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Companies Plan Content Marketing Increases In 2016
A new survey from Marketwired, an online news distribution service, reports that marketing and public relations professionals increasingly plan to use content marketing efforts in their upcoming campaigns. In fact, 79% of respondents to the Marketwired survey said they already have a content marketing program in place, and 64% reported that they plan to increase their use of content marketing programs in 2016.
"Results from this survey echo conversations I've had with customers about the importance of content to their PR and marketing programs, and to their overall business objectives," said Sanjay Kulkarni, Marketwired vice president of product and marketing. "It's clear that relevant, quality content is increasingly important to telling brand stories, boosting customer affinity and driving qualified leads for the sales team. And while building a content strategy isn't quick or simple, our respondents see it as a must-have for 2016. They recognize the opportunities in front of them by having a plan in place."
Drilling down into the types of content that marketing professionals are using in their current efforts, respondents cited a range of options: blog posts (55%), photos (29%) and news releases (24%) were identified as the content used most frequently by respondents. Newsletters, video, infographics and white papers were also named, along with case studies, webinars and tip sheets.
The survey also highlighted the importance that companies are placing on gauging the success of their content marketing efforts. In fact, more than three-quarters (77%) of respondents said "yes" to measuring their content efforts. And while engagement, reach and website analytics are the most commonly named metrics, click-through rates, lead-generation, brand awareness and influence were close runners-up.
The Marketwired survey was conducted online between October 15 and November 25.


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Rules for Old Men Waiting
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 04-15-05
- Language: English
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $23.93
Publisher's Summary
In a house on the Cape "older than the Republic", Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. The most important rule, to "tell a story to its end", spurs the old Scot on to invent a strange and gripping tale of men in the trenches of the First World War.
Drawn from a depth of knowledge and imagination, MacIver conjures the implacable, clear-sighted artist Private Callum; the private's nemesis Sergeant Braddis, with his pincerlike nails; Lieutenant Simon Dodds, who takes on Braddis; and Private Charlie Alston, who is ensnared in this story of inhumanity and betrayal but brings it to a close.
This invented tale of the Great War prompts MacIver's own memories of his role in World War II and of Vietnam, where his son, David served. Both the stories and the memories alike are lit by the vivid presence of Margaret, his wife. As Hearts and Minds director Peter Davis writes, "Pouncey has wrought an almost inconceivable amount of beauty from pain, loss, and war, and I think he has been able to do this because every page is imbued with the love story at the heart of his astonishing novel."
Critic Reviews
"Although mortality is its central theme, this gracefully written novel is never depressing. With its expansive scope--war, work, love, loss--it is instead a beautiful testament to one man's resilient spirit." (Booklist)
"Begun in 1981, this slender, unpretentious, lyrical, and deeply moving novel by the president emeritus of Amherst College was more than two decades in the making....Pouncey's first book is proof that sometimes greatness comes slowly and in small packages." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Pat
- 07-30-05
Really enjoyable
My husband and I listened to this on a road trip. We weren't sure at first whether it was our kind of book, but it grabbed us and took hold with a story within a story. We didn't want it to end.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Kathy
- Davis, CA, United States
- 04-16-13
A very different listen
This is a difficult book for me to review, and I waffled back and forth between three and four stars. It is really three and a half stars.
As another review I read stated, it was quite a "masculine" type of book--I agree. It could be called a character study of a sick and grieving old man, waiting to die. He lives alone after the death of his beloved wife and realizes he needs to make up some rules for the remainder of his life to prevent himself from wallowing in self-pity. He decides to write a fictional story of a group of soldiers in World War 1, all the while reminiscing of his own past life.
This is not a happy, uplifting story at any point. Yet is fascinated me and kept my interest all the way through. It is beautifully written. I even had a tear or two in my eyes at the end. It is not a story for everyone and you must choose for yourself whether you want to experience it.
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- C. D Strother
- Potomac, MD United States
- 04-11-08
really good
Great book. Extremely well-written and well-read. Very original. A truly gripping WWI story within the story of a a very interesting man's life. A much more masculine book than I expected. Loaded with symbolism, and psychological insight, but also surprises and plot twists. Easy to listen to, but also worth spending time with. Altogether one heck of a book. For me the kind of book that makes you think, why can't more books be this good. There is so much out there that is not very good, or contains part that are good and a bunch of filler or poorly done material. This one does it all well beginning to end with loads of originality.
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- Michael
- 11-18-13
Surprisingly quite good
Three stories in one. Helps covers the mixed emotions and explores lost, guilt, anger and decisions outcomes from different perspectives. The stories on there own don't amount to much, but together they work effectively. Simon Vance does an excellent job narrating this book and his accents are quite good, but it would take an Briton to really judge.
I liked the book and think it is worth listening to for some light drama.


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We will maintain opportunities for residents to enjoy the parks, lakes, mountains and natural amenities of the Upstate and ensure that measures are put in place to protect vital resources such as clean air and water for generations to come.
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Summer Singers of Atlanta
Sacred Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Including the deeply moving cantata DONA NOBIS PACEM
Sunday Afternoon, August 12, 2018 at 3:00
Grace United Methodist Church in Midtown Atlanta
Midtown Atlanta
William O. Baker, DMA, Music Director & Conductor
Lynn Swanson, MME, Associate Music Director & Vocal Coach
Andrew Phillip Schmidt, Music Director Elect (2020)
Scott Smith, Choral Associate & Administrator
Leanne Elmer Herrmann, Organist & Accompanist
Wayne Burdette, Operations Manager
Ed Frazier Davis, Composer in Residence
Niccole Winney, Student Intern
The Summer Singers of Atlanta was created in 1990 as Atlanta's "original summer chorus." No audition is required for membership. Adult and mature youth are welcomed from all walks of life and from every level of music experience and interests in the chorus that averages between 100 and 150 members each year. Singers have traveled to Midtown Atlanta from as far as Savannah, Georgia, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina to be a part of weekly rehearsals in preparation of a grand choral masterwork performed with orchestra.
Weekly rehearsals begin in early June and continue until the annual performance in early August. Novice singers are supported by the many music professionals and well-trained singers that are attracted to the opportunity to sing immortal works with professional soloists and top-notch orchestra musicians in an environment focused on learning. Across the 29 seasons of the Summer Singers of Atlanta, both critics and audiences have marveled at the artistic excellence achieved in a truly community setting.
Masterworks performed in recent years have included Beethoven: Mass in C and Symphony No. 9; Mozart: Requiem, Solemn Vespers, and Mass in C minor; Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem; Haydn: The Creation, Te Deum and Lord Nelson Mass; Vivaldi: Gloria; Handel: Messiah (choruses); Orff: Carmina Burana; and dozens of other masterworks.
Membership registration opens March 1 of each year. Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem in 2018 and Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem in 2019. Dr. William Baker has announced his retirement as director of the Summer Singers of Atlanta following the 2019 season. Andrew Phillip Schmidt will become Music Director & Conductor beginning with the 2020 season.
Summer Singers of Atlanta performs:
CARMINA BURANA by Carl Orff on YouTube
THE CREATION by Franz Joseph Haydn on YouTube
REQUIEM by Mozart on YouTube


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Rev Akuila Yabaki, Executive member of the World Association for Christian Communication-Pacific region and WACC Global Board member shares his impressions on the Twin Consultation, Reformation—Education—Transformation that took place in Halle, Germany, 18-22 May 2016.
In sharing my impressions of my participation in the second part of the Twin Consultation on Reformation-Education-Transformation which took place on 18-22 May 2016 in Halle, Germany, I was assigned the role of listener in one of the workshops focusing on Looking at Innovative Models –within Traditional Structures: What space for Transformative Education Can the Churches Offer?
Halle itself is at the centre of a region with a rich reformation tradition. Not far from Wittenberg, the town where on 31st October 1517 Luther is reputed to have posted his 95 theses denouncing church abuses. Even closer is Eisleben, where Luther was born in 1483 and where he died in 1546. Yet the region is now one of the world's most non-religious territories.
According to a 2012 study, 52 percent of people in eastern Germany said they did not believe in God – compared to 10 percent in western Germany. However, we participants coming from as far away as Cuba, Chile, Greece, Haiti, Myanmar, Botswana. Fiji, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Korea, South Africa, United States, Zimbabwe, re-affirmed the commitment to theological education and highlighted it as a key priority and essential component in ecumenical partnership. Not to do so would be a betrayal of theological education tradition of the Reformation.
Clergy are to be educated not only in theology but broadly educated and where possible to be keeping abreast with intellectual current issues and questions. This calls for prioritizing and strategic financial planning for scholarship programmes towards capacity building for Christian prophetic leadership development both at the regional and international levels.
In order for education to be transformative, it needs to struggle against inequalities and religious intolerance, promote respect and embrace religious diversity and dialogue. Therefore a common denominator which is to be seriously taken into account is consideration of the hermeneutical and contextual factors.
It is important for churches to develop a National Master Plan taking into account the national context. In India, for instance, the banking approach is still rife as pupils go to study in order to pass exams to get jobs. We also heard about extremist groups in India and a trend that religious education was being pushed out of the public space.
Similarly in Myanmar churches have a significant role in education but the militarised government introduced restrictions so that children missed out on not having the benefit of religious education; now with return to some form of democracy free space is offered but rulers are nervous about proselytization.
The Content is to be transformative. Examples of this:
The McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago Study programme insists for students to go out to see and interact and reflect back on their outings. Learning about love of neighbour of other faiths by visiting Jewish synagogues and joining in public demonstration in support of immigrants and sometimes face detention by the police. In the context of the gun culture in Chicago, at college worship, the names of those killed in the streets are read out and candles are lit in memory of the named victims.
Students are not to be passive recipients of knowledge. Instilling in them a commitment to diversity that the gospel is understood better when they cross barriers; when they act to cultivate the gift of grace and respect for differences.
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The Nike MAG is — Real! The Future Is Here.
October 21, 2015. The future.
Land of flying cars, hoverboards, and self lacing kicks. Well, st least accoriding to Doc and the Back To The Future franchise.
The 1985 blockbuster introduced the now legendary power laces, which have been a pipe dream for sneakerheads ever since. Nike has been diligently working ever since to develop the technology to bring the MAG to life. A little Hollywood magic made it look all too easy for the camera. In reality it´s been anything but. Until now.
This week Nike sent a pair to Michael J. Fox, who played lead character Marty McFly, in honor of the date McFly arrived to the future. Tinker Hatfield, famed Nike designer and Vice President of their Creative Concepts division, also sent a personal note and sketch to Fox explaining that, "as the first, most celebrated wearer of the Nike MAG we wanted you to be the first to receive a living pair." The rest of us will have to wait. While Fox received his pair on the 21st, the expected release is in 2016, with no word yet on pricing.
Once they drop, they will be sold at auctions with the proceeds benefitting the Michael J. Fox foundation which is dedicated to finding treatments for Parkinson´s disease. In his letter to Fox, Hatfield referenced Nike´s previous fundraising efforts, stating, "We hope that the combined effort will raise even more than the 9.4 million collected in 2011."
Kicks for a cause. We like it.
Have a great weekend!
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The Ressurection of Starbury
Stephon Marbury is creating quite a buzz lately — and it's not for his moves on the court with the Beijing Ducks, the museum dedicated to him, nor the Chinese issued collection of stamps honoring him.
Marbury is bringing back the Starbury
The kicks that originally debuted in 1996 were famously priced at only $15.00 (or less) and were an instant hit. The Starburys were sold at now-defunct retailer Steve & Barry's, and flew off the shelves as soon as they dropped. Priced intentionally low, the aim was to be accessible to all, not just those with disposable incomes and time to spend camping out for new release. In other words, the anti-Jordan.
Recognizing a gap in the market between the hyper popular big name sneakers, and a brand that was cool while still being affordable, Marbury leant his name and time to the cause. Despite the initial popularity of Starburys, the novelty began to wear off and the brand was eventually forced into obscurity in 2009 when Steve & Barry's went under.
Previously criticized for a lack of original design, several new colorways and styles have recently been teased on Marbury's social media accounts, though no "official" announcement has been made, nor drop dates released.
No stranger to controversy, Marbury has come out swinging. And it's working. He's taken to Twitter to call out several big names in sneaker culture — including Michael Jordan, of course. Citing greed and inaction in the face of sneaker-related crimes (specifically the startling frequency of murders among young people), Marbury has accused Jordan of "robbing the hood". It's worth noting that courtesy of his namesake shoe, Jordan made a cool 100 mil last year alone which is more than he made from the NBA in his entire 15 season career. Marbury has also drawn attention to the disparity in Nike pricing and the actual cost to make the shoes, tweeting that "..you're paying $200 for Jordans and they make them for $5. The shoes [Nikes & Starburys] are made in China in the same places."
Shots. Fired.
Via Instagram Marbury states, "When I gave you 15 dollar shoes in America my mission was clear. It wasn't about basketball it was about creating change in the sneaker game."
It's an admirable mission and he's certainly got the resources to get it going. Whether it takes off is anyone's guess. Sneakerheads can be a tricky group to predict. But we can't wait to see what he's got planned for the Starbury comeback.
Photo by Cheuk-man Kong [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Definitive Guide to Sneakers (And their History)
A few weeks ago we shared some news about the Brooklyn Museum's "Rise of Sneaker Culture" exhibition. The exhibit, drawn from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum, significant private collectors, and other museums and archives is now on the move and currently calling Ohio's Toledo Museum of Art home. Unable to make it to Brooklyn and Ohio just a little too far?
Fear not.
For those of us unable to check out this killer exhibit in person, Elizabeth Semmelhack has just the thing. Acclaimed shoe historian and senior curator at the Bata Museum, Semmelhack has authored a book inspired by the exhibit and it's already being touted as "something akin to a holy text" for sneaker devotees.
Semmelhack has assembled people from all walks of the creative world of sneakers — think Tinker Hatfield, Bobbito Garcia, Eric Avar, Walt Frazier, and Christian Louboutin to name a few — in order to track the rise of the sneaker from basic athletic gear to it's current place as pop culture icon and status symbol. Exploring over two centuries (don't miss the spiked running shoe from 1860!) worth of trends, marketing, and technological advances, the book is truly a thoughtful, comprehensive, and highly educational history all sneakerheads should own.
Interviewees range from design innovators, high profile collectors, and various curators from around the globe. But of course that's not all — there are HUNDREDS of full color photos depicting the most "grail-status" kicks to ever be created. Whether you buy this for yourself or as a gift (or a gift to yourself? We're not judging.) it's sure to be a win.
PS. Today we're officially kicking off our DIRTIEST KICKS CONTEST! Got some dirty, beat up, beyond salvageable kicks? We want to see them. And then we want to clean them. That's right! Ship them to us for a complimentary cleaning and we'll send them back looking fresh. With the help of our Facebook and Twitter followers, we'll select the top 3 dirtiest kicks and then share the videos of us bringing them back to life. So go on, show us what you've got and we'll show you just how serious we are about being the best, most premium cleaner out there. Tag #RufusCleanMyKicks to enter!
Photograph by Daderot (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
Art News, Fashion Life, Fresh News, Shows, Sneakers
The Rise of Sneaker Culture
You've always known sneakers are cool. These days it seems like everyone else is noticing too — celebs, fashion designers, style bloggers — everybody is paying attention to the sneaker game. In the past year alone there've been several books and even a documentary-style movie.
Sneakers are everywhere — even in museums.
Courtesy of the Bata Shoe Museum, The Brooklyn Museum debuted an exhibition titled "The Rise of Sneaker Culture" on July 10, and it will run through October 4. The exhibit aims to "explore the complex social history and cultural significance of the footwear now worn by billions of people throughout the world".
As anyone versed in the history of sneakers knows, that's no simple task! The social history of sneakers is a rich one, and the evolving cultural significance over the last several decades has been a telling factor of the changing times. It's been quite the journey to the current position as status symbol and icon of urban culture.
In addition to exploring the history and providing social commentary, visitors are also treated to a display of 150 pairs of kicks including some of the rarest and most historic. Not only have the curators pulled from the archives of the big guys — Nike, Converse (from 1917!) and Adidas to name a few — but private collectors Daryl "DMC" McDaniels, Bobbito Garcia, and Dee Wells have contributed kicks from their own collections as well. To paraphrase Bobbito, the kicks on display are the type of fly kicks any discerning collector would dish out knots of cash for.
To round it out, the exhibit is supplemented with film footage, original design drawings from the legendary Tinker Hatfield, and a variety of interactive media including Run-D.M.C.'s iconic "My Adidas" video.
While the exhibit has garnered mixed reviews for not diving deep enough, we can at least all agree on one thing. Its very existence represents a giant leap in the mainstream culture beginning to recognize and respect sneaker culture. About time for a 200 year old industry that rakes in more than 55 billion dollars a year!
If you can't catch the exhibit at it's current home in Brooklyn, there's still hope- The Bata Shoe Museum is taking it on the road. Next stop: the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.
Are you going? have you been? Let us know what you thought, below.
Photo credits
Adidas Run DMC shoe by eric molina from San Francisco, United States – Adidas Run DMC shoe. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons.


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Coun-cil's got the ill communication.
Before things get worse, Lansdale Council President Jason Van Dame is nipping bad communication between councilmembers and the community and borough staff in the bud now.
"I want to start off on the right foot as president," Van Dame said during the President's Comments portion of Wednesday's council session. "One of the biggest things I've seen as a problem, not just in Lansdale Borough Council, but in government in general, is communication. Communication is a huge issue in getting things done."
Van Dame said now is the time for council to work together going forward.
He stated that he is not enforcing a media policy for councilmembers who talk to the media.
"If that's something you want to do, and you feel comfortable doing, I'm not going to ask you not to. I will ask that you know what you are talking about and have the facts to back it up," Van Dame said. "If you critique the staff in any way, please make sure you have some documentation that backs i up, so you are not opening a liability issue to the borough."
"As elected officials, these comments can come back to haunt us," he said. "We have to be careful what we say to the media."
Another important aspect is communication amongst councilmembers. Van Dame said he recently reached out to each councilmember to set up a time to get together and talk about issues and how to move foward as a team for the betterment of the borough.
He said few replied and others, not at all.
"What I ask is that decency of a reply," he said. "I think we are all capable fo that and that's all I can expect. I believe our constituents have a right to know we are all working together. We may not agree on things, but if we can't get together and discuss these things, we are not going to be able to move forward. That's important."
A third major aspect to communication is a rapport with borough staff. Van Dame said Lansdale has a "great staff" that is putting Lansdale "in good shape."
"They work hard to get information put together for each of us to have to make decision as we move forward. We owe them the time to listen to their material," he said. "Then, we can make the decisions here on how to proceed. WIthout discussions, we are making assumptions and making decisions that aren't thoroughly vetted. We owe that to our constituents."
He said he made a promise during his campaign to make the right decisions for Lansdale.
"We all signed up for this; this is not something we were told we had to do," he said. "I hope we can each put our big boy and big girl pants on and put the time in that we need to that's necessary to make good decisions for the borough."
Van Dame said council is poised to make some big decisions down the road, such as the possibiliy of a $10 million bond issue. WIthout proper communication with staff, councilmembers and consultants, council cannot make proper decisions.
"All these projects that we have built over the past couple of years on our list, they truly need to be done to prepare the borough for the future," he said.


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Moving in with Adam was a very natural 'next step' for the couple. He had proposed to her and now they were living under the same roof for the first time which had a whole bunch of new 'firsts' for the two. All part of the future that they wanted with each other, she supposed... Either way? She hadn't been this happy in a very, very long time.
It hadn't taken her too long to settle into the massive mansion that Adam had managed to get his hands on. She had visited him there and had stayed the night there more times than she could bother counting at that point.
She had added her own personal touches around their home; his bookshelf had copies of her favorite spell books and classic reads. His kitchen housed her favorite snacks, the sofa in the living room had her blanket thrown across the back... Little hints that she, too, now belonged there with him.
It was a quiet evening; she wasn't sure when Adam was due home but she was certain she could find some things to occupy her mind around the house. Some tiding up, a few movies with a glass of wine...
The cleaning had come before the movies; the blonde making her way out onto the front porch to hang a few of the floor mats that were freshly washed out to dry in the cool evening's breeze. It was on her way back inside that a thick, old-looking book with a white card attached to the front caught her eye on the ground nearer to the door.
As she picked it up to inspect, the blonde was easily able to see her name scribbled across the once-blank, white card as if being addressed to her. The handwriting didn't belong to anyone that she knew and her friends were the only ones that knew of where she was currently residing.
Making her way inside with the curious-looking book, Cassie closed the front door behind her as she moved to sit down on the sofa, placing said book on the coffee table in front of her. Her fingers tracing over the unfamiliar dust-filled symbols along the hard front cover as she did so.
The binding creaked as she lifted the front cover open. Her fingers moving to trace over the writing on the inside of the cover. It was Latin... at least from what Cassie could tell. It almost looked like a letter someone would have written on the inside of a cover before giving the book to a loved one as a gift.
"Invocare..." The title of the page that she was now glancing at. Her blue eyes moving down the page to the words written there in a language that she wasn't at all fluent with. "Lirach Tasa Vefa Wehlic, Belial..." Shaking her head gently, Cassie flipped through a few more pages. All of them seemed to be about the same; a Latin title with a Latin prayer-like chant on the page below. It wasn't a spell book... she knew a grimoire when she saw one, but it was definitely a curious little thing that she knew Adam would find just as intriguing as she did.
Closing the book with a yawn, Cassie figured it best to leave there for him. For all she knew it was meant for him anyway. That, or it was a practical joke that she just wasn't understanding be it either from him or their small group of mutual friends. If it wasn't, Adam seemed to have more resources to figure out what the book was and what its purpose was than she did.
The blonde witch wasn't even half-way back to the kitchen when the lights overhead started to flicker. There wasn't an obscene amount of wind happening outside and she didn't know the home to have any electrical issues but those thoughts quickly dissipated as the lights went completely out.
Everything was eerily quiet as Cassie stood between the living room and the kitchen as still as someone could be, trying to hear for anything even remotely off. Her eyes were on the front door for a moment as if expecting someone to alert her to a temporary power outage, but she wasn't in an apartment anymore. There was no landlord to care for these situations when Adam owned the home they both resided within.
Moving her blue-eyed gaze back to the kitchen, a tall, dark shadow of a figure was standing there before edging out of sight behind the wall that cut it off from her view altogether. The blonde's heart pounding wildly in her chest as she backed up a few hurried paces until she was running herself out the front door and out into the dark front lawn.
If this was a practical joke, she was going to kill whoever was behind it but something told her that whatever that book was... Whatever that book did had something to do with whomever - or whatever - was in their home.
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Adam had been working hard towards this new future, a marriage with Cassie, being a father to Davina, and not making any big moves without talking to the circle. It had always been his downfall, trying to take charge and solve problems on his own or with the help of one or two members, not thinking through the consequences for everyone affected.
In recent years, this had cost him his friends and a few times his relationships, both with Diana and Cassie. Davina had never seen that side of him, not up close anyway, and he didn't want her to. Getting everyone back and gaining a daughter meant too much to risk losing now.
So he had attempted to put the drama with the skull out of his mind. There wasn't much he could do now about it. Whatever came their way, they would handle it like they always did, and now they had more support. What was important to him now was changing the future generations that were growing up in this wildly unpredictable city.
Adam didn't want any other witches growing up the way Davina had, with the threats and the misinformation it seemed was prevalent here. He had to research and learn about the history of New Orleans before he could even begin to figure out a way to teach the younger witches. What had gone so wrong? Since when was "Do harm to none" tossed out the window for personal gain?
He had spent the day poring over the lore of the city that he had mostly gathered from Davina and was ready to get home to Cassie for the evening. He had lost track of time and hadn't meant to stay out this late.
Cassie and Adam had been doing great, all things considered. Everything that she had to take in after rejoining Faye, Diana, and himself was a lot to ask of anyone, let alone his true love. He still wasn't done making it up to her, but he was happy that she had said yes when he asked her to marry him.
He had just pulled into the driveway and gotten out of his car when Cassie ran out of the house. His first reaction was to smile at his fiance, thinking she saw his headlights and was coming to greet him. It only took him a second more to assess the situation. Something was wrong.
He dropped his bag beside his car. "Cassie?" He asked, concern obvious in his voice, as he ran to her. "What's wrong? What happened?"
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Oct 23 2016, 09:06 PM
Being an adult wasn't something that any member of Cassie's circle seemed to have a solid grip on, but they were all trying which was what mattered, wasn't it? Melissa and Nick were working things out after him having been killed and brought back. Faye was welcoming motherhood alongside a new boyfriend; Diana was finding herself after losing herself a time or two along the way... And Jake was, well, Jake.
Even Cassie and Adam found themselves newly engaged and living together, but she couldn't deny that sometimes it felt like they were kids playing house, especially when something went wrong. When there was a leak with one of the pipes or when one of the windows needed to be resealed... Cassie never knew who to call because it had always been something a parent or a guardian would ensure was tended to.
Needless to say, seeing someone standing in your pitch-black house when you hadn't invited anyone in? The blonde witch felt like she was five years old, needing to crawl under the nearest bed to escape whatever boogieman her mind had created, only she knew that her mind wasn't playing tricks on her. Someone was in her home and there was no one there that was going to make this situation disappear.
Seeing headlights on their way up the street had Cassie trying to wave the car down from the middle of her large lawn, something that was pointless as the car continued right on past her. It was a second set of headlights that grasped her attention a touch too quickly; the blonde tripping over what she could only assume to be a leftover branch from the last storm they had had as she met the ground on her hands and knees, quickly pulling herself up in hopes of being able to gain the attention of this car, unlike the last.
As it pulled into her driveway, it was then that Cassie realized it was Adam rather than some random stranger simply using their road to get onto the next. She quickly rubbed the dirt from the palm of her hands onto the thighs of her skinny jeans as she continued to run to her fiancé, closing the distance between them just in time for Adam to question what was going on.
"Someone's in the house! There was a book... and the lights went out and someone was standing in the kitchen!" She was a bit out of breath purely from the shock of the situation; her heart was still pounding a touch too wildly in her chest so her words were coming out a bit louder and a bit more frantically than she had intended.
With a deep breath, Cassie tried to calm herself by at least a fraction in hopes of explaining herself a bit more clearly. "I thought it was you playing a prank but obviously..." Obviously it wasn't a prank if Adam was standing right here, unless he had gotten other members of their circle involved but she doubted any would be cruel enough to go through with such a prank without at least giving her a hint or a heads-up...
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Nov 27 2016, 04:29 PM
Adam had done so many things that were considered mistakes or betrayal in his circles eyes, but at times like this, he was actually very glad he had ventured out on his own. Not that he would ever truly regret it, the path with the skull gave him Davina and he would never admit to being wrong there.
While he definitely wasn't prepared for being a father, especially to someone only a few years younger than himself thanks to the screwed up magical world they lived in, Adam embraced the life and immediately took an approach to parenthood that none of their own parents had thought to go with: honesty.
He was determined to share his history with his daughter, no matter how ugly and complicated it got. She needed to learn, and honesty was something she hadn't truly had before her 16th birthday. Adam was happy he could be one of the few to start the tradition. This also involved turning a new leaf as far as his circle was concerned, which usually got him into more trouble, but he was adjusting.
Adam's "mistakes" had a lot to do with magic they weren't supposed to be doing, messing with the skull, experimenting with old magic, going after evil instead of waiting for evil to find them. He had nearly gotten himself killed a time or two, once even leaving Faye to possibly deal with their child on his own. Now knowing Davina, that could be considered the one regret attached to that string of decisions, but killing Abaddon was arguably worth it.
He had hoped they could settle into the new normal they were building together before the next crisis, but considering the look on his fiance's face, there was no such luck. Who the hell would be int heir house? Not John? He wouldn't have let Cassie out, he was way too powerful for that. And no one who had the skull would have let her out alive. What were they facing here?
Adam slid his phone out of his back pocket and handed it to Cassie, figuring she probably didn't grab hers in the panic. "Take this and wait in the car. See if you can reach any of the others." He kissed her on the forehead before turning away, not really giving her a chance to argue. Was this a page out of 'Old Adam's' book? Yes. Of course, it was. But like hell was he about to let her walk into danger right now, and if he needed to use the magic she didn't approve of, he'd rather her not see it.
If they were normal, if this was some alternate universe, he would have called the cops and waited outside with his fiance. But their reality was nothing but normal. Their reality consisted of crystal skulls and dark magic, and evil fathers with illegitimate children working towards taking over the world. There was no telling who or what was inside that house, but the only thing Adam could guarantee is that there was no way any police officer would be able to understand. He wasn't even sure he would.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Jan 22 2017, 12:42 AM
Cassie had never really been the type of girl that just ran away from whatever problem was standing her down; she hated being a damsel in distress and quite often felt as though she needed to prove to those around her that she was anything but. No one saw her as weak... at least she didn't []think[/i] so, but given just how many horrible things had happened to her (or had happened to someone she cared about because of her?) it was hard to believe that anyone thought she was self-sufficient enough to be able to stand up for herself and make it out of a situation alive.
If it hadn't been for the fact that she had absolutely no damn idea who - or what - was in the home that she shared with Adam, Cassie would have had no qualms in dealing with the situation as best as she could. Granted, that would have to be without magic simply because Marcel had rules that forbade witches from practising within the city limits... but that didn't mean that she couldn't find a way around that. Cassie might not have been physically stronger than beings in her circle - like Adam or Jake - but she could be resourceful when she needed to be.
As Adam slid his phone out of his back pocket and into her hand, Cassie furrowed her brow at him almost in confusion; it was as he told her to take it and wait in the car that her blonde head was shaking in disbelief. She wasn't going to call for help while he stormed in there to face only God knew what; the last thing that Cassie could handle was losing the one person that she had ever loved, especially because she had been doing what she was told and was patiently waiting in the car.
"Like hell I will." Her words were falling from her lips as his own were pressing against her forehead in a gentle kiss. Adam knew her better than to assume she'd do as instructed; Cassie had never done well with taking orders. She could tell that he was trying to find a way out of the conversation with her in hopes that she wouldn't put up an argument, but Cassie knew there was no way in hell he thought he'd be successful in doing so.
Truth be told, thinking that Cassie would do just that was something that the old Adam would have done or expected of her and while Cassie knew that Adam had changed so damn much in the course of time that they had known each other, the last thing that she wanted was for them to fall back into bad habits. She didn't want the beginning of their lives together to start on the wrong foot which was precisely why Cassie had absolutely no qualms in nipping it in the bud, so to speak.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Feb 21 2017, 04:29 PM
Adam sighed. He could feel her staring into his back. "Baby..." He turned back to her and pulled her close to him. Realistically, he knew she would never agree to staying out here while he went inside, but he under no circumstances wanted her in that house till he knew what they were dealing with.
There were three reasons he wanted her out here, but he didn't have time to make his case, so he went with the one he thought would truly work. "If I use dark magic are you gonna be ok with that?" He whispered in her ear. Her safety was light-years above this on the priority scale, but it wouldn't be to her. And he could always text the circle to get them there.
The situation with Marcel, the vampire that ran the city and raised Davina, had its perks. Davina was how Marcel was controlling the witches, and Davina let certain magic by certain people slide. As her father, he got special priviliges which kept him from worrying too much about the reprucussions of protecting his family.
The only real concern in this situation was the immediate danger of whatever this was and that they were about to walk towards it. "Will you at least stay behind me?" He pleaded, knowing the argument was lost. Even logically, she had to know he was more comfortable and ready to use certain powers that she shied away from, right?
He knew she could more than take care of herself. If he hadn't shown up when he did, she would have gathered herself and called for back up. She knew what she was capable of, they both did. With or without the powers she possessed from John, she was one of the most powerful witches Adam had ever seen, and when she was actually comfortable with it, Adam was usually in awe of what she could do. But so much had happened to them, so much had changed...he hadn't seen that level of comfort in a while.
Adam pulled back and stared into her eyes, refusing to imagine a world where she wasn't in it. He couldn't let anything happen to her. Let her be pissed, but he would risk his life for hers without a second thought.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Mar 24 2017, 09:39 PM
If there was one thing that Cassie found herself worrying the most about, it wasn't her future, her health, some future career or another... It was Adam and his fascination with dark magic. Wasn't it natural for someone to put their significant other's health and happiness above their own? Cassie was absolutely no exception to that, of course.
It went beyond a natural fear, of course. It was no longer a secret that while experimenting with dark magic, Adam and Faye had had a bit of an affair with each other that had resulted in Adam fathering a child with the one female that Cassie had always failed to get along with.
That wasn't to say that Cassie no longer trusted Adam; she had hated the choice he had made and she had spent more than enough time trying to hate both he and Faye for their shitty decisions. She had to trust that they could both move on from that and that they could both turn their lives around and refrain from ever falling back into the same bad habits.
The blonde witch let him pull her into his arms; his breath warm against her ear as he whispered into it; goosebumps spreading themselves along her arms at the mere mention of Adam using dark magic. She respected that he was his own person and she knew that she had absolutely no right telling him what he could and couldn't do... but that didn't mean that she had to support some of the things that he chose for himself. Dark magic included.
"You don't have to use dark magic..." She knew it was a losing battle; there was really little point in even trying to argue her case here. If they were in danger, he'd do everything in his power - be it good power or dark power - to protect them both. If not for their own sake, than for Davina's because that girl didn't deserve any more loss than she already endured in her young life.
Heaving a gentle sigh, Cassie shook her head gently in reply to his next question. She might be willing to bend where dark magic was concerned, but there was no way in hell she was going to let him act as a human shield; her life didn't matter more than his did and she was more than capable of taking care of herself...
"No. We go in together. That way, if it is something... we can take care of it together."
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Apr 12 2017, 11:23 AM
Her half-hearted argument was easy to spot. He was more than aware how she felt about not just dark magic in general, but his involvement with it. Davina's existence had not been an easy pill to swallow. How could it? Faye had been pushing Cassie's buttons since she first showed up and with everything else the two soulmates had gone through, always losing each other somehow, it just seemed like it was happening again. He couldn't fault her for feeling the way she did.
After seeing John and what this type of magic did to him, he also understood how cautious Cassie was to let someone else in her life get so involved in it. But Adam saw a difference between him and John. John had wanted power. Purely power. There wasn't love in his life, there wasn't a true circle, the way he felt theirs was. Yeah, they had their differences, their secrets, their drama, but they were still always there for each other no matter what, and that was something he felt his parents had always failed at.
To Adam, the power of the Skull was just a tool to keep the people he loved safe. He wasn't ready to use it on anyone who didn't deserve it. Taking the Skull in the first place could have been seen as selfish, but Adam hadn't much cared then. They had all lost each other, not in the "I hate you" kind of way, but in the sad tragedy kind of way. After seemingly defeating John and losing Nick for the 2nd time, their world just kind of fell to pieces and one by one they fell away with it.
"I'm not gonna ask for a fight, but if it comes down to it, I need you to know I'll do whatever I need to." He didn't want her going in blind. They hadn't completely discussed this magic going forward, which is something that should be put on the to-do list now that the wedding date was set. For now, he would be sure that she would be able to handle whatever actions he chose.
Not knowing what they were dealing with scared the hell out of him, especially with her insisting they go in side by side. He'd agree for now, but that wouldn't last long. They had all lost so much in such a short amount of time and he refused to be part of the reason he lost her, too. He had a feeling she knew that, though. She had to expect that he would put her life before his no matter what. That's what love was.
He nodded, though, and took her hand. Hyper aware of their surroundings, he hoped that whoever it was had fled. They had more than enough time to do so with a house that backed up to the beach. Logic told him there wasn't a chance in hell that it would play out like that. They had grown accustomed to this type of situation: people wanted them dead. It was that simple. It was their life.
When they got to the front door, he saw that it hadn't even latched when she had run out. With a light push, it swung open and his eyes sweeped the immediate surroundings. He squeezed her hand in reassurance as they stepped inside. "Stay with me." Not that he thought she'd suggest seperating, but just to be sure.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Jun 25 2017, 05:21 PM
There were definitely some benefits to falling in love with someone that was like you in a great many ways. Understanding, for one... Knowing that the person you gave your heart to understood the things you did and why you did them. Respect was another; if they could respect their own choices, they were easier able to respect yours, given nine times out of ten, they'd be making the same choice you had.
That said, there were also a few downsides... Those that knew Cassie and Adam knew just how often they bickered, fought and feuded over the most trivial of things. It boiled down to the fact that they were so damn alike in so many ways that they often ended up clashing. They were both stubborn to a fault, and they were both independent and protective. They wanted to defend those around them as much as possible while walking into danger with their head held high.
Even as he informed her that he would do whatever it took to protect her, Cassie knew that the anger she felt at how reckless that statement happened to be wasn't justified. She couldn't be angry at her soulmate for doing the same thing she knew she'd do; she would do anything and everything in her power to protect Adam, regardless of the cost.
Feeling him taking her hand into his had her nerves calming even if only ever so slightly. She squeezed his gently; the tension of the situation catching up to her, as was realization that he'd be quick to jump in front of her if something jumped out at them. If she could keep a good enough grip on him, she might be able to prevent him from making any stupid mistakes.
The blonde was quiet as Adam pushed open the front door that hadn't even fully closed behind her when she had run scared out of the house. Everything was dark; a light in the kitchen flickered every now and again, but other than that, there wasn't much light guiding their way and Cassie knew offhand that any spell to bring forth a ball of light to ease them into the house would be met with repercussions from Marcel and his goonies.
All seemed quiet until Cassie's body jumped the moment a door down the far hallway slammed shut; she was shocked she hadn't screamed out, but perhaps that was because she was too in shock in regards to the entire situation. It was like they could never catch a damn break...
"Maybe we should just call..." Who, the police? As if they'd be equipped to handle something centring around either magic or demons...
Shaking her head gently as if to void what she had been trying to say, Cassie corrected herself. "Maybe we should have back up..." Be that in the form of someone else from their circle or otherwise.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Jul 8 2017, 08:23 PM
Of course Adam agreed with Cassie. He had suggested that she stay outside and call for back up in the first place! Of course, as he turned to look at her, there was no point in bringing it up. They both knew he had suggested that, and it was quite obvious that the only reason she hadn't taken him up on the offer in the first place was because that the plan involved him going in alone.
"It wouldn't hurt.." Adam shrugged. But he wasn't about to leave the house now. If a person was here, there was already plenty of time to leave. And if it was something more, something on their level of the supernatural, he would rather know what it was before it had time to finish whatever it started.
He paused for a moment, weighing his options. Nick had been through a lot and was most likely high. Melissa had been quiet for some time and while neither Faye or Diana ever really got along with Cassie, they were probably the best options at the moment. Naturally, they were both his ex's. "Text Faye." He whispered.
Cassie still had his phone from out in the yard, and it made more sense to deal with Faye than Diana. He hadn't quite found common ground with Diana since so much had changed and he at least knew Faye was on the same page as him when it came to magic.
Adams eyes had never actually looked at Cassie. Her hand in his had been enough reassurance and his attention was preoccupied with the door that slammed shut, his entire body on high alert. He could smell the earthy incense burning in the living room, something he assumed Cassie had started before all of this began.
Adam saw the strange book Cassie had mentioned almost immediately. It was sitting open on the coffee table. Adam let Cassies hand slip out of his as he moved towards it. "Maybe if we have the book, we'll at least know what we're dealing with."
He picked it up, scanning the page as carefully and quickly as possible. Where the hell had this come from? He had seen things like this at the house in Italy, he had packed most of it up, and as far as he knew, anything that resembled it was still in boxes in the attic.
He turned around to Cassie, tilting the book so she could see, his attention drawn towards the book more than their surroundings now. "Did you read this?"
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Dec 7 2017, 09:05 PM
Their circle of friends wasn't exactly in the best place after the last few years had torn them apart limb from limb. Everyone had made bad choices and everyone had blamed each other (and themselves) for said bad choices. Still, they were all alive, together and were desperately trying to move on from the past towards bigger and better things, but that didn't stop pettiness from plaguing the young adults every now and again.
It was the girls - well, more so Cassie, Faye and Diana - that still struggled to stay on stable ground. Diana still had a few harsh comments for Cassie (for reasons the blonde still struggled to understand) and sometimes just hearing Faye's name had Cassie cringing.
That was why her blue eyes couldn't help but to toss Adam the softest of glares as Faye's name was the first he decided would be the best to call. Deep down, she knew that Faye was the right choice. Not only did she have connections to the Mikaelson family (now that she was sleeping with another one of them), but Nick and Melissa deserved their privacy, and it wasn't like Jake or Diana were around enough to rely on...
His phone was still warm in her hand as she scanned through his contacts in search of Faye's name, though her concentration was broken as the door had slammed shut so roughly that it had Cassie's hand pulling from Adam's as she spun around to see where the noise had come from.
"Jesus..." The curse was muttered under her breath as the blonde could feel her heart hammering away in her chest. Blue eyes turning back to the man she loved as he beelined for the book she had abandoned on the coffee table when vacating the house the first time around.
It was common sense to take the book with them, given Cassie highly suspected it was what was causing the mayhem, but she still couldn't quite wrap her mind around what it was and how the hell a book could cause that much destruction. It wasn't even a spell book; she had seen enough of those over the last few years to know that much...
His question caught her somewhat off guard; of course she had read it! If someone sent you a weird book, the first thing you did was investigate what it was and that often involved reading a few pages, did it not? Then again... how often did an anonymous being send a book in a language you couldn't understand...
"I mean... Just a page or so; I thought you guys were screwing with me! Someone knocked on the door and left that on the doorstep! I thought you were trying to freak me out..."
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Dec 19 2017, 02:32 PM
Adam was trying to process the book he had in his hands as Cassie explained what had happened. He was torn between getting Cassie out of the house, going further into the house, and finding out exactly how much of the book she had read.
Of course, he knew what would be the safest idea. He knew that they should both retreat back to the front yard and figure out exactly what she had brought into their livingroom. But there was a feeling he had that was keeping him from just leaving the house. "This is definitely not something the cops can handle." He said quietly, looking back at the door.
Adam had tried a lot of things since branching off from the rest of their group, and he had been introduced to this level of things, but he had never used this type of magic. There were lines to be crossed and he was fine with using a darker side of magic as a means to an end, but it was only when there wasn't a better option. Adam had never considered using demon's with the experience they've had in the past. It was too dangerous.
He didn't for a second believe that Cassie had done this on purpose, but that wasn't what worried him. Someone had done this to them purposefully. There wasn't a shortage of enemies in this town. They had been targeted how many times since coming here? How many people wanted his daughter dead? Being them was never easy, but with every new move they made, it had somehow gotten harder.
"How far did you get?" He handed her the book. "Did you finish a spell?" It wasn't a traditional spell book, that was for sure, but that because these weren't traditional spells. He couldn't translate 99% of it in the moment, but at a glance, Adam knew enough of the key words to gauge what he was looking at. This was something demonic.
Adam was too distracted at this point to see if Cassie had actually texted Faye. He was worried that if she had gotten far enough, it wouldn't matter at this point if Faye was here or not. This thing could already be attached to her.
Everything he had noticed in the house had begun to make sense. It was dark and smelled like dirt. There were specific demons, yes, but like their own powers, everything was connected to the elements. The words on the inside cover had to be Earth demons. The target was Cassie, so Adam had a few ideas about who could possibly want to link Cassie to a demon, but he couldn't think about that right now.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Jan 2 2018, 02:52 PM
Shaking her head vehemently, Cassie knew for certainty that she hadn't even finished a page in the book, let alone a spell. At least not that she knew of. "I-I don't know! I mean, I don't think so! I just read the first few sentences to myself!" Had it been a more traditional spell book, Cassie might have known what she had been getting herself into, but having people with fairly good senses of humour in her life, it was only natural she had assumed this was some drastic prank or another rather than the real deal.
"Who would even leave that here?!" Faye didn't have a death wish; surely the brunette knew Cassie would tear into her if she left something like that out for Adam to play around with after everything their group had already been through. Nick was daring, but he wasn't dangerous, and Melissa kept him on a short enough leash to prevent him from getting into anything this stupid...
Jake, on the other hand... Well, he was unaccounted for in about a thousand different ways and if he were to come back now and see Faye had moved on, had two children, and his brother was back from the dead... Okay, maybe Jake might have motive to start screwing with everyone, but why Adam and Cassie? They hadn't done a single thing to him.
Okay, that was another lie. Adam did sleep with Faye and they did have a supernatural child together. One that a great many people wanted dead (which was a whole other possibility; this could all have been for Davina), but Jake wasn't ruthless enough to wish harm and death on Adam or his and Faye's child... was he?
"I'm going to text Nick..." Faye wasn't going to know any more about this than they did; her only connection was her Mikaelson-of-a-boyfriend and Cassie doubted he'd be eager to help a group of people he barely even knew. Nick, on the other hand? He knew a thing or two about dark magic, and on top of that, he might at least know what Jake had been up to. Maybe he hadn't reached out yet, but that wasn't to say that Nick hadn't at least been tracking his brother's whereabouts to keep tabs on him.
In a quick text to one of the two Armstrong brothers, Cassie handed Adam his phone back, not quite knowing if he'd approve in her change of direction. She and Nick had been fairly close since he had been brought back, but other than that, Nick had been laying low with Melissa for quite some time now.
"Maybe we should try and grab a few things and stay in a hotel for the night? At least until we can figure out what the hell is going on and who's behind it..."
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Mar 10 2018, 03:38 PM
He couldn't come up with a good enough reason to stop Cassie in time, not gently, anyways. Adam struggled to find a way to explain what he thought was happening in his living room to his fiance. "I don't think it was one of ours, honestly."
As much as he wanted to stay and put an end to whatever this was, he didn't want Cassie or Nick present for that. Nick had enough experience with demons to last a lifetime and he didn't want his best friend getting hurt or, god forbid, dying again.
And whatever she had unleashed, Adam assumed it would still try to cling to Cassie's presence if it was able to do so. Leaving the house was the best option. "We can go somewhere else until we can figure this out. But let me get our things?" He tried to keep his voice calm but there was a hint of desperation in his voice.
He knew she wouldn't just let that go. His save-the-day personality had always driven her up the wall but this was one time where she would have to deal with it. They didn't know what could happen if she stayed. Could this thing possess her or take her or kill her?
"I don't think this thing cares about me. I'd rather you be safe." He started. He wasn't making much sense but there wasn't really a delicate way to tell anyone that they may have unleashed hell upon your home and it may or may not want them dead. "It looks like it was trying to get to you specifically. I just want you safe, ok? Give me a few minutes, I'll grab whatever we need. Will you wait in the car for Nick?"
To be honest, there was no way Adam could confirm that this thing wouldn't just follow her out, but if he wanted to do any investigating while he gathered their things, he would have to be alone and he could tell Cassie was terrified. The last thing he wanted was to see her hurt again.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: Mar 30 2018, 11:07 PM
As stubborn as Cassie was, she had to admit — even if only mentally to herself — that Adam was correct in stating that they needed to leave the house, even if only for the night. They had no way of knowing what it was they were up against, or if it would continue to plague their home until something was otherwise done about it. At least this way, they could take the book that had been sent to their home to someone who could translate the pages and trace the origins of the mysterious texts.
"Alright, fine." There was a sarcastic sense of defeat in her voice, one that Adam was surely all too familiar with by now. A tone that signified how much she hated admitting he might be right, because it fuelled his need to constantly rush in and play hero to situations she'd rather see him steer clear of altogether.
While she hated the thought of Adam venturing upstairs alone, she had to admit that she had absolutely no desire to explore the rest of the dark house, herself. If he wanted to play brave and collect some of their things to get them through a night away from home, power to him. Still, there was no way she was going to leave the house without him; if something were to happen to him in the time it took him to grab a few things from upstairs all because Cassie had taken the easy way out and went to the car? She wouldn't forgive herself.
"I'll wait down here for you, and then we can head outside together and wait for Nick." Because wasn't that what they had agreed to when they had mutually decided to give their relationship another go? That they would be in things together instead of separately? "Just grab some clothes, toothbrushes and our phone chargers..." The rest they could figure out as they went. "Just be quick and be safe, okay?" Because that was all that mattered.
PERMALINK // POSTED ON: May 10 2018, 03:11 PM
He could feel the knots in his stomach at the idea of Cassie staying in the living room by herself. Logically, it was no different than her being outside or in the car, but it felt different.
He moved closer to her and kissed her forehead. "Ok." He matched her tone of defeat. He would do anything in his power to keep her safe. It had been that way from the moment he met her and it would never change.
Adam turned towards the stairs and prepared himself for whatever was to happen next. His brain couldn't even settle on what the worst case scenario would be. "I'll be right back." He said as he left her, more for his own reassurance than anything.
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Porters were invented as a fortifying drink for the rough-and-tumble working class of London's bustling markets. It was brewed for good folks with calluses on their hands, doing work that needed to be done. We salute those working-class heroes with our classic Porter, brewed in the hop-forward American style and featuring a depth of malt flavor and complexity with roasted notes of black coffee andcocoa.
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The origins of porter are shrouded in mystery, but most agree that by the middle 1600s there were many beers of various styles referred to as porters not because of a singular flavor characteristic, but because of their intended audience—the hardworking folks shuttling gear in England's bustling markets. In fact, porter as we know it today—roasty, dry and dark as midnight—would have been impossible to achieve because efficient and reliable malt roasters weren't invented for another hundred years. One thing is certain though, porters developed alongside the Industrial Revolution and as brewing technology improved, so did the technique and quality of the beer. Porter was the first mass produced style of beer and the beer that helped build the mighty British brewing industry. It will forever be associated with London's workingclass.
While the exact origins of porter are hazy, the development of stout is more straightforward. By the 1700s bolder, high-alcohol versions of any style of beer were referred to as "stout" or strong. By then, porter was far and away the most popular beer style in the British Isles, and clever breweries began advertising the stronger versions of their beers as "stout porter." By the late 1800s, regular porters had fallen out of favor and stout porter, or simply stout, took their place. There are many different varieties of stout ranging from the light bodied, low-alcohol Dry Irish Stout to the viscous, rich and strong ImperialStout.
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Today alot of people in my class have not done most of their homework.
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I thank you for leading me into the right the direction of doing my homework and not wandering off.
I am also thankful that I don't have 2x homework on the weekend.
I also pray for a friend who got teased by another person.
This person said to my friend "all you care about is youtube and chicken and not your homework."
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Transylvania University will house the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship and plans on making it a program that teaches high school students about the "ideals of enlightened compromise and civil discourse," championed by Henry Clay.
Since 2007, the center has brought college students from across the U.S. to Transylvania and the University of Kentucky for a one-week course about Clay's career of debate and diplomacy. Beginning in 2014, the center will instead focus on Kentucky high school students.
Clay was Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams, as well as a senator and representative, Speaker of the House, and a three-time presidential candidate. He was called the Great Compromiser.
While the program will now be solely at Transylvania, scholars from the University of Kentucky will continue to participate.
"We are thrilled to be working in association with the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship and the University of Kentucky on this important project," Transylvania President R. Owen Williams said in a news release. "Few Americans from the 19th century are more closely associated with the art of political compromise than Henry Clay. We are delighted to be part of a program that advances greater civility in public discourse, especially given the many challenges in the current political arena."
UK President Eli Capilouto said he was pleased with the continued partnership between the two schools.
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It's a mix between indoor hockey and ice hockey. It's very quick and easy to pick up. You play indoors, in a team, and you are allowed to play the ball with your stick, body and feet (scoring only with your stick).
It was invented in Sweden and is gaining popularity fast all across Europe. In the Netherlands on high schools it is also known as unihockey.It is usually played a bit differently there.
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Rapheal Cubagee, a Sports Analyst has questioned why a middle income country like Ghana, whose national budget is supported by donor partners, is proposing a World Cup expenditure much higher than that of the donor countries.
He described as shameful the alleged $20million budget meant for Ghana's participation at the 2014 World Cup to be held in Brazil whiles the country goes round the world seeking loans for developmental projects.
"…Adakabre, just consider the amount $20 million. Whiles the whole country, with the powers vested in a Minister sometimes flies around the World shopping for just a $5 million dollar loan. How come America…which boasts of arguably the largest economy worldwide is proposing a budget of $2 million while Ghana is said to be presenting $20m budget…"Would we go back to the foreign partners to continue financing our national budget?" he quizzed.
In his view, the proposed budget by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) exposes the kind of people at the helm of affairs at both the Sports Ministry and Football Association saying "if you see a dog keeping mute while its owner is being robbed, it could be that the dog knows the owner or the robber is work in partnership with the dog to share in the booty later" and "that is exactly how i see the situation being played out".
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Meanwhile, grapevine reports indicate the Black Stars are demanding $100,000 apiece as appearance fee for the 2014 World Cup.
A letter submitted to the GFA by Captain Asamoah Gyan on behalf of the national team players, justified the demand.
Each player was given $50,000 as appearance fee in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and $70,000 in the 2010 mundial in South Africa. If the Stars' demand for Brazil 2014 is granted, they would be taking 30 percent more than they took for the 2006 tournament. The 23-man Ghana squad will thus bag $2.3 million just for appearing. The amount is tax-free.
Moments after the news went viral, some sports journalist were accused of envy, hence the publishing of the report to make the players look bad in the eyes of the public.
But touching on the news report, Raphael Cubagee however dismissed suggestions that the Sports Journalists who criticized the Black Stars playing body for requesting a $100,000 appearance fee did so because they are envious of them.
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"Every Ghanaian has the right to criticize even the president, so why does a footballer think he is above criticism?" he asked.


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Simon Kinberg Thinks of X-Men: Apocalypse as an End to a Trilogy. It's uncertain what the future of the X-Men franchise would look like after X-Men: Apocalypse, because according to Simon Kinberg, the next film in the franchise may end the prequel trilogy.
As we are all desperately restless for the first trailer of X-Men: Apocalypse to come out soon, Collider spoke with writer/producer Simon Kinberg regarding where the film belongs in the franchise. "It delivers on the dramatic story and emotion of the last two movies," he explained. "It feels like the culmination of the four main characters really — McAvoy, Fassbender, Nic Hoult, and Jen. And it's a bigger movie in both physical scale and I would say emotional stakes too because it is the culmination of this mini trilogy of stories."
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