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Pick up any newspaper and thumb through the classified ad section in search of a job related to your interests, skills, and experience. Chances are you will identify several interesting jobs, but few of them will relate to your skills and experience. Believing that most job vacancies are found in the newspapers, thousands of job seekers explore the classified ads each day and often respond to ads with a resume, letter, or phone call.
Unfortunately, two things happen at this stage:
Your chances of getting a job by responding to classified ads are not very good - at best, a 5-percent chance of getting a positive or negative response from an employer! However, many job seekers spend most of their job search time on this single, ineffective job search method. When they donĺt get a response, they conclude there are no jobs available for them at present.
Hereĺs the truth about classified job ads:
If you see a job that seems to be a perfect fit, you can increase your odds of getting a job interview by doing the following:
SOURCE: Adapted from Ron and Caryl Krannich, Ph.Ds, The Ex-Offender's Job Hunting Guide (Manassas Park, VA: Impact Publications). Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.


text: Believed to be about two and a half centuries old, Faizabad, lying 7 km from the town of Ayodhya was founded by Saadat Khan – the second Nawab of Awadh. Shuja-ud-Daula, his successor made it the capital city. The Nawabs graced Faizabad with several beautiful buildings, notable among them being the Gulab Bari, Moti Mahal and the tomb of Bahu Begum. These buildings are particularly intresting for their assimilative architectural styles. The Guptar Ghat here is said to be the site where Lord Rama took Jal Samadhi.

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Scientific research tells us
that listening to a certain style of music enhances us, spirit,
soul and body.
We call this "Preferred Music."
Listening to music…
• Gives the will to live to tiny premature babies.
• Reduces pain and actually decreases the need for medication
in surgery patients.
• Affects our endorphin levels, creating a runner's
high without the workout!
• Listening to this type of music slows down and equalizes
brain waves.
• Listening to "preferred music" shifts the brain
from beta waves toward alpha waves, enhancing alertness and giving
a sense of well-being.
• When a person listens to "preferred music" his/her
heart slows down to match the speed of the music...
• A slower heartbeat creates less physical tension and stress,
calms the mind and helps the body heal itself.
• The repeated musical rhythms in this style of music, stimulate
the release of endorphins and reduce blood levels of certain hormones
associated with stress.
• Listening to this style of preferred music thirty minutes
a day gives lift to your emotions equal to that of taking one valium.
• Listening to "preferred music" can drop levels
of cortisol up to 25% improving the immune response.
• Listening to "preferred music" for 15 minutes
daily could increase levels of IL-1 in the blood helping to protect
cells from AIDS, cancer and other diseases.
• Listening to "preferred music" can alter one's
breathing patterns and state of consciousness, harmonizing right
and left sides of the brain.
• Listening to "preferred music"
will reduce muscle tension and relax children with severe physical
and mental disabilities.
Listening to Music Enhances Our Learning
When 'preferred music' is playing while
studying academic subjects, the retention and recall is greater…
thus the student gets higher grades.
• Memorize
• Spell
• Learn poetry
• Speak foreign languages
Language, spatial and mathematics skills were accelerated
in preschool children exposed to Mozart's classical music.
The research is so strong, that many state supported day care centres
in America require Mozart's classical music every day.
At Perfect Praise, Inc. we are working with interested
teachers to enhance classroom learning by listening to 'preferred
All the benefits we have introduced to this point
have to do with listening to music…
But there is more!
Singing Aids In Learning!
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Stadiums/Arenas visited:
Amway Arena (Orlando Magic)
Amway Center (Orlando Magic)
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs)
Brighthouse Networks Stadium (University of Central Florida)
Daytona Speedway
Florida Citrus Bowl
Venues I'd Like to Visit:
The new Marlins Stadium (opening next year)
Soldier Field (Chicago Cubs)
Fenway Park (Boston Redsox)
The New Yankees Stadium (New York Yankees)
Old Trafford (Machester United F.C.)
AT&T Park (S.F. Giants)
Just about any NFL stadium
Favorite Venue:
Toss up between Amway Center, Wrigley Field, and Raymond James
Favorite Experience:
I just started actually visiting professional (and collegiate) sports in person when I started college and could somewhat afford it. Growing up in Niceville Florida did not exactly offer any real live event opportunities. The first professional sporting event I ever went to was an Orlando Magic playoff game in April of 2009. The ticket was a birthday present to see the Magic take on the 76ers, on their way to the NBA Finals. Although that experience was great, it is not my favorite. It is hard to argue against the technological awe that the new Amway Center creates yet working there never really gave me the true "experience" of the arena. Raymond James Stadium's pirate ship is also hard to contend with. If you have never heard the cannons fire as Tampa scores, you're missing out on a great NFL tradition. My favorite experience however would have to be visiting the classic Wrigley Field for a daytime Cubs game versus the Braves. This was the second live professional sporting event I ever attended and first I paid for. There is nothing more relaxing than having an Old Style while sitting in the Chicago sun watching the manual scoreboard change for a Cubs home run. Although I grew up a Marlins fan (and still somehow I remain a Marlins fan) a little bit of me took in the Cubs as a sort of step child. To me that is a day I will always remember and cherish. Attending live events is something I have always wanted to make apart of my regular basis and something I am only recently being able to accomplish. With limited experiences in a growing hobby as well as the opportunities the DeVos program is creating for me with a career in sports, I hope to add to these experiences in the near future.
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Marti Beller, Brian Marks and Geoff Weathersby met each other over the past two years as founders of independent startups in Richmond. While different in their approach, these three entrepreneurs had one common thread, a focus on benefiting nonprofits and empowering donors. Marti is the co-founder and CEO of Plan G, focusing on helping individuals and businesses manage and grow their giving to nonprofits more effectively. Brian created Bonfire Funds, an innovative crowdfunding platform that helps nonprofit supporters raise money by selling t-shirts. And Geoff co-founded InLieu which is a platform designed to utilize crowdfunding to help fund scholarships and charitable endowments.
These three, who have come from very different lives, have earned quite a bit of recognition for their work as well. After leaving her post as President of Affinion Loyalty group, Marti has been recognized as a CIT GAP 50 award winner, 2012 RVA Companies to Watch, and recently named Virginia Business magazine's Top 30 People on the Move in Virginia. Brian and Bonfire Funds, who recently secured a round of funding and is focusing on sustainability, won the "Crowd Favorite" award at the 2012 i.e. Startup Competition. Lastly, the recent University of Richmond graduates Geoff and his co-founder Kailey Raymond not only won the University of Richmond Pitch Competition, but also walked away with the grand prize at the i.e. Startup Competition and were recognized as finalists in the CIT GAP 50.
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Coty's purpose is to celebrate and liberate the diversity of our consumers' beauty. Aligned to this is our mission – to strive over time to become the global industry leader by being the clear challenger in beauty, delighting consumers and creating long term shareholder value.
We are one of the world's largest beauty companies with approximately $9 billion in revenue, and our strong entrepreneurial heritage has created an iconic portfolio of leading beauty brands.
As the global leader in fragrance, a strong number two in professional salon hair color & styling, and number three in color cosmetics, we operate across three divisions:
• Coty Consumer Beauty: focused on color cosmetics, retail hair coloring and styling products, body care and mass fragrances sold primarily in the mass retail channels with brands such as COVERGIRL, Max Factor and Rimmel
• Coty Luxury: focused on prestige fragrances and skincare with brands such as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Hugo Boss, Gucci and philosophy
• Coty Professional Beauty: focused on servicing salon owners and professionals in both hair and nail with brands such as Wella Professionals, Sebastian Professional, OPI and ghd
Coty is a truly global player with over 20,000 employees, operations in more than 40 countries in Asia, Latin America, Australia, Middle East and Africa, as well as Europe and North America and products sold in over 130 countries and territories. Our headquarters are in London, New York, Geneva and Paris.
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For additional information about Coty Inc., please visit www.coty.com.
At Coty, we embrace Diversity. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability.
Creative, open-minded personality, "can do" attitude, flexible, ability to share concentration among several projects, effectively able to communicate her/his view, ability to learn quickly and adapt to new environment/situations, ability to work on her own, ability of decision making;
Honest, ambitious at a "healthy level", willingness to develop herself/himself, good team-player, high stress tolerance level, loyalty, ability of being committed to the company she/he is working for, ability for self-criticism
Takes responsibility for the quality and punctuality of the delivered work
cooperates constructively within customer marketing, other departments and other companies
University degree preferably in the area of economic studies
Excellent analytical skills
High commitment, drive for results, can do attitude, good negotiation skills
Proficiency in Excel and Power Point
Good level of English language
Driving license
Experience in a marketing agency is considered an advantage
Tasks to be covered:
- responsibility for projects communication among functional departments of the company involved (sales, logistic, finance and management)
- communication of the sales priorities and planned global launches and promotions on a monthly basis – in a formal message who will be send on 1st day of the month
- project description, product allocation, commercial terms (discount and payment), POSM line-up and allocation, implementation deadlines
- initiative description in terms of relevant information regarding new product attributes and benefits for end consumer
- projects evaluation, market situation, competitor's monitoring, COTY leaflets vs. competitors
distribution reports (Coty and competition)
- report competitive prices
- communication with the transporter for furniture and posm's deliveries
Preparation and coordination of launch and promotional activities
- responsibility the development of launches & promo plan and in-store activities
- responsibility for samples hand over in time (7 days before launch) of all new products to all Kacc managers/Area Managers/ Dealers
- production of monthly updates / inserts for color customised furniture & secondary placements for all retailers (NEO, BERGERIE and other special projects)
- responsibility for all channel allocations of all POSM materials/ furniture/ update inserts
- Xmas program – propose products combination/ forecasting /way of packing/solutions for market exposure/logistic file information/ presentation for the sales team
- prepare project cards with load ups for all secondary placements & furniture for the launch & promo articles
launch & promo centralized file for each month to be sent to sales team (all the articles that are launched + promo discounts + promo period + codes for the promo articles)
- update POSM launches file for at least six months before – check production and allocate them with launches and promotional activities
- prepare listing file with all the logistic info for sales team (irc, ean, logistic info, final prices)
- monthly evaluation of promotional activities ( promo efficiency ) within 2 weeks from the end of the project
sell-in, distribution, POSM implementation, sell through – planned vs. achieved
- weekly readiness status of current month activities in the last week day
- projects started and on-going
- availability of stock and POSM for the projects planned in current month
- aggregate volumes for Sales Forecast; the cumulation of figures from the all chanell has to be presented to Trade Marketing Manager & Brand Manager& Planner & Logistic Manager for final approval before introduction in forecasting file
- analyze Xmas program performance: sell in vs. allocation / channel, sell out, best sellers, lowest performing sets.
- project cards for all the local / dedicated promotions, upload in Lotus
- Sales deals management – based on information received from sales / according to national promotions
- product database and sales order management ('article status') – launches & discontinuation, IRC codes (NAR), prices, availability dates
- keep track of POSM activity
temporary POSM implementation statuspermanent POSM monthly check
warehouse POSM stock analysis, reparation, re-allocation or liquidation (based on marketing feedback)
preparing POP's for Dealers / Bulgaria / Online channel
PR / PO and inbound delivery for any POSM/furniture produced
- New article request for prepacks DD & TT in LOTUS
- Testers and discontinued items file preparation
Meeting attendance
- be monthly operative SMAL meeting
- active participation at strategic meetings
- other meeting participation based on needs (task force, update, forecast, etc)
Special TMKTG projects
- preparation, coordination and participation in person at special TMKTG projects – f.ex. installation special promo stands, installation of new product separators, production and installation of special POS materials, extraordinary shelf rebuilding at KACC customers, production and installation of tester holders;
- preparation of POS materials and furniture, price tags, visuals, posters, banners, menu leaflets etc.
- special actions customised for customers/brands (utilisation of local opportunities, harmonisation with marketing support), collaboration with KAM and marketing team
- push for new ideas and approaches during strategic meeting participation
- make planograms for new openings based on the requirements received from KAM, all customized furniture for new openings & refurbished stores, monthly up-date of them for each color brand
- amend planograms for selected shops based on the requirements received from KAM
- new planograms for top independent doors
Field supervision
- evaluation of promo activities execution, monthly storecheck


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Rare Interesting and Unusual Facts about TN CM Jayalalitha
By admin on October 4, 2016
Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalitha is a well-known face to one and all. She has marked her footprints on the sand of time in Tamil Nadu politics. She has grown into a powerful person who has a great influence not just on the state politics but also on nationwide politics. The people who worship her are no less than a sea, but there are many interesting and usual facts about her that most of the people are not aware of. Take a look!
- Jayalalitha was born on 24th February, 1948 to Jayakumar and Vedavalli in Karnataka, Mysore. Her original name is Komavalli, which was later changed to Jayalalitha.
- She has studied her high school in Bishop Cotton Girls School in Bengaluru and matriculation from Sacred Heart School. She stood as the state ranker at that time in her studies.
- Though she received scholarship for her merit, by then she already stepped into movies. She got trained in various classical dance forms and music.
- In 1991, she made her first appearance in a Kannada movie titled 'Srisaila Mahatya' as Parvathi.
- She debuted as a heroine at the age of 15 in 1964 with the movie Chinnada Gombe and received a remuneration of Rs.3000.
- In 1966 she has appeared in 11 movies altogether in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages.
- She was paired opposite MGR in 28 movies. Out of 125 movies she has done, 119 movies turned out as box office hits. Her last film is Nayakudu Vinayakudu that hit the screens in 1980.
- She has debuted into politics in 1982 and jointed AIDMK party. Her speech with the name pennin perumai has attracted crowds.
- She is very much fluent in English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages.
- In 1989, she became the first women opposition leader.
- In 1991, she was crowned as Chief Minister of Tamil Nad.
- She has introduced many schemes for poor, underprivileged and women.
- She faced many allegations all throughout her life and was arrested in 2014 by Bangalore special court and was fined 100 crores and along with an imprisonment for four years.
- She came out clean in 2015 and participated in 2016 politics and won back her seat with huge majority.
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Metro Group Inc. selects Vision Data Total Advertising system and VisionWeb Suite, after extensive search.
November 10, 2009 - CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK– Bernard Bradpiece, President of Metro Group Inc., today announced the purchase of their new Vision Total Advertising display and classified advertising sales and sales management systems from Vision Data of Rensselaer, NY for their group of nearly 30 publications in the suburban Buffalo (NY) area.
The Metro Group Inc. will be installing a new 40-user Vision Total Advertising system – a complete integrated advertising sales and billing system that runs on a compliant relational database. Ad orders for display or classified ads will be entered into the system, which generates sales data, calculates commissions, creates layout instructions, interfaces directly with pagination, and produces the industry's most flexible and comprehensive reporting. The system will also automatically fax or email items like invoices, customer notices, sales pieces, and proofs of classified ads. The system's single rating engine will handle all rates for both print and web, including complex cross-selling and package rates.
According to Metro Group Inc.'s President Bernard Bradpiece, "We chose Vision Data over other vendors for many reasons, but foremost among them was the fact that Vision Data had a much better understanding of rating and our very complex rate structure. We are confident that the Vision Total Advertising system and the programmers at Vision Data are fully capable of creating a rating system that accurately and invisibly handles our rates in a simple user-friendly manner."
The VisionWeb Home Order Entry module features a customer-friendly on-line screen that allows an individual to place print or web ads, using photos (multi photos for web ads), borders, attention-getters in addition to text. The Metro Group Inc. will have the option to offer a menu of packages, designed to maximize ad effectiveness. Transient customers can pay for their ad via a secure credit card connection. Business or commercial customers can establish a log-in and password to place ads which automatically default, pricing-wise.
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The first room that we were given at Goldan Parks Inn resembled a mini-jungle. If we had looked hard, I am sure that we would have found an as yet unknown reptilian species. There was no hot-water, the room stunk, and the hotel staff told us that maintenance works were being carried out. Shruthi – the angry young woman – took her temper out on the receptionist. The result: we were moved into a deluxe room. No smell, but still no hot-water. More yellings followed and resulted in some hot-water; finally. I don't know how we survived in that room for three days.
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We currently have several natural gardens growing food in the greater Westchster area.
The New King Street Garden was established on commercial land in North Castle in fall 2008. All food produced there so far has been donated to the Carver Center in Port Chester. In the fall of 2011, Rye Country Day School connected with the New King Street garden for their Public Purpose Mission. The 8th grade students came twice a year (fall and spring) for 3 days, 4 hours each day to work and learn in the garden. Our relationship with them is ongoing and growing. This year we will expand to work with the entire Middle School and some classes in the lower school.
St. Christophers/REACH Academy
Our New Way Garden has worked with REACH Academy since winter 2011. Since 2012, we have had a contract with the Greenburgh-North Castle Union Free School District to work with their students at REACH academy. We work two full days a week in their one acre garden on the St. Christopher's Jenny Clarkson Campus in Valhalla. We work with teacher and students to create curriculum that integrates the garden into their vocational and life skills programs. We also are also adding curriculum that connects the garden to the Alternate Assessment Program in Math, Science, Social Studies and English.
Our New Way Garden has been given space in the greenhouse of a local landscaping company. Through their generosity we are able to start all of our plants from seed. We are also able to hold workshops in the greenhouse.
NEW West Harrison Giving Garden at Silver Lake
In 2017 we are upcycling the old town swimming pool area into a giving garden to grow produce and flowers for the community. Volunteer groups, students, and neighbors are all welcome to help this garden grow and learn about the bionutrient practices Our New Way Garden uses to improve the quality of food. With your support, we look forward to adding accessible raised beds and even growing shiitake mushrooms!
A special thank you to Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont for his support and the use of the old swimming pool area in Passidomo Veteran's Memorial Park.
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Editor, – Thank you for the article by Jane Smith 'Appropriate primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: does this mean more or less statin use?' (Aust Prescr 2011;34:169-72). In the very high risk category, when patients should be treated at any lipid level, there is no mention of family history.
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Therapeutic Guidelines recommendations are for patients with a family history of premature coronary heart disease (one or more first-degree relatives symptomatic before the age of 45 years, or two or more first-degree relatives symptomatic before the age of 55 years).
Is there any evidence for this and what would be the recommended dose?
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- Hippisley-Cox J, Coupland C, Robson J, Brindle P. Derivation, validation, and evaluation of a new QRISK model to estimate lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease: cohort study using QResearch database. BMJ 2010;341:c6624.
- Sesso HD, Lee IM, Gaziano JM, Rexrode KM, Glynn RJ, Buring JE. Maternal and paternal history of myocardial infarction and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women. Circulation 2001;104:393-8.


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Joanna Gaines is celebrating Easter with her chicks!
The Fixer Upper star mostly takes to amicable media to share glimpses of her life with father Chip and their 4 kids, Drake, 12, Ella, 11, Duke, 9, and Emmie Kay, 7. With a fifth baby, a boy, on a way, Sunday noted a final Easter a family would spend as a celebration of six, and a awaiting mom done certain to constraint a honeyed impulse from a day.
"Love cowed death," Joanna captioned this print of her daughters frolicking with a floral garland. Likely a DIY project, a darling daisy sequence is copiousness prolonged adequate for both girls to share on a transparent afternoon in their hometown of Waco, Texas.
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Chip sent his possess contented summary to fans, essay "Happy Easter y'all" with a hashtag "#HeIsRisen" on Twitter. The couple's sons weren't shown in photos, though if their past Sunday fun is any indication, they were substantially bustling hamming it adult like their dad.
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The holiday came only dual days before a array culmination of their strike show, which they announced in September would be their last. Luckily, the couple's spinoff, Behind a Design, premieres after a final part on Tuesday night and will prominence never-before-seen sum and some-more of Joanna's consultant advice. Although this interrelated uncover will core around Jo, there's firm to be a few cameos from their kids.
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Source: An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Warren County, Missouri, compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Edwards Brothers, of Missouri. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Edwards Brothers, of Missouri, 1877), page 39.
This map, from an atlas published in 1877, shows land ownership in the survey Township 48 North, Range 3 West located in Warren County, Missouri. Portions of this township fall within other political divisions. This map comprises a northern part of civil Camp Branch Township. Refer to the map for the entire county to place these maps in their larger context.
The northern border of this map abuts Township 49 North, Range 3 West, the most northern part of Camp Branch Township.
This map claims that the eastern border of this township abuts Montgomery County, but this is not correct. Sections 1 and 12 abut Lincoln County, not Montgomery. Sections 13, 24 & 25 abut the eastern portion of Camp Branch Township (Sections 18, 19 & 30 of Township 48 North, Range 2 West). Section 36 abuts the northeast corner of Elkhorn Township (Section 31 of Township 48 North, Range 2 West).
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Hugh Dancy is all smiles as he arrives at opening night of his new Off-Broadway show Apologia on Tuesday night (October 16) at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City.
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Apologia follows Kristin Miller, who was radical activist and political protester in the 1960s. Now a celebrated art historian, the publication of her memoir threatens to split her family apart.
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DNA Testing by Media Barred
Va. Justices Deny Access in Case of Executed Man
By Eric M. Weiss; Washington Post
Saturday, November 2, 2002
The Virginia Supreme Court yesterday refused to allow new DNA testing of evidence left over from the case of executed killer Roger Keith Coleman, ruling that doing so would unduly expand the public's right of access.
A group of newspapers, including The Washington Post, and a New Jersey charity had asked the court to allow them to use new technology to answer lingering questions about Coleman's guilt. They asked for the evidence left from the 1981 rape and murder of Coleman's sister-in-law, Wanda McCoy, so they could perform advanced DNA analysis that was not available before Coleman's execution in 1992.
The state opposed the request, saying that the papers didn't have the legal standing to obtain and analyze the evidence and that new tests would not contribute to public confidence in the application of the death penalty.
The newspapers argued that the public interest in knowing whether Virginia put an innocent man to death greatly outweighed the state's interest in preventing the testing.
"I'm disappointed that the Supreme Court didn't use this opportunity to test this evidence," said Margaret Stone, an attorney for the newspapers. She said the evidence has been preserved in a laboratory setting and would provide a good sample for the most up-to-date DNA analysis.
A lower court had previously rejected the request, finding that the newspapers and the charity did not have standing to make the request. Yesterday's state Supreme Court decision went even further, saying that new testing would venture far beyond what is considered rightful public access in criminal proceedings, perhaps opening the door to testing of other evidence, such as assault weapons or illegal drugs.
"Certainly, the right to test evidence in a criminal case has not been historically extended to the press and general public," Justice Donald W. Lemons wrote for the unanimous court. The testing of the remaining DNA would "generate a new scientific report, thereby altering, manipulating, and/or destroying existing evidence in order to create new evidence," Lemons wrote.
Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore (R), applauded the ruling. "The bottom line is that in 1981, Roger Keith Coleman raped and murdered Wanda McCoy," he said. "He was tried, convicted, sentenced and punished. And today the Virginia Supreme Court has spoken."
The Post, together with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, the Boston Globe and Centurion Ministries, a New Jersey charity that investigates claims of wrongful convictions, offered to pay for new testing that would compare genetic material found on McCoy's body with Coleman's.
The court also found that the physical evidence in criminal cases is not considered open under state freedom of information laws. "Clearly the biological material recovered on swabs from the . . . victim does not meet the test of a 'public record.' Even if it did, the VFOIA allows for inspection and copying, not testing," the opinion said.
Stone said the court was accurate in saying that allowing the testing would expand First Amendment rights, "but we argued that there would be safeguards and limitations so that the court could deal with problems as they arise."
Coleman, a coal miner from Southwest Virginia, was convicted largely on the basis of hair evidence and a jailhouse informant. Early DNA testing on Coleman in 1990 and 1991 was inconclusive, but strongly suggested he was the killer. And on the morning of his execution, Coleman failed a polygraph test. But he said he had an alibi, and his claims of innocence drew national attention.
In some of his last words, Coleman said, "When my innocence is proven, I hope Americans will realize the injustice of the death penalty as all other civilized countries have."
Virginia judges have rejected similar post-execution requests in the capital cases of Joseph R. O'Dell and Derek R. Barnabei.
More than 100 convicted felons, including six Virginia inmates, were cleared through DNA testing during the past 13 years, according to the New York-based Innocence Project.
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Read statements made by Ireland on certain international law issues
One of the oldest and most accepted fields of international law is the formal relations between states and their official representatives. To facilitate the peaceful and efficient conduct of these relations, certain privileges and immunities exist under international law and have been given effect to in Irish law.
In 1967 Ireland ratified the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963. These two international treaties codify what is perhaps one of the oldest and most accepted fields of international law, namely the formal relations between states and their official representatives. As is stated in the preamble to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, "peoples of all nations from ancient times have recognised the status of diplomatic agents".
The two Vienna Conventions recognise the functional necessity of diplomatic and consular privileges and immunities for the peaceful and efficient conduct of international relations. Effect is given to Ireland's obligations under these Conventions by the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Acts 1967-2006. The Acts also confer certain privileges and immunities on:
In addition, under the Acts the Government may, by order, confer on designated bodies, or their agents, "inviolability, exemptions, facilities, immunities, privileges and rights", of the nature of those contained in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The three categories of body are:
Ireland is not a party to the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property. However, Ireland is bound by the rules of customary international law as regards state immunity.
On 27 July 2016 the Government approved the General Scheme of a Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. Its broad purpose is to update and improve arrangements with respect to international organisations and the staff of diplomatic missions.


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Pakistani actor and model Mikaal Zulfiqar has announced that he and his wife Sara Bhatti have divorced.
In a Facebook post late on Wednesday the model said that his marriage of six years has been ended following long separation. He also told that he and Sara made efforts to resolve disputes which could not, after which they decided the divorce.
Both were married six years ago and have two daughters.
Mikal has starred in various commercials, mostly related to mobile phone companies and food items. He also worked in many Indian and Pakistani dramas and films including Sang-e-Marmar, Muhabbat Subh Ka Sitara Hai, Dur-e-Shahwar, Diyar-e-Dil and Shehr-e-Zaat.
He won the award for Best Actor 2015 and 2016 for his performance in Muhabbat Subh Ka Sitara Hai and Diyar-e-Dil.
Mikal is mostly observed in commercials of "Ufun".
Earlier three Pakistani actresses created spot light as they parted their ways from their better halves including Noor Bukhari, Jana Malik and Veena Malik. However Veena Malik has reconciled with her husband Asad Khattak.


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Behbud Association was conceived and founded by a small group of volunteers after the 1965 war to provide support to war victims, the destitute and disabled people in Rawalpindi. Since then, Behbud has evolved into a national institution with 6 chapters across Pakistan. Behbud Association Karachi recently celebrated 50 years of service and caters to over half a million underprivileged residents of Karachi annually.
Educated, healthy and empowered individuals with access to equal opportunities in society
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Behbud means welfare in Urdu. Our holistic approach to development encompassing education, health, and livelihood targets the most vulnerable segments of society and ensures overall community uplift. We believe that we can achieve our goals through the motivation, commitment, and participation of all stakeholders.
Annual Beneficiaries 2017 (161,453)
Quality Education helps students reach their full potential and becomes useful members of society. It enables them to think and act intelligently and confidently. Emphasis on extracurricular activities such as declamation contests, drama and sports builds character, confidence and enhances public speaking skills.
Behbud runs 4 formal schools, 4 Adult Literacy Centers and has a Learning resource center, and in-house forum for teacher training and development of learning materials. Quran classes are conducted in 5 shifts.
Behbud's highly successful Population Welfare Program (PWP) provides family planning and antenatal support to women of reproductive age and vaccinations for their children. PWP operates 7 centers each managed by a Lady Health Visitor supported by a motivator and helper.
In 2016, almost 36,000 people benefited from the program.
Behbud Health Services has evolved into a comprehensive health care facility with 40 weekly clinics including general O.P.D., gynecology, pediatrics, diabetes and hypertension, tuberculosis treatment, eye, skin and dental treatment.
Behbud has three production facilities located in Mehmoodabad, Clifton and Korangi which also serve as vocational training centers for cutting, sewing, machine and hand embroidery. The centers offer a six month training course, a one year certification course and a two-year diploma.Certified instructors prepare students for the Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE) exams. Upon graduation from the diploma course, students have improved earning capacity and employment opportunities.
Products manufactured at Behbud's facilities are showcased at our outlet Behbud Creations.The income from the shop directly benefits the workers at Behbud's production facilities.
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According to studies, acne affects no less than 80% of all young people between the ages of twelve and twenty four. What causes acne? Luckily, however, there are certain things you can do to solve your acne problem. Here are some helpful suggestions that can help you steer clear of acne forever!
1. Other suggestions for ways in which you may be able to improve your acne by controlling your diet include limiting or cutting out sodas from your diet. Sodas contain a significant source of sugar and are ranked at 63 on the glycemic index. Instead of loading up your diet with sodas, try switching instead to water, herbal teas and vegetable juices.
2. Melt 1/2 cup of coconut oil in the microwave until it is liquefied, add this to your bottle of natural acne wash.
3. Vitamin C: Vitamin C with bio-flavonoids is the best cure for acne as it is an antioxidant and protects the skin from infections and boosts immunity. Bioflavonoids have antibacterial properties, help in tissue growth and repair. You need 1000 to 1600 mg of vitamin C to keep acne away. Food sources with vitamin C include broccoli, red and green peppers, citrus fruits, strawberries, Indian gooseberry, kiwi fruits, and Brussels sprouts.
4. oIn trying to control your acne, it is necessary that you keep your face and any other affected area as oil-free as possible. Washing your face with lemon juice at least three times a day may help you achieve this.
5. Suggestions for switching to a lower glycemic load diet include switching to breakfast cereals that contain bran, barley and oats as well as reducing the amount of potatoes that you consume. Other tips include introducing lots of fresh vegetables and fruit into your diet.
6. Add 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil, 1/4 cup vitamin E oil, 1 tsp. tea tree oil and 1 tsp. lavender oil to your bottle of natural acne wash.
7. Vitamin E: Acne vitamin supplements usually include vitamin E which is good at healing tissues and prevents damage caused by free radicals, oxidation of lipids and keep the skin moisturized and glowing. A 440 IU dosage is best for fighting acne. Natural sources are found in whole grains, peanuts, mayonnaise, and sweet potato. This is one of the best natural acne treatment.
8. Vitamin B5: Vitamin B5 helps fight acne indirectly, as it helps reduce stress and anxiety which are causes for acne. It also helps in the proper function of adrenal glands.
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The Back in 1994 Yvonne Davidson and Kathleen Hamey completed their research on the names of all the streets, lanes and places in the Balmain Peninsula and the Balmain Association published the first edition of the book Streets, Lanes and Places was published.
Their introduction asked, 'What's in a name?' and proceeded to give the answers in a long list of track names, family members, local and colonial politicians and officials, reminders of their homes in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland and a variety of other sources.
Street names haven't remained constant and many have changed, sometimes for political reasons and others to assist in unique identification. The disappearance of large industrial estates such as Mort's Dock, and the Monsanto chemical factory, allowed new streets to be created and thus needed the derivation recorded. Revised editions were published in 1996 and in 2005 with these changes inserted as an appendix.
This year, as stocks of the 2005 edition began to run down, the Association agreed to republish the book and at the same time reset the type and amend some of the text. It was decided to add new sections covering the names of parks and waterfront features around the peninsula.
A few new streets were added, and a couple of text corrections made. The new section on parks covers those not named after the street they are in. Waterside features were included to complete the story. Several locations have had several names such as Mort Bay which was originally Grose Bay and then Waterview Bay.
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Addio Uomo
Germany / Thailand 2018
produced by René Wiesner, Magnus Blomdahl (executive), James Walter Grau (executive) for RWFilms
directed by René Wiesner
edited by René Wiesner (version A), Magnus Blomdahl (version B)
short, documentary
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Whoever thinks there aren't any weirdly outrageous places in this world
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So again, not
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One more thing, this twin film also
has a sister film, the narrative short Todessehnsucht,
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"Mayor Cees van der Knaap of Ede has decreed a prohibition of Assembly in part of the town's Veldhuizen neighborhood. This after many cases of arson and vandalism by mainly Moroccan rioters in the past days in the neighborhood. The police will be entitled to preventive frisking of people it suspects. Earlier there were problems around New Years Eve."
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Razorbacks Compete At International Events
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – With the collegiate season complete, five members of the Arkansas swimming and diving team have taken their talents to international competitions during the past two weeks.
Canadian Olympic & Para Swimming Trials | Toronto, Canada | April 5-10
Freshman Kiera Michailoff-Russell competed in the 50 LCM freestyle, clocking a time of 27.19 seconds, as well as the 100 (59.04) and 200 (2:08.21) LCM free events.
"Having the opportunity to attend the Canadian 2016 Olympic Trials was really exciting," Russell said. "I'm so thankful I was able to race at this meet and represent both the Razorbacks and my club swim team. Swimming at a national tier event was a great experience. Although I attended the meet solo, the support of all the girls on the team here followed me all the way back home and throughout the whole meet."
Australian Championships | Oaklands Park South Australia | April 7-14
Junior Aiden Lister placed 12th in the 400 LCM free in a time of four minutes and 15.88 seconds, 28th in the 200 LCM free in 2:04.17, 10th in the 800 LCM free in 8:51.36 and fourth in the 1500 LCM free in 16.52.28. She was out-touched for third place in the 1500 free by just 0.8 seconds and her time of 16.52.28 was 28 seconds faster than her previous personal best.
"I always enjoy competing at Olympic trials," Lister said. "Racing alongside my country's best athletes is always an experience and honor."
South African Nationals and Olympic Trials | Durban, South Africa | April 11-13
Sophomore diver Nicole Gillis garnered national titles in the 1m and synchronized 3m springboards and platform diving events, posting scores of 253.05, 283.44 and a personal-best 252.15 respectively. In addition, she notched a third-place finish in the 3m springboard event with a score of 254.20.
"Olympic Trials was a great opportunity for me to gain more competition experience," Gillis said. I learned a lot throughout the days I competed. Overall, I was very happy with how the week went. I am looking forward to the new season ahead as well as the new goals that I have set for myself."
British Swimming Championships | Tollcross, Glasgow | April 12-17
Sophomore Chloe Hannam won bronze in the 200 LCM backstroke in a lifetime-best time of 2:11.47, setting both an Arkansas and East Region record. Hannam also placed eighth in the 400 LCM individual medley in 4:49.76 and 18th in the 200 LCM IM in 2:19.15.
"I didn't really know what to expect coming into trials," Hannam said. "However, I'm over the moon and can't really complain at two lifetime-best performances, an Arkansas record, an ASA East Region record and coming away as the third fastest in Great Britain in the 200 backstroke."
Freshman Caitlin Tootill placed 51st in the 50 LCM free (27.60).


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Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ., 3 October 2001
Aging Can Be Genetically Dissected Into Component Processes Using Long-Lived Lines of Caenorhabditis elegans
Thomas E. Johnsonhttp://sageke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sageke;2001/1/cp5
Abstract: The aging process has been dissected by analysis of genetic variants of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Long-lived recombinant inbred lines were generated; some of these lines have mean and maximum life-spans up to 70% longer than the wild type. Longer life results from a slowing of the characteristic exponential increase in mortality rate that is typical of aging populations in all species. The length of developmental periods and the length of the reproductive period are unrelated to increased life-span. Lengthened life is due entirely to an increase in postreproductive life span. Development, reproduction, and life-span are each under independent genetic control. General motor activity decays linearly with chronological age in all genotypes. The decay in general motor activity is correlated with and is a predictor of life-span, suggesting that both share at least one common rate-determining component
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Thomas E. Johnson, Aging Can Be Genetically Dissected Into Component Processes Using Long-Lived Lines of Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 84, 3777-3781 (1987).
Science of Aging Knowledge Environment. ISSN 1539-6150


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3. Go out from the 'Command Centre' singularly or in groups of two. Work individually, we all have different tastes and different agendas, don't be rushed or cajoled. The time to share the experience is after mission accomplished...
4. Take time to find the right girl - many guys make this mistake. For many this is a 'one-off' that will probably never happen again. Choose someone that is at least as good as you have ever pulled and hopefully much better. Spend at least one hour trawling the alley-ways looking... It's a lot of fun just looking!
5. When you approach the girl, be respectful. She's seen thousands of arse holes and hates them. Say hello, tell her she's pretty, ask what's the price and then most importantly, ask what you get for the price. I always ask how many positions you're allowed. If they say only one, move on... Most prostitutes are in it for money but some are in it to satisfy a lust for sex. It's the later that you are looking for. They are the 'Holy Grail'.
If they say 'Two' or 'Three' or even better 'however many you want' then you're onto something.
Normally, you'll be offered a 'Fuck and Suck', which is as good as it sounds.
6. I always ask for 'Doggy Style' position specifically. One, it's a favourite position of mine and since you'll be behind her, it implies a certain amount of trust. If she fucks 'doggy' then it's a big plus sign.
7. Ask specifically if she gets naked. Some think that you want to fuck a girl with her clothes on...
8. Wash. Even hookers find BO and smegma offensive.
9. When you get into the boudoir, compliment her and ask some general questions about her. Avoid references to boyfriends and family.
10. Contrary to popular belief it's NOT scary getting undressed in front of a pretty women that you are going to fuck. It's even easier if your are sporting a seriously hard cock!
11. Never fuck Bare Back. If she does that for you, then she probably does that for every punter. Please note that I have never heard of someone (that I know) catching a dose off a hooker but you cannot be too careful. Funny enough, I have heard of guys that I know catching a dose off ordinary 'girlfriends'...
12. Be prompt with your payment. Once that's over she'll relax and get on with giving you pleasure.
13. Strip off, lay back and think of a gland! She's in control and she will govern the speed of the proceedings. Do NOT try to 'Man Handle' her as she sucks your cock. If she wants to be touched, she'll tell you.
14. There's nothing better than making a hooker orgasm. If you've been lucky with your choice then it is possible this will happen. But don't worry if it does not. You've paid for your orgasm not hers!
15. If the girl has been pleasant and honest, part on good terms. Hookers are human beings too. Don't forget that. In fact, I'd go as far to say that most of the hookers I've met are very decent people indeed.
I would just like to add that there is something very naughty about fucking a girl that you only met minutes ago. If you connect mentally as well as physically then even better. Sex is a fantastic thing whether it's paid for or not. And believe me your cock does not care at all about the circumstances, financial or otherwise!


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I was genuinely excited when I found out that Herbal Essences was re-releasing two of its classic scents — Smooth collection and Shine collection — in their original, old-school packaging. So, basically, it was like 1997 in Sheepshead Bay all over again: Me in the shower, washing my hair with Herbal Essences while listening to La Bouche on KTU just hours before a big junior high school dance (well, as big as a junior high school dance can get). No doubt, this was followed by putting roll-on glitter from Claire's all over my arms and butterfly clips in my hair. But anyway, in order to recapture a bit of that "magic," I was of course willing to buy a bottle.
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Getting to the point where I'll need to have a bag packed at all times.
No sooner do I get back from Florida then it's time for another road trip. Wednesday morning I'm off to Montreal for the day and then off to Atlanta the same night. One day there and back to Toronto on Friday morning. Working on getting a new client set up on our system so I have to visit a couple of sites where they're already operating.
This will be my second time in Atlanta, I was last there just after the 96 Olympics wound down. If I remember correctly, there's a good rib joint in the area called the Underground. Have to see if I can find it again.
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They were lost. Yancy could see that even in the dank twilight of these sewers. They were lost and they'd been lost for quite some time. Neena kept tramping along, not caring where she went as long as she kept going forward, leaving Yancy to trail in her wake through the pestilent stinking tunnels.
"Neena, come on, we've been walking through these tunnels for hours. Face it."
"We're lost."
"We are not lost, Yancy. I know where I am." She paused under a narrow tube and looked up. A tiny, pale pinprick of light managed to shine out of it, though it looked like it was probably a very long pipe. "I know where I am," she insisted, walking forward.
"Neena..." Yancy jogged a few stops to catch up and grabbed her hand. She rounded on him with an almost inhuman snarl, her fist held at the side of her head so that it seemed she was about to hit him with her elbow. Then she froze, for just a moment, just long enough for Yancy to speak. "Why won't you let us go back and try Phil's directions?"
"They're wrong," she insisted. "They're wrong, they would have taken us away. He didn't want me to find them, he wanted me to... to walk into a trap. He wanted to trick me."
"What? Neena, you're not making sense. Why would Phil want to trap you?"
"I don't know! Maybe he's insane. Yeah that could be it, he's insane, they're both insane. It'd explain a lot."
She stopped again, uncertainty clouding her face, hands clenching and unclenching, making fists that she pressed against her thighs in frustration. She rounded on Yancy as he approached her and grabbed his shirt.
"What are you doing here?"
"Neena, you asked me to come." Yancy put a hand over hers. "You wanted me here. When you met your parents, remember?"
"I..." she let go very slowly and backed away a step. "Yeah. Yeah, when I meet them. Yeah..."
She turned to walk away again, down the slope of the tunnel to an intersection, where she hesitated for a moment before plunging into the dark of a side-tunnel. Yancy hurried to catch up to the cyclops before she disappeared completely. He had no idea of the way out of the sewers now and didn't fancy his chances of lasting long without Neena around. Even if she was going crazy.
The tunnel was dark, but it seemed drier and less used than most. Yancy slopped up from the slimy floor onto a short set of stairs and a platform that wound past a half-open door, stuck in place. He could see Neena at the far end of the tunnel, stood rock-still, her head turning left and right.
Yancy made sure his approach was loud, just so Neena wouldn't be shocked when he arrived at her side again. She didn't seem to acknowledge him though, barely turning to look at Yancy before she shot off down another tunnel. They stopped again in the middle of another intersection and this time Neena turned to watch Yancy approaching.
"I hate to sound petulant but are we done yet?"
"No," Neena said. She wrapped her arms around her front as if she was cold, though in that coat it didn't seem likely. "I need a cigarette."
There was a moment, a pause as the atmosphere of the tunnel seemed to change around them. Yancy felt rather than heard the motion behind him. He turned.
"It would not be wise," a voice said from the shadows. The shape was... odd, and odder still as the man stepped into the light. Yancy managed the stifle the scream in his throat but he couldn't hide his gut-wrenching horror as the figure became clear. Despite the pallid skin and obvious bad hygiene it was roughly a man, as long as you saw him from the one side. Except he had turned as he moved, revealing an arm protruding from the side of his head.
"What do you mean, wise?" Neena stepped past Yancy and stood in front of the... person. "Are you one of the mutants?"
"Just that with all the methane in these older tunnels, smoking is not a good idea. We tend to discourage it," the man said, frowning as he examined Neena's face. He tilted his head to one side and scratched it with that hideously placed arm, his other two clasped before his front. "And yes, I am what you would call a mutant. We all are."
Neena backed away a little, confusion and doubt mixing with just a hint of disgust on her face as other mutants emerged from the shadows of the tunnel, a mumming, near-silent crowd of hideous shapes, limbs and eyes and mouths, their few recognisable faces carrying expressions of fear and mistrust that matched Neena's own.
They gathered in a tight circle around the pair, with the three-armed one standing free of the wall of bizarre bodies. He looked around.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Yancy muttered. Neena didn't respond. She was staring around the crowd, her eye bouncing from face to face with increasing desperation.
"Whom do you seek," the three-armed man asked gently, directing his attention to Neena. She focused on his face without really looking at him. "We are many, but we know one another well."
"I'm looking for... they'd be maybe about my height, older..." Neena's shoulders dropped a little. "They'll have one eye. I don't know their names."
"Oh, those two." Another mutant, apparently female though it was hard to tell. She had an unlit cigarette in her mouth which she kept rolling from side to side, pausing occasionally to suck at it.
"You know them," Neena asked, watching the cigarette move back and forth. The mutant nodded.
"Yeah. They're the loons."
"The sky watchers, some call them," a third mutant chimed up. He had a guitar slung over his back and a forehead that, to Yancy's eye, looked like it could crush a small mammal. And two noses, which probably explained the permanently disgusted look on his face.
Neena's hands twitched. She tore her gaze from the female and her cigarette and focused on the guitar player. "Sky watchers?"
"They spend their lives creeping around the grates and gutters taking pictures of things on the surface," the woman said. Her pig-like nose wrinkled as she laughed, snorting, and pulled the cigarette from her mouth. It was odd, but Yancy actually found her face somewhat endearing, as long as he ignored the gills and randomly scaled skin. Perhaps it was her superficial resemblance to the Planet Express secretary. The familiarity seemed comforting. "Kept talking about wanting a better life for someone."
"But we are the sons of the nightsoil! What better life could they have than ours," the guitarist asked, holding his arms out. The mutant woman turned a disdainful eye toward him.
"Please, Dwayne, have you seen your life lately?" She snorted, her laughter cynical now as Dwayne's face fell. Behind them the other mutants began to disperse and wander back into the darkness. "And you can cram that sexist 'sons of the shit' talk as well. Just ignore him," she said, moving in front of the mutant Dwayne. "I'm Vyolet."
"Ne... Leela," Neena said, almost holding out her hand. Vyolet gave the half-raised arm a puzzled look and then seemed to dismiss it. She looked over at Yancy and gave what was probably a mutant's idea of a seductive smile.
"And what's your name, handsome?"
"Um... Yancy." He held out his hand but received the same puzzled look. The mutant examined his hand curiously until he put down again. "I never met a mutant before."
"You can imagine we don't get out much," the three-armed mutant said. He held out his hand for Yancy to take. "Raoul. Most of us don't like to touch strangers."
"Why, are you worried you'll get some sort of disease?"
"Oh no," the mutant said, his face solemn. "Quite the other way around."
Yancy waited until Raoul had turned away before frantically wiping his hand on his pants. He watched Neena until she seemed to come to life again, her face set hard as she turned to pursue the mutants. He followed Raoul and Neena down the tunnel until they reached another junction to a broader, brighter passage.
Behind him Vyolet pulled out yet another cigarette and a lighter. "You'd think they would have offered me a light," she muttered. "First packet of cigarettes I've found in nearly a month."
"You're the only one that insists on using those things."
"Oh please, Dwayne, it's just a harmless habit. It's not like you have to worry about the smell down here," the female said as she held up a lighter. There was a quit whump as the air seemed to explode around their heads. Vyolet blinked in surprise, her face blackened by the soot left from the ignited methane pocket. She turned to glare at Dwayne. "Not a word."
The other mutant just shrugged. They both started after the retreating trio, lost in their thoughts.
"I saw her before," Vyolet said after a moment. "Down here."
"Yeah, she's the one that dropped my cigarettes." She lit a fresh cigarette, holding safely away from her face to prevent a repeat of the previous butt's fate, and took a deep drag.
"Why would she pretend she's never been down here? Surface dwellers are weird." He scratched his side, eyes idling over the floor of the tunnel in case anything interesting floated by. "They all look alike to me."
"She's the first one you've met, Dwayne."
The mutant town nestled along one edge of a large effluent lake. At first Yancy had mistaken it for the piled up detritus it seemed to resemble, though after realising it was Raoul's apparent destination he'd paid a little closer attention and noticed the first window. As they came closer the shapes of buildings became clear, though it was equally clear that their primary building material was-
"Crap, I dropped my lighter in the lake!"
"I'll get it," Yancy said, his mind not really on the world around him any more. He backtracked to Vyolet's side and leaned down to reach into the murky water. A hand grabbed his shoulder and roughly dragged him away from the lake side. Yancy looked up to find Raoul and Vyolet glaring down at him.
"Don't touch the water," Raoul said with an angry shake of his head. "It's mutagenic."
"That means it'll make you like us," Vyolet added as if explanation were needed.
"Oh. Right." Yancy dusted himself down as he stood up. "I guess I appreciate the warning."
Vyolet shrugged and pulled another lighter from her pocket. "Most of our visitors tend to have arrived by falling into it from the surface, so we don't normally need to mention it."
"You two are the first surface dwellers we've had down here in living memory," Raoul said once they were on their way again. "At least, the first that haven't had to become part of our society, such as it is," he added, watching Neena's back with a curious tilt of his head. Yancy shuddered at the way his arm flopped about when he wasn't using it, like some enormous, pendulous... arm.
The town was much larger than Yancy anticipated, large enough to have its own economy of sorts. There were shops and restaurants, at least one school, and in the distance a building shaped a lot like an old church. He didn't want to think about what the brickwork was made from.
"How long have you been down here for," he asked after they wandered the streets for a few minutes. Raoul shrugged, looking around and frowning at some private thought.
"Some say nearly twelve hundred years. Most of us are descended from the inhabitants of the old city who survived the first Great Burial in the early twenty-second century. Our historical records were mostly lost in the great flush twenty-eight twenty-six but I understand some of our archaeologists have found the remains of the earliest mutant settlements in the ruins of the old city."
"But... but I was alive a thousand years ago, there was no way mutants could have existed back then. Even the alligators were a myth."
"The tunnels conceal many things," Raoul said, turning his gaze toward Neena again. He stopped. "You know, I haven't told your friend which roads to take for the last ten minutes yet we're almost at the home of the ones she claims are her parents. Are you sure she's never been here before?"
"Positive," Yancy replied. He looked around. Some of the local mutants were giving him and Leela odd, curious glances as they went about their business. "She wouldn't lie to me."
"Yet here we are."
Raoul pointed down the short street to a small house, one that wouldn't have looked out of place in downstate New Jersey if it hadn't been so clean, with a neat little square of odd growths that he assumed was a garden. Neena was stood in front of the door, one hand on her hip, the other teasing at her tailed hair with a regular twisting motion.
"Neena?" He paused next to her and examined a crudely scrawled sign attached to the door. "Baltimore, huh, does that mean they're not here?"
"I don't know," Neena muttered. She picked up the sign and tossed it to one side before pressing her hand against the door. There she stood, just long enough for Yancy to get a little uncomfortable. He touched Neena's arm.
"Are you all right?"
"I'm fine," she said, seeming to resolve whatever inner conflict she'd faced. She pushed the door open and then paused again on the darkened threshold. Raoul cleared his throat.
"We do generally guard our privacy..."
"I'm their daughter," Neena said. Raoul shrugged again at the explanation. "They wouldn't mind me going in there, they're my parents!"
"Very well."
"Yancy, stay here until I call you, okay?"
Yancy nodded and tried to smile. He backed away a little with his hands in his pockets and slouched against the wall where, to his vague surprise, eh found Vyolet and Dwayne watching him.
"Hi handsome... want a cigarette?"
"I don't smoke."
"Oh. How about a date?"
Yancy found himself chuckling at the incongruity of the whole situation, until he saw Vyolet's hurt expression. She looked away.
"Oh come on, you can't think..."
"We all have our dreams," Vyolet sniffed.
"Yeah, well my dreams-"
Neena screamed. Yancy was at the door of the building without a thought but, when he was there, he stopped, suddenly terrified of his own reaction. The interior was dark and unknown. Anything that could make Neena scream had to be more than a match for him. But then he felt someone poking his ribs.
"Get in there or get out of the way," Vyolet urged, Raoul right behind her, his expression grim.
Yancy nodded and stepped through the door into a dimly lit hallway. Several of the rooms were open and lit by naked light-bulbs, a trail of slimy dirt tracked through them and up, then down the stairs. A strange, sickly-familiar stink pervaded everything, alien even to the all-too-human stench of the sewers. Yancy's eye's twitched.
He moved left, drawn by the sound of Neena's quiet sobbing. The room was fastidiously clean in general but here the smell grew stronger. It wasn't even masked by the mutants as they crowded around the door to look in.
"Oh, Blast," Raoul muttered.