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John and I start our week with a breakfast meeting out somewhere. Yesterday it was Lazy Jane's Cafe which I love. It is on Willy St. in the old hippie part of the city. Things have that funky, slightly worn, old hippie charm to them. This speaks to me and makes me remember my college days back in the 70s. At Lazy Jane's you order your breakfast and go find a table. When your meal is ready the cook bellows out your name and you go get your food.
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Government officials and former president Hamid Karzai also attended the wreath laying ceremony.Independence was gained 98 years ago from Great Britain during King Amanullah Khan's rule.
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Stale Heart is the new single from Neon Coast, real name Travis Crawford, and it's a belter in the vein of Springsteen - the sound of an aching heart plodding on tired legs towards an unknown destination with just enough hope to continue.
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Golf in Wisconsin dates back to circa 1890 and the Milwaukee Country Club is one of the oldest in the State. Although Milwaukee was founded in 1894, golf in those days was played to the northeast the city before moving in 1910 to River Hills, its present location, on the Milwaukee River.
The current Milwaukee layout was fashioned by the hand of Charles Hugh Alison in 1929. Robert Trent Jones made some minor revisions to the layout ahead of the 1969 Walker Cup matches and this 6,875-yard layout has changed little since.
Host venue for the 1988 USGA Senior Amateur, Milwaukee Country Club is a demanding course that requires accuracy from the tee. This is epitomised by the outstanding par four 9th which has a narrow landing area from the tee followed by an intimidating uphill approach shot to a green which is protected by a cavernous bunker set short and right of the green.
Milwaukee Country Club was once more under the spotlight when the club played host to the 2008 Mid-Amateur Championship. Steve Wilson of Mississippi lifted the Robert T. Jones Jr. Trophy at Milwaukee and earned an invitation to the 2009 Masters Tournament in the process.
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MCC was fantastic. When Pete Dye was asked about MCC, he thought for a few moments and then said, "Great grass." MCC is in pristine condition, featuring streams, fast greens, and challenging bunkers. On Number 11, I hit into a greenside bunker on such a steep face that I could hardly get a stance in the trap to hit the ball, but I got it on the green and two-putted for my bogey. My host and I became friends, and a few months later, he invited me back to play in the MCC Invitational. We played in both his and my invitationals for three years, and I went with him to the Tournament Players Championship for three years in a row… He and I subsequently played a few other Top 100 courses together, and through him I met Johnny Koss (the Koss headphone Koss), who is also working on playing the Top 100, but he still has a way to go. Larry Berle.
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The first 18 hole layout was designed primarily by committee members, but was redesigned by Walter Travis in 1924 when an additional 77 acres of land were purchased. The Travis course was not well received, and in 1928, Charles Alison was employed to build it again. Accordingly to club history, Alison convinced the club to acquire an additional 10 acre piece of land, which enabled him to devise an entirely new routing. The Alison course remained intact until Robert Trent Jones made minor changes (eg: removing fairway bunkers) in 1974. The club is currently utilizing modern-day architects to return to the designed laid out by Alison.
This golf course gets little or no attention, and its quite tough to even find a photograph of the layout. This is a great shame as I've played the Top 100 courses in the US, and when people ask me about which courses surprised me the most, I always say "Milwaukee" among a small handful of others.
Some of the best stretches of holes are 8 through 10. The 8th is a short par 3 with a pushed up target surrounded by bunkers, which will get the heart racing and will ensure that the player stares down the ball until it comes to rest. The driveable 9th has a huge downhill dip which chases back uphill to a brilliant green built on a ledge with a brutal false front. The long par 4 10th had significant tree clearance to the left of the hole to allow a breathtaking view of the Milwaukee River, to a green cut out of a ledge. This hole is a painters paradise. The back nine has mostly enjoyable holes, flowing doglegs and an uphill 18th hole featuring a tiered target that is not visible from the fairway.Milwaukee is arguably the most underrated golf course in the United States and will be one of the most memorable experiences of your golfing life.
A review of Milwaukee Country Club could not be complete without a mention of Manuel de la Torre. He is a retired golf pro at MCC, and continues to teach amateurs and professionals onsite. His concepts for golf instruction have stood the test of time for over 60 years. He was the first member of the PGA to be awarded their Teacher of the Year Award in 1986. He is one of only several golf instructors to be inducted into both the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame as well as the PGA Hall of Fame. He is a living legend at Milwaukee Country Club and his legacy complements the fabled history of the sheltered golf property.
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13 October 2009
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Note: Post edited 14th October to remove a lot of details which I, in my naive over-excitement, talked about far too loudly. This means you get the blog equivalent of films that get the swearwords and love scenes bleeped out for airlines, but the story is at least safe. Although, as the media has never had the slightest inclination to get in touch with me before it's flattering to think that this blog could shake things up.
Okay, guess what. I hate suspense so I'll tell you right now: I got interviewed by a nationwide publication about my blog. Never mind that I've been trying to thrust my food blog onto peoples' radars for years now. I've been keeping this a secret for a good week and a half till the story got confirmed. Which it has been. Turns out I should have kept it quiet a bit longer as it's not being published for a while but what can you do? I mean, there will be other food blogs, don't think it's a feature entirely devoted to my blog (all in good time, are you listening Cuisine magazine?) but whatever, it's me! I'm giddy with excitement! How do famous people handle it? Important note: The story is due to run sometime in November. Deal with it.
That said, I may completely regret spreading this news far and wide when the story is published, as I really have no idea how, apart from sweaty, I came across in the phone interview. I spent the rest of my day second guessing myself ("I didn't quote [title of show]! I didn't convey my love for Nigella adequately!) The aforementioned Ange and I were talking about how interviews with celebrities always hinge on how petite they are and how they glow with thousands of luminous spheres. You know. "[Insert starlet here] enters the room, her delicate wrists offsetting her endless eyelashes and skin as dewey as a meadow after the rain. Despite wearing a plain grey tracksuit and not a lick of makeup, she exudes effortless chic and charming approachability. Merely gazing at her is like walking down a Parisian boulevard."
It made me wonder how my intro would run. "Laura walks straight into the doorframe as she attempts to enter the room. She is wearing $6 men's grey trackpants, the kind that Wolf from Outrageous Fortune wears in prison, and her thighs are even larger than she claims on her blog. She should really consider a deep-conditioning hair treatment...and she's glaring at me." Well, you've got to make the jokes about yourself before everyone else does. Anyway, let's all hope for the best that I made a good impression and focus on the joyful fact that I've had my first proper interview. It's really exciting, right? I was jittering all over the place when I found out and completely unable to concentrate. And also, finally, finally, the New Zealand lifestyle media is waking up to the fact that there are flourishing food blogs out there and that people might be interested in them.
To the food:
I think, lately, I've been eating so much tofu and soft, diaphanous rice stick noodles and coconut-drenched everything that I now instead crave something more animalistic and hearty. And they don't come much heartier than lasagne.
I'm not going to give you a recipe for it, because I don't think anyone needs it and I don't even really know what I did...just a buttery, nutmeggy bechamel in one pot, tomato-sauced beef mince with garlic and red wine in another...all layered up with sheets of pasta and topped with cheese and finally baked for a while. I'm not saying that everyone should know how to make lasagne like a spider knows how to spin a web or they are failures at all aspects of life...just that it's not something you necessarily need to stick slavishly to a recipe for.
I haven't actually made lasagne since September 2007 (having a blog makes you know these useful facts) and I'd forgotten how rather brilliant it is...The best bit is the bubbling cheese on top (and only on top...who can afford to put cheese in every layer?) but the whole combination is amazing - soft pasta, milky sauce, rich, red-winey beef...If you possibly can, wait till the next day before eating it as the layers all settle in together and the flavours really develop feelings for each other. And it won't fly everywhere when you try and cut it. I think the reason that I never make lasagne is that it's a complete mission to cook and uses every pot and pan in the house, but seems so rustic and old-school that no-one thinks you've gone to any effort. Good lasagne is a bit of a revelation still though. And a squillion miles removed from those deepfried, crumbed Toppers that you used to be able to get from the school canteen. I feel slightly uneasy just thinking about them.
Continuing on this meaty theme, (with apologies to flinching vegetarian readers - although you can hardly claim that there's a lot of meat on this blog), I finished off the Maryland chicken pieces last night by making Nigella Lawson's Garlic Chicken from her seminal text How To Eat, the sort of recipe that garlic was surely invented for.
Garlic Chicken
2 heads garlic, cloves separated but unpeeled
400mls olive oil
Juice of 2 lemons
16 chicken wings
I scaled all this down accordingly for two large chicken legs. Don't feel you have to stick to chicken wings for this either.
Put cloves of garlic in a small pan of cold water, bring to the boil and boil for ten minutes. Drain, push the cloves out of their skins (a little messy, but easily done) and whizz in a food processor with the lemon juice and olive oil. Or you could just mash/chop them roughly like I did, which, although you don't have a food processor to clean, is actually much more of a pain to do.
Pour the garlic mixture over the chicken and marinade in the fridge overnight or whatever (I tend to err on the side of 'whatever' but no doubt this will be nicer the longer you leave it) When you're good and ready, roast at 210 C for around an hour. Serve sprinkled with salt and perhaps with more lemon wedges for squeezing over. Easy as that.
Don't even think about skipping the bit where you have to boil the garlic. It's this which softens the eye-watering viciousness of it all and keeps the entire dish a mellow delight as opposed to some kind of excercise in how to encourage early-onset balding. The garlic marinade permeates every nook and cranny of the chicken while making it all good and crisp and magically delicious. I served this with ratatouille (eggplants have come down in price, rejoice!), new potatoes (which I frugally boiled in the garlic water, hoping it would impart some kind of wafting flavour...it didn't) and roasted asparagus, also fantastically cheap these days. A totally fabulous meal full of flavours that totally kick winter to the curb. Even though it has been freezing and blisteringly windy and rainy for the last week. You tell yourself what you have to.
The title of this blog is meatily brought to you by: Pink Floyd's In The Flesh? from that troubled album The Wall. The bombastic guitars and wry lyrics make it a genius choice for a concert opener, a practice adopted by steely erstwhile Floyd member Roger Waters. Check it out here, in a clip from his In The Flesh DVD which would have a profound effect on my mid-to-late teenage years. We saw him live in 2007 opening his concert with this song - bliss. Aside of that, don't you think he and Richard Gere are a bit doppelganger-y? They could surely play each other in the respective biopic films of their lives.
On shuffle while I'm a-typing:
Standing In The Rain from local group Opensouls, from their album of the same name. We saw them at Bodega on a whim last Friday and they are fantastically sassy live -somehow managing to sound straight out of the sixties but also really fresh and modern and funky. Beautiful stuff, I highly recommend it.
Rising 5 by Hudson Mohawke from his forthcoming album Butter. This song seems to be all over every single radio station I flick between. It's really sunny and summery for want of a better word, and for some reason reminds me of the sounds I was listening to in England back in 2005, which is not to say it sounds dated. Pitiful explaining aside, anyone calling their album Butter must be worth a listen.
Next time: Contritely, I probably won't mention the interview again.
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oo maybe I should ake this tonight! ah!ReplyDelete
Congrats, Laura, on the interview--too cool!ReplyDelete
Thanks for reading my blog, and I am really enjoying yours. :)
Hey Laura, Congratulations (in textual format this time!) I look forward to reading it.ReplyDelete
Garlic chook is being added to my already long list of "thing's Laura has cooked that I must try to cook also"
See you Friday at Sophies? (no pressure, I just noticed she had mentioned it to Timothy)
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Congratulations! How exciting. I saw an item on the news about the Julie and Julia movie. It looks ..... delicious. Not often you can describe a movie as delicious.ReplyDelete
Awesome-looking lasagne. It's one of those things that you really don't need a recipe for after you have made it once.
Julian is cooking dinner tonight. I bought frozen Sealord fish fillets (in beer batter) but he has spurned that for something requiring a recipe book and a tin of tuna. i.e. fast food has been cast aside for ....slow food.
Well done Laura! I understand your joy, I was utterly delirious when I was featured by Saveur.ReplyDelete
Congrats on the interview! How exciting! Having a blog is such a good substitute for a memory. Someone asked me how I made something the other day and my first response was "How the fuck should I know? It was a year ago" but then I found the relevant post and all was well.ReplyDelete


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***ok...i have to start out this post with a note. i get nervous meeting new people. which in my job, i meet new people almost everytime i go out to do a shoot. and when i get nervous i tend to ramble. and when i meet expectant parents, i tend to ramble EVEN MORE because i adore talking about all things baby. so...i have to apologize to katy and paul if i rambled like an insane goon during your whole session. (i did stop myself short of telling a terribly embarassing and slightly inapropriate story about my a comment my husband made about me when i was pregnant having to do with national geographic ;) )*****
ok....now that that is out of the way, on to the photographs. katy and paul were awesome. even when i drug them out in a random field, and made them move this way and that and sit this way and that, they obliged happily. and seriously....katy is a one gorgeous mama-to-be. thank you guys for letting me document this super exciting time in your life. good luck and i can't wait to meet your new son!


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- Party Hardy People
- I Don't Want to Know What You Do to Me
- Still Water
- Goodbye Love (We're Through)
- Friends or Lovers
- It's the Same Old Story
- You Didn't Love Me Anyhow
- Love's Got Your Mind
- Bump 'N from the Middle
- Tom the Peeper
- Do You Feel It
- I Never Had a Love Like Yours
- A Whole Lot of Love Makin'
- It Takes Both of Us
One of the greatest of all the so-called "lost" funk albums of the early to mid-'70s, Act One's eponymous debut album stands as a testament to all the gritty majesty that Raeford Gerald would bring to his work with Millie Jackson -- sharp production, slick instrumentation, and a driving, dirty punchiness that absolutely defines such titles as the vaguely punning "A Whole Lotta Lovemaking," "Takes Two of Us," and "Tom the Peeper." It is that latter, of course, which brought Act One the most attention; a favorite on the British Northern soul circuit, from whence its renown spread to the U.S., it has since turned up on various genre compilations, drawing further fans and collectors into the search for this (admittedly hard-to-find) album. However, "Tom the Peeper"'s ruthless horns and thunderous gyrations are only the tip of the iceberg, both musically and commercially -- two further tracks from the album, "Friends and Lovers" and the aforementioned "Takes Two of Us," hit the domestic R&B chart during 1973, while "Never Had a Love Like Yours," too, offers an unforgettable highlight. All of which means, record-buyers of the age can scarcely be forgiven for not drawing the album, too, into the commercial spotlight.
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Salem - Case study
While working on the rebrand of WGN America, I was heavily involved in the launch of their first original dramatic series, Salem. My involvement included managing the logo development process, the development of the on-air promotional look for the show, as well as being a significant part of the off-air creative development.
To be clear, launching a show like this is a group effort. Some aspects I was much more involved in than others. I have tried my best to assign proper credit to those parties involved. That said, a lot of my DNA is present in the creative I'm presenting.
WGN America is a basic cable and satellite television channel - owned by Tribune Broadcasting and available in approximately 73,969,000 pay television households (64.77% of households with television) in the United States.
WGN America is in the process of transitioning from a channel based around syndicated programming, sports and news - into a showcase for original programming produced through our Tribune subsidiary, Tribune Studios. The first of these shows, an hour-long drama called Salem, aired in Spring of 2014.
Expectations going into the premiere of the show were modest. A "win" would have been 600,000 viewers. Our actual viewership exceeded those expectations considerably, with an estimated 2.3 million viewers.
Final Logo Animation
Starting with the end, this is where we ended up with the title design.
The Process
However, as is the case in projects like this, there were many, many iterations of design and animation and tests that came before the final version. I joined the project fairly late in development, and we still clocked at least 10 distinct approaches in the months leading up to the premiere. And in my opinion, some of the best work got left by the wayside.
In particular, the stellar work by Eric Diga and Jimmy Yeo needs to be praised.
The Product
Once we'd settled on a design, there were a million promotional elements that needed to be generated in the time leading up to air. As well as the weekly needs of keeping the buzz on the show. Here's a promo.
The Campaign
Teasers & Titles
We contracted Prologue films and Kyle Cooper to provide a teaser campaign and main titles for the show. This teaser was from a concept that Anibal Nuñez, the senior writer/producer of our internal team, came up with.
The main titles included original music by Marilyn Manson and Tyler Bates.
Out Of Home
A show like Salem needed far more than title design and promos to be a success. To that end, a significant out-of-home campaign was mounted. With large outdoor buys placed in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco. While I consulted on this creative, the real heavy lifting was done by the Los Angeles Design Director, Dave Brown, and teams at Arsonal and Art Machine. Formatting, versioning, and pre-press were provided by Kelli Szluka.
Digital & Social
Launching a new show in the fractured media landscape of today is a multi-pronged effort. We employed every mode of brand extension at our disposal, including digital and social outreach. We also enlisted cast members to engage our audience directly.
We maintained extensive presence on YouTube, where we provided a large quantity of value-added content in the way of BTS clips, interviews, and alternate - targeted - promos.
In all, a full court press brought us the visibility we needed to further the aims of rebranding the network. It was a very positive start.


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Among many other things, the men who occupied the Malheur federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and participated in the standoff at the Bundy ranch in Nevada have been charged for impeding federal agents from doing their jobs.
According to attorneys who represent the Bundy klan, charging them for impeding federal agents is unconstitutional.
[Attorney Amy Baggio] said the charge is too broad and allows the government to decide when a government employee is being impeded. She said the charge places a "sphere of protection" around government workers, which Baggio argued has the potential to create a chilling effect on political protests at government offices, thus violating the First Amendment rights of protesters.
"This statute has the potential to chill speech," she said in a Portland courtroom Monday. "This statute can chill not only freedom of expression, but also Second Amendment rights to bear arms."
The judge presiding over the case quickly pointed out that using force against federal employees is "not protected conduct" which the attorney reportedly acknowledged, seemingly defeating her entire argument in very short order.
There's a hint of sovereign citizen arguments in what the defense is presenting in court, arguing that established federal law isn't really the law or somehow does not apply to these men who used forced to occupy federal property.
This is hardly surprising given that they don't believe the federal government even has jurisdiction over the land. They've internalized a perverted view of the Constitution that does not exist in empirical reality.
They're all going down.


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The Nordic countries have higher female employment rates than the EU average, yet part-time work is much more common among women than men, which affects women's economic independence. The gender difference in number of hours worked per week is an expression of the different conditions women and men face in the labour market and society at large. The unequal distribution of part-time employment is therefore a key aspect in the work to achieve gender equality in the labour market.
Who Works Part Time?
About 30 per cent of the women in Norway, Iceland and Sweden work part time. In Denmark, the figure is 35.3 per cent, and in Finland only 20.5 per cent of the women work part time. Finland's low rate is partly due to part time jobs being more marginalised and more concentrated to low-skill occupations in that country. Yet there are also some historical explanations. Women's participation in the labour market rose earlier in Finland, which has influenced the employment rate.
Part-time employment is significantly less common among men in the Nordic countries, although the rate is rising. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, about 15 per cent of the men work part time, and in Finland and Iceland the rates are 9.9 per cent and 11.8 per cent, respectively.
In all Nordic countries, women with low levels of education are more likely to work part time than women with more education. This pattern is not as pronounced among men. Women in the age group 25–54 years are more likely to work part time than women of other ages, while men who work part time tend to be either younger or older.
Causes of Part-time Employment
Part-time employment is more common among women for several reasons, including greater family responsibilities, health issues and the organisation of workplaces. Women's part-time employment is strongly linked to the fact that women tend to carry a heavier load than men when it comes to family and care responsibilities. There are norms and values prescribing that women should experience a conflict between being employed and taking care of their homes and families, which makes them apt to engage less in paid work. Another reason is that a part-time culture has emerged in female-dominated sectors such as child and elderly care in the Nordic countries. This culture leads to an expectation, and acceptance, of part-time employment among women.
Many female part-time workers also describe difficulties finding a full-time job. Foreign-born women and women with low levels of education are particularly likely to work part time involuntarily. In some female-dominated sectors, there are employers who offer few or no opportunities for full-time work, and thus, job applicants who would prefer to work full time feel forced to accept part-time contracts.
The discussions about involuntary part-time work have attracted a lot of attention in the Nordic countries. In Norway and Sweden, attempts have been made to create more full-time positions in for example the care sector, in which there is a need for more staff. However, most of these initiatives have been subject to the employer's discretion and preferences. In many cases, they have also been obstructed by labour laws and collective agreements.
The rate of involuntary part-time workers varies greatly across the Nordic countries. Finland and Iceland top the list, while Denmark and Norway have the lowest rates. When the unemployment rate goes up, so does the share of people who work part time involuntarily. This became particularly visible in the wakes of the financial crises in the 1990s and in 2008.
Health problems and disabilities are other reasons women work part time instead of full time. Health problems can in some cases arise from attempts to combine full-time employment with family life, or they can be caused by the way work is often organised in the female-dominated health and care sectors. Research shows that women's experiences of insufficiency in both the labour market and the family domain are important causes of part-time employment and reduced health. Male part-time workers are less likely to state family life as a reason for their choice, with the exception of men in Finland. Instead, men tend to report that they work part time for health reasons or because they are in school.
Employers may offer part-time rather than full-time contracts for several reasons. For example, access to part-time staff often makes it easier to adapt to short-term fluctuation in staffing needs. The desire of employers to reduce salary costs and thus increase profits is also an important factor.
Women's Financial Situations and Pensions
Part-time employment affects women's financial situations both immediately and in the long term. One immediate consequence is less money to spend, and in the longer term the women may end up with flatter salary trajectories and lower pensions. A study shows that almost all women and men in the Nordic region are satisfied with their jobs, whether they work part or full time. However, in several of the countries, the dissatisfaction rates are higher among part-time workers. A relatively large share of these individuals report having had problems paying their bills in the last three years. Among women in Denmark and Sweden, part-time workers are more likely to be unhappy with their income. The share of people who say their financial situation is difficult is particularly large among women who work part time in Finland.
An extended period of part-time employment may affect a person's future pension, but the effect differs between the Nordic countries. A comparison shows that the difference in future pension between part-time and full-time work is small in Denmark and Norway. In these countries, having worked full time for most of one's career has a greater effect on the pension than having worked part-time for a period. In addition, the pension systems in Denmark and Norway compensate people for time they have spent at home raising children. In Denmark, parts of the pension system also compensate people for lower incomes. In Finland, Iceland and Sweden, a woman's pension is 4–6 per cent lower if she has worked part time for 10 years. In these countries, there is a stronger correlation between pensions and the life-time number of hours worked in life.
Part-time Employment in the Autonomous Areas
Women in the Faroe Islands and Åland have higher part-time employment rates than women elsewhere in the Nordic region – 49 per cent and 45.9 per cent, respectively. These are high rates even when compared with countries in the rest of Europe. In fact, only Switzerland and the Netherlands have higher rates. A small study in which Faroese were interviewed about their reasons for working part time shows that although most of the women had chosen to work part time, the decisions had been made within the framework of social structures and cultural expectations, as well as individual circumstances. For example, motherhood and the expectations that come with it were important to the interviewed women, and their participation in the labour market was constrained by family responsibilities.
In Greenland, there is no significant difference in part-time employment rates between women and men. The Greenlandic part-time employment rates vary more between urban and rural areas than between women and men, as those who live in the countryside are more likely to work part time than people in urban areas.
Important to Broaden the Perspective
To increase the opportunities for women to work full time, there is a need for structural solutions, such as an expansion of child and elderly care services. Experts also say that women's part-time employment is closely linked to men's high rates of full-time employment. Focusing only on women's part-time work will not help solve the underlying problem. Instead, there should be a focus on the distribution of part-time employment and family responsibilities.
Women's part-time work is often discussed from a gender equality perspective where the negative effects are emphasised. One consequence of the discussion is that full-time work is made the only desirable form of employment, which reduces the space for discussions for example about a general reduction of work hours. The number of hours worked by men tends to become the norm against which women's participation in the labour market should be compared. As a result, some questions related to gender equality have become difficult to ask. For example, is it necessarily the case that women should work more, or should maybe men work less? Finally, there is a need for more studies on part-time employment with a focus on not only gender but also on other possible determinants, such as class and ethnicity. At present, the discussions on part-time employment tend to focus on women in heterosexual relationships, which leaves less room for discussions on part-time employment in other groups of women. This is a perspective that deserves thorough attention.


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STANDISH, Maine - The 15th Saint Joseph's College Athletics Hall of Fame Class was inducted with a ceremony at the Stone Barn on the evening of Saturday, September 9th. Doug MacCallum '10 (Men's Soccer), Emily Leverone '12 (Softball), Alyssa Marchant '11 (Women's Lacrosse), and the 1994 Softball Team were enshrined with nearly 120 family members, friends, and alumni in attendance.
The addition of this year's class increases the Athletics Hall of Fame membership to a total of 86 accomplished individuals and teams.
College President Dr. James Dlugos kicked off the evening with a brief introductory address at the Stone Barn, a venue renovated last fall that has already hosted a wide variety of events, including weddings, receptions, and other gatherings.
The ceremony followed with Athletics Director Brian Curtin welcoming the crowd and Michael E. Sanderl, Ed.D, Vice President & Chief Sponsorship and Mission Integration Officer, providing the Invocation. Dinner and dessert followed.
Doug MacCallum '10, from Hingham, Massachusetts, is the second men's soccer player – and first field player - to be inducted into the Saint Joseph's Athletics Hall of Fame. The two-time All-Conference honoree enters the Hall of Fame as the program's career leader in goals (38) and points (87) and ranks second in game-winning goals (13) and shots (183).
Alyssa Marchant '11, who hails from Wakefield, Massachusetts, is deservingly the first women's lacrosse player to enter the Hall of Fame. The three-time First Team All-Conference selection and 2011 GNAC Offensive Player of the Year held 25 team records upon graduation and remains at or near the top of nearly every statistical career and single-season category at the time of her induction.
Emily Leverone '12, a Hampton, New Hampshire native, is perhaps the most feared hitter in Saint Joseph's softball history. The four-time First Team All-GNAC honoree capped her career as the owner of 19 team records and remains as the Monks' all-time leader in runs (168), hits (258), doubles (66), home runs (37), RBI (211), slugging (.829), OPS (1.340), extra-base hits (113), and total bases (455).
Led by Head Coach and 2008 Saint Joseph's Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Dick Bailey, the 1994 Softball Team posted a 27-9 (.750) overall record and claimed Maine Athletic Conference (MAC), NAIA New England, and NAIA Northeast Championships en route to securing the program's first NAIA National Tournament appearance. The 1994 team opened the season with a 20-2 record and suffered consecutive losses on just two occasions.
Current SJC student-athletes – Elyse Caiazzo '18, Megan Baker '19, Melodie Bailey '19, and Michael Ferrie '21 - introduced each presenter at the podium.
Founded in 2000, the Saint Joseph's College Athletics Hall of Fame honors past athletes, faculty, staff and friends who, through their actions, have brought distinction through athletics to themselves and to Saint Joseph's College. With the combination of the committee and members who have associations with the college and/or athletics department, the Saint Joseph's College Hall of Fame has continued to make strides toward the future while honoring the past.
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Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic liberal arts college, providing a supportive, personalized and career-focused education for more than 100 years. From its 474-acre campus on the shores of Sebago Lake, the College offers more than 40 undergraduate programs to a population of approximately 1,000 students. Saint Joseph's College Online provides certificates, undergraduate and advanced degrees for working adults through an online learning program. For more, visit www.sjcme.edu.


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National hair changes appoint: choose occasion implementation becomes those who taste oil price case and international market to conform
Oil price is unlocked " oily tiger " will sell hard
Song Jun / civil
On June 5, the Comex mies wife head assemble is moved, brows presseds closely, beam with smiles, ambulate hastily... all act accompany big screen to go up to wave all the way ground of red curvilinear exert to one's utmost is alternating. That day when closing quotation, the price of futures of light qualitative crude of complete a business transaction will reach 122.22 dollars July / bucket.
Compare at the beginning of the year, international oil price " went up again " , is increasingly as close as connection of international crude market domestic crude price returned can " look on indifferently " ?
2 quarters beginning, national development and Chen Deming of reform council vice director reform working conference to go up to disclose to media in countrywide economic system, china is paying close attention to international oil price to go cheek by jowl situation, shut the choice timely engine, case of oil price of implementation country finished product and international market conform.
And once oil price is unlocked, so-called " oily tiger " situation of car of the big entrance that discharge an amount will sell hard.
Bold horse is become " drought horse "
"This car stops to have small half an year here, the boss wants to looked for an equal opportunity to sell it all the time. " those who say this word is a capital the manager of meal ministry king of a provides dimensions quite hotel inside 2 annulus.
Late on June 5, the author comes here and friend have dinner, see the doorway stops the horse of that yellow bold of the move, cannot help and king manager chitchat rise.
Take the advantage of the clearance that king manager rests, visit is made further before the author goes up hastily. "Two this years bold horse sells very fire, the shop of boss serve a meal that likes travel is rich, bought this bold horse none hesitantly last year in July, we had sat, feeling really very bright.
Can have hit oneself year, this car stops all the time here, the boss says oil is more and more expensive, go gas station is endure hardships simply, aux would rather take a taxi to also do not think every day. Bold does not have one dribble inside equestrian gasoline tank now, namely ' drought horse ' . " king manager of one face but.
What form bright contrast with this is, the sales volume that imports SUV still increases in high speed. China imports the data that car trade centre provides to show, this year first quarter, SUV still in order to import 31112, grow 135.30% compared to the same period add fast car of Gao Jujin mouth grows head of a list of names posted up.
"Oily tiger " still can take petty gain in China " the flesh "
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These amendments commenced on 20 September 2012.
The package of legislative amendments contained in the Extradition and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2012 was developed following an extensive public consultation process.
In 2005, discussion papers on broad reforms to the extradition and mutual assistance legislation were released for public comment. Out of this process, a package of legislative reforms was developed. In 2009 and again in 2011, the former Australian Government released exposure drafts of the proposed legislative amendments for public consultation. In response to feedback received during the public consultation process, some of the reforms were amended and a number of new proposals were added before the reforms were introduced to the Parliament.
Following the introduction of the Bill to Parliament on 6 July 2011, the Bill was referred to the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs for inquiry and report. The committee tabled its report on 12 September 2011.
The committee made a number of recommendations which the former government responded to during debate of the Bill in Main Committee on 19 September 2011.
The Bill was also subject to review by the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills.
Information about debate on the Bill in the House of Representatives and in the Senate can be found in Hansard.
The evolving and changing nature of telecommunications, technology and travel has made it easier than ever for criminals to conduct their illicit activities across borders. Accordingly, Australia's international crime cooperation laws need to also evolve to meet the growing threat posed by transnational crime.
The Amendment Act makes a number of important reforms to the Extradition Act 1988 and the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 to equip Australian law enforcement authorities with the legislative tools they need to cooperate with international partners to effectively and efficiently investigate and prosecute these offenders, while maintaining appropriate safeguards.
A copy of the Amendment Act and Explanatory Memorandum can be found at the ComLaw website.
The amendments to the Extradition Act 1988 are designed to streamline the extradition process and reduce duplication in the decision making process, while maintaining the integrity of key safeguards and protections for the individual. Significant amendments include:
The amendments to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 will streamline some of the processes for providing certain types of assistance to foreign countries where it is appropriate to do so.
The amendments will also increase the range of law enforcement tools Australian authorities can use to assist in a foreign investigation or prosecution. Significant amendments include:
Amendments to both the Mutual Assistance Act and the Extradition Act will also allow federal magistrates to perform functions previously restricted to state and territory magistrates. These amendments are designed to increase the number of judicial officers available to conduct proceedings under the two Acts.
Separate amendments to the Extradition Act will also confine jurisdiction to hear appeals under the Extradition Act to federal courts. This amendment is designed to overcome the jurisdictional complexities that can arise when proceedings in the same matter are brought in both state and federal courts.
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After exactly one year, a little over 40k words, and more hours than I care to count, Fallout (a.k.a. The Story that ATE MY LIFE) is finally complete. There are plenty of great authors here who are lots more prolific than I am, but this is the most ambitious project that I've ever undertaken. Unfortunately, I grossly underestimated the amount of time and attention it was going to require from me. Then again, I also didn't expect that, through the process of bringing it to completion, I would fall in love with writing all over again. For everyone who's been reading from the very beginning, thanks. Your kind comments and encouragement kept me writing when both my time and my enthusiasm were in short supply. For people that jumped in along the way, I appreciate your willingness to read what was obviously a long-running work in progress. I'm planning on taking a few weeks off to actually read some fic instead of just writing it, but I still have two unfinished projects on the back burner. In short, I'll be back.
And, oh yeah, the characters are STILL not mine. (Although I'm beginning to feel a little possessive of them right about now...)
For my muse. She knows who she is.
Fallout, Chapter 13
The set of his jaw is grim. "So what do we do next?"
"The police can hold him for 48 hours. We use that time to serve the warrant. Look through his computer records, check his travel in and out of New York."
"And if you don't find anything?"
"We will."
Their shared thought hangs unspoken in the air between them. We have to.
He slaps his palm against the wall in frustration. "I wish there was something I could do."
"There is. Talk to your family, especially to Meredith. See if any of them remembers anything that Evans might have said or done that might be significant."
"You know," he says bleakly, "it occurs to me that if we hadn't gone through with this little charade, he would never have gone after..."
"Stop." She touches her fingers to his lips. God knows she did her share of second-guessing herself after her mother's murder. It never accomplished a damn thing except to make her doubt her instincts when she needed them most. "You don't know that. Look, this guy is smart, and he's careful, and we have every reason to believe that he would have just tried again in some other way. We don't have time for self-flagellation, okay?"
His eyes are downcast, but he nods his acquiescence. She moves her fingertips from his mouth along the line of his jaw and finally to the back of his neck before pulling him close and kissing him gently. There's too much uncertainty about the future for the warmth between them to blossom into heat, but sometimes comfort is even more important than passion.
When she finally lets go of him, he seems steadier. "Take care of yourself," she says. "And of them."
"I will." He brushes his knuckles against her cheek as she turns to go. "Good luck."
Kate makes her way to Dustin Evans's apartment, where she's met outside by a beaming Ryan and a disgruntled-looking Esposito, both of whom are busily picking scraps and shreds of paper from their clothing.
"There's a community recycling bin here," Ryan explains, "but it only gets picked up every couple of weeks. Check out what our boy Javi found on our little dumpster diving excursion."
Esposito gives her a plastic baggie containing a slightly crumpled piece of paper. It's a handwritten letter to Evans.
Hey, Dustin! (Calling you that feels weird, Bro! You'll always be Donnie to me.)
I know it's been a while since you've heard from me. The reason I'm writing to you today is because Teresa is sick, and she needs help. My income just isn't enough anymore, even though I've been working two jobs since October.
The letter goes on for several more paragraphs. It's obviously the fundraising letter than Philip Jacobi sent out on Teresa's behalf. What's most remarkable about it, though, is that several letters, and in some places, combinations of letters, are circled in red ink. She looks at the ones in just the first few lines.
e st Ca B t ck le M O
With a little rearrangement and repetition of certain letters, it's not too hard to figure out a familiar group of words:
Castle Beckett BOOM
"Gotcha, you son of a bitch," she says softly. "Apparently his proclivity for forgery never went away entirely."
At Ryan's questioning glance, she says, "He stole from the Jacobis by forging checks when he lived with them."
"Too back they didn't prosecute his punk ass back then," Esposito says as he continues to brush shreds of paper from his jacket. "It might have saved us some time and Alexis a hospital visit if we'd known he was such a lowlife."
"You think it's enough to keep him in custody?" Ryan asks.
"Maybe," she says cautiously. "We need to see if we can find some paper here that matches the notes. Our originals don't have any prints, but with this letter and a match for paper and ink type, we might be able to hold him on charges of menacing and trespassing."
"That's a long way from attempted murder. Why would he even bother writing the notes, much less go to the time and effort to copy Jacobi's handwriting?"
Esposito nods thoughtfully. "I can see him maybe writing one to the publisher to throw us off the scent, but that's purely a low-risk move. He had to have broken into your place to have left that note under your bed."
"Don't forget that it's a risk that paid off," she says. "Money didn't look like a valid motive in the beginning. This letter is good, but it's not enough to put him away. There's another link somewhere between Evans and Jacobi, and we need to find it."
Hours later, the team finally finishes its search of Evans's place. A notepad of what looks to be the same type of paper as that used in the notes is taken into evidence, along with a box of envelopes, several different types of pens, and a box of plastic gloves.
Her father and his friend are already settled into the airport hotel, so, after a late dinner of overpriced sushi, she, Ryan, and Esposito check into a hotel near the hospital. She takes the opportunity to indulge in a very long, very hot shower. When she finally turns the water off and reaches through the billowing steam for a towel, she sees her phone next to the sink and notices that she missed a text from Martha.
What are you wearing?
She texts back:
That had better be you, Castle.
Instead of replying, he just calls her. As soon as she answers, he says, "You never answered my question."
"I just got out of the shower, so I'm pretty sure an intellectual such as yourself can figure it out."
"Well, there are two obvious choices." She can hear the smile in his voice. "A towel, or nothing at all. Being the eternal optimist that I am, I'm going to vote for nothing."
Kate chuckles in spite of herself. "I see where she gets it."
"Where who gets what?" he asks.
"Where Alexis gets her resiliency. You were both targets of murder attempts over the last couple of days. And yet, you're both remarkably okay."
"It's the one positive trait we inherited from my mother—the ability to not only be aware of, but to embrace the fact that we're living in denial."
As she dries herself off, she tells him about Esposito's find and the seizure of the writing materials. It will take some time for the lab to run a complete analysis to see if the materials match what they already have in evidence. "So, how's Meredith?" she asks cautiously.
"Pissed off, freaked out, and concussed. Sounds a lot like our marriage, now that I think about it."
"Pissed off and freaked out, I can understand," she says, "but concussed? How does that remind you of your marriage?"
"She stepped on a skateboard I left in the living room once. Turns out hardwood floors are pretty damn hard. And there was that time I fell out of the tree on top of her."
She could ask, but she figures that there are some things that she's just better off not knowing about him.
He continues, "I had planned on having my mother tell Meredith that I was still alive, but, unfortunately, she walked into the room just as Alexis and my mother got back. Meredith saw me, fainted, and hit her head on the floor. The good news is that she got the room next to Alexis. I think it's good for her to have me here as a whipping boy. It keeps her mind off of Evans and what he tried to do."
"Did you get any useful information about him?"
"Not really. Alexis says she remembers him fiddling with his phone around the time of the explosion, but that's hardly admissible. Meredith just doesn't want to talk about him at all, but I'm sure if she knew something she thought might help, she would tell me."
"Is Alexis still scheduled to be released tomorrow?"
"All her blood tests came back fine, so yes, we can leave first thing in the morning. She and my mother did some surfing earlier and found a nice vacation rental in SoHo. It'll work until our place is fixed." He pauses for a few seconds. "I'm going to miss you tonight."
She looks at the queen-sized bed in her room. After last night, it's going to feel uncomfortably roomy. "I'll miss you too. Good night, Castle."
"Until tomorrow, Detective." he says softly.
The flight back to New York is uneventful. Still processing the events of the last few days, Alexis tends to cling to her father, which suits Kate just fine. She spends her time planning her strategy for interrogating Philip Jacobi. Now that they have the marked letter and a tentative link between the two, she wants to use it as a wedge to pry Jacobi away from his misplaced loyalty to Evans.
When they arrive back at the airport, Ryan takes Castle and his family to their new home away from home. Kate says a quick goodbye to her father, and then she and Esposito head directly to the precinct. After a quick briefing with the captain, she has Philip Jacobi brought back into one of the interrogation rooms. He looks sullen and withdrawn, as though he's finally begun to realize that this is, and will continue to be, his new normal for a very long time.
She doesn't pull any punches. "Dustin Evans is in custody. That name ring a bell, or would you prefer Donald Eckersly?" She doesn't have to look very hard for a tell.
His shoulders twitch reflexively, and then relax. "I know him. So what?"
"So you wrote him a letter about your mother being sick. He wrote a couple of letters too." She takes the plastic-protected "BOOM" letter and the "Made you look!" note out of her portfolio and places them on the table in front of Jacobi. She gives him sufficient time to read them and connect the dots. "If the writing looks familiar, it's with good reason." Now she shows him the red-marked letter that they found mixed in with the recycling. "He took your words, Philip; he took your writing and used it against you."
"I—" he swallows hard. "I don't have anything to say."
"Evans isn't talking, either." She leans back in her chair and steeples her fingers together. "He didn't even have to throw you under the bus, because you crawled right out in front of it. What kind of money did he promise you? We already know about the ten grand. Your mother gave us what was left of it, and no matter what, there won't be any more now. She's on her own."
He looks at her intently, with abject misery in his eyes. "You ever have a mother, detective?"
He can't know just how much of a sore spot he just hit. She struggles inwardly to keep her composure. "Doesn't everyone?"
"No. Having a baby doesn't make a woman a mother any more than pounding a nail into a two-by-four makes me a architect." His expression grows hard. "There was a woman I knew for the first ten years of my life. Whenever she got her drugs or her drink on, I would hide in the closet, under the cabinets, behind the couch, anyplace I could find, hoping like hell she wouldn't find me before she passed out. Sometimes I got lucky." He shrugs. "Mostly, I didn't. The last couple of years, we didn't have anywhere to go. There's not too many places to hide when you're living in a car."
"So I left. Being on my own was the best thing that ever happened to me, until I found the Jacobis. Frank was a good man. He gave me his name and a future. But Teresa helped me with my tie when I went to the prom, she fixed me pancakes with funny faces made out of chocolate chips, and she never complained when I outgrew my shoes three times in one year." He blinks back tears, and his voice grows hoarse. "I just wanted to pay her back, you know? Her doctors say she has a chance of beating it, but not if she can't afford the treatment." He looks around the interrogation room desperately. "He said he would take care of her if I couldn't. No one was supposed to get hurt. I never thought something like this would happen."
"Something happened, all right," she says softly. "He tried to murder someone else yesterday." Jacobi shudders visibly and begins rocking back and forth in his chair. He's so close. She pushes just a little harder. "Is that the type of person that your mother would want taking care of her? Tell me everything you know, take a polygraph to back it up, and I'll do whatever I can to get you a deal."
He blinks, bows his head, and finally breaks. "He showed up at my apartment about three months ago..."
"So that's what we have to work with." Kate points out the latest additions to the murder board that she's moved into the isolated conference room in what's becoming an increasingly difficult effort to keep Castle's continued ability to draw breath under wraps. They managed to get him from the parking lot into the conference room with nothing more than a few odd looks and a shout from down the hall as they entered the elevator, but she knows it's just a matter of time before the news is all over the precinct. "Evans got Jacobi to steal the explosives and build the bomb by convincing him that he was going to use it to blow a safe. They shared the risks—Jacobi by taking the explosives and constructing the device, and Evans by planting the bomb, detonating it, and taking the cash. They were supposed to share the rewards as well, except, as we all know, blowing a safe was never Evans's intent."
The captain asks, "So is Evans is sticking to his story about not having seen Jacobi since he moved to California?"
Ryan swivels around in his chair. "I put a call in to California an hour or so ago. That's what he said yesterday, and his story hasn't changed."
Esposito adds, "I showed Evans's picture around to Jacobi's neighbors. No one remembers seeing him."
"The thing that bothers me is the money." She reaches into the evidence box next to her and pulls out the plastic bag containing the envelope and the few hundred dollar bills that were left of the original ten thousand. "Even though they were due to split the money afterward, Jacobi said that Evans gave him ten grand in new hundreds the day that he picked up the bomb, probably to buy his silence if anything went wrong. There weren't any withdrawals from his bank accounts that would account for that kind of money, so where did he come up with it?"
Castle grabs the bag and looks at the money excitedly. "New, uncirculated hundreds. Oh my God," he says abruptly. "I can't believe I forgot about that, but once we found out about Alexis..."
"Whatever it is, you can tell us now," the captain says.
Castle looks at Kate intently. "Do you remember me telling you that Evans was trying to drum up financial support to make his movie?"
"Don't tell me—" she starts.
"I gave him ten thousand dollars. In cash."
"You mean, you paid for a hit?" Ryan asks. "On yourself?"
Esposito shakes his head. "Man, that is messed up."
"Any chance you have the serial numbers of the money you gave him?" Montgomery asks.
"No," Castle says, "but you should have what's left dusted for prints."
"I already did," she says.
"I thought you said they were uncirculated," Ryan protests.
"Not entirely," Kate says. "There were six bills left. They looked new, but I had them checked anyway, and there were some usable prints on them. We compared them to Dustin Evans and Philip Jacobi, but we didn't get a match for either one, so I didn't think it worth mentioning. Some of the prints belonged to Teresa Jacobi, but there are more that are unaccounted for."
"I know whose prints those are." Castle raises his hand. "Alexis did an experiment at school involving money. She was analyzing the amount of cocaine residue on circulated hundred-dollar bills and she needed uncirculated ones for a baseline. I got her a bundle of hundreds from the bank to test, and when she was done, she rebanded them and put them back in my safe. It left me with more cash than I normally like to have on hand, so when Evans asked me for money for his film, I just gave him the whole bundle. The other prints have to belong to Alexis."
"Confirm that with the lab," Montgomery tells her, "and as soon as you do, let me know. I want to see Evans try to explain how money with Alexis Castle's fingerprints on it ended up in the hands of Philip Jacobi." The captain gets to his feet. "I'm going to get on the phone right now and get the ball rolling for the extradition of Evans to New York. I smell a charge for attempted murder, and it's about damn time. By the way, the mayor's called a press conference in two hours and he insists that you," he points at Castle and Beckett, "both be there."
She squeezes Castle's arm gently as she gathers her things up. "I need to check in with the crew in the lab, but I'll be back when I can."
When she gets back, Castle's pacing agitatedly along one wall of the conference room while stretching the cord of the room's phone to its limit. "Yes, I do realize that I have a lot of nerve asking you for a favor after letting you think I was dead, but I'm sure you can agree that this is the right thing to do. Right. Okay. Thanks, Gina."
He hangs up and looks at her. "Well, that went better than I expected."
"It didn't sound like it went very well at all."
"The thing you have to understand about Gina is that she never lets her narcissism interfere with her business sense. She's irritated because I let her think I was dead, but she won't let that get in the way of doing what's best for Black Pawn. Now tell me what you got from the lab."
"Well," she smiles, "not only did they confirm that the prints on the money belonged to Alexis, but the paper, envelope, and ink samples we got from Evans's apartment all matched the notes we already have in evidence. We matched Evans's travel records to the times when Jacobi says they were in contact, so everything he's told us checks out. With Jacobi's testimony, we finally have enough to put him away."
The chief pokes his head in. "The mayor's almost done reviewing the case. You'd better get out there."
Castle shuffles the papers in his hands as they follow the chief to the briefing room where the press conference is being held. "You know, I was really hoping I'd have a little time to talk to you about this first."
He's making her very nervous. "Talk to me about what, Castle?"
He stops at the entrance to the room and takes her hand. "Look, just promise me that you won't make any snap judgments without hearing the full story. I think I've earned that much."
She doesn't have any time to reply before they're suddenly thrust out in front of the pool of reporters. A collective shout runs through the room as they recognize Castle. She makes her way through the crowd to the back of the room as the mayor wraps up the details of their investigation, Castle's assistance in solving the case, and the coming extradition of Dustin Evans to New York to await trial.
Finally, the hubbub quiets a little, and Castle takes the microphone. He's addressing the entire room, but his eyes are riveted on hers. "As a near and very dear friend of mine recently reminded me, a homicide usually leaves more than one victim behind. Family and friends often struggle in the aftermath of these crimes. I'm pleased to announce the formation of the Johanna Beckett Victims' Advocacy Foundation. The foundation will help provide counseling services as well as financial assistance for those coping with a loss of income in addition to the loss of a loved one. I'll be donating all of the proceeds of the sales of my novels during the last week to the foundation, as well as a percentage of all future sales of Nikki Heat novels. Black Pawn, my publisher, has also agreed to donate its profits from all of my books purchased during the last week."
There's more, but her mind refuses to focus on anything but the way he used her mother's name. It's a fitting legacy—her mother always championed people who had no voice of their own—but she's concerned about how her father might take it. Castle should have asked, dammit, but she wants to hear his explanation. She owes him that, at the very least.
He finishes his statement, answers questions until they start to get repetitive, and leaves the room escorted by enough uniforms to keep the newshounds at bay. She's almost arrived back at her desk when she gets a text:
south stairwell, third floor
Apparently, he's found a place secluded enough for them to have a few minutes alone. When she gets there, he's ready with an explanation before she can say a word.
"I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you about this before. I wasn't entirely sure I'd have Gina's buy-in." He hands her a sheet of paper with an embossed header. "What do you think of the foundation's letterhead? Alexis designed it."
She scans it quickly. "My name is on here."
"Of course it is. So's your father's." He points to the line above her name. James Beckett. "You're both on the board of trustees."
"Why?" she asks.
"I asked his permission before doing anything else. He was only willing to let me use your mother's name if he got to have some oversight into how the money was distributed. I thought it was a terrific idea. I'm glad I'll be able to work with him."
"No, I mean, why start this foundation?"
"Well, it's just like I said in the press conference. Solving the homicide is only part of the equation. There are people out there that need other kinds of help."
She has no idea how much money Castle might have earned in the last few days, but she knows exactly where to put it to good use. "Would you mind if we started with Teresa Jacobi?"
"We'll go out to Brooklyn tomorrow, if you like." He bends down and runs his lips lightly over the place on her neck where he marked her what seems like a lifetime ago. "I promised I'd make it up to you, remember? So...am I forgiven?"
She remembers wondering what he'd do for her, whether he'd take her to dinner, or away for a weekend. She never imagined that he'd find a way to make her work even more meaningful.
"Yes." She wipes away a tear as she kisses him twice—once for herself, and once for her mother. Her arms wind around his neck as she hugs him tightly, "Thank you."
They spend the next several days in a holding pattern. Castle has a ton of legal matters to attend to along with getting his place fixed and spending time with Alexis and his mother. All of the paperwork that she back-burnered during the case comes full circle. Evans's lawyer fights his extradition, and the D.A. fights giving Jacobi a deal, but she eventually emerges from both battles victorious.
The two of them manage to squeeze in a few phone calls and texts here and there, as well as a desk-side lunch at the precinct, but it's not enough for either of them. Then, out of the blue, she comes back from a meeting late one afternoon to find him sitting in his usual chair beside her desk. He's armed with a broad grin and an invitation to Lanie's favorite pizza place, so she immediately punts her last two files to Ryan and Esposito, reschedules a meeting, and leaves arm-in-arm with him, not particularly caring whether or not anyone sees that they're together.
The pizza is still terrific, and the company is even better, and he doesn't seem at all surprised when she asks him if he'd like to go to her place. She, however, is surprised when he declines.
"Why don't we go to mine instead?" he asks as he takes her hands in his and smoothes his fingertips across the new nails that are just beginning to grow in. "I'd like you to see what we've done with the place."
"Do you mean that it's done already?" she asks, incredulous.
"It's done." He pulls her to her feet and enfolds her hand gently in his as they walk back out to the sidewalk. "My mother and Alexis are spending one last night at the rental, though. Alexis wanted to throw a slumber party there, so I think I can probably kiss my security deposit goodbye, but she deserves some fun."
After the last couple of weeks, they all do. He continues to hold her hand all the way to his place, letting go only to pay the cabbie.
"I'm just amazed that you were able to get everything fixed so quickly," she says as they enter the elevator. He must have had people working around the clock.
"The damage wasn't as bad as it looked." His expression is grim for just a moment before his mouth relaxes into a smile. "Which is good, because it looked like something from Dante's sixth circle of hell."
When they finally arrive at his door, he opens it and stands to the side so that she can walk in first. "It's beautiful now," she says as she turns to survey the entire room. The colors are warm and inviting, the kitchen has been redesigned to have a more open feel, and the new furnishings look solid, but comfortable.
"Yes, beautiful," he echoes softly, but his eyes are riveted on her. "It feels a little strange, though. New furniture, new flooring, new fixtures, new windows, new paint." He puts a fingertip beneath her chin and tilts her face up to meet his as he kisses her softly. "New us."
She opens her mouth beneath his touch, tries to deepen the kiss, but, inexplicably, he pulls away.
"Come on, I want you to see something." He takes the stairs two at a time and stops in front of what she assumes to be his bedroom. "Now, you're either going to think this is fabulous, or you're going to go back to the precinct to write up a restraining order. I'm hoping for the former."
She's surprised and, at first, a little overwhelmed by the room. It's eerily similar to her bedroom in her apartment. Not an exact replica, or she'd be tempted to go for the restraining order in spite of all they've been through together, but the rug, the pillows, the curtains, the bookcases, even the style of furniture are all very much like what she chose for her own place. She crosses over to his bed and sits on it experimentally. "It's a little higher than mine."
"I could have it lowered if you like," he offers.
"No, it's okay," she says softly. "I can get used to it."
He lets out a sigh of relief. "I'm glad it doesn't creep you out. I wanted a change," he explains, "and I wanted you to be comfortable here. Asking you to pick out swatches seemed a little obvious, so I figured I'd go with things I knew you'd love."
She slides off of the bed and moves to stand in front of one of the open windows. The new curtains waver and twist in the cool breeze as she puts her hands on the sill and takes a long, deep breath before turning to face him. "It's not the things in this room that I love."
"Kate—" He pulls her into his arms and then frowns. "You're shivering. Here, I'll close the windows."
She's not cold. She's trembling with emotion, and with excitement, and with so much pent-up want that there's not room in her for anything else right now.
She wraps her hands in his hair, pulls his head down to hers, and kisses him hard. This time, there are no phones, no doorbells, and no well-intentioned coworkers to interrupt them. There's just the two of them, and their only source of frustration is the few fleeting seconds when they have to break their kiss long enough to remove a piece of clothing.
They've waited far too long for there to be much in the way of gentleness here tonight. He breaks the clasp of her bra trying to undo it, murmuring, "I'll buy you a new one. I'll buy you a dozen new ones." She runs her hands across his broad back, irritated at the fact that he's still wearing his shirt. There's too much fabric and not enough him, and he chuckles when she finally manages to do away with it. The last vestiges of clothing are thrown to the floor and she settles herself on his bed, grateful for the fact that she's the first (and, if she has her way, only) woman brought into it.
Kate closes her eyes and fills her senses with him—the warm, spicy scent of his aftershave, his breathing ragged in her ears, the touch of his hands all over her body—tentative at first, then firm, then downright demanding. She expected that they would be good together, but they're better than good—they're amazing, and it doesn't take her long at all to discover the advantages inherent in having a mattress at the same height as his hips. Then her mind is filled with kaleidoscope images—tumbling, spinning, fracturing all around her. She teeters for a moment, gasping, trembling, and then, oh, God, falling, but for once unafraid, because she's always known that this is how their story would play out. This isn't just about what they do, but who they are. Author and muse. Creator and inspiration.
She grounds him, and he gives her wings.
Her voice doesn't break on his name so much as it shatters along with the rest of her—not on "Richard", or even "Rick", but on a shaky, uneven "Castle".
He doesn't seem to mind.
End of Chapter 13


text:
It's that time of year when coughs, sniffles, aches and pains become more common.
We are getting to that time of year when coughs, sniffles, aches and pains become more common. We run to the doctor begging for an antibiotic because we are sure that's the quick fix.
Stephen Roszell, M.D., family medicine physician with Norton Community Medical Associates – Highlands, says 99 percent of upper respiratory ailments are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Antibiotics don't work against viruses. And the over-prescribing of antibiotics to treat viruses is bad for all of us.
In September 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported "at least two million Americans fall ill from antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year and that at least 23,000 die from those infections." The overuse of antibiotics is creating "super bugs" that have learned to outsmart the drugs.
Dr. Roszell couldn't agree more with the alarming nature of this report.
"Overuse of antibiotics are creating global bacterial resistance, and our kids could find themselves in a world with no effective antibiotics," he said.
I remember my grandmother talking about epidemics in the past that wiped out tens of thousands of people. I thought of her when the CDC article said the growing problem of antibiotic resistance — in which bacteria develop defenses against antibiotics used to kill them — threatens to return society to a time when people died from ordinary infections.
I don't want to go back to those days when mothers and fathers sat by, helplessly watching their children die. So what can you do? Stop asking your doctor for an antibiotic when he or she tells you it won't work.
"Physicians are pressured by patients all the time for a prescription for an antibiotic even though they're sure antibiotics are inappropriate," Dr. Roszell said.
Another thing you can do is read up on viral and bacterial infections. Dr. Roszell refers his patients to a website listing the differences in viral and bacterial infections and when antibiotics will and will not work.


text: Swing sets are a popular spring project for families with young, energetic children with energy to burn. Installing a swing set is not difficult but it does take more time and patience than most people realize. Home owners should be realistic in estimating how much time they need to assemble the swing set and