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"Get Gone," the debut album from Seratones, a four-piece rock band from Shreveport, Louisiana, proves that the Southern rock renaissance runs deeper than just Alabama Shakes.
Lead singer AJ Haynes has her own style of vocal wailing, with a sharper edged and less titanic voice than the Shakes' wondrous Brittany Howard, but she provides plenty of firepower to match the band's energetic, bare bones attack.
Seratones can take your breath away with bursts of punk-influenced fury such as "Choking on Your Spit" and "Sun," or rumble your eardrums with more conventional guitar-rockers such as "Headtrip" and "Kingdom Come."
But the band's most intriguing moments come when different elements of passionate soul and fiery rock get mixed into "Chandelier" and "Take It Easy," tracks that traverse mood and tempo changes with skill and invention.
Haynes sings with conviction and exuberance throughout, her spontaneous whoops and yelps revealing her delight with the often blistering guitar rock being delivered by her bandmates.
Lead guitarist Connor Davis deserves special praise for his taut, economical solos that dot Seratones' songs like sudden exclamation points.
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Quadrille Taster Session
Despite the grey start to the morning, everyone who took part enjoyed the quadrille taster day held on Sunday 2nd November at Ranksborough Polo Ground.
The session was led by Sarah Carlisle and we were joined by members of the Equestrian Quadrille to music team from Market Harborough. Sarah took us through some basic movements that are typically found in quadrille displays and with music playing the horses all seemed to enjoy themselves. It was a great exercise in control of pace and really having your horse listening and on your aids to enable riding as close together as possible and avoiding any collisions.
Due to the enjoyment expressed by those taking part we will be looking and arranging another session so watch this space!
The Riding Club Summer Party, BBQ and Dog Show
31st August 2014
The Riding Club Summer Party, BBQ and Dog Show held at Belmesthorpe on 31st August was a great success. 12 dogs entered the dog show, and had great fun on the agility course, having sausage eating races, playing musical sit and many more. The weather was fantastic, burgers were enjoyed and the ice creams went down well.
Congratulations to Pam Sellers and Fonz, aka Felix on their 9th place at the Dressage to Music Championships!
Pam and Fonz came 9th out of 33 at the Dressage To Music Championships with a score of 67.5% (243). They produced a super Test and deserved to be much higher. Marks were very close, and our congratulations to them both. Jane Ellis, Chef d'Equipe.
Kathryn Hibbins Training Grant Report
This is how Kathryn used the £50 training grant awarded to her at the Club's AGM last November.....
I was delighted to have won one of the vouchers for Training at the AGM last November and decided to put the money towards a clinic that the British Dressage Northern Region organised with Spencer Wilton at Vale View in September.
I had felt for a while that Waffle wasn't very secure in the contact he took from the double bridle I had been riding him in for a few years. My trainer, Alison Woulds, and I had used it to help Waffle work correctly over his back after a diagnosis of hock spavins had made it all clear as to why he was always struggling to work correctly. The bridle and bits had done their job up until recently but now we felt that he wasn't quite happy. A dental check had also indicated that he was grabbing the bits with his teeth, causing a tiny bit of wear. Not a perfect scenario.
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Sue Holroyd's Training Grant Report
This is how Sue used the £50 training grant awarded to her at the Club's AGM last November.....
In late January this year I purchased a nice young Irish horse who was very nervous in the stable but lovely and sensible to ride.
When he arrived he was unshod and very difficult to have his feet and legs handled, to the point of needing to be sedated to have his first set of shoes on.
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For more information about Grant Bazin, click on the link www.practicalhorsemanship.co.uk
National BRC Horse Trials Championships, Swalcliffe
Well, we did extremely well in the first instance, to qualify for the National Horse Trials Championships, this is a big and very busy event, held at a large equestrian centre, not the easiest place to find, winding down a few narrow lanes, but we all got there. As many of you will have heard by now, we surpassed our wildest dreams, we came 2nd overall, and then we came 1st, winning the section for all 4 scores to count, gaining a very smart Silver Salver, which will be shared between the 4 team members throughout the coming year.
Here are some of the scores, all of our team were very close with their marks, in all 3 disciplines, Each obviously getting double clears.
The ground was not good and I am sure almost every competitor had time faults on XC.
Team places:
1st - Three Waters with 103.0 from Area 19
2nd - Rutland with 112.6 from Area 16
3rd - Lakes from Area 3
Our team results were:
Karin 39.0 D, 0 SJ, 0XC and 0 time arena place was 9th
Gail 30 .5 D, 0 SJ, 0 XC with 8.4 time arena place was 6th
Sue 31.5 D, 0 SJ 0 XC with 6.0 time arena place was 8th
Louise 31.0 D, 0 SJ, 0 XC with 5.20 time arena place was 6th
The individual totals were Karin 35, Gail 37.9, Sue 37.5, Louise 34.2. They all were so closely placed - very well done to them all and what an achievement for our comparatively small club. Many congratulations to you all, and now we can look forward to next year. I am very proud of you all!
Pat Brown
Sue Scarrott's Training Grant Report
When I won the £50 training grant at the Club's AGM last November, I was thrilled. My partnership with my 9 year old mare, Poppy, was in its fourth year but our rather erratic progress was proof that tuition still needed to be a high priority. Although we have had successes (and a few rosettes), there are times when I think we are special needs combination, as I started competing at a late age and Poppy often displays ADHD type symptoms!
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Sunday 18th May 2014
Area 16 BRC Senior Horse Trials Qualifier
This year we were at Epworth Equestrian again, the cross country course was different from last year, as it had been revamped by the Buntine's and was quite colourful in parts, with quite a few skinnies, which took its toll in the results, it did however ride well, apart from some quick turns, which I feel is not always good practice on a cross country course, however, Rutland was flying the flag high again with very creditable results.
Cressida was in the 100 cm as an individual,she was 15th in her section, her scores were 32.1D; 12 SJ with 10 time, she had a lovely ride cross country and was clear but had 6.4 time.
The 80 cm Team
The team did incredibly well, with the 1st place win for the team, which means we are all off to the championships, at Banbury in August
Team scores are as follows:
Karin had 32.5 D ,4 SJ 0 XC with 0 time penalties
Sue had a 30.0 D, 0 SJ with 0.4 time, 0 XC but had 2.0 time penalties
Louise had a 28.5 D, 0 SJ , 0 XC with 1.2 time penalties
Gail had a 32.0 D, 0 SJ. 0 XC but had 13.2 time penalties
Louise ended up with a good score and was placed 1st Individual in this section
80 cm Class Results
1st Rutland with a score of 102.2
2nd EMDG Burghley with a score of 120.9
3rd EMDG blenheim with a score of 152.4
4th EMDG badminton with a score of 163.2
5th and 6th places went to Welton
I must add that Rutland did very well to beat all the EMDG and Welton teams
In the 80cm winning team Sue came 6th, Karin 8th, Louise 1st and Gail 12th
The 90 cm Team
This team came 4th and the competition was hot as they all had good dressage marks, here are the team scores:
Harriet had 32.5 D; 4 SJ, and clear XC but had 7.6 time (for going too fast! )
Cressida had 32.5 D; 0 SJ, and 40 XC with 0.4 time
Gail had a good 27.5 D, 4 SJ; and was clear XC but had 1.6 time
Sophie had a 38 D , 0 SJ, with 20 XC and 7.6 time
Gail also won the 4th Individual place in this section
90 cm Class Results
1st EMDG gatcombe team with a score of 112.2
2nd EMDG chatsworth team with a score of 132.6
3rd Welton with a score of 136.4
4th Rutland with a score of 142.4
Gail being 4th Individual
All the team members and Cressida doing the 100 cm Individual did very well and I want to say thank-you to you all for all the hard work you put in prior to the event, many thanks also to Rosemary for support and doing the driving.
Many thanks to all of you, and looking forward to the championships!
Pat Brown, Chef d'Equipe
Pam Sellers Report - Training Grant
Read about how Pam Sellers used her Training Grant awarded at the 2013 AGM to help fund a British Dressage Training Camp. Click.........HERE.........for the full report.
Sunday 13th April 2014
Festival of the Horse Challenge Qualifier - Our 4th Placed Team!
Congratulations to our team of Karin Williamson, Cressida Heath, Harriet Walker and Sue Scarrott who came fourth at the Festival of the Horse Challenge Qualifier, held at Epworth Equestrian Centre. Well Done!


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It is no secret that I've become a fan of Lord Byron since studying his life and works as part of my Open University course. When people are so very famous it is hard to separate the myth that surrounds them from what they must have really been like. Hyperbole abounds in much that I have read about him, especially the earlier biographies. I've almost finished a modern biography (published in 2002) which I can thoroughly recommend, but there is no doubt that the way to discover the most about him is from a wonderful collection of letters made available by Project Gutenberg.
Here is an extract from one that he wrote to his half-sister (and lover) Augusta Leigh (I've shortened it)
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Newstead Abbey, Sept. 9th, 1811.
My Dear Augusta,
I am quite alone and never see strangers without being sick, but I am nevertheless on good terms with my neighbours, for I neither ride or shoot or move over my Garden walls, but I fence and box and swim and run a good deal to keep me in exercise and get me to sleep. Poor Murray is ill again, and one of my Greek servants is ill too, and my valet has got a pestilent cough, so that we are in a peck of troubles; my family Surgeon sent an Emetic this morning for one of them, I did not very well know which, but I swore Somebody should take it, so after a deal of discussion the Greek swallowed it with tears in his eyes, and by the blessing of it, and the Virgin whom he invoked to assist it and him, I suppose he'll be well tomorrow, if not, another shall have the next. So your Spouse likes children, that is lucky as he will have to bring them up; for my part (since I lost my Newfoundland dog,) I like nobody except his successor a Dutch Mastiff and three land Tortoises brought with me from Greece.
I thank you for your letters and am always glad to hear from you, but if you won't come here before Xmas, I very much fear we shall not meet here at all, for I shall be off somewhere or other very soon out of this land of Paper credit (or rather no credit at all, for every body seems on the high road to Bankruptcy), and if I quit it again I shall not be back in a hurry.
However, I shall endeavour to see you somewhere, and make my bow with decorum before I return to the Ottomans, I believe I shall turn Mussulman in the end.
You ask after my health; I am in tolerable leanness, which I promote by exercise and abstinence. I don't know that I have acquired any thing by my travels but a smattering of two languages and a habit of chewing Tobacco
Yours ever,
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STARTING March 23, the Bureau of Customs' (BOC) electronic-to-mobile (e2m) system will accommodate Bill to Shipper (BTS) transactions at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
Under Customs Memorandum Order 7-2010 signed Feb 22, 2010 (click here for copy), BTS shipments, also known as Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), will only be initially allowed for pre-approved clients of the Philippine Chamber of Air Express Operators (PCAEO), an organization that seeks to promote the modernization of the Philippine air express industry. Member companies include TNT Express Worldwide, United Parcel Services, Federal Express and Airborne Express.
Since last week, PCAEO members have begun submitting a list of their regular clients who import under BTS/DDP for BOC approval.
The BOC earlier deferred acceptance of BTS/DDP transactions under e2m pending enhancement of the system. Under BTS/DDP, the shipper undertakes the payment of duties and taxes. The e2m, however, requires consignees—which under DDP have no need to pay duties and taxes—a bank reference number.
BOC began implementing e2m at the NAIA on February 23. Apart from non-accommodation of BTS/DDP transactions, e2m for now also does not require mandatory submission of the advance electronic manifest, a must for seafreight shipments.
Until it is implemented, existing alternative facilities of Automated Customs Operating System electronic manifest submission through any of Customs-accredited value-added service providers or other service providers remain operational.


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Former Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams, a College Park graduate and longtime advocate of the ACC, voiced support for a possible move to the Big Ten in a telephone interview Sunday night, saying that despite his great experiences and fond memories in the ACC, it was likely in the best interests of the school's athletic department as a whole.
"Anybody that has been connected with the ACC will say there have been great moments," said Williams, who led the Terps to the 2002 NCAA championship. "Up until they expanded in 2003, we were by far the best basketball coach in the country. That was a great thing to be part of. At the same time, once expansion started — and not just in ACC, but everywhere — things changed.
"A lot of it has to do with football. I think sometimes people don't understand, or they forget a little bit, that your ability to run an athletic department is based on selling tickets and raising money and then, with your conference, the amount of money you can earn from the various contracts you have. When you look at the Big Ten, they have done a great job of putting every school in a great situation."
Williams said that the highlight of his coaching tenure at Maryland were the games against North Carolina and Duke, the Terps' most fierce rivals. But he noted that only once in his 22 years was the ACC men's basketball tournament played in Washington. The vast majority were played in Greensboro, N.C. "So it was never like we were the most important part of the ACC as a basketball program," he added.
After retiring in May 2011 following 22 seasons as Maryland's coach, Williams signed a five-year deal to serve as special assistant to Maryland's athletic director, Kevin Anderson, at a salary of $400,000 a year. But he made clear that Anderson does not dictate his view on this or any other university matter.
"Kevin is really good because he doesn't try to sway me into thinking any certain way, but we talk," Williams said. "This is my view from where I've been as a coach, and being a longtime part of the ACC. That's the important thing, that we as Maryland people — you certainly have your feelings about the ACC, but at the same time — [consider] what's best for Maryland and the athletic department and the football program.
"I try to look at it from what is best for the athletic department and the University of Maryland.
"When you look around and see what's going on — Notre Dame's personal contract with NBC for football and being able to come into the ACC without football — just watching teams like Nebraska, who you never would think would be a member of the Big Ten — we all have to look at what's best for the university."
A former coach at Ohio State, Williams served as a basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network last season and said he came away impressed by its reach and its ability to generate revenue for members schools.
"If you want to be successful in basketball and football, that takes certain finances to do that," Williams said. "Why would Syracuse and Pitt go to the ACC? Why would Nebraska go to Big Ten? The answer is pretty obvious. We shouldn't feel bad about doing what other schools have done to increase the exposure, to increase the validity of their programs."
Maryland in talks with Big Ten.
Loh to brief Board of Regents.
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series Scooby-Doo. Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, it premiered on CBS, on September 13, 1969. It ran for three seasons for a total of 41 episodes. Its final first-run episode aired on October 31, 1970.
Eight years later, nine episodes from the 1978 season of a later Scooby-Doo incarnation, first run on ABC, were originally broadcast using the 1969 Scooby Doo, Where Are You! opening and closing sequences (in an attempted stand-alone series revival that was pulled and eventually retooled a season later as Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo when Scrappy-Doo was added to the cast). The entire 1978 season (which completed its run as part of Scooby's All-Stars and was later syndicated as part of The Scooby-Doo Show) is sometimes marketed as the third season of the original Where Are You! series.
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Copper + Black
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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I do notice that our dark laundry loads get double in size in the winter, is that the same thing? ;) Heavy blankets come out and warm socks too. But I've never paid attention to see if my design mind changes in the winter. Now I will.ReplyDelete
i definitely think my design taste changes by season...and in the winter i am always drawn to cozy, industrial/rustic pieces. i think all i want to do is sit by a fire with a cup of tea an a warm blanket :)ReplyDelete
Right now, I'm really feeling the jewel tones and metallics that pop up everywhere (especially on Christmas trees). I'm thinking purple and gold for my Thanksgiving table this year (I really can't get away from gold being one of the feature colours for my table!) and I'm crushing on some buffalo plaid pajamas as well. Especially when it's rainy and dreary like it is right now, we need some brightnessReplyDelete
Ha, I'm with Lauren. Our dark pile gets bigger the later into the year we go (though you'll still find me wearing all black in June, too, just...shorter everything, haha) but I think home-design-wise we're pretty consistent. Swap out a candle or two for a more seasonable scent, maybe. But I'm a huge fan of the whole dark-at-5-pm situation. In fact, last night I offered to walk the dog (I actually yanked the leash out of J's hand to do it) and took out the trash just so I could go soak up some of that dark, cold weather I love so much. I'm weird! xoReplyDelete
I love this trend in interior design. First gold now copper! And the dark wood floor trend loving that too!ReplyDelete
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Love those two together and yes they really do reflect the seasonal change. Ugh...makes me feel a little depressed now that it's getting dark so early!ReplyDelete
Yes! Suddenly I'm drawn to dark and mysterious ideas for my normally all-white-ish home. I was even thinking of a black wall, but I stopped myself, haha. Love copper, I just haven't found the right stuff and copper metallic spray paint isn't the same thing, lol.ReplyDelete
comfy warm stuff like blankets on the couch to enjoy a good book on... Ha!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2013 at 11:27 PM
no, I don't think my taste changes all that much. there are always a few days in summer when I wear a flowery billowing dress, something that is SO NOT ME. but usually, after a day or two, it disappears at the back of my wardrobe. I'm pretty consistent throughout the seasons.ReplyDelete
ps: love that sweater!!!!
Love love love copper paired with black! I don't think my tastes change that much over the course of the changing seasons, I just add cozier things to it. Putting a throw or a candle on it makes a total difference. When the evenings get darker I could start to live in candlelight, makes me look better too ;) xoReplyDelete
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After not exactly crushing the betting markets with their predictions last week, the podcast team move into calmer waters and react to last week's goings on in and around Euroleague. Rob, Austin and George take a look back at the biggest games.
Boy did we dive deep beneath the surface, so we left a few timings below to let you jump to the bits for which your ears just can't wait. Although it's all as good as a Sergio Llull 10 metre bomb, so use that rewind key just as much as fast forward.
- Olympiacos vs Panathinaikos: 2:00 – 16:45
- Maccabi Tel Aviv vs Darussafaka Dogus: 16:45 – 35:55
- Real Madrid vs CSKA Moscow: 36:00 – 54:13
- Brose Bamberg v Barcelona: 54:18 – 1:06:30
- Crvena Zvezda v Zalgiris: 1:06:30 – 1:11:30
- Bonus VTB Content! Zenit, Khimki, Dusko's Hair, Russian Flair: 1:11:30 – 1:19:08
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Corporations have conducted so-called research to fuel their invention of new products for generations. But Thomas J. Watson Sr.'s decision that IBM would do "pure" scientific research was an extraordinary leap of faith—and one that has generated extraordinary results. Breakthrough innovations by IBM scientists range from familiar transformative inventions like the hard drive or DRAM to a range of less familiar—but equally important—innovations in processor technology, relational databases, networking and more. They also include "pure" mathematical breakthroughs, such as fast Fourier transforms, and deep science, such as superconductivity.
Scientific discoveries at IBM Research
Fractal geometry
IBM mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot captivated the public imagination in 1967 when he introduced the breakthrough geometric concept of fractals—fragmented geometric shapes that can be split into parts that are exact reduced-size copies of the whole. Mandelbrot worked at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center for 32 years, applying fractal geometry to natural forms such as coastlines and clouds, and to disciplines as diverse as economics and the arts. The widely referenced Mandelbrot set, pictured here, depicts a fractal.
High-temperature superconductivity
J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller were researchers at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory when they discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a new class of materials—ceramics. Ceramic materials required significantly less cooling than previous-generation superconductors. High-temperature superconductivity helps scientists measure small magnetic fields, and aids advances in fields including geophysical exploration, medical diagnostics and magnetically levitated transportation. The discovery earned Bednorz and Müller the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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IBM Fellow Emerita Frances Allen pioneered the field of optimizing compilers, widely regarded as a seminal computing advancement. Compilers are sets of programs that translate programming languages into binary computer language, and the rapid speed of today's high-performance computers depends on them. Allen became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989, and was honored with the prestigious A.M. Turing Award—the Nobel Prize for computing— for 2006.


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A fuel tanker truck was in a collision with another vehicle Sunday in Fairfax County, about a mile from where a tanker accident last month spilled 4,000 gallons of gasoline.
Sunday's spill was only about one per cent as large as in the Aug. 28 incident, according to authorities.
Abouut 40 gallons of fuel spilled in Sunday's incident at Little River Turnpike and Glenbrook Road, said Capt. Willie Bailey, a spokesman for the Fairfax County fire department.
He said the county's hazardous materials unit kept all of it from entering the sewer system.
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The earlier incident occurred when a tanker overturned at Pickett Road and the turnpike, where Fairfax City and Fairfax County meet. About 3,500 gallons of fuel that spilled in that incident were reported recovered, authorities said.
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| September 19, 2010; 8:45 PM ET
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This is ridiculous. Last month's gas spill shut down the area around Fair City Mall for an entire day on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. People were stuck in traffic for hours, and I was denied access to my home! Now another spill?!?! Even though it was considerably smaller, how many more "accidents" does it take for Fairfax County or Fairfax City to consider moving the Motiva Tank Farm on Pickett Road? Motiva the company has a horrible safety track record!!!
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"Well, my dear!" said Henrietta. "If I had such a worried look on my face, when I was going down to spend the weekend with the man I was engaged to — and going to be married to in a month — well! I should either try and change my face, or hide my feelings, or something."
"You shut up!" said Hester curtly. "Don't look at my face, if it doesn't please you."
"Now, my dear Hester, don't go into one of your tempers! Just look in the mirror, and you'll see what I mean."
"Who cares what you mean! You're not responsible for my face," said Hester desperately, showing no intention of looking in the mirror, or of otherwise following her sister's kind advice.
Henrietta, being the younger sister, and mercifully unengaged, hummed a tune lightly. She was only twenty-one, and had not the faintest intention of jeopardising her peace of mind by accepting any sort of fatal ring. Nevertheless, it WAS nice to see Hester "getting off", as they say; for Hester was nearly twenty-five, which is serious.
The worst of it was, lately Hester had had her famous "worried" look on her face, when it was a question of the faithful Joe: dark shadows under the eyes, drawn lines down the cheeks. And when Hester looked like that, Henrietta couldn't help feeling the most horrid jangled echo of worry and apprehension in her own heart, and she hated it. She simply couldn't stand that sudden feeling of fear.
"What I mean to say," she continued, "IS— that it's jolly unfair to Joe, if you go down looking like that. Either put a better face on it, or —" But she checked herself. She was going to say "don't go". But really, she did hope that Hester would go through with this marriage. Such a weight off her, Henrietta's, mind.
"Oh, hang!" cried Hester. "Shut up!" And her dark eyes flashed a spark of fury and misgiving at the young Henrietta.
Henrietta sat down on the bed, lifted her chin, and composed her face like a meditating angel. She really was intensely fond of Hester, and the worried look was such a terribly bad sign.
"Look here, Hester!" she said. "Shall I come down to Markbury with you? I don't mind, if you'd like me to."
"My dear girl," cried Hester in desperation, "what earthly use do you think that would be?"
"Well, I thought it might take the edge off the intimacy, if that's what worries you."
Hester re-echoed with a hollow, mocking laugh.
"Don't be such a CHILD, Henrietta, really!" she said.
And Hester set off alone, down to Wiltshire, where her Joe had just started a little farm, to get married on. After being in the artillery, he had got sick and tired of business: besides, Hester would never have gone into a little suburban villa. Every woman sees her home through a wedding ring. Hester had only taken a squint through her engagement ring, so far. But Ye Gods! not Golders Green, not even Harrow!
So Joe had built a little brown wooden bungalow — largely with his own hands: and at the back was a small stream with two willows, old ones. At the sides were brown sheds, and chicken-runs. There were pigs in a hog-proof wire fence, and two cows in a field, and a horse. Joe had thirty-odd acres, with only a youth to help him. But of course, there would be Hester.
It all looked very new and tidy. Joe was a worker. He too looked rather new and tidy, very healthy and pleased with himself. He didn't even see the "worried look". Or if he did, he only said:
"You're looking a bit fagged, Hester. Going up to the City takes it out of you, more than you know. You'll be another girl down here."
"Shan't I just!" cried Hester.
She did like it, too! — the lots of white and yellow hens, and the pigs so full of pep! And the yellow thin blades of willow leaves showering softly down at the back of her house from the leaning old trees. She liked it awfully: especially the yellow leaves on the earth.
She told Joe she thought it was all lovely, topping, fine! And he was awfully pleased. Certainly HE looked fit enough.
The mother of the helping youth gave them dinner at half-past twelve. The afternoon was all sunshine and little jobs to do, after she had dried the dishes for the mother of the youth.
"Not long now, miss, before you'll be cooking at this range: and a good little range it is."
"Not long now, no!" echoed Hester, in the hot little wooden kitchen, that was over-heated from the range.
The woman departed. After tea, the youth also departed and Joe and Hester shut up the chickens and the pigs. It was nightfall. Hester went in and made the supper, feeling somehow a bit of a fool, and Joe made a fire in the living-room, he feeling rather important and luscious.
He and Hester would be alone in the bungalow, till the youth appeared next morning. Six months ago, Hester would have enjoyed it. They were so perfectly comfortable together, he and she. They had been friends, and his family and hers had been friends for years, donkey's years. He was a perfectly decent boy, and there would never have been anything messy to fear from him. Nor from herself. Ye Gods, no!
But now, alas, since she had promised to marry him, he had made the wretched mistake of falling "in love" with her. He had never been that way before. And if she had known he would get this way now, she would have said decidedly: Let us remain friends, Joe, for this sort of thing is a come-down. Once he started cuddling and petting, she couldn't stand him. Yet she felt she ought to. She imagined she even ought to like it. Though where the OUGHT came from, she could not see.
"I'm afraid, Hester," he said sadly, "you're not in love with me as I am with you."
"Hang it all!" she cried. "If I'm not, you ought to be jolly well thankful, that's all I've got to say."
Which double-barrelled remark he heard, but did not register. He never liked looking anything in the very pin-point middle of the eye. He just left it, and left all her feelings comfortably in the dark. Comfortably for him, that is.
He was extremely competent at motor-cars and farming and all that sort of thing. And surely she, Hester, was as complicated as a motorcar! Surely she had as many subtle little valves and magnetos and accelerators and all the rest of it, to her make-up! If only he would try to handle HER as carefully as he handled his car! She needed starting, as badly as ever any automobile did. Even if a car had a self-starter, the man had to give it the right twist. Hester felt she would need a lot of cranking up, if ever she was to start off on the matrimonial road with Joe. And he, the fool, just sat in a motionless car and pretended he was making heaven knows how many miles an hour.
This evening she felt really desperate. She had been quite all right doing things with him, during the afternoon, about the place. Then she liked being with him. But now that it was evening and they were alone, the stupid little room, the cosy fire, Joe, Joe's pipe, and Joe's smug sort of hypocritical face, all was just too much for her.
"Come and sit here, dear," said Joe persuasively, patting the sofa at his side. And she, because she believed a NICE girl would have been only too delighted to go and sit "there", went and sat beside him. But she was boiling. What cheek! What cheek of him even to have a sofa! She loathed the vulgarity of sofas.
She endured his arm round her waist, and a certain pressure of his biceps which she presumed was cuddling. He had carefully knocked his pipe out. But she thought how smug and silly his face looked, all its natural frankness and straight-forwardness had gone. How ridiculous of him to stroke the back of her neck! How idiotic he was, trying to be lovey-dovey! She wondered what sort of sweet nothings Lord Byron, for example, had murmured to his various ladies. Surely not so blithering, not so incompetent! And how monstrous of him, to kiss her like that.
"I'd infinitely rather you'd play to me, Joe," she snapped.
"You don't want me to play to you to-night, do you, dear?" he said.
"Why not to-night? I'd love to hear some Tchaikowsky, something to stir me up a bit."
He rose obediently and went to the piano. He played quite well. She listened. And Tchaikowsky might have stirred her up all right. The music itself, that is. If she hadn't been so desperately aware that Joe's love-making, if you can call it such, became more absolutely impossible after the sound of the music.
"That was fine!" she said. "Now do me my favourite nocturne."
While he concentrated on the fingering, she slipped out of the house.
Oh! she gasped a sigh of relief to be in the cool October air. The darkness was dim. In the west was a half moon freshly shining, and all the air was motionless, dimness lay like a haze on the earth.
Hester shook her hair, and strode away from the bungalow, which was a perfect little drum, re-echoing to her favourite nocturne. She simply rushed to get out of ear-shot.
Ah! the lovely night! She tossed her short hair again, and felt like Mazeppa's horse, about to dash away into the infinite. Though the infinite was only a field belonging to the next farm. But Hester felt herself seething in the soft moonlight. Oh! to rush away over the edge of the beyond! if the beyond, like Joe's bread-knife, did have an edge to it. "I know I'm an idiot," she said to herself. But that didn't take away the wild surge of her limbs. Oh! If there were only some other solution, instead of Joe and his spooning. Yes, SPOONING! The word made her lose the last shred of her self-respect, but she said it aloud.
There was, however, a bunch of strange horses in this field, so she made her way cautiously back through Joe's fence. It was just like him, to have such a little place that you couldn't get away from the sound of his piano, without trespassing on somebody else's ground.
As she drew near the bungalow, however, the drumming of Joe's piano suddenly ceased. Oh, Heaven! She looked wildly round. An old willow leaned over the stream. She stretched, crouching, and with the quickness of a long cat, climbed up into the net of cool-bladed foliage.
She had scarcely shuffled and settled into a tolerable position when he came round the corner of the house and into the moonlight, looking for her. How dare he look for her! She kept as still as a bat among the leaves, watching him as he sauntered with erect, tiresomely manly figure and lifted head, staring round in the darkness. He looked for once very ineffectual, insignificant, and at a loss. Where was his supposed male magic? Why was he so slow and unequal to the situation?
There! He was calling softly and self-consciously: "Hester! Hester! Where have you put yourself?"
He was angry really. Hester kept still in her tree, trying not to fidget. She had not the faintest intention of answering him. He might as well have been on another planet. He sauntered vaguely and unhappily out of sight.
Then she had a qualm. "Really, my girl, it's a bit thick, the way you treat him! Poor old Joe!"
Immediately something began to hum inside her: "I hear those tender voices calling Poor Old Joe!"
Nevertheless, she didn't want to go indoors to spend the evening tête-à-tête — my word! — with him.
"Of course it's absurd to think I could possibly fall in love like that. I would rather fall into one of his pig-troughs. It's so frightfully common. As a matter of fact, it's just a proof that he doesn't love me."
This thought went through her like a bullet. "The very fact of his being in love with me proves that he doesn't love me. No man that loved a woman could be in love with her like that. It's so insulting to her."
She immediately began to cry, and fumbling in her sleeve for her hanky, she nearly fell out of the tree. Which brought her to her senses.
In the obscure distance she saw him returning to the house, and she felt bitter. "Why did he start all this mess? I never wanted to marry anybody, and I certainly never bargained for anybody falling in love with me. Now I'm miserable, and I feel abnormal. Because the majority of girls must like this inlove business, or men wouldn't do it. And the majority must be normal. So I'm abnormal, and I'm up a tree. I loathe myself. As for Joe, he's spoilt all there was between us, and he expects me to marry him on the strength of it. It's perfectly sickening! What a mess life is. How I loathe messes!"
She immediately shed a few more tears, in the course of which she heard the door of the bungalow shut with something of a bang. He had gone indoors, and he was going to be righteously offended. A new misgiving came over her.
The willow tree was uncomfortable. The air was cold and damp. If she caught another chill she'd probably snuffle all winter long. She saw the lamplight coming from the window of the bungalow, and she said "Damn!" which meant, in her case, that she was feeling bad.
She slid down out of the tree, and scratched her arm and probably damaged one of her nicest pair of stockings. "Oh, hang!" she said with emphasis, preparing to go into the bungalow and have it out with poor old Joe. "I will NOT call him Poor Old Joe!"
At that moment she heard a motor-car slow down in the lane, and there came a low, cautious toot from a hooter. Headlights shone at a standstill near Joe's new iron gate.
"The cheek of it! The unbearable cheek of it! There's that young Henrietta come down on me!"
She flew along Joe's cinder-drive like a Mænad.
"Hello, Hester!" came Henrietta's young voice, coolly floating from the obscurity of the car. "How's everything?"
"What cheek!" cried Hester. "What amazing cheek!" She leaned on Joe's iron gate and panted.
"How's everything?" repeated Henrietta's voice blandly.
"What do you mean by it?" demanded Hester, still panting.
"Now, my girl, don't go off at a tangent! We weren't coming in unless you came out. You needn't think we want to put our noses in your affairs. We're going down to camp on Bonamy. Isn't the weather too divine!"
Bonamy was Joe's pal, also an old artillery man, who had set up a "farm" about a mile farther along the land. Joe was by no means a Robinson Crusoe in his bungalow.
"Who are you, anyway?" demanded Hester.
"Same old birds," said Donald, from the driver's seat. Donald was Joe's brother. Henrietta was sitting in front, next to him.
"Same as ever," said Teddy, poking his head out of the car. Teddy was a second cousin.
"Well," said Hester, sort of climbing down. "I suppose you may as well come in, now you ARE here. Have you eaten?"
"Eaten, yes," said Donald. "But we aren't coming in this trip, Hester; don't you fret."
"Why not?" flashed Hester, up in arms.
"'Fraid of brother Joe," said Donald.
"Besides, Hester," said Henrietta anxiously, "you know you don't want us."
"Henrietta, don't be a fool!" flashed Hester.
"WELL, Hester —!" remonstrated the pained Henrietta.
"Come on in, and no more nonsense!" said Hester.
"Not this trip, Hester," said Donald.
"No, sir!" said Teddy.
"But what idiots you all are! Why not?" cried Hester.
"'Fraid of our elder brother," said Donald.
"All right," said Hester. "Then I'll come along with you."
She hastily opened the gate.
"Shall I just have a peep? I'm pining to see the house," said Henrietta, climbing with a long leg over the door of the car.
The night was now dark, the moon had sunk. The two girls crunched in silence along the cinder track to the house.
"You'd say, if you'd rather I didn't come in-or if Joe'd rather," said Henrietta anxiously. She was very much disturbed in her young mind, and hoped for a clue. Hester walked on without answering. Henrietta laid her hand on her sister's arm. Hester shook it off, saying:
"My dear Henrietta, do be normal!"
And she rushed up the three steps to the door, which she flung open, displaying the lamp-lit living-room, Joe in an arm-chair by the low fire, his back to the door. He did not turn round.
"Here's Henrietta!" cried Hester, in a tone which meant: "HOW'S THAT?"
He got up and faced round, his brown eyes in his stiff face very angry.
"How did YOU get here?" he asked rudely.
"Came in a car," said young Henrietta, from her Age of Innocence.
"With Donald and Teddy — they're just outside the gate," said Hester. "The old gang!"
"Coming in?" asked Joe, with greater anger in his voice.
"I suppose you'll go out and invite them," said Hester.
Joe said nothing, just stood like a block.
"I expect you'll think it's awful of me to come intruding," said Henrietta meekly. "We're just going on to Bonamy's." She gazed innocently round the room. "But it's an adorable little place, awfully good taste in a cottagey sort of way. I like it awfully. Can I warm my hands?"
Joe moved from in front of the fire. He was in his slippers. Henrietta dangled her long red hands, red from the night air, before the grate.
"I'll rush right away again," she said.
"Oh-h," drawled Hester curiously. "Don't do that!"
"Yes, I must. Donald and Teddy are waiting."
The door stood wide open, the headlights of the car could be seen in the lane.
"Oh-h!" Again that curious drawl from Hester. "I'll tell them you're staying the night with me. I can do with a bit of company."
Joe looked at her.
"What's the game?" he said.
"No game at all! Only now Tatty's come, she may as well stay."
"Tatty" was the rather infrequent abbreviation of "Henrietta".
"Oh, but Hester!" said Henrietta. "I'm going on to Bonamy's with Donald and Teddy."
"Not if I want you to stay here!" said Hester.
Henrietta looked all surprised, resigned helplessness.
"What's the game?" repeated Joe. "Had you fixed up to come down here to-night?"
"No, Joe, really!" said Henrietta, with earnest innocence. "I hadn't the faintest idea of such a thing, till Donald suggested it, at four o'clock this afternoon. Only the weather was too perfectly divine, we had to go out somewhere, so we thought we'd descend on Bonamy. I hope HE won't be frightfully put out as well."
"And if we had arranged it, it wouldn't have been a crime," struck in Hester. "And, anyway, now you're here you might as well all camp here."
"Oh no, Hester! I know Donald will never come inside the gate. He was angry with me for making him stop, and it was I who tooted. It wasn't him, it was me. The curiosity of Eve, I suppose. Anyhow, I've put my foot in it, as usual. So now I'd better clear out as fast as I can. Good night!"
She gathered her coat round her with one arm and moved vaguely to the door.
"In that case, I'll come along with you," said Hester.
"But Hester!" cried Henrietta. And she looked inquiringly at Joe.
"I know as little as you do," he said, "what's going on."
His face was wooden and angry, Henrietta could make nothing of him.
"Hester!" cried Henrietta. "Do be sensible! What's gone wrong! Why don't you at least EXPLAIN, and give everybody a chance! Talk about being normal! — you're always flinging it at ME!"
There was a dramatic silence.
"What's happened?" Henrietta insisted, her eyes very bright and distressed, her manner showing that she was determined to be sensible.
"Nothing, of course!" mocked Hester.
"Do YOU know, Joe?" said Henrietta, like another Portia, turning very sympathetically to the man.
For a moment Joe thought how much nicer Henrietta was than her sister.
"I only know she asked me to play the piano, and then she dodged out of the house. Since then, her steering-gear's been out of order."
"Ha-ha-ha!" laughed Hester falsely and melodramatically. "I like that. I like my dodging out of the house! I went for a breath of fresh air. I should like to know whose steering-gear is out of order, talking about my dodging out of the house!"
"You dodged out of the house," said Joe.
"Oh, did I? And why should I, pray?"
"I suppose you have your own reasons."
"I have too. And very good reasons."
There was a moment of stupefied amazement. . . . Joe and Hester had known each other so well, for such a long time. And now look at them!
"But why did you, Hester?" asked Henrietta, in her most breathless, naïve fashion.
"Why did I what?"
There was a low toot from the motor-car in the lane.
"They're calling me! Good-bye!" cried Henrietta, wrapping her coat round her and turning decisively to the door.
"If you go, my girl, I'm coming with you," said Hester.
"But why?" cried Henrietta in amazement. The horn tooted again. She opened the door and called into the night:
"Half a minute!" Then she closed the door again, softly, and turned once more in her amazement to Hester.
"But why, Hester?"
Hester's eyes almost squinted with exasperation. She could hardly bear even to glance at the wooden and angry Joe.
"Why?" came the soft reiteration of Henrietta's question.
All the attention focused on Hester, but Hester was a sealed book.
"She doesn't know herself," said Joe, seeing a loop-hole.
Out rang Hester's crazy and melodramatic laugh.
"Oh, doesn't she!" Her face flew into sudden strange fury. "Well, if you want to know, I absolutely CAN'T STAND your making love to me, if that's what you call the business."
Henrietta let go the door-handle and sank weakly into a chair.
The worst had come to the worst. Joe's face became purple, then slowly paled to yellow.
"Then," said Henrietta in a hollow voice, "you can't marry him."
"I couldn't possibly marry him if he kept on being IN LOVE with me." She spoke the two words with almost snarling emphasis.
"And you couldn't possibly marry him if he WASN'T," said the guardian angel, Henrietta.
"Why not," cried Hester. "I could stand him all right till he started being in love with me. Now, he's simply out of the question."
There was a pause, out of which came Henrietta's:
"After all, Hester, a man's SUPPOSED to be in love with the woman he wants to marry."
"Then he'd better keep it to himself, that's all I've got to say."
There was a pause. Joe, silent as ever, looked more wooden and sheepishly angry.
"But Hester! Hasn't a man GOT to be in love with you —?"
"Not with me! You've not had it to put up with, my girl."
Henrietta sighed helplessly.
"Then you can't marry him, that's obvious. What an awful pity!"
A pause.
"Nothing can be so perfectly humiliating as a man making love to you," said Hester. "I LOATHE it."
"Perhaps it's because it's the wrong man," said Henrietta sadly, with a glance at the wooden and sheepish Joe.
"I don't believe I could stand that sort of thing, with ANY man. Henrietta, do you know what it is, being stroked and cuddled? It's too perfectly awful and ridiculous."
"Yes!" said Henrietta, musing sadly. "As if one were a perfectly priceless meat-pie, and the dog licked it tenderly before he gobbled it up. It IS rather sickening, I agree."
"And what's so awful, a perfectly decent man will go and get that way. Nothing is so awful as a man who has fallen in love," said Hester.
"I know what you mean, Hester. So doggy!" said Henrietta sadly.
The motor-horn tooted exasperatedly. Henrietta rose like a Portia who has been a failure. She opened the door and suddenly yelled fiercely into the night:
"Go on without me. I'll walk. Don't wait."
"How long will you be?" came a voice.
"I don't know. If I want to come, I'll walk," she yelled.
"Come back for you in an hour."
"Right," she shrieked, and slammed the door in their distant faces. Then she sat down dejectedly, in the silence. She was going to stand by Hester. That FOOL, Joe, standing there like a mutton-head!
They heard the car start, and retreat down the lane.
"Men are awful!" said Henrietta dejectedly.
"Anyhow, you're mistaken," said Joe with sudden venom to Hester. "I'm not in love with you, Miss Clever."
The two women looked at him as if he were Lazarus risen.
"And I never was in love with you, that way," he added, his brown eyes burning with a strange fire of self-conscious shame and anger, and naked passion.
"Well, what a liar you must be then. That's all I can say!" replied Hester coldly.
"Do you mean," said young Henrietta acidly, "that you put it all on?"
"I thought she expected it of me," he said, with a nasty little smile that simply paralysed the two young women. If he had turned into a boa-constrictor, they would not have been more amazed. That sneering little smile! Their good-natured Joe!
"I thought it was expected of me," he repeated, jeering.
Hester was horrified.
"Oh, but how beastly of you to do it!" cried Henrietta to him.
"And what a lie!" cried Hester. "He liked it."
"Do you think he did, Hester?" said Henrietta.
"I liked it in a way," he said impudently. "But I shouldn't have liked it, if I thought she didn't."
Hester flung out her arms.
"Henrietta," she cried, "why can't we kill him?"
"I wish we could," said Henrietta.
"What are you to do when you know a girl's rather strict, and you like her for it — and you're not going to be married for a month — and — and you — and you've got to get over the interval somehow — and what else does Rudolf Valentino do for you? — you like HIM—"
"He's dead, poor dear. But I loathed him, REALLY," said Hester.
"You didn't seem to," said he.
"Well, anyhow, you aren't Rudolf Valentino, and I loathe YOU in the rôle."
"You won't get a chance again. I loathe YOU altogether."
"And I'm extremely relieved to hear it, my boy."
There was a lengthy pause, after which Henrietta said with decision:
"Well, that's that! Will you come along to Bonamy's with me, Hester, or shall I stay here with you?"
"I don't care, my girl," said Hester with bravado.
"Neither do I care what you do," said he. "But I call it pretty rotten of you, not to tell me right out, at first."
"I thought it was real with you then, and I didn't want to hurt you," said Hester.
"You look as if you didn't want to hurt me," he said.
"Oh, now," she said, "since it was all pretence, it doesn't matter."
"I should say it doesn't," he retorted.
There was a silence. The clock, which was intended to be their family clock, ticked rather hastily.
"Anyway," he said, "I consider you've let me down."
"I like that!" she cried, "considering what you've played off on me!"
He looked her straight in the eye. They knew each other so well.
Why had he tried that silly love-making game on her? It was a betrayal of their simple intimacy. He saw it plainly, and repented.
And she saw the honest, patient love for her in his eyes, and the queer, quiet central desire. It was the first time she had seen it, that quiet, patient, central desire of a young man who has suffered during his youth, and seeks now almost with the slowness of age. A hot flush went over her heart. She felt herself responding to him.
"What have you decided, Hester?" said Henrietta.
"I'll stay with Joe, after all," said Hester.
"Very well," said Henrietta. "And I'll go along to Bonamy's." She opened the door quietly, and was gone.
Joe and Hester looked at one another from a distance.
"I'm sorry, Hester," said he.
"You know, Joe," she said, "I don't mind what you do, if you love me REALLY."
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Well, I'm really not on the ball here anymore. But.. My hockey billet is gone for 2 weeks, well pretty much gone forever!
I finally have my laptop to myself and, actually, the house to myself! I've been doing a bit of blog reading today and I came across something called just4today. Basically, you come up every morning with 4 things that you want to get accomplished that day, 4 daily goals. This helps in the whole 1 day at a time theory I'm "really really really trying" to follow.
So, just for today, I'm going to take 20 minutes to write in my blog(check), I'm going to walk 4 km at lunch (which I did), not eat any "tempting sweet/junkie" foods (days not done yet!), and take my vitamins before bed(see previous goal).
Today I thought I would post a recipe I have been meaning to post since last weekend.
Potato Wedgies
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 russet potatoes, scrubbed and cut into eighths
Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
Place Parmesan cheese, olive oil, onion powder, garlic powder, pepper, salt, and potatoes into a resealable plastic bag. Seal the bag, then shake to coat the potatoes with the seasoning. Spread the potatoes over a baking sheet.
Bake in the preheated oven until the potatoes are easily pierced with a fork, about 25 minutes.
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The annual Labor Day weekend "Bash at the Bay" will start on September 4th and continue thru September 7th. This annual event features the islands best entertainers of the year in a jam packed weekend.
Just a few of the great entertainers appearing this year are:
The Menu's (4 shows)
Pat Dailey
Mike "Mad Dog" Adams
Paradise Island
The Maxx band
Wally & the Beav's
Westside Steve
Ray Fogg
Under the Covers
And DJ Billy three days at the Put-in-Bay Resort's heated pool and swim up bar! Don't miss this great send odd to the end of the summer season! For hotel and room reservations call the reservation center at 1-888-742-7829.
ALSO! Don't forget about the upcoming Fall Ball Customer Appreciation party October 2nd & 3rd!
This annual event is exclusively for guests of the Edgewater Hotel, Put-in-Bay Resort and the Island Club.
The event starts on Friday night with a street party, 20 Kegs of free beers and live entertainment. On Saturday, we have an all day party with three live bands, 30 kegs of beer and over 2000 hamburgers, hot dogs and side dishes all FREE!
With each room booked, you receive 4 wristbands for the weekends events, With each suite booked you receive 6 wristbands.
Rooms for that weekend are $175 per night and suites are $325 per night. This weekend fills very quickly and we highly suggest that you get your reservation in ASAP.
To book, please call the reservation center at 888-742-7829 Thanks and SEE YOU AT THE BAY!!!
Put-in-Bay is a popular vacation spot just 2 miles offshore of mainland Northwest Ohio in Lake Erie. While "Put-in-Bay" is technically the name of the village on South Bass Island, the name commonly is inadvertently used to refer to the entire island. A summer resort since the mid-1800's, the village can be considered the hub of tourism among the Lake Erie Islands, with its numerous taverns, wineries, restaurants, waterfront condos, rental homes, and hotels.


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Player RosterBy Baselinemag | Posted 2005-06-10 Print
Chief executive Derek Smith, a former wide receiver for the Penn State football team, leads a hard-charging team that in eight years built ChoicePoint into a $1 billion information-selling powerhouse.
Derek Smith
A hard-charging former wide receiver for the Penn State football team, Smith has led ChoicePoint since it was spun off from Equifax in 1997. Prior to that, he had a stint running a service that insurers used to rate the risk of new customers. Asked by CNBC in March why ChoicePoint sold information last year to identity thieves, he said, "We never realized the sophistication organized crime would go to, to be able to get potential access to the information." Smith has written a primer on protecting people from cybercrime: A Survival Guide in the Information Age.


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Thu, Mar. 15, 2012 Posted: 05:46 PM
Author: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor
Florida Christian College (FCC) and five of its students filed suit against the State of Florida March 8, challenging their religion-based exclusion from the Florida Resident Access Grant (FRAG) program. My colleagues and I at the Alliance Defense Fund are privileged to represent them.
Through the FRAG program, the state provides over $2,000 in annual tuition assistance to qualifying students who attend private colleges and universities in the state. In order to participate, a student must attend a college that has "a secular purpose." Officials with the state Department of Education concluded that FCC lacked "a secular purpose" and excluded the college and its otherwise eligible students from the program. FCC includes within its educational program "secular" subjects and prepares many of its students for "secular" vocations.
When writing the FRAG statute, the Florida legislature misunderstood the First Amendment's ban on laws "respecting an establishment of religion." Interpreting that language, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that government benefit programs may include religious individuals and organizations as long as (among other things) the programs have "a secular purpose." When it adopted the statute governing the FRAG program in 1989, the Florida legislature misunderstood this constitutional rule, erroneously requiring each participating school – rather than the program as a whole itself – to have "a secular purpose."
Compounding the problem, the Department has not applied the constitutionally erroneous statute consistently, excluding FCC while allowing nine other religious schools and their students to participate: Clearwater Christian College, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Southeastern University, Warner University, Ave Maria University, Saint Leo University, Bethune-Cookman University, Edward Waters College, and St. Thomas University. Students at a total of 31 institutions of higher education are eligible.
Revealing yet more irrationality in the Florida student aid system, only two of the approximately 16 student aid program statutes exclude students because of the religious character of the institution they attend or of their course of study. Indeed, FCC students themselves participate in four programs other than FRAG. In light of this – and the participation of nine religious schools in the FRAG program — the state plainly lacks any legitimate interest in excluding FCC and its students from FRAG.
FCC has been trying for years to persuade the Florida Department of Education to stop discriminating against its students. The Department has rejected its effort, even failing to justify or explain its unfair treatment of FCC students – who suffer a $2000 penalty simply for choosing FCC.
In light of the state's ongoing refusal to right this wrong, attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on behalf of FCC and FCC students Brittany Betancourt, Katrene DeLoach, Alicia Hoffman, Kelley Reinoehl, and Luke Stamps. We hope that the lawsuit will prompt the Department to quickly do what it should have done years ago – stop discriminating against students who have chosen a particular religious college.
This post originally appeared here.
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Paul Westbrook, President
Paul Westbrook combines engineering, creativity, and leadership skills in his role as a President of RE:source.
Paul has experience utilizing integrated, or whole-system, design concepts to achieve significant improvements in residential, commercial, and industrial building design. Paul's projects have achieved step-function improvements in energy, water, and resource efficiency while reducing capital cost and improving the environment for occupants.
Paul is a LEED Accredited Professional and has completed over 2 million square feet of LEED certified buildings including the first LEED certified semiconductor manufacturing facility in the world in Richardson, TX (LEED Gold, 2008) and the first LEED building in the country of the Philippines (2009).
Paul has 33 years of experience at Texas Instruments where his roles spanned from facilities design engineer, energy team member, project manager, facilities manager, and sustainable development manager. He was able to convince TI leadership to take a bold chance on designing the first LEED Gold semiconductor factory in the world and the project delivered an impressive 40% boost in energy efficiency – and was built for 30% less than the previous factory. The integrated design process was used to achieve both of those milestones. A colleague at ISMI dubbed Paul the "Father of the green fab."
In 2010 Paul was selected as a Senior Fellow for the US State Department's Energy and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) program. His assistance was requested by Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia (twice). During weeklong visits to each country he helped craft policy and plans by working with top government officials and staff. He also lectured at universities and met with businesses to help them find ways to improve efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint.
Paul holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
In his spare time Paul is president and lead alto sax for The Texas Instruments Jazz Band. He is also a sprinter and co-captain of the TI Track & Field team. He was inducted into the United States Corporate Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2002 – the same year he carried the Olympic Torch in the torch relay. He also has served in a number of roles in his town government including chairman of the Fairview Parks & Recreation Board and chairman of the Fairview Environmental Committee.


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Friday, May 29, 2015
Thursday, May 21, 2015
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." Deut. 31:8. The Lord is already on the road ahead of you and He'll be there when you get there. He already is where you're going to be. Not only is He already where you're going to be, He is always with you on the journey there.
God wants you to take courage and believe in Him. He has you surrounded and He's leading you. Go forward and trust that He will be there because He already is.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
If Jesus is not the Manager of all in your life, He's not the Manager at all in your life. He doesn't want to be just a part of your life. He doesn't want to be just one category, one entry on your weekly planner. He wants to be your Everything. That's the only way He can fill your life with His grace and truth. That's the only way we know what a full and meaningful life is like.
Jesus said in Luke 9:23-25 (Mes),
"Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat—I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you?"
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Monday, May 18, 2015
In Winnie the Pooh, Pooh and Piglet take an evening walk. For a long time they walk together in silence. Finally Piglet breaks the silence and asks, "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh, what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" answers Pooh. "And what do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what exciting thing is going to happen today."
You can choose a "breakfast vision" or an "excitement vision." Which one do you choose? What's your vision for each day? What's your vision for your relationship with God? Where do you want it to go? What's your vision for you and your family? What's your vision for your life-purpose and eternity? What's your vision for your church?
What we expect from life is usually what we get. Jesus said, "It shall be done to you according to your faith." Matt. 9:29 (NAS)
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Monday, May 11, 2015
Borrowing from Gordon McDonald, the word "peace" in its general definition means any system in which there is order, justice, and security. The Romans talked about peace (Pax Romana), but their system was sustained through violence and intimidation. The Jews of Jerusalem had their own concepts of peace: a kingdom that mirrored the ancient reign of David. These were concepts of peace imposed from the outside of a person.
But then Jesus came, speaking of a peace that took root inside a person. This peace was unaffected by any form of opposition. You can do away with the body, Jesus said, but never the soul. His was a radical idea: that the most important of all things has to do with a person's heart.
Monks years ago made this point with a story: A cruel warlord confronted an old monk, commanding the monk to bow to him, but the monk refused. "Do you know who I am?" bellowed the warlord. "I am he who has the power to run you through with a sword." "And do you know who I am?" responded the monk. "I am he who has the power to let you run me through with a sword." This old man, unbowed, was peaceful from his core. He operated out of an ordered heart.
Jesus said His peace was not compatible with the "world's" view of peace: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27). He created a movement whose trademarks were humility, compassion, mercy, and a breaking down of barriers that traditionally separated people. Paul referred to this as "the peace of Christ," and he urged the Christ-followers of the Colossian church to reorient themselves around this trait.
At the same time we shouldn't confuse the peace of Christ with niceness, or feeling good, or the avoidance of conflict. The peaceful Jesus was not a wimp. When He wreaked havoc on the Temple money-launderers He was justifiably furious. When He was confronted by influential hypocritical religious leaders He held nothing back in telling them the truth about who they were in their arrogance and disrespect for God.
Jesus taught, "Blessed are the peacemakers." "Go in peace," He said to a healed woman. "Peace," He shouted at a threatening storm. To many others He said, "Peace be with you." Wherever He went, He took His fresh idea of human order with Him.
Where do peaceable people come from? For some, peacefulness is the product of hardship or suffering or failure. Something takes place which causes deep pain (physical, spiritual, relational) and a brokenness that softens the heart. Perspectives are reoriented. Views on certain issues are rearranged, and a new person, a peaceful person, emerges.
Aging with its accumulation of life-experience, can produce a peaceful person if he or she has pursued a close walk with Jesus.
Peaceable people are an expression of the work of the Holy Spirit. And how is that work done? A rhythmic devotional life, engaging with the right kind of friends, and storing up the wisdom (journaling comes to mind) that comes from looking for meaning in everyday activity.
These are all ways the Holy Spirit builds an inner tranquility that becomes more and more valuable as the years pass.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer spent the last year of his life in Nazi prisons. One night, along with other prisoners, he was herded into a shelter while Allied bombs fell in the area. One man, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, writes of that moment: "Tightly squeezed together we were standing in our air-raid shelter when a bomb hit with an enormous explosion. For a second it seemed the shelter were bursting and the ceiling crashing down on top of us. It rocked like a ship tossing in the storm, but it held. At that moment Dietrich Bonhoeffer showed his mettle. He remained quite calm, he did not move a muscle, but stood motionless and relaxed as if nothing had happened." Elizabeth Raum, a Bonhoeffer biographer, writes of this moment: "Dietrich's actions calmed those around him. He acted like a man totally confident that nothing, even death, could harm him." He calmed everyone around him because they saw Jesus in him.
Oswald Chambers once wrote: "The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us ... but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field: peacefully, simply, and unaffectedly. These are the lives that mold us."
Peaceable people offer a fresh view of Jesus because He is embedded in their character and personality.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Success or failure is defined by the questions we ask. And whoever defines the question defines success. When the widow put a penny into the offering, Jesus' disciples dismissed her gift as insignificant. Their culture was conditioned to ask, "How much did she give?" Jesus, on the other hand praised her offering because He asked a different question, "How much did she sacrifice?" Whoever defines the question defines success. When we ask God-oriented questions about things like faithfulness, sacrifice, and grace, we discover that an unheard of Christ-follower with no celebrity status is actually highly successful in God's kingdom. We need to give attention to asking the right questions, because it's the question which determines success or failure, not the outcome.
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3 NAS).
The cause of your new spiritual birth is God the Father. It's not from our initiative. He even gave us the faith to believe: For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose (Phil. 2:13); By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect (1 Cor. 15:10); Now the God of peace … working in us that which is pleasing in His sight … (Heb. 13:20-21 NAS). Jesus said, "For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me …" (John 6:44 NLT).
Certainly God works through people to tell people about the Good News of Jesus Christ. And we are to be persuasive and loving and reaching out to others to lead them to Jesus. Then choices are made by individuals while at the same time God is at work in those choices. We choose, but God's grace causes. It's both/and.
God's grace is not something passive; it is active. His grace targets us, moves toward us, and works in us. God's grace toward us is not something that sits on a shelf, and we walk by and decide if we want to take it off the shelf and take it with us. Instead God's grace is pursuing us and overtaking us. His grace is chasing you. His love is hounding you. That's the idea in what David said in the twenty-third Psalm: "Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life …" (Psa. 23:6 NLT).
God's grace is never stagnant. It's never dormant, never lifeless, never still. Instead His grace is always in motion, making and saving, resurrecting and transforming. Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. … we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving (Eph. 2:7-9 Mes).
God's grace causes. His grace causes life, salvation, undying hope, promise, and eternal life. Center your everyday living on God's grace and truth. Revolve your life purpose around God's grace and truth. Discover who you are in God's grace and truth. Do your part to live according to God's grace and truth.
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Just another quick shoutout to my job. I've spent today shopping, eating and lying in bed watching countless YouTube vids. Dream day basically, so massive thanks to the Easter holidays and the teaching profession!
Moving on. Tonight's post features my current favourite wardrobe piece, the knitted trouser. Now, unless you were living under a rock, I'm sure you would have seen the Zara knitted two piece. It was rocked by my fave blogger Hannah Crosskey and if I'm honest I got a lot of inspo on how to wear them from her. Unfortunately, I wasn't quick enough to snap up the Zara set so for a while I was just admiring from afar, until the gorgeous Ellie Mack introduced the F&F set. Yes you read that right, my knitted trousers are from Tesco's F&F brand. They are literally identical to the Zara ones, slits and all! I didn't get the matching jumper as I'm not too fussed about that, however, with the jumper the set is a crazy affordable £30! The trousers alone were £14 so I was literally over the moon, thanks Ellie! Something I will just add is the sizing. I'm an 8-10 and I ordered the small, they fit alright but I would have much preferred a tighter fit around my thighs for a more flared look. I would suggest definitely not sizing up, maybe even size down? Unfortunately they don't do an XS.
Wow I have really rambled there, apologies! I styled the trousers with a stripe side split sleeveless top, a leather jacket, Nike Air Force 1s and my new Mango bag. The bag screams Celine to me! I'm also rocking my new ring which I was kindly sent from the wonderful Nikki Stark, her collection is so delicate and pretty, exactly the stuff you want to give as a special gift or to treat yourself! Check them outttt.
Trousers - F&F
Top - New Look
Jacket - Topshop (old)
Trainers - Nike
Bag - Mango
Necklace - Love Silver*
Ring - Nikki Stark*


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Issue 94 of UwP Magazine available
Underwater Photography Magazine (UwP) has kicked off 2017 by releasing issue number 94. Featured are reviews of the Canon 1Dx MK11, Fantasea housings, and a revisitation of older home-built housings. In terms of life, Jack Perks highlights UK freshwater fishes while the locations visited are the Poor Knights in New Zealand and Palm Beach, Florida. Parting Shots are by Alex Mustard and Dan Bolt.
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As long as 'obtaining a user's consent' is not just permitted in the same way that it was recently mandated for cookies. That is, something which simply says 'your continued use of this site implies consent'.
It must be possible for users to opt out of all forms of tracking that are not critical to the function of a web site while still being able to make full use of that site.


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About us
Allah the wise states "So ask the followers of the Reminder [and religious scholars] if you do not know – Sura Nahl (The Bee) Ayah 43.
And We did not send before you any but men to whom We sent revelation, so ask the followers of the reminder if you do not know – Sura Anbiya (The Prophets) Ayah 7.
The most prominent element of mans life is his deliberation, reflection and knowledge. A man taking the journey towards his own intellectual perfection and continued aspiration is always searching and encountering new questions during his search.
One, who does not propound question, does not propound knowledge.
The scope for Progressive questions on religious thought is extremely vast. The Porch of Wisdom Cultural Institute was established with the goal of resolving some of the importunate and unconvincing cultural, educational, and research-oriented needs in the area of religious thought, and never has it let the lack of facilities become an obstacle for it activities, although it has reduced speed and propaganda.
This is why the computer administrative department of this institute, whose area of expertise is information technology development, initiated their task by designing a website and answering questions on religion.
The first phase began with responding to theological and philosophical questions sent to The Porch of Wisdom Cultural Institute via the website www.hadavi.info by the Tebyan website [www.Tebyan.net].
In addition to the many efforts by various other organizations, not only is there still a necessity for development in the field of answering religious questions and misgivings, but with the widespread advancements in media technology and communication, the need for a center which solely focuses on answering [religious] questions and issues has increased. Moreover the answers should be in such a way that they are recognized as answers and viewpoints of Islam.
Therefore, the computer administrative department began its second phase of activity in the year of the Great Prophet[1] (Peace be upon him and his progeny), by launching the IslamQuest website in three languages (Farsi, English and Arabic) at the following web address: www.IslamQuest.net which officially began its activity on the seventeenth of Rabi Al-Awal 1427 (Hijri –Lunar Calendar) equivalent with 1385/ 1/27 (Hijri –Solar Calendar) simultaneous with the prosperous birthday of the dear Prophet of Islam.
The Method of Answering Questions
The questions and issues that are answered by the researchers are from the compilation of questions submitted to the IslamQuest website or are questions which hold a special priority within or outside of the country. This priority is specified by the Farsi, Arabic and English department administrators and experts, and then finalized and confirmed by the respected heads of the research department, computer administrative department, and the respected president of the Porch of Wisdom Cultural Institute
The answers to the questions are dispatched upon taking into consideration the information presented by the inquirers and the persons being addressed. After obtaining the finalized answer and the confirmation of the department heads for the related question, it is then put in the site Question and Answer Archive.
There is a range of methods for answering questions:
For the questions submitted on the website, if the initial question of the user includes more than one question then (if necessary) after separating it into multiple questions, the answer is prepared and sent. And if it is such that the inquirers question has a single topic, then the steps will be taken to answer that exact same question. On the other hand depending on the case the answer to the question may be sent as a brief and detailed answer or as a single answer for the inquirer's use, and his or her opinions about the answer will be utilized.
The institutes Quest of answering questions has always been targeted at the researcher's answers having comprehensive and creditable information as much as possible, so that it can be recognized as the answer and viewpoint of Islam.
[1] Due to the impertinence and disrespect of the enemies of Islam towards the holy Prophet Muhammad and the religion of Islam, and out of tremendous respect and admiration for the noble prophet of Islam, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenehie (the leader of the great Islamic revolution of Iran), named the Solar year of 1385, The Year of The Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.).