work as an IT Manager.
When did you start playing golf and what's your handicap?
I started golfing in the fall of 2007. I played slow-pitch softball for ten years and started to have knee problems. I took some time off from softball, took up golf, had knee surgery, and never looked back. My knee is thanking me but my back is quite displeased. I'm currently a 9 handicap.
How often do you play?
During the Spring and Summer, I play at least 27 holes a week.
Tell me about a great shot you've made.
Great? Lucky, perhaps. Certainly memorable. I was on #5 on the North Course at Onion Creek. At the time, I was feast or famine out of a bunker. It was a windy day and I was hitting out of a green side bunker when I skulled the bejesus out of the ball, as often happened then. Famine on this day, as it were. As the ball flew by the flag, the flag (the cloth part, not the stick) whipped the ball, knocking it straight down. It took a nice, soft landing and trickled in the hole for a birdie.
What is your best golf memory?
Hard to say being so new to the game. It's probably a book and the impact it had on my game. After a terrible round, my father-in-law lent me the book Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella. The book focuses purely on the mental aspect of the game. I changed my practice habits and my mental approach based on what I read. My next full round, I shot my then-best score of 82 (+12). I used to struggle to break 90 and I'm consistently in the 80s and sometimes 70s since. It was a real turning point for me.
What is your "home" course?
Onion Creek in Austin, Texas. I live close by and spend a lot of time there. Great practice facilities too.
What ball do you play?
Bridgestone e5. I used to play the B330 series balls but the new e5's have great spin and are almost half the cost. The price point takes some of the sting out of depositing a brand new one into the pond.
Drivers: TaylorMade R11
Fairway Woods: Callaway X-Fairway
Hybrids: Adams Golf Idea Pro a12
Irons: Adams Golf IDEA Pro a12
Wedges: SCOR Golf SCOR4161
Putters: Yes! Marilyn
Favorite pro?
I really don't have one, but generally anyone not named Tiger or Phil. I like Steve Stricker and Luke Donald mostly because I can identify with the guys who aren't long hitters but have a great short game and putt well. I do enjoy watching Bubba Watson, even before he won the Masters, though his isn't necessarily a swing I'd care to emulate.
The problem I have with Tiger is that he's boring and seems angry. The one thing that makes him remotely interesting, his salacious personal life, he won't talk about. Phil's game is what kills me. His course management at times is completely baffling for a touring pro.
Favorite course you've played?
Pasatiempo in Santa Cruz, CA. A tough but fair Alister McKenzie-designed course. Well, perhaps #3, the par-3 195 yard (from the middle tees) uphill to the green, is unfair. Overall, a great course.
Dream course you've yet to play?
Augusta. Or Cypress Point. You know ... the ones you have a harder time getting onto.
Best round ever- and what course?
I shot a 73 (+3) at Onion Creek's Crenshaw course, a 9-hole course I had to play twice due to a tournament on the other 18, last May. My driver accuracy had been so terrible that I went to hitting 3-wood off the tee on par 4's and 5's. I hit a ton of fairways and made several nasty, downhill 6-10 footers to save par. Probably the best up-and-down I made all day was the dreaded 30-yard bunker shot that I had to hit directly over an adjacent bunker to a narrow back pin.
What is one aspect of your golf game you would like to improve on in the next year?
Iron accuracy. I've worked a lot on my putting but missing as many greens as I do kills my birdie chances. The Adams clubs in my bag are new and I'm hopeful they will help improve my GIR stat.
Tell me a story.
I was playing with a buddy of mine at Onion Creek and we were on the same hole as my miracle birdie above. His ball went beyond the green and cart path and landed near the OB markers, in play, by some houses. There was a dog in the yard who had apparently seen many folks retrieve balls in HIS territory.
My buddy was walking up as I approached in the cart. I looked over for his ball and saw that the dog, a yellow lab, had the ball between his front feet with his head hunched down and staring right at me, as if daring me to approach. As my buddy neared his ball, the dog stared at him, turned in the requisite circle (as we've all seen dogs do), then lied down directly on top of his ball as the rest of us cackled. Bye bye ProV1.
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dartboss04 says:
Congrats on GOW! Awesome handicap for playing such a short period of time. I like the YES putter represented. I just switched to Dawn this year and love it so much I bought a back up in the same specs as the particular model is hard to find.
Duke of Hazards says:
Congrats. I might have to pick up that Rotella book you mentioned. Pasatiempo is also at the top of my dream course list. Love the Alistair McKenzie designs, so artful.
DaRupp13 says:
Congrats! Love the story...reminds me of The Beast from the Sandlot.
jfurr says:
Austin TX! Love it. Pokey Joe's BBQ!!
Hey Aaron are SKOR wedges popular around that area of TX? Outside of this website haven't met anyone who has heard of them. Just wondering if being from TX the company has a following.
bkuehn1952 says:
Congratulations on achieving the pinnacle of golfdom, GOW!!
Let's hear from you regularly!
GBogey says:
The Rotella book is really awesome. I'm reading it for the second time. Its done wonders for me, both improving my game but also helping me enjoy playing more and get frustrated less.
aaronm04 says:
Thanks, everyone! @jfurr: Pokey Joes? Wait the three hours to get Franklins--which is totally worth it--and thank me later. Not especially popular wedges around here but excellent wedges overall. I think not many know about them in general but I hope that changes. I know about them from reading the forums and I carried an Eidolon Lob Wedge in my old bag. When I replaced all of my wedges, I really wanted the even loft gaps between clubs and that V-Sole that I came to love in my Eidolon.
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@Duke: When you play Pasatiempo--or any courses around the area--play a tee down. The elevation changes really lengthen it from what you see on the scorecard.
@DaRupp13: Never thought about that but he sure does!
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very nice!!! congratulations on the GOW!
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The Eight Funniest Members of CongressJulian Sancton
At the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday, le tout Washington will pretend it is two things it's rarely accused of being: glamorous and funny. It will rely on such Hollywood stars as Charlize Theron and George Clooney for the glamour, and on speechwriters (and host Jimmy Kimmel) for the funny. But when the clock hits midnight, the Capitol will turn back into one fat, unfunny pumpkin.
There are, however, a handful of outliers—members of Congress who don't merely know how to deliver a joke (as Barack Obama has arguably done better than any president in memory) but also how to craft one on the spur of the moment. We've assembled the admittedly short list below. To analyze the comedy stylings of these Beltway yuksters, we called on Jeff Nussbaum of West Wing Writers, who is rumored to have written humor for everyone from Leon Panetta to Hillary Clinton.
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.)
Franken established his comedic bona fides on Saturday Night Live and as a writer of scathingly satirical books. Since joining the Senate in 2009, however, he's gone out of his way to not make jokes, presumably in an effort to be taken seriously by the very men and women he once eviscerated.
Nussbaum: "Only in Washington could a guy who won three Emmy Awards for satire try to deliberately stifle his sense of humor. But that's what Washington's done to Al Franken."
Representatives Linda and Loretta Sanchez (both D-Calif.)
Younger sister Linda has been known to dabble in stand-up comedy, while Loretta's goofy holiday cards—which featured her cat Gretzky until he passed away in 2010—are said to be eagerly awaited in Washington.
Nussbaum: "In comedy, you hear about the Smothers Brothers and the Marx Brothers. The Sanchez Sisters are making a pretty solid run at that esteemed canon of sibling comedy. Although as both a Democrat and someone who writes jokes, I am glad they're keeping their day jobs."
Representative Ralph Hall (R-Tex.)
Congress's eldest member, 88-year-old Hall is also known for being among its funniest. He recentlytold Mitt Romney, "I never met a Mormon I didn't like," particularly the teetotalers in the religion who "give me those airplane bottles of booze when we're on a flight."
Nussbaum: "With age comes wisdom, and also the license to say exactly what you're thinking at any given time. That's the root of Ralph Hall's humor."
Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
The departing congressman has a notoriously quick and acid tongue. The Boston Globe recently compiled the best lines of Frank's 31 years on the Hill. Among them, from 1981: "The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth."
Nussbaum: "Barney Frank is a cross between a witty professor and a stand-up comic who saves his best lines for when he's being heckled. His best lines come when he's pointing out the absurdities of modern politics. He would be Jerry Seinfeld if Seinfeld was less amused by the absurdity and made more irascible by it."
Representative Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
He's as well known for his unusually sculpted physique as for his quips, especially on Twitter. Example: "Earthquakes hit Washington, next week hurricanes, after that frogs and locusts, then the worst plague—Congress returns."
Nussbaum: "I try to avoid puns whenever possible, but how fitting is it that Flake's comedy is kind of, well, corny? The real question is what the famously buff Flake does to the open Jonah Hill/Ben Stiller question of whether fit can be funny."
Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
Was named "Funniest Senator" by Washingtonianmagazine several years in a row.
Nussbaum: "Who would have thought that Kansas would be such a fertile breeding ground for funny senators? But it has produced two of the funniest: Bob Dole and Pat Roberts. His humor is a perfect combination of wry and dry."
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Her Twitter feed is essential reading for political humor buffs. And she's just as funny in person. At a recent Gridiron Club dinner, the former star prosecutor from Missouri told a story about how her young daughter incorrectly remembered what her mom did for a living, writing in her fourth-grade workbook: "My mom is the hardest-working prostitute in Kansas City." McCaskill capped the joke by saying, "I corrected her: There are some things a prostitute won't do."
Nussbaum: "Her best jokes have obeyed the law of Washington comedy. It's a powerful weapon, but to wield it on others you have to be willing to turn it on yourself first."


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When Charles Darwin needed help finishing his 20th book, the legendary English evolutionist turned to an amateur woman naturalist from Vineland named Mary Treat.
Citing her careful observations several times, he published "Insectivorous Plants" in 1875, and it sold better and faster than his landmark work, "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection."
"Mrs. Treat, of New Jersey, has been more successful than any other observer," he said in a section of the book that described how the bladderwort plant catches its prey.
Treat was a pioneer in several areas of natural sciences. She wrote several books, published about 100 articles, discovered a few species of insects and plants and described many others better than anyone before.
"Although neglected heretofore by natural history biographers Mrs. Treat deserves a place in the history of New Jersey's natural history as its first capable woman naturalist," wrote historian and scientist Harry B. Weiss in a 1955 article on Treat's life in the New Jersey Historical Society magazine.
Treat was born in upstate New York in 1830, then married and moved to Vineland in 1868, only a few years after Charles Landis established the town.
She died in 1923 at age 93, and was buried in Siloam Cemetery in Vineland, where her gravestone is still clearly legible.
Before her passing, she left much of her correspondence and writings with the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society. On a recent afternoon, curator Patricia Martinelli laid out the several manila envelopes filled with documents that give a glimpse into Treat's life.
"Someone needs to write a book about her," she said.
Treat and her husband, Joseph, lived in various homes in Vineland, including on Sixth Street, Plum Street and Landis Avenue. After Joseph Treat died around 1878, Mary Treat moved to Park Avenue, where she had her own insect menagerie.
In her backyard, in short trips to the pinelands and when vacationing during winters in Florida, she found enough material to publish extensively as a botanist, entomologist and ornithologist.
"A contemplation of Nature, her ways and works, large or small, far or near, in the heavens or on the earth, becomes a source of perennial pleasure, and a true lover of her gracious and unbounded revelations need not travel far in search of them," she wrote in "Home Studies in Nature," her most popular book, published in 1885.
Treat was a slight woman, about five feet tall and 110 pounds, and she was equally modest.
In 1913, the Public Ledger daily newspaper in Philadelphia published a profile of Treat, calling her the "World's Most Famous and Industrious Woman Naturalist," while also stating that few people in Vineland were aware of her renown.
Treat's impact is still evident today in the Latin names of species she discovered. In 1886, a species of ant was named Aphaenogaster treatae in her honor. A variety of zephyr lily was also named after her.
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Areas of my lawn and paving have become infested with liverwort. Initially I kept it under control by cutting it away, and I thought I'd sorted it once and for all with Alys Fowler's weedkiller recipe, but it is now coming back. Shall I lay new turf? And what can I do about the patio?
The recipe in Alys Fowler's book, The Thrifty Gardener, involves dissolving half a cup of salt in four cups of vinegar and two teaspoons of washing-up liquid, then painting it on to plants. It is, as she points out, illegal to make your own herbicides under EU legislation, so I have called the police and they are on their way round. In fact, weedkillers, renegade or otherwise, are not really the answer here. Conditions are just right for liverwort, so however much you kill it, it will keep coming back. Change the conditions. Yes, dig up the troublesome bit of lawn, but don't lay new turf until you have dug over the area thoroughly to relieve compaction and incorporated lots of grit and sand. The patio is more of a problem. Lift the stones to improve drainage, then re-laying is the long-term solution.
I want a climber to cover the pebbledashed wall of our house – I hate it. I'd prefer something fast-growing and evergreen that won't compromise the integrity of the wall. Any ideas? I like Virginia creeper.
Virginia creeper isn't evergreen, but if you love it and can somehow avoid looking directly at the outside of your house in winter, it's perfect for you, because its dense growth will cloak any trace of the pebbledash. It has self-clinging suckers that tend to ring alarm bells, but they're pussy cats compared with the aerial roots of mortar-seeking ivy. When, and if, you want rid of a Virginia creeper, cut the stems, let them shrivel, then pull from the wall. Alternatively, Clematis armandii has big, elegant, evergreen leaves and lovely scented early-spring flowers, but it needs a large, sturdy trellis to clamber up.


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Kelly Clarkson Covers Florence + the Machine's 'Shake It Out'
In a segment of PopCrush videos that we're now going to call 'Kelly Covers…,' we present to you another fabulous cover from 'American Idol' winner Kelly Clarkson — this time, of Florence + the Machine. As if 'Kelly Covers…' needed more of an introduction.
Florence Welch Invites Harry Styles of One Direction to Work With Her
The Reading Festival must have been quite the meeting of the minds because Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine and Harry Styles of One Direction hit it off in such a major way, that Welch has invited Styles to sing work with her anytime he wants!
Coldplay Taking 2013 Off
This is some sad, sad news for Coldplay fans! The band, who has spent a majority of 2012 on the road, decided that they would take it easy next year and take the entire year off! If only we had a job that allowed us to take an entire year off.
Carly Rae Jepsen's New Boyfriend Isn't the Inspiration for 'Call Me Maybe'
As we reported last week, Carly Rae Jepsen was recently spotted out and about with boyfriend and fellow musician Matthew Koma. Well, turns out that's not the man who inspired her mega hit 'Call Me Maybe.' Jepsen dumped the 'CMM' boyfriend because she got too busy. Say what?! Someone's treading into some dangerous Taylor Swift territory here.
Christina Aguilera to Receive Honor for Charity Work
Christina Aguilera has a ton to be proud of: She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, has multiple Grammy's, is a judge on 'The Voice,' one of TV's top rated shows, and now, the singer is being honored for all of the philanthropy work she has done.
Are Ryan Seacrest + Kim Kardashian's Mom Trying to Get Kanye West an 'American Idol' Judging Job?
Well isn't this just a golden nugget of a celebrity news story? There's a rumor floating around that Kanye West might be the newest judge on 'American Idol' — and now, he's gained the support of everybody's favorite momager Kris Jenner, mom to the Kardashian klan.
Kelly Clarkson Covers TLC's 'No Scrubs' Live
With the amount of covers Kelly Clarkson has been doing on her tour lately, we can hardly keep up. Sure, she announced that she'd be doing a 'fan request' portion during her shows, but girl, chill! There are so many great covers Kelly has done to choose from, and TLC's 'No Scrubs' has made it to the top of our list!
Joan Rivers, Rihanna Embroiled in Twitter Feud
It was a good day for us in the Twitter universe today (Aug. 24). First, Spencer Pratt of MTV's 'The Hills' followed us on the social media site (we're dumbfounded and excited at the same time), but even better than that? We found out comedian/TV host/author/etc. Joan Rivers got into it with Rihanna on Twitter. Day = made.
Is Rihanna Sexting Robert Pattinson?!
Is Robert Pattinson officially single? No one's too sure yet. But after that trampire (media's name, not ours!) Kristen Stewart released a statement admitting to having an affair with her 'Snow White and the Huntsman' director Rupert Sanders, he may be well on his way to bachelordom. And from the looks of things, Rihanna plans on helping him out.
How Much Is Avril Lavigne's Engagement Ring Worth?
Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger's six month courtship may have been Hollywood (and the world's) best kept secret.
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Rusty relaxes as film takes leaf of absence
RUSSELL Crowe is looking forward to bonus time in Australia after the postponement of filming for his next project, Nottingham.
The Oscar winner said it would be at least seven months before the film gets off the ground in England, allowing him to spend more time at his Woolloomooloo home with wife, Danielle Spencer, and sons, Charlie, 4, and Tennyson, 2, and working on other projects.
"More time in Australia is always a bonus," Crowe said last week.
"I have another project based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer."
It is understood he is considering playing the main role of Hicks a controversial and brilliant American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying from cancer at 32. Crowe confirmed Nottingham would not go ahead until March next year because director Sir Ridley Scott wanted the leaves on the trees in England's Sherwood Forest to be the right colour.
The delay meant local projects would get more attention including a documentary Crowe is yet to name and the Bra Boys film, My Brother's Keeper, which was at second draft stage with Australian writer Stuart Beattie, he said.
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has surpassed Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) as the world's most valuable brand, according to market research firm Millward Brown's annual Brandz Global Top 100 Most Valuable Brand report. The study, which was commissioned by multinational advertising company WPP (NASDAQ:WPPGY), dropped Apple to the No. 2 spot this year. The iPhone maker has held the No. 1 spot on the list for the past three years in a row, while Google previously held the No. 1 spot from 2007 to 2010.
According to Millward Brown's study, Google achieved the greatest brand value increase of any company in 2014, rising 40 percent to nearly $159 billion, while Apple's brand value slipped by 20 percent to less than $148 billion. The technology category was one of the most valuable market segments when it came to brands, accounting for almost 30 percent of the total value of brands ranked in Brandz Global Top 100 report. Overall, the value of brands in the technology category rose 16 percent over last year. IBM (NYSE:IBM) took the third overall spot with a brand value of $107.5 billion, while Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) took fourth place with a brand value estimated at $90 billion. McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) was the only non-tech company to crack the top five rankings with a brand value of $85.7 billion.
The report cited Google's "culture of innovation" as one of the primary reasons for its increase in brand value. Besides market driven projects like Google Glass and the Android Wear Operating System, Millward Brown's report noted Google's "long-term initiatives" such as "research into artificial intelligence, slowing aging, improving car safety, and redesigning cities with driverless cars."


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What's She Saying? [Video]
So, I've been stuck on this video for a bit now. I know that she's not really saying anything that makes any sense in any language, but to me, it all sounds like she really is speaking other languages.
That's the whole point of this video (some people don't get it). It's meant to show that to people who don't speak the language, as long as you have the right inflection when speaking it, it may as well be the language.
Take a listen to Sara, she's 19, she's Finnish (I love the Finns). She's awesome.
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Villa Atas Ombak is considered to be one of Bali's most luxurious villas, and has achieved considerable editorial coverage in fashion and lifestyle publications from around the world. From location fashion shoots in Marie Claire to articles on luxury accommodation in magazines such as Vogue, Villa Atas Ombak continues to define and represent the Bali Dream.
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"I do hope you like apples," Regina adds as she hands over the tupperware. Her entire plan hinges on Emma accepting the pastry as a gesture of friendship, but if she suspects for even a second, Regina knows the last trace of her magic will end up thrown in a trashcan the minute Emma gets home.
That cannot be allowed to happen.
And it's working. The relieved smile, the way Emma turns to leave; Regina can practically taste her success. Soon she'll be rid (almost) permanently of the woman who's come to occupy her every waking moment, and her nightmares besides. The familiar surge of adrenalin that comes from a win is surging in her chest but then something—perhaps years of habit from cleaning up after Henry—makes Regina call out after Emma one more time.
"Miss Swan?" Regina wants to kick herself.
"Yes?" Emma sounds irritated now, having been called back twice.
"You got some flour on your…lovely…jacket," Regina points out. "Let me," she adds, moving in with the dishtowel and reaching for Emma's arm. "I thought I'd cleaned up, sorry."
Emma actually squirms at Regina's touch, even through the cheap pleather. "Uh, thanks," she says, her voice unusually deep. It's enough to make Regina linger a second or two longer than she should, another swipe of the towel when the flour is already gone.
"While we're um, you know," Emma continues. "You have some sugar on your face."
"Do I?" Regina touches her cheek in surprise. She was so careful, it's unlike her to get anything on her, even the apron is no more than a precaution.
"Not there," Emma sighs, as though she's being forced to stay against her will. As though even these extra moments in Regina's company are painful for her. "Here," she says, slamming the Tupperware down on the counter and extending her hand towards Regina's other cheek.
She can't help it; Regina actually gasps at the contact of Emma's thumb against her skin. After David's rejection, after long, lonely months without Graham as a plaything, Regina's become unaccustomed to another person's touch. She feels the previously unnoticed granules of sugar fall away under Emma's hand, and that's the moment when Regina makes her second mistake.
She looks at Emma.
Regina's expecting to see annoyance, or even boredom, but instead she sees something between lust and curiosity radiating back at her. Emma's eyes are heavy-lidded, her lips slightly parted as she stares at her own hand touching Regina. She's mesmerized, it seems, and Regina's starting to feel the same way.
But then Emma's thumb keeps stroking, and it's moving now. Instead of the smooth plane of Regina's cheek, it's moving over her jaw, pressing down on her chin for a moment until it sweeps carelessly over her bottom lip. The gasp that escapes Regina's mouth is unintentional, and for a moment she's concerned that she's broken the spell. She blinks—once, twice—but when Emma's hand finally drops away, it's replaced by her lips.
"Miss Swan," Regina protests weakly between kisses. "I did not invite you into my home to—" oh hell, what's another kiss going to hurt?
"Is this what's wrong with us?" Emma asks as she lets her mouth trail to the sensitive spot beneath Regina's ear, nudging her hair aside to get better access. "Is this what we've been missing this whole time?" Emma asks, before nipping at Regina's earlobe.
And Regina can't bring herself to answer because in this moment she is so painfully vulnerable that it makes her tremble. If she opens her mouth to speak she fears that the words to undo her will come tumbling out: yes, I am that Evil Queen, or that turnover is poisoned or please don't break my curse. Control seems very far away, entirely outwith Regina's reach, and so she forces herself not to speak, not to reply.
Instead she reaches for the zipper on Emma's jacket, pulled all the way up to the neck as though that would have afforded her any protection. Regina thinks of her knights with their armor, and how even the most practical uniforms left them with weak spots; Regina's only surprised that a dusting of sugar should be her own.
But then the jacket is open and Regina's hands land on warm skin, encouraging her to slip those hands beneath the simple black tank top, something Emma's throaty little moan certainly seems to approve of as she continues tormenting every nerve ending on Regina's throat.
"Oh," is all Regina trusts herself to say as she runs her hands over Emma's ribs, encountering the simply cotton of her bra. That's enough to make Emma back Regina against her own kitchen counter, knocking the baking tray to the floor with a ridiculous clatter and a hiss of pain from the heat it retains.
"Here," Regina mutters, reaching for Emma's injured hand, the same one that touched her first and started this, drawing that fateful thumb between her lips and sucking on it gently. She swirls her tongue around it, before releasing the thumb with a pop and repeating the trick with each finger in turn. Now Emma's other hand is tugging at Regina's white blouse, while Regina rests one hand against the bare skin of Emma's stomach, focusing solely on what her mouth can do to those fingers.
Something more primal takes over then, as Emma takes her hand back and unfastens the fancy buckle on Regina's belt. It's just a sharp tug to have the black pants pooling around her ankles, and when she steps out of the material, Emma hisses 'keep the heels' just in time. Regina just smirks in response, tugging at Emma's jacket and then they both pull the tank top up and over her head, the cascade of blonde curls almost dazzling in the warm light.
Emma isn't so careful with Regina's blouse; after fumbling with the first button, she loses patience and tears it open, tiny buttons rattling all over the floor. Regina would complain if Emma's mouth didn't immediately fall on her newly exposed breasts, and in a matter of moments both bras are dispatched to the floor as well.
Which is the moment Emma chooses to lift Regina up onto the counter, the cool marble making her hiss at the contact against her bare legs. Emma's kissing Regina as she wriggles out of her skirt, and there's a long, slightly awkward moment as she fights her way out of those high boots and panty hose, but it also affords Regina a second to catch her breath.
It feels decadent, being naked in her kitchen like this. The weak afternoon sunshine is kind to her, and she feels confident in her body set out on display like this. She certainly has reason, going by the hunger in Emma's eyes as she moves back in to claim her prize once more.
Her hands are relentless, stroking in determined lines down Regina's back while they kiss—still furiously, tongues meeting and vying for dominance in every move. Then Emma is squeezing Regina's breasts, offering each one up to the attentions of Emma's mouth, her tongue even more deft as she licks and sucks each nipple to a hardened peak, drawing moans and cursewords from Regina that she's barely aware of even hearing before. It's torture, in the most exquisite way, and as Regina arches her back into the touch she wonders if she might come from this contact alone, a wonder only strengthened when Emma alternates the attentions of her mouth with sharp twists of her fingers, causing Regina to cry out until she's practically sobbing with the need for release.
"Gorgeous," Emma admits as she moves back a little, leaving Regina to mourn the loss of contact. "So fucking gorgeous." She says it almost like an insult, like Regina daring to be beautiful is somehow offensive to Emma, and yet Regina finds that she doesn't care. That's when Emma presses Regina's shoulders with the palm of her hands, tipping her back gently until she's lying flat on the counter wearing nothing but her heels.
Emma bends then, the counter too high for her to get on her knees (and oh—how Regina feels herself clench at the thought of Emma on her knees), lifting Regina's legs and draping them over Emma's shoulders.
"Ready?" She murmurs against Regina's thigh, before kissing her way down that inner thigh and then pausing for just a second before kissing the same path back up the opposite leg. Regina can feel herself trembling, can feel how wet she already is, and Emma hasn't even touched her where she needs it most. Any hopes of feigning indifference are well and truly dashed, but Regina is too turned on to care.
Emma uses her thumbs to spread Regina a little wider, rubbing her lower lips in a kind of massage that has Regina's hips arching up for more. It makes one of her heels scrape across Emma's bare back, and she hisses but doesn't complain. Instead, she blows lightly on Regina's cunt, a tickling sensation that might just drive Regina insane, until it's replaced with a gentle flicker of Emma's tongue. It's just the tip, barely contact at all, but Regina feels her synapses begin to fire in anticipation.
And then Emma's tongue is everywhere at once. Circling, lashing, pressing in pulses that make Regina feel like she's going to burn up altogether, until that tongue is slipping inside in firm, wet thrusts that have Regina clutching at Emma's blonde hair with desperate fingers.
"Yes," she begins to chant. "Yes, yes, yes."
Moments later, Emma tongue is stroking hard and fast over Regina's clit; Emma's mouth clamps down so she can alternate sucking and licking until in one frantic burst of noise and light and too much-too much-too much, Regina is coming hard all over Emma's face.
The release is total, the satisfaction sweeping over Regina like a wave. She feels boneless, giddy, ridiculous to be laid out on the furniture like freshly-rolled dough, but she laughs and strokes her fingers through Emma's hair as she rests her head on Regina's stomach.
"Get up here," Regina whispers after a couple of minutes, self-conscious in the silence. She kicks her heels off, drawing her feet up onto the counter as Emma climbs up and kneels between Regina's spread thighs.
"Sure you're ready?" Emma asks, still panting slightly and her pupils blown with arousal. Her hands are already back on Regina's breasts, fondling them with intent, but Regina has tricks of her own in store. She begins to tease one of Emma's nipples in return, until Emma bends forward and kisses Regina, letting her taste herself on Emma's mouth.
"Damn," Regina says, pulling away just enough to nip at the base of Emma's throat. She bites the tender skin and then soothes it with her tongue, repeating the process all along Emma's collarbone as the other woman half-collapses on top of her.
It takes a little nudging and rearranging, but with a slap on Emma's ass, Regina encourages her to straddle Regina's now-closed legs. That gives her all the access she needs to the slick heat between Emma's thighs, and the simple act of rubbing her clit with two fingers has Emma climaxing with a sob that's muffled against Regina's cheek. Unsatisfied, Regina works those two fingers inside Emma in short, sharp thrusts. On shaking arms, Emma raises herself up, back arching as she meets the movement of Regina's hand thrust for thrust until she's coming again, much harder, and Regina presses her thumb just to the side of Emma's clit to drag it out. When Emma eventually grabs at Regina's wrist, she relents, withdrawing her hand.
Emma falls on her heavily this time, knocking the air from Regina's body. She's surprised to discover she doesn't mind, enjoying the warmth of Emma's body pressed so tightly to her own. As she recovers, Emma reaches for Regina's hand, mirroring Regina's own sucking of the digits until she's cleaned her own wetness from every finger.
"Fuck," Emma finally says, her voice a little ragged. "I guess we needed that."
"Hnnng," Regina replies, nudging Emma to finally get off her. "Perhaps," she adds, once Emma has slipped back to standing and Regina is sitting up once more.
"Oh," Emma says, holding up the now empty Tupperware. "Oops," she says, looking at the mangled turnover on the floor. "I guess we knocked it off."
Regina feels the fury rise up like an angry dragon and she's half a second from lashing out when she gets a hold of herself.
She'll find another way. She can… be content for a few hours.
Besides, Emma Swan is leaving town and the curse may not even be necessary now. Emma looks at her with a sadness that far outweighs the crime of destroyed pastry, and Regina waves a hand to dismiss it even as she lowers herself off the counter and reaches for her shirt.
"Honestly, I'm not the world's greatest baker anyway," Regina lies. "It might have been horrible, and then you'd have thought I tried to poison you."
"Right," Emma says, laughing nervously. "I should, uh, go? Probably."
Regina pretends to consider an alternative as she steps into her pants. "Well, Henry will be home from school soon," she says wistfully, already anxious to have the other woman leave her house. "And I don't want him seeing—"
"Oh God, no," Emma agrees hastily, shoving her pantyhose in the pocket of her jacket as she pulls her tanktop back on and buttons her skirt. "I'm sorry about the cake," she adds. "It was nice of you."
Regina holds back her laugh, but it's a close call. She's certainly given Emma Swan a lot more than a simple pastry this afternoon.
"Well," she says, holding her blouse together with one hand. "Did you need me to see you out, or…?"
"I'm fine," Emma says a little too quickly. "We'll talk again, once I know where I'm moving to, okay? About Henry, I mean."
"Of course," Regina agrees. "About Henry."
Emma turns to leave then, bare legs stuffed into her boots and jacket still in her hand. This time Regina doesn't call out, doesn't distract or delay her. It's only when she hears the front door close that Regina stoops to pick up the remnants of her plan.
"It might not even have worked," she tells herself as she throws the apple and pastry in the trash.
It's only when the last traces are wiped from the floor that Regina sits down on the cold tile, finally letting the tears come.


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How do YOU celebrate June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification?
Share it with us! Send your reports and photos to secretariat(at)unccd.int
"Conserving land and water = Securing our common future"
This year's WDCD has a special significance for the UNCCD. 15 years ago on 17 June 1994, the Convention was adopted and opened to signature.
The World Day to Combat Desertification is observed every year on 17 June. This year, the Day's theme is "Conserving land and water = Securing our common future "
Desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) threaten human security by depriving people of their means of life – by taking away food, access to water, the means for economic activities, and even their homes. In worst-case scenarios, they undermine national and regional security, force people to leave their homes and can trigger low- or high-level intensity conflicts.
On this World Day to Combat Desertification, we would like to remind everyone threats to soil security unleashed by desertification, land degradation and the effects of drought constitute a peril to securing our common future.
The World Day to Combat Desertification has been observed since 1995 (General Assembly Resolution A/RES/49/1995) to promote public awareness relating to international cooperation to combat desertification and the effects of drought, and the implementation of the UNCCD. Last year, more than 40 events took place all over the world (see the 2008 report). We can celebrate the Day through organizing activities such as seminars, media events and campaigns. Every single activity involving community participation and cooperation is encouraged!
For more information about the Day, please contact: secretariat(at)unccd.int
We would be delighted to hear from you about how your country plans to mark the Day. The information received will be posted on our website.
We wish you every success in your activities to celebrate 17 June 2009.


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|Stoughon, Wis.
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Academic Notes: Plans to major in athletic training.
High School: McFarland High School graduate in 2010 … Four-year letter winner in swimming under head coach Bill Martin … All-State swimmer 2007-09 … 2009 Scholastic All-American … Swimmer of the Year in 2008 … High Point Award recipient in 2006-07 … Prep Huddle Hero of the Week (2006, 2009) … Holds 12 team yards, team meters, or pool records at McFarland in individual events or relays … Part of two Badger Conference Championship teams (2007, 2009) … Played one season of lacrosse at Lafollette High School … Started on Lafollette Lancers Ladies Lacrosse team MALA Conference Champions.
Personal: Born Stirling Chenet Smith on August 20, 1992 in Madison, Wis. … Parents David Smith and Renee Gouaux reside in hometown of Stoughon, Wis. … Parents are both professors … Two sisters, Gaither and Ada … Gaither runs cross country at Kenyon College (Ohio) … Ada runs cross country at Wellesley College (Mass.) … Enjoys traveling.


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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/19/review_sony_vaio_vpcf21z1e/
Sony Vaio VPCF21Z1E 16in laptop
Plastic paving slab offers 3D fun
Posted in Personal Tech, 19th May 2011 06:00 GMT
Review Imagine my joy when asked to try out a 3D entertainment centre built into a Sony Vaio notebook. Imagine my disappointment, then, when I discover that the notebook in question is actually too big to fit in my notebook bag.
Sony's Vaio VPCF21Z1E: don't think of it as an overgrown notebook but as a very portable gaming PC.
Less a notebook than a 1,000-page grimoire with oak covers, the nattily named VPCF21Z1E/BI is one of those portable computers probably intended to replace a desktop computer. This is true, in the sense that it's about the same size as my desktop computer.
The computer makes no pretentions about portability, however. The shiny black clamshell design is a non-flush, uneven, wedge-shaped paving slab with all of its ports open to the elements, and there isn't even a clasp to keep it closed. This is a computer that expects to stay indoors – occasionally lugged from one room to another – rather than rushed around town tucked under an executive's armpit.
Hinging open the computer reveals a full keyboard with numeric keypad which has well-spaced, shiny black keycaps and is comfortable to use. An automatic light sensor triggers a white backlight to illuminate the keys when it thinks you are in a dark room. I couldn't find a way to switch the backlight on or off manually but that's hardly a showstopper.
The textured trackpad is flush and not always easy to er, keep track of
The touchpad area in front of the keys is marked by a lightly textured rectangle, otherwise it is flush with a curiously unnecessary band of matte black plastic running across the full width of the computer. It supports basic multitouch gestures for scrolling, paging, pan and zoom.
Through a glass darkly
However, I didn't like it at all: despite the texturing, the lack of any obvious visual demarcation or tactile 'well' for the touchpad meant that I kept touching and swiping in the wrong place on the matte plastic strip.
Can't get away from that shiny black stylee thang
You get a decent range of connectivity options on either side and the front edge of the case, including both VGA and HDMI out, and two of the three USB ports support USB 3.0 devices – for the nine of you out there reading this that have any. At the other extreme, for those who collect old kit for a laugh, there's a legacy i.Link port.
A useful Memory Stick and SD card combo slot is located at the front, although I found it a bit tricky to access because it's hidden under the upper lip of the wedge-shaped case.
The computer boots up into Windows 7 in under a minute, and the 1920 x 1080-pixel screen is bright and crisp. I liked it very much. Of course, the big attraction with the VPCF21Z1E/BI is its 3D capability. This works for 3D images and videos in a variety of formats, using the alternating left-right full-screen display approach in conjunction with a supplied set of Sony-branded 3D active shutter glasses.
See life through grey-tinted glasses: 3D makes everything darker and duller.
The glasses are bulky, and wearing them feels like you've put on snorkelling goggles. I was pleasantly surprised that they fit neatly over my own spectacles. This came as a great relief since all other 3D specs I have worn, whether polarised or shutter, rest precariously at the end of my nose, constricting my breathing and eventually sliding off and swinging into my teeth with a crack.
Eyes wide shut
That's not to say these particular 3D shutter glasses are comfortable. After 20 minutes of wearing these chunky beasts in conjunction with stereo headphones, I had to tear them off and go for a walk. I won't be taking part in any sensory deprivation experiments any time soon.
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Longer bars are better
Browsing 3D pictures and watching videos is delightful, though, once you can get them to work. I had trouble finding the right software program and applying the right settings, depending on what files I wanted to look at. You get a heap of utilities supplied with the computer but double-clicking on a 3D-format image or video never once resulted in the most appropriate viewer being launched.
The exception was games, which always ran in 3D mode automatically and looked frankly brilliant every time. I experienced much less ergonomic irritation during a couple of hours blasting 3D aliens to shit than sitting through 10 minutes of James Cameron's bloody blue monkeys again.
Gaming on the go
One thing to note: once activated, 3D mode noticeably darkens everything. Images shot on a sunny day using your 3D camera or camcorder look fine in 2D preview mode but seem to lose their zing in 3D.
Yes, it's a big'un: those large electronic spectacles should give you an idea of relative size.
The VPCF21Z1E/BI also offers the ability to artificially render 2D movies into 3D by pressing the subtly labelled '3D' button above the keyboard. This is cute, if gimmicky, and it even does some pretty clever things to 2D anime, but I could only get it to work with DVDs. Sony's documentation says it can be applied to Blu-ray movies too but all my attempts produced a 'Cannot switch to 3D display' error, no matter which Blu-ray player software I tried.
On a more positive note, the optical drive can read and write to Blu-ray, as well as all the usual DVD and CD formats.
Overall, I was happy with performance of the Sony Vaio VPCF21Z1E/BI, it's pretty damn good but not great. Yet compared to others in this class that Reg Hardware has tested lately, it seems Sony makes you pay for that extra performance.
Tech specs aside, the proof is in the playing, and Vaio's frame rate seemed to be best for new games and worst for the oldest. In the cut-and-thrust of 3D gameplaying, as well as 3D movie-watching and 3D picture fun, the VPCF21Z1E/BI is not just great, but terrific. Whether it's £1,799-worth of terrific, compared to a 3D-enabled tower system, depends on how much value you put on its luggable portability. ®
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[GUATEMALA-USA] Clint Dempsey gave the USA a 1-0 lead in the 40th minute with a superb strike but the Americans left Guatemala with a 1-1 tie
after Chicago Fire midfielder Marco Pappa scored with a 23-yard free kick in the 83rd minute.
Goalkeeper Tim Howard stayed rooted as Pappa's ball curled over the wall and into the middle of the goal from the free kick awarded when left back Fabian Johnson downed Carlos Ruiz.
Johnson had a better moment when he dished the ball to Dempsey at the edge of the penalty. Dempsey's jukes left two Guatemalans on the ground before he slammed a low ball past keeper Ricardo Jerez. Besides a long-rang effort from Michael Bradley that Jerez easily smothered, the Guatemalan keeper had an easy night. His counterpart, Howard, blocked a close-range efforts from Carlos Figueroa and Luis Rodriguez but also had little to do before watching Papa's shot fly into the net.
The Chapines resorted much on fouls to slow U.S. counterattacks. They were called for 22, with Dempsey suffering the worst of them. Referee Joel Aguilar cautioned two Guatemalans and four Americans, whom he whistled for 14 fouls. The most costly being Johnson's on Ruiz to set up the equalizer.
The Americans opened the semifinal round of Concacaf qualifying last Saturday with a 3-1 home win over Antigua & Barbuda, which on Tuesday stunned Jamaica with a 0-0 tie. The USA is in first place in the four-team group, tied on four points but with a better goal difference than Jamaica, which opened with a 2-1 win over Guatemala.
The top two finishers advance to the final round (Hexagonal) of qualifying, from which the top three finishers advance to the 2014 World Cup and the fourth-place team enters an intra-regional playoff for a spot in Brazil.
The USA resumes qualifying play with games against Jamaica in Kingston Sept. 7 and in Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 11.
June 12 in Guatemala City
Guatemala 1 USA 1. Goals: Papa 83; Dempsey 40.
Guatemala -- Jerez, Morales, Gallardo, L.Rodriguez, Vasquez, Velasquez, Contreras (Leon, 46), Figueroa (Pappa, 46); M.Rodriguez (Pezzarossi, 46), Ruiz, Avila.
USA -- Howard, Cherundolo, Goodson (Cameron, 46), Bocanegra, Johnson, Edu, Bradley, Jones, Donovan (Beckerman, 90+3), Dempsey, 9-Gomez (Altidore, 64).
Yellow cards: Guatemala -- L.Rodriguez 51, Pappa 61; USA -- Goodson 23, Bradley 60, Edu 66, Johnson 82.
Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
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Why People Are The Most Valuable Urban Resource [Future of Cities]
PSFK Labs looks at the power of citizens to raise the collective resources and benefits available to a city's entire population.
Regardless of where we choose to live or visit, it is often the people who reside there who give a place its true character and charm. This impact is only amplified in cities, where the collective knowledge and efforts of citizens can build communities and create real change. In our Future Of Cities report, PSFK Labs investigated the key trends and pressing issues that will play a role in shaping the evolution of urban environments over the next decade.
A major theme identified in the report is Citizen Sourced, which looks at the power of citizens to raise the collective resources and benefits available across communities, neighborhoods and entire cities. This theme consists of six key trends: Crowd Planned, Community Currency, Collaborative Economy, Social Pairing, Micro Financing and Shared Transport.
The Crowd Planned trend described in the Future Of Cities report highlights how participatory online platforms and visual tools are lowering the barriers to participation and empowering citizens to help design their own communities. These systems facilitate an open dialogue between city agencies and the people they serve, establishing a structured process for collaboration and encouraging a higher level of participation. By seeking input throughout the development process, these systems help ensure greater transparency and buy-in that ultimately results in an end solution that meets the actual needs of the population. For example, Textizen is a SMS platform for providing community feedback to urban planners and municipal decision makers regarding transportation, recreation, spending, quality of life improvements and more. To use the platform, cities ask questions on posters displayed in public places and then collect citizen feedback that is provided via text messages.
The next trend of Community Currency examines how a number of businesses and municipalities are experimenting with alternative forms of currency and exchange to encourage local spending. Whether creating a local currency or accepting less tangible payments such as good deeds as viable tender, these emerging payment systems hope to raise the collective prosperity of a population by placing greater importance on personal relationships rather than material assets. As an example of this, municipal organizations in both the cities of Jundiaí, Brazil and Mexico City, Mexico offer citizens fresh produce in exchange for recyclables. In Jundiaí, the city's utilities department runs a program called Delícia de Reciclagem, where aluminum cans and plastic bottles are the only currency accepted in a publicly run vegetable garden.
Collaborative Economy is a trend that uncovers how new person-to-person commerce systems are enabling citizens to harness the potential of underused resources such as excess space and Wi-Fi bandwidth, transforming them into valuable services that can be traded with both neighbors and visitors. These platforms help generate extra wealth for enterprising individuals and reduce waste, while providing crucial and affordable infrastructure to underserved communities. For example, New York-based KeyWifi allows anybody who pays for Internet access to rent out their connection to those who need it for a nominal fee. By simply logging into the KeyWifi website, users with a connection can specify when exactly they aren't using their Wi-Fi, how many people can log onto it and for how long.
Our trend Social Pairing looks at how new services are using a mix of social, location and demographic data to match people around similar interests, activities and needs, allowing for the creation of temporary connections in a way and at a speed that was previously not possible. These systems foster a feeling of community based around activities and geography and create opportunities for people to work together towards common business, social or civic-minded goals. For example, Fixperts is an online platform that connects designers with people who need help solving everyday problems. The idea behind the project is to match designers who have practical know-how with disabled people and the elderly who need assistance with specific challenges.
Next, Micro Financing looks at how a number of social platforms are creating new avenues for people who are seeking funding for their business or creative endeavors. These peer-to-peer models allow a community of like-minded individuals to contribute small amounts of money to the ideas and projects they'd like to see succeed, often with the promise of little or no financial return. These platforms serve as viable alternatives to traditional financial institutions, encouraging experimentation by lowering the barriers to participation and providing more opportunities for people to get their ventures off of the ground and into their communities. For example, BD Bacata is a crowdfunded skyscraper in Bogota, Columbia that has been funded by its city's citizens. Thousands of ordinary Colombian citizens have invested their own money to be shareholders in what will be the tallest building in the country.
The final trend in the Citizen Sourced theme found in the Future Of Cities report is Shared Transport. This trend looks at the digital technologies that are connecting travelers around shared needs, enabling drivers to coordinate carpooling efforts during busy commuting times or individuals to rent their vehicles when not in use. By distributing the costs associated with transportation or ownership, these peer-to-peer exchanges not only save money, but also improve the overall community by removing excess cars off the road, limiting the amount of resources used, and connecting people around shared experiences. For example, San Francisco start-up Ridejoy is an online matchmaking service that connects drivers and passengers looking to share the cost of long-distance road trips.
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- The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
- The church traces its history back to a church mentioned in the 1086 Domesday survey.
- Saint John's Church in Aldecar was built as a Chapel of Ease to Saint Lawrence Church.
- St. John's Church seats 230.
- Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2008.
Church Records
- We have a pop-up window of a handful of Parish Register marriages in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- Marriages at Heanor, 1558-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- There are also Heanor Baptisms, 1816-1837 at Taghill.
- The Anglican church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
- The Primitive Methodists built a small chapel here in 1819.
- The Society of Friends (Quakers) built a meeting-house here in 1834.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1839.
- The General Baptists built a small chapel here in 1849. Their chapel is on Derby Road.
Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
Description and Travel
"HEANOR is a neat village and populous township, in the parish of its name, and in the same hundred as Ilkeston, about four miles N.N.W. from that town, eight and a half N.E. from Derby, and eight S. from Alfreton. This place, which was formerly a market-town, is pleasantly situate on an eminence, and the eastern boundary of the parish is watered by the Erewash river. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the neighbouring coal works, and others in the manufacture of lace."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
This large village is 10 miles north-west of Nottingham and 7 miles east of Belper. Langley Mill is a village, partly in Heanor parish and partly in Eastwood parish, Nottinghamshire. Aldercar is a village in Heanor parish just north of Langley Mill.
Railway passenger service ceased here in 1939.
- A Description of Heanor has been transcribed by Heather FAULKES from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
- Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Langley Mill entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
- The transcription of the section for Heanor from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.
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- National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
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Military History
- A Memorial Park was established by the Amber Valley District Council as a tribute to all military and civilian personnel of the British forces killed and injured in the service of their country.
Military Records
For a photograph of the Aldercar War Memorial and the list of names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.
Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
- Heanor formed an Urban District Council in 1895.
- District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Smalley (Ilkeston Court) petty session hearings.
- With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Basford Poorlaw Union.


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Ojon Restorative vs palm oil?
Has anyone tried pure virgin palm oil as a deep treatment vs Ojon's restorative? I am just trying the Ojon and I love it to death but I am wondering if this is all marketing etc and since the main ingred is palm oil would this work the same? The cheapskate in me hopes so:)
Using your exact same reasoning, I tried palm kernel oil. It was a disaster. I still have 5 lbs of the stuff, it's rock solid. I hear it's good for making soaps and lotions.
ETA - I've occasionally used castor oil as an overnight pre-treatment, which works somewhat like Ojon.
Holy Crap! That sounds like an I Love Lucy episode! LOL! I wasn't going to buy a drum of it because I was afraid of your experience. Is that the same as virgin palm oil? I was looking on the tropical traditions website and they actually had a lot of recipes for using it. After doing a little research it seems that they are used for different things. The Virgin palm oil is used in cooking and the palm kernel oil is used in what you referred to. I found this on them......
"palm oil; palm-kernel oil
The reddish-orange oil extracted from the pulp of the fruit of the African palm. It's extremely high in saturated fat (78 percent) and has a distinctive flavor that is popular in West African and Brazilian cooking. Palm-kernel oil, though also extremely high in saturated fat, is a different oil extracted from the nut or kernel of palms. It's a yellowish-white color and has a pleasantly mild flavor. Palm-kernel oil is used in the manufacture of margarine and cosmetics. It's usually listed on labels simply as "palm oil"
*Scratches head* This is just too confusing. I'm going to go to my local ethnic market and see if they have just plain palm oil.
where can you buy palm oil?
Seems like I recall reading somewhere that coconut oil is supposed to have some of the same kinds of fatty acids as the ojon.
here's a link to the stuff about ojon I referred to above. You have to scroll down a bit, but there's also other interesting articles, too.
Palm oil in flakes?
I wish I could send the real palm oil to you guys, but I don't know how that'll be possible from here.
I'm no longer in England. Now, I'm in Africa (which is not so bad, I might add, but I prefer England). I mixed race so, that should explain that. My grandmother (from my dad's side) bought a lot of palm oil and sent some over. The palm oil she gets comes straight from the guys who actually extract the oil. Now, that is real, pure, natural palm oil. I had never heard of palm oil flakes till now. I will try the palm oil I have on my hair saaaaaay.....tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I'll tell you guys what my hair thought of it.
Okay! so let's start with how I used it:
I got some rice water on my hair after a few minutes, without rinsing off the rice water, I got a tiny plastic bowl, poured some palm oil in it, got a bigger bowl and filled it with hot water then I placed the smaller bowl in the bigger one. I then sectioned my hair into....err...I've forgotten. I still kept on sectioning and getting the palm oil from my scalp to my hair then I single-braided my hair in sections. I then put on a plastic cap then tied scarves (two) over it to 1. prevent noises from the plastic cap and 2. to prevent a possible leakage of the palm oil onto my pillow. I slept with it on then took out the braids and washed it out in the morning. I started washing it out with conditioner (and detangling) first then I mixed a bit of shampoo in with the conditioner and then washed my hair better. I then rinsed that out, filled a bucket with water and turned my hair over letting it all be in the water, but my face not in it. I swished it around a bit, got it out then did a final conditioner wash.
After all that:
I then did a final detangling process then got a little canola, basil and rosemary oil into my hair because of the shampoo that I used. Afterwards, I combed it out and held it away from my face then I got a really tiny bit of aloe vera onto my hair. I left the house with my hair still wet for a rehearsal. After the rehearsal, I went to get my hair braided with extensions at a salon. I never comb my hair dry so I wet it up a bit by myself and that's when I felt my hair and I was like, "Ohmigosh! it's so soft!"
What I liked about it:
How soft it made my hair feel and how my hair looked. Seriously, it feels really good.
What I didn't like about it:
Washing it out was a.... dilemma. It took quite a long time. That irritated me a bit because I had someone coming over to pick me up to head to the rehearsals, they were 30 minutes away and I hadn't showered yet so it took a lot of time. Luckily, they stopped over to buy some things so I had about an hour. I spent most of the time washing out the palm oil. I didn't even get to detangle my hair fully so I did that at the salon.
My advice to you:
Don't use palm oil on your hair if you know you're going to be in a hurry when you need to wash it out.
If you're sure you're not going to be in a hurry, go ahead! use it on your hair! it's really good! It's also anti-fungal, antibacterial besides its conditioning, softening and treating properties.
What am I going to do?:
I'm going to try this out about once every 2 months. I'm saying every 2 months because I don't think I'll have the patience every month to wash it out and also, I have rehearsals till December. But, 2 months...at least I get to use it! :)
*Please note that it may or may not work the same way it did for me for you. We all have very different hair even if they are of the same hair type. What works for one person may or may not work for another.
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I bought palm oil from iherb for $11 a pound. I am going to try it on my hair and I hope it works like the Ojon product. If it doesn't, I can just eat the Organic Palm Oil and be full of antioxidants. I think it's a ploy calling it Ojon oil and I am glad to see you guys arent being tricked. They have making cosmetics dot com and here to you can just make your own de aging products and hair treatments. I hope the Palm oil works. It would be hundreds of dollars to buy a pound from Ojon and I doubt it's necessary. I will try to post later if this works.
There are so many kinds of palms, wouldn't the oils from different species be different? Do we know what species of palm is used in Ojon?
Not that I plan on using anything other than Ojon, simply because I'm addicted to the scent. And I get it pretty cheap on Ebay. But if I could copy that scent I would probably experiment with a cheaper substitute.
I found this posting when looking for something else. Anyone use either palm oil or the Ojon lately, and would either be too much for a fine/medium wavy hair type? I'm confused because I thought oils were used for leave-ins and Ojon is a deep treatment? I'm looking more for a treatment - something to combat dryness, too. Thanks!
I haven't used palm oil on my hair since November 2011. I did have AMAZING results with it. My hair felt so soft, moisturised and looked so beautiful. However, it was a horrid process to wash out the palm oil (took forever!).
Palm oil should be used as a deep treatment to combat dryness and not as a leave-in in my opinion because it can stain things and the body heat that aids the treatment helps your hair absorb what it needs from the palm oil better than if it was used as a leave-in.
Would it be too much? It all depends on how much of it you use (my advice is for you not to use too much).
By the way, the palm oil I used is 100% natural, my grandmother (dad's mum - black) got it straight from it's primary sellers in Africa so I'm sure of how natural and pure it is. Also, it's a reddish, orangey, yellow colour and if it's heated up, it melts to look like a coloured oil.
Thanks - Yeah, soem of the discussion before confused me about the different types, also. Maybe I should stick with my earlier plan of buying coconut oil or shea butter. They sound more user friendly. I know that I can get those locally, too. Thanks again!
I still use Ojon. I put some in my deep treatments. And I also use it on flyaways or just run a bit thru my hair when it feel dry, mostly in the winter. I'm addicted to the scent so I'll probably never give it up. : )
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Happy 100th birthday, Camp Roger!
Camp Roger is having an open house to celebrate its 100th Anniversary this Saturday, June 8th. Beginning at 1:00 pm there will be a host of activities to participate in. Come enjoy our boats and canoes, climbing tower, and nature center. We will also have archery, fishing, guided hikes and s'mores. A special history museum will be open, as well as the camp store. After a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday," cake will be served at 3:30 pm. Summer campers will have the opportunity to meet the 2013 summer staff. Camp alumni will be able to visit with past camp friends during a special "legacy time" which will take place on Boys Hill.
We hope you will join us as we commemorate this milestone and celebrate God's faithfulness to Camp Roger! More information is available in the Happenings section of the Camp Roger for more about the schedule, parking and other information.
Doug Vanderwell, Executive Director, speaks of the camps long history, "Children have been enjoying summer camp experiences since 1913 on the shore's of Little Bostwick. Camp Roger used to be owned by St. Marks Church downtown Grand Rapids and was a summer camp for their renown boys choir camp. In 1941 Camp Roger changed ownership and became an independent non-profit Christian summer camp. Each year more than 1500 summer campers enjoy a 3, 5 or 8 day long overnight camp experience. Our niche is to have a top quality staff that take kids out in nature to explore and discover God's creation. Camp Roger focuses on activities such as canoeing, kayaking, camping, hiking, playing games, and of course, making friends and memories."
"I encourage parents to call Camp Roger and come our for a tour if they are considering signing their kids up for summer camp. Of course, there is plenty of information on the website where they can sign up too."