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Strictly babe Abbey Clancy brushes off questions about relationship with Aljaz Skorjanec
ABBEY CLANCY has refused to open up about her relationship with her Strictly Come Dancing partner Aljaz Skorjanec.
The sexy model was grilled by Jonathan Ross ahead of his show on Saturday night and despite opening up about family life and her relationship with Peter Crouch, Abbey brushed off questions about her and Aljaz.
Wearing a slinky black dress with a leather halter neck panel, the ballroom babe oozed glamour as she giggled through the interview on Wossy's mustard-coloured couch.
Rumours of a spark between the model and her dance partner were ignited after the couple shared such exciting chemistry on the dance floor.
As a fan of the show, Abbey has reservations before signing up to Strictly, she didn't want to place unnecessary strain on her relationship with her footy ace hubby Peter Crouch.
Speaking on the popular ITV show, Abbey said: "I didn't really want to bring any of that attention home.
"On the launch show I was desperate to have Robin, because we had two days rehearsal and we got to dance with all the pros."
The bond bombshell added: "I connected with Robin and then when I didn't get him and he got Deborah, I was crying my eyes out and got paired with Aljaz."
The pair grew closer throughout the dancing show, but Abbey was still cagey about revealing too much detail, saying: "I know what went on and he knows what went on, so it's not like that, you're just learning to dance."
"I know what went on and he knows what went on, so it's not like that, you're just learning to dance"Abbey Clancy
Although she failed to draw a line under the rumours, the model mum changed the subject, keen to move on from the topic of her dance partner.
The WAG confessed that she thought the public perception of her had changed since taking part in the celebrity dancing contest.
"People see y modelling and see me getting lapped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much much TV or whatever."
"I didn't go on the show to prove myself. I went on to learn how to dance and have funk which I did… And on the way people made a different opinion of me."
Opening up on her footy hubby, Abbey said: "He's amazing. He's my best friend. He supports everything I do and I support everything he does. I think the fact we get on so well just makes it work."
The leggy blonde admitted that she and Pete may be adding to their brood soon.
"I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's just been the most amazing time of my life."
Catch the full interview on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV at 10.05pm on Saturday.


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I was first introduced to nena+co about a year ago. I stumbled across their beautiful instagram feed and fell in love with the patterns, style, and story behind the brand.
how it all began..
Nena & Co. is a brand that founder, Ali started about two years ago. All of the bags and products are handmade by families she works with directly in Guatemala. Ali employs women who can work from home and have time to tend to their every day needs such as harvesting food, washing, and tending to their children, which is key for Nena & Co because we believe in Fashion for Good.
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I've carried the day bag for almost a year and its definitely well loved and has been through the ringer, yet I get compliments all the time! not the traditional diaper bag, but functions just as well! on the other side of their gorgeous handbag line of products are the beautifully crafted, hand made clothing items for ninas + ninos.
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The Simpsons Game Strategy Guide for the Wii 7: Around the World in 80 Bites, Part 2
You can take Bart over to the giant fan, and then jump. You will glide to the top of the roof, and if you follow it, you'll see a line. Jump to the line and you will zipline over to a ledge, which you automatically grab onto. Keep going, and you'll reach an area with the Third Krusty Koupon. You can easily jump down from there.
There is a ramp here with a piñata on top. Have Homer turn into a ball and flick him up the ramp. When he lands on the roof, normalize him by hitting the minus key, and have him jump on the nearest umbrella. He will bounce several times, then will land on top of the big sombrero. Your job is to get him to get the shield, and he will now be temporarily invincible. Have him walk into the field with the barbed wire (it should be straight in front of him), and he can safely grab the Second Duff Cap.
To leave this area, have Homer turn into a ball and smash the Big Taco.
In this area, there is a maypole to the right of one of the Bavarian houses. All you need to do is get Homer to climb it, hop off, then keep going up giant steps until you find the Third Duff Cap. Go up the Ramp until he is in the next country.
The moment Homer goes up the ramp, he needs to turn right, and then there will be the Fourth Duff Cap near a giant can of Duff.
Bart needs to do the rest of the work. Behind the Eiffel Tower are two beg kegs with a ladder in between. Bart needs to climb them, and then jump to the nearest umbrella. He will then go to a place where an updraft will take him higher to the top of a building. He needs to take the zipline to a higher level on the Eiffel Tower, then find the elevator. After hitting A, he will rise to the top. He needs to jump off, and glide to the white cross on the flag (just think of it as a lopsided X marks the spot). Once he follows the bridge, he will pull the lever to open the door to the next area.
As soon as Homer enters Scotland, there is a tower with an open doorway. In there will be the Fifth Duff Cap.
Bart needs to find his souvenir as well. Have him climb the blue and white stripped pole, then jump toward the vines when he hits the top. He will then spider-man climb sideways, but watch out for the two furnaces he has to pass over. Bart needs to wait for the flames to subside before he can crawl across them. When the vines run out, Bart needs to jump to a ledge, where there is the Fourth Krusty Koupon.
Getting to the next country requires Bart and Homer working together. Homer needs to turn into a Homer Ball, and go up the ramp to a Stonehenge looking thing, and the rocks will fall like dominos.
The tricky part is getting Homer as a ball to leap and land on the bagpipes, because he has to do a Power Slam as a Homer Ball. That has to be done in the air, but you will hear Scottish music when Homer hits his target.
You will then need to take Bart to that area, and have him jump on the Bagpipes as they blow air. Have him glide on his cape to the gate on the other side, and pull the Lever to get Homer into the next area.
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New! Pride and Prejudice – Behind the Scenes
It's finally here! The new Pride and Prejudice – Behind the Scenes. What did Mr. Darcy think when he first saw Elizabeth Bennet? How did Miss Bingley talk her brother out of proposing to Jane Bennet? And how did Lady … Continue reading
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Introducing The Darcy Brothers
The Darcy Brothers is a collaborative effort with four other writers – Abigail Reynolds, Cassandra Grafton, Monica Fairview, and Maria Grace. In this story, we have created a brother for Mr. Darcy. His name is Theo and he couldn't be … Continue reading
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Pride and Prejudice: Scenes Jane Austen Never Wrote
It's here! The P&P200 Project has been published as a book. It's in ebook format and also print. This is not a novel. It is a unique collection of the back stories of Pride and Prejudice. What was Darcy thinking … Continue reading
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The Darcy Brothers – A New Reader's Choice Story on Austen Variations
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Where the dollhouse sides and front were put together there were gaps so corner molding had to be cut to size to cover that and maybe now I can take the hinges off the wall from inside.
I think the porch rail assembly was put together wrong but it seems too much time to make it right. The opening should be down by the front door. It is on the farthest corner from the door. It is not shown in the picture, it was removed so the flooring could be covered in coffee stir sticks for realistic floor.
The front door is rather cheesy and not to scale. This is on the back burner for the moment until a eureka moment comes to mind. One needs to be able to see inside and outside the door even if it is miniature. Stained glass needs to be somewhere and its still be researched.
Before painting the outside siding I used heavy brown paper bags cut to siding stripe size to fix the holes and defective places. I then put 4 coats of Americana Brand Mississippi Mud brown on the siding. This is my preferred paint as it has thickness to it. Make sure you shake well before using. The shingles were not finished at all where they met on the corners, so brown bag again cut to size to cap off the joints. I decided on a gold brown for that, not sure if it will stay that way. American Victorian Painted Ladies by Elizabeth Pomada, Michael Larson is an excellent guide for painting a Victorian. I choose a color combination that I liked from there. Victorians used 7 different colors in the house and the end result will be gold, brown, white, blue, green, bittersweet orange, and a burgundy color. The painting is taking some time, looking forward to this step being done to begin inside.
This week I have investigated a few web sites and share them with you:
If you like French antiques, Shabby Chic check out this beautiful site:
www.lookingglassminiature.com Jennifer Osmond Hatt is guest designer for Alpha Stamps this week and has a lovely Antique shop as the feature. Her blog has many of her creations and she also has an Etsy Shop. Eye Candy. On her blog there are many links to interesting blogs and sites. I clicked on a few and they were interesting enough to mark for future visits.
www.Alphastamps.com This is the connection for Alpha Stamps that features Looking glass this week. If you like Halloween they have laser cut tables, mirrors and other /Goth items as well as Halloween trinkets and papers.
www.bangGood.com A variety of items for sale, but click on Toys there are a number of inexpensive miniature kits available.
www.lisaslittlethings.com a delightful sale site of beautiful laser cut items for every area of the house. A lot of period clothes items and accessories. Sale site beautiful pictures.
www.wish.com Another overall sale site with really good prices. Click toys and hobbies and all kinds of miniatures come up. I put a couple items in the sale cart and couldn't complete. Within a few days all the items were on sale as notified by Email.


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Illustration by Daria Komleva-Litvinova
Competition topic: FAMILY ARCHIVE
Term of participation in the competition
Number of pages: no more than 3 (one finished story in Russian or in English or without words).
Format: А4, vertical (other formats won't be accepted for participation).
Deadline for accepting the works: August 15, 2017.
Requirements for works providing: work are provided in TIF, CMYK, 300 dpi, it is not allowed to use layers, ZIP or RAR archiving are recommended. Also you have send application form (full name, date of birth, postal address, phone number, e-mail, comics title and number of pages).
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1 group – up to 14 years inclusive;
2 group – 15-20 years;
3 group – from 21 years and upwards.
Exhibition: the best works will be presented at the exhibition in the Museum-Estate of G.R. Derzhavin, which will be held from September 22 to October 8, 2017. Participation in the exhibition is free. The list of participants will be published on the festival's website no later than August 25, 2017.
Competition nominations: for 1st and 2d age group there is one winner each; for the third category – Grand Prix, a prize for the best scenario, a prize for a graphics. Grand Prix winner gets the opportunity of a personal exhibition at the next festival. Winners will be announced at the opening of the exhibition.
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These twelve stories range from first-time parents, to a couple still trying to conceive, to a ready-made family hoping to make it official, to parents just trying to get from one day to the next.
But it can't all be about the kids. Especially when the kid to parent ratio favors the kids. You might have sneak out of your own house. Or remind your spouse what grown-ups can do when the kids are away.
From veteran and new authors, these families contain several M/M couples, an F/F couple, and an asexual mom who has some explaining to do to her genderfluid teen.
Lizzie stared at Hutch with huge, tear-filled eyes. "Please. Please, Hut. Don't make me go away. I'll be the best cooker ever. I promise."
God, she was breaking his heart. Hutch managed to find a warm smile for her, though, as he crouched to give her a hug. "You'll be home by three thirty. And I bet you find you like school. There's so many fun things to do." He'd known it would be hard to send the twins off to school every day, leaving the house empty until afternoon, but he hadn't expected it to be this hard.
She shook her head, the tears beginning to fall. Felicia was desperate to be big, to go to school like Darla, but this one had been opposed to the whole idea and finding out she wasn't in the same Kindergarten class as her twin hadn't helped. The school claimed they split twins up to let them develop their own individuality.
Well, Hutch knew damn well his girls were plenty individual, each with their own unique personality despite being together since birth.
"When you get home you can help me make supper," he promised. "That won't change just because you're going to school."
"Please? You can tell Addie-Lou it's okay. I know you can," she insisted.
"No, little. He can't." Adam shook his head. "School is important."
"Is not!" She stamped her little foot, glaring at Adam. "I want to stay with Hut!"
"Okay, Lizzie, that's enough." Hutch gave her his most firm voice. "School is important and you're going to make friends and find really fun things to do. Addie-Lou and I will be here when you get home."
He wanted so badly to tell her she could stay home, but he knew she needed to do this. It was his job to make sure she didn't need him and Adam anymore and this was how it started. Even if it was the hardest thing ever.
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Sean Michael
Often referred to as "Space Cowboy" and "Gangsta of Love" while still striving for the moniker of "Maurice," Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and persuing the kama sutra by channeling the long lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to "Chicago."
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Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
Katherine Halle
The nickname "Queen of Happy Endings" is an apt one for Katherine Halle. She firmly believes that no matter what the obstacles, what the struggles, or how much angst is involved in the journey that the ending should always be a happy one.
Katherine's love of the written word started at a very early age with repeated demands of "read to me" to any who would listen. It was only natural that writing would follow. As a child, she could often be found daydreaming, thinking up fanciful stories and writing them down. Now she does it on a laptop. Much faster.
Katherine's favorite animal is her dog. She likes books, movies, and quirky tv shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is a closet foodie. She has lived in both Europe and the United States and loved both. When she's not writing or plotting, Katherine enjoys spending her time listening to music, reading books by OTHER people, and being with her family.
Nicole McCormick
Nicole lives in Austin with her husband and two rascally kitties. She typically writes m/m romance, but occasionally other stuff manages to sneak in. When she's not writing, she's either reading or knitting. If it's March, you can find her at the rodeo. She'll be the one wearing the large unicorn necklace.
K. Lynn
K. Lynn has been an avid reader and writer since childhood. In her youth, she could most likely be found in the local library, devouring books that covered everything from WWII History to Dr. McCoy's latest adventures aboard the Enterprise, with some X-Men thrown in for good measure. Once she had read everything that was on the shelves, she turned around and read them again. K. Lynn was also known to create elaborate adventures that more than once made it to the page. Ink-filled papers gave way to overflowing computer memory as the years went on, but the stories never ceased.
While in college, K. Lynn increased her involvement in LGBT issues and writing within the LGBT fiction genre. She has become a long-time fan of the authors that seek to explore the commonality that exists within all sexualities and genders. Most of K. Lynn's work features LGBT characters, many of whom are in established relationships and show how love perseveres through every trial and tribulation that life holds. She also has a particular interest in seeing transgender characters gain a larger foothold within the LGBT fiction genre, hoping that the market for these works expand in the future.
K. Lynn has degrees and certificates from UNC-Chapel Hill in the areas of American History, Religion, Creative Writing, Public Health, and Journalism. She is a member of Mensa and has an extensive writing and editing background. To her, life is an ongoing adventure where she seeks to learn something new every day. When K. Lynn is not writing short stories, she is working on her novels. Her interests range from erotica to education, with stops along the way in paranormal fiction, historical novels, and established relationship romance. Give her a good story and she's willing to read.
Rob Rosen
Rob Rosen is the author of the critically acclaimed novels, Sparkle: The Queerest Book You'll Ever Love, the Lambda Literary Award Nominated Divas Las Vegas, which was the winner of the 2010 TLA Gaybies for Best Gay Fiction, Hot Lava, Southern Fried, the Lambda Literary Award Nominated Queerwolf, Vamp, Queens of the Apocalypse, and Creature Comfort. His short stories have appeared in more than 200 anthologies. You can find 20 of them in his erotic romance anthology, Good & Hot. He is also the editor of Lust in Time: Erotic Romance Through the Ages, Men of the Manor and Best Gay Erotica 2015.
Mychael Black
aka Kay Derwydd
What do online gaming, Spongebob, cooking, writing, and an unnatural addiction to Mountain Dew all have in common?
Not a damn thing, which is what makes Mychael Black an interesting bird indeed.
Born in north Alabama, Mychael now resides in north Mississippi. Having run the gamut of labels in regard to gender and sexuality, Mychael now shuns society's views on normality and embraces a poly-everything attitude. Call Mychael her or him—it doesn't matter. Just keep reading the books.
Andrea Dalling
Andrea Dalling lives in the sexy Southeast, where the summers are hot and the romance hotter. During the day, she's an award-winning technical writer, but at night, she writes steamy stories. She loves to torture her characters but eventually rewards them with a happily-ever-after. Married to her college sweetheart, she's a progressive Christian and an advocate for LGBT rights.
Andrea is a member of the Romance Writers of America, including the Passionate Ink, Rainbow Romance, and Heart of Carolina chapters. Her work includes gay, BDSM, and multicultural erotic romance novels, novellas, and short stories.
Yolande Kleinn
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Curious passers-by stopped and wondered about the guy with the shock of pure white hair smoothed perfectly back.
"Who's that?" someone asked.
Few know him here, and that's how he likes it. But back in Chicago, Jon Burge is big news. He's known as the police commander who, for 20 years, tortured suspects to make them confess.
The accusations are like something out of a wartime prison: electric shock and cattle prods; near suffocation with a typewriter bag; mock executions with a pistol.
Four people who confessed to him were released from death row last year; they're suing him. A special prosecutor has been on his tail for two years.
Fired from the Chicago Police Department, he settled into a waterfront community of brick and stucco houses on Tampa Bay 10 years ago, his police pension intact, a boat out back. He has never been charged with a crime.
Now people in Chicago are trying to bring him back, back to where he made a name for himself, as hero, then villain. People back home say Jon Burge needs to be called to account.
The book Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People delves into how and why torture takes place among ordinary people. Written by Chicago author John Conroy, the book explores torture in Israel, Northern Ireland and Chicago. Burge gets four chapters.
The son of a blue-collar phone company worker and a fashion columnist for the Chicago Daily News, Burge flunked out of college and volunteered to go to Vietnam twice, according to Conroy's book.
He earned a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and two army commendations for valor, for pulling wounded men to safety while under fire.
Back home, Burge joined the Chicago Police Department at 22, working the poor neighborhoods of the south side. He had a knack for defusing volatile situations; once he plucked a gun from the hands of a woman about to shoot herself in the neck.
Twenty years later, as commander of the detective division, he "outranked 99 percent of the policemen in his city," Conroy's book says, and had picked up 13 commendations and a letter of praise from the Department of Justice.
His fall from grace can be traced to Feb. 9, 1982, when two police officers, 34-year-old William Fahey and 33-year-old Richard O'Brien, pulled over a Chevrolet Impala for a traffic stop.
One of the two men in the car stripped Fahey of his weapon and shot him in the head and O'Brien in the chest. The shootings brought to four the number of officers fatally shot in Chicago that month. Emotions ran hot.
Five days after the shootings, police brought Andrew Wilson in for questioning.
Thirteen hours later, he confessed. He emerged from the interrogation with severe bruising and cuts on his head, a torn retina, burns on his chest and thighs and U-shaped marks on his body. Officers at the jail refused to accept him for fear they would be blamed.
He was convicted and sentenced to death, but the Illinois Supreme Court threw out his confession and ordered a new trial, ruling: "The evidence here shows clearly that when the defendant was arrested at 5:15 a.m. on Feb. 14, he may have received a cut above his right eye but that he had no other injuries.
"It is equally clear that when the defendant was taken by police officers to Mercy Hospital sometime after ten o'clock that night he had about fifteen separate injuries on his head, chest and leg. The inescapable conclusion is that the defendant suffered his injuries while in police custody that day."
Convicted at retrial, Wilson was sentenced to life without parole.
He sued the city of Chicago, Burge and other detectives. He testified that Burge and another officer used two electroshock devices on his ears, nose, fingers and groin area. Throughout the torture, he said, he was handcuffed to rings on a wall in front of a radiator that burned him.
"It's black and it's round and it had a wire sticking out of it and it had a cord on it," Wilson testified, describing one of the shocking devices. Burge "took it and he ran it up between my legs, my groin area, just ran it up there very gently ... up and down, up and down, you know, right between my legs, up and down like this, real gentle with it, but you can feel it, still feel it.
"Then he jabbed me with the thing and it slammed me ... into the grille on the window. Then I fell back down, and I think that's when I started spitting up the blood and stuff. Then he stopped."
Police denied using torture. Other prisoners came forward, saying they had suffered similar treatment. A judge ultimately awarded Wilson $1-million.
The attention spawned more cases.
"It has been for many years an open secret that at the police headquarters where Burge worked, a large number of African-American citizens were detained and subjected to horrific forms of abuse," said Locke Bowman, legal director of the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Chicago and a lawyer for a man who says Burge's detectives abused him.
Amnesty International asked for an independent investigation, calling the treatment "a clear violation of international law."
An investigator for the police department's professional standards office reviewed 50 complaints of abuse against Burge and his officers - electric shock, beatings, jabs with a cattle prod, pistols jammed in mouths in a mock execution, suffocations - and declared that the abuse was "systematic."
As many as 108 men have accused Burge and his detectives of torturing confessions from them.
With fundraisers and benefits, thousands of officers supported Burge and his men.
In 1993, Burge and his officers, who had been suspended without pay for more than a year, met different fates. The officers were reinstated. Burge was fired.
He took his pension and moved south to Florida. He left behind people angry not only with him but with the system that took his job but otherwise let him walk away unpunished.
"They protected him. They got him out of town and tried to sweep this issue under the rug and they got away with it," said the Rev. Calvin Morris, executive director of the Community Renewal Society in Chicago, which fought to get the city to look into the charges against Burge.
"We're left here with people who may be languishing in jail unfairly plus this is a slap on the wrist, and he's in sunny Florida."
Chicago police spokesman David Bayless responded: "I speak for the Chicago Police Department but I can't speak for every single opinion here, but I can say that the city of Chicago Police Department fired him. And that speaks for itself."
Why didn't the department pursue charges? Bayless said he would get back with the answer, but he never did.
Burge was gone, but the investigations continued. City investigators found evidence of torture. They shelved the cases in 1998, figuring the statute of limitations had run out, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Lawsuits were filed. Inmates who called themselves the "Death Row 10" said Burge or his detectives tortured confessions out of them. Their number grew to 13.
Illinois began finding fault with its death penalty system. A Northwestern University journalism professor and his students dug up evidence that exonerated some death row inmates, including one who said Burge and his detectives tortured him.
In 2000, then-Gov. George Ryan halted executions in Illinois after courts found 13 of the men on the state's death row had been wrongfully convicted. Last year, Ryan pardoned four of the Death Row 10, saying the evidence against them rested solely on confessions generated by torture from Burge and his officers.
"The four men did not know each other," Ryan said, "all getting beaten and tortured and convicted on the same basis of the confessions that they allegedly provided. They are perfect examples of what is so terribly broken about our system."
One of the pardoned men was Leroy Orange, then a 33-year-old self-employed maintenance man and scrap collector who was married with two children. His only prior arrest had come 14 years earlier at age 18, for criminal property damage. He was picked up for the murder of two women, a man and a 10-year-old in a Chicago apartment. The four had been bound and stabbed, the apartment set on fire.
Orange confessed after 12 hours of questioning during which he said he was shocked with wires attached to his buttocks, testicles and arms and suffocated with a plastic bag over his head.
He spent 19 years in prison before Ryan pardoned him. This year he was arrested on drug charges.
"What I see with Leroy is that his life was devastated by the conviction and the amount of time he spent in prison," said Thomas F. Geraghty, Orange's lawyer and a professor at Northwestern University School of Law. "He made this claim since day one and no one listened to us. It's more like he is a victim of the system's failure to acknowledge and curtail the antics of these police officers."
Burge's Chicago lawyer, Richard Levy, pointed out that although Ryan pardoned four of the Death Row 10, the Supreme Court of Illinois had upheld their convictions. Levy is paid by the city of Chicago, which must represent Burge in lawsuits. He offered this explanation for why so many have made similar claims:
"We believe that these allegations of coercion are false and that these individuals were guilty of their underlying crimes. And there can be many reasons why shared allegations of torture are seen. Obviously, they're represented by the same law firm and many of these people were incarcerated together."
For the past decade, Burge has lived on the eastern edge of Tampa Bay in Apollo Beach, the winter spot for manatees attracted to the warm water outflow of Tampa Electric's power plant.
Burge's white wood-frame home, which he bought for $154,000 in 1994, has coral shutters, a well-manicured yard and a 22-foot motorboat on a canal.
His next-door neighbor, 55-year-old retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jack Stevens, said Burge has watched Stevens' home when he's been on vacation and helped him install a door, fix a pool pump and put a timer in his pool.
He never talks about what happened in Chicago, and Stevens doesn't ask. "I don't know what it is about him being a cop in Chicago, but he's been an excellent neighbor."
What happened in Chicago is what everyone up there wants to hear. Burge was in court in Tampa twice this month fighting a subpoena to give a deposition in Chicago. He walked into County Judge Walter R. Heinrich's tiny courtroom and immediately struck up a conversation with the bailiff in the corner.
Burge, who is 56, says he is retired except for some security consultant work. He was jovial and amiable but shook his head when a reporter approached.
"I can't, my dear," he said. "I would love to, but I can't. They'll tell you why. I just can't."
In one of the suits, Burge's lawyers have said he will invoke the Fifth Amendment against incriminating himself.
That's because a special prosecutor is investigating. He was appointed in 2002, after the Cook County Bar Association, the Justice Coalition of Chicago and others filed a petition asking for a special prosecutor to review the allegations.
Edward Egan, a former judge from the Illinois Appellate Court and semiretired lawyer, was at his retirement home in Venice, Fla., when he got the call from Illinois asking if he would investigate.
Egan and an assistant put together an entire law office to handle the investigation. They hired more lawyers and a company of retired FBI officers to do legwork on allegations dating to 1973.
Now 81, Egan said he told his wife the case would take a year. It's taken two years and four months, and he's not done. He comes home to Venice for holidays and their anniversary.
"I've stopped prognosticating," he said. "It's slower than we anticipated. There were a lot of big problems about getting records and finding people. And many died and many people moved out of state."
Burge has been subpoenaed to give depositions Wednesday in two suits filed by former death row inmates.
"I know there's a strong sense that justice has not been done," said Jane Bohman, executive director of the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. "That's why the civil suits were filed. Because the truth was never acknowledged by our government.
"He's got a pension. He moved to Florida. He probably wanted to go softly into the night, as they say."
Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report, which includes information from the Chicago Tribune and "Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People" by John Conroy.
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Demi Moore's got legs after all.
After a series of embarrassing flops, her "G.I. Jane" topped the national box office for a second week, amassing a gung-ho $10.1 million for the long Labor Day weekend, according to Monday estimates.
Moore's job hunt with the Navy SEALs only treaded water with critics, but it lost just 9% in ticket sales over the previous week--considered exceptionally good by big movie standards, Exhibitor Relations Co. estimated.
"Money Talks," which sparked a flap when its distributor estimated (wrongly) that it would tie with "G.I. Jane" for the top spot last week, held its No. 2 position with $9.5 million.


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|Wanda Sykes
There's also a lot of music on tap. Mannheim Steamroller bring its annual Christmas tour to Van Wezel Nov. 19, and Dave Koz will offer an easy-listening holiday show, with guests including Christopher Cross, on Nov. 28. Country legend Kenny Rogers with guest Linda Davis comes to the hall the next night.
If you prefer music and comedy rolled into one, "Evil Dead: The Musical," the Broadway hit horror spoof, is set for Nov. 18.
For ticket and information, call 941-953-3368 or go to vanwezel.org.


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This past week I attend a seminar on public speaking since Christine signed me up for it. She knows that I wanted to improve on my public speaking skills, so being a great wife she was looking for such opportunities.
I've never been a natural public speaker. During high school and college I was a horrible public speaker. Afterwards through training and seminars, I've improved tremendously and developed my own method for preparation. I usually write up my whole speech, memorize it, practice, and then outline it. I typically practice dozens of times in the mirror and in front of willing colleagues or my wife.
I have given speeches now that have impacted the audience, solicited tears in some of them and roars laughter in a couple. And I have given speeches that have been mediocre. But when I don't prepare or prepare just a couple hours beforehand I am horrible. I get extremely nervous and fumble through the speech. If I know the material through study or experience, then I get saved and it can become a mediocre speech.
So one of my objectives over the past several years has been to become a strong public speaker that doesn't need much practice even on subject matters where I don't feel comfortable to speak upon.
This week due to my schedule I didn't have time to prepare for our last day where we were to give our speeches. In many ways, this was perfect because one of my listed objectives at the beginning of this training seminar was to become an off-the-cuff public speaker.
I arrived at last night's session and started to create an outline based on an op-ed I wrote last week. I scribbled some notes into the outline and then waited for my turn. I was horrible. I was nervous and couldn't organize my thoughts on the fly.
It was interesting to note that our instructor disagreed with the idea that people can naturally speak on the fly. I explained that being in the political sphere early in my career allowed me to meet a handful of such talented individuals. She said her guess was that they prepared behind closed doors. My experience forces me to disagree since I've been behind those doors.
Anyway, afterwards I was telling Christine about it and she laughed, "You just need more of these situations."
She also thought that internally I might not be built to speak on subject I am not familiar with.
She explained, "Part of it is BSing and you're a horrible liar. You get uncomfortable... So your principles don't allow you to speak about things that you don't know about because to do that effectively you have to BS. Other people feel comfortable BSing."
I said that could be true, but I would still want become a great public speaker that could talk about information that I only know on a surface level. One of my friends is great at reading over any material a couple times and then speaking eloquently on it. I assume part of it is a natural gift, but I believe it can be developed. Problem is that I have only a limited amount of time to devote to these areas of deficiencies. So many others to work on :)


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Let's start the off the final arc of Allison, which is a two-volume story on the rails. Enjoy.
Allison Whittington: 17 years old. A staff sergeant in the Roxcheanuk Confederation Air Force. She is part of an aircraft transportation unit. Allison has blond hair and blue eyes, and is extremely athletic. However, she is not a morning person. Allison often acts without thinking. She lost her father in battle when she was eight years old, at which point she was brought to the orphanage where she met Wil.
Wilhelm Schultz: 17 years old. A sixth-year student at Lowe Sneum Memorial Secondary School in the Republic of Raputoa on the east side of the river. Wil is a laid-back student with an excellent academic record, who was abandoned at an orphanage at the age of three. Since the age of eight, he has been Allison's friend, underling, trustworthy subordinate, and maybe even her—
Carr Benedict: 24 years old. The youngest major in the history of the Allied Kingdoms of Bezel-Iltoa. He is known as a hero who made a historic discovery. Benedict is extremely popular with women, but he is less than pleased with his newfound stardom. 'Carr' is his family name.
Fiona(Francesca): 20 years old. A princess of the Kingdom of Iks, which is a part of the Roxcheanuk Confederation on the east side of the river. She is the only surviving member of the Royal Family of Iks, and is set to become the queen. She revealed her survival to the people of her country with the help of Wil, Allison, and Benedict.
Before the Prologue - a
My name is Lillia Schultz. Lillia is my given name, and Schultz is my family name.
Everyone calls me 'Lillia', but my full name is 'Lillianne Aikashia Corazòn Whittington Schultz'. It's ridiculously long. That's why I only end up using the whole thing once a year or so. In Roxche—the Roxcheanuk Confederation—not many people have middle names, so everyone who hears my full name asks me what it all means.
I always explain that it comes from an old custom in the West—the Allied Kingdoms of Bezel-Iltoa—where you put the names of both parents and your grandparents into your name. People either get it or look surprised. Some people are astonished.
I was born and raised in the Special Capital District(Capital District for short).
I've lived in the same apartment building and room since I was born. Our place is at the very top floor of a cluster of five-story apartments filling the Capital District's residential district.
Until the Historic Architecture Protection Law was amended and elevators were installed in even the oldest apartment buildings, apartment buildings were extremely cheap because climbing the stairs was such a hassle. That was why they were so popular with young people.
"That's why we rented this place. We're still crashing here because moving is such a hassle."
That was what Mom said. She's asleep right now. That crash just now was the sound of Mom chucking the poor, hardworking alarm clock against the wall.
So, as usual, I decided to go wake her myself.
I turned off the electric toaster, put breakfast on our plates, and left the kitchen. The bricks lining the hall were chipped everywhere, showing signs of age. I went into Mom's room. I didn't get permission to enter. I couldn't get it even if I wanted to, since she was still asleep.
The room faced east, and the window was installed with thin curtains on purpose. The morning sun was bright. But Mom was lying face-down on her bed, still in her pajamas. She was sleeping with her golden hair covering her face. As usual, her blanket was crumpled on the floor and her pillow was on top of her feet. If she weren't sleeping in a double bed, she would have fallen by now. Her right arm, in fact, was already dangling off the side of the mattress.
First, I picked up the poor, abused alarm clock from by the door and put it back on the shelf. It was the latest model—the hands and batteries were impact-resistant—and expensive to boot. But it was lasting a surprisingly long time for a clock in Mom's room. It really is a miracle.
"It's morning, Mom. Wake up." I tried saying, glancing at the clock on the wall. If Mom woke up just like that, it would rain cats and dogs and hell would freeze over. And I'd stay bundled up inside.
As usual, there was no response. I went around the bed and up to Mom's shoulder. Her left side, today.
Squatting by the bed, I grabbed Mom's shoulders as she lay facedown.
"Wake up!" I shouted, shaking her hard enough to pull off her shoulders. I showed her no mercy.
The bed shook and squeaked irritatingly.
"It's! Morning! Mom! Wake! Up! Wake! Up! Now!" I yelled.
About nineteen seconds of shaking later.
A reaction. Mom is still alive today. I stopped shaking her.
With a groan, Mom slowly raised her head. She stared at me—I was still holding her shoulders—through her messy hair. Her clear blue eyes were still half-covered by her eyelids.
"Who're you?" She asked. Still not awake.
I came up with an answer. Take this.
"This is the Confederation Police Force. You're under arrest for using an Air Force aeroplane without permission to teach your daughter to fly, using two hundred liters of gasoline without permission, and falsifying a ground run of an engine test to justify the use of gasoline. What do you have to say to that?"
"C'mon, Officer. It's all for the noble goal of raising the next generation of pilots." Mom slurred, still half-asleep. "As long as no one finds out. Right, Officer?"
If I were a cop, I would have arrested her on the spot. If a cop's come to see you, he obviously knows about your rampant personal use of military assets.
I gave up. Mom buried her face in the mattress and began snoozing away again in the same pose as before. Because she had shifted slightly, she was now lying very close to the edge of the bed.
That was it. The switch was pressed.
I got up and waited for the engine in Mom's head to warm up. And I aimlessly looked around her room.
There was no dust on the floor; I cleaned the room yesterday. There wasn't a single fallen leaf by the flowerpot. The big dresser caught my eye. Mom'd been talking about moving it to the north-side wall for days, but she still hadn't done it. On the clothes hanger by the dresser was the boring dark-red uniform of the Roxcheanuk Confederation Air Force, top and bottom side-by-side. She must have gotten them ready last night. Women could wear pants or a skirt; today, she was going to wear a skirt.
On the collar of her top was a badge of rank with three stripes—three stripes for the rank of captain. Over the left breast was a square, multicolored embroidered patch. Over the right breast was embroidered her name. Of course, it read 'Schultz'.
On the oaken desk was a small electric lamp and an oak bookshelf. There were difficult flight theory books, and a thick book of fairy tales from the West that I'd never seen her read.
And a picture frame.
It was a pretty silver frame. There was a color photograph inside, slightly yellowed with age.
There are two people in the picture. They were shot from the knees-up, but the angle is wonky—it looks like the picture was taken looking down at them.
One of them is wearing a thin yellow dress, looking like a lady from a rich family. She has an awesome and confident smile, and has long blond hair and blue eyes. Mom, when she was younger.
Next to her is a boy with light brown hair, who's wearing a school jacket and uniform. He must have moved his head when the picture was taken, because his face is a complete blur. It kind of looks like he's nervous. The backdrop is the platform of a train station. I can see a dark sky, a hazy green forest, and a station sign that's written in Roxchean but only the first letter is visible. It looks like a 'Ka', but I have no idea where that is.
The boy is Dad—Wilhelm Schultz—when he was younger.
It's the only picture of the two of them together—in fact, it's the only photo of Dad, period.
"Mmm…? Hmm…"
I turned to the bed, where Mom was mumbling.
All of a sudden, she got up. She lost her balance and fell back-first on the floor. There was a loud noise.
"Huh…? What?"
I could hear her voice from across the mattress.
"It's morning, Mom. You're going to be late." I replied coldly.
Mom raised her head from behind the bed with a pout. She shot me a glare.
"You're awful, Lillia… You know, your father used to wake me up every morning with a kiss. He used to stroke my hair and waited next to me until I woke up."
I guarantee you that that is a lie.
"How do you know that?"
"I didn't say anything, Mom. Anyway, you have to wash up, brush your hair, and eat breakfast. You're going to be late. You said you're going to get a pay cut if you're tardy again, right? I'm not going to the command center for you even if they call. It's embarrassing."
"All right, all right."
Who's the mother around here, anyway? I sighed.
"And you said you're going to have lunch with Mr. Hero today, right?"
"Hm? Did I?"
This is ridiculous. She's the one who pranced home last night and announced it as soon as she stepped through the door.
"Oh, right! That's right. I'd better dress up nicely."
Sleep completely chased from her, Mom leapt over the bed.
"Good morning, Lillia. You're looking as lovely as usual."
Planting a kiss on my cheek, she rushed into the bathroom.
I went back to the kitchen, brewed tea for both of us, and ate breakfast first. It tasted delicious.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Mom said as she emerged, although I hadn't waited for her. She was in full Air Force regalia. It was hard to believe that she was the same person who was half-asleep in pajamas in her bed until just earlier. Captain Allison Whittington Schultz of the Roxcheanuk Confederation Air Force. A female test pilot who's the undisputed no.1 in the Confederation. What a flawless transformation. This is how she fools the taxpayers who support her.
With a 'Thanks for the meal', Mom began eating. I observed her as I sipped my tea.
She had clear blue eyes as beautiful as the sky on a winter morning. And strands of hair that glinted like fine strings of gold.
"Hm? Wha iff iff?" Mom asked with a sandwich in her mouth, noticing my gaze.
"Well. I just kind of wished I could have gotten those from you."
"Your eye and hair colors."
Mom nodded in understanding and gulped down her tea.
"It's all right, Lillia. You have Wil's eyes and hair. And that's the biggest proof that you're his daughter."
The same answer as usual. And nothing more. I held up the teapot.
"More tea?"
"Make sure to lock up when you leave. Don't be late for school." Mom said, skipping out the door.
For someone who so boldly said to her commander, "Days without flights are too boring, sir. To be perfectly honest, I want to make up excuses and skip work those days", she was pretty cheerful.
She'd also once said, "I wonder if there's going to be an accident on the way to work. Then maybe I could use the traffic jam as an excuse…", but today, she's going to rev up the engine on her beloved car, drive through the packed Capital District streets, and race down the autobahn.
That's all thanks to the date she has scheduled with Mr. Hero.
He's Mom's boyfriend. Of course, 'Hero' isn't his name. I don't know where the nickname came from—Mom never told me.
A long time ago, Roxche was involved in a stupid(from my perspective, having been born after the war) conflict with Sou Be-Il over who was the ancestor of humanity. Mr. Hero is from Sou Be-Il, and he's working at the embassy in the Capital District. He's something called a 'military attaché'—he's around Mom's age, but he's a rank higher than her at major. According to Mom, he's one of the super-elite. Straight from the cream of the crop.
He came to visit us at home a few times when I was little. I still sort of remember the last time he came over. Mom was sitting in a chair drinking tea, giving him orders as he moved the dresser. She was lording it over him like he was her underling or subordinate.
"Is he a 'nobody'?" I asked Mom while he was right there. Mom was astonished, but at the same time she sounded impressed.
"Oh my, Lillia. Where did you learn that word?"
Now that I think about it, that was really rude of me. I still remember how Mr. Hero was smiling bitterly. Mom answered,
"Mr. Hero here's fallen head over heels for me, and he owes me a lot. So I can order him around as much as I'd like, whenever and wherever. Isn't that useful? I'm going to boss him around forever."
Now that I think about it, that's unbelievable. I wonder what Dad would say if he were still alive?
That's right. Dad's already gone—he passed away a little while before I was born.
I heard that he got into an accident while he was on his way to the West for some business. Apparently he fell off a luxury train while it was passing through the mountains.
They never found his body.
Prologue+Chapter 1.
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PC World and Ask and Ryanair and Google
Every now and again there are mutterings about brand hijacking in search, but here's an interesting example of one operation muscling in on the search results of a completely unrelated company.
For a few moments yesterday afternoon, users searching for Ryanair on Google would have been offered sponsored links from Ask.com, a rival search engine, and – rather bizarrely – computer retailer PC World.
Overnight the PPC feed has changed on the keyword "ryanair" and only Ask.com remains in the sponsored links section.
How common is this practice? Any other weird examples?
Kevin May, editor, Travolution


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I'm starting this post at 5am. I can't sleep because I'm in a lot of pain. I keep getting out of bed to ice the most troublesome areas – my neck, my lower back, my shoulders, and most especially that bit of my back that is just below my left arm and where a bunch of muscles connect my arm and my shoulders and my neck. I have no idea what that bit of anatomy is called, but it hurts like a very big ~expletive~, and is causing pain across my back and up my neck, my arm to hurt all the way down, and my fingers to go numb and tingly, all at the same time.
I don't have any "extra" pain meds I can take, but I've rubbed it with some pain gel, and that ain't doing a thing.
I've been trying to stretch and do a few of the exercises I learned in physical therapy, because sometimes that helps. But I have to be careful, because my Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) gets worse with exercise, and doing so can cause a bad crash (Post Extertional Malaise).
I've also been rolling around on the floor on a hard ball, like a tennis ball, to try to release some lactic acid from my aching muscles. That also hurts like a big ~expletive~, and makes me cry even more.
Or maybe it's the pain and the extra pain and effort and the exhaustion making me cry.
One thing that keeps me going, both right now and in general, is a saying on a painting I bought a long time ago:
Even in the dark
there is hope
and a chance for light
and… the reminder I got earlier today (yesterday? I'm not sure) that, well, there truly always is hope.
See, I love plants. I always have, and even though I'm not great with them, and even tho an early brush with "gardening" when I was young and lived on St. Thomas ended badly when a hurricane washed my "garden" down the mountain – well, I still potter away at it.
I used to have lots of plants in my house, but now I only have four. I also have some plants growing in the yard that need no tending (or don't get any), and every once in a while, on a "good" day during spring and summer, I'm able to pull weeds for like a minute. Which I enjoy.
And I love seeing new leaves grow, and new flowers, and I talk to my plants, and thank them for the new growth, and "pet" whatever is growing, and tell it it's pretty… (okay, I sound deranged now. But it works for me. And the plants don't seem to mind.)
(I promise, I'm getting to the point. Eventually. But typing this out is helping distract me from the pain – except now it feels like someone is pinching me really hard on my right shoulder…oooowwww!)
Anywho, one of my inside plants is the kind that just has leaves, and shoots out long strands of bright green leaves, like a waterfall. (And yes, I should know the name of it, but like I said, I've never been that great at gardening, and now the brain fog is so strong sometimes I have no idea how to even use this blogging platform.)
Currently, this plant has two long strands of leaves, and one very short strand that has had nothing on it for quite some time.
I meant to pull out that short vine, but I never did.
That reminder I mentioned? Tis this:
A beautiful, new leaf on a vine I thought was not worth saving.
Like I said: there's always hope.
(And here's hoping I can sleep now.)
dSavannah Note: I wrote this about a week ago, but obviously didn't post until now. I feel like a farce publishing it, when I don't feel very hopeful at all. I haven't been able to do anything for the last few days because of more pain and exhaustion and migraine and anxiety and insomnia and growing anxiety over everything I haven't been able to do. (I have mentioned that being Sick Is a Full-Time Job, yes?)
But every time I pass that plant on the way to the kitchen, that leaf is getting bigger and bigger and is growing jauntily to the light. Even if I forget to water it. Even if I don't even see it. It still grows. It still has hope.
And maybe this post will help someone else in need of hope. It exists, even if we don't think it does.


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Saturday, 30 July 2011
:: The Bustle rockethd my sockeths offeth!!::
... my god it feels like forever since I updated this.. but was still buzzing from last nights performances so just wanted to share...We have some new additions to the family, Ellen, Renate, Beautty, Jolene.. and The lovely Lady.. whos name just suits the club so well! Welcome ladies!!.. its great to have you all with us!! So we should be seeing these lovelies in action once we have fitted them with their very own pasties...So... last night... where do I start?... We had myself, Sierra, Honey and Ellen all swinging body parts on stage, I kicked off the show with a rather bright and rather saucy little set, dressed head to toe in leather and blinging my way through a scissor sisters number.. of course.. a little dazzle was used to blind the patrons while i whipped off my jacket, and thankfully the lag allowed me to use my effects yey! Then up stepped the one and only Honey B.. always a crowd pleaser she appeared brandishing a rather manacing rolling pin! complete with the ladylike pinny and rollers in her hair.. she wiggled and threw cupcakes onto her adoring fans as she hanky pankied her way through a racey 5,6,7,8's number(id not heard of them either!) now thats a sight any man would relish after a long day at the office.. even if it did involve a beating ..Then we had the sensational Sierra.. and her sidekick Marvin (our man prop) going all urban grunge on us with a gorgeous if slightly whiffy set.. yes it even had flies!! Both giving us an awesome duet to a little bit of Micheal J.. honestly that girl could wear a bin bag and still look good! Then our effervescent Ellen landed on stage... clad in spaceage materials no one could identify and emerging from a capsule.. she observed proceedings carefully... before letting her hair down and gyrating to a little Katy Perry..great stuff!!.. Then to wind up what had been a fantastic night.. I dragged my rump back to the stage.. feeling slightly.. how can I say?.. restricted.. bringing a little poetry and crazy hair to the events.. I was released to the rivers and fields to sway for my supper alongside the Goddess Gaga..So there we have it folks... probably one of the best bustles we've had!.. Awesome crowd and sensational performers! I swear it gets better and better.. you girls amaze me daily :) Photos... unfortunately we didnt have our house photographer this week but I hope Ive been able to describe it well enough to give you some frisky dreams lol.. Huge thanks to Billi for her wonderful hosting!.. shes a star!.. soon to be on the stage!! and once again massive hugs to all the girls of the LGC.. you do a fantastic job each and everytime!.. Love you tonnes!! Heres to next weeks show!.. bring it on !! see you there :)
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The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
About the book
About the Author
James H. Lemly spent his early years in Jackson Mississippi. He did undergraduate work at Millsaps College in Jackson, and at the University of Mississippi. After service in World War II, he studied Transportation Economics and Business Administration at Indiana University where he received his doctorate in 1952. The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio is the product of his dissertation studies and was published in 1953.
In the fall of 1952 he began teaching at the University of Georgia and later transferred to Georgia State College, (later Georgia State University) where he retired in 1980. After this time he taught at North Carolina State University until 1985. During his university teaching and research years he served in a six-month study of transportation in Pakistan. Beginning in 1966 he spent several years teaching at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Later he was instrumental in a transportation study for the Government of Ghana.
Jim Lemly is retired and lives in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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The ITS WebAuth team is pleased to announce Stanford WebAuth 4.5.5. This is a bug-fix release for the WebLogin and WebKDC components of WebAuth, particularly for multifactor authentications. There is no need for WebAuth Application Servers to upgrade to this release.
For documentation and downloads of WebAuth 4.5.5, see:
The user-visible changes in this release are:
Fix replay detection in WebLogin to use the same memcached object naming convention when registering authentications and when checking for a previous authentication.
If the login is rejected by the user information service, WebLogin now displays a more specific error instead of the generic "something went wrong" error page.
If a multifactor authentication is rejected by the validation service, the user is now returned to the multifactor authentication screen and the error message is provided to the template, rather than taking the user to a dead-end error page with a generic error.
If enabled, rate limiting and replay detection are also applied to the multifactor login page in addition to the password login page.
Support remembering that the user has been sent an SMS message already when redisplaying the multifactor login page after an error. For this to work properly, local templates will have to be updated to set the form parameter multifactor_sentauth if an SMS message has already been sent. See the sample multifactor.tmpl file for an example.


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Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Jazz vocalist Andy Bey didn't hold back in 1998, but he certainly knew the power of restraint. On Shades of Bey, he covers Thelonious Monk, Billy Strayhorn, even Nick Drake's "River Man" with his trademark baritone voice a... more »
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Jazz vocalist Andy Bey didn't hold back in 1998, but he certainly knew the power of restraint. On Shades of Bey, he covers Thelonious Monk, Billy Strayhorn, even Nick Drake's "River Man" with his trademark baritone voice and a strikingly smooth delivery. No melismas here, Bey's tunes gradually unfold with a subtlety you never find in modern vocalists anymore. A great recording, and gorgeous tunes. --Jason Verlinde
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"I know many of you are wondering who the hell Andy Bey is, and many of you probably think he's new on the scene. Andy Bey is one of the last great voices on this planet. I consider him to be one of the few living legends, and would love to see him get the credit he truly deserves. Listening to him sing "Pretty Girl" reveals that he is in touch with what he sings about. "River Man" definitely has to be my favorite. He grabs your mind, takes you to musical journey with him to search for the river man. After listening to that track "you'll want to keep a suitcase packed,(hoping that you can go on the same journey everyday). Just ask Horace Silver about Andy Bey. He's a gift to the world!"
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"Andy Bey delivers some of the most beautiful singing I have ever heard. His voice is so rich and full of character, it is indescribable. Buy this album; you will play it again and again."
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"I loved Bey's previous album (Ballads, Blues & Bey)...in fact, all summer long I would play it at the beach I house I shared with friends and would constantly be asked to write down the name of the album for various guests. THIS NEW ALBUM IS EVEN BETTER! The program showcases a lovely mix of tunes and styles...but it's Bey that provides the magic. His personality just seems to soak through the speakers and fill not only your ears, but your heart, with joy. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!"


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After writing a simple PSGI application server benchmark I continued benchmarking with a bit more realistic workload than just the simplest possible "hello world" PSGI app. I run the same tests against two popular Perl web frameworks: Catalyst and Dancer. Both of them run on top of the PSGI stack. Continue reading
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This benchmark is about Perl PSGI web application servers but the story starts with Python. I needed to deploy a Python based web application on a server running nginx. I was not fully up to date about the current WSGI application server offerings and therefore searched for some comparisons. I found a comprehensive WSGI server benchmark by Nicholas Piël which was very interesting, although slightly dated already.
I noticed that uWSGI looks like a good modern application server which integrates nicely with nginx. And not only for running Python apps: It can run Perl PSGI/Plack apps as well! That made me very interested.
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It has been a long time since I have posted anything on my blog here. If you had been following you too can cook on facebook you would have come to know about my first appearance on a cookery show on TV. I had made samosas and maa laddus for the show, each and every moment there was a very new experience, do check out the you tube video in case you've missed it. So after a long time got some time to sit back and relax, so I thought to post on blog, something related to this festive season. For diwalis when I was a kid neighbors would send us a lot of diwali palagarams as gift and the day would be so much exciting. In addition to the holiday mood, tasting the sweets and palaharams from different homes would be an added pleasure. Muruku, adhirasam, susiyam, achu muruku and some more delicious sweets and savories would be there in the gift platter. My all time favorite remains the achu murukku so here's a very easy recipe for you to try at homes for making this delightful crunchy sweet recipe. Achu murukku is one of the easiest sweet palaharam recipe that can be prepared with minimal ingredients and if your achu is well treated making the achu murukuus will be a breeze.
INGREDIENTS(Used the standard measuring cup)
Makes 15 murukkus
Total preparation time - 20 minutes
- Rice flour - 1 cup
- Sugar - 1/4 cup
- Sesame seeds / Ellu - 1 teaspoon
- Salt - A pinch
- Coconut cut into smaller bits - 1 cup (plus 1/4 cup if needed)
(Will update the stepwise pictures shortly)
- Before starting the process you have to heat your achu so that the murukku falls off easily from the achu. Place a pan on flame and pour enough oil to fry achu murukku. Soak the achu in oil and leave the set up on low flame for ten to fifteen minutes. (If your achu is new, then heat it in oil for 30 to 45 minutes on a very low flame. Then remove from flame and leave it on the same pan with oil overnight undisturbed. Next day when you make the murukkus reheat the pan along with the achu in it, heat on a a very low flame for 20 minutes. And when you are sure the achu has been heated, start to follow the procedure.)
- Meanwhile, grind coconut using a little water. Then pour about 1 cup of water and extract milk from coconut and set aside.
- Grind sugar into fine powder.
- Take a clean bowl and add rice flour, powdered sugar and mix well. Add coconut milk and make a thin batter. It should have the consistency thinner than that of dosa batter consistency.
- Then add a pinch of salt and the sesame seeds. Stir well.
- Now place the hot achu inside the batter and pull out immediately. Just dip the achu half way through, do not dip it fully as it will not come out of the achu. The batter will stick to the murukku achu now. Then dip the achu into the hot oil, after about a ten seconds shake the achu, the murukku will leave the achu easily if treated well. If not use a fork or skewer to gently pull it off from the achu. Do not try to pull it off before it has got cooked as it might tear off.
- Now wait until the achu murukku turns slightly brown then remove from flame, it will be slightly rubbery at first then it will turn crispy after it cools down. Now heat the achu again and dip into batter and follow the same procedure to make murukkus with the rest of the batter. (In a nutshell, dip achu in oil - dip this hot achu in batter - dip in oil again)
- Crunchy and tasty achu murukku is now ready! Store in clean and dry airtight containers after it cools down.
TIP 1 : If you are using the achu for the first time, make sure that you follow the treating process and then use to make achu murukkus. Else your murukkus will stick to the achu and you will have a very hard time removing it. And once this happens all your murukkus will stick the same way. So make sure you dip it in oil for a lot of time and heat it up well before soaking in the rice flour batter. There are nonstick achus available now which you can use instead.
TIP 2: Your murukkus might stick if there's too much sugar in it. So always follow the above ratio I've mentioned in the recipe.
TIP 3: The murukkus will burn immediately so remove from the flame as soon as it starts browning.
TIP 4: Make sure to extract fresh coconut milk. Do not use store bought.
TIP 5: The oil should not be smoking hot, make sure to heat the achu and fry the murukkus in low-medium hot oil.
TIP 6: Never ever wash the achu using soap or any dish wash liquids. If so, your achu will become like a new one, then you must again follow the treating procedure and dip it in oil. Else your murukkus will stick and not come out!!
TIP 6: Never ever wash the achu using soap or any dish wash liquids. If so, your achu will become like a new one, then you must again follow the treating procedure and dip it in oil. Else your murukkus will stick and not come out!!


text: Pacific Bell readies itself for competition Published on October 11, 1995. Preparing for the deregulation of the telecommunications industry and the onslaught of competition, Pacific Bell Tuesday filed a series of proposals to expand its role from just a retailer to a wholesaler of local services in California. In a complex set of regulatory filings to the California Public Utilities Commission, the company proposed guidelines to sell its network services and capabilities to potential competitors, who would then compete against Pacific Bell for the $6 billion-a-year local telephone market. Most Popular In this article: News


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I spent my lunch with another teacher
and all our students who had earned "Community Lunchbox,"
a reward students can earn for doing their homework all week.
Just as I was about to finish eating,
a group of girls came to my table area and began asking,
"Miss Friedrich, can we come to your wedding?
Can we come over to your house and hang out with you after school?"
(There are two girls from this group that ask me this on a daily basis.
I don't think they get that teachers and students don't hang out
and have play dates like they do with their friends.)
Of course I said no to both, but with a smile.
Our banter about them coming over has become a daily joke.
Soon, they began asking questions about my 'future husband'
and the pictures I had up in the room of he and I.
When I pointed out a picture of us at Disneyland,
they immediately began asking,
"If we can't come over, will you take us to Disneyland?!"
My quick wits gave me a great idea.
"Sure!" I proclaimed.
Their eyes lit up and smiles spread across their faces,
"Really?!?!?" they asked.
"Yes. I will go to Disneyland with you when you graduate college."
My thought was that the likelihood they'll actually contact me
after their college graduation could be slim,
and it sounded like a fun promise if it ever actually came true.
We laughed and joked about how they'll need to Google me
to look up my contact information when the time finally comes.
"It's a deal!" one said. "But we need to shake on it."
I complied, shaking on the deal.
As they excitedly ran out of the room to recess,
bragging to anyone who walked by,
"We're gunna go to Disneyland with Ms. Friedrich!"
My team teacher and I looked at each other and laughed.
She warned me that in about 13 years
these girls actually could be calling me.
And you know what? I'm okay with that.
If the memory of this pact does anything to motivate them in school
I'm completely okay with that.
I'll let you know in about 13 years or so if we make it to Disneyland.
And to tell you the truth,
I'd be delighted if this dream really does come true.


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Using thin cell technology with a high water hardness tolerance, Ionpure VNX CDIT enables system designers to eliminate costly second-pass reverse osmosis (RO) pretreatment of typical EDI systems. In addition, Ionpure VNX CDIT can also replace aging chemically regenerated mixed bed resin systems that are already operating on single-pass RO. The new module is broadening the application of CEDI in the power generation industry while driving down water treatment and capital costs.
Siemens Industry Automation Division introduces the new Ionpure VNX CDIT module with high water hardness tolerance which brings lower operating costs and capital expenses.
By using thin deionization cells, Siemens Industry Automation Division's Ionpure VNX CDIT module has doubled feedwater hardness capability from a previous maximum of 2 ppm as calcium carbonate to 4 ppm. Maximum silica intake has increased to 2 ppm from less than 1 ppm. US Patent Pending thin cell technology also allows for Feedwater Conductivity Equivalent (FCE), an estimation of the ionic load that can be handled by CEDI, more than twice the value of the preceding high hardness module, at up to 100 µS/cm.
This greatly enhanced tolerance gives Ionpure VNX CDIT an eight times higher hardness rating than the common EDI used as a power industry standard. Applications for the new module therefore include boiler feed ultrapurification for power plants with high hardness/high total dissolved solids in the raw water. In addition, VNX CDIT capably replaces Ionpure Legacy H and P series modules.
The components of the new module are housed in the standard VNX vessel format, which is already widely established in power applications, with standard pipe connectivity and skid mounting. However, the internal construction differs from the thick cell design that is common to the rest of the series. This new internal arrangement allows for proven thin cell technology to operate on more challenging feed-water while maintaining the 7 bar operating pressure with guaranteed leak-free performance. Nominal flow is rated at 30 gpm (113 lpm).
The module also ensures that single-pass RO can now be successfully introduced to the typical CEDI pretreatment train in all but the most severe feedwater locations. Elimination of the second-pass RO reduces both the capital costs and the operating costs of the treatment system.
Ionpure is a trademark of Siemens and/or its affiliates in some countries.
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Hello, my Pretties!
I don't know if you noticed, but I didn't get a chance to do a FAVORITES post last month. With all the hoopla surrounding my birthday and Christmas and preparing for the New Year, it kinda sorta got overlooked.
And even though this favorites post is inclusive of two months, my favorites are few. I have had long weeks of working 10-12 hour days and don't wear makeup that often during the week. If I do, it's just a quick dusting of face powder and some mascara. When the weekend comes around, I only wear makeup if I'm going out and about. Which isn't that often either since my weekends are filled with laundry and Lifetime movies.
I apologize for my lackluster array of favorites but nonetheless, here they are:
|Favorites for December 2011 and January 2012.
|Victoria's Secret Secret Garden Scented Candle and
Refreshing Body Mist in Pure Seduction.
I included this body mist back in my November Favorites and I'm still using it! I love this scent and I love having the matching scented candle. Casaba Melon, Plum, and Freesia make up this scent and it's wonderful! I'm almost out of my body mist so keep an eye out for that one in February's empties post!
|Clean & Clear Advantage 3-in-1
Foaming Acne Wash
This is a 3-in-1 because it 1-cleanses the skin, 2-treats pimples, and 3-helps prevent future breakouts. And it's oil free. I don't suffer from acne prone but my sweet-tart does and that's why we purchased this one. It's always in the shower and so one day I started using it and liked how clean my skin looked. I started using it often, about 2-3 times a week. I don't use it everyday because since my skin is not problematic for the exception of a pesky pimple every so often, the salicylic acid acne medication in this cleanser dries out my skin too much. Using it once in a while keeps my skin clean and prevents any acne from popping up.
|E.L.F. Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Avon Healthy Makeup Eyeshadow in Tiger's Eye
L'Oreal HIP High Intensity Pigments in Tenacious
Maybelline Super Stay 24 Color in On and On Orchid
This E.L.F. Liquid Eyeliner is one of my all time favorite liquid eyeliners. It's so black and easy to apply. It dries fairly quickly and it lasts all day without running or fading. And for only $1.00, it's a steal!
I use Avon's Tiger's Eye eyeshadow when I am in a hurry and just want a touch of color to my lids. I apply it easily with the doe foot applicator and the liquid shadow blends out easily and evenly with just my fingertips. The color is pigmented and wears well all day long.
This HIP pigment is my first and it is beautiful! I bought this a while back when CVS was having a 75% off sale and I paid peanuts for it. It is a color unlike anything else I have. It's like melted metal on my eyelids. Sounds painful but it looks stunning!
This Maybelline 24 Color is also my first and I adore it. The lip color actually lasts just about 24 hours. It's amazing, really. This one was given to my by my sweet-tart's aunt who bought it for herself but didn't like the color on her but thought it would look good on me. It does! I love it. I applied it in the a.m. and it stayed on through eating and drinking and even sleep. I woke up the next morning and it was still on my lips. Crazy!
Left to Right:
E.L.F. Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Avon Healthy Makeup Eyeshadow in Tiger's Eye
L'Oreal HIP High Intensity Pigments in Tenacious
Maybelline 24 Color in On and On Orchid
So, there you go my loves, these are the top products I have been using in my life for the months of December and January. Are any of these your favorites too?
Luv & Luk,
♥♥ All items mentioned in this post were purchased by me with my own money unless otherwise stated. These are my own thoughts and opinions. ♥♥


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IRVING, Texas (AP) The Big 12 has announced its conference-wide policy for the diagnosis of concussions and managing the care of all student-athletes.
The policy, revealed Wednesday, was developed by team athletic trainers, physicians and medical support staff.
Big 12 members will be required to follow the NCAA's 2014 consensus guidelines for concussion diagnosis and management. Each school will have on file a concussion management plan directed by a team physician with specific protocol for evaluation and management of a concussion.
Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says the Big 12 policy goes beyond what was approved during recent NCAA meetings on autonomy for the largest conferences.