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Restoring 'Sister Carrie'
Damn it all, it is fun to see that poor old language, that vehicle for conveying moderated thoughts, having the guts kicked out of it, like a deflated football, over all the fields of the boundless Middle West.
—Ford Madox Ford on Dreiser: Portraits From Life
One day in August 1889 eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber from Columbia City, Wisconsin—"Sister Carrie as she was half affectionately termed by her family"—boarded a train for Chicago that was to take her (and the surprisingly but never dependably gifted newspaper reporter from Terre Haute who had just put her into his first novel) into world literature.
It is almost a century since the twenty-eight-year-old Theodore Dreiser suddenly began that first novel in the Fall of 1899 by writing on a half-sheet of yellow copy paper the words "Sister Carrie." He had never thought of writing fiction until pressed to do so by Arthur Henry, his sometime employer on the Toledo Blade and now his most intimate friend. Henry was himself a fluent, not in the least interesting writer of fiction, but he had great sophistication, was an "emancipated" husband and assertive thinker in the rebellious style favored by end-of-the-century newspapermen. Like Dreiser's future friend and supporter Mencken, Henry provided an instant figure of authority to Dreiser, who was to show awesome force as a social novelist but little personal self-confidence.
Dreiser was to be permanently scarred by the poverty and shiftlessness of his large family, the rigidity of his German Catholic father, and his own lack of formal education. Henry, who would not be remembered now but for his influence on the composition, editing, and publishing of Sister Carrie in 1900, was to exercise that influence in many ways. He prodded Dreiser to write his first short stories when Dreiser wanted to write plays; he cut a good many sentences and paragraphs out of the manuscript of Sister Carrie, largely on the grounds that Dreiser's philosophizing over the fate of his characters was not necessary to the remorseless tread of the novel; he pushed Dreiser to hold Doubleday, Page and Company to its agreement when Frank Doubleday tried to get out of publishing the novel.
Henry may also have been a model to the Dreiser who could never remain interested very long in any one woman—and who never ceased to torment himself about this failing. Dreiser's first wife, Sara Osborne White (also known as "Jug"), was a pretty redheaded schoolteacher from Missouri whom Dreiser had fallen in love with in 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair. The firmness of her principles, once so much in contrast with his "dissolute" sisters (they were models for Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt), was to prove too much for the moody Dreiser. Henry had with great aplomb left his wife for one Anna T. Mallon, who was also to have an effect on the published version of Sister Carrie. She ran a typing agency, and had the manuscript typed up by a succession of her "girls"…
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More than 500 math-savvy teens will showcase their talents and vie for prizes during the seventh annual University of Houston (UH) Mathematics Contest Saturday, Feb. 11. The event is free to participants and open to both middle and high school students.
"We look forward to this contest each year. There are many talented students who come from hundreds of miles away to compete, and we are so thankful for their enthusiasm and their teacher's support," said Jeff Morgan, professor and chair of UH's department of mathematics. "The university sponsors this event and many other STEM outreach activities each year. In addition to allowing us to be a resource to the community, it is a way to showcase the university to hundreds of top-achieving students."
In addition to individual exams given that day in algebra I and II, geometry, pre-calculus, calculus, physics, statistics and calculator usage, there will be a pre-event team project to be turned in at the start of the event and a final lightening round, called Quick-Click Smack Down, to cap off the activities.
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Congratulations to the 2013 Law and Society Association Award Winners!
The awards will be presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
in Boston on Saturday, June 1, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm.
Winner(s) and Basis for Award
Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Award
Donald Black
Donald Black asks fundamental questions about law's authority and efficacy – in its practices of deliberation, legitimation and communication; in the ways these reformulate cultural ideas from wider, non-legal domains; and as ideas that spark new research and reflection. His insights travel readily across disciplines and borders. His publications have been widely recognized, reprinted, and translated – including languages underrepresented in our transnational community of scholars. From his early work on the social organization of law and "the behavior of law" to studies of policing and on-going explorations of ethics, temporality and the idea of justice, Black's sociological imagination has been a vital example and generative resource for law and society scholarship.
Franklin Zimring
Franklin Zimring has made wide-ranging contributions to law and society research through his studies of crime and criminal law's attempts to control it, especially with regard to lethal violence and its instrumentalities; the effects of imprisonment; criminal sentencing; adolescent crime and juvenile justice policy; and capital punishment. In each of his main areas of endeavor, his work has influenced scholarship and U.S. public policy, and continues to do so. His many publications across the fields of law and the social sciences have charted new pathways for other researchers, improving our understandings of crime and the potential for theorizing in criminology. His work has helped advance public policy committed to reducing crime and advancing human rights.
J. Willard Hurst
John Witt
John Witt's Lincoln's Code is a tour de force of legal history. Its sweeping narrative of the origins of the modern law of war carries us from the battlefields of the American Revolution, through Indian Removal, to the carnage of Sherman's march and Gettysburg. At the center of the narrative is a legal code, the set of rules for wartime commissioned by Abraham Lincoln and written by Francis Lieber, that is still the basis for the laws of war. Witt demonstrates the way statesmen, soldiers, and lawyers struggled with the competing aims of humanitarianism and justice, and the way Lieber's code constrained some aspects of inhumanity in battle, yet allowed mass destruction in the name of a just cause. And he shows how slavery shaped the laws of war: the protection of slave property had been seen as a chief humanitarian accomplishment during the Revolution, but during the Civil War, the military imperative of emancipation helped to establish the primacy of justice over humanitarianism in Lieber's code. In doing so, it gave the U.S. Civil War a global significance it otherwise might not have had.
Weaving together deep archival research, compelling biography, incisive legal analysis, and entertaining storytelling, Lincoln's Code is a groundbreaking, original history with enduring significance for our times. John Witt has pushed the boundaries of traditional sociolegal history and given us a new way to think about the history of war, with law at its troubled center. It will endure as a touchstone in the field, both for its nimble navigation of source material and its sheer interpretive force. Lincoln's Code is a model of scholarly work that is both firmly grounded in historical analysis and profoundly relevant to the contemporary world.
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Kenneth Mack
Harvard University
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Harvard University Press
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Michele Landis Dauber
Stanford University
The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State
University Of Chicago Press
Herbert Jacob
Mariana Valverde
Everyday Law on the Streets: City Governance in an Age of Diversity
Toronto prides itself on being "the world's most diverse city," and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the political culture itself. In Everyday Law on the Street, Mariana Valverde brings to light the often unexpected ways that the development and implementation of policies shape everyday urban life.
Drawing on four years spent participating in council hearings and civic association meetings and shadowing housing inspectors and law enforcement officials as they went about their day-to-day work, Valverde reveals a telling transformation between law on the books and law on the streets. She finds, for example, that some of the democratic governing mechanisms generally applauded—public meetings, for instance—actually create disadvantages for marginalized groups, whose members are less likely to attend or articulate their concerns. As a result, both officials and citizens fail to see problems outside the point of view of their own needs and neighborhood.
Taking issue with Jane Jacobs and many others, Valverde ultimately argues that Toronto and other diverse cities must reevaluate their allegiance to strictly local solutions. If urban diversity is to be truly inclusive—of tenants as well as homeowners, and recent immigrants as well as longtime residents—cities must move beyond micro-local planning and embrace a more expansive, citywide approach to planning and regulation.
A beautifully written and ingenious exploration of the day-to-day, on-the-ground enforcement of municipal regulations—and, hence, urban governance—in Toronto. The topics are wide-ranging and include affordable housing and land use issues, the regulation of street-food vendors, and the taxi permit system, among others. It is an excellent empirical study of what law and society scholars call 'law in action' and the various and often unpredictable ways such law veers from the ostensible intentions of those who write the law in the books.
John Hope Franklin
Ada Ferrer
In her article Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic, Ada Ferrer provides an excellent example of how Haitian legal institutions and principles influenced the Atlantic world, including discussions of human rights and emancipation. Specifically, Ferrer presents a case study in the application of the Haitian Republic's Constitution of 1816 to create a safe-haven territory to which slaves and even free blacks could escape or migrate with the expectation of living as free people, and she traces the effect of this law, and more generally the Haitian Revolution, on the slave societies that surrounded Haiti in the Caribbean and Atlantic, and even the effect of these factors in Europe, the United States and South America.
Law and Society
Alexandra Natapoff
In this highly ambitious and beautifully written article, Alexandra Natapoff argues for a paradigm shift in how we think about crime. While misdemeanor convictions are typically dismissed as unimportant, the article persuasively insists that misdemeanants must be a focus of study. Over ten million petty cases are filed every year; the vast majority of U.S. convictions are misdemeanors. Largely informal and deregulated, the processing of misdemeanors generates convictions in bulk, with serious consequences.
Natapoff demonstrates that the felony-centric nature of legal scholarship misapprehends the reality of the American criminal process. In ignoring misdemeanors – the mass of cases at the bottom of the pyramid – legal scholarship actually underestimates the dysfunctionality of the system. Specifically, she argues, the misdemeanor process both corrodes the significance of law and evidence through its practice of punishment without fault, and enables the racialization of crime through generating criminals based upon vulnerability unconstrained by standard evidentiary requirements.
In her insistence that misdemeanors be the focus of socioloegal study, Natapoff opens doors for entirely new avenues of inquiry.
|Honorable Mention
Lynette J. Chua
National University of Singapore
Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements in Authoritarian States: The Case of Gay Collective Action in Singapore, Law and Society Review 46(4): 713-748
Law and Society
David Nelken
Nelken has distinguished himself in several different areas of scholarship and has been an indefatigable promoter of comparative research and of systematic empirical research in scholarly communities where it is underdeveloped. Perhaps his greatest contribution has been to champion the systematic study of legal culture. He has published a number of important methodological articles and books explaining how this elusive concept can be put to good use in sociolegal studies, and to especially good use in comparative research. Some of his most important books in this area include The Politics of Corruption and the Corruption of Politics (1996), Comparing Legal Cultures (1997), Contrasting Criminal Justice (2000), Adapting Leal Cultures (2001, with J. Feest), Exploring Legal Cultures (2007, with F Burisma), A Handbook of Comparative law (with E. Orucu), European Ways of Law (with V. Gessner), and Comparative Criminal Justice (2010).
Stanton Wheeler
Lawrence M. Friedman
Lawrence M. Friedman has served as a beloved mentor to generations of students, colleagues, and scholars in the law and society tradition. Teaching over many years in a law school environment, he has educated and inspired not only his JD students but also undergraduate students and students in other graduate programs and professional schools. Students from outside the United States benefited from the international legal studies programs that Lawrence has helped to sustain. Colleagues near and far regard him as a model of "first-rate citizenship and institution-building for the profession at large."
Lawrence Friedman's mentorship goes well beyond inspiring others by outstanding teaching and brilliant and prolific scholarship. Many nominators wrote movingly of the way in which Lawrence Friedman took deep interest in their personal well-being and professional development. He offered trenchant advice and unflagging support that transformed their lives.
For his outstanding mentorship of law and society scholars, Lawrence Friedman richly deserves the Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award.
Ronald Pipkin
Richard D. "Red" Schwartz
Richard D. ("Red") Schwartz is selected for the Pipkin Prize for his role in founding and institutionalizing the Law and Society Association. A core member of the founders of the Association, Dr. Schwartz helped draft the bylaws, develop a mailing list, and recruit others in the early years. As first editor of the Law & Society Review and second president of LSA, following the late Robert Yegge, Dr. Schwartz recruited major scholars across several disciplines to publish in the Review and obtained critical funding from the Russell Sage Foundation and Northwestern University to support the fledgling association and journal. Later as dean at SUNY-Buffalo and initial director of the Baldy Center, he hosted in 1975 the first national meeting of LSA separate from another disciplinary association's meeting. Dr. Schwartz has continued as an active member of LSA into his retirement, organizing panels to explore core issues in law and society.
Now the Ernest I. White Professor Emeritus at the College of Law of Syracuse University and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, Dr. Schwartz earned his B.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Yale, and went on to teaching, research, and administrative positions at Yale, Northwestern, and Buffalo before Syracuse. While at Northwestern, he headed the Council for Intersocietal Studies and helped to develop the joint J.D.-Ph.D. program in law and social science. Dr. Schwartz is author of many scholarly publications, including Society and the Legal Order, Unobtrusive Measures, Criminal Law: Theory and Process, and the Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law. His current scholarly interests include natural law, administrative law, and the impact of welfare reform.
Benjamin Schonthal
Ruling Religion: Buddhism, Politics and Law in Contemporary Sri Lanka, is an original, important, and sophisticated, contribution to our understanding of post colonial constitution-making, the regulation of religion in the modern state, and the negotiation for legal and religious position in Sri Lanka in particular. Schonthal's use of both archival and ethnographic methods is exemplary and sets a standard of excellence in the interdisciplinary study of the intersection of religion and law today. Schonthal displays an intimate familiarity with the way these issues have played out on the ground in Sri Lanka since independence, while being attentive in an unusual way more broadly and comparatively to the interaction among normative, historical, and social-scientific approaches to these issues.
Carter Greenbaum
"(M)ediation speaks . . . in the language of stories and monies. It has the power to construct narratives, transform and then translate them into money. Something happens - A worker dies; an elderly woman's life savings vanishes; a company can't pay their rent; a man is fired from his job; a bank loses $200 million; police officers break a man's skull. These are the facts. In the end, the litigant leaves the room with money. Yet the number renders invisible the multiple layers of meaning for those who were not present at mediation."
This compelling excerpt from Carter Greenbaum's essay hints at the rich analysis through which he explores the roles of stories, monies, and people in the world of mediation. Greenbaum shows how complicated and disputed stories and conflict resolution are translated in to monetary values. Importantly, monetary awards can express and resolve a particular dispute without necessarily compelling the parties to agree on a single narrative; monetary awards, therefore, are not mere outcomes of the process, but integral parts which serve to facilitate the coexistence of multiple truths and thereby facilitate mediation and resolution.
Graduate Student
Amy Myrick
Facing Your Criminal Record: Expungement and the Collateral Problem of Wrongfully Represented Self
Criminal records are authoritative textual representations of an individual's past encounters with the law that are freighted with important ramifications for ongoing and future interactions with the state, employers, landlords, and others. Myrick follows the stories of citizens who seek expungement of their records and is able to trace the ways in which the system of records depersonalizes identities and obstructs citizen's corrective efforts to assert their self-understandings. Denied access to the institutional processes that create the record, and normally frustrated in their corrective efforts, Myrick concludes that "(t)his 'wrongful representation' is a collateral effect of having a criminal record that impedes the ability of ex-arrestees to manage or repair their relationship with the state that has punished them."
Honorable Mention
The Unintended Consequences of Penal Reform: A Case Study of Penal Transportation in Eighteenth-Century London


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Just recently I got back into LEGO Castles, and have picked up a lot of sets from the new line. This got me thinking, I should rebuild some of the castles and medieval things I had as a kid! Well, I started doing a bit of digging in my old LEGO bins, and found the base plates for 6081 King's Mountain Fortress and 6090 Royal Knight's Castle. As I was seeing way more grey walls than black walls, I figured I'd start with King's Mountain Fortress.
Well, it took me three days of digging in three large bins of LEGO pieces, dating from the mid-to-late 80's and up to a couple early Star Wars sets, but I finally found all but 20 pieces of the castle. Only a couple pieces were structural, mainly the mechanism for the drawbridge, a 1x6x1 arch, and an inverted corner slope. The rest are accessory pieces - Minifig armor, shields, a visor, some flags, and the little black bird at the top. I've put in Bricklink orders for replacements, and I'm just waiting for their arrival now.
Once I had found all these parts though, they were filthy. They've been in a big plastic tub and two cardboard boxes for the last 20 years, in a room with zero climate control, in Florida. I don't even want to start to imagine what some of that dirt was, but I let them soak for a good 12-16 hours or so in soapy water and then used an old soft toothbrush to scrub them clean, rinsed them off, and let them dry.
I'll admit as well, there's a lot of discoloration on many of the parts. That yellow tone we're all used to seeing, and frequently not very evenly spread. In fact, the white horse with the red barding has been wearing that barding for the last 24 years and let me tell you, he has one wicked farmer's tan going on. I know there are ways to treat the pieces to reduce the yellowing, but at the moment, I'm more interested in building the castle than I am in messing with chemicals. So, it will be rebuilt and I'll do my best to hide sharp changes in coloration, but hey, stone is irregular. So for the time being, my castle will be yellowed in many places. I have no idea how the yellowing treatments react with part printing, either, so that worries me.
I don't have any pictures at the moment, but I plan to take some as I rebuild, and of course once the castle is completed. I'm considering starting reconstruction before the bricklink orders come in, but we'll have to see if I get too anxious to start or if patience wins out. My money wouldn't be on patience, however.
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Dell Inc. ( DELL ) is winning number of deals recently and has now won a deal from the United States Navy Medical Logistics Command and the United States Army Integrated Clinical Systems PMO. These U.S. departments will implement Dell's Unified Clinical Archive (UCA) solution.
This particular task order is a part of the Digital Imaging Network Picture Archiving Communications System III (DIN-PACS III) contract. The task order has been given to Brit Systems team, which comprised Dell and Acuo Technologies. The total order is worth $45 million. The contract will let the Army and Navy share Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) images between military bases and branches worldwide. They will be able to access and share medical images for 49 hospitals, with the help of Dell and its partners.
The growth of Electronic Health Records (HER) began with the federal government announcing an incentive for the same in February 2009 whereby, the Obama administration approved the spending of $30 billion in economic stimulus money, which will ultimately help the doctors and hospitals buy the equipment needed to convert medical record-keeping from paper files. Dell is constantly benefiting from this opportunity.
Not only is Dell winning deals at a good pace, but it is also getting repeat orders from its existing customers. Dell is also coming up with other strategies to strengthen its foothold in the market. The company has recently added two new touch screen devices to its flagship series of XPS laptops. The XPS 10 is a Windows tablet, whereas the XPS Duo 12 Ultrabook falls somewhere between a tablet and a laptop.
The two devices have received encouraging reviews for their robust hardware design and good performance. This will help Dell win some big ticket corporate customer and will help the company improve its customer base.
We understand that the shift to the higher-margin enterprise business is critical to Dell's survival and success. For the past few quarters, Dell's financial results have failed to impress investors and we believe that the main reason for the disappointment was the delay in the order renewal process. However, keeping in mind the increasing demand for cloud solutions we are cautiously optimistic about Dell's progress in the future.
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Monday, 29 December 2008
Christmas Round Up
Posted by Lynn at 07:51 2 comments
Friday, 26 December 2008
Decent Proposal
Posted by Lynn at 15:28 9 comments
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Merry Christmas Everyone xx
Posted by Lynn at 14:53 4 comments
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
My Diary Part 2
Tuesday 16th December -
Exhausted today. Had a terrible night sleep. I have an awful cough which kept me awake most of the night so i was walking about in a bit of a daze. I still managed to get out for a while though. I went on my usual walk, taking my mum along too. I felt ok. No anxiety at all ( the other day's anxiety still playing on my mind). The walk went well. Home.. cleaning, laundry etc then cooked dinner for the family. My boyfriend arrived just after dinner and by this time i was dead on my feet. He suggested we go for a drive and i agreed it would be a good idea. As i hadn't gone out driving yesterday i was anxious that this would be like starting the process all over again. Would i make it to the round-a-bout again or would i feel more nervous? Well of course i made it there fine. I think he was ready to push me on further but to be honest i just felt far too tired to be able to take on the challange. At least i got out and have maintained that progress. Home for an early night in bed and Hopefully i will be able to tackle things on with a stronger mind on my next drive. However, i should note, i have had less of the negative thoughts today. Proving that i can have a day off from the driving and still get back out and do it later in the week has helped. I think i was too worried to stop going out driving incase i ended up back to square one, or lost my nerve! It looks like i will be ok.
Wednesday 17th December -
My plan was to really tackle my walking and driving this week and to report lots of progress. My plan has met with a problem. What i dreaded happening has happened. I have the flu. Boo Hoo Poor me!! I was up all night coughing till i felt my head was going to explode. Today my body aches and i barely have the energy to walk to the loo. Looks like i will be at home all day. No walk. No drive. And the worry ... will this have thrown a spanner in the works. Will i be scared to get back out there once this passes. Arrrghh the frustration.
Thursday 18th December -
Spent the whole day in bed. I should be out doing things!! Thankfully i feel far better than i did yesterday. Although i have slept most of today i am confident i will be fit for my walk tomorrow. I also have an appointment with my Occupation Therapist in the afternoon and hope i can go out for a drive with her and be in the same mind set as i had been in the previous week. Fingers crossed.
Friday 19th December -
Today has been the biggest challange. I woke up and immediately felt anxious. Too much time in bed and too much time to think has caused this. From 7am all i could think about was 'i need to go out, i havent been out in 2 days, What if i can't do it again'. I sat and thought about it, and thought about it and thought about it. In the end i was so worked up that i could feel the panic attack getting closer. I ran to my bedroom and got dressed and went out. I knew if i just faced the problem instead of sitting thinkin about it, i would feel much better. It worked. I went out and walked my usual route and felt fine. I enjoyed it actually even though it was freezing and pouring with rain. I ended up back in bed after this. Still not well at all and while suffering from the cold it is probably not a great idea to walk in the rain. But mentally i feel far better.
Saturday 20th December -
Arrrghhh maybe that walk was a bad idea. I. AM. SO. ILL!!! There is no hope of me leaving my bed today. But i can rest easy and not obssess about not getting out again. I also have the added joy of looking after my 3 nephews tonight. I can barley look after myself right now.
Sunday 21st December -
I feel sooo much better! Got up and took 2 of the boys out a walk. We were out for quite a while. On returning home i learned my dad was heading out to do some christmas shopping. I quickly jumped in the car with him and asked him to take me a spin. I havent been in the car since Tuesday so i wanted to prove to myself that i can still do it. We went around the usual route and then for some reason my dad took a wrong turn. Well of course the panic hit me immediately. I shouted that he would need to find somewhere to turn. The panic really does come over me in waves. One minute i felt it rise from my tummy to my head and then it would go down again. I think if i can mentally talk myself through this i will be ok but when taking the wrong turn my head just went 'NO NO NO'. In future i would like it to think ' Ok this isnt where i wanted to be but relax, you can do it, this is a good thing, you are going a new way, its all progress'. I guess i have to work on that. The way he took me is somewhere i do want to do, but obviously it is very different when you are mentally prepared for these things than it is if you are suddenly thrown in against your will.
So today i feel good. Its nice to know that what i feared most has happened but its not been so bad. After getting out and about more i had the fear that i would get ill and all improvements would be a waste, that i would go back to being housebound. How the negative mind works. Instead i DID take ill but i didn't let it hold me back like i may have done in the past. I guess this is a sign of better mental health. Originally i had decided to write diary entries of me trying more and more. To really tackle this and show people it can be done. I still believe if i can do it, anyone can. Obviously it hasn't turned out that way. I hope it hasnt been a boring read. But maybe it can offer some hope to people to see that we can stay positive and although we may face set backs we dont need to let the agoraphobia win. When i felt those old familiar feelings of not wanting to go out i fought it and told myself 'No, i WILL not let this happen again'. I also know that i will face this time and time again and can only pray that i will remain focused and strong.
Now it is just days to christmas and i look forward to it very much. Unfortunately my boyfriend is working from 11am till 11pm on the day! So we will be swapping gifts at midnight on Wednesday instead, then i will spend the day with family. In the New Year i may actually be going out! It is planned that we MIGHT go to a nearby pub/bar where they are having a party for 'Hogmany' as we call it here in Scotland. This would be fantastic and i know it would be the perfect start to the New Year but i will just see how i feel on the day, I wont put pressure on myself. I hope everyone has a fantastic time over the holidays and that Santa brings you all you could ask for. Merry Christmas.
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Saturday, 13 December 2008
My Diary Part 1
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Friday, 12 December 2008
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Thursday, 11 December 2008
Taking on the Safety Zone
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Monday, 1 December 2008
Award Winning & Getting To Know You
I have been friends with a lovely couple named Robert and Marie for many years now. Having met Marie online she told me about a blog which Robert writes telling the story 'My wife has Agoraphobia'.
I have always been a huge fan of his page, as i have forever been curious as to how the partner of an agoraphobic feels. Of course i have spoken to my own partner for his opinion, but i always wondered about those who have gotten married. Does it come to a point where they just accept their partners condition and stay with them anyway out of love? Would someone ever say to me, 'You may never go out, we may never go travelling, but i want to be with you for the rest of my life anyway'? That to me is love! I know that is a huge commitment but i also know i would be truley delighted if someone took me on 'warts and all'. Does the partner of an agoraphobic fully accept them and just get on with things, or do they always hope things get better?
I have also often wondered how i would cope if i had never become agoraphobic and had fallen in love with a guy who was housebound. I can honestly say with my hand on heart that i dont know if i could handle that. Am i incredibly selfish? It is only NOW having experienced it that i feel i could take on that relationship. I remember years ago, a long time before i ever had a panic attack or agoraphobia, i was told about a women who wouldnt leave the house. Unfortunately, my response then was... 'She needs a kick up the arse, tell her to sort herself out'. Well how wrong was i? I think about that statement a lot. You know i think karma may infact exist lol. But i have also said many times that living with agoraphobia, panic attacks or any other kind of 'problem' makes you much more sympathetic and patient.
Ok i digress, i mentioned Robert as he recommended me for a couple of awards. One is the Kreative Blogger and the other is the Lemonade award. I just want to say thank you very much and that i really appreciate it. It is always nice to know that someone takes an interest in my ramblings. Robert's blog can be found at http://mywifehasagoraphobia.blogspot.com/. I would recommend it as it shows the other side of the coin when talking about agoraphobia and just how much it affects the partner. Robert knows i have had nothing but respect for him for years as he looks after Marie, their 2 children, manages several businesses and has now just taken on a new family member, their puppy Blaze! And then you have me who struggles to just go a simple walk day after day. I think he deserves some recognition.
On a recent posting Robert answered the question, 'What are 6 things that make me happy'. I will also attempt this although to be honest it may be dull haha, but i think it may be a nice change to here these things than my views on agoraphobia all the time
- I have recently become very domesticated. I think it happened when i met my new partner and realised i may soon become someones...WIFE!!! Argh scary stuff but time to grow up. This has meant i have been learning to cook. I have always known how to cook but i mean i wanted to try more 'impressive' meals. As well as the cooking i have started to bake. My banana bread is very tasty and so easy to make but it is great fun as i get the kids involved too. My shortbread was like rock and could crack your teeth and my muffins were so burnt that the birds wouldnt even touch them but god loves a trier haha. All in all i am actually pretty good and take great pleasure in seeing people enjoy a meal which i have made.
- Music! I LOVE music and surround myself with it everyday. I like to listen to the radio, usually Radio 1 or 2 and i love to download the latest albums released. At the moment my current favourite is 'Day & Age' by the Killers but i enjoy listening to a very broad range. I can handle anything from Patsy Cline to Britney Spears (they are not my favourites, i do actually have good taste ha). Nothing pleases me more than singing at the top of my voice, even though i am terrible!!! You will often here the words 'Lynn WOULD YOU SHUT UP' being shouted through the house but hey i enjoy it.
- The internet. MSN, Bebo, Myspace, Youtube. Thank God for the internet. The world at your finger tips. My biggest vice is internet shopping, which reminds me i must go buy that lovely dress i just seen :)
- American tv shows. I can get lost in Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, you name it. It is escapism which i enjoy.
- Puzzles! Am i a geek? I dont know and i dont care but i love crosswords, suduko, codebreakers and find them extremly helpful when i am anxious, good distraction.
- Reading. I love to read. Similar to music my taste is very broad. I do enjoy a good autobiography but lately have been reading crime novels. Could be classed as murder mysteries actually. The author is Karin Slaughter and they were recommended to me by a friend but my favourties have to be books by Marian Keyes and Cecelia Ahern as they are light hearted and make me laugh.
I have ranted once again lol.
Seen the homeopathic women today. I do feel the remedy is working. She told me the name of my remedy, i should have written it down. It was Poly something or other but i have another 6 weeks worth. I am still determind and have been out everyday walking further and further. Had a small set back on Saturday where i felt anxious and thought 'Uh oh, here we go again' but thankfully it didnt come to anything and i felt much better the next day. I do have the fear though. The longer it is since i have had a panic the more i worry about handling the next one. Does that make sense? Silly question, i know you will understand that worry only too well!
My Boyfriend and i have made up since the disasterous drive. He knows he was wrong thank goodness. It was his frustration i suppose, but after a long talk i am confident it wont happen again (touch wood). Anyway i shall leave it there for now but will be back soon. Take Care all xx
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The settlement of several civil lawsuits alleging Stanley Marsh 3 paid teenagers for sex won't affect the criminal sex assault case against the eccentric millionaire artist best known for his "Cadillac Ranch" art display along a Texas interstate, a prosecutor says.
Special prosecutor Matt Powell, who is the criminal district attorney for Lubbock County, said he plans to present the criminal case to grand jurors sometime next month. Marsh faces six counts of sexual assault and five counts of sexual performance by a child. The charges involve two boys, ages 15 and 16.
Last weekend, attorneys announced they had settled civil lawsuits accusing Marsh of molesting 10 teens. Terms of the settlement were not released.
"It's not going to affect us at all," Powell said in an interview Thursday. "They don't have any bearing on what I'm going to do."
Marsh's criminal attorneys, who have denied the allegations, declined to comment.
Marsh, 74, is free on $300,000 bond. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison per count and fines of up to $10,000. The charges involve alleged acts from 2010.
Marsh suffered a massive stroke in 2011, and his wife is now his legal guardian.
Powell, who said additional charges against Marsh could be added, said he isn't concerned the settlement could keep the accusers from testifying truthfully.
"That's the reason we have statements from them," he said, adding that statements have been taken from "almost" every alleged victim, not just the two whose accusations are the basis for the charges.
The civil suits alleged Marsh gave the teenage boys cash, alcohol, drugs and cars to perform sex acts with him during secret encounters.
Hours after an arrest warrant was issued in November, Marsh turned himself in to authorities. A statement from his lawyers then noted the accusers had filed civil suits "seeking millions of dollars" and that they had waited to come forward until after Marsh had suffered a stroke.
Amarillo police say they found evidence in Marsh's downtown offices that corroborated "the accounts of sexual exploitation of minors." Police seized computers, couch cushion covers, a photo of a nude male and signed confidentiality agreements, among other things, according to a search warrant inventory report.
It's not the first time Marsh has been accused of sexual misconduct. In 2001, four lawsuits against Marsh that alleged imprisonment, sexual misconduct and harassment of teens were settled. No other details were made public.
In 1998, Marsh pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint and criminal trespassing as part of an agreement that dismissed five felony charges that included kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and indecency with a child. He served 10 days in jail and paid $4,000 in fines.
In 1996, Marsh settled a lawsuit with a youth who claimed Marsh sexually abused him.
Marsh, who uses the Arabic numeral '3' in his legal name, is probably best known for having 10 brightly painted Cadillacs planted nose down along Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle in the 1970s. The cars, ranging from a 1948 club coupe to a 1963 sedan and gathered from junkyards, private collectors and used car lots, have since become a pop art landmark.


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A growing number of people in the United States are seeking medical treatment in unlikely places—overseas hospitals. Traveling internationally for medical care is often referred to as medical tourism. But, it may not be as carefree as your average vacation. If your vacation destination is a hospital rather than a hotel, you have a lot more to consider than your fellow vacationers do.
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Cost is one of the most common reasons for traveling abroad for medical care. This is especially true for cosmetic surgeries, which are not usually covered by health insurance. Even for a surgery that is covered by medical insurance, the overall costs of travel and surgery for places like Thailand or India may be less than you would pay at home.
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If you are being treated in the Unites States, you have legal protection should something go wrong and your doctor can be proved to be at fault. You may not have the same protections in a foreign country.
When seeking medical care overseas, there are even more to think about. Communication with an overseas medical team might be difficult due to language differences. Also, religious or ethical differences might complicate certain issues, like taking extreme measures to save a life or deciding to remove a limb. If you choose an overseas hospital, be sure you know their stance on issues like these.
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As with any medical procedure, it is important to educate yourself about the risks and benefits. Know the risks of traveling for medical care, and weigh them carefully before booking your trip.
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Joint Commission International
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The dangers of plastic surgery tourism. American Society of Plastic Surgeons website. Available at: http://www.plasticsurgery.org/patient-safety/dangers-of-plastic-surgery-tourism.html. Accessed July 19, 2016.
Medical tourism: Getting medical care in another country. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MedicalTourism. Updated June 15, 2016. Accessed July 19, 2016.
Medical tourism: Have insurance card, will travel. National Center for Policy Analysis website. Available at: http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba724. Accessed July 19, 2016.
Statement on medical tourism and surgical tourism. American College of Surgeons website. Available at: https://www.facs.org/about-acs/statements/65-surgical-tourism. Accessed July 19, 2016.
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Please don't kill me!
Tasneem Alam, central publicity secretary of
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition....
, at his Uttara residence in the capital yesterday for possession of anti-government leaflets and booklets.
Police also rounded up 21 female members of Jamaat and its women students' wing Islami Chhatri Sangstha from the latter's office in Moghbazar for their suspected link to subversive activities.
The detainees include Sanowar Jahan, wife of Jamaat's Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah, who is now facing trial on charge of committing crimes against humanity.
Protesting the detention of Tasneem, Rajshahi city unit Jamaat yesterday announced an eight-hour
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
in Rajshahi division for tomorrow.
In an email sent to local journalists, Ataur Rahman, ameer of Rajshahi city unit Jamaat, said they will enforce the shutdown from 6:00am to 2:00pm, reports our Rajshahi correspondent.
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Rajshahi University teacher Shah Hossain Ahmed Mehdi when he was in a meeting with some Jamaat leaders at a house in Rajshahi city. Two Jamaat men were detained at the meeting.
A local court last night sent the teacher to jail after police produced him before it, said SM Moniruzzaman, commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police.
Contacted, officer-in-charge of Uttara Police Station (West) Khandaker Rejaul Hasan said the seized leaflets and booklets are provocative and offensive.
Police were conducting drives in different areas in the capital along with detained Jamaat leader Tasneem Alam, he added.
...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!...
at least 25 people including seven
were maimed
when Jamaat-Shibir men fought pitched battles with law enforcers in Shibganj and Kadamtoli in Sylhet city yesterday afternoon during their processions in support of tomorrow's half-day (6:00am to 2:00pm) hartal in Sylhet division, adds our Sylhet correspondent.
Jamaat announced the shutdown demanding release of its acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman. He was arrested on Thursday at his Dhanmondi residence in the capital in a case filed under the anti-terrorism act. The following day, a Dhaka court placed him on four-day remand.
Regarding the detention of 21 female leaders of Jamaat and Chhatri Sangstha, police said Sanowar Jahan is a central working committee member of Jamaat, while the rest are students of different educational institutions in the city.
Acting on a tip off, law enforcers raided the Chhatri Sangstha office and recovered a huge number of 'Jihadi' books and leaflets, said Shible Noman, assistant commissioner (Ramna) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
In a release yesterday, Jamaat acting ameer Moqbul Ahmed condemned the detention of Tasneem Alam.
A few months ago, Tasneem was arrested on charge of an arson attack on a bus, but he came out of jail on bail.
Shamsunnahar Nizami, secretary of Islami Chhatri Sangstha, in another statement, blasted the government for detaining its female leaders and activists and demanded their immediate release.
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Open-Ocean Aquaculture Would Harm the Gulf of Mexico
Statement of Recirculating Farms Coalition Executive Director, Marianne Cufone
New Orleans, LA, February 8, 2013 – Today, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council – the body that advises the National Marine Fisheries Service on fish and fishing in the Gulf – voted to push forward regulations that would permit industrial fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico. The Council did so in violation of a number of procedural laws, as well as in direct conflict with the members' oath of office to conserve and manage the marine resources of the Gulf of Mexico for the benefit of the nation. Open water fish farming is well documented to be highly problematic for both people and our planet.
The original plan to be implemented by the new regulations was completed back in 2009, and many things have changed substantially from then to today, four years later. Existing operations based in Hawai`i, cited as examples in the plan, are now bankrupt and violated numerous safety laws beforehand. New studies shed light on the major damage that can be done by open water aquaculture, and we know well that dilution is not the solution to pollution. The plan does not even comply with the National Aquaculture Policy – guidelines finalized in 2011 by the National Marine Service itself.
Organizations representing more than 3 million people nationwide submitted a letter in opposition to allowing fish farming in the Gulf. Additionally, local fishermen came to the meeting and testified how horribly damaging fish farming would be in the already stressed Gulf, still recovering from various major hurricanes and the BP oil spill. These were ignored.
All of the discussion regarding the regulations was put forward by the Fisheries Service – both the regional administrator for the southeast region and the agency attorney – persuading the Council to move forward.
The entire process has been an expensive farce, funded by precious public dollars, for the Fisheries Service to push forward their long-time agenda of developing ocean aquaculture around the U.S. Because the agency has been unable to persuade Congress to pass national legislation due to overwhelming public opposition, the Fisheries Service now has turned to the regional fishery management process, because it is far less public and easier to manipulate. This is problematic under existing law, as the Fisheries Service has no express authority over aquaculture. It is clear that the agency is tired of dealing with wild fisheries, and prefers instead to promote artificial production of seafood in the ocean, where it can overtake fishing.
If the regulations become final, between 5 and 20 new farms, that could raise up to 64 million pounds of fish annually, will compete with both recreational and commercial fishermen for space, lower the value of fishing quotas, and pollute the Gulf; all completely unnecessary harms as there are other more ecologically and economically sustainable methods of fish farming.
The Recirculating Farms Coalition came into being in opposition to dirty and dangerous open water fish farming. We promote sustainable aquaculture on land, in recirculating water systems. These farms can be all the things open water fish farming is not – they can be energy and water efficient, need not rely on public dollars or conflict with other uses for space, they can recycle waste and do not use natural waters for draining or sourcing.
If the Council and Fisheries Service want to support aquaculture – they should support the kind that will not, by its very nature, compete with local fishermen or harm the environment. They should promote the kind that is innovative and clean. Sadly, that is not what was voted for today.
The Recirculating Farms Coalition is a collaborative group of farmers, educators, non-profit organizations and many others committed to building local sources of healthy, accessible food, through eco-efficient farms using clean, recycled water. We believe these recirculating farms can create stable green jobs and supply sustainably grown food — fruits, vegetables, herbs and humanely-raised seafood — in diverse communities nationwide, and someday, worldwide. The Recirculating Farms Coalition is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Media contact: Marianne Cufone — 813-785-8386 or [email protected]


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Now Streaming on WTTW Prime
Since 2014 "Articulate" has been producing content aimed at how artworks and artists transform the way we see and understand the world. The show, alongside Jim Cotter, profiles innovative classical and contemporary artists and reveals telling elements about the artists career, work, and process. The show also features aritsts who have a history with Chicago, like Nina Chanel Abney, who also has a show opening at the Cultural Center next week. You can browse the back catalog at WTTW's webiste and learn more about the show at Articulate's website.


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We have selected Plum to supply our range of swing sets to suit different age ranges, levels of activity and sizes of garden. All our wooden swing sets are fun and encourage outdoor play and exercise. Let your young kids run off all their energy as well as improve physical development by increasing co-ordination, balance and strength.
These swing sets use premium FSC certified round pole pressure treated timber and are extremely strong and sturdy. The natural qualities of the timber will blend into any garden design whether modern or traditional. All our swing sets go through stringent quality testing so you can have peace of mind that your swing set is built to last, with safety standards at the centre of its design.
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- The swings use soft feel ropes and heavy duty blow moulded seats for extra strength
- The frame is highly robust using 100mm diameter top bar and 80mm diameter legs
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Plum trampolines come with their unique 3G® trampoline enclosure which is designed to seal the gap between the trampoline and the enclosure; separating the user from the springs. This ensures safety whilst maximizing space. Their enclosure designs are also varied and interesting. While the base trampolines are the same across the ranges, the different enclosures offer the buyer aesthetic choice. The Magnitude gives the illusion of space as it bows outward, the Space Zone offers elegance and tradition as its net drapes between the top of the enclosure to where it meets the trampoline base and the Whirlwind with its funky swirl of bright foams appeals to everyone's sense of fun.
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Elegance has no price, but you can save up to 50% until August 31! Stand out with new Dining and Office Furniture Pieces from #OurHomePH with this amazing offer! Visit Our Home at the Third Level. 💯
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SM Lanang Premier, the second SM mall in Davao City and the first premier mall in Mindanao, is the region's largest shopping complex and lifestyle hub and key convention destination. With over 85,000 sqm of leasable area, it takes the shopping experience to a whole new level with its modern structure, trailblazing design, upscale retail mix, diverse dining options, larger than life entertainment and attractions, and world-class convention facilities.
SM Lanang Premier opened its doors to the public on September 28, 2012. It is the 46th mall of the SM Supermalls and the 4th SM mall in Mindanao.
The design of SM Lanang Premier is very distinctive, a landmark in metropolitan Davao. Inspired by Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper-folding, SM Lanang Premier boasts of a folded building design concept made up of intricate folds but form a simple
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Another Strikeforce fighter has found his way over to the UFC, and Patrick Cote has his new opponent for UFC 158.
Bobby Voelker (24-8 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will meet Cote (18-8 MMA, 5-8 UFC) in March when the UFC returns to Montreal. Promotion officials on Friday announced the new fight booking. It will be Voelker's first fight in 20 months, as well as Cote's debut at welterweight.
UFC 158 is set for March 16 at Montreal's Bell Centre. The card is headlined by the welterweight title defense of Georges St-Pierre against Nick Diaz and also features a rematch between Rory MacDonald and Carlos Condit, the only fighter to beat him, and bout between welterweight title contender Johny Hendricks and Jake Ellenberger.
Voelker will enter the bout on a three-fight win streak that includes a pair of second-round TKOs of Roger Bowling in Strikeforce. In the pair's first fight in May 2010, Bowling won a technical decision after an accidental eye poke. The two rematched in October 2010, but that time Voelker came out on top. Strikeforce ordered up the trilogy fight for July 2011, and again Voelker won by TKO to improve to 4-1 in Strikeforce.
But the Kansas City-based fighter been on the sidelines since then. Now, with the announcement that Strikeforce's Jan. 12 show will be its last on Showtime, and presumably last show, period, he becomes the latest fighter from the promotion to migrate to the UFC.
Cote was expected to rematch Alessio Sakara at UFC 158, a rematch from their fight just this past month at UFC 154, also in Montreal. In that fight, which lasted just 86 seconds, Cote rocked Sakara, then had the tables turned and was finished by him. But Sakara eventually was disqualified for strikes to the back of Cote's head.
The rematch was ordered up, but Sakara had to pull out of the fight earlier this week, citing kidney issues and doctor's orders, just two days after it was announced. With Cote's drop to 170 pounds, another fight later with Sakara appears unlikely.
Cote announced his drop to welterweight earlier this week on Twitter, stating: "After a year of thinking and good talk with my coaches and [nutritionist, it's] time. My next fight will be at 170. Thanks for the support."
Cote returned to the UFC this past July, but lost a unanimous decision to Cung Le at UFC 148. The win over Sakara, albeit by DQ, was his first victory in the promotion since a July 2008 split decision win over Ricardo Almeida at UFC 86.
At the time, that made him 4-4 in the UFC with four straight wins in the promotion after starting 0-4 in three separate stints, including a runner-up finish at middleweight on Season 4 of "The Ultimate Fighter." After that loss to Travis Lutter, he rattled off five straight wins, and four in the UFC, to get a middleweight title shot against Anderson Silva.
But in that title bout at UFC 90, Cote blew his knee out in the third round, giving him a TKO loss. He returned 18 months later and lost to Alan Belcher in Montreal at UFC 113. And a loss to Tom Lawlor at UFC 121 sent him back outside the organization again.
Four wins in a year's time got him back, but the loss to Le gave him another four-fight skid in the promotion. The DQ win over Sakara likely saved his job in the octagon, and now he'll be looking for a win that comes without an asterisk next to it.
For more on UFC 158, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is a conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
This waitress was a female Muggle employee at Treats Café,[2] a café in Surbiton Station in 1996. She flirted with Harry Potter during the summer of 1996 and almost came close to discovering the wizarding world.[1]
She flirted with Harry Potter in Treats Café, at Surbiton Station, at some point in the summer of 1996. Harry was a regular at the café in which she worked as he found taking trains kept his mind off things and would often spend nights there. She almost became aware of the existence of the Wizarding world when Harry allowed her to see a copy of the Daily Prophet with moving images, but she brushed off her suspicions due to working late.[1]
Behind the scenes
- The waitress was portrayed by Elarica Gallacher in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- The waitress was not in the book, nor was the entire scene at Treats Café.
- She was also included in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 although the restaraunt Treats does not appear, she appears sitting by Harry putting lipstick on her lips. She is a playable character only in the consoles versions.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (First appearance)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
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- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- ↑ The café is named on the Half-Blood Prince script released on the Warner Bros. Awards website


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Chasing Ghosts (CD)
Alternative Press named The Amity Affliction "A Band To Watch in 2012" earlier this year and the band has lived up to the accolade on their new album Chasing Ghosts.
From the first notes of the opening title track it's clear that the band has created an urgent and intense album. The album serves as an inspiring message of hope despite its sometimes serious and dark subject matter. Fans expect nothing less from the band who stormed through their native Australia selling out huge venues in support of their top 10 album Youngbloods. The band has now set their sights on the US and beyond.
Track Listing
1. Chasing Ghosts
2. Life Underground
3. R.I.P Bon
4. Open Letter
5. Greens Avenue
6. I Heart HC
7. Flowerbomb
8. Pabst Blue Ribbon on Ice
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Tracking Nature!
The LWL-Museum of Natural History runs a field office right along the borders of the nature reserve "Heiliges Meer" that was founded in 1930. Here classes are offered the whole year round for all natural science enthusiasts. Participants explore the reserve, use the classrooms, and stay overnight and eat on location. A laboratory is equipped to do simple water analysis and biological tests.
Experience nature. The nature reserve is the home of over 1,140 kinds of bugs species, 240 kinds of spiders and 190 different kinds of birds.
The specific geological base of this area has lead to the development of numerous sinkhole lakes. The natural conditions are therefore favorable for various course topics and scientific tests. On about 100ha the nature reserve gives the opportunity to observe natural ecosystems such as lakes, ponds, woods as well as elements of historical cultural landscapes, for example heaths and damp grasslands.
The field office "Heiliges Meer" is a member of the network of Biological Stations in Germany www.netzbiol.de
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LWL-Museum of Natural History
Westphalian State Museum and Planetarium
Field Office Heiliges Meer
Bergstr. 1 | D-49509 Recke
Phone +49.5453.99660