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Your heart misleads you. That's what my friends and family say. But I love Noah. And he loves me. We met and fell in love in the sleepy farming community of Meadowview, while we rode our horses together through the grassy fields and in those moments in each other's arms. It should be ROSE & NOAH forever, easy. But it won't be. Because he's Amish. And I'm not.
Sherry has lived with her family in a sealed bunker since things went wrong up above. But when they run out of food, Sherry and her dad must venture outside. There they find a world of devastation, desolation...and the Weepers: savage, mutant killers. When Sherry's dad is snatched, she joins forces with gorgeous but troubled Joshua - an Avenger, determined to destroy the Weepers. But can Sherry keep her family and Joshua safe, when his desire for vengeance threatens them all?
Tess, daughter of a blacksmith, has visions of the future, but she still doesn't expect to be accused of witchcraft, forced to flee with her two best friends, or offered shelter by the handsome and enigmatic Garth Huntsman, a warden for Dragonswood. But Garth is the younger prince in disguise and Tess soon learns that her true father was fey, making them the center of an exciting, romantic adventure, and an ancient prophecy that will bring about peace between all three races - dragon, human, and fairy
Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of twelve princesses condemned to dance each night for the King Under Stone. Together Galen and Rose will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to dance at the midnight balls. All they need is one invisibility cloak, a black wool chain knit with enchanted silver needles, and that most critical ingredient of all—true love—to conquer their foes in the dark halls below. But malevolent forces are working against them above ground as well, and as cruel as the King Under Stone has seemed, his wrath is mere irritation compared to the evil that awaits Galen and Rose in the brighter world above.
Pearl grows from a mysterious child into an unusual young woman, not always welcomed in the village. As all the other girls her age find husbands, she has only one friend to ease her loneliness. One very special, secret companion: Prince James.
But their friendship is shaken when trouble erupts in the kingdom a conspiracy against the royal family combines with an evil enchantment from beneath the sea. Now, just when Pearl and James need each other most, bewitching magic and hints about Pearl's past threaten to tear them apart...forever.
Carrie Ryan - The dark and hollow places.
There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.
Annah's world stopped that day, and she's been waiting for Elias to come home ever since. Somehow, without him, her life doesn't feel much different than the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Until she meets Catcher, and everything feels alive again.
But Catcher has his own secrets. Dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah has longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's up to Annah: can she continue to live in a world covered in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?
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Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, Volume 65
1st Edition
Table of Contents
NMR Studies of Antimicrobial Peptides H.J. Vogel*, E.F. Haney
NMR Studies of Protein Folding Prof. M. Demura*, M. Miguguchi and K. Kauvans
Applications of NOE in Molecular Biology Prof. M.P. Williamson
Recent Applications of REDOR to Biological Problems Prof. T. Gullion
Electrophoretic NMR-Ions, Molecules, Mixtures, Pores and Complexes P. C. Griffiths
Two Dimensional NMR on Biopsy and In Vivo S. Ramadan*, C.E. Mountford
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an analytical tool used by chemists and physicists to study the structure and dynamics of molecules. In recent years, no other technique has gained such significance as NMR spectroscopy. It is used in all branches of science where precise structural determination is required and where the nature of interactions and reactions in solution is being studied. Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy has established itself as a premier means for the specialist and non-specialist alike to become familiar with new techniques and applications of NMR spectroscopy.
Key Features
- Provides updates on the latest developments in NMR spectroscopy
- Includes comprehensive review articles
- Highlights the increasing importance of NMR spectroscopy as a technique for structural determination
Organic, inorganic, analytical and physical chemists, biochemists, structural biologists, physicists and all those studying and using NMR spectroscopy.
- No. of pages:
- 434
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2009
- Published:
- 21st April 2009
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080885087
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780123747341
Ratings and Reviews
About the Editors
Graham Webb Editor
Editor of about 150 volumes, mostly dealing with aspects of NMR. Retired Professor of Chemistry from the University of Surrey.
Affiliations and Expertise
Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, London, UK

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I'm becoming a couponing queen, and in modern times couponing is no longer clipping out of magazines and newspapers its gone digital!
South Africa has caught onto the concept and is doing an excellent job of it. There are a few apps and sites that I use with almost every shopping trip I do. Now these are exclusive to South Africa, some are bound to a particular shop and others are open to many.
Snap n save: Is an open one, with a long list of shops you can shop at ranging from Pick n pay, Spar, Checkers, Checkers Hyper, Makro, Woolworths, Shoprite Usave, Food lovers market, Clicks, Dischem and so many more.
How does it work: Register, Log on to the website or app and check what offers are available, click on 'book' if its an offer you'd like to buy. Your booked offers go into "booked offers" you have 48 hours from booking to buy the items before they are removed from your booked offers.
Shop at one of the listed shops buy the item and keep your till slip, when you get home ( Or in the car or where ever really) log into your snap n save account, click on snap and follow the prompts, which will guide you through submitting your till slip ( select store you shopped at, select the items you did buy) and take the photo or photos if your slip is long. Be sure to include the whole slip, with date and time, store name, and goods purchased. Click on submit.
It can take up to 4 days to get your money back in your virtual wallet.
For more in depth FAQ,s go check their page..
Where can I spend my cash back: when you have more than R10 in your e-wallet you can cash out. You can choose either to have it eft'd into your banks account, or changed into a wicode. A wicode is a 7 digit number that is entered at the till when you have shopped at one of the participating stores and that amount is deducted from your total. The participating stores list is constantly growing, right now it includes: Checkers, Checkers Hyper,Pick n Pay, Pick n Pay Hyper, Dischem, Cellucity to name a .few
Sign up now using my unique promo code "Laurend826" to claim your R10 when you snap your first till slip.
Unilever: This one is specific to Unilever products and works on wicodes or your cell phone number depending on the store. The participating stores are: Spar, Checkers, Pick n Pay, Dischem and Shoprite. Start by going to the Unilever site, register, choose a shop, their offers are then displayed. Each retailer seems to have wicodes that run from the first of each month to the last day of the month. You may only buy one of an item at each shop ( but if Pick n Pay, Checkers and Spar have the same offer you may buy one from each of them as they all have different wicodes)
Add the item you want to your basket and checkout, a unique wicode is then sms'd to you. You tell the cashier you have a wicode and they enter it when when they have rung up your purchases, your discount is then applied and taken off your final total.
So that's an instant cash back deal :)
You can also use Snap n Save on any applicable deals so at times its a double coupon.
Pick n pay app: This one only started the beginning of April but is really proving itself. Its connected to your smart shopper card and has improved on many features. Namely they now give you discounts based on what you frequently buy at pick n pay, and even give you money off coupons if you spend over a certain amount ( R5 off R50 or more spent, R10 off R80 or more spent are two I have received) so if you frequently buy a certain brand of bread, or coffee etc you now get discounts!
You start by downloading the app, register using your smart shopper card, offers unique to you are listed, you select the ones you want and they are automatically loaded onto your smart shopper card! As easy as that. Buy the listed items, swipe your card at the till and the discounts are deducted. If you don't buy them on that day they are saved until you use them or they expire ( they have a one to two week time frame depending on the offer. New offers are loaded weekly, from what I can tell that happens on a Thursday)
( here you can use your pick n pay discount and a snap n save discount on the same item if it is applicable eg: Snap n Save have a weekly discount on any brand of bread and any brand of milk 1 litre or more. So if Pick n Pay has a discount on bread or milk you can actually coupon twice.)
Also did you know that as a smart shopper card holder you can get the pick n pay food magazine for free each month?
Spar app: Spar app is new to me, I knew the loyalty card existed but was told by a few different spars that the card was bound to a particular store, so if you shopped at a few different spar stores you had to have an independent card for each store. That seemed impractical to me. With the app you don't need a spar card, you register, select the items you want to buy from their offers. Go to your preferred spar, buy the selected items, tell the cashier you have special offer items and want to enter your cell number, you then enter your cell phone number at the till point and the discount comes off. The offers seem to be valid for around a month.
Checkers site: Checkers site has a wicode option, you can select offers, or browse the offers available and get a general code for all the offers. I found this one the least user friendly as I never got the code sent to my cell number, but it always worked if I entered my husbands number.I also found that the offers haven't been changed in many months, I'd go as far as saying this whole year. But saving is saving and if they have items you want to buy on their promo list use the code, enter the wicode at the till point and the discount is applied.
Some tips:
1. Make sure you are buying the correct brand/size/flavour listed on the coupon or it won't apply. Some coupons are very specific about size/weight/flavour eg: 'Sasko brown bread 700g'. others will just say 'any brown bread'.
2. Check the expiration date of the coupon and use it timeously.
3. I make a list of the coupon items on my grocery list, I add the wicode next to the item so I don't forget to mention it to the cashier.
4. Keep your till slips for Snap n Save until you have your cash in your e-wallet for that item. Sometimes for unknown reasons an item can be rejected, you can resubmit for that item if you're sure it was an error on their part. I have had this happen twice and both times I got the cash manually added to my e-wallet within 48 hours of resubmitting.
5. Use reusable shopping bags, have you recently checked the price for a bag? Using your own bags can save you around R4 a week, that may not sound like much but a saving of around R20 a month is not bad, and also fantastic for the environment.
Just for interest I tracked my savings for the month of April, and they are as follows;
Snap n Save: R49.80
Unilever: R172
Pick n Pay: R97.41
Spar: R8
Checkers: 0
Making my savings for April R327.21
My savings on bags for the month is around R30 as I did a big grocery shop, and a bulk buy at Makro.
I'm excited to see what the savings for May will be :)


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Results are in; Mashable Web Awards for 2008
Hey hey and a ho ho ho to all (or any other festive feeling that may apply:0)… just a quick post to highlight the winners of the Mashable Web Awards from today. There are likely a few new sites for you to check out as I've found a few nuggets already. Of interest YouTube came second for video, how wierd is that? My personal fav, iGoogle, did a respectable second in the best start page category (behind parent papa Google). From dating and gossip to politics, there is plenty to keep you busy.
Congrats to all the winners from the gang here at Collective Thoughts and to you my fine reader, get festive and surf some new finds. And now the final winners (and runners up) for the Mashable Web Awards for 2008;
Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks
|Winner: Netlog
|Runner-up: Platinum Lounge
Embeddable Widgets
|Winner: Qoof
|Runner-up: Sprout
Blog Plugins
|Winner: ShareThis
|Runner-up: AddThis
Social News
|Winner: Help a Reporter Out
|Runner-up: Hubdub
Social Networking Applications
|Winner: Aritition
|Runner-up: Digsby
Social Bookmarking
|Winner: Diigo
|Runner-up: ShareThis
Search & Social Search
|Winner: Scour
|Runner-up: Artiklz
Sports & Fitness
|Winner: Gyminee
|Runner-up: FitFiend
Photo Sharing
|Winner: ipernity
|Runner-up: TinyPic
Video Sharing
|Winner: ffwd
|Runner-up: YouTube
Start Pages
|Winner: Google
|Runner-up: iGoogle
Places & Events
|Winner: Doodle
|Runner-up: Muchmor
|Winner: SpottedByLocals
|Runner-up: GeckoGo
|Winner: Noisetrade
|Runner-up: Last.fm
Social Shopping
|Winner: Pikaba
|Runner-up: A Full Cup
|Winner: Coolspotters
|Runner-up: Polyvore
Celebrity & Gossip
|Winner: Oh No They Didn't
|Runner-up: BollyScoops
Mobile Applications
|Winner: Evernote
|Runner-up: MocoSpace
Dating & Romance
|Winner: Zoosk
|Runner-up: DateHookup
|Winner: Encyclopedia Dramatica
|Runner-up: WikiHow
|Winner: Politics4All
|Runner-up: CreateDebate
|Winner: A Full Cup
|Runner-up: College Cram
|Winner: Ecomii
|Runner-up: Gazelle
Non-Profit Causes
|Winner: Stop Political Calls
|Runner-up: SocialVibe
Online Games
|Winner: Playfish
|Runner-up: Power Pets
Niche Social Networks
|Winner: The Star Tracker
|Runner-up: Wadja
And there's the list for this year… for more see the Mashable Web Awards for 2008


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Behind the creative effort that is apparent in the displays, finishes, lighting, signage and decorative accessories in a newly redesigned store is the hard work and systematic progression of tasks that lead from concept to completion. By controlling the process with detailed planning and a communications loop to all entities that comprise the building team, a foundation exists for sales-generating retailing with a fresh targeted personality.
That is the advice of store planners, designers and contractors polled by INStore. Here are some of the "Do's and Don'ts of Successful Redesign," contributed by Michael Stevenson, president of AAD, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Robert Young, CEO of Robert Young Associates, Dallas and San Francisco; and Michael Ratner, president of Richter & Ratner Contracting Co., Maspeth, N.Y.
All agree that getting people to plan is difficult but critically important to a project that meets its timetable and budgetary parameters.
Redesign Do's * Do take advantage of the existing facility as a learning tool by visiting the location together; * Validate expectations for the project against the real world. For particularly tricky estimates, hire an estimating specialist; * Schedule periodic meetings where designers, contractors, management representatives, regional store managers, etc. can give feedback; and * Save costs by buying long-lead items at the start of the project.
Redesign Don'ts * Don't overdesign. The merchandise always must show through the store's environment. Take a step back and perceive it through a shopper's eyes; * Avoid situations where the contractor, owner and designer are working at cross purposes. Resolve any conflicts of interest promptly; * Don't be surprised. Integrate current codes and implications of Building Department constraints from the outset to minimize redesign fees. Expect the unexpected and allow for a safe contingency; and * Don't stray from the agreed-upon scope of work.
INStore has selected three projects where the end product is the result of clearly defining the redesign's objective and organizing a close client/designer/builder team.
Vilma Barr is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in the retail market.


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Hello and welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop. We are so honoured to have a very special guest Shannon Lane from Alberta, Canada joining us. Shannon is part of the Artisan team and super talented. As part of the hop we get to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) any card or project by Shannon.
I have chosen to CASE Shannon's cute and adorable 'Tasty Trucks' card below. I love the repeating stamping of tacos for the background and makes a great custom dsp. The design is so fun and modern and the watercolouring is gorgeous.
Make sure you continue to hop all the way around and see all the amazing inspiration from the Crazy Crafters team. You are going to love what our team have come up with using Shannon's cards. Currently you are at my blog: Juana Ambida - so check the list to see who is up next. Enjoy!
Thank you for stopping by and hope to see you next time. Happy Crafting! :)
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n Mondays, I have two children with me, a five month old and an inevitably bored-for-some-of-the-day three year old. Today, to combat said boredom, satisfy my/his sweet tooth and take my mind off the fact we STILL haven't heard from the solicitor, I took to Google to figure out what could be done to rectify the situation. Today I'm cooking for necessity - there is no room for error here; one mistake resulting in less than perfect produce will inspire a tantrum worthy of, well, a three year old. Anything that takes longer to do than ten minutes results in flour, butter or anything else he can get his hands on being flung about the kitchen and on to the dog. So, no making up of recipes here!
We ended up making some deliciously gooey Jammy Biscuits to pass some time; just five ingredients and a pair of clean hands and you're off (NB in our house clean finger nails and no sight of bogies passes for clean – his bogies that is), with lovely, time saving instructions fromhttp://www.bbcgoodfood.com. Hard to get wrong, this forgiving dough allows little hands to abuse it and still turn out a biscuit you'd give to a friend rather than an enemy… and the fact that these particular little hands made less than perfectly shaped biscuits (those on Good Food were clearly made by, oooh, say, a five year old), makes them all the more endearing. The only thing I'd note is to use bloody good jam – is it worth doing any less?
How to?
- Measure out 200g self-raising flour, 100g sugar (recipe calls for caster but only had granulated so it had to do) and 100g butter and get your little hands to rub
together to make a breadcrumb like texture – 'i said rub, not throw!'
- Finish off for them when they get bored.
- Dribble in a lightly beaten egg and get those hands in again to form a dough – I left this to the little hands – I have nice nails and I'd like to keep them that way.
- Roll said dough into a sausage about 5cm in diameter and cut into 2cm thick rounds – you'll end up with 12 or so.
- Stick your little ones finger in the middle of each to make an indentation into which you're going to plop a teaspoon of jam (alternating a spoon full for yourself of course).
- Put them on a baking tray, leaving a good 3cm around each one for spreadage and bake for 10-12 minutes at 190 degrees.
- I don't need to tell you that hot jam is like molten lava, so make sure you leave them a bit before you get greedy and shove one in in one go…. erm I mean allow your little horror to eat one delicately (I'm not talking from experience here or anything…).
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All surgeons have differing levels of training, experience and expertise. Plastic surgeons practice cosmetic plastic and reconstructive surgery. To qualify as plastic surgeons a doctor must be trained through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), which involves a minimum of 10 years of extensive training and exams after graduation from medical school. Most are also members of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), a group whose members are ALL trained through RACS.
In Australia, just about anyone with a basic medical degree is allowed to perform cosmetic surgery. In fact, currently there is no legislation in place which stops any doctor, even your local GP, without having undergone formal surgical training to call themselves a 'surgeon'.
Your only safeguard is to look for the letters FRACS (PLAS.) under a doctor's name and check that they are affiliated with the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), as only fully qualified plastic surgeons have these titles and memberships.


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Oh no! What have I done!? Three years old and very first hair cut.
I wanted to see if her curls were permanent; she was happy to get a boy cut (where in this world lots of little girls want to be princesses, my daughter wants to be a boy). A fever kept her a sleep most of the next day, so I haven't had the chance to examine the extent of curl loss. Its wavy and bouncy (and she is
Lucy, she seemed a bit disappointed as she didn't look much like a boy after the hair cut. Maybe I need to go shorter.


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Alvogen has picked up a portfolio of four pharmaceutical products from Pfizer in the US, in a move designed to strengthen and diversify its offering in the region.
The deal includes three of Pfizer's injectable products and one inhaled solution.
The antibiotic injection clindamycin and inhaled acetylcysteine, which is used to prevent liver damage after paracetamol overdose, are already on the market. Acetylcysteine will continue to be marketed by Fresenius with Alvogen receiving profit sharing payments.
The agreement also gives the private US pharma two pending ANDA's - the antifungal voriconazole and chemotherapy melphalan - both of which represent a generic market "with limited participation" and are scheduled for potential launch next year.
"These products will complement as well as significantly strengthen our existing portfolio, further enhancing our customer offering," said chairman and chief executive Robert Wessman.
Pfizer is divesting the drugs under a precondition of closing its $17-billion purchase of Hospira, for which it received final regulatory approvals from the US and Brazil this week.


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At Otterbein, we believe in working together to improve, to grow and to address issues.
As others have expressed, on issues this important, the work is never done. Otterbein's commitment to equity and inclusiveness is rooted in our history and will only strengthen as we go forward.
I am proud of our faculty, staff, and in particular, our students, who challenged their institution to do more. Otterbein students know their voice is valued, listened to and respected here. That is why their concerns from Spring 2016 are noted on this page alongside the University's action and progress. Otterbein cares about what is right, what is just and what our responsibilities as a model community should include.
I hope in the coming months, this page will serve as a useful and readily accessible resource to learn more about the University's continuing efforts. I also hope it will serve as another place to share new ideas and insight that will help us consider things from many different perspectives.
The work for advancing equity and inclusion does not belong to any one person, office, department or division. It requires investment and care from every one of us. Our commitment to transparency and shared responsibilities is one of the reasons we created this page.
Otterbein's Diversity & Inclusion Multi-year Plan and our scorecard address many of the issues that have been expressed. Our faculty members have been invested in thoughtful, scholarly retreats and seminars. A new minor in race and ethnicity studies has been created. Our student body diversity is strengthening. This is all good news but the work is not done.
I have always believed that there is room for disagreement—as long as we can have respectful and civil discourse. We should all hold ourselves accountable to that. Let me also be clear that if anyone sees, hears or experiences any incident of bias, I want them to report it to the Otterbein Police. Students can also share their concerns with a faculty or staff member as well as any member of Residence Life.
I look forward to the meaningful work we will share in—together. It is part of our institutional DNA to work collaboratively. That is, in truth, the best and only way we will make substantive progress.
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and Vice President for Student Affairs / Dean of Students
If you see, hear or experience an incident of bias or discrimination, report it immediately to the Otterbein Police at 614.823.1222, or via the Silent Witness form. You should also contact the Associate Dean of Student Affairs at 614.823.1250. For a full list of reporting options, please read the Bias Incident Reporting Policy (PDF).
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Colorful flowers, perky potted plants, flirty garden flags, soothing candles, and chances to win it all. Oh, what fun is in store for shoppers at Audrey's Attic in Orrvile, Ohio this April! Throughout the month, the quaint little country store near Dalton, Ohio and Smithville, Ohio is treating its patrons to a string of specials. The ladies minding the store believe that April showers bring May flowers, and they want to rain some savings on you.
Highlights include Crossroads Candles at 25 percent off. With scents matching such scrumptious delights as Banana Nut Bread, Country Breakfast, and Sweet Pear Crisp, these candles warm your heart as they tickle your senses. Let them flavor the air in a room adorned with perky potted plants, known as greens at Audrey's Attic, and your mood is bound to be uplifted. All greens at what may become your favorite country store are 30 percent off all month. Irish Ivy, Angel Vine, Boston Fern, and Berry Bush with White Berries are among your options.
If you're thinking about transferring potted plants into your garden or maybe just sprucing up around your door, garden flags are probably on your shopping list. Whether you like them patriotic or popping with pastels, the choice is yours at a 30 percent discount at Audrey's Attic in Orrville. A ride from Dalton or a short trip from Smithville may be worth it if only for the flowers; also 30 percent off. Bunches, bouquets, and full blooms are available to top your table or remind someone that they are special to you. Get some today and you won't have to wait for April showers outdoors before you can stop and smell the flowers indoors.
Later this month, from April 22 to April 27, the courteous staff at the cute country store will increase your flower power by offering all flowers at 50 percent off. This extra special discount is pairing up with the Daisy Drawings. Named for the most meticulous member of the team at Audrey's Attic, Daisy the cat, the drawings are open to all shoppers. Patrons who spend $10 during Daisy's week will receive a chance to win one of three in-store gift certificates. First prize is worth $100, second prize is worth $50, and third prize is worth $25. The number of entries per person is unlimited. So that means if you treat yourself to $60 of candles, potted plants, fresh flowers, and garden flags – you will have six chances to win up to $100 more. Winners will be drawn at the close of business on April 27 and notified immediately.
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Hello to all.
I am relatively new to the poetic romances of John Keats. I have a question regarding one of his letters to Fanny Brawne. Here is an excerpt from the letter:
". . .I love you; all I can bring you is a swooning admiration of your Beauty. . . . You absorb me in spite of myself--you alone: for I look not forward with any pleasure to what is call'd being settled in the world; I tremble at domestic cares--yet for you I would meet them, though if it would leave you the happier I would rather die than do so."
I've seen this letter on various John Keats/Poetry websites, some with a date of May 3, 1818, and others (including John-Keats.com) with a date of July 25, 1819. I would think May 3, 1818 too early in their relationship for such a letter, but it is still confusing. Here is a comment from one such website:
"Keats wrote "Bright Star" in 1819 and revised it in 1820, perhaps on the (final) voyage to Italy. Friends and his doctor had urged him to try a common treatment for tuberculosis, a trip to Italy; however, Keats was aware that he was dying. Some critics have theorized that this poem was addressed to his fiance, Fanny Brawne, and connect the poem to his May 3, 1818 letter to her." http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/engli ... /star.html
Can someone please clarify this matter? I know there is a May 3, 1818 letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, but was there also a letter to Fanny? Without knowing, I would think not. The July 25, 1819 date seems more reasonable (to my senses).


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Winter is in full force around here! We had three snow days this week and I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be able to leave our house right now if we wanted to. Bring on the lazy weekend! Of course "lazy" for us means sewing all the pretty things! And we do have lots of new pretty things to sew. At CKC we started off January strong with a bunch of amazing new patterns. Check them out!
New Releases
First of all, we just released Vanessa's Ruffled Skirt in both babies and girls sizes! Vanessa's Ruffled Skirt is an adorable addition to any wardrobe. It includes a full skirt with ruffled detailing on the outer layer and a soft, stretchy waistband that allows for easy dressing and a perfect fit. Vanessa's will definitely be a boutique staple and a favorite with your little girl.
Now take a look at Wilhelmina's Transformation Dress! This is any little girls' dream come true! It literally transforms from a short dainty dress with a full skirt into a mind-blowing ball gown. With its many unique options, it is sure to leave all that see it in awe. Options included are faux coat tails, apron, split skirt, bustles, gathered skirt, simple skirt and anything you need to create the perfect dress of your girl's imagination!
Then don't forget to grab our free cut file, "Baby it's Cold Outside"! Bring that sense of holiday nostalgia with lyrics from one of the greatest winter classics. This design features snowflakes to mix and match in any ways you like and our own hand lettered font that you're sure to only find right here.
And now we're excited to show you our three new baby patterns! These designs have been really popular in our kids' sizing so we know you're going to love them for babies. Plus, all three are on sale this weekend:
Baby Winnie's features both dress and sweater lengths, kangaroo pocket, and a hood with two optional ear templates to let your creativity soar! This pattern is sure to keep baby warm all winter long. Perfect for girls or boys! Your wardrobe will not be complete without this fabulous pattern. Fleece or stretch fur fabric required.
Bexley's Beautiful Bubble Romper features a low to mid-thigh length, bubble bottom that has no elastic touching the body to allow for free movement and maximum comfort. It also features a gorgeous bow in back. The front straps have a secret hidden snap fastener inside the front bodice for easy on and off. Bexley's is adorable layered over tights and a long sleeved tee in cold weather too!
The third new baby pattern is Bailey's! These fun bubble shorts are so comfy and the perfect addition to your daughter's wardrobe. Don't be afraid to layer over leggings for the winter! They're great paired with your favorite CKC tops or even a store-bought tee. So super cute!
Don't forget the three new baby patterns are on sale this weekend!
On the Blog
I already mentioned the snow days, but would you believe it's -20 degrees here today? Yes, that's twenty below zero! Brrr. But even if you live in a place that's warm, today's free project on the blog will be lots of fun for you too! The idea is to crochet a row for each day of the year based on the temperature, and then you end up with an awesome blanket! (I could use a few of those right now.)
It's a new month and our new set of Designer Deals are live! Here's your chance to stock up on some of our favorite patterns at half the price. Each of our designers picked a favorite for the list, so you know they're going to be good!
We have a new sew-along coming up on January 10! If you missed out on Logan's blazer pattern last month when it released, be sure to grab it now! It's just $5 for baby or boy sizes, and you can read all about them by clicking here. Then come on over to the CKC Sew-alongs group and you'll be all set for a super fun sew-along with prizes! Logan's is perfect for Valentine's Day, Easter, church, weddings, dress up, or even a fun casual jacket in his favorite character print. If you've always wanted to sew something amazing, come join us and we'd love to walk through Logan's with you!
That's it for our Weekly Wound Up. With all these great new releases and sales, don't forget about our automatic Tiered Pricing. The more you buy, the more you save! That's never a bad thing, right? We hope you have a great weekend and stay warm!
Let's Create! ~ Kristen


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Roy Snelling, an internationally renowned entomologist who turned his boyhood fascination with insects into a lifelong study of the secret world of ants, wasps and bees, has died. He was 73.
Snelling died in his sleep April 21, apparently after suffering a heart attack while in Kenya conducting a field study of rare ants and bees.
The world Snelling dedicated his life to understanding is one that most people know only vaguely, and then only as an annoyance: a buzzing, stinging, crawling menace to picnics and backyard barbecues.
During his 30-year career at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County -- the last six as collections manager -- Snelling became a leading expert in all things hymenoptera. He amassed a premier research collection of ants, his specialty.


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I really adore the boys in A MAD, WICKED FOLLY.
I have a soft spot for them, I really do. There are actually two boys in Vicky's life. There's Edmund Carrick-Humphrey, Vicky's fiancé. He's very handsome and suave in that Dominic Cooper kind of way. He's very much a frat boy and all he really wants out of life is to have fun. He and Vicky start out with a lot in common because they are both in trouble. Edmund's father had to bail him out of some financial difficulties, which led to a scandal. So he and Vicky bond over their shared woes.
And then there is the sensitive, kind, and gallant PC William Fletcher. He's very swoony and handsome and he's also Vicky's art muse. Vicky meets him after running into him, literally, at a suffragette riot. Will moved to London from the country to become a police constable and to write. His dream is to publish novelettes, and he and Vicky collaborate. Vicky draws him for her art portfolio, and she illustrates his stories. Will understands Vicky probably more than she understands herself.
Full disclosure: my husband is a retired Metropolitan mounted police officer, but Will is not based on him.
Well, the swoony part was! : )
A Mad, Wicked Folly Synopsis:
The year is 1909. After seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling poses nude for her art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school and shipped back to London to live with her parents. To minimize the scandal Vicky has caused, her parents inform her that she is to marry the young man they have selected for her, Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. She is not to continue painting. Vicky knows little about Edmund but accepts the match, reasoning that she can use his money to pay for tuition at the Royal College of Art.
But things don't go according to plan. Despite her engagement, Vicky develops an interest in the handsome young police constable William Fletcher, an aspiring novelist who encourages Vicky to pursue her dreams. She goes quickly from seeing Will as an artistic muse to seeing him as much more, all the while knowing that she could never be with a man so far below her class.
When Vicky becomes entangled with a group of suffragettes, she comes to realize that the constraints on her aspirations and independence don't apply only to her—they apply to all women. But how can she fight for women's equality and pursue the life that she wants without driving away everyone and everything that she's known?
About Sharon Biggs Waller:
Sharon Biggs Waller is a novelist and award-winning non-fiction writer who lives on a 10-acre sustainable farm in northwest Indiana with two horses, four dairy goats, four cats, two dogs, and 60 laying hens.
She is a dressage trainer who for many years was a Civil Service Club instructor at the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace in London.
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Boko Haram Abducts 91 Girls and Boys
Less than two months after mass campaigns to #BringBackOurGirls, even more have been abducted from their homes during attacks on villages in Nigeria. ABC News reports that extremists led by Boko Haram abducted 60 young girls and women and 31 young boys in an attack on Saturday that killed three villagers. Of the 91 people abducted, some were as young as three-years-old. The ongoing fight between Boko Haram and vigilantes continues as governments across the globe look to help Nigerian military forces. Although the US has gotten involved in the search for Boko Haram and his prisoners, the 219 girls taken from their school in April remain captive.
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One of the heroes receives a broad hint that something unpleasant might happen any kind of bad thing, from the plans of a Mole to a debilitating disease. It could come in the form of a prophecy, an important clue picked up off a defeated enemy, an inconclusive medical test... the form varies depending on the context.
In a classic example of Genre Blindness, the hero carefully evaluates the hint and concludes almost immediately that it is most likely meaningless, regardless of the reliability of its source. And he will keep doing that even though additional, corroborating hints start showing up, until it is almost too late.
Because if he didn't, he'd solve the mystery, foil the criminal, or seek out proper treatment in the first act of the show, and then where would we be for the next forty-five minutes?
Which is why, on the rare circumstance that the hero does go after it it proves to be a Red Herring.
Many security guards (especially in video games, for gameplay reasons) are prone to this as well. Hearing a noise or seeing something out of the corner of their eye, they'll investigate for a moment, or their "more experienced" partner will tell them it's just a rat, or a stray dog, or something else innocuous, and say something along the lines of "It's probably nothing". At which point they get knocked out/captured/killed/eaten. (See The Guards Must Be Crazy.)
This is an instance of someone holding the Idiot Ball, provided the event is out of the ordinary in some way. Expect The Great Detective to berate the fool for his casual dismissal of the occurrence, probably during The Reveal.
Possibly the opposite of a Cat Scare. Not to be confused with Within Parameters, which is related. Also related to Convenient Decoy Cat.
A case of some Truth in Television as each area has a large assortment of ambient sounds that individuals become familiar with and often ignore possibly at their detriment. Similarly, as a part of the "denial response" or "freeze response" that is just as much a reaction to danger as fight or flight, it is also Truth in Television that people tend to dismiss or ignore unusual bodily symptoms (even those of blatant heart attacks or strokes or obvious cancers), fail to call the fire department during the early stages of a potential fire, insist on ignoring tornado warnings until they can sight the tornado, often don't flee or shelter from disasters in general, and don't flee or defend against criminal attack (even to the degree of locking doors or calling police) until it's far too late. The key to not letting this trope kill you in real life is to keep in mind that if you are saying "it's probably nothing," something has made you say that, and further investigation (or in the case of a disaster, just getting the hell out of there and/or obeying the warnings) might be an inconvenience that proves it was nothing after all, or it might save your life.
- The Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series example, as well as the original; Tristan somehow manages to sneak up on a guard while wearing a full suit of plate armor for no well-defined reason.
- In the Abridged Series, it's because of the Rule of Funny.
- Played with in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. Sonic is relaxing on the beach and Tails goes out to the ocean to try his new machine, it goes out of control and he begins screaming for Sonic to help him. Sonic, who just wants to relax, dismisses it as "probably nothing". Tails continues screaming for Sonic, and he finally yells at him to shut up.
- Played straight in Fullmetal Alchemist when anytime the plot calls on Alphonse to rescue Ed, you are almost guaranteed a scene with a giant suit of armor sneaking around.
- Let's not forget when Edward asked do you think the Führer could be a Homunculus, he and his brother busted out laughing at how ridiculous that sounded.
- In the Yotsuba Arc of Death Note, Memoryless!Light considers the possibility that he may be Kira, finds it a bit too likely for comfort and so dismisses it.
- Ranma ½:
Genma: What's that?
Soun: The wind, probably.
- Jojos Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The team has been chased around the world by characters with mysterious powers that manifest in all sorts of crazy ways, they end up in a strangely lifeless town covered in fog in India, and after being rudely brushed off by a store owner, Joseph notices roaches crawling on the man's neck. The natural reaction? "I must've been imagining things."
- In a chapter of Pokémists: Pocket Alchemists, a Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic, the four main characters stumble into an enemy meeting by breaking through the wall, and the bad guys in the meeting assume it was the rain. They keep assuming it is the rain even when the good guys talk at normal volume and even yell "You people are...IDIOTS!" The bad guys finally notice the good guys because one of them SNEEZES.
- In the Firefly / Doctor Who crossover fanfic The Man with No Name, while some of the Serenity crew is hunting Reavers in some woods, they all suddenly stop, thinking they heard something. The Doctor opts to barrel through anyway. Guess what he walks right into?
- In the Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic Decks Fall Everyone Dies, Joey ignores the fact that he is coughing up blood while thinking this.
- In The Darkness Series, a Harry Potter AU where Harry is being corrupted by the Dark Side, Hermione notices Harry is changing but just thinks it's stress brought on by the Tri-Wizard Tournament.
- Played with in Red Fire, Red Planet. In the first two chapters the crew of Starfleet Listening Post 204RT pick up subspace anomalies, and Crewman Yasmin Sherazi is insistent that there's something going on despite the fact the others think there's just a problem with the warp drive on the USS DeWitt, a ship which was not on the schedule.note OS1. Bikog gets really hyper when he insists there's nothing there. But then OS2. Kybok spots a tachyon burst in the logs and Lt. ch'Kreem decides to take the listening post's shuttle out for a look-see.
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Occurs when the Ulysses picks up the Leviathan on sonar. Commander Rourke wonders if it could be a pod of whales, but it soon stops, leading Sinclair to say it's gone now. Seconds later the Leviathan attacks.
- Star Wars:
- The first time this happens in A New Hope, it's an Inversion. Obi-Wan uses a Jedi Mind Trick against two stormtroopers on the Death Star, and they do what competent guards should do, they investigate. Though in that case it really was nothing; Obi-Wan did it to cover his escape in the other direction.
- In Revenge of the Sith, two Super Battle Droids are investigating the crashed Jedi starfighters in the hangar bay. When one hears Artoo lurking in a corner, the other stops him, saying it's nothing.
- After the characters watch Star Wars 4-6 in Spaced, Tim declares that entire plot wouldn't have happened if the Imperial gunner in A New Hope hadn't dismissed the escape pod carrying R2D2 and C3PO down to Tatooine as nothing to worry about.
- Humourously referenced in Family Guy: Blue Harvest. "Wait, hold your fire, there are no life forms aboard that vessel", "Wait, hold your fire? What, are we paying by the laser now?" "Hey Terry, you don't do the budget but I DO."
- Also referenced and subverted in Darths & Droids:
Gunnery Captain Bolvan: Shoot it! Shoot it!
Lieutenant Hija: But it has no life forms, sir.
Gunnery Captain Bolvan: Oh right... because there's no such things as sentient metallic beings with no life readings in this universe...
Lieutenant Hija: I'll just shoot it down, shall I sir?
- Spider-Man 3, when Marko's presence in the test chamber is immediately dismissed as just a bird.
- Played with in Pan's Labyrinth. Early in the movie, Ofelia hears some creepy noises coming from the walls of the house at night, and her mother explains it as the sounds of the house settling. Later, Ofelia narrowly escapes the Pale Man's lair with the Pale Man chasing after her; and once she gets back into the house, the Pale Man pounding on the door behind her makes the exact same "house-settling" noises Ofelia heard earlier.
- In Duck Soup, spy Pinky thinks he's opening a wall safe, but instead turns on a radio that plays loud brass band music, leading to this exchange:
Mrs. Teasdale: What's that?
Rufus T. Firefly: Sounds to me like mice.
Mrs. Teasdale: Mice? Mice don't play music.
Rufus T. Firefly: No? How about the old mice-tro?
- Played With in an odd way in Star Trek: First Contact—Zefram Cochrane quotes the trope when trying to remember what he might've forgotten to bring with him for the launch of the Phoenix. Just as the final countdown starts, he remembers what it is and starts panicking, saying they can't launch without it. They're about to abort the launch when he finds it in his pocket—a futuristic CD so he can play "Magic Carpet Ride" during the flight.
- A common response used by Steven Glass in Shattered Glass when he's trying to keep his fellow journalists and anyone else interested from catching on to what he's up to.
- Subject of a brief gag in Superman, when a guy working in his skyscraper office catches a glimpse of Superman, or at least his red boots standing sideways on the guy's window, and dismisses it as his imagination.
- In Dragon Bones, the heroes notice that an alleged runaway slave doesn't behave like a slave, for example she hides her pain, which Ward (who had an abusive father) and Oreg (who has been a slave for the last few hundreds of years) know is strange because hiding your pain only provokes the one who caused it to beat you more. They talk about it, but dismiss it as unimportant for the moment. It comes back to bite them when that person turns out to be ... actually a slave, though not at all escaped, but on a mission for her evil master. And she's a sadist herself. Possibly also a masochist, which would explain the pain thing.
- James Ellroy typically does quite a convincing job of this, as we really can't blame the cops a lot of times for ignoring details that genuinely seem inconsequential. It's their bad luck that they're being written by a guy who loves coming up with insanely complicated stories where every little detail matters.
- In the Grimm's Fairly Tales version of Hansel and Gretel, the title siblings hear a voice from within the house, but remark "Never mind, it is the wind."
- In the Solomon Kane story Footfalls Within, by Robert E. Howard, the titular footfalls are blithely dismissed as "nothing" by a bunch of slavers, with foreseeable consequences.
- In Remnants, the programmer of a computer-based perimeter security system puts in a backdoor — the program assumes that any intruder emitting a certain high-pitched tone is a wild pig. This is very useful when he needs to sneak onto a Space Shuttle.
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: "If there's nothing out there, then what was that noise?"
- Here's a fun Drinking Game: Take a sip every time someone in The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) says, "It's only the wind" or something like.
- In the Warrior Cats novel The Forgotten Warrior, Tigerheart warns Dovewing that Dawnpelt believes that Jayfeather killed Flametail, but she brushes it off as nothing several times. Near the climax of the book, Dawnpelt accuses Jayfeather of the murder at a gathering, causing an uproar and making many clan cats hate Jayfeather.
- Star Wars Legends:
- Quite common in Galaxy of Fear, even a few books into the series when you'd think, after constant hazards and all the times it was not nothing, people would be paying attention. Later they learn, a bit, but that just leads to more Red Herring moments.
- In Star Wars: Kenobi, Orrin hears a sound from his office, but dismisses it as a "sand-mouse". The readers have already found out that Ben is snooping around, finding evidence of his embezzling.
- Subverted in late chapters of Water Margin. When Zhang Shun, one of the main characters, is scouting under the walls of Hangzhou, held by rebels under Fang La, he tests the guards' alertness by tossing a lump of clay over the wall. The guards respond by talking aloud that it is probably nothing, but are in fact fully alerted, waiting for something out of ordinary to emerge. When Zhang Shun emerges from his hiding place thinking he is safe, he is struck by a hail of arrows.
- Harris in DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS insists there is a perfectly mundane explanation when he sees the strange woman disappear beneath the waves and not resurface. A variation in that he does go after her to investigate, but simply doesn't expect anything bad to happen.
- In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Doomed", Giles dismisses an earthquake as "shifting landmasses". On the one hand, he is in Southern California. On the other hand, as Buffy points out, the last time they had a decent earthquake in Sunnydale, she died. Buffy is proven right, as it turns out to be a portent of the apocalypse.
- In the first episode of The Crown (2016), King George VI coughs up an alarming amount of blood into his toilet, as an early foreshadowing of the lung cancer that will kill him. When he discusses it with his courtiers later, they assure him that it's probably just the cold. Although in their defence, the King downplayed the extent of the situation when discussing it with them, either out of stoicism or denial.
- Doctor Who: Series 1 had the Arc Words "Bad Wolf" turning up constantly Once an Episode, the words are slipped in somewherenote , and the characters don't notice for ten episodes, and when they do notice it, the Doctor claims the words are following them wherever they go... and then he immediately dismisses it as a coincidence.
- Full House:
Steve: It's probably just the wind.
Stephanie: Just the wind? Just the wind?! It's never JUST THE WIND!
- Mystery Science Theater 3000, episode 904 "Werewolf":
Natalie: What was that noise?
Yuri: It was probably just a car on the highway.
Crow T. Robot: Yes, a car that sounds just like a wolf.
- Power Rangers Dino Thunder: In the first episode, the three soon-to-be-Rangers hear the Mooks of the year coming for them. Kira suggests (without much hope) that it's the wind, and Ethan disagrees.
Ethan: That ain't the wind. As much as we'd like it to be... it ain't.
- In the mini-series Shackleton, after the Endurance is trapped in the Antarctic ice, the crew hears an ominous grinding sound and feels the ship move. Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh) insists that it's the result of a whale mistaking the ship for a hole in the ice. It isn't.
- That Mitchell and Webb Look: The "Everything is Fine" sketch has a mayor of a flooded town releasing a statement on how everything is alright at the moment, except for all the water, which he says will probably "go away after a bit".
- The Twilight Zone, "The Purple Testament", three wounded soldiers conclude that the "explosion" sound must just be thunder.
- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping/As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door./"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door/Only this, and nothing more." (Technically, he was right.)
- Played with in the Low German folk song Dat du mien Leevsten büst, in which a girl asks her lover to visit her at her family home between midnight and one a. m. In the final verse she confidently says: "Knock on my chamber door, grasp the doorknob - father'll think, mother'll think that's just the wind."
- The father in Der Erlkönig repeatedly explains away his son's insistence that the wicked Erl-King is nearby. He blames the valley mist, the the slight breeze, and finally the tree trunks before the Erl-King suddenly kills the son.
- Magic: The Gathering :
"More of that strange oil...It's probably nothing."
- In Scars of Mirrodin, we get Steady Progress' flavor text, invoking the trope by name in reference to Phyrexian oil, which is slowly spreading The Corruption throughout Mirrodin:
- In Innistrad, plane filled with horror tropes, we get Bump in the Night and Feeling of Dread.
- And with the return to Innistrad, we get Just the Wind, asserting that There's nothing to worry about.
- Gilbert and Sullivan inflicted this on the entire crew of H.M.S. Pinafore as they try to sneak the eloping lovers off the ship:
All: (much alarmed) Goodness me! Why, what was that?
Dick: Silent be, it was the cat!
All: (reassured) It was—it was the cat!
Captain: (producing cat o' nine tails) They're right, it was the cat!
- The Pirates of Penzance, by the same team, has the song "With Catlike Tread". The titular pirates, while sneaking into Major-General Stanley's estate, sing at the top of their lungs about how they're being silent. The very next song starts with the Major-General mentioning that he "thought I heard a noise", and concluding that "it must have been the sighing of the breeze." (Pirates was, at the time of its release, criticized for having the same plot as Pinafore.)
- Better yet, the Pirates and Policemen are making loud comments in the background "He though he heard a noise. HA HA!" and then join in his song "Sighing Softly To The River" without him catching on right up until the finale kicks in.
- A famous operatic example is the scene in Hansel and Gretel where the children are busily taking pieces off the Gingerbread House and eating them. Twice, a voice from inside demands to know who's been nibbling at her house, the children think for a moment, and they declare it was the wind, the heavenly child.
- In The Rainmaker and its musical adaptation 110 in the Shade, the entrance of Starbuck is initially dismissed this way:
Noah: Who opened that door?
Jim: Musta been the wind!
Starbuck (Steps onto the threshold. He hears Jim's line about the wind): Wind?—did you say wind? There's not a breath of wind anywhere in the world!
- In Königskinder, the Goose-girl hears the noise of branches breaking in the distance, only to dismiss it as the wind blowing through the foliage. The horn-call Leitmotif heard twice at this moment is a bit of a Musical Spoiler that a major character is about to introduce himself to her.
- Half-Life is probably the trope namer for this one.
- "Uh... it's probably not a problem... probably... but I'm showing a small discrepancy in the— well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again. Sustaining sequence." For those who have never played the game, this is about 20 seconds before things hit the fan.
- Beautifully averted at one point, when Gordon is climbing through some vents and making noise. Soldiers down below hear him and, rather than dismiss the noise as a headcrab or something, shoot the hell out of it and cause it to fall off the ceiling. Another time a soldier hears Freeman climbing through a pipe, and responds by tossing a satchel charge into it. A refreshing case of the enemies not being total morons.
- In Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Dr. Magnusson dispatches Freeman to the secondary silo where "damn crows have been nesting in the tracks all day", therefore setting off the silo alarms. Apparently no one thought to check on the non-responsive secondary silo staff until Gordon heads over there and finds a Combine invasion in-progress.
- In the game Tenchu, fighting a guard automatically raises the alarm. Guards who were, just a moment ago, attacked with katanas will dismiss the incident as being caused by a dog!
- This is one of the more common and ridiculous occurrences in the Tenchu series. In Wrath of Heaven you can drop down on one guards head, snap his neck with a sickening sound in front of another guard, then as the guard pursues, jump up on a roof and hide, only to hear the guard pause and say "Ah forget it."
- An alternative interpretation for Tenchu guard apathy could be that the guards are Punch Clock Villains who aren't interested in chasing trained assassins too closely.
- This is one of the more common and ridiculous occurrences in the Tenchu series. In Wrath of Heaven you can drop down on one guards head, snap his neck with a sickening sound in front of another guard, then as the guard pursues, jump up on a roof and hide, only to hear the guard pause and say "Ah forget it."
- The guards in Thief do this a lot. Torch that's been clearly doused with a water arrow, presumably leaving puddles of water all over the place? "Must've been the wind." Large metal object falling down, making a stupid amount of noise? "Hmm... must be my imagination." Et cetera.
- A Running Gag in the series is everyone blaming mysterious noises on rats.
- There are exceptions, though. Make the slightest noise on a metal surface, or shoot an arrow at a wall, and most of the time everyone in the immediate vicinity will be on full alert looking for you. If there's an alarm button nearby, they'll most likely be running for it as well.
- The Elder Scrolls
- The series in general crosses this over with heaps of Artificial Stupidity when it comes to NPCs. As the AI has improved and gotten more sophisticated over the course the series, this trope in particular has started to become downplayed, but it still extant.
- Oblivion:
- Oblivion has major issues with this trope, even beyond simply making noise or being seen while sneaking. It's entirely possible to be sneaking, fire an arrow, strike an enemy NPC, have them fail to detect you, and then hear them dismiss the arrow stuck in their back as "the wind".
- NPCs often fail to react to the corpses of their friends you've already killed. It's even possible for a stealthy enough character to sneak up on two NPCs chatting away with each other, cut the conversation short by stabbing one in the back, and the other NPC won't so much as react to their friend being Killed Mid-Sentence.
- One particular quest has you infiltrate a monastery full of blind NPCs, with the goal of sneaking past them to steal a particular object. If you do something that alerts them, such as make noise, but they fail to actually detect you, they may dismiss it as their "eyes playing tricks on them"...
- This trope persists in Skyrim as well, though Bethesda seems to be making some progress. The AI reacts to sneak attacks from a warrior or a mage fairly competently: it's fairly hard to maintain the element of surprise or stay concealed when clanking around in heavy armor or throwing lightning bolts around. That said, there is still plenty of examples like NPCs dismissing arrows and not reacting to their buddies getting backstabbed in the same room as them.
- Likewise, in Beyond Good & Evil you can hit a guard in his air tank — and the other guards will just fix the tank and declare "false alarm".
- Averted in Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood. Guards always check every noise, explore every inch of the room, will free anyone who was tied up, and will report corpses that they haven't already seen to their captain.
- Averted in Metal Gear, where guards would always check to make sure it's actually "nothing". The ones in Metal Gear Solid 2 would actually search every nook and cranny of the room you were seen disappearing into, and even if they don't find you, extra guards would be sent to patrol that sector.
- The guards in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater play this straight sometimes. If they get a glimpse of you from a distance, they'll pull out a pair of binoculars to get a closer look. If you hide yourself quickly enough, they'll think it was "just their imagination".
- In The Secret of Monkey Island, Guybrush has infiltrated the ghost-pirate LeChuck's ship, using a magic eyeball necklace that makes him invisible. The player has to get a key off of LeChuck's cabin wall, but every time Guybrush approaches, LeChuck turns and makes a comment about how someone must be behind him. When he sees that no one is there, he turns back around while invoking some version of this trope.
LeChuck: The wind makes not such a creaking!
LeChuck: Must be the wind.
- Splinter Cell has guards as thorough as (if not more so than) the ones in Metal Gear Solid. Worse, they have far too many ways to remove the shadows you rely on. The guards early in the game have flashlights and flares. The Chinese soldiers have headband-mounted lights. Not to be outdone, the Georgian Special Forces have night-vision goggles. By Chaos Theory, enemies with thermal-vision start showing up, complete with x-ray vision.
- Of course there are still mooks who have no special way of seeing in the dark, and they fit the trope perfectly. There is a co-op level in Chaos Theory where you can enter a room with two guards watching a sports game on TV. Shooting out the TV then quickly leaving the room results in them waldering around for a bit, then going back to the couch with a 'probably the wind' comment and watching their shot out TV. Good job guards.
- This is actually Lampshaded by the enemies: if the player makes a loud enough noise without being seen, there's a randomly-occuring exchange where one guard says "It's probably—" but is then abruptly cut off by his partner, who tells him that it's never "just nothing".
- In the first Predator stage of the original Alien vs. Predator PC game, after gibbing a guard in the opening cutscene, you can hear the base's Mission Control: "Unit Two, report in... Report in, Unit Two... Unit Two, do you copy?! Damn, his comm must be down." You're doing these idiots a favor when you kill them.
- Deus Ex downplays this. Guards will first investigate, then wonder where you are, before deciding you aren't around — but it takes all of ten seconds. Often they can be heard to utter "He's miles away by now" when J.C. hides behind a box in a dead end.
- If you shoot a guard in the face with a tranquilizer dart and hide, he'll run around for a moment, then (because the drug in one dart isn't enough to knock them out) return to his patrol with the arrow sticking out of his face.
- In a Shout-Out to this trope, the very nastiest event in Europa Universalis 2 ("The White Lotus Rebellion") has two options, one of which "It's likely just harmless talk." (Cue 30% revolt-risk.) The OTHER option gives you half that revolt-risk, but costs you an arm and a leg.
- Averted in Death To Spies. If any enemy even spots a body, sees the player for too long, hears any noise (except the silenced pistol), or if the player has any visible Soviet gear on at all — even after changing uniform —, has a weapon out (unless dressed as a patrolman, and then only a weapon that the others have, usually an MP-40), is doing something that doesn't match the disguise's purpose or rank (stealing a truck without being in an officer or driver's uniform) or is a patrolman/officer who can recognize if you are not one of them, they will almost immediately upon entering their "sight confirmation" begin to fire, alerting any other nearby guards, and giving chase, usually for half of the map. In many cases, they will run to hit the alarm, which will effectively end the mission because every guard in the area will be alerted to you (often well over 20-30 people), and quickly open fire if they spot you as well as give chase, often killing you very quickly if there are any sharpshooters in the area, even faster if you are headshot. Oh, and don't try hiding: they'll stay on full alert, just waiting for the chance to find you.
- Notably averted by the 2009 Ghostbusters game. Even when the PKE meter shows nothing, the Ghostbusters never assume that It's Probably Nothing. They always investigate. Of course, blowing up the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for the second time early in the game probably has them on their toes for the rest.
- Lampshaded and subverted in Gears of War, where Dom does not brush off the strange sound so easily. He's right.
Dome: Yeah right, when was the last time the wind said hostiles!, to you?
- Usually averted in Fallout 3. If hostile guards hear you, they investigate, and raise the alarm if they see you. If you're well hidden, though, the other guards will berate the first for crying wolf.
- With high enough sneak and a stealth boy or Chinese Stealth armor, guards will react in this fashion even after being stabbed. Repeatedly.
- Because of bad programming, if you get into a fight while you're a kid, your character will keep saying "I guess it was nothing." in between grunts of pain while being slowly killed & then continue saying it in dramatic slow motion while dead.
- The Phantoms in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass: Once Link enters a safe-zone, he becomes invisible to them. No matter how clearly in their sight he was before that and how long they've been chasing him before he escaped, afterwards, after looking around for barely two seconds in a "Where'd he go?" fashion, they apparently dismiss it as "It was probably nothing" and turn around to start patrolling their regular route again, without even considering to keep an eye on the spot where he disappeared.
- Justified in that they're magical constructs with probably rather limited intelligence. Similar to babies the Phantoms likely lack object permanence, so once Link is invisible they cease to recognise his existence.
- The military in [PROTOTYPE]. There's a shape-shifter on the loose with extraordinary powers. Your commanding officer just ran straight up a building, and then started gliding through the air. If your response is "He may be around here", congratulations, you're apparently qualified for the military.
- Oh, but it's far worse than that. Entering said building, said officer develops a nasty habit of sneaking up on people, following them behind boxes (out from behind which only one person leaves, and it's not an officer) and moving said boxes and cars. Probably for privacy. Not only that, but after said officer enters the building, you can guarantee that shape-shifter is inside as well. After all, surely a "legit" soldier pointing his finger at a not-so-legit soldier and claiming that This is the creep! cannot be wrong...
- By this point the entire building is almost empty. Oddly enough, this one guy keeps walking around and sneaking up behind people, kinda like that officer... Nah, it's just my imaginati-CRUNCH. Nom-nom-nom.
- Letting him sneak around is probably more cost effective. Just let him take what he wants or he'll kill everyone and then take it.
- Oh, but it's far worse than that. Entering said building, said officer develops a nasty habit of sneaking up on people, following them behind boxes (out from behind which only one person leaves, and it's not an officer) and moving said boxes and cars. Probably for privacy. Not only that, but after said officer enters the building, you can guarantee that shape-shifter is inside as well. After all, surely a "legit" soldier pointing his finger at a not-so-legit soldier and claiming that This is the creep! cannot be wrong...
- The Great Escape plays this to the point of ridiculousness. Having charged through a door and straight into the arms of a patroling German soldier, you dash straight into another room leaving the poor sod gawping after you. His words?
"Must have been ze vind."
- Touhou character Koishi Komeiji, as a satori with the power to read the conscious mind and heart of others. She disabled herself in order to escape the contempt she and her sister earned only to find that she suddenly gained powers over the subconscious mind that effectively made her impossible to recognize or notice. On the off chance that anyone does see her, they will immediately forget about her once she leaves. Her power doesn't work on children, though, and she'll sometimes play with them, making her a Not-So-Imaginary Friend until they grow up and forget she existed in the first place.
- This power is also used in a strange way by the oni Suika, whose ability of "gathering" lets her divide herself into mini-Suikas so small they are a functional mist, and give suggestions to others as subtle mind control to form gatherings (as well as send out mini-Suikas that steal food and alcohol for her gatherings). Almost nobody could figure out why they kept meeting, and dismissed the idea as simple whims of many people to do the same thing at once, although a few had the ability to recognize the mist for what sort of thing it was, if not the perpetrator or her motives.
- Subverted in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn when the hero is hiding with her pet bird in a hole. The bird chirps and the guard notice. She lets the bird go as they are about to investigate and it flies out of the hole. The guards shrug, saying it was just a bird and our hero sighs a sigh of relief. Then the guards capture her and go "you didn't think we'd really fall for that, did you?" Of course, another hero shows up to save our first hero.
- Taken to the point of utter farce in Tales of Symphonia.
- Repeated quite ridiculously in a later game of the series, Tales of the Abyss. Jade(by far the worst offender), Tear, Guy, Ion and even Luke himself all gasp or draw attention to themselves only to say "No, it's nothing." It's *always* something. Always.
- Here are some things in Abyss that are considered "nothing": Luke being a replica. Ion also being a replica. Largo being Natalia's father. Guy's desire to assassinate the fon Fabre family, including Luke. ("What do you have to live for?" "Revenge." "What?" "Just kidding!") Anise betraying the party and causing Ion's death. Jade realizing that the only way to stop the miasma is to sacrifice either Luke or Asch. Luke having a very limited time left to live after destroying the miasma. And...whatever Jade did to Dist in this scene.
- Subverted in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Ezio had been told earlier that the men of Monteriggioni would be practising with the cannons at dawn, so his first thought when he hears cannon fire is that it is a training exercise. Then a cannonball goes through his room.
- A version of this can also be seen throughout the game with the guards as long as you're not in a restricted area or actually on the roof/in sight of a roof guard.
Guard: [seeing Ezio hanging on the wall] What is he doing? Bah! I can't be bothered with this now!
[seconds later, after the patrol passes, the nearby target gets two hidden blades in the chest]
- A version of this can also be seen throughout the game with the guards as long as you're not in a restricted area or actually on the roof/in sight of a roof guard.
- In World of Warcraft, when your character is bitten by a Worgen, you dismiss it as just a scratch and nothing to be worried about. The end result of this is being taken by the transformation during a last stand, killing the allies unfortunate enough to not also be infected, and causing your final defenses to fall.
- When you first get the bite, the debuff even says something along the lines of "It's probably nothing". If you check back on that debuff every so often, you'll see that the bite is slowly getting worse....'
- This is also a very odd case, where the player actually WANTS it to happen. Because it occurs in the starting zone, after specifically choosing Worgen as a race. Your character starts out human, and becomes a Worgen during the starting zone.
- Referenced to in Mirror's Edge. During one of the vent sequences you can hear someone complaining about rats infesting the ventilation system.
- Justified, as one Easter Egg involves triggering a rat as big as a truck to run down a street. Something like that would HAVE to make some noise.
- In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, your partner says something while you're listening to Grubba while in the air vent. He gets suspicious and you have a choice of sounds to make in an attempt to fool him.
- In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, there is an optional sequence in which you follow Mila as she goes to rob Zunari's safe. It is possible to get her attention and still be all right... if you are still hidden and make a cat noise.
- Earlier, the first time through the Forsaken Fortress, there are places where you can move about, as long as you're in a barrel. (If you're seen by a Moblin or shone on by a light, or if your barrel is seen moving, you're thrown in a cell, even if you could have run away.) However, the Moblins have no particular sense that there's something wrong when a barrel was over there, but now it's over here, and there's no one around who could have moved it...
- Somewhat justified in that Moblins are extremely stupid.
- Earlier, the first time through the Forsaken Fortress, there are places where you can move about, as long as you're in a barrel. (If you're seen by a Moblin or shone on by a light, or if your barrel is seen moving, you're thrown in a cell, even if you could have run away.) However, the Moblins have no particular sense that there's something wrong when a barrel was over there, but now it's over here, and there's no one around who could have moved it...
- Similarly to the Fallout example, making noise around hostile guards in Metro2033 and Metro: Last Light will result in them investigating (even switching on their headlamps to search better in dark environments) and raising an alarm if they spot you, either verbally or by ringing a bell. However, if you manage to hide from sight and stay perfectly still long enough, they'll decide it's "the damn drafts again" or "just the rats" and calm down. If you do something blatantly obvious though, like killing someone in view of their comrades or breaking a gas lamp and starting a fire, the best you can hope to do is stay out of sight while the guards go into hyper-aggressive "Search everywhere!" mode.
- In the Batman: Arkham Series, This is Averted at low fear levels and Inverted at high fear levels. At the beginning of a stealth segment, the guards know that Batman is around somewhere, so they have the presence of mind to check anything out of the ordinary. Once they get panicky enough, they'll start freaking out at the slightest noise in fear that it might be Batman, whether or not it is.
- Invisible, Inc. plays with this. If a guard leaves their patrol route to investigate a tile but finds nothing, they'll go right back to patrolling. However, if they catch one of your agents (or wake up after you knock them out), they will be permanently alerted and won't stop searching for them, making them much harder to deal with.
- Assassin's Creed Origins: A note can be found with the writer saying how his friend is worried about rustling in the bushes nearby, with the writer telling him it's no biggie. You find the note surrounded by several very angry crocodiles, and no sign of the writer, with that previous statement being the first and only entry.
- Mass Effect: Andromeda: A note found in the ruins of the failed colony on Eos has one of the colonists saying this, before admitting that it's not the wind. "Wind doesn't roar like it's hungry." It turns out to be a Fiend.
- Addressed in the Evil Overlord List.
Rule #67: No matter how many shorts we have in the system, my guards will be instructed to treat every surveillance camera malfunction as a full-scale emergency.
- Agent Wyoming's introduction in Red vs. Blue is full of this trope:
"What was that? ...Probably just the wind. Stupid wind: breaking a twig, creeping up behind me, breathing real heavy-like..."
- Ctrl+Alt+Del: Shows us the problem with this.
- Happens in a rather surreal way in Goblins, when an alternate-universe Minmax falls into a rift in reality and is erased from existence. His friends panic at first, but as he's also erased from their memories, they calm down and reassure themselves that they're both safe and no one fell in.
- Happens twice in Nebula. Both times, people almost end up dead.
- Everyone's reaction to Earth raising concerns about meteor heading straight for her is to tell her to quit panicking, it's just some thing, no big deal.
- And later, Sun brushes off the planets' concern about the thing that keeps watching them, saying that it's probably just some drifter like Pluto.
- American Dad!: When Haley tries to sneak in past curfew in "Bush Comes to Dinner":
Stan: What was that?
Francine: Probably just a loud noise.
- Used for a plot point in Ben 10's "Perfect Day": Max says this about the the Omnitrix acting up, but let's just say that he's not as he seems.
- Inverted in Code Lyoko, when Jérémie gets an anomalous alert on the computer and instantly thinks, "It's probably bad news."
- Family Guy: In one gag, Lois and Peter mention in passing the giant squid in the kitchen which they absolutely ''must'' ignore. It promptly swats all the dishware off the table, prompting them to quickly remark "earthquake!" and "uhh, truck passing by".
- Futurama In the episode "The Honking":
[Bender is in were-car form following two vandals at night, he loudly rolls over a manhole cover and quickly parks.]
Vandal #1: Did you hear something?
[They both look around then carry on walking.]
Vandal #2: Ah, it was probably just a golden marmoset.
[The were-car revs its engine.]
Vandal #1: That don't sound like no golden marmoset I ever heard!
- Zigzagged in one episode of the second six part G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero mini-series. When Stormshadow approaches the Joes' HQ to steal part of the Weather Dominator, one of the Joes on guard duty asks another if he hears anything; the guy responds, "No, that's what bothers me." Stormshadow manages to get past them, to the vault, using knockout gas to disable the guards there. Then the guard outside who spoke before some of the Joes outside seems to notice, and says he's "not hearing it again" and they go investigate. Unfortunately, by then Stormshadow has stolen it and gotten away.
- In Looney Tunes, when Bugs Bunny knocks on the floorboards of the house that's been built over his hole, Yosemite Sam first attributes it to mice before returning to his singing.
- In Scared Shrekless, Donkey appears to hear the voice of Lord Farquaad's ghost.
Donkey: It's just the wind.
Voice: Donkey...
Donkey: And apparently, it knows my name.
- It turned out to be Fiona and the kids playing a prank.
- Used, bizarrely, between two SWATbots — who you would think would have no business having separate thoughts — in an episode of the Sonic Sat AM cartoon.
- Minimum AI necessary for guard units likely to encounter crafty intruders + Possibility of differing age/experience/previous assignments = Difference in thought/processing patterns.
- Star Wars: Clone Wars plays this one for laughs, with Palpatine dismissing Grievous' clanking footsteps drawing nearer and then suddenly stopping, to the dismay of his Jedi protectors. Of course, the droid general's head appears in the window behind him even as he's delivering the line, hanging upside down on the outside of the building. One gets the impression that the scheming dark lord, who actually wants to be captured, plays the classic part with some glee.
- Then again, the Ham is Large with this one.
- Star Wars Rebels: Subverted in the "Art Attack" short:
[Sabine is sneaking around an Imperial base as a Stormtrooper hears her spraypaint cans.]
Stormtrooper #1: You hear that?
Stormtrooper #2: I don't hear it. Wait... Yeah, what is that?
- Truth in Television — because, let's face it, when you hear a crack of a stick in the woods, the first thought that goes through your head is: "What's that?" and then when you look around and don't see a monstrous man-eating lady-killing psychotic freak of the beyond, you really don't try to linger on what kind of unspeakable horrors might be sneaking up on you right no... eh... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRCH!
- The sounds made in your house at night comes from the fact that the house is actually shrinking a little bit due to how it's colder at night than at day — like how the best way to open a resilient jar is to run the lid under some hot water, causing it to expand and be easier to open.
- Also some spooky sounds from the kitchen or street in the middle of the night — it's very probably only a falling towel or a bird respectively; but in a horror movie you'd think "Why the hell doesn't he get the hell out of there!!??"
- That creepy tapping sound you hear at night is almost certainly a particular type of harmless beetle with the oh-so-reassuring name of the Deathwatch Beetle.
- This is even worse when you are on a ship, which is basically a very large building made primarily from metal, which expands and contracts much more than does the wood that houses are typically made from. As you try to go to sleep at night, the entire ship is groaning and creaking and making weird sounds as the many metal parts contract and pull against each other.
- Not to mention just sounds in a place you are unfamiliar with. To someone who hasn't gotten entirely bored with the novelty of air travel, a jet liner is incredibly noisy, what with the hums and the whines and the buzzes and the clanks and thumps and beeping sounds on the intercom. The sound of flaps lowering before landing can be particularly unsettling, combined with the plane banking and turning as it lines up its approach with a narrow concrete strip at several hundred knots. Not to mention the very unsettling sound you hear when the plane gets close enough to the ground for you to hear the sound of the engines echoing off the surface.
- It would actually be more worrisome if, when trying to sleep on a plane, there was suddenly no sound at all.
- Just watch the flight attendants. If they don't look nervous, everything is probably fine, no matter what noises you just heard or how badly the plane is shaking.
- Anyone who has spent any time working, rather than traveling as a passenger, on a ship will attest to the fact that sudden silence will snap you wide awake in a second, as it indicates that the ship has suffered, at best, an electrical failure, and the possibilities get worse from there.
- Justified after many long hours guarding; 90% of the time, it is nothing, another 9.99% it's nothing that can't be dealt with just by showing up and providing a security presence. If you can see a plausible source for a noise you heard, or it didn't sound significant enough to search for it, of course you'd write it off to watch for something more substantial.
- The moral of the story: if you don't hear any usual noises often confused as unusual, you should probably be concerned.
- Averted by real life security personnel, who ideally will treat all alarms as real. Having a large number of false alarms can cause major problems.
- Also averted in the case of emergency services - if you call them, they have to come, and they won't be amused if there's no actual emergency. This is also why if you live on campus at university, you will get such a hardcore lecture about not pulling the fire alarm as a prank. Fire fighters will actually leave other fires to come put out a potential blaze at a high-density residence like a dormitory in order to save the most lives.
- Radar spotted the Japanese planes heading in to attack Pearl Harbor, but it was a new technology and the radar station was still in training mode and wasn't fully operational yet. The person the radar operators tried to warn decided what was actually a huge armada of incoming planes must be a handful of American B-17s scheduled to arrive that day, and the radar operators themselves didn't know enough about their own equipment to be able to say "Sir, that's ridiculous!"
- Michael Shermer discusses in his 2010 TED lecture why humans are prone to suspecting any odd event as extraordinary, dangerous and intentional, hence dismissal of them as mundane is the exception, due to deconditioning. He also explains why Skepticism Failure is often the norm in reality, not the exception.
- Any pet owner could easily blame a noise on the cat/dog knocking something over. Even the rustling of a gerbil could be taken for granted.
- There are many people who invoke this by leaving their TVs or music sets on in the background, even when they go to sleep, so that they can be reassured of the movements and sounds instead of freaking out and jumping at shadows.
- Played thankfully straight several times by both Soviet and Western radar operators during the Cold War. Several times the computers malfunctioned and detected massive nuclear attacks from the enemy. Every time the operators (correctly) dismissed this as a bug.
- Babies. Because they're still low on memory, for the first few months you can get their attention with a toy then cover it up so that they'll wonder where it went until forgetting about it. But that changes, eventually.
- The people manning the Chernobyl power plant did this twice. First they ignored the obvious pieces of reactor fuel lying around and thought the explosion hadn't blown everything the hell up, then after several dosimeters were pegged at maximum and they brought in one that actually had the proper range, it read so high that they assumed it must be defective. It wasn't. Though by many accounts there was a degree of wilful self-delusion going on as well.
- Car alarms. When you hear one go off, is your first thought "My God, a car is being stolen! I must inform the authorities!" or is it "Some idiot doesn't know how to use their car remote"?
- Also, alarms in general. If you've ever lived near a building alarm that has a habit of going off in bad weather and never deactivating again, you are unlikely to even consider that it might be something you should investigate (and will probably be fervently hoping that the building in question actually is being burgled due to their antisocial - and probably illegal - false alarms.)


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Do you like granola? Why not make your own? This recipe is very easy, it's simply oats, nuts, seeds and coconut flakes mixed with oil and maple syrup. I don't add a lot of maple syrup because I don't want my granola to be too sweet but you could add more. Personally, I also don't like a lot of stuff in my granola, but you could add cranberries, raisins or dark chocolate chips once it's cooled. In some recipes they say to add the nuts just five minutes before the end of baking, but I do it at the beginning because I like my nuts to be crunchy. I store my granola in Mason jars in the fridge and it will easily keep for two weeks. It's so good on top of yogurt, with almond milk, or on top of compote. As a snack yesterday I made rhubarb compote, added a couple tablespoons of granola and it was delicious. My son liked this mix so much that he said he would be the one making the granola next time using my recipe!
2 cups large flake oats
2/3 cup almonds, sliced
2 tbsp sunflower seeds
6 tbsp raw pumpkin seed
4 tbsp coconut flakes
1/2 tsp Pink Himalayan salt (or table salt)
2 tbsp Macadamia Nut oil (or vegetable oil)
2 tbsp maple syrup (I used Pure Infused Maple Syrup Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Cloves)
1 egg white
1- Preheat oven to 300F.
2- In a large bowl mix oats, almonds, seeds, salt and coconut flakes.
3- In a small bowl mix oil, maple syrup and egg white.
4- Add to the oats and mix with a fork.
5- Spread on a large cookie sheet.
6- Bake at 300F for 25 to 30 minutes. Make sure you don't burn the nuts.
7- Let cool at room temperature for 45 minutes.
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Typically, the NFL Pro Bowl is a relaxed game with no blitzing, little effort and a whole lot of scoring. For players, it's a free trip to Hawaii with a participation bonus added in at the end. But one player out on the field on Sunday will be trying his hardest.
Oakland Raiders fullback Marcel Reece wants to win the Pro Bowl MVP because he wants the free car that comes along with it.
"I want the car," Reece said, according to Vic Tafur of the San Francisco Chronicle. "I'm going to win the car. I don't care what kind of car it is, it could be a Hot Wheel, I want it. I am going to do everything I can to win it."
The University of Washington product had the best season of his career in 2012. The fullback rushed for 271 yards on 59 carries and added 52 receptions for 496 yards and one touchdown. He received an increased role in the offense when running back Darren McFadden went down with an injury midway through the season.
This is Reece's first career Pro Bowl. He went undrafted in 2008, but has carved out a role as the most productive fullback in football the past three seasons.
From what we can tell, a fullback has never won the award. Wide receiver Brandon Marshall won the MVP, and the car, last year.
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