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Madras Masala Indian
Tantalise Tastebuds with a Six Course Indian Feast! Only $29 for Two People (Valued at $76) or $55 for Four People (Valued at $151). Includes Pappadums, Entrees, Mains and Desserts. Enjoy Fragrant Chicken Masala, Dhal, Prawn Curry and More
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Relish in a divine six course Indian lunch or dinner at Madras Masala Indian in Underwood
Only $29 for two people (valued at $76) or $55 for four people (valued at $151)
Course One and Two: Select an entree each from the menu, featuring lamb samosas, fried chicken wings and vegetable pakora
Course Three and Four: Choose a main each from the menu including Malaysian style calamari sambal, vindaloo, korma and more served with rice
Course Five: Enjoy a delicious meat or vegetarian biryani served with yoghurt
Course Six: Delight in your choice of dessert from the menu including gulab jamun, vanilla ice cream or payasam
Plus enjoy crispy pappadums served with refreshing raita
What We Like
Buy as many vouchers as you like and dine with up to 11 of your best buds at a time
Great for catching up with a group of friends or family
Great gift idea
Offer expires on 17 December 2013 (bookings must be made before 3 December 2013)
Bookings are essential and are subject to availability. Not valid Monday
Voucher valid for lunch or dinner (dine-in or takeaway)
Members can purchase multiple vouchers for themselves and buy multiple vouchers as gifts for different recipients
A maximum of twelve people dining per table, booking or group
Please note dishes may be served concurrently and are to be shared
Crab mains are not included in this offer
24 hour cancellation policy applies, non-attendance and late cancellation voids voucher
Not valid in conjunction with any other offer and not redeemable for cash
Redemption instructions can be found on the voucher
Set Menu
Course One and Two (recommendations)
Lamb Samosa
Potatoes and pea mix stuffed in Indian Filo Pastry
Tandoori Chicken
Yoghurt, coriander and garam masala marinated and grilled to perfection
Fried Chicken Wings (4 pcs)
Chicken wings deep fried with soy and lightly dusted with chilli and lime
Course Three and Four (recommendations)
Malabar Fish Curry
From the coastal region of Kerela, fish cooked in a coconut and tamarind laced with tumeric and corriander
Dhal Makhani
Kidney and black mung beans cooked with ginger and butter sauce
Chicken Vindaloo
A tangy lemon and tomato curry flavoured with cumin, cinnamon and star anise
Course Five
A festive dish cooked with rice and served with yoghurt
Course Six
Gulab Jamun
Saffron and cardamom infused cottage cheese dumplings
Vanilla Ice cream
South Indian Rice pudding
It's hard to find Indian restaurants which sell food without fear! This little gem near Hotel HQ is a treat for foodies. Cooking the likes of Chicken Chettinad, Crab masala and Tofu Sambal things you rarely see on a Pan Asian Menu. Love the flavours love the generous serves."Urbanspoon.com
Great food and great service. I've been to the restaurant on Sunday the restaurant was Quite busy but the service was very quick and excellent. Staff was very friendly. There was a girl name Preath she was very Friendly and serve the Food with nice smile. I would say excellent staff. I will recommend everyone to go to Madras Masala restaurant if u want to taste real south indian FOODS and Experience friendly Service."Urbanspoon.com


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- The Group Organizer should make sure each member of the group understands ACE's deposit and payment policies. Deposits are non-refundable and are required within 10 days of making a reservation.
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Lucas Olivet (CH, 1985) graduated from the Vevey School of Photography. Represented by the gallerist and publisher Jörg Brockmann, his different series have received numerous awards including the Swiss Photo Award, Fine Art category, in 2016. His work has been exhibited at Photobastei in Zurich, at 104 in Paris and at Photoforum in Biel. Lucas Olivet's photographs capture the living and intimate details of the everyday while inserting a touch of the supernatural. They evoke a world that becomes, in one way or another, identifiable and unstable at the same time. Each series operates a narrative mode through their arrangement and sequence giving the space for interpretation to the viewer.


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White House Responds to Jay-Z's 'Open Letter' Obama Lyrics
"It's a song, Donovan. The President did not communicate with Jay-Z over this trip," press secretary Jay Carney tells Politico reporter
Jay-Z's new song "Open Letter," a response to criticism over his and Beyonce's trip to Cuba, has racked up nearly 500,000 listens in just a few hours. Now we know that some of those plays came from the White House and the reporters that cover it.
During a White House press briefing earlier today, Politico reporter Donovan Slack asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney whether President Obama gave Jay-Z and Beyoncé clearance for their travel, based off a lyric from the rapper's just-released song "Open Letter."
After reciting the lyric ("I turned Havana into Atlanta... Boy from the hood/ I got White House clearance... Obama said, 'Chill you gonna get me impeached/ You don't need this shit anyway, chill with me on the beach'"), Slack asked Carney if Obama did indeed give Jay-Z clearance.
Carney brushed off the question with sarcasm: "I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury... because Treasury offers and gives licenses for travel, as you know, and the White House has nothing to do with it."
"I am absolutely saying that the White house from the President on down had nothing to do with anybody's travel to Cuba that is something that Treasury handles.," he continued.
And if Carney didn't make himself clear before, he shut down the conversation by denying White House approval straight forward.
"It's a song, Donovan. The President did not communicate with Jay-Z over this trip."
Following the presser, Slack tweeted some suggestions for words that rhyme with Treasury.
#rhymeswithtreasury Hennessy RT @michaelscherer: Also ryhmes with Treasury: Bestiary, Statuary.— Donovan Slack (@DonovanSlack) April 11, 2013
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Well, I am 6 1/2 hours away from being able to get onto facebook. This would be awesome, but I work third shift now, so I cant enjoy this until tomorrow morning. But I think we can all agree that I no longer have to write about this stupid subject that I ran out of good things to say avter the first video. Oh well, life's a bitch. While I wallow in that fact, enjoy this video:
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Oh, and has any one else noticed how each video I upload has higher production value than the last? Both editing and special effects in this one?!?! Damn at this rate, my third one from now should end up on Comedy Central.


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It is important to remember that Life Line Screening appointments are completely non-invasive and absolutely painless. You will feel no discomfort during the process and even during the process of a blood screening Life Line Screening draws blood with a simple finger prick only.
Many people put off going to the doctor because they think it may be a painful or invasive process. Life Line Screening works hard to make sure clients are comfortable during the entire process. The majority of screenings only require that you wear loose clothing, preferable a two piece outfit. Depending on the type of screening you may be required to briefly fast. Fasting is typically only for a few hours.
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Depending on the type of screening you have scheduled, there may be different preparation instructions for that individual screening. Below are preparation instructions broken down by individual screening types.
* Carotid Artery Disease or a Stroke: Simply wear a short sleeved short that is loose.
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Actually "About Us" ought to be "About Me" as this website is maintained and developed singlehandedly by me and me alone, but for practical reasons I'll be using terms as "we", "us" and "our" on selected pages.
Hello, my name is Claus, welcome to Whoopii.com.
So what exactly is Whoopii all about? Is this just another search engine, you may ask. As a matter of fact it wouldn't be unreasonable to claim that it is... At this point Whoopii holds a public archive consisting of quality websites from all over the world. The sites are selected and indexed by pure man power into a searchable and well-organized database provided for free use to anyone who may have interest in using it. I'm still in the early phase of building this database and chances are good you may not be able to find what you are looking for here yet due to the little number of websites indexed. However, you are most welcome to give it a try while activities are gradually being expanded here.
Perhaps you have noticed certain visual similarities between Whoopii and Google and let there be no mistake: Google, probably the world's best search engine ever, has served as a great inspiration source for me. However, Whoopii is by no means an attempt to compete with Google, on the contrary, e.g. most ads you see placed around here come from Google and thus Whoopii is an attempt of cooperation rather than competition. Besides, since about 80% of all searches made on the internet is happening from Google's homepages and a great share of the remaining 20% is being done from other great search engines such as Yahoo, Altavista, MSN, Lycos and many others, I'm sure you like me quickly realize the absolute hopelessness in even trying... :) If you will, look at Whoopii as my personal hobby project through which I'm constantly trying to learn more about dynamic programming and designing websites.
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Mercury has been doing its review thing for the last three weeks. It can be a frustrating time full of false starts. Thats usually only if you are trying to start something. If you used your time for review it's likely you learned a thing or two about what was in the way of you getting where you need to be? We are each born with the ability to live a joyful self-created life. Retrograding planets give us a chance to make sure we are on track. No one wants to go high-speeding, unthinking in the wrong direction.
On the 22nd The Sun moves out of vigilant Virgo into easy breezy Libra- Peace, harmony, justice, beauty and balance are just some of the words that describe Libra. Libra seeks to connect. It can be known to say what the other wants to hear just to keep the peace. If confrontation is on the horizon there is a slipperiness that moves out of the line of fire without the other person even realizing they have been evaded.
To celebrate the Equinox be sure to write down your goals. Choose Love and Abundance, Health and Harmony. We can coast along just fine sometimes, however, being clear about what you want will allow you to seize opportunities that are appearing now over the next 3 months. Much can be accomplished.
On Friday Venus moves to Scorpio. Scorpio is linked to the deeper realities of life. Chit chat just won't do. Passion, obsession, jealousy, as well as transformation, depth, and healing. All occur in the realm of Venus in Scorpio. If you meet someone now. Which you likely will. It will be a most passionate connection, perhaps begun in another lifetime. When you meet a past life connection you will sense it. They will feel like family to you. It can go the other way too, when you meet a past association that ended badly you might have an immediate and unexplainable dislike for a person. Mercury will trine Pluto in the earth signs it's likely a good solid union that will form now.
On the 25th Jupiter and the Sun will give each other a great big lucky hug. Get yourself out there Sunday- All this is happening in partnercentric Libra. If you want to couple up- Now is the time. If you want to call in abundance, do it now. If you choose beauty, raise up that hand. If it's peace say it. We need to choose. Just choose. You imagination coupled with a solid intention i really all you need to change your world. Nothing is stopping you now. Love is all around.
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As some of you will know I've been staying in Broadstairs for the last couple of weeks (Kent, UK), and that's all well and good but it's pretty boring and there are only so many photos of the beach you can take. So I posted looking for a model and just my luck someone really awesome replied. Bethany offered to meet me in Canterbury and show me around some of the scenes in town.
These are the products of our hard work! I've got to say that I Didn't quite know what to do with the edit for these ones... so some of them are pretty experimental.
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New allegations surface against two San Diego men accused of not paying workers or sales tax in connection with a College Grove restaurant.
Former employees of the defendants claim they also were not paid while working for the men at a different business in Pacific Beach.
David Dadon, 61, and his son Barry Dadon, 27, owned the State Street Grill.
The restaurant is now closed and its former owners face 21 felony counts, including workers' compensation premium fraud and sales tax evasion.
David Dadon was arraigned Tuesday and pleaded not guilty. He is being held on $500,000 bail. Barry Dadon pleaded not guilty last week and is currently free on bail.
When James Turner, Jr. and David Vanbilliard saw NBC 7 San Diego's report on the Dadons, they decided to speak out about what they say they experienced with the business owners.
"The way they were running things this year just didn't add up," Vanbilliard said.
The two men said they worked for the Dadons as employees of PB Christmas Trees. They say during the first season of working things were fine but this year they didn't get paid what they should.
"There were tips that I never got paid," Vanbilliard said. "I was told that I wasn't on the books but they wanted my Social Security number and was written checks off the company account.
After NBC 7 San Diego's report, Turner hopes the Dadons will be held responsible for what they call preying upon those who needed to work
"I find out that he's done this to more than one person. So it's not just me. I thought maybe it was just a random case but this guy is scandalous," Turner said.
As for the State Street Grill allegations, prosecutors claim the Dadons found their employees on Craigslist. They asked applicants to work a "training period" seven days without pay. If they took the job, the DA said they were paid fewer than $5 an hour.
The case involves more than 20 former servers and cooks, many of them students. The District Attorney's Office estimates the loss at more than $350,000. There could be as many as 50 additional victims.


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Space Camps for Corporations, Adults and Children
There are now Space Camp programs for Children, Adults and even for Corporate events. Children will learn more about space, space shuttle, robotics, mars etc in these camp programs. These programs enhance teamwork, self-confidence and communication and these will be achieved through state-of-the-art simulations, missions, rocket building and robotics. For scholarship, photo gallery, international camps, and more information about these camps, visit http://www.spacecamp.com/category.php?cat=Space
Participants will have three fields of specialized study (or track options) to choose from: Aviation, Space, and Robotics tracks.
Kids will learn flight dynamics, wilderness survival, teamwork, and spend time in high-performance jet fighter simulators. They learn all the skills that an American fighter pilots use to rule the skies.
What makes an airplane fly? It'll teach them the principles of flight, not in the classroom, but standing next to an F-16 or F-14 planes!
In addition to a Shuttle Mission, space track campers go through extensive Mars training to prepare for interplanetary travel. They will learn about the planet, its soil, geology, climate and atmosphere. They will also receive crew assignments, and set ready to go!
Settle into your new home – Mars Outpost – Alpha Station. Explore the surface of Mars. Conduct experiments on the soil and rocks collected, as well as keeping everything on board the Mars Outpost running smoothly. Once the mission is complete, it is time to head home to Earth.
Kids will learn how to rescue astronauts from the International Space Station! 10 hours of designing and programming a robot using LEGO Mindstorm software and materials.
Kids form team of four to five and create the ultimate robotic rover, using an unlimited array of gears, pulleys, sensors, and other parts. Then they program the robot to perform tasks at the ISS using the latest computer software. They test their creations and compete with other groups to save stranded astronauts and deliver supplies to the space station.
There are 10 space programs to choose depending on your age. All the below mentioned programs follow the above three tracks.
Space Camp program duration is 3 – 6 days. It uses space to excite and educate children ages 9-11 in the fields of math, science and technology. In space camp, everything you will learn about Space Shuttle Systems and life aboard the Orbiter and Space Station. Kids can try out space food, learn to sleep in space and even how to go to the bathroom in space! To know more about the program, click here.
Space Academy is an increased intensity program of astronaut and mission training and academics. Simulated missions to a space station and crew rotation highlight the week. Trainees who want to be Astronauts must learn to think like astronauts and our Space Academy Programs are designed to do just that! This program is kids aged 12 – 14 and length of this program is 6-day and 8-day. Trainees will participate in Shuttle Missions, Space Simulators, build & launch rockets and sample space food. To know more about the program, click here. Participants will go through Team-Building skills, Space Simulators Training and Space Shuttle Mission Training activities which are part of this program.
Advanced Space Academy is for ages 15 – 18 and offers programs for 6-day and 8-day. During this week-long program, trainees get hands-on training, as well as learn about the mental, emotional and physical demands astronauts must face. Fields of study include Engineering, Space Technology and Aerospace Science. The Advanced Space Academy program is a college-accredited program through the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH). All Advanced Space Academy participants will earn one hour of Freshman-level general science credit from UAH. For details on activities and tracks, click here. Choose your path of study from one of the racks listed below.
- Pilot Track Trainees will take command of an orbiter on its mission to the International Space Station. A pilot will follow the checklist procedures of a mission and be required to make emergency decisions while monitoring and commanding the crew.
- Pilot SCUBA Track Trainees will continue to command or pilot an orbiter and learn Aerospace Science as their core basis for training, but instead of flying the Flight Simulators at Aviation Challenge, they will SCUBA dive in the UAT SCUBA tank.
- Mission Specialist Track Trainees will be instructed in the engineering and design of the shuttle and space station. Repairs to either will be conducted in the UAT SCUBA Tank creating and accurate environment for the space walk.
Parent / Child program is designed to give both of you an overview of space exploration, while experience very real space simulations. Parent Child Space Camp is a weekend for just the two of you, providing the opportunity to become partners in learning. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and lift off! Watch the rocket that you and your child built together soar. Share the pride that your child will feel while manoeuvring the orbiter through space. What better way to build a lasting relationship than through Parent Child Space Camp?
Get ready for a weekend of non-stop activities. Together, you and your child will explore the history – present and future – of space flight. You will also experience the excitement of being there while watching an IMAX movie! See Shuttle astronauts perform missions in space, ride along as Aviators throttle up, or explore the surface of mars.
Participants also get a packet of exciting activities to explore scientific concepts at home. Click here for details on Parent/Child Program activities.
Adult Programs will put your skills, abilities and talents to the test in training simulators and simulated missions. Experience four G's of force when you blast off 140 feet on SPACE SHOT. Feel what it's like to walk on the moon in the 1/6th Gravity Trainer, then experience a simulated tumble in space in the Multi-Axis Trainer. You'll also alternate roles in mission control and shuttle crew during two different Space Shuttle missions.
Witness space exploration almost firsthand in a giant-screen IMAX Spacedome theater presentation. You will also spend time in our world class Space Museum containing America's largest collection of space artifacts.
Special Programs are for blind and visually impaired and the deaf and hard of hearing, these programs offer all the excitement of Space Camp & Aviation Challenge.
The Space Camp and Aviation Challenge programs specifically designed for blind, visually-impaired, deaf and/or hard-of-hearing attendees have attracted students from across the United States and around the world.
Over the years, we have worked closely with several organizations, including the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, and most recently, the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, to develop a meaningful, inspirational experience for these students.
Program highlights may include a presentation by blind and/or deaf NASA professionals on career choices and working in the space industry. Enlarged print, sign language interpreters, attention to mobility hazards and other special considerations are extended to put trainees at ease.
Blind students also benefit from the latest technology in the field, including tactile Braille displays and synthetic speech for computers.
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|Cover of Roy's Cold Heaven with Gina Hyams as Fear
and Dey Ehrlich as Technique from Bye, Bye Brunilde
In honor of Camille's new book Sherwood Forest, I thought I would reprise this interview with Camille, Gina Hyams who played Fear in Roy's play Bye Bye Brunhilde, and director Zack. For some reason that day, Dey Ehrlich was not able to be there. This was the first interview I ever did and I remember it clearly because we did the whole interview and then I discovered that something was wrong with the cassette recorder (yes, I said the cassette recorder!) or rather, my operation of it, so we had to do the interview all over again! It was alarming and fun.
Words in the Mouth: A New Look at Poet's Theater
ROBIN TREMBLAY-McGAW
published in Poetry Flash August 1991
BYE BYE BRUNHILDE is an original Poet's Theater performance written by poet/playwright Camille Roy, directed by Zack, designed by Rodney O'Neal Austin and Robert Hold and performed by Gina Hyams and Dey Ehrlich, originally co-presented by The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University and New Langton Arts in March 1991. The play will run at the Studio at Theater Rhinoceros, San Francisco, August 15-25.
There is an active. fruitful, difference of opinion in the air which has encouraged many of us to take another look at the possibilities of poetry in performance; that is, theater used as a vehicle for poetics and language theory, as written by poets, not playwrights, usually practiced by poets unconcerned with narrative conflict and action, the traditional values of theater. The play becomes a setting for language, instead of a vehicle for plot. Literature and theate, as we are used to thinking of them, are based on a dialectic, and don't necessarily reduce to one voice. But experimental Poet's Theater has challenged these viewpoints, blurred the borders, as demonstrated by poet/playwright Camille Roy's Bye Bye Brunhilde, a play about two lesbians who share an apartment and have a 'non-representational' tug of war between "identity politics and language theory" as they act out their "tender dance and brutal wrestling match. As Robert Gluck, poet and writer, has said,
"Bye Bye Brunhilde is a gorgeously perverse valentine about two dykes, Fear and Technique.
Fear says. "We're compatible in a way. I like you and you like my looks.' Technique replies. "You're right. I do like your looks. Camille Roy has put a lesbian spin on poet's theatre. Her characters entirely embody their sexual give and take while, on another level, their roles are dismantled by star-struck language."
Bye Bye Brunhilde premiered to sold out houses earlier this year, and returns to the stage in August with the original cast, Dey Ehrlich and Gina Hyams. Camille Roy has published poems and stories in ZYZZYV A and (HOW)ever; her work has appeared in anthologies such as Women On Women and Deep Down; her first book is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press. She is also editor of Dear World, a "queer art & lit magazine." Bye Bye Brunhilde grew out of a collaboration with film and video maker Abigail Child on "pornography, narrative, and community" in a lesbian context. ..
- Joyce Jenkins, Editor, Poetry Flash
The following talk was conducted by Robin Tremblay-McGaw with Camille Roy, Gina Hyams, and Zack.
RTM: Who are the writers that interest you, Camille?
CR: In this play, I think my two reference points were the plays of Carla Harryman and Frank O'Hara. They are both writers that I really admire; they're very different, vivid in different ways as well as both being poets writing for the theater. Other writers that I've been influenced by include Robert Gluck and Kathleen Fraser. I've been influenced by both poets and narrative writers quite a lot. So I've had to reconcile those diverse influences in my own work. Writing for voices, writing for theater, is one way to do that, to combine narrative and highly charged language. I can have the freedom and flexibility that I want and still keep these elements of recognition with an audience that creates a kind of intimacy that is valuable to me.
RTM: Zack and Gina, what do you see as different, if anything, in the work that poets produce for theater in comparison to what other writers produce?
Z: I think the clearest difference is the amount of steps you, as a director, need to go through to have a feel for the script or text. In most plays the analysis is pretty limited to the motivations and the psychological behavior and how that's manifested through the actions of the characters, whereas all those kinds of modes of interpretation go out the window when you're looking at a script that's abstract or convoluted or, at times, even nonsensical. You cannot break this script down according to the 'rules' of traditional drama. That's one big difference. Another difference is that it's not always clear from the words what should or could be happening visually. The words do not point to definitive stage action. They may suggest something, but there is no one-on-one relationship. Ten different directors will give you ten very different Bye Bye Brunhilde.
GH: Right. When we were starting, when we first rehearsed it, Zack and Dey and I sat in a cafe. Our first impulse was to try to pin it down in some way. What does this line mean? What do these characters mean? We found that that's not a helpful way to deal with this language because the language leaps all over the place. And that's the joy in the language, that you can go all these different places.
Z: Sometimes there's subtext and sometimes—there isn't—and to jump on the assumption that there's always subtext can be misleading. Or to throw subtext out the window can also be a faux pas. In traditional plays, generally, there is a lot of subtext, but it's of a simple nature. The character says, "I want you to leave!" when they really want you to stay. But in a play like this the character says, "Milk-white pebble stone'" and maybe it's not productive to spend half an hour saying "What are those milk-white pebbles there?"
GH: Except that as performers we needed to find those moment-to-moment kinds of truths and meaning. There is an arc to the play, but there's not a linear progression in the play that is immediately discernible. It's a much more intuitive progression that happens in the imagination of these characters.
CR: This play is kind of a meeting point for a set of collaborations that began in a collaboration, and it took in other collaborations as it moved to the stage of being performed in a theater. That was very exciting for me as a writer. The way the play was actually written invited collaboration, and I think it also invites that from the audience.
Z: Oh. definitely! I think that most plays, when they reach the stage of production, have been refined to the point of being almost fascistic in the sense of one vision, one clear, digestible, easily and quickly understood unit or moment or statement or message, or something. This play requires a lot from the audience in terms of interpretation. They must go through the same thing: do I want to spend thirty minutes looking at the milk-white pebbles, or do I want to go on and find out what's going on with the relationship?
RTM: So it's very process-oriented for everyone involved right from the very beginning?
Z: Yes, and I think that can make certain audience members uncomfortable, to realize that they have a responsibility or... an opportunity to participate in this way and invent along with us –that it is not a sealed, closed system that they are watching as if it sits under glass existing outside of them. They are really in the moment with the performers as well as the characters, as well as the writer. It's all [being worked on] at the same time rather than being something that has been finished and made, and now just needs to be consumed.
RTM: Well, who is the audience for this?
CR: I think that this play is in many ways quite recognizable by people who are not necessarily experimental writers, although experimental writers get every line, and often other audience, members do not.
GH: It's not that they get every line. They get something else. They may not care about these narrative arguments at all and have no interest in literary theories. But it really doesn't matter with this play because these characters, these entities are so physical and sensual, and they do have a relationship to each other and to the space and to the audience and to the language—which is almost a third character. It's funny; and there's a lot of story without a lot of plot.
CR: There's story, and there's character, but there's not narrative in the traditional form. The character and the stories are there because they give a certain kind of pleasure, and not there because they're part of an organization that's desired to reproduce somebody's idea of what reality is. It's much more open-ended than that.
RTM: It's interesting that it's such a pleasurable piece. How do you see the lesbianism of the characters relating to the play?
CR: It's that intimacy theme again. The lesbian community is a sort of hothouse for intimacy, as any group that is all women can be. Possibly the private life of couples is played out a bit more in front of friends and others than in the straight community.
Also Fear and Technique have very different views of sexual identity, that is, their identity as lesbians. To Fear it is a riddle that undoes itself. For Technique it is a lyrical expression of a kind of logic. Fear is more innovative, really, because she's not only lesbian, she's femme. This is a location with more than one source of knowledge.
Also, sexuality. Their sexual relationship is metaphorically realized in the play. The context for this is the explosion in play and discourse concerning sex in the lesbian community over the last twelve years. It's almost a kind of community cannibalism, feasting off the body.
RTM: But this was an intellectual idea before it became these characters in the language that they're aspiring to.
CR: That's true, but I was also wanting to look at the intersection of theory and sexuality, theory and relationship; to look at story and character to see what kind of pleasure they can give.
Z: I think you've also jumbled the balance which most people are used to in the theater, in terms of how much they are feeling with the characters or for the characters, and how much they have to think about how this piece is being made, or what are the conscious steps we go through when we assemble experience, for example. The audience has to put those words together with those images, and they might not necessarily fit or be as clear as what we encounter in our daily life; I mean, that's if you don't have any imagination.
RTM: There is a deep sense of recognition, though, in this piece for the audience members. What is it that the audience is identifying with?
CR: I think this is a very intimate relationship and the characters have a strong presence. It's not an experimental piece in the sense that there is no character. Some of the dynamics of intimacy are what people recognize. They recognize the misunderstandings, the lying interpretations of reality, and the comedy of that.
Let me put in something here about writing the dialogue. That, to me, was just like an explosion, it was so much fun, and provided a whole new set of directions: to imagine the 'words in the mouth' rather than on the page, and part of that was being willing to eliminate descriptive writing. When you're doing dialogue a lot of descriptive setup just gets dropped, and that means that you have a certain kind of multiplicity; you have many perspectives rather than one; you have constant relationships rather than a solidified view of the world. That was tremendously exciting to explore—It's still exciting. There's a way that images in writing function to contain desire, to turn it into something static. If you take that out, then you have this interesting field of possibility that's very physical.
RTM: There isn't an imposed authority or particular view. As you're saying, this validates all perspectives.
Z: There's no omniscience.
CR: Right, and what you have instead is this complex relationship which is like a system rather than a point of view. It also has a kind of organic body of its own. It parallels what Gina was saying - the language is a third character.
RTM: If your experience is that there is not an omniscient point of view, that there isn't a single consciousness or 'correct' or single personality, then does that change the form of your writing?
CR: I think that it's a simplification to try to reduce everything to one voice. It's understandable that people would attempt to do that, but I don't think that it's very accurate. When you have groups of people - a couple or any group - that are relating together, there are certain patterns that they have that are part of, not each one individually, but of their relationship as a complex whole. That's the level of reality that this play is working with. The more traditional view is that there is an objective point of view that can describe what's going on that's outside of those dynamics.
GH: There's no outside in this play.
Z: Very confusing! What you are saying here is, this conflict between the two characters is not a resolvable one, and what one character may consider a resolution won't be for the other one. I think that's much more realistic than the traditional way we approach drama - what happens to the conflicts, who gets what in the end, and blah blah blah. In a way, it's open-ended; the only possible conclusion can be some kind of balance which includes both kinds of realities.
RTM: There are irreconcilable differences that you live with.
Z: Right. Something that would happen frequently when Camille and I first started talking about the script would be: I would pose a question and say, "Well, is it this or is it this'!" and she would say, "Well, it's both," and I would say, "Uh, huh, okay." There was a lot of me trying to make sense of things. It became clear that this was not the kind of world where anything goes, but the kind of world that could assimilate different points of view simultaneously and different realities simultaneously. There was a lot of work for me at the beginning about distinguishing points of view because there was the possibility that it was objective reality, or that it was in Fear's mind or just the way Technique saw what was happening. There's a lot of shifting going on, and it's not all clear. Sometimes it's clear to the audience through lighting or something, but even then many of these people don't get it. There's a lot of shifting, and the play is exciting that way.
RTM: Fear has a very powerful imagination.
Z: And inspires us, too. I think the beauty of that character is that we can go with her and not question things the way we might if we encountered her on the street—where we might think, "This woman's out there!"
But in the theater we can enter her.
RTM: Would you say that she is poetry, and Technique is more prose in style?
CR: That's an interesting point of view. I think that Fear and Technique tell different kinds of stories, that Technique tells stories that are not like Fear's. She constructs explanations. But when you see her operate you realize that a lot of what prompts her to do that is her imagination; Fear is driven by her imagination. So in this play one can't say that Technique is the more realistic character. One thing that's revealed about her over the course of the play is how she fails to really get the control that she wants to have through her theories, and so there's an equality in her relationship to Fear that you might not think would be there in the beginning.
Z: It's very interesting: what's set up as given at the beginning is pulled totally into question by the end of the play, in terms of the characters. But I also think that each of them are poetry by themselves in their own self-worlds, but in encountering each other, in seeing each other, they see prose.
GH: As a performer encountering Fear, it was very important that I understand her as poetry and not as a character who grew up in the suburbs and who had ten brothers. The play gives little hints in fits and starts about what her past could have been or was in her mind. But there's a fluidity that poetry can have and that Fear is.
Z: I think Fear is who we all want to be, in the sense she is someone who has taken creation to the max, which we're so conditioned to be afraid of. But she is really in the moment and is willing to follow her mind.
GH: And her body.
Z: . . . and her body, right, in a way that can be very alarming to people who are looking for logic. Because we're so trained to look for that logic and use it to understand what is happening: point A goes to point B. So it can be threatening or disconcerting to see someone who is not connecting the dots.
GH: Well, I think some people get scared for her too.
CR: I think that's primary, that people get scared for her, but they also feel very attracted to her. She is really an attractive character in the play.
RTM: I think one recognizes oneself, sort of .the dark-self, the self of excess, in Fear. She articulates things that to the rest of us, as you say, are a little bit dangerous. She wants an enemy, and she says that she wants one. I find that interesting.
CR: Another paradox is that, in some way, because she's been overcome by the world, she's more in and of the world than are other people who are more 'competent'. Somehow she's not just in touch with what's going on, she is what's going on.
GH: Well, I find it actually liberating and wonderful to be her because she is very different than I am in many ways. Fear tells stories differently.
RTM: What do you mean she tells stories differently?
GH: Well, before I was Fear, I felt in some ways awkward telling stories. I'd feel as if I was either taking up too much room in telling a long narrative story about my past or feel like I had to know someone very, very well before I would reveal in that way. Fear takes up all kinds of space with her language. What gives her the most pleasure in the world is to see where her stories take her, both in her own mind and in her speech and in her adventures.
RTM: One of the things that interests me, speaking about space, is the kind of space someone takes up in language. That seems to be a particular issue, I think, for women more than men.
CR: That's an interesting point. I think that the kind of space that Fear takes up is somehow very feminine. She tells a story full of power and experience; we tend to think that feminine stories will not have those qualities.
RTM: And that they should not take up so much space. I think that men are allowed more space than women when it comes to speaking and the kinds of space that they take up in that way.
CR: Technique, in a way, in being theoretical, has some resemblance to the way men take up story space, and yet what becomes of her character is very different than what you would expect, given that. There's a surprise there that I won't give away. The way those two things playoff of one another is interesting, too.
RTM: What hasn't been done in theater that you would like to see done? What kinds of things would you like to exploit or work with yourself?
CR: I'm tremendously interested in the mind of multiplicity that's available and the conflict that you get from having different voices without a single narrator in the background who is basically setting everything up. The other thing is that, when I'm writing, I feel that I'm writing for the mouth rather than for the page, and that really makes the process of writing more physical for me and also I feel that more of my body is involved even though less of my body is described. It's an interesting contradiction; it's something that I like a lot. I think that when you have live performance, you have a lot of leeway to be very experimental with the language and not lose your audience because you have the characters on stage who give all the physical clues. To me that's an opportunity to really go someplace different in terms of the writing.
RTM: It requires the audience to come in with an open mind, without expectations.
Z: I wouldn't say that—because you're not going to get one coming in without expectations, but I think the play gives the audience credit for being able to take in something that might not be immediately consumable. It is so often the case nowadays that people think they can understand something in a split second; whereas this requires a little more processing; I find this kind of art pleasurable.
CR: It involves letting go of understanding every little thing as a goal.
Z: Or putting them together in that way, "If I miss this piece, then I won't get the next piece."
CR: Right, this is a piece where you can miss one thing and get another thing and get another thing and miss something, and that's really fine. There's no sense that you're excluded as an audience member because of that. For some members of the audience, it takes them about halfway through the show before they really realize that that's how it's going to be. At that point I noticed, particularly on one night, they just opened up; they just all got a lot looser.
RTM: So, the play sort of shatters, then, the hierarchy of meaning?
CR: Well, what is the hierarchy of meaning? [laughter]
Z: That's the whole point.
GH: It's definitional.
CR: It shatters the idea that there's one right answer.
You can read a recent a 2008 interview with Gina Hyams published previously on this blog here. Among other things, Gina discusses Fear's blood red velvet spandex mini dress!


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My usual approach to storytelling is to focus on several different characters or groups of characters that gradually come together in the course of the story.
An interview with Terry Brooks about his new series that begins with Armageddon's Children
Transmedia storytelling is the future of marketing.
But the storytelling is there, and this edit does a good job of selling Tron as a character-based action film in an unusual world.
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(He also claims this storytelling is the key to his successful writing.)
(He also claims this storytelling is the key to his successful writing.)
Stand-alones demand a different kind of storytelling from a series novel, perhaps more complete than what is required for the episodic nature of a series.
I would like to point out that "storytelling" is more effective if it reflects a majority than the minority.
Certainly, this "storytelling" is embedded in the investigation that drives the plot: Finlay sifts through the "facts" to find the "truth."
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The best kind of storytelling is when writers turn a mirror on ourselves, and that mirror shows us a lot of conflict.
But the storytelling is clear, and the characters, in their body and faces, are expressive — both of these things being hard to achieve (and more and more rare I find).
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Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?
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Halloween and Spooky Stuff
A little bit of a confession here - I don't much care for Halloween. I definitely don't like being scared. I know some people live to get the thrill of monsters jumping out at them at some scary event or some creepy being stalking them at a haunted house. Not me! I don't like to be frightened.
Halloween and ghosts aren't my only fright dislikes. I don't ride big scary roller coasters or any kind of ride that might make me scream.
Now, I know to you thrill-seekers out there, you are probably calling me a chicken under your breath as you read this. That's okay. I can handle it. But, you still won't convince me to do any of these things that freak me out.
In comparison, the world we're living in these days can be a pretty scary place. As Christians, we do have a creepy foe who is out to kill and destroy. He would like nothing better than for us to fear being made fun of or be afraid to stand on our godly principles. He wants to catch us off-guard so we will do something to hurt the heart of God.
But, good news - God placed 366 "Do not fears" in the Bible. That's one for every day and an extra thrown in for leap year. God knows we're in a battle everyday, but He's with us no matter what. He promises this in the Bible. The God of the universe, Who is already in our tomorrows, is on our side. He Who has overcome the world is our Father.
How wonderful is it that God cares that much for his children? He seeks to alleviate our fears.
You still won't convince me to go to a haunted house or ride a roller coaster. But, I am thankful God is with me through every scary thing I face in life.


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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Things We Take For Granted
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Try standing as a door person at Costco for an 8 hour shift! You will literally want to kill yourself before it's over. My worst job ever. I loved working at Costco but not that particular job! I'm with you-- I'd rather be walking than standing any day!ReplyDelete
Oh Karen, I can't even imagine! My worst job was as a production assistant right out of college. Not a lot of standing around, but a lot of walking and driving. Dangerous driving because it was done on very little sleep. Still, I'd rather do that again than stand all day and greet people. I couldn't be cheery for a full 8 hours on my feet! I wonder if the retired people that WalMart uses as greeters have to stand for 8 hours? I don't have a WalMart near me, but it seems when I'm visiting my mom and she pops in to the pharmacy, the greeters are always at least 70 years old. They aren't given chairs either! I vote for everyone to be given chairs from now on. No more standing. It's too hard on the body!ReplyDelete


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Read this if…
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* you need to grow in your understanding of the global church
* you need to develop a greater heart for the lost and unreached.
Publisher's Summary
This book recounts the stories of just some of the hundreds of peasant farmers from Southern Ethiopia who God called to take the Gospel message into previously inaccessible regions, to people so fierce they would not hesitate to kill an outsider. It is a brief record of some of their culture, the security of their families and who, with Bible and water bottle in hand and confidence in their saviour, took the message of Jesus Christ over the mountain ranges and beyond the rivers to those who had never heard of Him. Today, through the sacrifices and sufferings of men like these, there are thousands of churches throughout the mountains of Southern Ethiopia. These stories will shock encourage, challenge and provoke you to follow their example as gospel warriors.
Review by @jvalenti
Apparently this publisher of this little book is no longer in business, so I am thankful that I stumbled across this book. I actually believe that Dale Ralph Davis mentioned it in one of his commentaries.
Warriors of Ethiopia is a biographical history of sorts detailing the spread of the gospel to the unreached tribes in the Omo river valley in Southwestern Ethiopia. The stories are told by missionary Richard (Dick) McLellan who spent over 20 years in the region with his wive Vida.
It is hard to describe the emotional attachment that I gained to the wonderful men and women that I met in these pages. As a missionary that is particularly burdened for the unreached, I was awed and encouraged by the boldness of the Ethiopian believers. Many of them suffered through unimaginable pain and loss in order to take the gospel to their countrymen. Many of them even pay the ultimate cost of their lives as they refused to stop sharing the greatest story ever told.
The miracles that are present throughout the book are miracles that I long for. I long to be a part of a community of people so committed gospel proclamation and so reliant on the Holy Spirit that it is necessary for God to continue to do amazing things in order for our objectives to be realized.
McClellan is an excellent story teller. You will develop a deep connection to the men and women that you will meet. Each chapter is a short biography, and this model lends itself to quick reading. After I finished a chapter I would always think, "I have time for one more."
I have had the opportunity to use the stories from this book in several sermons recently. The men and women of the Omo river valley exercise such faith that it is hard not to prop them up as an example to an American congregation.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. In my humble opinion, it is a must read for every Christian. My hope is that this collection of stories will develop more fully a heart for the nations – that you will see more than ever before the necessity to take the good news to those who have not year heard it. There are sheep out there, and they will hear is his voice!


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On June 2nd and 3rd community members, NGOs, government officials, and tourists came together to celebrate Cabo Pulmo's 17th anniversary. The anniversary marks the day that Cabo Pulmo was first declared a National Marine Park. The cultural and natural festivities were a great success thanks to many dedicated and impassioned individuals.
Throughout the weekend celebration different kinds of events and festivities took place, including a volleyball tournament, foot and bicycle races, environmental education workshops, the annual tug-o-war, live comedy, music, and short-films.
The involvement and dedication of the local community is truly inspirational, and their efforts are clearly visible. After 17 years it is wonderful to share in the celebration with a local community that has been working together to protect their natural environment and improve their livelihoods.
RED participated in the celebration with a "Local Knowledge Rally" in which kids answered questions about what makes Cabo Pulmo such a unique destination. These included questions on sea turtles in the region, recycling in the community and fish species in the area, with the objective to see who could answer the most questions correctly. In the end, everyone won; RED's staff got more involved with the community, and the kids had a great time.
The anniversary was a celebration for all, but mostly for the community that has worked hard to preserve their natural surroundings for everyone to enjoy, especially Cabo Pulmo's future generations.


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What are the PADI Open Water Diver course prerequisites?
To be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver, you need to be at least 10 years old*, fit for diving, and able to swim. To be able to participate in the PADI eLearning Open Water online program, you simply need to be at least 10 years old.
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After enrolling, PADI's eLearning® system presents you with interactive presentations that include videos, audio, graphics and reading. Short quizzes let you gauge your progress, and review and correct anything you might happen to miss. This lets you move through the program efficiently and at your own pace.
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So this past Sunday I decided to make a couple boxes that I hadn't tired yet, both SVG's that I purchased last week. A Pumpkin from My Scrap Chick and an Acorn from SVG Cuts. I loved them. Both were pretty easy to make...the acorn was a bit harder, but after making one I think the next one will be much easier.
These would make a great little hostess gift!
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Tuscan Kitchen Portsmouth, the third location from Tuscan Brands' founder Joe Faro, became the newest addition to the Portsmouth, N.H. culinary scene when it officially opened its doors to the public on March 1.
"We are so excited about our new location," Faro said. "Portsmouth is a fantastic culinary destination and is the perfect place for us to introduce our unique style of authentic, artisan Italian cuisine. We are very proud to be joining this community and are looking forward to sharing our newest endeavor in such a vibrant and thriving area."
Faro discovered the location by accident when he noticed the former Jerry Lewis Cinema on Lafayette Road and determined it was the perfect site for a new restaurant and market.
The 16,000 square foot location also includes a 75-seat patio that will open for lunch and dinner weather permitting, as well as an adjacent Tuscan Market that will open in June offering meats, cheese, pasta, freshly baked breads, prepared meals, coffee, handmade desserts and more.
The spacious new restaurant held a private VIP opening gala that was attended by hundreds of friends, family, Portsmouth business owners, local officials and media and was hosted by NESN's "Dining Playbook" hosts Jenny Johnson and Billy Costa. The menu will be the same as sister locations in Salem, N.H. and Burlington, Mass., while Chef Nimesh Maharjan – a protégé of celebrity Boston Chef Todd English – will locally source seafood, meats and produce and lend his own creative touch to several dishes and specials.
Faro, who has a long history of supporting local charities in communities where he owns businesses, has already partnered with a local homeless shelter and is planning more philanthropic endeavors in Portsmouth. In addition to Salem, Burlington, and Portsmouth, a fourth location is set to open in Boston's Seaport Square development in the fall. Tuscan Brands is also developing Tuscan Village in Salem, N.H., which will include a new flagship Tuscan Kitchen & Market, as well as a hotel, conference center and new restaurant concepts from Faro and his team.


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Kyle S. Christensen, DDS
Meet Dr. Christensen
Salt Lake Valley native Dr. Kyle Christensen is a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon in South Jordan, Utah.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah, he went on to earn his dental degree and completed his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (O.M.S.) residency at the University of Washington, School of Dentistry.
Dr. Christensen is also a member of the A.A.O.M.S. (American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons).
Call Wasatch Oral Surgery Phone Number 801-561-8088 to schedule your consultation with Dr. Christensen.


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March 2016 Commenting Giveaway: The Winner!Written on April 29, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
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It took me much longer than expected to sort through and filter through the comments/entries made in March – I deleted a bunch of spam, and then had to pull my own name out of the running because I don't think anyone would believe it if I won my own giveaway! That said, I should probably show you all what the prize is! It is this:
The winner will be receiving this adorable pink alpaca stationery set, a pair of lashes, a dark blue pair of eye chips for Neo Blythe (from Cool Cat), and a dark purple short-sleeve sweater for Blythe (knit by me).
There was a whopping 117 comments made in the month of March (not inclusive of spam and commentary made by myself, of course) – thank you to everyone who commented on BlytheLife last month! And the winner is… Click to read more of this entry.


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I was giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament Local Government Committee today on the draft Scottish Government budget for the next financial year.
Our key concern is that local government is bearing the brunt of the UK government cuts in Scotland. £637m since 2008/9 and as a consequence over 30,000 jobs have been lost.
This is having a significant impact on jobs, services and in particular, the living standards of council and voluntary sector staff through job losses and cuts to pay and conditions. The General Resource Grant to councils is being cut from £7.189m this year to £6.971m next year and £6.809m the year after. In real terms the cut is even larger - £6.841m and £6.564m. We also highlight the shift from revenue to capital spend and the potential equalities considerations that don't appear in any government budget assessment.
The limited budget also comes with strings, the new form of ring fencing that was supposed to be abolished under this administration. Teacher numbers, small business bonus, and until this year, the absurd police officer target that has led to police officers being taken off the beat to substitute for police civilians at twice the cost. Another string is the joint working and community planning agreement. Most of this is fine, but joint working will always struggle while the partners have different accountability mechanisms. The Christie Commission identified this as an issue, but little has been done to address it.
The biggest constraint is the regressive Council Tax freeze the cost of which has now topped £2.5bn.
This is a huge sum of money that councils can ill afford to lose. We simply have to try and get a cross party agreement on local taxation, to break the policy logjam. Not just for financial reasons, but to return a degree of local democratic accountability to councils.
We also highlight the significant increase in charges that many councils are leaving to plug the gaps caused by the Council Tax freeze and other revenue reductions. Again, these are largely regressive; hitting those who need council services the most.
Most of the parliamentary committees this budget round are looking at the National Performance Framework – Scotland Performs. This was launched with high expectations that haven't been met. The data is often out of date and the format is not user friendly. There is no clear link between the Scottish Government Budget, its programme and Scotland Performs, neither physically as a web link on the site or in the discussion sections of the site. We would also like to see a move towards including the Oxfam Human Kind index in the performance framework.
Finally, we yet again draw attention to the outstanding equal pay cases. Despite helpful recommendations in the past by the Local Government Committee, progress remains slow with councils spending huge amounts of money on legal technicalities – challenges that they almost always lose. We need to move away from a compensation culture and towards an equality culture.


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This was the morning before I got my wide angle… it would have been nice to have on this shoot, though! I love, love, love Chautauqua Park in Boulder, CO. It's amazing. I headed there the first morning I was in Boulder, and saw this amazing sky forming. You should have seen me booking across the field to catch a good angle! The photo is an HDR, made from 3 different exposures of the scene. I hope you enjoy it. The solitude and calm of that morning was amazing, and the otherworldly Flatiron mountains are incredible.
See this and other images at www.kelleybard.com, on at any of the links to the right (Buzztown, facebook, flickr…).
More images are going to come from this great trip, including some darling family and baby shots that I was blessed to take. Keep coming back to view them as I post my daily photos for 2011!


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Chris "God
Boy" Angel
Address: email@example.com
Homepage: Christopher "God-Boy" Angel's Fanfiction
The lone entry at A is the writer of Siblings,
Shieldsman, Oh My Brother!,
Age of Evangelion, Mirai Muyo
(you really should finish it, Chris), God's Toy and Turn
The Page. He is also participant of CALF Productions' SI Otaku
Leap. Anyway, his works are quite good by my standards. I've constantly
reread his Shieldsman and Oh My Brother!
series. He has the urge to put in new characters that I suspect act a lot like
him. His works do not suffer from this little quirk, but are enhanced by it. His
works have that charm to them.
Becerra Biles Bartram Beaubien Barba
Ed Becerra
Address: email@example.com
Homepage: The Workbench
The author of Legion's Quest, one of the best SIs I've ever read. I recommend you go to his webpage and get the entire series. His writing skills are quite good, making his works quite an enjoyable read.
John Walter Biles
Address: email@example.com
Homepage: Dread Space Pirate Bailesu's Home Page
The author of such classics of fanfiction as Dance of Shiva, Lemon Sherbet, Putting Your Heart in the Right Place and many others. He's also got this cool WoT RPG on his page. Anyway, his skills at writing is incredible. As Andrew Huang puts it, he is an "epic-weaver". His interweaving of plot points and excellent writing skills make his works classics of the field.
Lara Bartram
Address: email@example.com
Homepage: Lara's Fanfics!
The author of Kazuo's Kind, Wolf in Samurai's Clothing, Twisted Destiny and quite a few unforgettable lemons. She is a very good writer and I'll be constantly rereading her lemons for a long time. ~_^
Richard Beaubien
Address: email@example.com
Homepage: Mizuno Productions
The author of two unforgettable Hime-chan No Ribbon fics and The Eating Guide to the Silver Millenium. He is a masterful mood setter, and as shown by his fics, quite flexible, skilled in both serious introspection and comedy.
Rob Barba
Address: email@example.com
Homepage: The California Cat Cafe Online
The author of The Tales of Shampoo and
primary author of Sailor Moon AX. Like Biles, he is an
epic weaver, able to get many plot points to weave into one whole. His work is very,
very good. Trust me, you'll forget the time while reading his fics as you are caught
up in the story.
Cheng Cobb
Donny Cheng
Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Homepage: Donny's Anime Fanfic Archive
Best known for his work on the Life and Times series, a real big crossover which at the very heart has every unattached female in the anime universe going after Ranma. Excellent style that blends humor and romance.
Henry J. Cobb
Address: email@example.com
Homepage: Henry J. Cobb's Home Page
The resident Urusei Yatsura writer. His premiere work is in his Oh My Goddess!/Urusei Yatsura fanfic Chaos and Death. He is also a master spamfic writer, matched only by Ryoucilo in skill of creating delightful little shorts.


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United Rentals to Present at the Goldman Sachs Industrials Conference
Stamford, Conn. - Nov 4, 2013
United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) today announced that it will participate in the Goldman Sachs Industrials Conference on Thursday, November 14, 2013. The conference will include a presentation by Michael Kneeland, chief executive officer, and William Plummer, chief financial officer.
The presentation, which is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. (EST), will be available via the following link: http://cc.talkpoint.com/gold006/111313a_gm/?entity=1_HNJN2E7
The presentation may also be accessed on www.ur.com, where it will be archived for 90 days.
About United Rentals
United Rentals, Inc. is the largest equipment rental company in the world, with an integrated network of 822 rental locations that operate in 49 U.S. states and every Canadian province. The company's approximately 11,700 employees serve construction and industrial customers, utilities, municipalities, homeowners and others. The company offers for rent approximately 3,200 classes of equipment for rent with a total original cost of $7.96 billion. United Rentals is a member of the Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 Index, the Barron's 400 Index and the Russell 2000 Index® and is headquartered in Stamford, Conn. Additional information about United Rentals is available at www.unitedrentals.com.
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Hi there! I'm Miki.
Bay Area bred. Downtown LA dweller. Community builder + connector.
Rescue dog collector. Taco aficionado. Whiskey/tequila sipper. Startup advisor.
Bay Area bred. Downtown LA dweller. Community builder + connector.
Rescue dog collector. Taco aficionado. Whiskey/tequila sipper. Startup advisor.
I am currently the Executive Director of Grid110, an early stage startup accelerator and economic/community development non-profit I co-founded in 2014.
I have 13+ years of experience working in tech, ranging from digital marketing and creative services to software development and e-commerce. After managing digital projects at global entertainment corporations like MGM Studios and 20th Century Fox, and heading up operations/product for a software development company, I launched the Downtown LA location for tech education company General Assembly. I left GA mid-2017 after being appointed to the Executive Director position at Grid110.
I've accepted commendations from Mayor Eric Garcetti on behalf of General Assembly and Grid110, have been recognized by LA Biz Journal as a 2017 Woman of Influence, and was most recently named to Techweek's 2017 #Techweek100. I've also spoken at Creative Mornings, General Assembly, Silicon Beach Fest and Innovate LA. I'm proud UCLA Bruin, taco aficionado, rescue dog owner x2, and passionate advocate for the LA startup community.
I've had the good fortune to be featured on several podcasts and online media outlets, and have been invited to speak on the topic of tech in LA, career development and entrepreneurship. If you're interested in connecting, please reach out below!


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The Bulgarian striker fell awkwardly following an aerial challenge with Patrice Evra after just six minutes of his first start for the Blues.
The club confirmed they expect the 21-year-old, signed from Fiorentina for an undisclosed fee in early August, to be out for "at least five months".
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The first step has been taken on the creation of new controversial £9million headquarters for Harrogate Borough Council.
Preliminary work on the site began today (Monday, October 19) with the new building expected to be completed in Spring 2017.
Yorkshire based Harry Fairclough Construction will now prepare the site for demolition work as well as erecting safety fencing and two site offices.
Demolition of the current buildings will take place between November and December with construction of the new headquarters expected to be completed in Spring 2017.
The early work is expected to last for six weeks and Coun Graham Swift, Cabinet Member for Tourism, Economic Development and Enterprise, described the move as a 'momentous occasion'.
He said: "The move will allow us to improve on the service we offer our customers and provide long term savings for the council tax payer.
"We are keen for residents to be kept informed about progress and as such a blog has been created by the lead contractor Harry Fairclough Construction which will be frequently updated with information and will provide the opportunity for people to ask questions about the project.
"This project has been many years in the making, and I am delighted that we will shortly begin creating offices which will have far reaching benefits for the whole of the district."
The controversial plans were approved in July against a backdrop of protests with around 50 angry campaigners gathered outside the council's offices.
In total 29 councillors voted for the move, including three independent councillors, with all 15 Lib Dems opposing the move along with Coun Shirley Fawcett (Con, Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale).
Crescent Gardens will now be sold to the authorities preferred bidder for an undisclosed sum, though it is thought to have fetched more than the £2million to £5million estimate estate agents valued the building at earlier this year.


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Either I've reached a point where my body is no longer fazed by surgery, or things are just going a whole lot better for me on the operating table these days. I had a seventh ankle surgery on Friday the 14th and have bounced back faster than I ever imagined possible. I was off pain meds the next day and just two days later I was back in the kitchen making pancakes for Father's Day (from scratch of course, I don't own any mixes). Three days post-op I started walking around the house unassisted, and today (day 4) ran my errands by myself. I hope to do some light strength practice tomorrow.
The lucky seventh surgery was for hardware removal in the left foot and scar tissue revision in the right. The revision was basically a series of injections of a diluted alcohol solution along the scar line to help break up the scar tissue and kill the neurons so I no longer have those incessant pain signals. When I first woke from surgery I could've sworn there was sharp metal poking me along that scar line but I think my body was just trying to process exactly what had happened. I got two extra pain medicine injections in my IV and two norco tablets before leaving the hospital to manage the pain. Since then, the scar tissue has been breaking up beautifully and I have more motion in the joint than I've had in a very, very long time. I'd forgotten what a little mobility felt like.
The lack of metal in my body feels amazing. My heel is stitched closed and I have to take it easy, but I have been walking a little bit. Walking means putting the ball of my foot down first and trying not to put full weight on the heel where the incision site is, so while not incredibly graceful it works for getting around the house. My body is finally healing and not in a constant fight against the foreign piece of metal lodged in my ankle. It's such a huge stress that's just gone, and I hope to never have to do anything like that again.
When the body is under prolonged stress with chronic pain and inflammation, it really does have a huge impact on the entire body, especially the brain. Throw pain meds on top of that and it's a recipe for disaster. You can never really predict how you'll respond in situations like this but just know that it's a lot harder than it looks. Be patient with those suffering, whether they welcome interaction or push you away. They are fighting a constant battle, and it's not fun. Trust me on that.
I'm looking forward to recovery and regaining full use of my body. The sky's the limit, right? Can't wait to see what's in store for later.