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US judge orders Iran to pay $105m over 1996 Khobar Towers bomb in Saudi Arabia
:: A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Monday ordered Iran to pay $104.7 million to victims of a June 1996 truck bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 US military personnel, though it is unclear when and how the plaintiffs might collect.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell entered a default judgment against Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which did not defend against claims over their alleged roles in the attack, which sheared off the front of the Khobar Towers complex.
Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Howell said 15 service members who were at the complex when it was bombed could recover for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The judge also said 24 relatives could recover for emotional distress from seeing how the bombing affected their loved ones.
Howell rejected punitive damages, saying US law did not allow them for attacks occurring before 2008.
The lawsuit sought damages under the so-called terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
"The plaintiffs are very pleased with the decision, and look forward to pursuing collections," Paul Gaston, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an interview. "Having the court ruling gives them some measure of justice."
Thirteen members of Hezbollah were indicted in June 2001 in the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia over their alleged roles in the attack.
In December 2006, another federal judge in Washington ordered Iran to pay $254.4 million to family members and the estates of 17 Americans who died in the attack, also in a default judgment.
The U.S. government in 2015 established the US Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund to compensate victims.
Iran was designated by the US Department of State as a state sponsor of terrorism in January 1984.
The case is Akins et al v Islamic Republic of Iran et al, US District Court, District of Columbia, No. 17-00675.


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After an earlier post on Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I, I remembered that the 1937 film Fire Over England also has a version of Elizabeth I's speech at Tilbury. That film's version is much more thrilling and much more moving—possibly because it's closer to the actual thrilling and moving words of Elizabeth:
Of course, she has the "heart and valor of a king" instead of the "heart and stomach of a king" in this version. Perhaps stomachs aren't quite as en vogue now as they were in 1588. Alternately, it's possible that the phrase "stomach of a king" tends to conjure up an image of the later years of Henry VIII, Elizabeth's father.
Here's most of the text of Elizabeth I's actual speech—for purposes of comparison with the speech above:
My loving people . . . I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour, and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England, too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm. (Somerset 464)
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Somerset, Anne. Elizabeth I. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.


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The latest in automotive industry news is that Nissan has big plans. Just when the Indian car market is sparked to heat up, one of the major car manufacturers in the world, Nissan, has made some big plans. Nissan Motor India Pvt. Lts. has opened a new corporate office. The location is T. Nagar, Chennal. The person at the helm of leadership will be Kiminobu Tokuyama. Also present at the inaugural were representatives of the Nissan partnership, Renault Nissan Automotive India Private.
Nissan has big plans. One of these is the fact that they will cover 85 per cent of the Indian market by the year 2012. This will evolve as a result of the proposed 11 operating dealerships being in place by the end of this year. This number is expected to increase to 55 dealers in two years.
Another lofty goal Nissan hopes to attain is in exportation. Next year the car manufacturer plans to outsource $20 million in components and double this amount within two years. Along with this goal Nissan plans to export cars. They plan to export to countries until they reach 100 worldwide.
According to automotive industry news, Nissan will begin producing the Global Compact car in their Indian facility next year. Nissan has made it clear that they plan to be a major player in the Indian market just as they have been in the United States and other countries. The production of the compact car will happen in their new corporate facility in India. The 10,000 square feet building will offer employment to 56 people. Another goal is to nearly double this number by the next year. The new facility offers state-of-the-art everything. This, along with artsy interiors and open work-stations will contribute to the culture promoting an open feeling and spreading friendship.
Nissan is proud to be offering nine new models in India. The fact they will open with this large number of models points out that they are entering this new market where they know they will be successful.
Nissan presently has 5.5 per cent of the auto market. Their plans are to increase this number with the opening of additional Indian dealerships along with a lineup of new models. A hatchback, which is built on the V platform, will be the entry car in the Indian market. Nissan will also offer two other autos one of which is a utility vehicle and the other being a sedan. They point out that there are no plans to offer the A segment initially.
Perhaps the competition will be offered mostly with the low cost manufacturing of the compact model while there will also be luxury cars. These will be supplemented by commercial vehicles that will be of the lighter manufacturing. Just six months back it was not certain how the manufacturer would attack the changing market. They have cleared any doubts among other manufacturers after announcing their future plans.


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Louisiana's two U.S. senators said the federal government's latest lease sale in the western Gulf of Mexico falls "far behind" previous efforts and future repeats will only "stymie the process" that allows energy to underwrite many of the state's needs.
Since it was announced over the summer, Sen. David Vitter, a Metairie Republican, has been highly critical of the Interior Department's five-year plan for oil-and-gas leasing in the Gulf.
Meanwhile, senior Sen. Mary Landrieu, a New Orleans Democrat, has also called on the "administration to change its policy on offshore leases and expand its" Gulf leasing plan.
At the latest Gulf sale last week — the first under the new five-year plan — the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management offered more than 20 million acres and attracted $133 million in high bids for 116 tracts covering 652,522 acres on the Outer Continental Shelf. A total of 13 offshore energy companies submitted 131 bids for the leases off Texas.
Vitter said the numbers are "well behind previously projected revenue levels" and was only the third since the 2010 drilling moratorium, issued and later lifted by President Barack Obama following the BP oil spill.
"There is no disputing the fact that our nation's domestic energy production on federal lands is far lower than what was projected before this administration took office, and is trending in the exact opposite direction of the rapid growth we're seeing on private and state land," Vitter said.
Landrieu said it brought in only a third of the total high bids expected, and it leased about 400,000 acres less than the last lease sale in the Western Gulf.
The next federal lease sale is set for March 20 and will focus on the central Gulf, which includes Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. About 38 million acres will be made available then for investors.
It will be held in New Orleans and "could lead to the production of up to nearly a billion barrels of oil and nearly 4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas," according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Despite the criticism, Salazar said last week's sale offered a strong preview of what's to come as the five-year plan takes hold.
He said domestic oil-and-gas production has grown each year the president has been in office, with domestic oil production in 2011 higher than any time in nearly a decade and natural gas production at its highest level ever.
Additionally, foreign-oil imports now account for less than 50 percent of the oil consumed in America, the lowest level since 1995, he said.
Tommy P. Beaudreau, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an arm of the Interior Department, said it's part of the administration's "all-of-the-above energy strategy" and that last week's sale made its own history.
"This is the first sale under the president's five year program in which we are making available all of the offshore areas with the highest conventional resource potential for exploration and development," Beaudreau said.
The highest bid for a single tract during the late November sale was for $17 million and submitted by Chevron.
Vitter said he wants the department to go back to the previous five-year leasing plan that would have opened up nearly all of the Outer Continental shelf for lease sales.
The current offshore plan would keep 85 percent of offshore areas closed to new American energy production, he added.
Landrieu said she is pushing legislation, known as the Offshore Petroleum Expansion Now Act, or OPEN Act, that would include an additional 11 lease sales above the administration's plan and open up areas in Virginia and southern California.
The OPEN Act would also increase revenue sharing for energy producing states and eliminate the $500 million cap that Congress placed on revenues.
"This legislation will also address an inequity that I have been fighting my whole career," she said, "that while producing states like Louisiana have shared in virtually none of the revenues from the energy we produce off our shores, states that produce energy on federal lands onshore receive 50 percent of these revenues."
Aside from the fact that the administration withdrew an earlier proposal that called for more Gulf lease sales, and has ignored alternative proposals from lawmakers to do the same, Vitter said the federal government is making mistakes by focusing on different forms of energy that aren't oil and gas.
"At the leasing and production stages, large sums of monies come into the federal treasury," said Vitter, who has proposed his own legislation. "But, instead of encouraging production and this revenue, the administration has made it a standard to stymie the process and focus attention on unproven expenditures like offshore wind."
While the federal government does not allow offshore oil-and-gas leasing in the OCS, it is allowing lease sales for wind energy — and Vitter said all energy production in the Atlantic Ocean should be treated equally.
He has joined fellow GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee in asking Salazar for the "economic reasoning" behind the decision.
"The administration has a habit of picking energy industry winners and losers, and we want an explanation," Vitter said. "Secretary Salazar should at least be able to defend the economics of the lease sale for wind energy."
For example, Vitter said the federal government receives significant revenue from royalties for offshore oil and gas production in the form of rents, royalties, bonus bids and taxes. The current royalty rate oil and gas companies must pay is between 12.5 percent and 18.75 percent.
"Can the same be said for this offshore wind project?" Vitter asked.
In October, the department reached agreement on a lease for commercial wind-energy development. In federal waters, the lease covers 96,430 acres about 11 nautical miles off the coast of Delaware.
It is the first lease completed under the Interior Department's "Smart from the Start" approach to facilitate "environmentally responsible" offshore wind development along the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf by "identifying wind energy areas in a coordinated, focused approach with extensive environmental analysis, public review and large-scale planning."
Salazar said renewable energy from sources like wind and sun have doubled since the president took office, and the Delaware lease pushes the mission forward.
In July, Vitter joined Sen. Jeff Sessions, a fellow Republican from Alabama, filing legislation for a five-year leasing plan that would further open other areas in the Gulf and permit production in areas of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as well as Alaska.
Vitter said it's "more in line with the energy and economic needs of the United States" and a better deal for Louisiana.
The president's current plan call for 12 lease sales in the Gulf. It further outlines lease sales for Arctic waters but restricts activities on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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Fiber artist Xenobia Bailey makes crocheted hats that are anything but typical. Her hats are objects with odd shapes and forms, embellished with feathers and beads and luscious color combinations intricately woven into patterns that are outrageously beautiful one-of-kind hats. Her hats are eye grabbing. Each hat is a showstopper, and each wearer a performer turning passerbyers heads. On the streets people stop in awe of Xenobia's hats curiously questioning. Where did you get that cool hat?
She's embodies a modernist flair decked in stylish Mies Van der Rohe black round eyeglasses, her clothes crocheted in brilliant colors and patterns, and textures emotes what this prolific fiber artists calls, "funk." As a fiber artist her hats are a blending of tactile textures, rich patterns and anthropomorphic shapes, seeing her hats I can't help but think of the ebullient spices in New Orleans flavorful gumbo stew. She likens her aesthetic to the syncopated beats of funk music informed by African patterns found in textiles and architecture, and the rhythms of global music practices of call and response. She has BA in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. Xenobia's work links the symbiotic relationship between her design background and being a fiber-artist.
If you missed her exquisitely crocheted hats at the Global Africa Project held at Museum of Art and Design in 2010, then visit MAD.org for more information on her work. She's represented by STUX gallery in NYC and listing on upcoming shows and more of her work can be found on Xenba.blogspot.com. Thinking of wearing an original Neo-Funky crocheted hat make sure to visit Xenobia Bailey's Etsy shop.


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Popular education in the global South is both a methodology for education and organizing and a philosophy that builds a popular movement in order to bring about structural change.
In the United States, we don't have a popular movement. We have lot of movements for social and racial justice: a lot of people trying to resist and bring change and do good things. However, the fact that people are moving doesn't mean that we have a popular movement.
Most of the current dominant paradigms of organizations are based on the assumption that the system works. That the system is an operating democracy, a government for the people by the people. Another dominant assumption is that we live in a free economy.
Neoliberal economists have a dogma that the free market is inherently good and an almost a religious belief that under it all things will be more efficient.
These are beliefs. The rich and those in power benefit from this, because they created the rules of the game. They don't believe the myths, but it helps them that the rest of us believe it.
The North American Free Trade Agreement has really proven that it is not a free market. The way capitalism is connected to monopoly, corrupt practices and militarization globally proves that.
Historically,, popular education is about putting things in context so that you get power as an individual and a group to understand your reality and be able to change it.
Starting with Dialogue
Popular education starts with dialogue. When we start retreats, we begin by connecting with values, healing— we ask everyone to bring one object that symbolizes why we are in struggle. It is one way to begin sharing our personal stories with other people so we can see how our stories relate to each other being one.
Through sharing stories, we see that there are policies and decisions made by people in groups, in their own interest. That policies are not just given to us. Policies and our current realities are a production, a historical and structural production. And the groups who made the decisions benefit from them.
Popular education also has a methodology: It is participatory, based on people's experience and knowledge; we try to break down the hierarchy of knowledge and experience. And we go one step beyond. Those who have suffered the most injustice and marginalization and have overcome the most, will have the deeper more profound knowledge of what is it to be human and how to be human.
The other part is doing the political and historical education around how we got here: the economy— the world we are living in today is the product of 500 years of colonialism by Western powers.
For me, political education is a philosophy and a practice. Praxis is integral: understanding the world to transform it and transforming the world in a way that changes the way we understand ourselves.
There is also dialogue— putting my own experience in dialogue with history and reality and other people in my community and organization, and then putting that collective group, that collective experience, in dialogue with the wider context, with history, with structures and other communities and other issues.
It is also about personal transformation, collective organizing and a commitment to resist and transform. To resist is the affirmation of our own humanity and the humanity of others. It is a radical political statement in a society that systematically denies the humanity of us in this planet. To open up spaces where people can bring their whole humanity into the room, celebrate it, acknowledge it, that is radical.
And then to commit to work together and organize, to make leadership collective, to confront problems personally and collectively through action-reflection-action.
Leadership From Below
In the United States, a lot of influential people use the rhetoric that they are the voices of the voiceless. However, those leaders would have a very hard time of embracing leadership and wisdom from below. The Zapatista definition of political leadership—to command by obeying—conflicts with the Western notion of leadership as personal. If no one is behind you, whom are you leading? Many leadership development programs create leaders of opinion based on the idea that if they can be heard, everything will be all right. Leadership in this context has a sexist male bourgeois or capitalist and heterosexual core.
The way that National Council of La Raza (NCLR), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), and Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CCIR) approach their political work assumes that the system works and that leadership comes from above. These organizations are trying to defeat the system that oppresses us with the same kind of oppressive power. If popular movements have proved something in resisting systems of colonization, it is that we cannot beat them at their own game.
Compared with these contemporary immigrant rights organizations, the twentieth-century civil rights movement is completely radical. Last year, I deepened my study of the civil rights movement and civil rights leaders as part of training people in the South and trying to promote cross-community dialogues. I realized that Ella Baker and Septima Clark embodied a core value of popular educators: becoming unnecessary, working yourself out of a job.
They also modeled accompaniment, a central notion of popular education. They related to SNCC or other groups that came to Highlander with accompaniment, not control. Of course, they got into fights with more established mainstream, mainly male, leadership.
A Different Kind of Power
A popular movement does not bring down the system and put a new one there; it doesn't work that way historically. In reality, it happens when communities and working people force people of privilege to do the right thing—not destroying the people of privilege or taking away all their power, but confronting them with their shared humanity while mobilizing the power of numbers to bring down the system.
Some people are resistant to popular education because they see it as naïve and unrealistic due to the emphasis on participation and dialogue. They have lost contact with the part of popular education that comes out of surviving, organizing, resisting, and creating a different kind of power.
Mainstream organizations like many longstanding unions and community organizing networks are obsessed with a very narrow form of power. At the end, they end up operating in a logic that is very white and very privileged in terms of class. It doesn't go deep enough in terms of transforming what and where power is.
That is the sense when we engage in these legislative campaigns with partners in Washington, DC. They invite us to join in a trip, but we were never asked where we wanted to go. And when it comes time to evaluate if the strategy worked, these groups cannot be held accountable.
We cannot control them, but we can control the way we engage. If it doesn't work for us, then we can just pass—say no, thank you.
Mainstream groups speak to their own privilege; they are disrespectful of the wisdom of people's survival. But identity, autonomy, and strength become real when you have a group that is locally based. As they say in the United States, all politics are local. And all organizing has to have a local dimension. National actors, regional groups, and Washington-based policy specialists need to think how they are going to build relationships with the local groups.
We just had that conversation with the people in the new sanctuary movement. They were giving us an update, and it was so frustrating to hear them define what is possible based on the climate in the beltway, not based on a consultation with the groups. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The history of struggle and survival means that we must have memory to have hope. When we don't have hope, there is no resistance. We have to remember how we have gone through so much to find the strength, joy, generosity, and courage to face sometimes brutal armies. And it's still happening, so we have to keep hope going. Our work in the present draws from the strength of our memory of the past and our vision for the future.
Based on an interview with Francisco (Pancho) Arguelles, Colectivo Flatlander, Houston, TX
by Diana Pei Wu.
Francisco (Pancho) Arguelles Paz y Puente is a co-founder of Colectivo Flatlander for Popular Education, based in Houston Texas. He has been instrumental in the establishment of the BRIDGE Project at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR), the Institute for Development of Leadership (INDELI) at the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Immigrant Rights working group at the National Organizers Alliance. Before moving to the United States Pancho worked as a popular educator in Chiapas, Nicaragua, and other places. He is principal of Paz y Puente, LLC and father to Maria and Antonio.
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British Values Statement
At Calverley CE Primary School we value the diversity of backgrounds of all pupils, families and wider school community.
The Department for Education states that there is a need: "To create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs".
The Department for Education defines British Values as follows:
Respect for democracy and support or participation in the democratic process
Respect for the basis on which the law is made and applies in England
Support for equality of opportunity for all
Support and respect for the liberties of all within the law
Respect for and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs
Our school reflects British values in all that we do. We aim to nurture our children on their journey through life so they can grow into safe, caring, democratic, responsible and tolerant adults who make a positive difference to British society and to the world.
We encourage our children to be creative, unique, open-minded and independent individuals, respectful of themselves and of others in our school, our local community and the wider world.
At Calverley, we actively promote British values in the following ways:
All children are encouraged to debate topics of interest, express their views and make a meaningful contribution to the running of the school on matters that directly involve pupils. Children also have the opportunity to have their voices heard through pupil questionnaires and pupil surveys.
The principle of democracy is explored in the curriculum as well as during assemblies and special days. Our new school behaviour policy involves rewards which the pupils have discussed.
Calverley pupils have had active involvement in the selection processes of new staff.
Rule of Law
Our School rules and expectations are clear, fair and regularly promoted.
Pupils are always helped to distinguish right from wrong, in the classroom, during assemblies and on the playground.
Pupils are encouraged to respect the
The Behaviour and Anti-Bullying policies set out a zero tolerance baseline for any form of aggression, abuse or violence, which extends to pupils, staff and parents and carers.
Individual Liberty
Within school, pupils are actively encouraged, and given the freedom to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. eg. by signing up for extra-curricular clubs.
Pupils are supported to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence.
Pupils are encouraged to take responsibility for their behaviour and our pastoral support reinforces the importance of making the right choices.
Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our esafety teaching and PSHE lessons.
Vulnerable pupils are protected and stereotypes challenged. A strong anti-bullying culture is embedded in the school and any form of bullying is challenged and addressed.
Pupils have key roles and responsibilities in school e.g. Assembly assistance, Corridor monitors, etc. Mutual
Respect and Tolerance of Those with Different Faiths and Beliefs
Respect is one of the core values of our school. The pupils know and understand that it is expected that respect is shown to everyone, adults and children.
Pupils are helped to acquire an understanding of, and respect for, their own and other cultures and ways of life.
Staff and pupils are encouraged to challenge prejudicial or discriminatory behaviour.
Links and visits are promoted with local faith communities and places of worship. E.g. Members of different faiths or religions are invited to school to share their knowledge and enhance learning within assemblies and in class.
Through the PSHE and RE curriculums pupils are encouraged to discuss and respect differences between people, such as differences of faith, ethnicity, disability, gender or sexuality and differences of family situations.
Assemblies and discussions involving prejudices and prejudiced-based bullying have been followed and supported by learning in RE and PSHE.
We offer a culturally rich and diverse curriculum in which all major religions are studied and respected and global dimension work embedded in many of our Wider Curriculum topics. These curriculum topics offer children the chance to reflect on our core values and British values


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Yet another housewife's marriage is on the rocks. Dina Manzo, who starred alongside older sister Caroline on the first one and a half seasons of Real Housewives of New Jersey, has separated from husband Tommy after seven years of marriage.
The interior decorator and Project Ladybug founder, 40, broke the news on Twitter past midnight on Saturday (Feb. 2). "My secret…I have been separated since October, my heart hurts but Tommy & I will always share a very special love," she wrote to her nearly 300,000 followers. "So grateful for the support of my loved ones during this time, especially my spiritual friends. You know who u are xoxo."
Dina married Brownstone co-owner Tommy — the younger brother of Albert Manzo, himself married to Caroline — back in 2005. She has a daughter, 17-year-old Lexi, from her first marriage to George Hadjiapostoli. Dina also acknowledged Lexi in her Tweet: "And of course my biggest supporter Lexi, Tommy adores her & they will remain close."
Unlike Albert and other male spouses on the Bravo series, Tommy never appeared on camera during Dina's stint on the show. Amid intense clashes with then-castmate Danielle Staub, Dina departed RHONJ in the middle of season two. She and Caroline have been estranged over the past couple years — with Dina making a brief appearance on the show in season four to support pal (and Caroline's nemesis) Teresa Giudice.


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16.85% of Tilbury and Thurrock is Built on … Building Plot Dilemma or Not?
Well the fallout from the recent Budget is still continuing. I was chatting to a couple of movers and shakers from the Tilbury area the other day, when one said, "There isn't enough land to build all these 300,000 houses Philip Hammond wants to build each year".
…and if you read the Daily Mail, you would be forgiven for thinking the Country was at bursting point … or is it?
It was 60 years ago the first satellite was launched (Sputnik). All the Superpowers have used them to take high definition pictures of each other for decades, but now satellites and their high-powered cameras are being used for more peaceful purposes. The European Environment Agency (EEA) have been taking high definition pictures of the UK from outer-space to give us a focused picture of what every corner of the Country really looks like … and the findings will come as a surprise.
As my blog readers know, I always like to ask the important questions relating to the Tilbury property market. If you are a Tilbury landlord or Tilbury homeowner, this knowledge will enable you to make a more considered opinion on your direction and future in the Tilbury property market. Like every aspect of all economic life, it's all about supply and demand, because over the last twenty or so years, there has been an imbalance in the British (and Tilbury) housing market, with demand outstripping supply, meaning the average value of a property in Thurrock has risen by 435.6%, taking an average value from £50,000 in 1995 to £267,800 today.
Using the information from the EEA and data crunched by Sheffield University with their Corine-Land Cover project, I posed them a few questions about the local area, interesting questions I would like to share with you …
1. What proportion of the whole of Thurrock is built on?
That surprised you, didn't it! In the study, land classified as 'urban fabric' defined has land which has between 50% and 100% of the land surface is built on, (meaning up to a half might be gardens or small parks, but the majority is built on).
2. How much land is intensively built on locally?
Of that amount mentioned above, how much of it is high-density urban fabric? (i.e. where 80% to 100% is built on – still leaving 20% for gardens) 0.5% – again I bet that surprised you!
3. So how is the land used locally?
Sports Facilities 1.98%
Port Areas 2.22%
Industry 7.27%
Arable Farmland 38.79%
…the rest being made up of various other types such as road/rail networks and pastures, etc.
Tilbury and the surrounding areas are greener than you think! In fact, I read that property covers less of the UK than the land revealed when the tide goes out. The assumption that vast bands of our local area have been concreted over doesn't stand up to inspection. However, the effect of housing undoubtedly spreads beyond its actual footprint, in terms of noise, pollution and roads.
Now I am not suggesting for one second we concrete over every inch of the locality, but the bottom line is we, as a country, are growing at a quicker rate than the households we are building. I appreciate the emotional effect of housing is greater than other land use types because most of us spend the vast majority of our time surrounded by it. As Brits, we live our lives driving along roads, walking on footpaths and working and living in buildings meaning we tend, as a result, to considerably overemphasise how much of it there is.
The bottom line is Tilbury people and the local authorities are going to have to put their weight into building more homes for people to live in. There is going to have to be some give and take on both sides, otherwise house prices will continue to rise exponentially in the future and Tilbury youngster's won't be able to buy their own Tilbury home, meaning Tilbury rents and demand for private rented accommodation in Tilbury can (and will) also grow exponentially.
PS If you are are looking to buy, sell or invest in the Thurrock property market and want to get a second opinion then why not give me a call on 01708 851999 or email me: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 19 (PNN): Whenever an artist makes it into the Hindi Film Industry despite having talent, they become desperate. After all, a young boy from Gopalganj, a small district of Bihar made it into the industry and also made up his mind that none of the talented artists he would meet should return home without letting the world know about him. The boy is none other than Anuj Kumar Ojha. With this idea in mind, he started Asis Celebrity Management Agency in Bollywood under which over 400 Bollywood and TV artists are being managed currently.
Not only this, but the company also organizes various events with the talented artists of Bollywood in India and around the world. Apart from this, Anuj is continuously producing music videos for newcomer singers, budding actors, and dancers under his company Asis Records.
In a candid conversation, Anuj said that his journey started as a politician from 2012 to 2016. He worked for various posts of Bharatiya Janata Party, carried out the responsibilities given by the BJP in Bihar, Delhi, and all over India. In 2014, he ventured into the world of business and again proved his mettle. In the year 2014, an incident occurred which went very close to him and inspired him to lay the foundation of the Asis celebrity management company. Today, his company is producing films in India and abroad, along with the production of ad films, as well as various TV serials production and casting.
Anuj told the media that very soon he will be coming up with a new music video titled Mere Balam Layao with Bollywood's well-known singer Sneh Upadhyay, along with other famous artists through his company Asis Records. After this, another music video song is being produced. Along with this, Tiger Pop, the winner of India's Best Dancer, accompanied by semi-finalist Aman Shah, will also be releasing some new and great projects with Anuj.


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Does My Chapter 13 Payment Change With My Income?
The decision to file for bankruptcy is not one to take lightly. With the multiple bankruptcy plans available and the changes to bankruptcy law that occurred in 2005, it is important to be an informed about options from various scenarios. If you are considering filing for bankruptcy but have concerns about what may happen should your income change, here is an overview of the facts.


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Writer on Jewish history mentioned in Eusebius, "Præp. Ev." ix. 25, who quotes from Alexander Polyhistor's collection of fragments, a passage from a work of Aristeas (in many manuscripts "Aristaios"), entitled Περὶ Ιουδαίων, which contains the history of Job almost as it is given in the Biblical narrative, but offers much that is noteworthy in regard to the names of personages. Job's original name was "Jobab"; that is, Aristeas identifies Job with the Jobab mentioned in Gen. xxxvi. 33, a great-grandson of Esau. He bases his identification on the fact that Eliphaz recurs in the generations of Esau in Gen. xxxvi. 10, 11; that his appellation "Temanite" (Job ii. 11) is found in Gen. xxxvi. 11, 34; that Job's dwelling-place, Uz, is suggested by Gen. xxxvi. 28; and that Zophar occurs at least in Septuagint of Gen. xxxvi. 11, 15. In point of fact, the author of Job simply borrowed the names from Genesis. Now, in the Septuagint "additions" to Job, which agree almost word for word with Aristeas, are found the same substitutions; Jobab stands for Job, Uz is placed in Idumea, and Job's friends are called kings. If the "addition" to Gen. xxxvi. 33, Ιωβἁβ υἱཹς Ζαρἁ ἑκ Bοσόρρας, designates Job's parents, mistaking the last name for that of his mother, it enables us to remedy an error, not of Aristeas, but of Alexander (τླྀν Ησαῦ γήμαντα Βασσάραν ἐν Εδὼμ γεννῆσαι ώβ) (Freudenthal, p. 138). Freudenthal holds it for certain that the author of the "additions" made use of Aristeas. Possibly the reverse is more likely, that the translator supplemented his work with these "additions," as he himself says, ἐκ τῆς Συριακῆς βίβλου, from the Syriac, and that they were used by Aristeas. For, in the first place, all uncial manuscripts contain the "additions," and we have no tradition that any one has ever denied that they belonged to the Septuagint (Field, "Hexapla," ii. 82); secondly, Freudenthal (p. 137) points out that when the translator, in Job ii. 11, makes Job's friends kings, in opposition to the original text, he takes a liberty similar to many which appear in the "additions of the Septuagint."
Aristeas' era must be placed between the time of the translation of Job and the epoch of Alexander Polyhistor, probably, therefore, in the second century. Aristeas' work bears no relation to the Letter of Aristeas, although the author of the letter very probably borrows his name from the historian.
- The text of his work is given by C. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Græcorum, iii. 220;
- Freudenthal, Alexander Polyhistor, 1875, p. 231, compare pp. 136-143;
- Schürer, Gesch. 4th ed., iii. 356, 357.


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This beautiful Vintage Leather Purse was a treasure that was passed down to her after her mother passed. For years, she tried to use it functionally, but it just wasn't her style and ended up stored away. She asked me to design a new bag using the leather bag to be gifted to her sister and step mother for her wedding. I used some of the fabric she used for her table runners to compliment the bag. And the leftover leather I made some keychains and earrings! #zerowaste


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Overview of the Mars Express Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a mission to Mars in June of 2003. The mission is called "Mars Express". The Mars Express spacecraft has two parts. One part will orbit Mars for at least one Martian year. A year on Mars lasts 687 Earth days, so it is longer than a year on Earth. The second part of Mars Express is a lander named "Beagle 2". Beagle 2 is supposed to land on Mars on Christmas day in 2003.
Mars Express is looking for life on Mars. Scientists don't know whether Mars has life or not. If Mars does have life, it is probably some kind of microbe that lives in water. So scientists are looking for water on Mars. Mars doesn't have any lakes, rivers, or seas. But Mars might have water underground. Mars Express has a radar that can look through rocks. Scientists hope to find water underground with that radar.
The Beagle 2 lander will look for life on the surface of Mars. It has a robot arm that will scoop up dirt. It will check the dirt for chemicals that might have been made by living things. Beagle 2 will land in a flat area called "Isidis Planitia" that is inside an old crater. There may have been a lake inside the crater many years ago.
Beagle 2 is named after a famous ship called the H.M.S. Beagle. A scientist named Charles Darwin sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle about 170 years ago. Darwin helped invent a theory called evolution that explains a lot about how life works. Scientists hope to find out a lot about life if they discover life on Mars. So the Mars Express team named their lander Beagle 2 in honor of Darwin's ship.


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A team of American researchers is on a treasure hunt for jewels — of both artistic and historic value.
This month, researchers from Denver were in Russia to document the work of Vasily Konovalenko, a former ballet set designer turned sculptor, who created scenes from Russian folk life in semiprecious stones.
In the 1980s, Konovalenko emigrated from what was then the Soviet Union in search of artistic freedom. Now, his legacy is divided between the U.S. and Russia.
Stephen Nash, a curator from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, recently visited the Moscow Gem Museum to see the work that got Konovalenko in trouble with Soviet authorities.
Nash's enthusiasm bubbles up as he describes a piece called Sultry Mid-day. It's roughly 15 inches long, set on a platter carved from malachite stone, as green as moss. Gray-blue agate has been set into the malachite.
"Into those agate circles, which look like pools of water, are two middle-aged women who are enjoying cooling off in the summertime with tea that's being cooked in a samovar," he says about the work.
The ample bodies of the women are carved from a ruddy colored quartz; the samovar is of clear crystal.
"And they're sitting across from each other, there's a table between them, floating on the water," Nash continues. "It's made of petrified wood so that it looks like a wooden table."
The Konovalenko sculptures aren't studded with gems, like a Faberge egg — they are gems, big chunks of semiprecious stone.
In the 1950s, Konovalenko was a young set designer at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky ballet theater. He discovered gem carving when he had to make a malachite box as a prop for a ballet called The Stone Flower.
According to his widow, Anna, he fell in love with the art and began to use it in daring ways.
Konovalenko had his first big public exhibition in 1973, and people loved it, she says, except for a certain Communist Party official. "The main person of Communist Party of St. Petersburg ... became angry not to be invited to opening of exhibit, and he started to try to put my husband in jail," she says.
Among other things, she says, her husband was accused of making fun of the Soviet people.
Konovalenko was eventually forced to give his entire collection to the State Geological Museum and to take a job creating sculptures that were often given as gifts to visiting dignitaries.
In 1981, the Konovalenkos got a chance to immigrate to the United States, and they took it.
From then until his death in 1989, Konovalenko produced dozens of works, some 20 of which are now in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
For all their masterful workmanship and exquisite materials, the pieces are broad and bold, essentially caricatures of Russian types: Cossacks, drinkers, warriors and country folk — even a czar's henchman, who might have been a forerunner of the feared KGB.
Anna Konovalenko scoffs at the charge that the sculptor was making fun of his subjects.
"He was very interesting, very artistic person — like actor ... because everything [he did] he had in mind a certain person who [he] met during his lifetime," she says.
Nash, the Denver curator, says he thinks the result rises above folk art or caricature.
"I see it as fine art. There's no other way to interpret it. The genius of Konovalenko's gem carving is evident in each and every piece he created," he says.
Nash thinks Konovalenko's background in the theater contributed to the dynamic, theatrical quality of his pieces.
Nash and photographer Rick Wicker hope to document as many of the sculptures as possible in the United States and Russia for a book on Konovalenko's work.
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First century tillers used oxen to help them plow the land, and when the animal slowed or refused their commands, the tiller would use a prick to jab the animal and regain control. Sometimes the oxen would rebel and kick against the prick, and as a result, get stabbed even harder. It was a lesson of cause and consequence, of insurgence, of anarchy, both against their owners, and against God. Wilson takes this concept of rebellion and weaves it throughout his writing in such a way that his characters know how it feels to be both the tiller and the ox. His verse is sharp like a pointed spike, and his style awakens reader to the gray area in the black and white world of right and wrong, good and bad.
Wilson writes without fear and doesn't shirk from the emotions that surface when he digs deeper, doesn't hide from the shadows that creep in when he tills harder. The pieces in Kicking Against the Pricks bring an understanding to pain, suffering, and what it means to be conflicted. Wilson brilliantly shines the light on the darkness that hides within us all and envelopes his readers in a raw, emotional, and beautiful journey as noted in Stoker Award winner Linda D. Addison's insightful introduction.
Stephen M. Wilson was Poetry Editor for Abyss & Apex Magazine of Speculative Fiction and also edited the spec poetry Twitterzine microcosms (@microcosms) and San Joaquin Delta College's literary magazine Artifact. Wilson spent 3+ years as Poetry Editor for Doorways Magazine and co editor of the Science Fiction Poetry Association's annual Dwarf Stars Award anthology. He's had several poems nominated for the Rhysling Award and a handful for the Dwarf Stars Award (including a win in 2011). His first book Dark Duet, a collaboration with multi-Bram Stoker Award winner Linda D. Addison, is available from Necon E-Books. Wilson lived in Stockton, CA with his partner and two dogs. More at: http://speceditor666.livejournal.com.
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Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union – National Unity Government
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A meeting of representatives from across the continent gathered to confirm their intent to form a National Unity Government of the Sovereign Union of First Nations Peoples in Australia.
This intent was confirmed with representatives formally signing an Act of Sovereign Union between First Nations Peoples in Australia.
Michael Anderson, spokesperson for the Sovereign Union said from Wollongong today, "The delegates acknowledged that having now stepped up to the plate of taking on this enormous task of nation building, not just at the national level, but at our local and regional levels as well. The most pleasing aspects of this movement is that nation building has now become organic within our communities throughout Australia. The grassroots people are using their own personal resources to bring their people together to rebuild their own nations and governance.
"It is important to acknowledge this effort because the Sovereign Union is a Peoples' movement and they own it. This is not Australian government inspired nor funded. It was decided that any funds for the further advancement of the Sovereign Union movement is to operate on the basis of goodwill from the people of Australia though donations or bequests (through the Sovereign Union website: http://nationalunitygovernment.org)
"Wayne Coco Wharton said, 'The time has come now for people not to just put their hands up and say they support, they must also understand they have obligations to commit themselves to working to fulfill our set objectives in nation building.'
The gathering concluded that the political significance of our Aboriginal Embassies are vital to our sovereignty movement as they represent a sovereign stand against the invader State and are an assertion of our rightful place in this country. Moreover, these Embassies are not protest sites and we call upon both the domestic and international community to recognize them as valid diplomatic missions, and to be afforded standard diplomatic immunities. It is also important to understand that when these Embassies are assaulted by superior force of the invader State, the people have a right to defend their sovereign independence. The sacred Fire that burns at these Embassies are a sacred spiritual essence uniting our people through our ancient songlines and Dreamings. Our People will defend this spirit life that comes form the Sacred Fire.
"The gathering agreed that what we need now is not just generals, but foot soldiers who go out among the people and provide them with briefs and the objectives.
"Delegations were issued to Fred Hooper of the Murrawarri (at Weilmoringle) to head the establishment of the constitutional framework for the National Unity Government, including regional and local assemblies. He is to be supported by Judulu of the Kunghi (Grubunna) Djunkun (Yarrabah North Queensland). Jululu is also delegated to communicate with tribal ceremonial Elders across the nations to co-ordinate the joining of ancient songlines. Vanessa Colbong of the Wdjuk, Wilmen and Ingarda (southwest WA) is delegated to co-ordinate the unification of the nations in the southern half of Western Australia. Peter Skuthorpe of the Gomeroi nation (NW NSW) is responsible for co-ordinating youth action and education and Maureen Brennan is to assist in bringing the people together. Michael Anderson, is the national co-ordinator and responsible for all diplomatic relations both domestic and international.
Attached to this media release is the communiqué of the 'Act of Sovereign Union' and stated principles:
between First Nations and Peoples in Australia
Whereas in the course of human events and history there are times when it becomes absolutely necessary for one Nation or People to dissolve the political and legal bonds which have connected them with another;
Whereas we now call upon the powers of the Creators of the DREAMING to enforce the natural authority that establishes a decent respect of humankind. It is required that we should declare the causes which impel us to the separation from our oppressor and to now declare our unity under our DREAMING and songlines, as we have since time immemorial;
Whereas we hold the Law of the Dreaming, as evidence of authority that all people are born equal, and that they were granted by the Creator certain sovereign inalienable rights; among these are the right to life, liberty, the right to maintain the Law of the DREAMING and the pursuit of spiritual wholeness and personal wellbeing;
Whereas to secure these rights in the modern world, governments are instituted among different Nations and Peoples, deriving their just powers from the consent of the people and the spiritual authority of the Dreaming. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the Peoples to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, ensuring that at the very foundation of this process are principles based upon the rule of Law of the Peoples and organising its powers to ensure the most pleasing of outcomes for peaceful existence, safety of the Peoples' happiness and wellbeing;
Whereas prudence will dictate that governments long established should, without prejudice, support the objective of the Peoples who choose to exercise their inalienable sovereign right to be governed by their own peers in accordance with their Laws and under their authority;
Whereas all experience has shown that humankind is more disposed to suffer, while the wrongs are sufferable, than to correct them by abolishing the entrenched subjugation. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations derides the rights of Peoples, which reduces them to absolute despotism, it is the right of the oppressed, it is their sacred duty, to reject and throw off such tyrannical governance and to provide new guards for their future security and to pursue their own goals and objectives. Such has been the patient sufferance of First Nations Peoples of this island continent now known as Australia; and such is now the necessity which requires us to dispel the existing destructive systems that oppress us; and to reinforce our own systems of governance, in accordance with our Law of the DREAMING;
We resolve to adopt and adhere to the following Statement of Principles:
Signed this 24th day of May 2012 at Kuradji Aboriginal Embassy, Sandon Point, New South Wales


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I've been angry
I've repented
I've shed puddles of tears
I've had enough
I want to fly
Like the geese
In a gaggle
To new lands
Far flung and distant
Over corn fields
Under blue skies
To warmth
To forgiveness
To love
To happy
To healthy
after hearing about the geese I saw that made me cry,
my mom sent me this poem.
It's brilliant.
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
from Dream Work by Mary Oliver
published by Atlantic Monthly Press
© Mary Oliver
So, as the story goes, this trucker walks into a restaurant and asks the owner to mix French fries and cheese curds together in the same bag. The year was 1957 and the restaurant owner was Fernand Lachance. The location: the dairy town of Warwick, Quebec, Canada.
"Ça va te faire une maudite poutine," ("It's gonna make a hell of a mess"), replies Lachance. But he complies, and the first Poutine is served. "La sauce" (rich, brown gravy) was later added to the dish to keep the food hot.
Several Quebecois communities lay claim to the origin of poutine, including Drummondville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and Victoriaville, but the most popular story is the Lachance story.
Poutine has been described as a cholesterol highball, a fatty delight and a fast food icon.
But Charles-Alexandre Théorêt, author of Maudite Poutine!, describes the dish to Montreal's The Gazette as being more psychological in nature:
A generous portion of shamefried gently in an inferiority complexand topped with a hint of denigrationfrom the ROC (Rest of Canada) –and a touch of guilty pleasure.
"Love it or hate it, poutine has become a strong symbol of Quebec," says Théorêt.
In his book, Théorêt insists that the real poutine is properly made with cheese curds softened - not melted - by the warm gravy and fresh enough to squeak when bitten, due to their high humidity.
Poutine even made it on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) list of the 10 greatest Canadian inventions, beating out basketball, the Canadarm, and the music synthesizer, and finding its place between the electric wheelchair and the cobalt 60 "bomb" cancer treatment. It even placed ahead of the snowblower in the list of Canadian inventions.
After 53 years, Poutine is finally gaining respect beyond the borders of Quebec. .The New York Times referred to Poutine as "a staple from Quebec, embarrassing but adored."
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SurfAholics System
SurfAholics System explores various types of marketing, so that an entrepeneur can be knowledgable in building his or her business. In this post, we turn to explore Adsense and the Surfer.
AdSense is an easy program to grasp: it is a great form of an advertising, bringing a lot of benefits to every person in the chain. And, of course, seeing the results it can have on a business (and a publisher) people encourage this form of publicity.
For the browsing audience, this is probably the most straightforward model available, because they can be directed to a lot of new sites, they would not have otherwise found. Needless to say, if you have an AdSense banner on your site, and a large number of visitors you will know it offers a great financial benefit.
But why does it work for the people clicking the links, as opposed to a standard approach?
It is aided by today's society. With bloggers and information based articles on the internet, people may be encouraged to complete purchases, which adsense can provide links to relevant suppliers whilst also benefiting the publisher.
And the good thing about this is that it works for site visitors as well. In fact, Google realized that by pleasing the people who are looking for something, and directing them to what they need faster, everybody wins.
It is because of this that a lot of websites promote through AdSense in both content and search. They do it because they ultimately learned that it works for everyone.
If we look in the past, we can realize that this kind of publicity has a great impact over the people, especially in the last few years. When we enter on a web site and we see a graphical banner, our first idea is to cancel it out of our mind, because it is of no concern to us.
That is why traditional banner advertising is wrong. It is the preception that people have become savvy that they do not look at a flashy banner, because they think they will be losing their time with it.
People have gotten accustomed to banners and think that do not interest us. And we are accustomed to them having nice graphics. So we naturally associate the two things and think that a banner with nice graphics has nothing to tell us.
But we might look at a text-ad because we have grown accustomed to them being targeted at what we are looking for. Basically these advertisements have marketed themselves into being looked at by any visitor.
This is a typical no fluff, just stuff situation. And in the end it means the visitors will see what they are interested in, not some random cool graphics you throw at them.
As stated above, site visitors adopt this advertising mechanism, because it is efficient in leading them to pages of interest and can offer ton of things they really want to see. Someone coming across an article on adsense was probably looking for shoes or doing research on shoes when they came across the article.
And most importantly for everyone, including visitors, this scheme can only improve as the process gets further refined to make ads more relevant to what you are looking for, not just a couple of keywords on a site.
Nowadays, it is because of AdSense that Internet surfers are looking after more interesting related things from banners, and the companies behind the site (Google and the advertiser) need to have better ideas to display, as expectations have increased a great deal.
So could Do no evil actually work in todays cut throat competitive marketplace? Well, as you can see, it can and it does. And you, as a visitor, are the one who gets to enjoy this the most. Advertising becomes less of a burden and more of a benefit, and is still a benefit you can choose to ignore.
Less obtrusive banners; banners that you are actually likely to be interested in and click means you wll be less annoyed by surfing the web and feel like you as a visitor being offered a relevant service.
Although some may feel reluctant to read articles that are there purely to compel consumers, undoubtedly without this consideration they are useful. Ultimately the adverts mean that you do not have to go back to your homepage every time you are compelled to complete a purchase.
SurfAholics System is an advertising platform to bring traffic to the marketers business online. The main advertising platforms are SurfAholics TE, Top Web Hitz, and Tornado Traffic, designed to bring traffic to the marketers business through rotation at their traffic exchanges. The marketer gets his or her business seen by like-minded business people. SurfAholics System is quickly becoming the goto place for receiving traffic and also learning what other people are promoting. SurfAholics System is the place to be for all of your traffic needs.
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Title: Brutal Discoveries
Author: Kasey Millstead
Release Date: June 27, 2016
South Glenn Maximum Security prison wasn't for the faint at heart. The inmates weren't there because they stole some cookies from the cookie jar.
They were serial murderers.
The worst of the worst.
It was at South Glenn that 'Sweet Treats' bakery owner, Scarlett Everett met two men who would change her life. Damon Salt was a man serving life without parole that she was paired with for a volunteer program called Friends for Lifers.
Prison guard Aden West was tall and tanned with indigo eyes and a strong jaw smattered with dark hair. Just a hint of what promised to be a sleeve of tattoos peeked out from the cuff of his button-down shirt, which combined with his buzz cut, gave him a bad boy edge Scarlett didn't know she was attracted to until she stood there trying the catch the breath he took away.
One had the power to destroy her heart, the other had the power to destroy her life as she knew it.
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I took a deep breath and walked into the reasonably sized office. I heard Jane close the door behind me, and for the first time, I looked across the room to the desk in front of the window, to find Aden fucking West sitting there looking contemplative and relaxed.
What the hell?
"Scarlett," he greeted formally. "Take a seat."
"No, thank you, I'd rather stand," I snipped as my hands went to my hips and I glared at him.
His lips twitched and my eyes dropped to glare those too, before I quickly looked back up to his now-twinkling blue depths.
"Is this about the cookies?" I questioned, throwing attitude.
"No, although I'm wondering why you gave them all to Salt, and didn't save any for me," he commented casually. Bastard.
"You can come into my bakery and buy your own damn cookies," I muttered.
He stood and rounded his desk. Before I had time to process that, he was prowling toward me. I took one step back, quickly followed by two more, then my back hit the wall behind me just as Aden caged me in, his palms flat against the wall beside my head, his nose just inches from my own as he leaned down to look me in the eyes. The scent of his cologne invaded my senses and my mind swam for a second before I pulled myself together.
"You wouldn't give me a chance to explain, so now I'm taking that chance," he informed me. My hands went to his stomach and I took a second to admire how rock hard his was. Like a freaking brick wall of flesh!
Then I shoved him while growling, "Get back." Of course he didn't move an inch from my shove, and he just leaned in closer.
"Scarlett," he warned.
"Get back," I repeated on a snap, combined with another shove.
"Listen to me, dammit," he clipped. He moved his hips imperceptibly closer, close enough for me to feel the heat from his powerful body, but not so close I could actually feel him.
"What do you want?" I whispered.
"A chance to explain," he murmured back, using that soft sweet voice that has the ability to make my knees wobble.
"Step back," I warned as I gave him another shove. God, why wouldn't he budge? "And I'll let you explain."
He took his hand from the wall beside my head and curled his index finger before tracing it down my jawline until he reached my chin. Then he used his thumb to touch my bottom lip softly.
"Okay, sweetheart," he murmured as he took a step back. I'll admit, I wanted to swoon when he called me sweetheart, but I held it together and marched right past him to the edge of his desk. I sat myself down in the chair and glared as I waited for him to take his seat and explain whatever he wanted to explain. He didn't sit in his desk chair, though, he came right up beside me and rested his ass on the edge of his desk. His leg was touching mine, so I jolted out of the way, putting some much needed distance between us. I leaned back, right back so I could aim my glare at him. His lips twitched and his eyes twinkled, and it made me glare harder.
"Talk," I snapped.
"Why did you run off when I asked about Salt?" he asked.
"I thought you were explaining. Shouldn't you be doing that rather than asking questions?" I snapped. He sighed and ran his hands over his face in frustration. Then he pinned me with those deep blue depths of his before he laid it out in his gravelly, addictive voice.
"Obviously, I work here. Clocked you on your first visit, babe, watched you on the monitors, wondering what a hot piece like you would be doing visiting a joint like this."
Okay, that was really sweet. His hot piece compliment warmed my stomach, but rather than latch onto that, I decided to narrow my eyes at him. Before I could snap at him for being so judgmental, he continued.
"I saw you visiting with Salt, couldn't believe that shit. Figured you must've been related to him. Imagine my surprise when a few days later, I walk into a bakery and see you serving the best fucking coffee in the city, and the best fucking treats in the state, dressed in the sexiest fucking outfit I've ever laid eyes on."
Oh dear. My uterus contracted and I'm almost certain I may have had a mini orgasm.
"My uniform isn't sexy," I protested.
"Babe," he sighed. "Your hair, your smile, those tits, that ass… makes a man think of nothing more than lifting that apron up over your hips, laying you out on that counter, and feasting on the promise of what's sure to be the sweetest tasting pussy in the world."
Okay, that was definitely a mini orgasm. I clenched my legs together, hoping he wouldn't notice, but of course he did, and he smirked a cocky, arrogant smirk that made me want to kiss it right off his lips.
I was totally in trouble.
"I still don't understand why you'd ask me to dinner and then start grilling me on if I was related on Damon."
"You took it the wrong way, didn't give me a chance to explain, and then bolted like you had a firecracker up your ass. You also left money to pay for your meal," he growled the last part while scowling at me.
"So," he mimics. "A man asks you to dinner, he pays. You do not." He pulled out a bunch of crumpled bills from his pocket and tossed them in my lap. My mouth fell open in surprise.
"I asked about Salt because I was trying to figure out why someone like you would be hauling your ass to a maximum security prison twice a month to visit with a convicted serial killer and rapist."
"Don't be so judgmental," I snapped. "He's a human being, and he's paying for his crimes. For your information, Hashtag Asshole, I'm volunteering for a program called Friends For Lifers," I huffed. It was then I noticed the change in his face. Gone was the irritability, the frustration, the anger. The lip twitch came back. His eyes crinkled at the corners and I watched in fascination as they melted right in front of me. It was then I realized my mistake.
"Hashtag Asshole?" The lip twitch morphed to a smirk.
"Uh…" Shit. "It just slipped out, I mean, I didn't mean it," I stammered.
"Hashtag Asshole?" he repeated, as his smirk moved into a full blown grin that only made him look even more gorgeous.
"Well, it was Hashtag Hottie until you became Hashtag Asshole after Sherman's," I snipped.
It was then he burst out laughing and I watched in awe as his beautiful body shook on the desk and his loud chuckle filled the room. Beautiful.
"What will I have to do to become Hashtag Hottie again?" he asked through a grin.
"That's an impossible feat. I'd advise against it. You'll only set yourself up for failure."
"God, even when you're being a pain in the ass, you're sexy as fuck."
"I am not a pain in the ass!"
"Babe." He was still grinning, looking at me like I was the most amusing person in the world.
"Are we done?" I stood abruptly.
"Not even close, sweetheart."
Author Bio
Kasey Millstead lives a quiet life in country New South Wales, Australia, with her husband and their four young children. She enjoys baking, singing (ridiculously out of tune) & spending time with friends and family. Kasey has always harboured a deep love for reading and writing, and she is now lucky enough to be living her dream of being an Author.
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Correze 5-Piece Power Reclining Sectional
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Truly putting high design into recline, this power reclining sectional with gray leather match upholstery proves that just because you're a recliner doesn't mean you have to look like one. Deceptively beautiful, its ultra clean-lined aesthetic is as cool and contemporary as they come. Low-profile back has a super swank look. When you need more support for your head and neck, the press of a button engages the Easy View™ power adjustable headrest, designed to let you lean back and still have a primo view of the TV. Ever-so-subtle curves and stunning stitching perfect the aesthetic.
Height | 33in | |
Width | 114in | |
Depth | 115in | |
Details | Includes 5 pieces: 2 armless chairs, right-arm facing zero wall power recliner, wedge and left-arm facing zero wall power reclining back chaise, "Left-arm" and "right-arm" describe the position of the arm when you face the piece, One-touch power control with adjustable positions, Easy View™ adjustable headrest and zero-draw USB plug-in, Zero-draw technology only consumes power when the USB receptacle is in use, Zero wall design requires minimal space between wall and chair back; extended ottoman for enhanced comfort, Corner-blocked frame with metal reinforced seat, Attached back and seat cushions; high-resiliency foam cushions wrapped in thick poly fiber, Genuine leather typically covers inside areas such as the back, seat and arm cushions; skillfully matched faux leather covers the remaining areas, Due to its natural origin, real leather can show individual characteristics such as healed scars, growth marks, grain variation and shade variation, Natural variations make each hide unique and do not detract from the wearing qualities of leather, Exposed feet with faux wood finish, Power cord included; UL Listed, Assembly required | |
Lifestyle | Contemporary | |
Dimensions | 114''W x 115''D x 33''H |
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