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For students and graduates
Job fair ŠANCE (CHANCE) comming soon to VŠE
Job fair ŠANCE will take place at the University of Economics in Prague 13th – 15th October 2020.
There will be more than 100 companies and institutions looking for the employees, trainees etc.
They will be offering, full-time, part-time or other forms of cooperation.
Extra services are prepared for you too.
– On Tuesday you can consult the business plan.
– On Wednesday you can consult CV or Linked In profile
– On Thursday try coaching with the professionals.
Moreover – every day you can win great prizes and take a photo on CV.
So do not hesitate and take the time to visit the Job fair SANCE (1st and 2nd floor in RB and).
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French speaking Sourcing Recruiter
Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Job Number: 660
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French speaking Sourcing Recruiter
Who are we?
Randstad Sourceright is a global talent leader, providing solutions and expertise to help companies grow. Randstad Sourceright Budapest, established in 2013, provides tailor-made solutions to well-known clients across EMEA. The Centre already employs over 150 Sourcers, Recruiters and HR Admins and is still growing! Join our team to learn and develop within an international and dynamic group!
At Randstad Sourceright, we truly believe we've got the balance just right. We are more "corporate" than an agency, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Being a global brand, we offer a variety of roles in different industries and every single person in our business matters to us.
Contact us today to find out how you can shape the world of Randstad Sourceright and how we can help your true talent shine.
We want to offer you the chance to:
• Be part of one of EMEA's most rapidly growing Recruitment Centres and a Global brand that offers exciting career opportunities
• Work with well-known and established clients in EMEA region
• Learn with the best and get equipped to the most advanced sourcing and recruiting methods and strategies
• Truly focus on your role without having to worry about business development
What will you do?
• Be a true consultant to your client in EMEA, while also partnering with other recruiters to ensure client satisfaction
• Constantly aim to improve the service provided and manage relationships with stakeholders to ensure KPIs and SLAs are met
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• Drive candidate pipeline and ensure compliance is adhered to throughout the recruitment end to end process
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• Having 1-3 years of experience in recruitment/staffing within an agency or in-house environment is an advantage
• You speak fluent English and French
• You have superb relationship building and communication skills
• You are hands-on, have gained exposure to stakeholder management and feel comfortable managing the hiring process
• You are a mature person who is not afraid to face challenges
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I cannot wait for Mabel and Nemo to be old enough to (safely) appreciate this! I'm definitely buying some once I know they're old enough not to eat it.*
Don't worry, I've already checked. You can just buy it on Amazon.com! See: Gallium 99.99% Pure 15 grams by GalliumSource, LLC.
*Can you imagine that trip to the emergency room? What would you do? Just wait for it to "pass" through?


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I was hesitating if to post this recipe due to it's simplicity, but then I remembered that sometimes, the simplest, most basic of recipes are the hardest to find out there in the World Wide Web. No fancy duck confit here folks. Bruschetta is a great way to use up leftover bread and look sophisticated all… Continue reading Simple and flavorful Bruschetta
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Zucchini in garlic, mint and lemon
In case I don't mention it often enough, we live in a very remote location. The asphalt stops at our village. You will have to take either a plane or a boat to continue norther bound. The nearest decent size shopping center is over a 1000 kilometers away (sniff). Our (un)fortunate remoteness from civilization brings us closer… Continue reading Zucchini in garlic, mint and lemon
Savory Swiss chard and cheese muffins
I've just passed the last hour of my life going up and down a flight of stairs, coercing an almost hyperventilating, super excited, I-just learned-how-to-stand-up 9-months-old and a defying, rebellious, mind boggling(ly) stubborn 2 year old to retire their act and go to bed. When I enter the room, they both resentfully pipe down, only to resume… Continue reading Savory Swiss chard and cheese muffins
Lovely Quinoa Salad
I came up with this little beauty in a time of need. I NEEDED Tabouleh. Now, not later. The problem was that I had no tomatoes. Or cucumbers. My Bulgar jar was on the low side too. I wasn't looking good for the Tabouleh, I can tell you that. Happily, I did possess the necessary… Continue reading Lovely Quinoa Salad
Daily minutes and cucumber salad
This Friday morning I woke up determined to get back in the saddle. Four weeks of utter chaos (aka "vacation") left me yearning for some good old routine. The queen of toddlers is back on track, in daycare and away from indulgent grand parents influence, my husband is back at work. Now its up to baby Tom and me… Continue reading Daily minutes and cucumber salad
On bravery and meatloaf (and broccoli mashed potatoes)
Yesterday we went sliding. On the snow. Downhill. Now, for many of you this may sound like a perfectly normal weekend family activity for a cold December morning. Many of you, I presume, were also born with skates attached to your feet. I, on the other hand, prefer my ground nice and solid. Maybe… Continue reading On bravery and meatloaf (and broccoli mashed potatoes)
Rice with nuts and fruits
Our absolute favorite rice. ridiculously easy to make, super elegant to serve when you have company coming (read on for a neat little trick) and keeps extra well in the fridge for up to a week. I used 2 kinds of dried raisins and pine nuts for my topping because that's what I had on hand.… Continue reading Rice with nuts and fruits


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Compete against top talent at the 6th-Annual Top Gun Chicago 7v7 Tournament. A minimum of the top two teams from this event will qualify to play in the 2020 NFA7v7 National Championship.
Dates: May 9-10 (Postponed)
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A cruise to beautiful Wineglass Bay in Coles BayTasmania, passing The Hazards and Schouten Island. We stop for wine, cheese and oyster tasting in the bay and then out to view the playful seals. Rastus the dolphin spotting dog charms all the passengers. Background music is "Letters to Allayne" by Tom Fahy.
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A beautiful cruise from Coles bay to Wineglass Bay. The weather wasn't the best but it was still great.
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I don't know how I went from Girl-Who-Drew-Lightning-Bolt-On-Her-Forehead-And-Wore-Glasses-And-A-Cape to Costume Party Queen, but I seem to have cultivated a reputation for being crazy for Halloween.
I guess it's because I am! I love that Halloween is the one day in the year that you can pretend to be somebody you're not—not that there aren't already people who do this on a daily basis (LOL)—and have as much fun with it as you can. It's a day for everyone to let their freak flag fly, or just fulfill those childhood fantasies of being a Disney Princess.
The truth is that I don't actually go as all-out as people think I do; I'm just clever with makeup. Elaborate makeup is always eye-catching and impressive because most people don't think they're capable of doing it themselves. But actually, they are!
No Lichtenstein Ben-Day dots for this tutorial (which I did in 2009 and again in 2013 because I got lazy to think of something new for Night 2 of the Halloween weekend), no Mystique (which I did in 2011), and no skull makeup (which I did in 2012 at the last minute because, again, I got lazy). Instead, here's a quick how-to for Effie Trinket's butterfly makeup look from Catching Fire. (Just so you know, this is also the first time I'm doing this look, so if I'm figuring it out as we go along, I promise, it shouldn't be hard for you to do at home at all!)
Here's what I'm using, all available on BeautyMNL:
STEP 1: Make your face pale. I used a very, very thin layer of white greasepaint from one of my professional face paint kits to do this, because Effie has a pallid complexion. Light enough to look light, but not so thick that you can't see my skin anymore. But really, you can opt to skip this altogether and just use your regular foundation, or use a lighter shade of foundation than you normally would. (You know that bottle of the wrong shade that you bought by mistake that makes you look like a ghost? Time to crack it out!)
STEP 2: Contour your cheekbones with yellow eyeshadow. Apply a rich shade of yellow where you would normally apply your highlighter and blush. I used a deep canary yellow from the PRO STUDIO's Pro 88 Eyeshadow Palette. I also used a shimmery pale yellow and blended it with my fingertips onto the tops of my cheekbones for a touch of highlight. (I'm obsessed with highlighter, always and forever.)
STEP 3: Apply the same yellow to your brow bones, then use a slightly darker golden yellow-orange to your eyebrows. Make sure that the yellow shadow you apply to your brow bones meets the yellow shadow you used on your cheeks to create a C-shape.
STEP 4: Apply a golden orange shadow all over your eyelids. This shadow should be darker than the shade you used on your cheeks and brow bones. I used one of the many shades from the same palette.
STEP 5: Blend a deep golden-brown shadow into your crease, along your upper lash line, and along your lower lash line. This helps give your eyes more definition.
STEP 6: Curl your lashes! This is prep for later.
STEP 7: Apply dark brown pencil liner along your upper and lower lash lines. You can allow the liner to taper along your lower lash line instead of drawing all the way.
STEP 8: Attach your falsies. The falsies are really the pièce de résistance of the Effie look. I used Paperself's Full Deer & Butterfly Lashes, which are either the same as the ones they appear to have used in the film, or as close to them as possible. Putting false eyelashes on can be a challenge for a first timer. Apply a little lash adhesive all along the lash strip, then blow on it a little and allow it to get a touch tacky. Holding either end of the lash, place the middle first, right above your lashline. Then when you think you have that perfectly in place, attach the ends of the lashes to the inner and outer corners.
STEP 9: Add some color to your lips. Effie's are pretty bare in the original peg, but I can't resist a touch of color on the kisser. I dabbed an orange shade from the same palette in the center of my lips.
Pop your wig on (I haven't got one at the moment, unfortunately!), and you're good to go!
Selfies courtesy of Regina Belmonte. Screencap of Effie Trinket: Lionsgate.


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A neuroscientist and I got caught in a conversation while in a NY elevator. He talked about his work with the brain and wanted to know what I did in treating survivors of religious abuse. We got into the story of The Unholy and how religious trauma effects not only the brain but the deepest recesses of soul. It didn't strike him as odd that I'd emphasize this; but, it did hit him hard, though, that he'd never considered soul as integral to trauma and its impact.
Well, thus goes it in the world of everyday, mainstream, mental health care. It still has a ways to go in terms of understanding that we are not only physical beings, but soulful beings whose most intimate aspect is that of psyche, soul. Psyche reels and is loaded with torment when traumatized by religious guilt, fear, and deceit. A young man once shared a dream with me in which God appeared to him in the form of a luminous woman who instructed him to enter into a hallowed place within the center of the earth and there escape the terror of living in a religiously rigid and angry family that incessantly berated him for not being "worthy in the eyes of god." He stated that he learned to go within himself, to "the place that for me was the center of the earth, the center of my being." He fled within himself, to deep recesses of soul, to protect himself from the religious trauma of being raised by parents set on the dark side of religion.
A childhood diagnosis of attention deficit disorder led to a regimen of medication. He described it as "settling my brain but my soul was still quivering, shaking inside me." The brain can be dealt with, treated when injured by trauma; the soul requires patient tending and healing that requires what he felt was "a good long time."
In his adult years he entered depth therapy and furthered his understanding and experience of psyche, soul. He discovered that the ground of his being indeed lay within, in psyche. The woman who had come to him in the dream during his adolescence returned many more times to confirm her watchfulness over his life. He came to terms with the reality that for the rest of his life he would be in the process of healing from the damaging effects of having been immersed in the dark side of religion during his childhood. Fortunately, the psychological injury was not as bad as it could have been due to the dream he had had as a teenager. He responded quickly to it, went within himself and there found safety.
The dark side of religion disrupts brain chemistry and physiology and traumatizes the soul; but, auspiciously, the psyche comes during dire times, and she guides us to turn within and discover hallowed realms of soul, the center of our being so as to begin the process of healing from injuries sustained by the lash of the dark side of religion.
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I think the patient was far more fortunate than the neuroscientist, for until one engages his/her soul, they can only expect a compensation through symptom formation or a rather sterile existence. His anima dream saved his life! We might want to remind so-called objective scientists that psyche means soul and psychotherapy means ministering to soul. I actually love working with these scientific types, their one-sided rigidity lends itself well to very effective Jungian therapy.


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Writing from somewhere over the Middle East
I've always loved flying. For some reason, the whole airport-hating, fear-of-turbulence gene must have skipped me, and I ended up as the kind of person who will gladly sign up for 40 hours of travel time and long-haul flights if it means a cool layover.
There's something amazing about turning on a movie or taking a nap and all of a sudden waking up in a new place. Not only that, but everyone else that you pass in the airport or sit next to in a cramped row for 2 – 17 hours has an equally unique reason for being on their way to somewhere else, too.
It's like a complete life reset for every human onboard, hurtling over land and oceans at 30,000+ feet—and that's the most relaxing feeling I can think of.
So, as I chill on a 9-hour flight from Delhi to Copenhagen with nothing to do and literally nowhere else I can go, I'm just sitting here thinking about flying.
More specifically, I'm thinking about how I had NO idea I would be flying between these two places even six weeks ago.
When I packed up to leave for Thailand back in early March, I had a whole Southeast Asian fantasy year laid out in my head. Almost six months having passed since I had stepped foot back on US soil, I was beyond ready for the unlimited noodles, endless beaches, new people, jungle treks, and lots of solo time.
I was feeling pretty proud of "the new me" for doing such minimal planning this time around.
A little context: back when I first started solo traveling, I tended to over-plan most details of a trip—where I'd go, where I'd sleep, when I'd leave—a trait that seems to be pretty common (and is totally understandable) among people who are new to the whole all-on-your-own, no-safety-net thing.
I've mostly moved on from that style of travel, and all I had booked when I left this time was a one-way ticket to Chiang Mai, Thailand and an Airbnb for the first three nights. I got permission from my job to work from Asia, told my family I'd probably be gone for a year again, and off I went.
Here's the thing: my non-plan was definitely still kind of a plan.
Sure, I didn't have the details nailed down for my time in Thailand, but I had BIG (and specific) ideas for where I wanted to go and what I wanted to see in the near future.
I thought I'd work my way from the north of Thailand down to the islands, then maybe rent a motorcycle in southern Vietnam and drive to the north. Then Laos and Cambodia. Then Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Maybe I'd hop down to Australia and New Zealand for the holidays and my family could come meet me to snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef. And on and on and on.
The problem with wanting to go everywhere is that your mind is constantly trying to plan how you can physically go everywhere.
So, even though I went into this phase planning very little—and have continued to stick with staying flexible and booking as I go—my overarching "non-plan plan" was absolutely in existence. Hardcore.
I definitely did not end up in the Thai islands. I didn't rent a motorcycle in Vietnam, or spend a few months living in a hut in Bali, or go to any of the other Southeast Asian countries I had totally NOT planned on going to.
Instead, I met a friend in Sri Lanka for most of April. I ended up on lockdown in Colombo after terrorists set off bombs across the country—five near my hotel—killing over 250 people on Easter Sunday. I booked the soonest flight available and ended up in India, alone and traumatized, unsure how my non-plan had gotten me there. (I'll write about the Sri Lanka experience another time.)
The weirdest part: I felt this strange sort of guilt for how things had ended up, almost like I had cheated on my idea of how the year was going to go.
How the hell is it cheating to end up in India?
Answer: it's not. I have nowhere to be. I specifically chose this lifestyle so that I would never have anywhere I had to be.
The only thing limiting me is my own mindset. Whew.
Here's what I've realized, after spending five mind-blowing weeks in a country I had no intention of coming to this year:
Any plan, no matter the level of detail, will automatically narrow your focus and might make you miss the totally awesome opportunities existing just outside the boundaries you've created.
Now, I don't think this means we have to give up planning and forethought altogether. Many people—myself included—feel at their best when certain aspects of their life or trip or whatever are thought out and prepared for ahead of time. What those specific details are depends on the person, and I think it's totally fine for them to exist.
The real issues arise when we become so attached to our plan that we cling to it for dear life when the world is clearly trying to take us in another direction.
For instance, I almost wasted my time in India feeling like a fraud for completely pivoting on what I had told everyone I was going to do.
Who cares?
Fun things happen when you let go of your plans. One day in Jaipur I had planned on walking through some jewelry markets, but then made a friend at my hostel who invited me to Agra Fort. Once we got there, I got approached by a few women who worked for an Indian fashion brand and got to put on one of their dresses and get photographed for their website. It was hilarious and so fun and makes for a great travel story.
Letting go is the best.
News flash, Lauren: You change your mind about where to go next approximately four times per week. It's a running joke in your family. You know it, everyone who knows you knows it, and the world clearly knows it. It's time to move on and roll with whatever comes.
So here I am, rolling with it! An awesome opportunity presented itself in La Paz, Bolivia starting in August, so I'm making my way there with a month in Europe and a month at home along the way.
My non-plan is to bop around South America for the rest of the fall, but I guess I should go ahead and let go of that right now. Odds are that something will come up and I'll have to make peace with resetting my mindset all over again—and that's okay.
The only plans that have ever worked out for me were when I intentionally planned to have no plan. If that's not a sign to sit down, buckle up, and enjoy the flight, I don't know what is.


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Into The Sunset
I am in Sint Maarten sitting at a beach bar next to the airport watching the drama unfold before me. Some people around me have sand caked in their hair, and others are just watching the live version of, "America's Funniest Videos". There are participants and observers…happily I'm in the later group.
Because the airport is so close to the beach, well a lot of people think that standing CLOSE (like 50 – 100 feet) behind a Boeing 757 during full takeoff power from the jet is fun. They get the idea from YouTube and from the others that are already standing there…conformity I suppose. "Well if they are doing it, it must be fun!"
So the tourists come…usually they are young…and hang onto the airport boundary fence and others less "courageous" stand on the beach.
For those hanging onto the fence, they are peppered by small stones, dirt and debris from the HOT hurricane force winds coming from the jet engines. Most people hang on, but occasionally one can't hold on and tumbles across the single lane narrow road with minor injuries as a souvenir. There are YouTube videos but I'll warn you it's not pretty!
For those standing in the sand, well they get these same HOT hurricane force winds, but in a different flavor; they get bead-blasted by sand. Fun! So that is how we got the sand encrusted tourists at the beach bar.
And what of the locals? What's the saying, "when in Rome, do as the Romans do". Wether on foot or in a car, they wait for the "bird to launch". Have you seen the MythBusters episode where they blew away a cab and a school bus completely in the air with a Boeing 747?!
So this is another case of, "the locals do know what's best".
I thought the photo I took of a jet taking off the opposite direction into the sunset was a bit more…ahhhh…pleasant. I wonder where they were flying too? Well let me show you where we were…
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The sun was going down…yeah thanks Captain Obvious…we get that.
I could have raised the ISO to something around 400 or so, but I was going to be taking the shot right into the sun…so ISO 200 was the lowest I could get my camera.
The jet was pretty fast…so I needed a fast shutter speed. I picked 1/250 of a second. I adjusted the aperture to set the light meter and f/8 worked. Recall that I am doing a landscape shot, so I preferred a deeper depth of field to keep more of the foreground and subject in focus. Make sense?


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Thinks Virgilie Morales is the one who gave Minerva the ideas about Trujillo
Hangs out with boy and find out hes communist, the talk about the perfect government.
Practices to sell life insurance in the future
Dede and Minerva fighting over weather to join the revolution or not. Dede dose not want to because her husband dose not want her to.
Dede wanted to bring Jaimito with her and her sisters but since Minerva did not know where his politics were so Minerva did not want him to come starting a big argument.
Dede is listening to illegal radio witch is about the Cuban revolution. he husband dose not approve of this
Dede goes to church to get answers on what she should do with her at home family and her sisters. When there she finds out that Padre de Jesus is a revolutionist.
Dede and Minerva were very scared and they said a pome over and over until they fell asleep to get the head out of it
Dede gets out of the car and decides to stay at home instead of going on trip
Dede was frantic she did not know if her sisters were dead or alive.
A reporter came to Dede asking questions way earlier then reporters came normally.
Made worker move working stations for having weird family photos that maid Dede uncomfortable.
Papa send Minerva to a religious school
Minerva's friend trys to kill Trujillo during a school event that Trujillo was watching
Graduates school
Find letters in dads jacket pocket from Lio, who she has not seem in a long time
She finds out Papa is cheating on her mother and has four other daughters. Minerva crashes the Jeep into the Ford when she finds out.
Minerva finally realizes that she wants a man in her life
The Maribals get invited to Trujillos party. No one at the party dances until El Jefe has the first dance. later on in the party El Jefe dance with Minerva. He try's advance from dancing but Minerva slaps him in the face.
Minerva is taken into questioning and askeed about the letters from Lio Morales. They ask her if she is in contact with him, she is not. Papa is taken prisoner and has a heart attack in jail. When they are all together Minerva gambles for there life. they tie so they are let go.
Minerva is getting married to Manolo on a very rainy day.
Graduates law school but Trujillo dose not let her practice.
In prison Minerva holds "little school" to talk about what the new government should look like. She got this from listening to the illegal radio. Castro did this when he was in prison.
Sanctions against the D.R. were passed
Minerva remembers time sharing room with Dede
Minerva finds out her husband is at La Victoria Prison and that Manolo and Leanardo are at Puerto Plata
Wondering if they should stop at the spot of a ambush
Goes to same school as Minerva, Minerva give her a little book to write in.
Comes up with list of resolves for 1946
Mate thinks that Trujillo is a good person
Finds out that Minerva sneaks out and asks her why. Minerva dose not respond.
has night mares about papas death
has 1st kiss
Gets news from gossip section of the new paper. In the section of the paper is where you read about what Trujillo dose to people who have spoke out against him.
Mate is staying at Minerva's house when in the middle of the night she hears knocking at the door. It is a man delivering a big package to Minerva and Manolo. After talking to the man She decides she wants to be a butterfly.
Mate has a new baby named Jacqueline
Mate thought she was above the other non political inmates until on day she had a break down in prison. the non political's offered her there 10 minutes of looking out the window.
Mate and Minerva receive packages from there family and share the goods evenly through out the cell with all the other girls
Get to see family for frist time while in prison
prison guards take away all Crufixes
Mate has discovered she can hide papers in her hair
Mate hides papers in her hair to give to the OAS to help impose sanctions in the Dominican Republic.
Married to Pedro Gonzales, has two kids Nelson and Nori
Has night mares about house burning down killing her babies
Loses a baby before birth
Patrica has first son named Ernersto
Minerva gives her Patria her 5 month old baby because she could not raise her during the rebellion,
The family takes a retreat and on the last day they are attacked her son Noris died
Has new baby boy named Raul Ernesto
The SIM (the D.R.'s secret police) were staying and Patrias house
The picture of Trujillo was being moved around the house to eventually it was in a part of the house that no one goes in.
to Patria every one is equal in the eyes of god
Patria is wondering how her son Nelson is being treated in jail, as a man or as a boy.
When Patria passes the picture of Trujillo he say a prayer and act as if he is one of her own, just troubled.
Making a package for Minerva and Mate in prison
Other Family members/Friends
Trujillo kills general and husband, the general was fooling around with husbands wife Trujillo takes them both and kills them
T. is killing non-supporters of his regime
T. starts having affair with Lina
Papa Dies
23rd year of Trujillo
Castro Just freed Cuba
The government calls a state of emergency to stop/delay invasion of rebels and it works
El Jefe wants the sisters dead
Guards surround the car on the little lonely road
the guards killed the sisters and driver then put them back in the car and pushed them over a cliff to look like a accident.


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Happy (almost!) Halloween! I love October — it's definitely the best month of the fall season. All the leaves are just starting to turn colors, the weather's perfect for a pumpkin spice latte (judge away, those things are delicious), and every marketing blog puts out their halloween-related email advice. I figured I'd join in with today's post on the nine circles of email hell (modeled after Dante's Inferno), what will get you there, and what will keep you out. Pull out your high school literature knowledge and let's jump right in!
1. Limbo
In Dante's Inferno, Limbo wasn't really that bad of a place; it was just for those who weren't really aware of Christianity. In that same vein, being unaware of the cleanliness or opt-in status of the prospects of your database would put you into this circle of email limbo. It's definitely not a great place to be, but it can be easily avoided by ensuring you are actively aware of who your best subscribers are, what prospects might need a permission pass, and what prospects you should just be ready to give up on.
2. Lust
Lust is a pretty easy circle to fall into with email, but it's also super easy to pull yourself out of this particular circle. You lust after the prospects that signed up on your trial page six years ago, and just keep spamming them with email in the hopes they'll want you again. Instead of lusting after the prospects that clearly aren't interested, make some easy adjustments to your sending, such as lowering the frequency of mailing or changing up your email content. After a certain point of no interaction, you should definitely consider running an opt-in drip campaign to see if those prospects are worth keeping. If they're still not clicking or opening your email, they're just not worth the time and effort to keep in your database.
3. Gluttony
In the same vein as lust, you also need to be careful not to fall into the trap of gluttony. As far as email hell goes, gluttony is your inability to give up on your gigantic list of prospects. You care about having the most prospects out of anybody, instead of caring about how engaged and useful your prospect list truly is. To ensure you don't fall into the circle of gluttony, make sure you truly do remove the prospects that aren't engaging after you run a reconfirmation campaign. Regularly clean your database and actually let go of the ones that just aren't interested in your emails, so you can spend time really nurturing those who are interested and actively engaged.
4. Greed
There's a great deal of temptation in marketing to be greedy. "Buy this list, get 100,000 guaranteed opted-in prospects!" "Instant ROI!", list providers claim. By giving in to your greed and buying a list, you're going against the permission-based marketing policy, the advice of the entire email sending community, and might even be going against your local laws. Purchased lists are also a significant trigger for blacklisting and reputation issues, so it's just not worth it to give in to your greed and send email to a purchased list. Instead of focusing on a supposedly "easy" way to increase your lists, focus on attending tradeshows, building your brand, and providing relevant content in order to entice people to join your sending list.
5. Anger
It's extremely easy to anger your prospects by sending email too frequently, thus inciting them to opt out (or worse!) report your email as spam. In order to avoid being caught in the anger circle of email hell, it's important to do two things: set expectations up front and respect those expectations. Let your prospects know how frequently you plan on sending them email at the point of sign up, and reinforce that in your welcome email. Instead of risking the anger of your clients by opting them into email they didn't expect to receive, make sure you are 100% transparent with your intended sending frequency and the content they can expect to receive.
6. Heresy
It's known that in order to see the best possible deliverability through Pardot, you absolutely need to set up the appropriate email authentication. Going against that accepted knowledge just doesn't make any sense, and it's super easy to set up (all it takes is some copying and pasting!). This one's the easiest of all the circles to avoid, just don't go against the conventional knowledge and have your IT team spend the 5-10 minutes to get it set up properly.
7. Violence
The most violence I ever see in email compliance is in people wanting to retaliate against a perceived wrong. Generally, this is when a marketer winds up accidentally getting their IP address blacklisted, they get angry about it, and lash out at the blacklist provider. Blacklist agents are not required, in any way, to help you out. If they truly wanted to, they could keep you on their list forever and there would be nothing you could do to stop that from happening. Of course, nobody wants to stay blacklisted, so it's important to take a deep breath and focus on fixing the issue instead of reacting with anger and violence toward the blacklist provider. You're more likely to resolve the listing if you focus more on the facts and less on the emotions around being accused of being a spammer.
8. Fraud
Fraud, as far as email goes, is twofold: you're either sending marketing emails with your unsubscribe link hidden in some way, or you're sending marketing emails as an operational email send. While it is rare that someone will fall into this circle (most marketers know better), the consequences can be particularly dire. You're definitely going against Pardot's permission-based marketing policy, likely going against local laws, and are putting your overall sending reputation at risk. The email compliance team takes this one particularly seriously, and it's just not worth the risk to commit fraud in order to keep a few subscribers.
9. Treachery
I've (thankfully) never had to deal with this at Pardot, but betraying your prospects' trust by selling their email addresses is easily one of the worst things you can do to them. You're opening them up to being spammed by anyone who buys that customer data. Those prospects have invited you — and only you — to send them email, so don't disrespect that relationship by turning around and making money on their personal email addresses!
That wraps it up for today's post on the nine circles of email hell. What do you want to hear about next? Tweet me @holobachgirl with your suggestions!


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Douglas "Doug" Anderson
1928 - 2019
Tecumseh Sydenham Lodge Service
Funeral Service
Botany Cemetery
Obituary of Douglas Anderson
Anderson; Douglas a resident of RR3 Kent Bridge passed away peacefully surrounded by family at the Chatham-Kent Hospice on Sunday, August 4, 2019. Born 91 years ago on May 21, 1928, son of the late Arthur & Ethel (Duddy) Anderson. Beloved husband of 62 years to Shirley Anderson (Barnes). Loving father to Gary & Sandy (Bull) Anderson, Brian & Marie (Do Forno) Anderson. Forever missed by his grandchildren Craig & Katie, Corey & Heather, Ryan & Randi, Michael, and great-granddaughters Evelyn and Ava. Survived by siblings Miriam Secord (the late Bill), Larry & Glenda Anderson, sister-in-law Joan Anderson, Ruth & Hans Eberhand, Joan Carr (the late Ralph), Wayne Barnes, and Lee Barnes. Predeceased by siblings Bill & Ruth Anderson , Kay & Gordon Brisley, Gordon Anderson, Dorothy & Raymond Berry, brother-in-law Ken Barnes, and in-laws Garnet & Buelah Barnes. Doug lived and farmed at RR3 Kent Bridge all his life. He enjoyed farming, classic cars, golfing, many winters in Florida, friends and family. He was a life member of St. John's Botany Church, former member of the Ridgetown Golf Club, Past President and Director of the Howard Mutual Insurance Board, 50 year member of the Tecumseh Sydenham Lodge No. 245, and member of the Kent Historic Auto Club. Special thanks to all the staff at the Chatham-Kent Hospice and V.O.N for your care and compassion. The Anderson Family will receive friends at the John C. Badder Funeral Home, 72 Victoria Street, Thamesville on Tuesday from 2:00-4:00 & 7:00-9:00 p.m. A Tecumseh Sydenham Lodge Service will take place at 6:45 p.m. A Funeral Service will take place in the chapel on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. Interment to follow at Botany Cemetery. Those wishing to leave an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Chatham-Kent Hospice or V.O.N. Online condolences may be left at www.badderfuneralhome.com.


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Breathing Life to AI
Though Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most bandied about words in the tech industry, local media are still grappling with the concept of AI, amidst a dearth of tangible, local examples that bring the complex notion to life.
Because SAS is one of the most important players in the B2B analytics space, AI is an integral facet of its identity. And so it follows that to understand what a dynamic brand SAS is, people first need to comprehend the exciting potential of AI.
SAS needed to launch a communications campaign that would make the notion of AI, and therefore SAS, come alive for media. And so the idea was born to introduce media to the world's first and only cyborg, Neil Harbisson.
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Media were completely entranced by the idea of meeting Neil and experiencing the wonder of AI firsthand.


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The Best Original Xbox Racing Games of All Time
List Rules Games don't have to be console exclusive, as long as they were released for Xbox at some point.
If you owned the original Xbox at any time during your life, then it's safe to say there were probably a few racing games in your collection. With so many great options to choose from, there was never a shortage of games to play for fans of the genre. Since some games were much better than others, we've decided to rank the best Xbox racing games of all time. If driving fast cars is your thing, then get behind the wheel and try out some of these fantastic games.
This list will feature the most popular and best selling racing games that were released for Xbox. While many of these games were console exclusive, we're allowing non-exclusives to be a part of the list as well. This poll features items like Burnout Revenge and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Vote for your favorite video games below, and feel free to add any that you think deserve to be on the list.


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Professor Sarah Coakley who is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, gave a lecture at the United Theological College, Sydney, Australia on 13 July 2010.
An edited version of the lecture is available in three parts:
Rethinking the sex crises in Catholicism and Anglicanism, Part 1
Rethinking the sex crises in Catholicism and Anglicanism, Part 2
Rethinking the sex crises in Catholicism and Anglicanism, Part 3
There is no sex crisis within the Catholic Church, just a crisis of sin and its correlative, disobedience. God's revelation has been beautifully unfurled and is for all to see….
Virginity, chastity and self control.
Marriage raised to a sacrament. Indissoluble, except by death.
The family
The higher calling of consecrated celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom of God, with the hundredfold promise.
An openness to God's blessing of life.
By contrast the tragedy of the Anglican Communion having opened the door to contraception in 1930, has completely subverted the moral order.
Sarah Coakley's article is thought provoking. Two quick points. (1) She touches on the issue of "counter-cultural ism." The dilemma for Christian communities, when to take a counter cultural position and when not to do so, is a daunting question in and of itself. It gives rise to further questions about just whose culture a faithful community is called to "counter" as it were,and what is the cultural base of said counter measures? New Testament documents suggest that the "kingdom of God" preached by Jesus was counter cultural to both the "kingdom of the Herods" and the religious leadership aligned… Read more »
Robert Ian Williams certainly makes no bones about what is ideal, not merely what is preferred or hope for, but what is absolute. Yet, these absolutes fail to deal with the realities of human life as God made us and the fact that they either don't apply to many people or don't work for many more. For example, "the family" is yet again trotted out as part of the whole picture of God's plan or expectation. Yet, in scripture, the Old Testament has no such model of family, and with the exception of "The Holy Family" and perhaps Zacharias, Elizabeth,… Read more »
Prof Coakley's three-part essay is most welcome, and at least we are treated to a more open mind at work on behalf of Anglican traditions, than not. Yet by the end of part three, we are still caught tragically in the fundamentalist traps which her thinking and redacting would otherwise seek to unlock for us, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. Sex expressed is sex directed, every bit as much as in any health or unhealthy celibate iteration. Or vice versa. Morally, it is difficult to get caught in the spiny thornbush branches which presume that celibacy is some innately, given, higher manifestation… Read more »
Excellent lecture series — thank you for this. Among other things, Sarah Coakley gets Freud right, which is hard to do.
Is it so unusual for a married man or woman to write an encomium of celibacy? A tour of Christian blogs might show that this is actually the norm.
Pray tell, what is a "Christian" blog?
Rod Gillis – I guess that sums up everything about Christianity, really – the dichotomy between as DH Lawrence put it, 'The Eagle and The Dove'. I think what we may be seeing though is an increasingly conservative revolution, which is essentially cultural pessimism writ large; the left is now part of the Establishment, and so the only ground that is counter-cultural is the conservative – it happened in the Germany of the 1920s and 1930s, and it's happening, or might happen, now. I say 'might', since the conservative revolutionary has no desire for the status quo ante, exactly. The… Read more »
Not exactly an "eternal" vision, whatever that means. This word elevates the other words, but is itself inappropriate.
Isn't the ultimate expression of love, obedience?.Did not our Blessed Lord, say , " if you love me you will keep my commandments."
Obedience to the two great commandments yes, but hopefully not obediance to the modern heresy of biblical literalism.
"Isn't the ultimate expression of love, obedience?"
Any number of things make one obedient so obedience is in no way incontrovertibly connected to love. Animals can be conditioned to obedience – so does that indicate love? Slaves beaten into obedience. Love?
If that is your understanding of what Christ came for, why bother being Christian?
"By contrast the tragedy of the Anglican Communion having opened the door to contraception in 1930, has completely subverted the moral order."
[1] That's pretty sweeping given the history of Europe and the rest of the world since 1930: the Great depressin, WWII,the Holocaust, the dissolution of the British Empire, fall and collapse of the Iron Curtain, Viet Nam ….etc. etc. etc..
[2] If both men and women could get pregnant, there would have been no controversy about birth control
There are plenty of religious batterers out there who insist that their wives obey them, or else be beaten–and they call that love.
Achilles, interesting comment. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, but it is engaging.How to resolve the problem of left and right, liberal and conservative? I keep coming back to a comment I heard Malcolm Boyd make a verylong time ago, during equally difficult times, which goes something like this, "There is only me and you, and what we have to do." That, it seems to me, captures the core of the praxis of Jesus.
The point Cynthia, is that the Anglican Communion was the first major denomination to give respectability to contraception. If procreation can be an optional extra, then the door is open to homosexuality etc. Which would have be unthinkable prior to 1930. It's very interesting to read the debate that raged in the Church Times a the time. It's sad that it is all forgotten. It would make excellent material for a doctorate. Indeed I came across Bishop Gore ( who was regarded as a modernist by some Anglo-Catholics) state that if we accept contraception, how do we answer the homosexual?
"If procreation can be an optional extra, then the door is open to homosexuality etc"
I don't understand the logic of this, especially what might be included in "etc." What do you mean?
This is not a smartass question [although I admit snarkiness in #2 of my post].
Robert Ian Williams, As an Anglo-Catholic I think that Bishop Charles Gore was a brilliant scholar and churchman (and I pretty much accept both his kenotic theory of the incarnation and the conclusions of his masterful essay on divorce, which is why I oppose the recent move by the Church of England to ordain remarried priests). He wasn't, however, infallible, any more then the Bishop of Rome is infallible. He was wrong about some things, including about contraception. To notice the fact that changing hormone levels in the female body suppress ovulation, and to use that fact to help people… Read more »
Cynthia, the logic is fairly straightforward. If procreation is optional, then sex is about more than making babies. If sex is about maore than making babies, if sex is about emotional and physical intimacy and perhaps even enjoyment, then why not homosexuals? Which, rhetorically, was an argument against separating sex from procreation.
I am told that the addition of sex to American civil rights legislation in the 1960s was about trying to persuade northern legislators that equality for "negroes" would eventually lead to the ridiculous idea of equality for women . . . can you imagine?
"If procreation is optional, then sex is about more than making babies" Oh dear! Pleasure may ensue! Reminds me of the old joke about Southern Baptists: Q: Why do the Southern Baptists oppose gay marriage? A: They are afraid it will encourage dancing. "I am told that the addition of sex to American civil rights legislation in the 1960s was about trying to persuade northern legislators that equality for "negroes" would eventually lead to the ridiculous idea of equality for women . . . can you imagine?" I thought the story was that those who added gender to the civil… Read more »
I think civil rights legislation was pretty much sunk in the south anyway. Those that weren't actually afraid of civil rights for "negroes" were afraid of their voters.
But those northern legislators had all sorts of funny ideas about blacks being equal (can you imagine?). There was apparently some thought that adding sex would make those northern liberals realize what silly ideas equality and human rights really were.
Ah yes, how we try to simplify so that we find a single, categorical way through in loving – as we hear God's commanding call to love? Let's ponder that lovely guide word, Obedience – capitalized for trenchant reasons? Others might like, Submission? But scripture obviously spreads outwards in its applicable vocabularies of love, not narrowing down to nice, simple, categorical pin points; nor for that matter, encouraging us all to use a pin point to pierce the unconformed plethora of human selves in society which probably in most modern global instances, surround us as Anglican believers. Inside, outside church… Read more »
But Jesus taught us to pray "Your will be done on earth as well as in heaven", and this not under our own power but through the Holy Spirit. Your will be done on earth, also means in our own lives. Because His foolishness is greater than our wisdom. The Holy Spirit is sanctifying us to follow all His ways.
"If procreation can be an optional extra, then the door is open to homosexuality etc."
– Robert Ian Williams –
This is just one more of Robert's bon mots that convinces me why there is no such web-site as 'Thinking Roman Catholics'
"The Holy Spirit is sanctifying us to follow all His ways."
Which does not, in any way, preclude the progressive/liberal/non-RC view of sexuality from being correct. Indeed, the more you claim rigid dogma passed down as Tradition, the less apt it is to be guiding of the Holy Spirit.
"Thy Will be done" is not the same as "strict obedience." That is mere submission to ideas given us from someone else. There is, in fact, an Arabic word for just that – Islam.
David W
that's what we are fervently hoping, that the Holy Spirit will be listened to and God's will be done on earth.
We just don't happen to agree with you about what that means.
Since procreation is not a universal consequence even of sexual relations geared to that end and with that intention, it would seem that it is "by nature" an "extra." Consequently, the "door is open" by divine design, to sexuality not geared to procreation, if you think God is the designer. The traditional argument against birth control is based on a false premise and a non-sequitur. Then again, the whole idea that "nature" shows us what is moral (or divine) is highly questionable, especially in detail; and as noted above, adopting Jesus' teaching about loving the other as one would be… Read more »
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Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Dratted Word Verification.
love Mags B x
6 comments:
- terriavidreader (IN-USA) said...
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the blog that you are trying to leave comments on is the one that must have word verification turned off. It doesn't have anything to do with you who is leaving or wanting to leave the comments. If you are commenting, you might mention how much you hate that they have left the verification on and might not comment any longer on their blog if they don't remove it.
- Tuesday, August 16, 2016
- MagsB said...
Testing, testing.
- Wednesday, August 17, 2016
- KT Fit Kitty said...
It could also be caused by making a lot of comments at one time. That's when I get it, during blog hops or if I'm way behind in my commenting and trying to play catch-up at one time. Try to space out your commenting and that will help. Best of luck to you!
- Wednesday, August 17, 2016
- Lin said...
No captcha here, but I was signed into Google. As I understand their new addition, if you are signed in you don't have to verify, but if you come from say a Wordpress account, or basically just don't have Google or Google + then it will make you verify everything. There were a lot of complaints on the Blogger forum when they changed it. I think it's to stop anonymous spammers commenting....... but setting up comment moderation on your blog prevents that. I would prefer to have the choice myself, not have Google dictate how my blogger settings work.
- Thursday, August 18, 2016
- Pat said...
Hi Mags, I have checked my blog and WV is definitely switched off, I have never had it on, I think it is a problem with blogger, it appears on a lot of blogs I comment on but I just ignore it and it works OK!!!!
But it's definitely switched off on my blog...I checked, thanks.
Pat xx
- Thursday, August 18, 2016
- Daffodil Cards said...
Hi Mags I hope mine is back to normal now. I cleared everything, I don't have word verification on. I found when I did a lot of comments it turned ME into a Robot, so much so I stopped until the next day, when things got back to normal, UNTIL I did too many again LOL
Hope you are well
- Monday, August 29, 2016


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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, it sure was a whole lot easier to put a damned bow on a franchise. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, director J.J. Abrams' return to the trilogy he kicked off with The Force Awakens, is clearly facing some monumental pressures in its quest to deliver a satisfying ending, with a litany of production woes ranging from the passing of Carrie Fisher, the dismissal of the original director, and the ire of random goons on the internet. Given all of the agita, the fact that the final movie comes off as something other than a clear victory lap is less than surprising. What's odd, though, is how much of the narrative chaos feels self-inflicted. This is a finale that somehow registers as both flabby and rushed, expending at least as much energy in rubbing out perceived past snafus as in moving forward. I mean, it's still better than Attack of the Clones, but the line is perilously close at times.
Science Fiction
High Life: Harsh Mistress
The Final Frontier has received any number of varied cinematic treatments over the years, ranging from a Kubrickian adherence to physics, to full-on Road Runnerish refusals to honor the laws of gravity. High Life, the latest barbed wonder from Claire Denis, makes its particular approach to the void clear from the first few moments. Here, the objects set adrift in space either hover poetically, or fall straight down to God Knows Where. While the effect may well make scientists clutch their heads, it informs the film's startling combination of unblinking body horror and gauzy far-out glories, fueled by the respectively stoic and frenzied performances of Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche. Even at its most baffling, you can always detect the pulse of a master filmmaker. She controls the vertical, the horizontal, and everything in between.
Method, Madness, and Metaphysical Mysteries
If you're reading this you're one of us. You see the patterns that no one else does. You find the answers to questions too bewildering for others to comprehend. But the deeper you dig, the more confusing things get. And then there are the shady characters who keep weaving through your journey. It's a conspiracy, but you're the only one who can see it! That path can lead only to madness. Or a movie. We all love a good conspiracy thriller, but we are mesmerized by a conspiracy plot where the answers one seeks may not exist in the material realm.
Under the Silver Lake, the latest film to explore a mystery that seems to defy the logic of science and reason, has been pushed back from its original June release date to December. Ostensibly it's to give filmmaker David Robert Mitchell time to recut the movie. But could there be another, more sinister reason behind this delay? What exactly aren't they telling us? Just who is really pulling the strings here?
Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Review by Robert Horton for Seattle Weekly
Twice during Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Bryce Dallas Howard's character enters a scene with the camera focused on her shoes. Maybe this is the director's foot fetish, but more likely it's a comment on one of the criticisms of 2015's huge-grossing predecessor Jurassic World: that Howard's character, theme-park corporate lackey Claire Dearing, was so retrograde she spent an entire film wearing high heels while being chased by dinosaurs. That criticism was actually slightly unfair—Claire wore heels because her stupid job forced her to—but rest assured that in Fallen Kingdom, Claire is kitted out with a set of badass military-grade boots. And they're ready for their close-up.
Fallen Kingdom reunites Claire and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) when a volcano threatens to destroy the remaining dinosaur population on Isla Nublar.
Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story
Review by Robert Horton for Seattle weekly
At this point in the movie he's just Han. But we know he'll acquire the last name sometime soon. In a tight spot in a galaxy far, far away, Han glances at a billboard-sized recruitment video for the Empire, a laughably macho commercial for future pilots. Beneath the come-on, we can hear the unmistakable swagger of John Williams' Darth Vader music—a great winking touch. The Few, the Proud, the Dark Side.
As you would expect, there are many in-jokes in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and this is one of the best.
Blu-ray: 'Liquid Sky' on Vinegar Syndrome
Liquid Sky (Vinegar Syndrome, Blu-ray+DVD Combo)
An avant-garde artifact straddling the eighties movie underground and the growing American independent movement, Liquid Sky (1982) broke into the college film circuit thanks to a trippy mix of drug culture, sexual androgyny, and indie sci-fi weirdness playing out in the New York eighties bohemian scene. Director Slava Tsukerman was a Russian émigré who studied at the Moscow Film Institute and worked in the Israeli film industry before moving to New York and immersing himself in youth culture to make his American film debut. He really is a true stranger in a land and he embraces it, observing his New Wave melodrama from the alien perspective of a sensation-seeking UFO in search of the human heroin high and discovering something better: the chemical blast of orgasms.
Anne Carlisle, a model and actress in the New York underground, co-wrote the script with Tsukerman and producer Nina V. Kerova and plays two roles: the jaded Margaret, a bisexual model who lives with performance artist and heroin dealer Adrian (Paula E. Sheppard), and her male model nemesis Jimmy, a sneering, preening would-be celebrity and drug addict. While they provide a tour of the underground clubs and rebel fashion culture, freelance German scientist Johann (Otto von Wernherr) tracks the alien invasion to Margaret's apartment (where a tiny flying saucer feeds off the chemical euphoria unleashed by her lifestyle) and provides the exposition to his new landlady. The fact that he's right (and still sounds like he's off his meds) doesn't give us any more confidence in him, perhaps because he's kind of alien himself, utterly baffled by American culture and clueless to the flirtations of his landlady, who is as subtle as a stripper at a bachelor party.
Blu-ray: Blade Runner 2049
35 years after the original Blade Runner changed the landscape of big screen science fiction, Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dared build on the dystopian portrait of the ecologically devastated urban imaged on screen by director Ridley Scott and his team of designers and artists. Just as in the original, this film is as much about the texture of the world on screen as it is the story of the Replicants (artificially manufactured humans created as slave labor) decades after Deckard first strolled the mean streets of L.A.
Ryan Gosling is K, the Blade Runner of this story, a next generation Replicant whose job it is to "retire" the last of the old models, the ones created with a more flexible will that led to rebellion. His new assignment unearths artifacts that leads directly back to the story of Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Rachel (Sean Young) and the legend of a Replicant child, a messiah myth for the Replicant underclass not unlike the Christian virgin birth: the first non-virgin birth of a race genetically designed in a lab. It's a story that Niander Wallace (Jared Leto), the techno-industrialist who took over the collapsed Tyrell Corporation, will do anything to bury and he sends his own Replicant enforcer, Luv (Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks), to eradicate the evidence.
This is science fiction spectacle and futuristic detective story as art movie tone poem, a conspiracy thriller with flying cars, blaster handguns, and big brawling fights that defies the breathless pace of the action genre.
Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Nostalgia can only get you so far, even when wookiees are involved. While 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens succeeded in its designated task of rescuing the venerable franchise from the doldrums of its prequels, it also practiced a frustrating form of risk aversion, putting the next generation of characters through some very familiar paces. (Now coming up on your left: another Death Star!) Thankfully, The Force Awakens' thunderously hyped sequel, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, takes a much more proactive tack, fully honoring the touchstones of the series while zigging and zagging in satisfying, provocative ways. If the previous entry presented a respectably staid melding of old and new, this one wires everything up, cranks the juice, and lets her rip. It's escapism on a grand scale—the kind of experience that reminds you why you fell in love with movies in the first place. Believe the hype, and then some.
Blu-ray: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman (2017) is, if you'll pardon such an obvious comment, a wonder of a superhero movie, a film that doesn't transcend the genre but most certainly sets a high bar, especially next to the ponderous, humorless films of the new big screen universe of interconnected DC Comics heroes.
Gal Gadot debuted as Amazon princess warrior Wonder Woman in the turgid Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and brightened the film immediately. The spirit we glimpsed there carries this origin story, which sends us back to the 1910s and the hidden island paradise of the Amazons inadvertently invaded when American pilot Steve Trevor (an earnest yet spirited Chris Pine) flies past the invisibility field and crash lands on the beach, the first man ever to set foot on the island. Diana is intrigued to say the least but more compelled by news of a world at war and, after the inevitable assault by German forces after Trevor, is convinced of her purpose: stopping the god Ares from destroying all of mankind through warfare. She leaves the island against the wishes her mother (Connie Nielsen, commanding and regal). Steve's not so convinced of that stuff about ancient gods and eternal Amazons but he has no doubt as to her abilities as a warrior or her commitment to justice and he knows a valuable ally when he meets one.
Blu-ray: 'E.T.' at 35 from Universal
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg's suburban fairy tale for kids who think they are too hip to believe in fairies, turns 35 with a new E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 35th Anniversary Limited Edition (Universal) plus additional Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD editions.
Henry Thomas is Elliot, an emotionally bruised kid suffering under his parents' separation who finds and bonds with another lonely, lost soul, a benevolent alien left behind when his spaceship leaves. "I'm keeping him," says Elliot, but meanwhile an army of government men search for him. As E.T. grows homesick and just plain sick. Elliot and friends need to help get E.T. home.
It's a fantastical adventure with a grounding in the modern suburbia of divorce and adolescent anxiety, and E.T. is the ultimate imaginary playmate come to life. Part pet, part best friend, part guardian angel with an emotionally symbiotic connection to Elliot, this funny looking stranger in a strange land (think of a squat, mutant teddy bear with lizard skin and monkey fingers and voice between a growl and a purr) is a wizened old grandfatherly being with the trust and playfulness of a child.
Blu-ray: 'Alien: Covenant'
You may recall Prometheus with both awe and astonishment, a film with astounding moments of beauty and horror and brilliance bumping up against stupidity and sloppiness and half-baked ideas. Alien: Covenant (2017), the second film in the Alien prequel series, takes place a decade after the events of Prometheus (2012) and continues writing the xenomorph origin story with a new cast of potential hosts (a colony ship with a population on ice waiting to wake on a new world) put through a plot that borrows elements from both Prometheus and the original films. It's a smarter film, and if it never quite matches the conceptual and visual genius of Prometheus at its best, neither does it slip into the foolishness of its worst moments.
This is the sixth official film (we're ignoring the Alien vs. Predator films) in what is becoming a galaxy-spanning franchise, the second film in the prequel story, and the third directed by Ridley Scott, director of the original film. It opens with the skeleton crew awakening early, just as it did in Scott's original Alien, and sending a search party down to a nearby planet sending out a distress signal, which this time is a verdant world teaming with plant life but, eerily, no animals or insects or birds. What it does have are the insidious spores of Prometheus (also directed by Scott) which colonize the unlikely humans as hosts for this alien life form, and a lone humanoid living in the ruins of a dead civilization: David (Michael Fassbender), the android of Prometheus who walks the wasteland like a rogue prophet and makes contact with the human team.
Review: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[Originally published in The Weekly (Seattle), December 14, 1977]
It's getting harder and harder for a movie to just happen anymore. I'm not talking about the ways movies get made (although, to be sure, that's become an extremely messy business), but the ways movies and audiences get together. In the absence of a vast public that simply "goes to the movies," film-selling has become a matter of creating Events—Events that may or may not live up to the induced expectations but which in any, er, event have an uphill fight to stay alive and spontaneous. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is having a harder time than most. It's a $20 million film that a lot of people are anxious to recover their money on. It's a film in a genre, sci-fi, variously blessed and burdened with an enthusiastic/rabid following whose specialized requirements for satisfaction do not necessarily have much to do with a film's being good as a film. It's a film in a genre, moreover, that has recently given the cinema its Number One Box-Office Champ, Star Wars, and hence become newly embattled among critics and commentators who deplore the preeminence of "mindless," two-dimensional, feel-good flicks on the top-grossing charts.
Blu-ray: Colossal
Colossal (2017) is the oddest and most inventive film to come out of the new wave of giant monster movies. It stars Anne Hathaway as Gloria, an out-of-work writer turned reckless party girl and black-out drunk who is kicked out of the Manhattan apartment she shares with her exasperated boyfriend (Dan Stevens) and returns to her dreary hometown and moves into her empty, abandoned family home. She runs into her childhood best friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), pretty much the only pal from her generation left in town, and gets a job waitressing in the sleepy bar he inherited. Unanchored and lacking any plan, goal, or motivation of any kind, she continues drinking her nights away with this new crew until she wakes up one morning (after another alcohol-fueled blackout) to find out that a towering Godzilla cousin has stormed Seoul, South Korea. As it continues to appear every morning (American time) at the same time, she discovers that she has a connection to the creature, one that goes back decades.
Let's leave it at that; discovering the twists is part of the fun of the film. If you've seen the trailer, you've seen one already, but that only scratches the surface. What first seems to be a cosmic comic lark, a goofy twist on the monster movie, gets dark in a very human way without losing the film's creative charge or director Nacho Vigalondo's sense of humor and poetic justice. Spanish filmmaker Vigalondo has a talent for genre mash-ups, creating fresh takes on familiar science-fiction tropes, and this film (his English language debut) is his smartest, edgiest, and most accomplished to date. Hathaway plays against her image as the likable but unreliable and unraveled Gloria, as does Sudeikis, whose easygoing manner and generosity covers up a damaged soul. She's a mess but he's an even bigger one and there's nothing cute about. Tim Blake Nelson and Austin Stowell co-star Oscar's reliable barflies and after-hours drinking buddies.
Blu-ray: Ghost in the Shell 2017
The live-action Ghost in the Shell (2017) is both a big-screen adaptation of the long-running Japanese manga (comic book) by Shirow Masume and a remake of the landmark animated 1995 feature from Mamoru Oshii. No matter how you split the difference, the film had a high bar to clear even before the controversy over the casting of Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi, who is simply Major in this adaptation. A veritable weapon—her body is almost entirely artificial, a sophisticated cyborg with a human brain who isn't sure where the person ends and the technology begins—Major is the leader of the Section 9 strike team, an anti-terrorist division of the government that, at times, battles rival sections as well as external threats. Their biggest nemesis, however, is a cybercriminal named Kuze (Michael Pitt) who hacks into human minds and turns ordinary people into terrorist weapons.
Johansson is remarkably effective in the role, impassive but not blank, both physically fierce and ethereal, morphing in action as the technology flickers into chameleon mode or sends her senses into 360 degree awareness. She is graceful and powerful, still and sudden, woman and machine, and her sense of identity is wrapped up in this alien physicality. Her relationship with Dr. Ouelet (Juliette Binoche), the scientist who created her cybernetic shell and ostensibly saved her life after a terrorist bombing, is somewhere between filial respect and professional collaboration, and for all the maternal care that Ouelet tries to push down, there's something else creating the emotional distance between them. Major is most at ease with Batou (Pilou Asbæk), her trusted and fiercely loyal number two, and she is completely loyal to their section head Aramaki ('Beat' Takeshi Kitano), whose impassive expressions (Takeshi's eternal hint of a smile makes him all the more enigmatic) covers his protective nature. As she has no memory of her past before the accident, they are the closest thing she has to family. At least until Kuze starts dropping hints about her origins and questions the identity she has taken for granted since her cybernetic rebirth.
Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming
Funny without being tongue-in-cheek and epic without being ponderous, Spider-Man: Homecoming is what a summer movie should be. This latest installment in the Marvel comics blockbuster-verse is as bouncy as its web-spinning hero. Instead of numbly moving the plot forward for the sake of the Marvel corporate plan (I mean "storytelling initiative"), it seamlessly tucks itself into the ongoing Marvel thing without feeling obligatory. This is the way you do it.
We've seen a lot of Spider-Man in recent years, including Sam Raimi's trilogy with Tobey Maguire and two installments with Andrew Garfield. Our current incarnation, played by Tom Holland, debuted last year in Captain America: Civil War, of which teenager Peter Parker's mentorship under Tony Stark, aka Iron Man's superhero-mentoring program, was the most engaging part. Teen angst loomed large in previous tellings of Peter's story, but Homecoming makes the radical suggestion that high-school years might also be fun—even if you're struggling with the newfound powers of being Spider-Man.


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Mono Equipment has updated its warranty terms and introduced two-year spare parts cover on all its manufactured products.
The Ali Group-owned outfit is an established provider of bakery, confectionery and foodservice equipment in the UK, operating out of its headquarters in Swansea.
Chris Huish, director of independent sales at the company, said the move would give buyers "complete peace of mind" when specifying its equipment.
"Our extended two-year warranty represents a significant step in the bakery equipment market, not only for the outstanding British quality, reliability and longevity of our equipment, but also being able to provide customers with a guaranteed peace-of-mind when buying from Mono Equipment."
The extended warranty applies to UK customers and Mono-manufactured products only.
Meanwhile, Mono Equipment recently became the official UK dealer for Italian bakery equipment provider Canol.
Canol sales director, Marco Valenti, confirmed the tie-up, saying: "We at Canol SRL are happy to work with Mono Equipment in the United Kingdom as we have worked together very successfully in the past.'


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Due West, S.C. – North Greenville dropped a pair of matches on Friday 3 – 0 and 3 – 1 to West Georgia and Francis Marion at the Erskine College weekend tournament.
Match 1
The Wolves Led the entire first set but North Greenville kept it close. The battle was eventually evened by the Crusaders when Erin Allen knocked down a kill on an assist from Eaden Shockley to make it 24 – 24.
The two squads would trade points with Katie McManaway making it 25 – 25 with a kill of her own but the Wolves would inch out the first set win with back-to-back points to win 27 – 25.
North Greenville Struck first in the second frame using an error from the Wolves to take a 1 – 0 lead then a 2 – 1 lead on another Allen kill.
The Wolves would turn on the tempo midway through though, storming out to a 15 – 6 lead after an NGU service error.
The lead would hold but NGU was able to cut the deficit to four (18 – 22) but the Wolves shut down the comeback attempt taking the second frame 25 – 18.
NGU was able to grab hold of a lead late in the third when Allen made it 17 – 16. The Crusader sled for much of the early frame. The Wolves battled back though and outscored the Crusaders 9 – 2 to finish off the three-game sweep.
Erin Allen led NGU with 13 – kills in game one while Courtney Williamson and Annie Beisecker had eight kills each.
Whitley Kahler finished with 13 – digs on defense.
Match 2
The Crusaders came out firing in match two to earn their first win of the day. The Patriots went up 17 – 16 late in the match but a kill and an ace from Allen and some offensive miscues by FMU made it 22 – 18.
Straight points from Williamson and an ace from Kahler made it 24 – 19 while Francis Marion added another error to help NGU with the win.
The Crusaders led late in the second set but Francis Marion stormed back to take a 20 – 21 lead. NGU later tied it up at 22 with a kill from Paige Beisecker and at 23 with a kill from her sister Annie.
Annie Beisecker made it 24 – 24 a point later but Francis Marion put the game away with back-to-back scores to even the set count at 1 – 1.
Francis Marion made quick work of NGU in the third set taking a 25 – 9 decision to take a 2 – 1 lead.
NGU trailed 20 – 16 late in the third but continued to battle and cut the lead to just two points when Allen continued her big day with a kill that made it 20 – 22.
Courtney Williamson later made it 22 – 23 with a crush but a North Greenville error and an FMU kill earned the Patriots the win.
Courtney Williamson led NGU in game two with 13 – kills. Annie Beisecker added nine kills while Erin Allen added eight.
Kahler had a career day with 24 – digs on defense while also adding a pair of aces.
Eaden Shockley had 35 – dishes.
NGU will wrap up the weekend at Erskine with matches against UVA-Wise at 2 pm and Lander at 6 pm on Saturday.


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Several weeks ago, I ran into my friend and colleague, Mark Rank in the hallway and he said he had some news for me. His younger daughter, Katie is a writer for her school newspaper and for the final issue, the paper was seeking stories about interesting people doing interesting things in the St. Louis area. Having gone on a few owl prowls and observations led by me with her Dad, sister Libby and mom Anne, Katie knew of the owls and my study of them. Mark told me that Katie pitched a story about the owls and me to the editors for the issue and she would learn the results of her pitch in a little while. I was quite chuffed that Katie thought of the owls and me for such a piece.
In addition to being a prominent and respected member of the faculty of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Mark is one of the longest-serving and passionate members of the owls' booster club. An avid cyclist, he gets to the park with some frequency and enjoys the observing the wildlife as he makes his way. I can't remember now how animals became a topic of discussion between us but we quickly discovered our mutual interest in critters and their doings. We have traded animal observations and even experienced some together on campus for years now, most memorably when a hawk of the genus Bueto plucked a squirrel off a tree and then flew to a building ledge. The hawk had one foot on the ledge and the other on the squirrel, dangling off the roof. Classes let out just then and soon scores of students gave the full panoply of reactions to this predatory moment, everything to revulsion and sympathy to amazement.
After my girlfriend Wendy, Mark was one of the first people to join me on owl prowls in late 2005. This was back when my owl prowls prominently featured absolutely no owls whatsoever. Happily, Mark was also one of the first people to join me after I found Charles' then perch site on December 29, 2005. As I mentioned earlier, his family have come out for several owl prowls over the years. They even saw some of the fledging behavior of last year's owlets; Bart, Lisa and Maggie in the third week of March.
A couple of weeks later after Mark told me about Katie's story pitch, he let me know that the pitch was successful. Thrilled with the news, I worked with Mark and Katie to set a date for an interview conducted by Katie followed by an owl prowl. I have found that Sundays tend to be the best days for owl prowls as they provide me with the most time to show my fellow prowlers as much of the owls and their history (that I know) as possible.
We set the date for Sunday, April 12 and we met at George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis because, y'know, Katie's dad and I both work there and it is close to the park. While Mark and his older daughter Libby waited patiently in Mark's office, Katie conducted her interview with me. She was well prepared with a list of questions and a tape recorder, with which she adroitly conducted a pre-interview test.
Katie and I took a deep breath and began the interview. She impressed me immediately with her questions, which sought out the essential who, what, when, where, how and why vital to journalism of all sorts while simultaneously looking for depth, nuance and complexity. The challenge to me was for me to convey the most information and insights without going on too long as I am apt to do. While I have talked to scores of people about the owls both in the park and outside of the park, it is another thing to do it when the tape is running and their is a definitive end goal to questions. My own modest journalistic experience was also on my mind, knowing how it is one thing to interview a person and yet another unique challenge to take the recording and make something out of it. I did my best to keep my answers brief but informative while including key dates, observations, anecdotes and references to the literature.
Katie came to the end of her questions and we thanked each other before collecting her dad and sister for part two of the afternoon-an owl prowl. As it was Easter Sunday, the Rank family was hosting Easter dinner for a number of family members and could not prowl for owls at dusk and beyond. Thankfully, my ESL (experience, skill, luck) is such that I can often locate the owls before they become active at dusk. ESL was at full strength and we found Charles and Sarah and the two owlets, Art and Mo. The Ranks were excited to see Art and Mo for the first time. Katie took pictures of the owls and me for her article.
As the latter afteroon approached, the Ranks said their goodbyes and departed. I stayed on in the park and headed out to various points and saw a bevy of animals, which I hope to write about soon.
Shortly after our owl prowl, Katie contacted me and asked me if I could provide her with some contacts who she could interview about the owls and me. I am lucky to have several people who have spent hours with me watching the owls and have to come to know me and them well. With my owl friends blessing, I happily gave Katie names, numbers and e-mail addresses. Over the next several days a couple of my friends let me know that they had spoken with Katie.
As the article was written and laid out, all by Katie, Mark kept me appraised of its progress while joking that Katie had written an expose' about me. I put Katie in touch with Don Love, a photographer friend, of Edward Crim's, as she wanted to use a photo of Sarah that Don had taken with an amazing lens of his. Don graciously gave his permission for his great photo to be used.
At last, the publication date arrived and a few days later, Mark stopped me in the hallway and let me know that he had a copy for me. I stopped by his office and eagerly read the piece. Like me, I'm sure you will all be impressed by the excellent job Katie did in all respects: the writing, the photos and the layout. She took a lot of information and condensed it nicely and deftly incoporated quotes from Wendy and Barb Brownell, that helped flesh out the story.
You will find the story below in 2 parts as jpeg photo files. If you would like a PDF of the article, please contact me at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Enjoy reading! Thank you, Katie and well done!!


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U Joo Foods, a Chicago sprout grower and processor have entered into a consent decree of permanent injunction with the FDA. The company and its owner are "prohibited from processing and distributing food until they demonstrate to the FDA that the facility and processing equipment are suitable to prevent contamination in the food that they process, prepare, store, and handle. In addition, they must routinely test the water where the sprouts are grown for evidence of contamination."
Sprouts are more likely to be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria because of the way they are grown. In the fields, animals and birds can come into contact with the plants. In fact, many sprout seeds encapsulate bacteria as they grow. Then, when they are sprouted in warm, moist environments, bacteria can grow freely.
The FDA inspected U Joo Foods in 2012 to see if they had corrected violations found the previous year. FDA inspectors found that the facility was deficient in many areas, including "workers who did not sanitize their gloves prior to touching sprouts, inadequate toilet and hand washing facilities, and inadequate cleaning procedures evidence by residues of sprouts on the production equipment."
Government inspectors also found the presence of Listeria welshimeri, a non-pathogenic bacteria in the same genus as Listeria monocytogenes at the facility. The company produced ready to eat sprouts distributed primarily in the Chicago area.


text: Hi everyone! Thanks for taking a look at my pattern! I'm Raouken, I'm a BJD collector and I've been sewing BJD corsets and selling them through my Etsy shop since 2011. I've sold over 3000 corsets, but recently I decided to quit to focus more on other projects. One of these projects is creating patterns and tutorials for hand embroidery and sewing for BJD dolls, and of course the first pattern had to be a corset for Minifee :) This pattern is for Fairyland Minifee, my girl has the Active line body and large bust, but you can alter it for your doll during the fitting step, as long as she has a similar shape body. There will be patterns for other sizes of dolls in the future as well. As for the difficulty level, in the pattern I am assuming you have some knowledge of sewing, things such as: reading a pattern, cutting out fabric, working with bias tape as well as a basic knowledge of hand sewing. It's not a beginners project as it's fairly complicated, there are a lot of steps involved(it's a 48 page document!)and because of it's small size, it's pretty complex. I don't say this to intimidate you, but just be forewarned that if you don't have a lot of sewing experience, you might want to save this project until you've done a few simpler ones. Or, invite a sewing wizard friend and have a sewing party together! ;) If you'd like to support me creating patterns, please check out my Patreon! :D Patreon supporters get access to daily WIP/blog posts, as well as Q&A's and giveaways where I give away anything I made for an embroidery pattern, including the corset from this pattern. If that sounds like a good idea to you, please check out https://www.patreon.com/raouken Have fun sewing, and if you have any questions, just let me know! :D


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EVERETT, Wash. -- Big plans are being proposed for a major expansion of the region's light rail system.
Leaders are seeking $50 billion to extend the line north to Everett and south to Tacoma, as well as east to Redmond and Issaquah. At that point the system will become a truly regional network.
Voters will be asked to pony up in November, but there is pushback over the huge price tag, and about the decades-long timeline.
Despite the $50 billion cost, it's still going to take 25 years for light rail to make it to Everett and Tacoma -- not until 2041.
"Our community is telling us pretty clearly they're not happy with that," said Paul Roberts, a member of the Everett City Council. "We're trying to accelerate the delivery from that plan."
Roberts and others argue that changing the corridor where light rail is proposed will shave nearly a decade off the timeline of getting the line to the heart of Snohomish County.
"Every day the commute between here and Seattle and here and the jobs center in southwest Everett gets longer and longer," Roberts said.
Currently, the Seattle line is being extended to Lynnwood, Des Moines and Bellevue by 2023. The additional $50 billion, if voters approve, will take the light rail line to Everett, Tacoma and the Eastside. But those lines won't open until 2041 -- 25 years from now.
The Sound Transit Board is considering the changes that Everett leaders are asking for, but hasn't made any commitments.
Here are the details of the fall ballot measure:
- Covers King, Pierce, Snohomish counties
- $50 billion
- $400 for average household (property, sales and vehicle taxes)
- 58 miles and 39 stations
Voters have approved Sound Transit money twice, so this would be the third go at the ballot box.


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Butler, Anna. "Heart Scarab": "Taking Shield, Book 2", Wilde City Press, 2015.
The Sequel to "Gyrfalcon": 'Taking Shield, Book 1"
Amos Lassen
I am at a bit of a disadvantage in that this is the second volume in a series of which I did not read the first book. Yet that is also a kind of test for me—we'll see if the book can stand alone. Captain Bennet is on
Telnos, a planet that is inhabited by religious fanatics and unregistered miners running illegal solactinium mines. Bennet knows that the planet is about to be taken over by the Maess and it is his job is to get out as many civilians as he can. There is a problem— the enemy arrives before the evacuation is complete. Having been part of fire fight, Bennet is left behind and presumed dead. Naturally his family has a hard time with this especially Joss, his long-term partner. Joss is lost, unhappy and remorseful and he knows that First Lieutenant Flynn has no official rights or business here.
I understand that in book one, "Gyrfalcon", we had the story of Captain Bennet of Shield, and Lieutenant Flynn of Fleet. It picks up here in a universe that has existed for thousands of years ago and this planet has become the last refuge of humanity. It was from here that people spread all over the galaxy. As is necessary, there are three divisions of military involved, Infantry, Fleet, and Shield (an elite force that does dirty work that the other divisions behind the scenes).
In the previous book Bennet and Flynn had a short affair and then each went on his own way. Now Bennet and his Shield group has the job of evacuating illegal settlers from a remote planet that is threatened by an alien enemy, referred to simply as the Maess. They come under attack and as I said, Bennett was presumed dead. Here is where I can tell you that it is not necessary to read book one since this book uses flashback and narration to tell us what happened. Now we see people reacting to the death of their hero. Finally Shield was sent to the planet to rescue any survivors that might be there and Bennet is found to be alive and leading a group. Wounded, he had to spent time hospitalized. As he began to regain his health, he and Joss end their long time relationship and on poor terms. This opened the door for Flynn's return.
I have to admit I had a hard time with the vocabulary and I found the story difficult to follow. Add to that the fact that is not the kind of fiction I enjoy reading and that lets you know that I cannot really be unbiased. I do not know who edited or proof read the text but it is obvious that neither was done carefully. The book is sloppy and poorly thrown together and there are numerous misuses of words and misspellings. (Hey, we live in an age of computers and grammar and spell check). I found the sex scenes poorly written and gratuitous. I certainly hope that there is no third volume. Author Butler has embarrassed herself enough with this one.
I usually choose not to give poor reviews but maybe this one will push the author to change her ways and try being a serious writer. I really had to force myself to finish this.


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Despite survey work that had been conducted by Green Newton volunteers earlier this year, the City is attempting to collect data from residents on how much more we are willing to pay for cleaner/greener electricity. The survey, which requires you to enter your email address but not necessarily your home address to verify residency, can be found here.
An update on the Newton Power Choice Program can be found in the most recent Public Facilities Committee Report here.