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Title: Windows and Buttons
Characters/Pairings: Rei/Kira, duh.
Rating: T. For adult themes: there is generalized violence, and the specific sort: rape is alluded to. There also is sex, of the nice, consensual kind.
Notes: Stupid inspiration. Comes when it is not at all welcome, and then, just to be bitchy, makes me absolutely incapable of doing anything productive until I spit fic out. This is just mostly Kira, dealing with the aftermath of the rape and her developing relationship with Rei. Constructive criticism would be very much appreciated, given that this is probably the most serious thing I've written, like, ever.
The Lovely Bones, of course, does not belong to me, but to Alice Sebold, who is amazing and magnificent and writes things that make me sob.
I. Rain
Kira hates rainy days. She hates rainy day skies, rainy day clouds, and rainy day mud. She hates the heat, sickly and moist, as it festers on her face and slides down her back, like the slimy trails nightmarish monsters dribble down her back while she sleeps. She hates windy rain even more. She hates how it doesn't quite cut her skin with the raw, clean audacity of wintery, snow-storm gusts, nor how it doesn't quite twirl around her body and playfully make her hair and clothes leap like sweet, fresh summer breezes. It's middling—neither here nor there, neither definitive nor whole—and yet, it makes her flesh goose pimple and makes her nipples harden, and thus, makes her sick with worry that her bra isn't padded enough or her shirt is too thin, and the world can see. Rainy days make her hair frizzle, rainy days make her skin oily, rainy days make her clothes damp, rainy days make her shiver and sweat and wish that the sun would come out and cauterize every dripping eave and roof with its brilliantly blaring heat and make everything sizzle so she can dance upon the coal-hot sidewalks and burn the stains of blood (on the sheets and smeared on her thighs) and shame (in the bile that gurgles up her throat and splatters on the white porcelain toilet) and horror (in her dreams, her nightmares, her very breath) away.
She hates the mood rainy days instill in her. She hates the melancholic, almost-sad, almost-angry funk that settles around her, a funk that kind of feels like diffident complacency, but isn't quite as concrete. Rainy days make her want to pull the covers over her head and sleep, sleep a black, dreamless, blameless sleep, until sleep itself is sick of her, and shoos her away from its shores.
Rainy days are blurry. They fog her vision and take away any semblance of balance—they take away her morning, her afternoon, and give her only everlasting evening in return. She hates the low, oppressive blankets of clouds, how they shroud so close, and make the air thick like cotton or thin like ether. Either way, it's hard to breath. She sucks the air in, big heaving gasps, deep inside her lungs and tries to saturate her blood with oxygen, but it's not enough. It's never enough.
She spends most rainy days with her head bowed over her sketchbook, pencils furiously scribbling away until they are worked down to nubs, rubbing her fingers over the paper until her hands are black and flaking with lead. She draws blazing sunsets and bright, scalding suns over baked desert landscapes. Sometimes, she will etch in a falcon, flying over the dunes with its body so straight and true in the tall, wide sky. Sometimes, she even pretends she's that falcon, so high and fast and fearless that no hands will ever pull her down, yank at her shirt, or press a sweaty palm to her face so hard that her jaw is numb for days afterward.
II. Buttons, part one
The sound of buttons skittering across the floor and hitting the walls of her bedroom haunts her like a dogged ghost. It pings in her ears day after day, while her teachers go on and on. Her peers don't hear it, but it's all she hears sometimes: the small pitter-patter of round, black buttons, ripped from her white school-girl blouse by greedy, meaty hands. He held her down with his right forearm, she remembers sometimes, when the memory is too sharp and vivid and jagged to ignore. Held her down with his forearm and grabbed at her clothes with the other hand, pulled her blouse off with no heed for the buttons he scattered, like her innocence, like her childhood, like her womanhood.
Day by day, she feels a little bit of herself lost to the currents that tug at her in strange directions, like buttons ricocheting and clattering into dusty corners. Her pencils and stumps of charcoal are the only things that anchor her to the world of the awake, that keep her from fading, like an old painting that hasn't seen varnish, like the washes of watercolors on an old canvass.
III. Windows, part one
She reads a book called The Lovely Bones about two years after her world broke into a million, jagged little pieces. She doesn't like it very much: Mr. Harvey scares her into crying; Ray and Ruth she dismisses; she does not know what to feel for the grandmother, the sister and the brother, but she is fond of them, she supposes; above all, though, she aches for the father, and the mother—well, the mother she learns to dislike. There are too many secrets in her family as well, too many closed doors, too much silence between her mother and her, both of them frozen, her mother in her guilt, and she in her horror. These are the thresholds they will never cross, as the doors have been locked and the keys disposed of years ago.
But a line jumps out at her, what Susie says about her sister: "In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows."
Horror and blood. Horrors and blood and no windows.
IV. Hurricane
Rei walks into her life like a hurricane. She expects from him what she expects from every other soul in the world: a brief moment of connection, of locking of gazes, of recognition, and then—then, the other pair of eyes would blink and slide away, sometimes perturbed, sometimes disinterested, sometimes altogether blank, like boats passing each other on silent velvety waters, looking, already, for more amiable companions.
Rei doesn't let go, though. She imagines that he is like a Kraken, wrapping his long, scaly arms around a boat and slowly embracing it, leading it to another watery world, where things are inverted and colorful and have shimmery halos of unexpected lightness—for the first time, she realizes that painting and sketching and drawing, all of which to her are as unremarkable and commonplace as taking breath, have unexpected hold over others. She learns this as she steals glances at his eyes while he asks her about her sketch: they are alive and alert and sharp and observant, as though they are categorizing and filing away every move she makes for later perusal, every flutter of her hands, every intake of breath, every swish of her braids.
She is not sure she is comfortable under such scrutiny, and had it been anyone but him, she would have gone scrambling for cover. But here he is, asking about one of her sketches, where she gets her ideas or if there was a specific model. She wants to tell him the truth—that her ideas come from everywhere and nowhere, that they spring forth, sometimes, fully formed and wrap gossamer stands of force around her fingers and compel her to stroke life into them with paper and canvas and brush, or sometimes, they meander forth, half-limping, milky-white with the dew of the newly-birthed dripping off of them, and these, these she must coax into existence, draw them out of the shadows of her mind with promises of light and dryness and the scent of oil-paints—but she does not. She is not certain, not yet, if she wants him to understand, or even if he will.
There is a keenness about his eyes, though. They are a sharp, pointed, purposeful blue, hard and unyielding like stone, but also soft and meandering and empty. He has known pain, she realizes, only moments after locking her eyes with his. Pain almost as deep and dark as her own, but he is not a frozen marionette in time like she is.
The thought gives her pause, but makes her fingers itch for a brush, a stump of pastel, a pencil, and it is probably that itch that pushes the words out of her mouth before they are lost to the abyss of her silence forever: "Will you lend me your body? I want you to model for me."
And in that moment, she feels a strange sense of heady triumph swill through her body; she has snatched something back from the Before, picked up a button from the cold floor of her horrors.
V. Paint
She paints him with all the colors of a bloody sunset, the russets and golds and browns and crimsons and vermilions of a star breathing its last. This is because Rei is like a dying sun: he blazes hot and angry and brilliant in his obstinacy, he blazes, and when he rides, when he becomes one with the roar of the motorcycle, he is utterly an indescribable explosion of color. She is like a comet, she thinks, and he is her sun: she circles him, seeking his warmth, and one day, he will swallow her up, and there will be nothing left of her.
She still paints him, though, as lovingly as she would if she were caressing his skin. She brushes brown onto the smooth line of his shoulder, colors the slant of his cheek with a careful hand, dusts his eyes with as many dreams as there are stars in the sky. The hues she can give him on her canvas are limited in number and in scope and skill; for the first time in her life, she finds the paints in their varied colors inadequate, finds her well-worn brushes cumbersome, finds her fingers clumsy and lumbering, because all the colors that he is are impossible to translate.
She will try, though, and try with all of her might, because she loves him.
VI. Demons
There are as many demons lurking inside his head as there are in hers, all laughing, leering specimens of hate and greed and selfish, sweaty desire. His must be of a different sort, though, she thinks, because his stem from the betrayal and abandonment of love and blood and sameness.
He fists his hands in his hair and his breath is ragged and his eyes are leaking tears that he had long forgotten he had hidden inside, fossilized inside him for years. She cries with him. They might be over before they even had started, this tenuous, gossamer connection—beyond petty titles like 'girlfriend' and 'boyfriend'—so fine and new, might be broken forever, but she holds him anyway, her arms around his shaking back, and they mourn together. His hands, so large and strong, shake, and this time, she holds him steady.
VII. Windows, part two
Her mother's actions, she can perhaps understand. Her mother is a lonely creature, just like her, and a creature so trapped in her own isolation will often reach out for comfort, and often does not question the source of the warmth, so long as it stays and is lasting.
She can understand. But she is not so sure, after all, if she can forgive her mother for bringing such a malignant, cancerous force back into her life. She curses herself for nearly falling into his trap, for being plied by a life of false comfort and false locks on doors, as he pulls at her and shouts at her and fills her life with his ugliness again.
This time, though, she has Rei bolstering her limbs as she scrambles for leverage and gives back as she bites and claws and scratches and lands blows—heavy ones, filled with festering rage—on his body again and again and again.
Only when his blood streams—red, like hers, how curious, because in her nightmares when she plunges her knife into his chest or neatly separates his skull into hemispheres with a heavy axe, blood and brains and guts do not spill, but bile and slime and feces do—does the skittering of buttons stop long enough for her to realize that she has committed murder. It is one thing in the safety of her own mind, where the only things raking their claws through her were of her own making. Here, it is the real world; here, he is a body of a person; and here, she is a murderess.
She scrambles for Rei, and holds onto him with a vice-like grip. She will not let him go, because to do so would be as effective at ending her life as drowning would be. She clings to him that night, and tries to reclaim who she was Before, and she thinks, after so long of just existing in the grey area, she might be moving into an After. Rei is infinitely gentle with her, like she is some sort of fragile thing in a menagerie made of glass, but he moves his body with the litheness of a man, with the weight of man, with the needs of a man, but she does not hate it. She loves it, even, because, this time, it it Rei, with his familiar eyes and beloved face, loving her, filling her, bringing her to completion at last.
Perhaps, this time, she may even have cracked open a window.
VIII. Buttons, part two
Rei races like the wind, circling the track with speeds her eyes cannot follow. She sees over and over again ghastly images of a mangled and torn body, of a wrenched motorcycle with an idly turning wheel and body lying nearby.
She banishes them. She may shake like a leaf every time Rei flings caution to the wind and rides so fast and so skillfully that no man nor demon can catch him, but she will watch and cheer, dry-eyed and proud, gripping Harumi's hand and feeling Tatsuya at her back, as the man she fell in love with, the man that she will spend the rest of her lifetimes with, the man with sharp, gentle eyes and the smile of a fox, rides races and laughs and becomes a hurricane that takes the world by storm. This is his choice, his nature, his calling: and she will not deny him that, no more than he has not denied anything that is her.
She has snatched back all that the darkness had robbed her of, and then some. She is still a mass of broken bits that still don't fit quite right and she still has nightmares where buttons fly and blood is smeared.
She doesn't let them bother her now because Rei always wakes up when she is having a bad night and lets her burrow in his chest and runs gentle hands through her hair and down her back until she is asleep again. Her world, now, is composed of tall, cloudless skies and airy breezes. Dreams are dreams, and buttons are buttons, and she—well, she is more than the sum of her parts.
IX. Sandcastles
She links her hand with Rei's as they walk along the beach together. The sun is setting, a large orange dollop on the horizon, painting the waters iridescent shades of red. They talk of small, meaningless things—supper that night, the new bike's transmission, a painting she wants to do, his father's newest demand for a grandchild—but they hear all of the important things, too. Those things don't need to be said with words, because they are said by the hand he curves around her hip while they sleep, by the kisses she plants on his chin, by the millions of small comforts they draw from one another every day.
They walk together, hand-in-hand, as the sand squelches between their toes.
Perhaps they might even build a sandcastle, with the smell of oil paint and grease clinging to them in the salty air. Perhaps even an endless line of them, stretching into the gusting wind.


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The No. 18 Buckeyes (8-2) kicked off a three-game non-conference homestand by dominating the Blue Hose (2-9) from the Big South Conference, 78-48.
The only drama in this one concerned the status of Turner. Initially projected to be out of commission for as many as eight weeks after suffering two fractured vertebrae, an article from OSU student newspaper The Lantern reported that Turner told a source close to the paper that he would be back in three weeks.
After the game, head coach Thad Matta said he did not know if a return of three weeks would be possible.
"I have no idea," he said. "He told me three days. He told me Saturday. He's a young kid that's getting antsy. It's just good to see him smiling and moving around and back on the bench."
He was not present for his team's shootaround, but Turner first made an appearance on the scoreboard in the final moments before the game began. As the team gathered in the hallway outside the locker room and began jumping up and down and yelling, there was Turner right alongside the rest of the Buckeyes.
The junior walked to the team's pregame huddle and then to the bench, where he sat for the entirety of the game and offered encouragement and tips to his teammates.
"Evan Turner will be a coach some day and a heck of a recruiter too," Matta said. "He knows everything that's going on in our recruiting and knows kids all across the country. He's unbelievable about that."
Turner did not accompany the team to Butler for a Dec. 12 tip that came one week after he suffered the injury.
At the half, the only thing worth sticking around for minus the blowout in progress was the halftime show featuring the Red Panda acrobat, a woman who rides a tall unicycle and catches bowls on her head. The Buckeyes led 53-21 thanks to a balanced scoring attack that saw five players score either eight or nine points in the first 20 minutes.
For the first several minutes, it looked as if a shutout was possible. The Buckeyes jumped out to a 14-0 lead, and it was not until forward Jay Reynolds scored on a lay-up with 14:47 left in the half that the visitors got on the board. To that point, the Blue Hose had turned the ball over on five of their first eight possessions. The other three saw them miss three shot attempts and have a fourth hit nothing but air.
The OSU lead steadily climbed, and a three-pointer from junior guard Jon Diebler with 9:55 left pushed the margin to more than 20 points – 29-7 – a figure Presbyterian could get no closer than the rest of the way.
At the half, five different Buckeyes had connected on three-pointers, and the team shot 52.9 percent (9 for 17) from beyond the arc. Leading the way was Diebler, who hit on 3 of 7 after making only one four days earlier against the Bulldogs.
The second half was much better for the Blue Hose, who hit their first shot of the second half but then missed their next five. A switch to man-to-man defense for the first time all season caught the Buckeyes off-guard and allowed the visitors to out-score OSU by a 27-25 count.
"If you look at it or just listen to it, that's their first time ever playing man and they hold us to 27 points," junior swingman David Lighty said. "What does that say about us?"
After the game, the message preached to the team was the need to play a full 40 minutes of basketball.
"You could just tell the difference in the halves when we play smart and play with intelligence," Diebler said. "I think tonight we took a step back as a mature basketball team. We can't have that happen."
Lighty led the way with a game-high 20 points, while sophomore guard William Buford added 11 and Diebler finished with 10.
Walk-on guard Eddie Days made his OSU debut when he was inserted along with fellow walk-ons Mark Titus and Danny Peters with 1:05 left in the game. Of the three, Titus got on the scoreboard with a free throw – his first point of the year.
It marked the second matchup between the Buckeyes and the Blue Hose, the first being an 87-43 OSU victory in a game played almost exactly two years: Dec. 15, 2007. Presbyterian, with its enrollment of 1,200, is in its third year of a four-year transition into being a Division-I program.
"There are moral victories when you play the No. 18 team in the country with six freshmen," Presbyterian head coach Gregg Nibert said.


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Maybe it's the holidaze......but this Forum has gone soft or something; abnormally (which is considered normal here on the SI Forum), you'd get your chubby man-boobies lit up for posting your innocent ways.
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Words to the wise. Don't worry about longboard or short board. Work that lard off, son. You don't want to be the figurative fella with the bit in his mouth & kneeling over a fitness ball , now do ya...?
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Thread: Advice, getting back into it
Dec 16, 2013, 03:45 AM #21
Dec 16, 2013, 03:53 AM #22Member
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Thanks for info. Yeah I'm bad, I haven't been on the longboard yet and already looking for a fish. The dimensions of boards now is where I'm lost so I appreciate the info. Bought my daughter (7years old) a soft longboard for Xmas and I can't wait to get back out. (We on beach every day and she asked for a real surfboard after boogie boarding). Funny, haven't really surfed in years and now my first time back on a board will probably be in January. Thanks
For those worried, I'm always in the ocean, swimming or fishing on a kayak in the surf so I'm years away from surfing, not years away from the water.
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I rented boards for awhile. This gave me a chance to get a feel for what I wanted and what was comfortable. Gotta make sure you know when the shop opens or closes.
This way I got to try out a fe w before dropping several hundred dollars on something I might not like.
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Why go to a longboard? I think you would have a much better time with something a little smaller. Get yourself a nice funshape. Maybe a thinned out 6'4" - 6'6" extra wide, fat round nose with a thin wide thruster tail with some rocker.
A shape like this will allow you to get into more waves like a long board yet you will still be able to jam on it! It will give you the ease of a longboard with the speed and turns like a shortboard. Also a shape like this will be less cumbersome and paddling out and duck diving will be a lot easier.
I think this should be plenty big enough but if you need to go a little bigger then maybe a 6'8" - 7'2" but I wouldn't go any bigger than that. However long you go try to still keep it wide and thinned out. I had a board shaped exactly like this for my son and he absolutely loves it! He has a longboard and a shortboard also which he never rides anymore because he says that this board is the combo of both those and is much more fun.
Also a board like this is very versatile in all conditions. If you go with a longboard you are going to be limiting yourself to about a 3' - 5' swell. A nice funshape/fish will allow you to surf any condition, especially when it gets bigger and hollows out.
Make sure to find a good local shaper. Tell him what you want, your surfing ability and also where you mainly surf.
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Btw you will become a senior member too soon once you post like 100 times...
Dec 20, 2013, 03:15 AM #28
You did the right thing getting the LB, don't listen to anybody that says you'll be limited on that board. You can surf a LB in well overhead waves if you get good enough, and you can certainly rip on one too. But definitely get the fish too, you'll want the option to switch it up and going back and forth, and that will help your surfing so much more, just like it did for me.
Dec 20, 2013, 11:49 AM #29
Best advice so far immediately above ". . . Don't listen to anybody .. . "
What a lot of advice! Get a long short boogie board with a five fin quad thruster setup and a leash, but don't use the leash.
Dec 20, 2013, 02:28 PM #30
Was also in my mid 30s when I got the 6'5". For me, if you have a little patience, the quad fish is the way to go.


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Richardson Nature Center • Sundays, 3-4pm
Como Park Zoo & Conservatory, St. Paul • Daily, 10am-6pm • suggested donation of $2/child & $3/adult, but all welcome whether or not you choose to donate. Details: Seasonal events include the Fall Flower Show in the Conservatory's sunken garden, storytime at noon, and animal programs throughout the day.
Parent/Tot Time & Preschool Open Gym @ Apple Valley Community Center • Ongoing Mon/Wed/ Fri, 9:30-11am • Ages: 5 & under w/ caregiver • Details: Burn off some energy with other kids, develop motor skills and coordination. A special tot time for tykes ages 2 & under is held from 9-9:30am followed by open play for 5 & under until 11.
MOA Toddler Tuesdays, Mall of America Rotunda • Ongoing Tuesdays, 10am – noon • Details: Live entertainment and activities guaranteed to excite the stroller set. Upcoming event schedule here.
Free Tuesday Nights @ Minnesota History Center, St. Paul • Ongoing Tuesdays, 3-8pm
Bloom Room Playdates @ Teeny Bee Boutique, St. Paul • Ongoing Wednesdays, 10:30am-noon • Details: Aimed at kids ages 0-3.
Wee Wednesdays @ Midtown Global Market, Minneapolis • Ongoing Wednesdays, 10:30am – 1pm Details: In the past, MGM has offered dance troupes, cooking lessons, and live animals to entertain kids. Stay for lunch — there are many tasty ethnic vendors to choose from, and several offer specials on Wednesdays. Park in the adjacent Midtown Exchange Ramp up to 1.5 hrs. free with validation.
Parent Mixer & Playdate @ Pacifier North Loop, Minneapolis • Ongoing Wednesdays, 10:15am • Details: Meet other new moms, swap advice and get feedback, plus baby weigh-ins. Free; registration requested.
Games Galore @ Union Depot, St Paul • Ongoing Wednesdays, 10am-8pm • Details: Play giant-sized versions of classic games including chess, checkers, Connect Four, Dominoes and more.
Lil Explorer Thursdays @ Como Park Zoo & Conservatory, St. Paul • Ongoing Thursdays starting 9/8 through April 27, 2017, 10am-noon • Details: The hall between the Visitor Center and the Conservatory is filled with hands-on activities, manipulatives, art projects and games perfect for the 4 & under set. Explore a different theme each week.
Free Children's Entertainment @ Edinborough Park Amphitheater, Edina • Ongoing Thursdays starting 9/15, noon.
Drop-in Playtime @ Amma Parenting Center, Edina • Ongoing Fridays, 11:45am-12:45pm • Details: Drop-in play for newborns through walking age.
Top Preschool Storytimes in the Twin Cities – many local bookstores, libraries and other businesses offer FREE storytimes during the week. Click the link to read our picks.
Kid-friendly Twin Cities coffee shops and cafes with dedicated FREE play spaces.
Twin Cities Nature Centers offer FREE admission and hands-on exhibits and outdoor play opportunities most days of the week.
St. Paul Recreation Centers offer free open gym Tot Times at 16 sites across the city.
Minneapolis Recreation Centers also offer free options. Click this link and search "parent tot".
9/7-11: Burnsville Fire Muster • Family highlights: Don't miss the fire truck water display (9/9), annual community and fire truck parade and fireworks (9/10).
9/9-11: James J. Hill Days, Downtown Wayzata • Family highlights: $5 cruises on the Steamboat Minnehaha, a carnival, parade (9/11, 2pm) and fireworks (9/10, dusk).
9/9-11: Inver Grove Heights Days • Family highlights: Community Family Fun Night (9/9, 5:30pm), kids treasure hunt, grand parade and fireworks (9/10).
9/10: Otsego Prairie Festival @ Prairie Park, Otsego • Family highlights: Catch firetruck displays, a carnival and fireworks at dusk.
9/16-17: Bloomington Heritage Days @ Nativity of Mary Catholic Church grounds • Family highlights: Live music and performing arts, parade (9/17, 10:30am).
9/17: Excelsior Apple Day, Downtown Excelsior • 9am-10pm • Family highlights: Tots will love the Happy Apple Kids Corner, parents may like the artisan vendors, music and street dance.
9/17: Golden Valley Arts & Music Festival @ City Hall Campus • Family highlights: Family-friendly live entertainment, games, art activities and artist vendors to browse.
9/17: Wild Rice Festival @ Harriet Alexander Nature Center, Roseville • Family highlights: Games for all, activities with Gibbs Farm, Native American dancing and drumming, hands-on demos and much more.
9/17-18: Lakeville Art Festival, Downtown Lakeville • Family highlights: 70+ exhibitors and a "Young at Art" tent for youth.
9/24: Fall Raptor Release @ Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center, Hastings • Family highlights: The Raptor Center releases rehabbed birds at 11am & 2pm plus wagon rides, kids activities and educational displays.
9/24: Taste of Northeast @ St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, Minneapolis • 11am-9pm • Family highlights: Live music, children's activities and entertainment.
9/24-25: Afton Art in the Park, Town Square Park • Family highlights: Art vendors and Franconia Sculpture Park's free art pavilion for kids with fall crafts and spin art.
9/24-25: Lone Oak Days Fall Festival @ Holz Farm, Eagan • Family highlights: Old fashioned fun farm includes pedal tractors, kids coin hunt, animals in the barn, fun farm chores & more.
Aamodt's Apple Farm, Stillwater • July 30-Oct., 2016
Hours: 10am-6pm daily, PYO 10am-5pm daily • Notes: Limited free kids activities, fees for additional activities and PYO apples.
Applecrest Orchards, Hugo • Sept.-Nov., 2016
Hours: Daily, 9am-7pm • Notes: Additional fee for pre-picked apples only, no PYO.
Applewood Orchard, Lakeville • Aug. 27-Oct., 2016
Hours: Daily, 10am-6pm • Notes: Limited free kids activities, additional fees for activities and PYO apples.
Apple Jack Orchards, Delano • Aug. 15-Oct., 2016
Hours: August, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sept-Oct, daily 10am-6pm • Notes: Admission and a limited amount of activities (small playground, petting farm and hay bales) are free; most additional activities require a fee. PYO apples are not available this year.
Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center Orchard, Hastings
Open: Daily, 8am-4:30pm (nature center hours) • Notes: Pre-picked apples only.
Deardorff Orchards & Vineyard, Waconia • Aug. 27-Oct. 31, 2016
Hours: Orchard, Tues-Sun, 10am-6pm & Winery Tasting Room, Winery hours: Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 11-6pm, Sunday 12-6pm. • Notes: Free family activities, food and PYO apples available for purchase.
Fall Harvest Orchard, Montrose • Aug. 20-Oct. 30, 2016
Hours: Thurs-Sun, 10am-6pm • Notes: Many children's activities, small fee for additional activities and PYO apples.
Fisher's Croix Farm Orchard, Hastings • Sept.-Nov., 2016
Hours: Tues-Sun, 9:30am-5pm • Notes: Fees for additional family activities.
LuceLine Orchard, Watertown • Sept. 3-Oct., 2016
Hours: Weekends, 10am-4pm • Notes: some free children's activities, fees for additional activities.
Minnetonka Orchards, Minnetrista • Aug. 20-Oct., 2016
Hours: Daily, 10am-7pm • Notes: Admission is free on weekdays, additional small fee for activities.
Pine Tree Apple Orchard, White Bear Lake • Salesroom open Aug. 19-Feb., 2017
Hours: Click here for current hours • Notes: Free admission, additional fees for activities. Apples are pre-picked only.
Pleasant Valley Orchard, Taylors Falls • Sept. 3-Oct., 2016
Hours: Daily, 10am-6pm • Notes: limited free children's activities, extra fee for PYO apples available on select weekends only.
Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest, Jordan • Aug. 20-Oct., 2016
Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm & Sat-Sun, 9am-6pm • Notes: Limited free children's activities, additional fee for PYO apples.
Sunrise River Farm, Wyoming • Sept.-Oct., 2016
Hours: Tues-Sun, 10am-6pm • Notes: Free admission and kids activities, additional fee for PYO.
Victoria Valley Orchard, Shoreview • Sept. 9-Oct., 2016
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Whistling Well Farm, Hastings • Sept. 3-Oct., 2016
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There is something for everyone at the Bexhill Festival of the Sea! The weekend event next to the De La Warr Pavilion will include seafood cooking demonstrations presentation by WhaleFest and a foraging introduction by Wild Feast. There will be a wide variation of stalls highlighting excellent local Sussex produce and global seafood cuisine, English wines, arts & crafts, free angling coaching, children's fun fair and a full line up of live music on stage. To delight visitors, the De La Warr Pavilion terraces will feature Morris Dancing, Belly Dancing and performances by local dance schools.
Free programmes are available at all entrances. If you like the event, please help to support us by donating in any of our official collection buckets.
Angling Competitions
Bexhill Festival of the Sea incorporates what was Bexhill Sea Angling Festival and now includes 7 angling competitions. The 24-day extravaganza showcases some of the best angling in the south of England. It aims to promote many of the diverse sea angling disciplines, as well as find the best anglers from around the country in their specialist field.


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A von Kries quotient is defined as the cone signal of a reflectance under some illuminant divided by the same cone signal of the illuminant. A von Kries type quotient is a similar ratio, the cone sensitivity being replaced with some linear combination of the F color matching functions P(λ). We study the illuminant-(in)dependent behavior of von Kries type quotients by means of an expansion consisting of one illuminant-independent term and a series of illuminant-dependent ones. It is proved that the series rapidly decreases and that the dominating first term is small if P(λ) is a narrow function of wavelength and the reflectance and spectral distribution functions are sufficiently broad-band, defined in the text. Von Kries type quotients have a favorable illuminant-independent behavior if and only if the reflectance and spectral distribution functions are smooth functions of wavelength with chromaticity coordinates in a restricted neighborhood of the achromatic point belonging to the equal-energy spectrum, dependent on the narrowness of P(λ), comprising the object color solid only if P(λ) were a delta-function.
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Really brilliant stay - lovely staff and very clean rooms. Kitchen facilities were great and en suite was handy in 6 bed dorm.
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We really enjoyed our time in Ljubljana! The room was adequate (we stayed in a 6 person) and there was a fridge in our room which was great. We rented bikes from them and did our laundry and it all went really well! Highly reccomended for a budget traveler who wants to stay in a beautiful city. Also easy to find!
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In general, this hostel was pleasant! The location of it was amazing (only a few minutes walk away from the main square) and the wifi was fab! That being said, the blind was broken in our room so it let lots of light and noise in, making it difficult to sleep. The kitchen facilities in our room were also poor (aka none of it worked). Fortunately, there was a small communal kitchen we could use.
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Was in a room that was half renovated. Kitchen area is small but hostel has everything you need. Great location
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Only there for one night, less than 12 hours in total. Excellent location, right by Dragon Bridge. Staff were very friendly and helpful. Can't comment on atmosphere or facilities really, all we did was sleep.
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H2O Hostel offers a fabulous base for exploring the city. The staff are very friendly and happy to help with any queries that you may have. The atmosphere is limited as there is no common area other than the reception (if there was , it was not pointed out). The shower head was broken, but this was easily navigated and the cooker top wasn't working. Despite the above there is little wrong with this hostel and it is a great place to call home for a couple of nights.
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The blinds were broken in both the dorm room and the bathroom were broken. People sitting in the courtyard could look right into the room and bathroom. Didn't have a comfortable place to dress. First security locker key I was given went to a locker that was broken and the side pulled right off. Floor tiles/ boards were coming up and not attached to the floor.
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Overall a good stay! Little atmosphere and staff could be more welcoming. The showers were a big problem. On the morning of our checkout we waited 70 minutes for a shower, meaning that the bathroom was then covered in water and wasn't very clean. This was disappointing as the rest of our stay was perfect.
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The location of this place is great but it's not really a hostel, it's apartments with a couple of dorms. The kitchen was in the dorm which would have been awful if someone had cooked in there as the smell would have been in the room all night! Very noisy because the room was at the entrance. The beds were seriously uncomfortable but doable for a night. Location was great, super close to everything.
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iPhone 4S Unboxing video by Jerrick Lim from Ask Jerrick. Set in a nondescript, atypical iPhone 4 casing, the phone, does not have the indication that it is different from the usual iPhone 4.
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Under the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which amended the 1974 Privacy Act,[1] federal agencies must establish an internal Data Integrity Board (DIB) to oversee and approve their use of computer matching programs.[2]
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Lincoln Christmas Market, held in Lincoln, England, is one of the largest Christmas markets in Europe, attracting up to 250,000 visitors over the four day event.
Held around three weeks before Christmas, the market spreads around the historic centre of Lincoln including the castle and cathedral. As well as stalls selling goods there is a funfair with Ferris wheel, open air classical music and rock concerts and traditional events such as beer barrel rolling.
The number of visitors is so great that a circular one-way system for pedestrians around the streets of Lincoln is put into place. The route includes travelling through the grounds of Lincoln Castle, something not normally possible without paying an entry fee.
Lincoln Christmas Market was the first Christmas market in the UK. It started in 1982, after a group of Lincoln city councillors visited Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Lincoln's twin town) and were impressed by the Neustadt Christmas Market. When they came back to Lincoln, they set up their own Christmas market consisting of just fourteen stalls.
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During the weekend of the market, charter trains are organised from around Britain. In 2006 this included Central Trains hiring a Class 47-hauled set from the West Coast Railway Company, to provide additional and increased capacity services between Leicester, Nottingham and Lincoln Central railway stations. Hertfordshire Rail Tours organised a charter of their Blue Pullman train up from London King's Cross. A train organised by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS) travelled down starting from the Scottish town of Linlithgow, then proceeding via Edinburgh and the East Coast Main Line.
In previous years, Central Trains had leased the use of a High Speed Train set from Midland Mainline for the Nottingham–Lincoln shuttle. Other rail tours for the Christmas Market, including stream-hauled trains, have set out from Blackpool and the London stations of Finsbury Park and London Victoria. Carriages from the classic Venice-Simplon Orient Express train have been used on some of these services.
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Florida is a subsection of government within the United States. It is bordered by Georgia to the north and Alabama to the north and west.
Florida would be the Greatest State in the Union, if it wasn't for all the Rednecks, NASCAR, Fundamentalist Christians, conservatives, Jeb Bush, oppressive heat, hurricanes and California to compete with. Florida is notorious for having the worst ballot counting system in the world. Because Florida's system was so poor in the 2000 election, George Bush was able to take the presidential nomination via a military coup. .


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This page is especially intended to encourage and support independent local groups protesting for Obama's removal and against his anti-American, subversive actions.
Impeach Obama NOW is an ad-hoc coalition, not a formal, structured organization, but just a means of loosely connecting independent groups together. There are groups that you can join, see the group directory at the link below, but you do not have to join our group to be part of this effort and use our resources.
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This website was started by the group in San Diego (Stop Obama Now!!) that did the first impeach-Obama overpass demos, which inspired the current nation-wide, overpass protest effort.
Start-up of new, independent groups is encouraged, because it is much more difficult to attack, control, intimidate, marginalize or buy-out a large number of local independent groups than it is a single, larger group with a hierarchical, top-down management structure. We do not try to dictate a personal agenda. It is all voluntary.
It is felt that cooperating local volunteer groups rising up all over the country to confront the current, common threat to our national sovereignty is more in keeping with our national traditions than centrally-controlled non-profit organizations. Nonprofit organizations are also regulated by the IRS and FEC and, for that reason, are much more limited and inhibited in their response.
This link is just a curent search of YouTube for impeach Obama protests, not meant to imply that they are all the product of this group, but many of them are.
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This Impeach Obama demo on an overpass in Carlsbad, California started the national protest movement for Obama's impeachment. It received wide-spread attention in the Internet, due to the bogus claim by a local reporter that it caused a 10-mile traffic slowdown. Traffic was actually pretty normal for this part of I-5, the main artery between San Diego and Los Angeles, and one of the busiest freeways in the nation. If the reporter was trying to hurt us with that charge, it backfired, because it caused the movement to go national.
The demo was organized by "Stop Obama Now" (now Impeach Obama Now) in San Diego with help of "We the People" of Orange County.
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Travis Perkins plc (LON:TPK) Insider Buys £805.75 in Stock
Travis Perkins plc (LON:TPK) insider Christopher Rogers acquired 55 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Monday, July 3rd. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 1,465 ($18.98) per share, for a total transaction of £805.75 ($1,043.72).
Travis Perkins plc (TPK) traded down 0.69% during midday trading on Monday, hitting GBX 1445.00. 931,049 shares of the stock were exchanged. The stock's market cap is GBX 3.61 billion. Travis Perkins plc has a 12-month low of GBX 1,286.00 and a 12-month high of GBX 1,714.00. The firm has a 50 day moving average of GBX 1,575.32 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 1,524.21.
A number of research firms have recently issued reports on TPK. Peel Hunt increased their price objective on shares of Travis Perkins plc from GBX 1,530 ($19.82) to GBX 1,625 ($21.05) and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research note on Monday, June 19th. J P Morgan Chase & Co reiterated an "overweight" rating and set a GBX 1,625 ($21.05) price objective on shares of Travis Perkins plc in a research note on Friday, April 21st. Liberum Capital reiterated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 1,650 ($21.37) price objective on shares of Travis Perkins plc in a research note on Thursday, April 27th. Berenberg Bank upgraded shares of Travis Perkins plc to a "buy" rating and increased their price objective for the company from GBX 1,540 ($19.95) to GBX 1,800 ($23.32) in a research note on Tuesday, March 7th. Finally, Barclays PLC reiterated an "underweight" rating and set a GBX 1,325 ($17.16) price objective on shares of Travis Perkins plc in a research note on Friday, April 28th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company. The stock currently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of GBX 1,645 ($21.31).
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The Obama administration is leaning on local governments to resist NIMBY rent-seeking and make it easier for the market to developers to come closer to meeting market demand for new housing. Politico reports:
The Obama administration Monday is calling on cities and counties to rethink their zoning laws, saying that antiquated rules on construction, housing and land use are contributing to high rents and income inequality, and dragging down the U.S. economy as a whole.
City zoning battles usually are fought block by block, and the president's involvement will create friction, particularly among environmental groups and the not-in-my-backyard crowd. But the White House jawboning is welcome news to many others, including mayors and builders increasingly foiled by community opposition to development. […]
The prescriptions call for more density, speedier permitting and fewer restrictions on accessory dwelling units such as basement and garage apartments. The plan rejects some of the arguments made by environmentalists, labor unions and other liberal constituencies that have stood in the way of development and endorses changes long sought by builders and the business community.
The role for the federal government in housing policy doesn't extend much beyond exhortation and allocating small grants for mayors to "update" land use policies. But exhortation from this White House could get a hearing where it's needed: As we've noted before, Democrats seem to have a particularly strong preference for heavily zoned communities.
One concern is that the White House offensive on zoning will turn Republicans—who should be natural proponents of stronger property rights and a more market-oriented housing policy—against efforts to lower housing costs by expanding the supply. The 2016 GOP platform contained no mention of the zoning crisis.
This would be a grave failure for a Republican Party looking to disrupt networks of entrenched elite privilege. More than anything else, setting local housing policy is a way by which the upper middle class perpetuates its own prosperity at the expense of people further down the ladder, pulling up the ladder to high social capital communities and putting a sizable drag on job creation.
The White House deserves credit for parting with its environmentalist, NIMBY, and union-oriented base and taking on this issue on behalf of the working and middle classes. Wise Republicans will see this as an area for collaboration and compromise.


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Sharon rules out Egyptian mediation between Israel and Palestinians
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that while he attached great importance to talks with the Egyptians on their role in the Gaza Strip, he did not plan to allow Cairo to mediate between Israel and the Palestinians.
Sharon has insisted he would not negotiate his unilateral withdrawal plan with the Palestinians, saying they are "uninterested" in peace.
Sharon made these comments in a meeting with Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and military officials ahead of their meetings with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, Haaretz reported.
Sharon said the talks with Suleiman will focus on security and the prevention of arms smuggling into Gaza. Israeli officials said they would not agree to Egypt's demand to stop military strikes in the Strip once a delegation of 200 Egyptian security advisers arrives there to train Palestinian security forces.
Suleiman met with Palestinian president Yasser Arafat in Ramallah midday Wednesday, after meeting with representatives from the European Union and United Nations. Despite Sharon's rejection of an Egyptian mediation role, Suleiman told the international officials that Egypt was determined to move Sharon's disengagement plan forward with cooperation from both Israel and the Palestinians.
"We attach huge importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't intend to allow Egypt to become a mediator between Israelis and Palestinians," Sharon said. He added he would not allow Egypt to raise the issue of Israeli-Palestinian talks in Gaza or of comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The disengagement plan, he said, would remain unilateral.
Sharon said renewing negotiations with Palestinians via Egyptian mediation would thwart the disengagement plan and endanger the internationally backed road map to peace. (Albawaba.com)
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text: M2M adoption increases by more than 80% in the past year03 Jul 2014 01:02 PM Latest M2M Adoption Barometer report from Vodafone indicates that more companies are seeing a return on their M2M investment, while consumer electronics is the fastest growing sectorM2M adoption has increased by more than 80% over the last year, with more than a fifth of companies now actively using the technology, according to Vodafone's second annual 'M2M Adoption Barometer', a global survey of the machine-to-machine (M2M) market, out today (3 July 2014). M2M, which connects previously isolated machines or devices to the internet to make the 'Internet of Things' possible, is set to grow from 4.4 billion connected devices this year to 10.3 billion by 2018. The survey, carried out by Circle Research, captured the views of more than 600 executives involved in setting M2M strategy in seven key industries across 14 countries, making it one of the leading global surveys of M2M implementation. Three sectors have emerged as front runners in M2M with nearly 30 % adoption rates: automotive, consumer electronics, and energy and utilities. Automotive is the most mature of the sectors where M2M is now seen as an enabler for additional services such as remote maintenance and infotainment. M2M adoption in energy and utilities is also growing rapidly as 'smart' home and office services such as intelligent heating and connected security gain popularity.Vodafone's report shows that the consumer electronics sector is at the forefront of a shift from the warehouse to the living room. This uptake is being fuelled by the use of M2M in connected devices such as smart televisions and games consoles. The research shows that nearly three quarters of consumer electronics companies will have adopted some form of M2M by 2016, whether for new products, logistics or production.Similarly, the report anticipates that 57% of healthcare and life sciences companies will have adopted M2M technologies by 2016. Take-up in the transport and logistics sector will be driven by fleet management benefits, as M2M-led routing, job allocation and maintenance schedules become even more evident.While more firms are seeing a return on investment from M2M than last year – 46% of respondents cited a 'significant increase' compared with 36% in 2013 – there are still some barriers to adoption, including managing security concerns and the challenges of global deployment. As predicted in last year's Vodafone M2M Adoption Barometer report, the US has been overtaken by the Asia Pacific region as the geography with the widest adoption of M2M. This year's report suggests that by 2016 the gap will be negligible with all regions close to a 55% average for adoption.Erik Brenneis, director of M2M at Vodafone, (pictured below) said: "This year's report leaves no doubt that momentum is accelerating as companies begin to realise the commercial potential of the Internet of Things. This technology is transforming whole industries as companies find new ways to operate and engage with their customers. M2M is moving from the back-office to centre stage."Last year's report made three predictions:• Falling costs will speed adoption• Smaller organisations will embrace M2M faster• Manufacturing/consumer electronics will lead growthAt a briefing in London yesterday (2 July) Brenneis reviewed the predictions saying that adoption has increased from 12% to 22% and that falling costs were certainly factor, although this was a more or less important factor according to sector: declining costs has certainly boosted M2M adoption in the consumer electronics market, for example.The adoption rate for smaller companies now stands at 18% and at 29% for larger companies, so while they are closing the gap, they haven't yet caught up. However, Brenneis said he expects to see the same rate of adoption by 2016.The percentage of consumer electronics firms (separated from manufacturing this year) adopting M2M has increased to 29% and should maintain that lead until 2016.Reviewing the big picture, Brenneis said that the number of pioneer companies with an M2M project in place rose from 12% to 22%, while fast followers declined from 39% to 33%, partly because some have jointed the pioneers. The percentage of laggards who haven't seriously considered M2M increased from 17% to 22%. Brenneis said: "We think this is because there was an overconfidence before with companies not realising the complexity and cost of implementing M2M projects."Phil Skipper, head of M2M business development at Vodafone, (pictured below) said: "One of the major trends we've seen is the move from internal M2M projects and external ones. There are two main M2M business models: one is cost avoidance, where M2M is used to drive down costs. The second is harnessing M2M to get generate more revenues using a company's infrastructure."He continued: "It is quite easy to justify making the investment in the internal model as it increases productivity and customer service. But when companies look to leverage their infrastructure to generate more revenue the RoI is less predictable as it relies on customers changing their behaviour."However, Skipper said 75% of companies said they are looking to implement external M2M projects. "This shows they have a high confidence in their ability to deploy and use M2M and that they feel ready to monetise it."He added that companies are now saying that the RoI is positive with 98% reporting that they have 'seen some return or significant return'. Skipper said: "The RoI question becomes less important for 50% of companies once they begin roll out. It is getting over that initial hurdle that is important."Vodafone has delineated the main ingredients for implementing as successful M2M project:• Having the right process and strategy in place• Having an adaptable culture and workforce with everyone included and senior management project champions• Having the technological capability and readiness• Having the right security in place (72% said security breaches are a major concern, but only 12% said that it was a barrier to adoption).Brenneis finished by outlining four predictions for the coming years:• What you do with your data will become more important (starting immediately)• 4G will improve the RoI equation for many M2M solutions and enable new ones (2-5 years)• Manufacturing and automotive companies will outperform expectations (next two years)• Security and privacy standards will emerge (2-5 years).The report concludes that M2M is maturing and it is increasingly being use to improve customer-facing processes – delivering better, more consistent, service and increasing differentiation to create a competitive edge.Brenneis said: "Those customers who invest and commit to M2M will see the biggest returns, such as TomTom, which has invested a lot and is now seeing the benefit. 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A tiny California desert town is making a drastic change to reverse its downward spiral and embrace an enlightened future. For 24 years, Adelanto tried unsuccessfully to sustain its economy through prisons, but now it will be hosting a very different kind of business—cannabis cultivation. The town became only the second city in California to permit commercial cultivation of medical cannabis, after a year of heated debate in the City Council. The persistence of John "Bug" Woodard, Jr. paid off in a 4-1 vote on Nov. 23 to allow cultivation.
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