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Pilobolus Dance Theatre (Joyce Theatre, 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St., July 16-Aug. 11). Half modern dance, half gymnastics, frequently amusing, often enthralling, always watchable. Three different programs this summer, including three new dances and revivals of such favorites as "Day Two" (the company's wildly sexy signature piece), "Pseudopodia," and "Walklyndon" (TT).
Archives for June 2007
TT: A touch of ambrosia
In this week's Wall Street Journal I report on two Shakespeare productions, one in New York and one in Washington, plus a rare revival of John Van Druten's Old Acquaintance:
The best show in town this month is in Central Park. The Public Theater's outdoor version of "Romeo and Juliet" is contemporary in flavor, visually striking, crisply staged and emotionally direct–everything, in short, that a Shakespeare in the Park production should be, right down to the no-holds-barred swordplay. It also marks the arrival of a new star in the theatrical sky: Lauren Ambrose, lately of "Six Feet Under," who made a strong Broadway debut in last year's revival of "Awake and Sing" and now confirms that she is an extravagantly gifted stage actress whose potential appears to be unlimited….
Unlike the Public's "Romeo and Juliet," the Shakespeare Theatre Company's modern-dress "Hamlet" is sabotaged by its youth-friendly, obtrusively clever high concept: It's all about teen angst. Director Michael Kahn gives us a pouty blond Prince of Denmark (Jeffrey Carlson) who whines his way from scene to scene, brandishing a bottle of pills (Prozac, no doubt) as he lurches into his soliloquy on suicide. Earlier we see him reading A. Alvarez's "The Savage God: A Study of Suicide," a directorial touch that deserves some sort of prize for pretentiousness….
John Van Druten is one of the forgotten men of American theater. Twenty of his plays opened on Broadway between 1925 and 1952, but until now none of them has been revived there, not even such long-running hits as "The Voice of the Turtle" or "I Remember Mama." Now the Roundabout Theatre Company has exhumed "Old Acquaintance," a 1940 comedy that was bought by Hollywood three years later and turned into an unmemorable vehicle for Bette Davis. I went to see it mainly out of curiosity–but stayed to cheer. Far from being a musty old relic, "Old Acquaintance" is a fabulously well-made play that has lost nothing of its freshness and bite….
No free link. You know what to do. Buy today's paper, or go here to subscribe to the Online Journal, which will give you immediate access to my column and the rest of the Journal's arts coverage. (If you're already a subscriber, the column is here.)
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"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved."
José Ortega y Gasset, "In Search of Goethe from Within"
TT: One little word
To all the people who thought they read this post: I said you couldn't pay me to see most of them. What makes you think you know which ones I had in mind?
TT: So you want to see a show?
Here's my list of recommended Broadway and off-Broadway shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more information, click on the title.
Warning: Broadway shows marked with an asterisk were sold out, or nearly so, last week.
• Avenue Q * (musical, R, adult subject matter and one show-stopping scene of puppet-on-puppet sex, reviewed here)
• A Chorus Line * (musical, PG-13/R, adult subject matter, reviewed here)
• The Drowsy Chaperone (musical, G/PG-13, mild sexual content and a profusion of double entendres, reviewed here)
• Frost/Nixon * (drama, PG-13, some strong language, reviewed here, closes Aug. 19)
• 110 in the Shade * (musical, G, suitable for children old enough to enjoy a love story, reviewed here, extended through July 29)
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (musical, PG-13, mostly family-friendly but contains a smattering of strong language and a production number about an unwanted erection, reviewed here)
• Beyond Glory (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here, closes Aug. 19)
• The Fantasticks (musical, G, suitable for children old enough to enjoy a love story, reviewed here)
• Intimate Exchanges (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here, closes Sunday)
• Company (musical, PG-13/R, adult subject matter and situations, reviewed here, closes July 7)
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"Summer afternoon–summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Henry James (quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance)
TT: Lacunae
I was very briefly diverted by the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American movies, but I couldn't stay interested long enough to write a full-fledged posting. It's a safe, middlebrow-earnest big-money canon, even by the standards of Hollywood, though I was no less struck by how many first-rate popular films went unmentioned and, presumably, unregretted. (Where, for instance, is Roman Holiday? Or To Have and Have Not? Or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
I haven't seen 26 of the films:
4. "Raging Bull," 1980
7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962
8. "Schindler's List," 1993
11. "City Lights," 1931
30. "Apocalypse Now," 1979
33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975
41. "King Kong," 1933
43. "Midnight Cowboy," 1969
49. "Intolerance," 1916
50. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," 2001
53. "The Deer Hunter," 1978
57. "Rocky," 1976
59. "Nashville," 1975 (I couldn't get past the songs)
62. "American Graffiti," 1973
66. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981
67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1966 (no, but I saw the play!)
70. "A Clockwork Orange," 1971
78. "Modern Times," 1936
81. "Spartacus," 1960
82. "Sunrise," 1927
86. "Platoon," 1986
91. "Sophie's Choice," 1982
95. "The Last Picture Show," 1971 (I started it but lost interest)
96. "Do the Right Thing," 1989
97. "Blade Runner," 1982
99. "Toy Story," 1995
The only one that I truly regret never having seen is Raging Bull, though I can't imagine anyone seriously regarding it as the fourth greatest American film ever made. As for the others, you couldn't pay me to see most of them.
For the record, here are my ten favorite films on the list:
1. "Citizen Kane"
5. "Singin' in the Rain"
9. "Vertigo"
12. "The Searchers"
16. "Sunset Blvd."
21. "Chinatown"
28. "All About Eve"
29. "Double Indemnity"
55. "North by Northwest"
61. "Sullivan's Travels"
TT: Almanac
"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
TT: Touched by a meme
Mr. Parabasis has tagged me:
• Name your area of expertise/interest. That's a tough one. Some would argue that I have no area of expertise! On reflection, though, I'd have to say that it's criticism in general (though there was a time when I would have said music).
• How did you become interested in it? The first critics to whose work I paid serious attention were the ones who were reviewing records for Stereo Review and High Fidelity (both defunct, alas) back in the early Seventies. The first full-fledged Big Name in criticism whom I read closely and attentively was Edmund Wilson, whose Classics and Commercials and The Bit Between My Teeth made a lasting impression on me a couple of years after that.
• How did you learn how to do it? At first by imitating Wilson, and I also learned a lot from Whitney Balliett and Virgil Thomson a little later on. Mainly, though, I learned by doing. I started covering classical music and jazz for the Kansas City Star in 1977, when I was still an undergraduate. Writing short reviews on tight deadlines for a big-city newspaper is a good way–maybe the best way–for a young critic to learn the basics of his trade.
• Who has been your biggest influence? Fairfield Porter, I hope! Some other critics who've left their marks on me are Edwin Denby, Otis Ferguson, Clement Greenberg, Randall Jarrell, H.L. Mencken, and George Orwell.
• What would you teach people about it? I've taught numerous classes and seminars in criticism, and I always give my students the following pieces of advice:
Always treat artists with respect. Most of them know how to do something you can't do.
Don't be afraid to be wrong.
Don't be afraid to be enthusiastic!
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
Oscar Wilde, letter to the Scots Observer (Aug. 16, 1890)

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AddonManager helps you keep track of your addons and provides easy ways to access them.
It has a main window that lists all registered addons and their details, as well as a "Mini-Addon bar", where small addon icons can go.
The more addon developers that use it (and it's really easy to use!), the more addons will show up in the list. Give it time =)
For users
- Type /addons to see all your registered addons
- Alternatively, click on the AddonManager button in the "Mini Addons" bar
For addon developers
Registering your Addon
- Add a call to AddonManager.RegisterAddon / RegisterAddonTable in your VARIABLES_LOADED event
- Example1. At minimum, you can do this:
if AddonManager then AddonManager.RegisterAddon("MyAddonName", "My addon makes you awesome") end
- Example 2. Using a custom icon, a config frame, and a mini-addon button:
if AddonManager then local addon = { -- Information name = "MyAddonName", version = "v0.01", author = "Me", description = "My addon makes you awesome", icon = "Interface/Addons/MyAddon/myAddon32.tga", category = "Other", slashCommand = "/myaddon", -- Config-Frames configFrame = MyAddonConfigFrame, disableScript = MyAddon_Disable, enableScript = MyAddon_Enable, -- Mini Button mini_icon = "Interface/Addons/MyAddon/myAddon32.tga", mini_icon_pushed = "Interface/Addons/MyAddon/myAddon32.tga", mini_onClickScript= MyAddon_Action, -- miniButton = MyAddonMiniButton, -- (obsolete but still valid - see below) } AddonManager.RegisterAddonTable(addon) end
- Of course, replace "my addon" with your addon
- I recommend not printing out that your addon has loaded if you use AddonManager, since the user will be able to see it in the AddonManager list.
- In the first example, your addon would be considered a "Passive" addon - its text would be colored green (like passive skills) and you can't click on it.
AddonManager.RegisterAddonTable = function(addon) -- Since v1.042 AddonManager.RegisterAddon = function(name, description, icon, category, configFrame, slashCommands, miniButton, onClickScript, version, author, disableScript, enableScript)
Registers an addon with AddonManager. Adds the addon to the addons list and potentially also to the mini-addons-frame.
- name - Your addon's name. Default is "[No Name]".
- description - A brief (one or two sentence) description of your addon. Something that fits in a tooltip.
- icon - Path to a 32x32 image icon (e.g., "Interface/Addons/AddonManager/Textures/addonManagerIcon32.tga"). If no icon is specified, will use default "recipe" icon.
- category - One of AddonManager.Categories; will be used for filtering the addons list. Default is "Other". One of Development, Economy, Information, Interface, Inventory, Leveling, Map, PvP, Social, or Other.
- configFrame - If your addon has a config frame or other frame you want to show when your addon is clicked, use this.
- slashCommands - Specify any slash commands you've registered so that the user doesn't have to remember them.
- miniButton - If you want to display a button on the "Mini-Addons" bar, specify it here.
- onClickScript - If you need to special handling when your addon's button is clicked, you can specify a script for it. If this parameter is specified, configFrame is ignored.
- version - what version this addon's in
- author - who made this addon
- disableScript - A script that can be used to disable your addon. Adds the disable option in the AddonManager list if both disableScript and enableScript are specified
- enableScript - A script that can be used to re-enable your addon
The Mini-Addon Bar
- the old extra XML Button definition is obsolete!
- you may still use it if you require special button handling
- Example:
<Button name="MyAddonMiniButton" hidden="true" inherits="UIPanelButtonTemplate" parent="AddonManagerMiniFrame"> <Size> <AbsDimension y="24" x="24"/> </Size> <Scripts> <OnClick> AddonManager.MiniButton_OnClick(this) </OnClick> <OnEnter> AddonManager.MiniButton_OnEnter(this) </OnEnter> <OnLeave> AddonManager.MiniButton_OnLeave(this) </OnLeave> </Scripts> <NormalTexture file="Interface\AddOns\MyAddon\myAddonIconNormal.tga"/> <PushedTexture file="Interface\AddOns\MyAddon\myAddonIconDown.tga"/> </Button>
- The only things you should change here are the Button's name and the two textures.
- Note that you can't have a MiniButton if your addon is passive (because what should happen when the user clicks on it?). A passive addon is one that has no config frame and no custom onClickScript.
List of sample Registrations
#74 dragonsjewl Posted Dec 26, 2013
BTW I forgot to add thanks for the addon in the first place. I do appreciate those that are willing to share what they create with those of us untalented enough to figure this stuff out :) Glitches happen and I know this is done in most peoples spare time for free and I realized I might have sounded ungrateful with the "so inclined" comment, when i was just thinking about it that way. Thanks Much
#73 dragonsjewl Posted Dec 26, 2013
I have no idea what issue is the others are talking about. My issue is severe though. I had to go back to the previous version(cuz I can't do without this addon) The new version trashed my whole UI reset all my add ons and just made a general mess of things. I have no idea what I have that it doesn't want to play nice with but I can give you a list if you are inclined to figure it out. just let me know. In the mean time i'm heading back to the game to reset everything /sigh
#68 flamejoker Posted Oct 25, 2009This is a very convenient and practical addon,
can you make language file for addon's strings?
If it have language file,
we can translate to other language,
more and more player can use AddonManager easily.
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Excuse me if I am a little rusty at this writing thing today. It has been a while since I found my fingers on my laptop keys typing away as my heart spills the truth it needs to have heard. Gosh I have missed it…
It has not been that I have had nothing to say. That is far from my reality. A tremendous amount of life has unfolded in the months since my last blog post. I have seen death and life. Joy and sorrow. Breakdowns and breakthroughs. I have felt the deepest of pains and the highest of hopes. I have been wounded. I have been healed. There were steps forward and there were steps back. I have grieved and I have celebrated. I have watched beginnings unfold and endings be revealed. These past four months have felt more like four years. How so much life can be crammed in to such a short amount of time is mind boggling to me. It has been just a tad overwhelming. And by tad I mean challenging-stressful-worried I may not make it-suffocating under the weight of the heaviness of hurt-drawn back to darkness-isolating overwhelming. I always promise to keep it authentic with all of you. That is my truth. There were plenty of days I was so unsure my heart and mind could take anymore and wanted to give up on life completely.
But nevertheless, here I am. Trying to rise. Trying to survive. Trying to be free. The best place I know how to regain what the past months have tried to steal is right here writing this blog. This is home to me. This is my something familiar to keep me grounded. This is my sanity.
So then why the absence? Life clearly gave me plenty about which to write. But something important to know about me is I don't speak or write just because there is something to say. Everything I do is with purpose, with intent, and with passion. Writing is an emotional outlet for me. It is my form of healing. It is my means of being transparent and that transparency is what saves me.
Transparency for me is not a luxury. It is a necessity. I need to be open with my journey and struggles. Transparency is my spirit's greatest muscle. It needs to be exercised to strengthen. For many, it takes courage to be transparent. For me, it takes transparency to have courage; courage to fight my mind, to say no the inner voices trying to tear me down, to believe in a better tomorrow, to let go of the anorexia that I cling to so fiercely. I need the vulnerability to be strong so the disorder can weaken.
Transparency is the greatest threat to the anorexia. By being vulnerable with others about the disorder, I am exposing it for the truth that it is. I am shining the light into the darkness where it is hiding. I am revealing all the parts it wants to keep unknown so it can thrive. The more I speak, the less it does. The more I share, the less power it has. It shrinks and I grow. The grip loosens and the thoughts lessen.
Transparency is my survival.
But it too has its own threat. My ability to be transparent hinges on one thing; how safe I feel in my life. And that safety can be compromised in many ways; the unexpected happening, being placed in situations I have no control over, death of people and dreams, betrayal, being manipulated or lied to, disappointments, neglect, overwhelming emotions, loss of self, seeing what really is behind the rose-colored glasses. The more unsafe I feel, the less transparent I am. It diminishes my trust level which is key in the ability to be vulnerable with people.
My safety has been stripped away the past few months. Right there lies the answer to the question of my absence. There has been a lot to share but the transparency to speak it was compromised. And if we want to connect the dots even more, if transparency was eliminated then that means something else in my life had more space to take up; the anorexia. Its nemesis was gone, and it knew it. It took advantage of the quiet and the isolation and the lack of safety. It saw the opening, scoped out its surroundings, and when it saw me notice it but then look away, it walked right back in. It made itself at home. It is still dwelling there today.
Having it there is a comfort. Its presence is familiar. The feelings are known. There is more control. It gives me everything I look for to feel safe even though it is killing me at the same time. It is a false security. I logically know that. But that does not stop my mind from running to it. That does not stop me from retreating to it for a breather. That does not stop me from relying on it for relief. Call it insanity but it is my stability standing on very shaky ground. It always surprises me how easily I can adjust back into that lifestyle as if I never was gone. Everything is right where I left it. It is all waiting to be picked up again, to be thought again, to be felt again, to be seen again. The script is always the same for me to read from. The character is just a little older.
I wish I could sit here and say that I hate it, that I want to let go, that I want to change where I am. If that was the case then this journey would have been over a long time ago. The difficulty of walking out of this storm is EXTREMELY underrated. It is not a simple yes to life one time and then it is done. It is having to repeat that yes again and again and again with a mind that is trained to see what is false and conditioned to self destruct. I don't always believe in what recovery represents. I don't always trust the promises of freedom it tells me will one day be fulfilled. I don't always feel I have the strength to endure the road ahead with no guarantee of what awaits me at the end. And being completely transparent, why I continuously find myself back in this place of coexisting with the disorder is because I don't trust the body recovery will give me. There is a part of me that is still fighting to maintain control over how it looks. It is what keeps me attached to the anorexia. It is what keeps me craving it. It is what keeps me following the pull. As long as this body is my number one obsession, the anorexia is not going anywhere.
But I know I cannot let it stay. The illusion of what I think it can give is never going to turn into something real. It has not the past eighteen years I have walked on this road, and I know it will not start now. So, I guess that is why I am writing this blog today. Even though I have a part of me debating if it will even be posted, I have a very slightly larger part of me begging to fly again that is not able to write this fast enough hoping the transparency will weaken it a bit. The war of two worlds is always ongoing. Every second I am faced with choosing which side will win. Every second I don't always make the right decision. But every second always lends the way to another one for me to give it another try.
If you are reading this then you know who I wanted to see claim victory today. You will know I decided to pick myself back up. You will know I am determined to be free. You will know I am ready to be okay again. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow. But someday.
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NSL Services are the outsourcing company that run the Westminster City Council (WCC) contract for parking enforcement. It now seems that NSL Services are becoming jumpy about Nutsville. We hear of letters warning CEO's (Civil Enforcement Officers) from talking to anyone from our little blog, are being posted up in their bases. We also hear that Suzanne Hussey, NSL's Westminster contract manager, is getting mad about our last post on the Lexington Street base. The drain unblockers are now regular visitors to the base.
Some long serving CEO's were quite bemused to see Ms Hussey for the first time ever at one of their morning briefings. Any CEO's caught taking photos and sending them to Nutville were threatened with instant dismissal. Where has Ms Hussey and the rest of the NSL management been these last few years. To have not known of the growing resentment the CEO's have for the things they have been asked to do hardly makes Ms Hussey look as if she is in control of the situation?
But we can't heap all these problems at Ms Hussey's feet, even though she might be incredibly bad at her job. Because the driving force to reach those ticket targets comes from Westminster City Council. Like many other councils around the country Westminster had come to rely on PCN's as a valuable source of income built in to their annual budgets.
Having any kind of parking contract with Westminster Council is like selling your soul to the Devil. So we shouldn't be surprised if Ms Hussey and Kenneth Hanslip choose to look the other way and ignore their CEO's. But it's beginning to look like NSL will not get that lucrative parking contract renewed this March. It would be all too convenient if Westminster Councillors and their officers try to make NSL the fall guys in the perfect parking storm which is brewing over the horizon.
Back in the summer WCC and NSL allowed Betty TV Ltd., a film production company, to have access to Westminster's two NSL bases. One in Lexington Street, the other at Vauxhall Bridge Road. Betty were making a film for Channel 4′s Cutting Edge documentary series, titled Confessions of a Traffic Warden. The film is intended to show what it's like to be a new immigrant to the UK and do what must be one of the most hated jobs in the land.
WCC have always publicly claimed that the daily abuse and stress heaped on the CEO's was nothing to to with them, it's the fault of the great British public they said. But the CEO's wanted to tell Betty TV a different story, which led to one CEO being interrogated by NSL's Kenneth Hanslip, head of profession standards. But this is NSL's usual way of managing out a CEO who breaks ranks and tries to tell the public the truth. NSL will no doubt claim they have done all the right and proper investigations and they were squeaky clean and everybody's happy, except the CEO's and a growing number of the motoring public. With the motorist faced with an ever increasing and varied set of parking rules, and a council desperate to top up huge holes in it's finical budget, is anyone surprised that it's the CEO on the street that take the wrath of the motorist.
It takes a special kind of NSL manager and indeed Westminster Councillor to have ten CEO's all talking to the press saying one thing, yet still be able to claim nothing is wrong with parking enforcement in Westminster. Who's kidding who here. CEO's now tell us that all mention of targets has stopped in Westminster, but they worry for how long. So all those councillors, their officers and NSL management who are blaming Nutsville for their woes, need to understand that Nutsille wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Councillor Chalkley and his coconspirator Alastair Gilchrist going one step too far in introducing the motorcycle parking tax. Never before has such dodgy goings on come under such close and relentless scrutiny. Looks like Nutsville will still be here at the next local election, won't that be fun for all, unless you're a Tory councillor of course.
The documentary Confessions of a Traffic Warden is due to be broadcast by Channel 4 this Thursday at 9pm.
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Over 120 people will run for Sonny on Sunday
PORT Douglas will be filled with a ray of sunshine on Sunday as team Sonny Days runs in the Great Barrier Reef Marathon Festival to honour the memory of three-year-old Sonny Dare.
In January of this year Sonny passed away suddenly of unknown causes leaving behind Mum Emma, Dad Ben and little sister Daisy, now they are determined to keep his memory alive.
Sonny's Mum Emma Dare said they decided to put a team together for the Marathon festival because they wanted to use Sonny's spirit as a motivation for others to get active.
"We have always been a very active family and wanted Sonny to grow up knowing that being healthy and exercising was just a normal way to live your life," she said.
"So despite the tragedy that we're dealing with and the sadness that we're feeling we thought we'd be able to encourage other people to feel happy and healthy."
Emma said that another main motivator in organising the team was to keep Sonny present in everyone's thoughts.
"One of the hardest parts for the us has been the thought that Sonny would be forgotten. So by having people do things in his honour helps keep his memory alive and also helps us create new memories with him involved."
She added that they decided to use the Great Barrier Reef Marathon because of its beautiful location.
"We thought people could have a nice weekend away and we initially thought we'd just probably get a couple of friends are family together to do it."
Team Sonny Days now has 120 registrants with more expected to sign up over the next few days.
"It's a bit of a mix of all the different distances but that's what was appealing as well, that everyone could get involved in a different sort of distance that they were comfortable with.
"For us it's a real family event so there's a lot of children doing the two kilometre," she said.
The team will run to rise funds for Precious Wings, a charity that gifts memory boxes to families after the loss of a child. The box provides a place to keep precious items such as hand and foot prints or a lock of hair and also contains candles, affirmations and contact details for support groups. The box helps reinforce the fact that the child existed and that he or she is loved and remembered.
The charity currently mostly runs in Brisbane hospitals but the funds that Sonny Days raise will go to being able to gift boxes to the Cairns hospitals.
"If any family has to go through something like us, the box helps just ease the pain in such an absolutely tragic time by helping you create memories," Emma said.
"Each box is donated in honour of another child so through the funds we raised we will be able to donate a lot of these boxes in Sonny's name so it once again helps keep his memory alive."
The Dare family has sold 345 Sonny Days shirts for the event with all funds raised from the shirts going to Precious Wings.
"We've also had a couple of sponsors come on board and they have donated some money as well and in terms of ongoing donations we're going to have a donation tin in our tent on the day of the run."
Emma added that they named Sonny because he reminded them of sunshine and to them sunshine invokes happiness. So they made the team's shirts for the event yellow and full of sunflowers to "create a sea of sunshine and happiness" across Port Douglas to remember their beautiful little boy.
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MONTREAL, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Dec. 10, 2013) - Donner Metals Ltd. ("Donner" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:DON)(FRANKFURT:D4M), is pleased to announce the execution of an option agreement with Midland Exploration Inc. ("Midland") for the Valmond gold property, currently wholly owned by Midland. The Valmond property consists of 62 claims covering a surface area of about 35 square kilometres. This property is located about 50 kilometres west of the town of Matagami, in Abitibi, Quebec.
Under the terms of this new agreement, Donner may earn 50% of Midland's interest over a period of four (4) years, by fulfilling the following conditions:
Midland will be project operator during the option period. The Valmond property covers, over more than 10 kilometres, an important gold-bearing structure trending NW-SE, which hosts several historical gold occurrences with drill intercepts grading 2.3 g/t Au over 4.57 metres and 5.22 g/t Au over 1.55 metres. This structure has seen very little exploration in the past and the main showing known to date has been traced over more than 300 metres along strike. This gold showing is characterized by an extensive hydrothermal alteration zone more than 70 metres wide, and remains open beyond 200 metres vertical depth, where the deepest drill hole yielded a grade of 3.77 g/t Au over 1.50 metres. In addition, a recent helicopter-borne magnetic survey covering the entire property was used to generate a new detailed structural interpretation and identify several new promising exploration targets.
Over the coming weeks, geophysical work including a ground-based induced polarization survey (50 km) and a helicopter-borne electromagnetic survey (900 km) will be completed to define new drilling targets along the extensions of the main gold occurrences. The property is expected to be drill ready in early 2014.
Maps showing the location of the new option agreement with Donner for the Valmond property may be consulted using the following link: http://www.midlandexploration.com/en/sites/Midland/CustomPage.aspx?Section=0&ResourceId=d77713d0-79fc-4396-9d71-662fe39aa01a
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Donner is an exploration company focused on the development of mineral exploration projects in Quebec.
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So Many Butter Idioms and Expressions!
Have you ever realized how important butter is? Cream cheese may think it is the cat's meow, but to English and American folks, if not Scottish and Irish folks as well, butter is where it's at. To realize this, all you have to do is count the number of expressions and idioms we have concerning butter.
Bread and Butter (Earning Your)
Your 'bread and butter' is your main or only source of income. It's how you pay your rent and basic bills. It's your primary occupation or the main aspects of that job. There was also a time when to butter your bread meant to secure a decent living.
Sometimes, we use the expression bread and butter to mean a dull, tedious, and unrewarding job. A factory worker on an assembly line might say "It's bread and butter work." The main product that your company makes, the one that earns most of the profits, is your bread and butter product. It may also refer to common or everyday things. The expression even found its way into boxing to describe a boxer's main punch or combo: His bread and butter punch is the right hook. Bread and butter, similarly, can be used to describe the main and most important components of anything.
There is an older saying: "Don't quarrel with your bread and butter." It means don't give up the way you earn your living. What we call today a "thank-you note" might once have been called a bread and butter letter, which is a letter written to thank someone for their hospitality. This usage occurred in America around the end of the 1800's.
We already know that bread is one of the most important foods in all of history. And bread has thus found its way into countless expressions, and superstitions. I've already written about the charm bread and butter for good luck.
Know Which Side Your Bread is Buttered On
The buttered side of the bread is the good side. We only butter bread on one side, so one side is always better than the other. To know what side your bread is buttered on then, means to know what is good for you. If you "bite the hand that feeds you" then you do not know what side your bread is buttered on. If you are rude to the people who can help you advance, then likewise, you do not know which side your bread is buttered on. This means we can't have our cake and eat it too, which leads us to the related expression:
Want Your Bread Buttered on Both Sides
If you want your bread buttered on both sides, you want more than a person should reasonably expect to have. So, if you butter your bread on both sides, you are burning the candle at both ends, and may be doing too much, and living too fast, etc. At the same time, the expression might refer to someone who lives in opulent surroundings, or who has a lot of wealth: "He has his bread buttered on both sides," might be said of someone who lives in a palace filled with servants, marble, and expensive furniture.
Butter Someone Up
If a person has their bread buttered on both sides, you might want to butter them up to gain their favor, and hopefully some kind of advantage. To butter someone up is to flatter them excessively. when you are a real kiss-up, you might "lay it on thick." Buttering someone up always has the connotation of being insincere, and done solely in the hopes of getting what you want. When you want to land a big contract, you might have to butter them up to get them to agree. A related Yiddish expression is to schmear, which means either to flatter or to bribe. There's that cream cheese again! Usually, a brown-noser who butters up important people will appear as if:
Butter Wouldn't Melt In His Mouth
This is an old idiom which refers to someone who looks innocent and as if they would never do anything wrong. Butter usually melts in your hand, let alone your mouth, so a person like this always appears calm and in control, and perhaps, self-satisfied, like the cat that ate the canary. This person might look quite gentle and innocent, but looks are deceiving. If you have watched the TV show Cold Justice you've seen people in interrogations about whom we might say, butter wouldn't melt in their mouth.
Of course, we usually don't put butter in our mouths, without first smearing it on something. After all:
Butter to Butter is No Relish
This means exactly what it seems to mean. Butter is something we use to elevate something more basic and substantial. We don't put butter on butter! A much older Scottish version of this saying is butter to butter's nae kitchen. A basic Gaelic version is butter to butter is neither food nor kitchen. This expression seems to have been used to refer to two women dancing together, or kissing each other. Bread to bread was used in the same way.
To call someone butterfingers means they often drop things they are holding or carrying as if their fingers are greasy and objects just slip right out of their hands. We often think of this as a modern expression, but it has actually been around since the 1800's, where it was at first exclusive to cricket and baseball (at least as far as we know). Dickens used the term butterfingers to describe a clumsy cricket player in The Pickwick Papers (1837).
Undoubtedly, there are more butter expressions I have yet to uncover!
If you are interested in exploring more idioms, check out Idioms Online.


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Monday classes haven't been able to catch a break recently. Night classes were cancelled due to inclement weather on Monday, Feb. 15, and the University of New Haven cancelled all classes last Monday, Feb. 8, due to the snow storm.
The first of many notifications from Monday, Feb. 8's storm, was sent out at 2:35 a.m., informing students, faculty, and non-essential staff that the University would have a late start and would be opening at noon. The next notification was sent at 8 a.m., informing the student body that the continuation of night classes were yet to be determined, and finally, a little after 10 a.m., the news was sent that all classes for the remainder of the day would be cancelled.
Students and faculty received notifications and messages in large volumes due to a temporary cellular carrier outage from outside of the University's control, according to Ronald Quagliani, Emergency Management Director.
Quagliani is also in charge of making the call on whether or not to cancel classes due to weather.
"I think it's great that we are notified about what's going on on campus, but it was a bit much," Joyce Lai said, who received eight text messages and one phone call.
Maria Vlahos received eight texts, one phone call, one voicemail and eight emails. Other students were spamming social media with complaints about receiving an abundance of notifications due to this outage.
There is more work being put into the notification system that students rejoice in receiving than meets the eye.
So what's the process like to determine if classes will be canceled? It goes something like this: Quagliani consults with various internal and external partners to review the storm forecast and track the radar, as well as works with State and local officials to determine roadway conditions.
Among the others involved in the process are the UNH campus police, Director of Facilities, area colleges, Provost's Office, Campus Shuttle provider, and the City of West Haven Public Works.
Spring semester means snow, and snow means cancelled classes. By this time last year, there were already three more snow days with classes cancelled or a delayed start.
The most snow that the University has accumulated in one day during 2016 has been 12 inches, on Saturday, Jan. 23.
"Based on the past several years, I don't think we are done yet for this winter," said Quagliani.
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Jon is back to working regularly, and our time management issues continue to go much more smoothly. It's interesting, because Lora and I are seeing much less of Jon now, as he's back to working ten to sixteen hour days three to six days a week. There are a lot of days (like yesterday and today) where I won't actually spend any time with him at all. When he comes home, he kisses me goodnight before he goes to bed. When I get up, I go kiss him good morning while he's still sleeping. And that's the sum of our interactions.
Meanwhile, Lora often spends anywhere from one to four hours with him, depending on exactly what his work hours are. Previously, when we would get to a day when the three of us were free, Jon would be splitting that free day equally between us, because Lora wouldn't remember/acknowledge the days when she and Jon spend time together and I didn't.
Now Jon is keeping an eye on things like that (and he and I are communicating about it clearly and regularly), and when it's happening, he's making sure that some of the days when he and I both have off, he and I are spending more than half the day together, to even that out. I really appreciate it, and I'm feeling more secure in that it's OK to speak up about this, and that I'm being treated fairly and more in line with our time was spent last winter.
Last winter, our schedule went like this: I wouldn't see Jon for two days (when he was staying with Lora), but then the next two days, he stayed with me and we could spend the whole evening together (or on the weekends, we could spend a whole weekend day together – something that nearly never happens once his work starts up, as he usually works at least one weekend day). This past holiday season, I did see him every evening, but it was for half of the evening at most, and those times were regularly interrupted by Lora. Many evenings, I saw him for only an hour or two, because Lora also wanted to spend time with him in the evening (despite spending hours with him during the day), and he also wanted some alone time. So this is what the day looked like (and Jon confirmed this is what was happening):
- Jon would get up around eleven
- Jon would do some puttering around on his own, but spend most of of the day (noon 'til seven-thirty) with Lora
- I would get home around seven-thirty. Jon would want to do an hour of alone time.
- Jon, Lora and I would hang out together from eight-thirty 'til nine.
- Jon and I would hang out together from nine until eleven-ish (with Lora frequently coming by to say hi, or ask Jon a question, or need him for something).
- Jon and Lora would hang out from eleven-ish until 1ish then go to bed (I went to bed around eleven-thirty
Comparing that with last winter, where I spent two days in a row spending time with Jon from when I got home from work around six (I frequently worked later on the nights he was with Lora, so I could come home earlier on the days he spent with me), until I went to bed at eleven-thirty, it's a huge difference.
Now, a typical daily schedule looks more like this (since Jon is working again, I work later on the days he's out working).
- Jon gets up around eleven
- Jon and Lora hang out/do chores/spend time together from noon 'til five
- Jon takes some time for himself from five until around six-thirty (I usually get home around six and do my alone time thing then, or hang out with Lora a bit)
- Jon, Lora and I spend time together from six-thirty 'til seven
- Jon and I spend time together from seven 'til eleven-thirty. Lora is much more aware of giving us time to be alone & doesn't interrupt as much
This feels about a million times better and much more in balance with the way last winter was, time-wise. Most importantly, it feels like I am spending enough time with Jon to feel connected to him and like our relationship is growing and progressing and has the space and time to have fun and have serious conversations. To relax and be silly. To receive and give support.
So, in light of this, I let Jon know that I was feeling a lot better, and while I would love to continue to have as much of his company as I have been having the past few weeks, if there are things that he feels are more squeezed out than he'd like them to be (time with friends, alone time, time for personal projects), I'd be willing to shift some of our time around to accommodate those things. I also mentioned that I knew Lora was still very stressed as she hadn't found a job yet, and if he wanted to spend more time with her, I wouldn't interpret that as taking away time from me that I felt I really needed with him.
Jon said he'll definitely take the alone time/going out with friends things into consideration, but that he doesn't want to take me feeling better for a few weeks as a sign that everything is now totally fine and that the time management problems are solved. He also said that Lora is feeling really sensitive and watching really closely to be sure that we're having about the same about of time with Jon, so suggesting that he spend more time with her would really upset her and stress her out.
That last part concerns me because…I still find it…I don't know the word…disheartening…upsetting…disturbing…that she didn't realize what a huge time imbalance there was before. And because it seems like another indicator that she only had two modes in a lot of things, which are: a) don't notice them at all OR b) be hyper-vigilant at all times.
I agree that all of our time management problems shouldn't be pronounced as "fixed" yet, and that we still should be more vigilant and very aware of how our time is being spent. I hope that in the future, we'll have a more fluid time, where Lora and I both at times feel comfortable enough with the time we have with Jon that we're ok if the amount of time he spends with one of us is slanted for awhile, because that person is having a harder time and feels like they need more time/support from Jon – though with Lora, I'm not sure if that is a state that exists for her, as long as she has to share him with someone else. I know that, for me, there are times when I feel like I've had "enough" time with Jon. Enough means that I feel connected to him and solid in our relationship. It means that we've had time to do all those things I mentioned up-post (like being silly or having serious talks). It means that while I would definitely love to spend more time with him, I'm not going to feel deprived or like our relationship isn't being fed enough if we don't have more time together.
I haven't gotten the sense yet that Lora ever feels like she and Jon have enough time together. Between the times I've outright heard her say she isn't having enough time with him (even when they were spending far more time together than they are now) and the times I've heard her mention something as a concern that means maybe this relationship isn't going to work for her, it seems like there may never be enough for her. I'm not sure if that's something that I should be concerned about, or if it's something that I should leave for them to figure out.
The main reason why that concerns me is that I don't know if things feel better to me, but worse to Lora. As far as I can tell, both from talking to her and from how her moods are lately, it seems like she's in a better place too. If being super-vigilant about time is something that helps ease her OCD (which she has, and is on medication for, this is not conjecture on my side) by giving her something to focus on that is quantifiable and she's…I don't know how to put this. If Lora is always feels like she and Jon doesn't have enough time together, and she doesn't feel exponentially worse now that they're having less time together because I insisted that Jon's time was split more equally between the two of us (the way it was previously) then should I feel guilty or worried about her unhappiness? Should Jon? Or is this something that Lora needs to figure out for herself and decide if it really *is* enough for her to be happy in these relationships, the way they are now?
In the meantime, things have continued to be quieter (in terms of Lora and Jon fighting) are more fair (in terms of time). I have noticed an increase in energy and good feelings inside me. I've been able to go back to doing some hobby things that can also foster energy and good feelings in me. Jon feels happy to be working (and making more money again). Lora is still looking for a job (and a therapist), and I will continue to hope that she finds a good one (for both!) in the next few months. When she had a job last year, having her out of the house more (and making money) did all of us a lot of good. And I know she felt better being able to pay for some things herself, and feel like she was pulling her weight more.
Hopefully, this good streak will continue, as long as we all stay aware and mindful of each other. I will continue to muse upon some of my larger concerns about Lora (like her inability to self-regulate a lot of behaviors) and suss out my feelings on living with someone who needs a lot of guidance and monitoring. I'm still not sure that the three of us living together is the best thing for me long-term, but I feel like I have more breathing room to think about it rationally and without a lot of negative experiences choking me. If nothing else, that will give me the peace of mind to know that I'm making my decisions from a place of strength and extensive thought, instead of a place of extreme stress and a need to get away now, before I become damaged from what's going on.


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the channel might now run deep. Riders who are very familiar with winter riding on the lake can be surprised to find open water where they don't expect it. In fact
but the final shot of the night was launched by Manders
and Kevin Delzell had one. Miller and Eckermann had the squad's pair of three-pointers. On the boards


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Partners from the architectural firm Graft from Berlin, Germany -- which has partners with Brad Pitt in 'Make it Right' in New Orleans, building affordable and environmentally intelligent houses for those affected by Hurricane Katrina -- traveled to Ethiopia recently to meet with Global Health Committee workers to discuss plans for a new children's center in Addis Ababa. The center will be run by the GHC and offer an array of support services to children who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The project follows the model of the CHC's Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Phnom Penh, which opened in 2006. Both centers have been made possible by generous support from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation actor-activists Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (see CHC/GHC press release). The new center will be named after the Jolie-Pitt's Ethiopian daughter, Zahara.
Architects Begin Design Work on Ethiopian Children's Center
Architect Wolfram Putz, CHC/GHC Co-founder Anne Goldfeld, Dr. Ridwan Bushra of drug-resistant TB for the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, architect Lars Kruckeberger, and CHC Executive Director and co-founder Sok Thim in front of the temporary isolation ward at St. Peter's Hospital where GHC and the Ethiopian team are treating the first drug-resistant TB patients


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If it were up to me, I'd have all three of them gelded at the next tin-pot village we come across, especially Mongrel. I'm General; can't I make them geld their animals? Aeia-damned males, sympathetic about their horses'… bits.
Oh look, I'm doing it again. Sorry.
Anyway, mission. Finally we're back on horseback, as Nol's already said. I'm not entirely sure whether the tactic was successful or not. We did root out a number of the smaller bandit groups, but we also lost everything we were carrying at the time bar weapons. Still, we accomplished what we set out to do, and we've since replenished on lost supplies, so I'm going to call it a success and leave it at that. It does mean we won't be able to afford so many nights indoors on the way back through Kazin, since we had the horses stabled for so long, but we'll live. It's all downhill from here, so presumably it'll only get warmer. We hope.
Ashburn and the other mares seem to have welcomed Coconut into the ranks with no fuss. They're all protecting the poor girl from the stallions when we tie them up overnight. What's the appeal of owning a stallion, anyway? Even Dizzy, Gylepi's horse, has his ugly moments, and he's the best behaved of the three of them.
But yes, obviously we have some business to attend to before we can head back to Raykin. We passed them three days ago, so with any luck we'll find them again early tomorrow morning. It had better not be foggy. Rain and sleet I can handle; you can see through rain and sleet. Fog just hangs around, not letting you see more than a few paces in front of you.
Mmm, hail.
I'm sure you've picked up by now that our habitual way of dealing with people with weapons is to sit tight and wait until they come to us, while the archers and blade archers pick off as many as possible before they reach us. This mob, however, we would have to tackle differently, since they were going to run in the opposite direction when they saw us.
This time, the plan was that the archers would shoot the people on horseback, and the rest of us would go for the slower and easier-to-catch-up-with people on foot. The archers seemed to be revelling in the prospect, since that's pretty much what they've been training for out at the cliffs in Ni-Yana. I'd never have a hope of doing that. I couldn't shoot if my life depended on it, especially from the back of a horse going at full pelt. But that's not what I'm here for, so we're okay.
Another difference was that inevitably, some of them were going to get away. There were forty of them, presumably all running into the forest in different directions, so there was no way we'd be able to get every one of them. That means leaving at least one alive, so we could interrogate them and find out where the rest would have gone.
I'm not ashamed to admit that we aim to kill. We're not specialists in deliberately leaving survivors. In the heat of the moment, when your life is on the line, your brain kind of switches off. There's no time for thinking about how to counter the next sword swipe or flying arrow, because by the time you've thought of the best plan of attack or defence, they're already two or three sword swings ahead.
It turns almost entirely to instinct and reflexes, which is something that can't be taught by anyone but yourself. That's why some people who complete army training only end up in Sixth or Seventh Company, while others end up with the Own. Daily training is absolutely vital, otherwise, even if you have potential to get into the Own, there's no way you'll get that first blood draw from the torso that you need from us.
In this kind of situation, our first instinct is to go for the jugular, but this time we had to go for somewhere that would leave them alive but unable to escape. I don't think I've ever had to do that before. Training at the barracks in Ni-Yana we try not to hit each other at all. In Kazin, obviously, the idea is to kill anyone who tries to kill me, but if they run off then so much the better. Even getting into the Own it was a single scratch that did it, which is hardly going to inhibit anyone.
In the end I didn't get to hit anyone. These Kazinians were very good at escaping. They'd disappeared into the trees almost as soon as we appeared, and the forest here is far too thick to run through it on a horse.
The archers shot two each, the blade archers one each, and Melraan, on the fastest horse, was the only swordie to even get a chance. So in all, eleven of the forty fell, and at a glance, it would appear that all eleven of them were well and truly dead. Melraan had somehow managed to kill someone with just the flat of his blade, and everyone else had what looked like a fatal arrow or dagger implanted somewhere on their person.
While Nol and Melraan were arguing over how to not kill someone with the flat of the blade, and the rest of the guys were resting against trees cleaning their blades of mud splatter, I began scanning the wreckage for someone who we could interrogate.
I did manage to find someone, a woman brandishing what could only have been a broken broomstick, and with one of Garuk's arrows in her side. She was pulling off a pretty convincing dead look, but her face was far too tense and in pain for her not to be.
Soon enough she opened her eyes and grinned up at me sheepishly, knowing she was done for. I think it was only Garuk's slackened bow that saved her—only the head of the arrow had gone in, so no vital organs would have been pierced. If Garuk had had his full strength, she would have survived at best for an hour or two, but as it stood it was just a flesh wound. I can't help but notice a sense of irony in that.
"Are you going to kill me now?" Definitely just a flesh wound. Her voice and glare was far too strong for it to be anything fatal.
I shook my head and carefully drew the arrow out of her side. She was obviously trying to show she wasn't in pain, setting her jaw firmly and looking me straight in the eye as I did it. Whoever they are, there's something to admire in that kind of determination.
She pulled herself into a sitting position, cringing in a way that was barely perceptible, and slowly glaring at each of the guys in turn, focusing especially on Inel, Garuk and Ulkar, who she'd met and robbed before. "I'm not telling you where they are."
"Oh, I think you will." Nol, obviously.
"Or what, you'll kill me?" She snorted derisively.
"No." Gylepi this time. "We'll leave you alive, take you with us to Ni-Yana where you can live out your days in the dungeon." There was a hint of realisation in her eyes by this point. Not quite the ignorant Raykinians she'd originally taken us for, apparently.
"And if I give away our hideout, then I go free?" That was obviously a plea. She knew by now what was coming, but was hoping to turn it around. I slowly shook my head at her.
"You help us, we kill you." Gylepi again. "Nice and honourable."
At least you can't call us dishonest.
She mulled this over, weighing up which would be the most honourable way to die—growing old in a Raykinian dungeon, or ratting out her companions to the Raykinian army. Eventually she nodded to herself, confirming her decision.
We tied her hands behind her back, climbed back in the saddle and got her to lead us onward.
How she knew the way I'll never know. We trekked for a good hour through the scrub, with no discernable landmarks, and certainly no path. Just a lot of very dense, low branched trees. We had to dismount a number of times and lead the horses through.
When we did arrive at the camp, it was easy to see why they'd chosen the place, even if it was a fair hike to the road. There was underbrush everywhere, making it impossible to sneak up on them, there was a small stream with fresh water, but not big enough for there to be any substantial settlements along it to interrupt them. There were tents scattered around the area, and the whole place had a look that it had only recently been established—the earth around the fire pit hadn't yet been flattened to hard soil. This group must have been made up of the last remaining smaller groups in the region, rather than just a massive group we'd missed entirely.
We tied our horses to the trees, since they'd just be awkward in this kind of situation, and came forward.
The bandits evidently felt more confident on their home soil. Instead of fleeing as soon as we appeared, they grabbed weapons and hid behind trees. Trees make life awkward for everyone. We need a miniature forest somewhere in or near Ni-Yana so we can practice tree fighting better, figure out how to properly manoeuvre around them. I hate trees. I like being able to see the horizon all around me; trees make me claustrophobic.
From the outset, it was clear what they were trying to do—protect the tent to the rear of the camp, where they undoubtedly kept their hoard. There was no way they'd let that tent get out of eyeshot. If we ran away further than that, so much the better.
That was their vital flaw though. It meant we were able to surround them and slowly close in, and even if they were protected by a tree from one side, they were left completely open on the other.
There was of course the matter of the black horse rider, but he was immediately obvious, since his arrows were tipped with polished steel, instead of the more traditional iron or flint. He was also the first to fire into the trees at us, or more specifically, me. Maybe he figured I was the best of the fifteen of us because I ride a black horse. Whatever the reason, he fired straight at my throat, which is about the hardest point at which to deflect an arrow with a sword. Oh yes, he was definitely their black horseman.
His shot triggered a volley from the other archers around him, in a fan out towards our guys, as well as a volley of four arrows from all sides aimed at his own throat. He managed to dodge two and catch one on his bow, (more out of luck than skill, I'd imagine), but one hit soundly, and that was the end of our greatest threat. We found out later that the one that hit was Gylepi's, who's doubtless not going to shut his mouth about it for months to come.
Once their best fighter had fallen, a noticeable tenseness fell over the bandits, but their leader forced them on with no discernable fear in her voice.
Soon enough, our own archers had eliminated the majority of theirs, so it was safe to move in on them. Deflecting arrows in this kind of a situation is harder than on the road—there were still about twenty archers, they were scattered around so there was no fixed point from where the arrows would be coming, and I couldn't see all the archers anyway—so it would have been silly to give up my position behind the tree until there were no archers left.
After our archers had done their bit it was just a matter of ratting everyone out from behind their trees. Pitchforks, spades and broken broomsticks aren't the most devastating of weapons. Pitchforks and spades have the potential to do damage, and look quite threatening, but they're far too heavy and awkward to be dangerous. Swords are much more difficult to dodge.
When they realised they were beaten, the remaining bandits abandoned their post by the tent and tried running, but that obviously failed. The only survivor was their leader. We questioned her briefly in much the same way as the other woman, but she was adamant that there were no other bandit groups she knew of. She'd gathered up everyone she could find, and unless any had escaped our massacre, then there were none left in southern Silrona.
Which means the practical part of our mission is complete! Finally! After three months, two of them in Kazin, we're essentially finished. True, we won't be back in Raykin for another two or three weeks yet, and it's still another six or seven back to Ni-Yana, but the better part of the mission is over.
Winter Solstice tomorrow, and neither the desert nor any palm leaves are in sight. The Ra-Lin's somewhere off to the east, so we might be able to meet back up with it by tomorrow evening. Not that it really bothers me, but most of the guys in the Own are religious enough to want to do something for the Winter Solstice, so we may as well.
Yes, I'm well aware that finding a way out of this forest is pretty much impossible, but that's what desert magic is for. Everyone else has completely lost their sense of direction and can't tell north from south, but yours truly will save us.
Happy Winter Solstice! That is undoubtedly the coldest Solstice I've ever been involved in. I've never had one outside Raykin, let alone in the kind of country that is the absolute epitome of Winter. Fog, rain, sleet, hail, gale-force winds, the whole bit. I almost expected it to start snowing at some point, but that doesn't usually start for another month or so.
Apologies to the scribe charged with transcribing my bit; I can't actually feel my fingers at present, so you're just going to have to make do. It's so cold.
We made it to the Ra-Lin late in the evening, when the light was really fading. Daylight does last longer the further north you go, but the cloud cover means it never gets half as bright as in Raykin.
The Ra-Lin's so small at this point. If it wasn't so frigid, it would be possible to wade across without the water going up past your waist. Hard to believe the monster it grows into by the time it reaches the ocean.
We had to improvise a bit on the traditions—Lin got pine branches instead of palm fronds thrown into her river, and Aeia got smooth, dripping rocks from the riverbed placed at the base of an equally drippy pine tree, instead of bone-dry desert rocks placed at a bone-dry desert shrine, but we did our best given the circumstances.
I never want to spend another Winter Solstice in Kazin again.
I knew this Winter was colder than normal. It snowed briefly last night. I only know this because I woke up halfway through the night from cold and couldn't get back to sleep. Out of the door flap of my tent I could just see flakes falling in what miniscule moon and starlight was getting through the clouds. It had all gone by morning though.
It's not supposed to start snowing for a month yet. I hate snow. It tries to make you think it's lovely and peaceful, but once it's settled, it turns to ice and slush, so it's just impossible to walk on, horseback or otherwise. I'd hoped we'd be out of Kazin by the time it started snowing, but apparently not.
That's it. We're sleeping at inns at every possible opportunity, and we're going to be riding well into the night. I want to be back in sunlight as soon as possible. A week, how about that? I want to see those white skulls in a week.
If I tell them all a week, we'll be there in nine or ten days. Same principal as for the mission brief. And you wonder how I made General.


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Calexico, CA New Deal Art
New Deal/WPA Art in Calexico, California
Most of the post office works of art were funded under the Treasury Department's Section commissions. Those works that were created using TRAP funds are so indicated. Although the WPA funded the construction of post office buildings, the artwork was not WPA but was usually produced under the Section or TRAP programs.
Calexico, CA Post Office
(building now privately owned)
"Lettuce Workers" – tempera
by George Samerjan (1942)
Photograph taken by Miriam Serra.
Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
by Marlene Park & Gerald E. Markowitz
Thanks to Jimmy Emerson who contributed the photograph.
If you want to see what a certain post office looks like, check out the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) Photo page at: http://www.postmarks.org/photos


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HDACs (histone deacetylases) 1 and 2 are ubiquitous long-lived proteins, which are often found together in three major multiprotein co-repressor complexes: Sin3, NuRD (nucleosome remodelling and deacetylation) and CoREST (co-repressor for element-1-silencing transcription factor). Although there is a burgeoning number of non-histone proteins within the acetylome, these complexes contain multiple DNA/chromatin-recognition motifs, which, in combination with transcription factors, target HDAC1/2 to chromatin. Their physiological roles should therefore be viewed within the framework of chromatin manipulation. Classically, HDACs were thought to be recruited predominantly by transcriptional repressors to facilitate local histone deacetylation and transcriptional repression. More recently, genome-wide assays have mapped HDAC1/2 and their associated proteins to transcriptionally active loci and have provided alternative context-specific functions, whereby their repressive functions are subtly exerted to balance transcriptional activation and repression. With a few significant exceptions (early embryogenesis, brain development), HDAC1 and HDAC2 are functionally redundant. In most mouse knockout studies, deletion of both enzymes is required in order to produce a substantial phenotype. HDAC1/2 activity has been implicated in the development of numerous tissue and cell types, including heart, skin, brain, B-cells and T-cells. A common feature in all HDAC1/2-knockout, -knockdown and small-molecule inhibitor studies is a reduction in cell proliferation. A generic role in cell cycle progression could be exploited in cancer cells, by blocking HDAC1/2 activity with small-molecule inhibitors, making them potentially useful drug targets.
- deacetylase
- gene expression
- histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)
- histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2)
Biochemical Society Annual Symposium No. 80: Biochemical Society Annual Symposium No. 80 held at University of Leeds, U.K., 11–13 December 2012. Organized and Edited by Paul Hurd (Queen Mary, University of London, U.K.), Adele Murrell (Cancer Research UK) and Ian Wood (Leeds, U.K.).
Abbreviations: ChIP, chromatin immunoprecipitation; CoREST, co-repressor for element-1-silencing transcription factor; dKO, double knockout; E, embryonic day; ES, embryonic stem; GATA4, GATA-binding protein 4; HAT, histone acetyltransferase; HDAC, histone deacetylase; HID, HDAC-interaction domain; LSD1, lysine-specific histone demethylase 1; Lys-Ac, ϵ-acetylation of lysine residues; MBD3, methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 3; MTA, metastasis-associated; NF-κB, nuclear factor κB; NuRD, nucleosome remodelling and deacetylation; PNS, peripheral nervous system; SAP, Sin3-associated polypeptide; SDS3, suppressor of defective silencing 3; SMRT, silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid receptors
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The long-awaited Black Belt Oral History Reception was held in Land Hall this Tuesday, Feb. 25. As planned, the oral history website was explained and demonstrated to a full crowd, mostly comprised of elderly interviewees whom the project initially focused on.
The oral history project is an ongoing effort to document the various perspectives and walks of life within the historical Black Belt region. The project aims to use many voices to give the most complete picture of The Black Belt through and beyond the twentieth century.
With the introduction of the website, the Center for the Study of the Black Belt hoped the project will gain new legs and reach a larger group of researchers studying the Southeast.
The project's third and current interviewer Vanessa Ricaurte said, "It was great getting the online archive launched because now it means everyone can enjoy and learn from the interviews–not just me anymore."
Check out the interviews at centerforblackbelt.org.


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The Junior Choir continues to thrive but always welcomes new members from all SCAN villages. The Choir is just beginning work on a musical called 'Rock The Boat' which is the story of Noahs Ark retold in song, so now would be an ideal time to join.
The Choir meets between 6.30-7.00pm every Wednesday in St Laud's Church. Children are welcome from the age of six.
For further details please contact Julie Williams (Tel: 614928) or Viv Risby (Tel: 612483) or just go along any Wednesday and give it a try. The Choir looks forward to seeing you. There is no charge and you even get to wear a loveley waistcoat for performances!
Over the past 6 months Carole Gunn has been jogging round Sherington as many of the residents will have seen. The reason for her sudden interest in the pavements of Sherington is that she has been offered a place to run in this year's London Marathon. This, she believes, is a great honour. The charities she will be running for are Willen Hospice (The Hospice of Our Lady and St John) and The Wishbone Trust.
She asks her fellow residents of Sherington to support her in the London Marathon by sponsoring Willen Hospice. Virginia House Stores has the sponsor form. Could you complete the form and leave your money at the store? If you do see her jogging round the village Carole requests that you give her a wave as she needs all the encouragement she can get. Carole thanks you for your support.
Any parents in the village with children who are 3 years old and over who would like to visit the school with a view to registering should contact 610470 to make an appointment. The school is at present updating the future intake registers and projected numbers, and would be very grateful for your co-operation.
The school currently requires a part-time Caretaker. If you would like to join the staff of this friendly school please apply to The Headteacher, Sherington CE First School, School Lane, Sherington, Bucks MK16 9NF.
Sherington Care is the out-of-school care facility at Sherington First School. It is a service much appreciated and well used.
They urgently need to recruit extra helpers. If you enjoy working with children aged 5 - 11 and would like to earn a little money between 8.30 - 9.00am and 3.10 - 5.30pm on one or more weekdays please contact Sharyn Stein on 618966 or Pauline Stanton-Saringer on 610521 for details.
Annual General Meeting - This will be held in Sherington School on Tuesday 17 March 1998 at 8.00pm. Annual subscriptions may be paid during the evening and new members are warmly invited. Cheese and Wine will be served after the meeting. Newsletters with nomination forms for next year's committee have been sent to all members. These were due to be returned to the present secretary, Pearl Teasdale, by 1 March 1998. Late nomination forms will be accepted before the date of the AGM.
Official Twinning Visit to Sherington - 1st to 4th May - The Association are looking forward to welcoming a party of about 60 adults and children who will be visiting us from Saméon on the first weekend in May. Anyone willing to host a couple, a family or an individual visitor please contact Mike Inskipp. More information about the Twinning Weekend Visit will be available at the AGM on 17 March.
Village Sign - The Sherington signs at the entrance to the village have now been replaced by ones declaring that the village is twinned with Saméon.
If you would like a lily placed in Church in memory of a loved one, please contact Doris Stevens (611233), Ella Field (610560) or Jill Burgess (611163) as soon as possible - in any case by 29 March.
|17 March
|12.30pm onwards
|Lent Lunch - Old Rectory
|Funeral (Ashes)
|Cecilia (Cis) Watts
|14 February
|Funeral (Cremation)
|Bill Chapman
|4 March
The bulk skip will be available in Leys View from 24 March to 26 March.Sherington Mound
The plans for this landscaped area have finally been prepared by Milton Keynes Council and submitted to the Planning Department for approval. The Parish Council has been given a timetable for the work on the mound, which should be completed by the autumn 1998. We are looking forward to the beautifying of the top of Bedford Road. The old BCC site has been an eyesore for far too long.Countryside Watch
An application was made to BT for funding to be used for the Countryside Watch Initiative. BT made a generous award of £500 towards the scheme which will enable two cell-phones to be purchased (for the use of our two Local Village Bobbies - PC Reg Webster and PC Colin Davis - whilst on duty in the local areas) and maintained for the first year. Sherington Parish Council has agreed to act as Trustees during the first year of the scheme's operation in the area. Further fund raising will be necessary and is already being organised by Thames Valley Police. The launching of Countryside Watch will take place during March. Countryside Watch is being sponsored by Land Rover, who are supplying the necessary vehicles.Road Safety
Milton Keynes council is not planning to make any improvements in the near future at Chicheley Roundabout or Cross Albans Hill junction to assist with road safety. MK Cllr Pat Seymour is still anxious to hear of any accidents or near accidents that have occurred recently in these areas.
|10 March
|Village Hall
|Playgroup AGM
|17 March
|Twinning Association AGM
|17 March
|The Old Rectory
|Lent Lunch
|21 March
|The Brew House
|Pate, Punch and Promises - Tickets £6 available now
Please send promises to Jill Burgess, 24 Gun Lane, Tel: 611163
(by kind permission of Mr and Mrs J Fleming)
|22 March
|The Knoll
|Walk - Thumbstick Walkers
|25 March
|Deadine for SCAN copy for April and the first week of May
|10 March
|Mrs G Hetherington
|Carters Barn, Church Road
|17 March
|Lent Lunch
|The Old Rectory
|24 March
|Mrs D Stephens
|1A Church Road
|31 March
|Miss E Field
|4 Park Road
|7 April
|Mrs R Weatherill
|4 Village Close
Thursday 19 March - 'The Night Sky'. Mr Pierre Girard will take the Group to the stars informing and enlightening the members on the way.
Thursday 2 April - Learn how victims of crime are given help and support.
All ladies welcome - the evenings commence at 8 pm and are held in the Village Hall.
1 High Sreet - Erection of field shelter.
5 Park Road - First floor rear extension and two new front dormer windows - 98/00075/MK - Any representations by 25 February 1998.
If you are considering moving to the village, then you may be interested to know that several houses are currently on the market including the following. Details are available from local estate agents, especially those in Newport Pagnell or Olney.
3 bedroomed house in Carters Close, £89,995.
3 bedroomed house in Carters Close, £108,000.
5 bedroomed older property in the High Street, £220,000.
3 bedroomed house in Carters Close, £91,995.
4 bedroomed stone built detached house, £239,500.
4 bedroomed stone built house, £212,000.
4 bedroomed detached house, £199,995.
4 bedroomed chalet bungalow, £189,995.
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Commercial Lending for Land Acquisition and Development
Land Sales With Owner Financing
Sovereign Capital's funding sources offer land financing programs for developers located in the United States. All land developments must be located within the United States to be considered for owner financing programs.
Sovereign Capital offers land financing programs for land developers who use owner financing to market and sell land to end consumers. These developers just sell land. They do not build anything on the land--no houses, apartments, commercial buildings, etc.--they only sell land.
Land developers can use owner financing to sell land they own and currently hold in inventory. These developers subdivide vacant, rural or recreational parcels of land, and then sell lots, tracts, acreage, etc. to individual end consumers.
All kinds of real estate can be sold with owner financing, including; lake lots, mobile home and subdivision lots, golf course property, mountain and coastal property, hunting tracts, ranches, etc.
Owner financing is often the best way to market and sell land to the end consumer.
When an individual wants to purchase a lot, tract of land, mountain acreage, lake property, etc., he often finds that obtaining bank financing for the property is a problem. Since there is no house or building on the property, banks and other traditional financial institutions view the land as a risky loan, and will often lend the borrower only 50% of the purchase price. This means the borrower must come up with the other 50% in cash for a down payment. This unpleasant situation will often kill a potential land sale, forcing the developer to start all over with another prospect, who may also run into the same kind of financing problem.
The good news is that owner financing can often spare the land developer, and the end consumer, the difficulty of dealing with banks and other traditional financing sources.
If a land developer uses the land financing programs offered by Sovereign Capital's funding sources, he can sell land with owner financing with as little as 5% down. Furthur, the developer will retain control of the financing process by closing all sales right in his own office. There will be no need to watch potential land buyers go out the door, never to be seen again because of problems with bank financing.
Credit approvals are made within 24 hours and closings are done quickly. Funding is completed within 48 hours of submission of documentation.
A land developer can use owner financing to sell land with 5% down, and finance 95% of the purchase price. The developer keeps the down payment.
When the loan is funded, there is a 15% reserve withheld (reserve is paid back quarterly based on principal reduction of the loan), and a 1% fee is deducted.
At closing, the developer keeps 86% of the sales price. He then receives a refund of the 15% reserve, which is paid back quarterly. The developer's total return is a full 99% of the sales price of the property.
There is no discounting if new loans are written at the minimum buy rate. No appraisals are necessary, and the funding source will service receivables and handle collections for the developer.
The developer has the benefit of using an easy financing program that will provide him with an ongoing source of land financing for future projects.
Click for examples of selling land with owner financing.
Current rates are prime + 4% + 1% with a floor of 10%.
Terms ave available up to 360 months.
Probably not.
The owner financing offered under the purchase facility program is for people with A or B credit. This program affords such people the opportunity to purchase land with a small down payment.
Loans can be closed quickly in the developer's own sales office without having to deal with banks or other traditional financing sources.
A land developer who sells land with owner financing may be able to keep his receivables instead of sellng them, if he qualifies for a developer credit line.
A developer credit line will allow a developer to hold his land receivables in inventory.
Credit lines are available for $500,000 to $5,000,000 for qualifying developers.
No appraisals are necessary.
A land developer can use more than one land financing source to offer financing to end consumers.
For example, a developer might already use a bank or other traditional financial institution to finance his land sales. However, he can add the owner financing program, and use it for those people who do not qualify for bank financing because of the large down payment requirement.
A development does not have to have paved streets, water, sewer, electricity, etc. to qualify for the owner financing programs.
However, the developer must have ownership of the land, and all property must have been surveyed, cut up into lots and at a minimum must have unpaved roads.
No. The kind of financing used to purchase land for development is not available to new developers.
However, sometimes funding is offered to qualifying, seasoned land developers for the acquisition and development of new land. These approved developers have already established a working relationship with the funding source, by having sold land with owner financing through the Purchase Facility Program.
Acquisition and development funding is offered to qualifying land developers, to help them create an inventory of land receivables that will eventually be sold, or pledged, exclusively to the funding source.
Under the Land Acquisition and Development section, information is given on hard money financing for commercial land development; however, this financing in not available for retail land sales.
Yes. Sovereign Capital's funding sources will consider purchasing portfolios of land receivables, that have been created through the sale of land with owner financing.
Portfolios of deeds of trust, mortgages, land contracts and contracts for deed will be considered for purchase.
Selling entity must have clear title.
A minimum portfolio balance of $750,000 is usually required, with a 5% minimum paid in equity.
No seasoning is required, and no appraisals are necessary.
Land Sales with Owner Financing for Land Developers
Land Developer Owner Financing Land Application
Resources: Financial Links /Glossary


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