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This really is a marriage of two cultures, two cuisines and two essential breakfast ingredients eaten in two different parts of the world: Jamaica and England. Green Bananas are widely used throughout the Caribbean and if you are unsure what a green banana is, it is not an unripe bananas that you find in many supermarkets. Green bananas flesh is firm and they can not be eaten uncooked, once they are cooked, the taste is starchy and in my opinion resembles the taste of potatoes. Green bananas are often an accompaniment to the national dish Ackee and Saltfish and no Full English would be complete without rashes of bacon. In my Green Banana and Bacon fritters, I combine two breakfast ingredient staples, to make my perfect brunch. The green banana, when grated and combined with the rest of the ingredients, gives a starchyand distinctive yet delectable taste. These fritters are really a flavour and cultural culinary explosion with each mouthful.
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Ingredients – Makes between 5-6 fritters.
2 green bananas peeled and finely grated.
2 rashers of back bacon grilled and sliced into bite size pieces.
150 grams of self-raising flour.
1 spring onion, outer skin removed and sliced.
1 garlic clove, peeled and sliced.
¼ yellow scotch bonnet pepper, seeds removed.
1 egg.
150ml water.
6tbsp vegetable oil for frying.
In a large mixing bowl, add the grated green bananas, bacon pieces, self-raising flour, spring onions, garlic clove and scotch bonnet pepper. Mix with a wooden spoon so the mixture is combined.
Add one egg to the mixture ensuring the mixture is coated with the egg.
Add the vegetable oil in a frying pan, on a medium heat.
Add the water to the fritters mixture, the mixture should have a "drop consistency", the fritters mixture should easily fall of a spoon.
Ladle a medium sized serving spoon size of the fritters batter to the hot frying pan, cook for around 4-5 minutes on each side, until each side is golden brown.
Serve with sweet chilli sauce and enjoy.
I'm sharing my Green Banana and Bacon Fritters to a couple of blog challenges. First up is the fabulous CookBlogShare a weekly challenge hosted by Supergolden bakes.
I am sharing my fritters to Simple and in Season, by Ren from and guest hosted by Helen from Fuss Free Flavours. Luckily, bacon and green bananas (as long as you go to ethnic food shops) are in season all year round and my fritters are simple to make.xxx


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TAK wrote:I guess it looks like kinda a grey, probably three storey tall 'box'?
If so, I think this might the the Rotschild bank extension at Bank designed by OMA.
OMA - 'New Court'
Auntie Pat wrote:you took the word out my mouth,It would be sad to see the view being obscured again, especially after they spent so much money doing it up a couple of years ago.
mickysalt wrote:No wonder Prince Charles has to get involved with planning issues in London.
He's filling a gap, and the only High profile person not afraid to comment On what the ordinary person feels about these issues.

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Kai Hielscher
Transfer Pricing
Deloitte Tohmatsu Tax Co. Executive Officer
Shin-Tokyo Building
3-3-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku
Dr. Hielscher is a transfer pricing specialist by training. Having worked for many years helping MNCs structure their global operations and transactions, Kai focuses on assisting foreign MNCs design their Japan/Asia tax footprint and Japanese MNCs their global tax footprint. He also leads DTT's Clients and Industries, and Business Model Optimization programs for Japan Tax. After leading the US Central region transfer practices at Deloitte, he moved to another Big 4 accounting firm as the global leader for Japan tax services operating first out of Germany and then Japan, where he served additionally as the Japan transfer pricing and international tax services leader; and the head of transfer pricing services for the Asia Pacific region. He is fluent in Japanese, English and German.


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KALAMAZOO, MI--The Kalamazoo Wings, proud affiliates of the Vancouver Canucks, have re-signed goaltender Joel Martin to a standard professional contract, the team announced Tuesday.
Martin, 34, returns to the Wings for his ninth season with the team and
14th professional campaign in 2017-18. The veteran goaltender appeared in 41 games last year, posting a 19-18-2 record, with a 3.18 goals against average and a .904% save percentage.
The native of Three Hills, Alberta, has made the ECHL and K-Wings' record books his second home, as the long-time Kalamazoo netminder is the franchise leader in wins (207), and shutouts (21), while ranking second in franchise history in games played (373) and minutes (21,825). Martin has also gotten comfortable in ECHL record books as well, as he ranks in the top five 15 separate times in 12 different categories.
Over the course of 13 seasons with 13 separate teams in seven different leagues on two continents, Martin has accrued 294 career victories, 25 shutouts, a .910% save percentage and a 2.87 goals against average.
Though Martin has made himself a household name throughout his decorated career, he returns to the Wings with the ultimate goal of winning another championship.
"I'm extremely excited for the opportunity to be a part of the Wings this season," Martin said. "We have a really special group of guys coming back. I believe this is our year."
Martin backstopped Kalamazoo's last title team, the 2006 Colonial Cup-winning Wings of the UHL. Martin has only missed the postseason in one season since turning pro.
Prior to making his professional debut in 2003 with the Bakersfield Condors, Martin spent three seasons in the Western Hockey League with Lethbridge, Tri-City, Vancouver, and Calgary, where he appeared in 123 games, posting a 46-50-9 record, with a 3.24 GAA and a .893% save percentage.
Where he ranks (Kalamazoo Wings history)
-207 wins rank first
-21 shutouts rank first
-9 shutouts in 2005-06 rank first
-10,914 saves rank second
- 373 games played rank second
-21,825 minutes played rank second
-2,084 saves in 2015-16 rank second
Where he ranks (ECHL history)
-3,777 minutes played in 2015-16 rank first
-9-time ECHL Goaltender of the Week ranks first
-Three 30-win seasons rank first
- 64 appearances in 2015-16 rank second, as do his 2,084 saves from the same season.
-36 wins in 2015-16 rank second
-2,084 saves in 2015-16 rank second
-177 wins rank fourth
-20,032 minutes played rank fourth
-345 games played rank fifth
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Craig Roh is a perfectionist who has learned that, sometimes, disruption of the norm is the only way to achieve order.
In some ways, his four-year Michigan career, full of ups and downs since he started as a freshman in 2009, has been chaotic, with two defensive coordinators, four positions, and a junior season in which he experienced being torn down, only to be built back up.
Roh is with the Wolverines in Tampa, Fla., preparing for the New Year's Day Outback Bowl, the final game of his college career in what should be a school record-setting 51st consecutive start. He has made 20 starts at outside linebacker, 28 at defensive end and two at defensive tackle.
"It's been a journey," Roh said. "There's really been some hard times in my life, and it's really made me a man. I think I'll leave here a man because I've been through these trials and tribulations. It's just football, but getting through two-a-days in camp when you can't do a thing right and I'm a perfectionist, so my world falls apart a little bit if I don't do everything right.
"That's something I've grown up with where if I don't do it perfect it's OK, and I can recover faster now. I think I have relaxed in the respect if I do get hard coaching from a coach, I know they're not attacking me as a person. I can internalize it that way a lot. It's obviously still hard sometimes, but I think I can accept coaching better because of it."
Roh heard that plenty before his junior year last season when Greg Mattison arrived as the new defensive coordinator, coming to Michigan from the Baltimore Ravens, where he held the same job.
Mattison didn't single out Roh as a "special project." Instead, he found a guy who worked hard but who had never been told he was doing anything wrong. Mattison saw a player he needed to re-shape and re-mold.
It wasn't the easiest transition for the perfectionist, who until then, thought his football world on a personal level was pretty darn good.
The worst thing Roh heard from Mattison?
" 'This isn't Michigan football, this isn't Michigan football,' " Roh said. "That's the worst thing ever when it's not Michigan football. You want to be Michigan football, but you're not.
"I guess I thought I was in a place where I thought … I never really had a coach to tell me I had to do anything different. I'm pretty self-motivated, and I've always worked hard. And I think Mattison saw that and said, 'I can push him to even a new level where even he thinks he can't go.'"
Perseverance rewarding
Early in the 2011 season, the no-nonsense Mattison made clear his expectations are greater than most.
"He sees the bar is higher than he expected," Mattison said of Roh, before generalizing his comment to include all the players. "What he thinks is acceptable, is just not."
Roh spent a lot of time early that season talking to his father, Fred Roh, a former college athlete, about how to handle this new challenge in his life. Roh decided to settle in and improve under Mattison's tutelage.
"It's one of the hardest things I've done in my life, but the most rewarding," Roh said of persevering. "He's a guy who has so much experience, you just respect him. He has a very commanding presence, big guy, deep voice. He's a guy you want his respect so much. To have him say he respects you as a player, that's a compliment, because he doesn't give it easily."
Faith always has given Roh strength.
"I'm a devout Christian," he said. "I accepted Christ when I was really young, when I was in third grade — how much do you really understand when you're in third grade, but I've stuck with it for a while here."
During spring break of his freshman year, Roh went with Athletes in Action to New Orleans to help demolish destroyed homes after Hurricane Katrina so that new homes could be built. He'd smash concrete eight hours a day. The following year, he went to Orlando to an impoverished neighborhood to help set up activities for children. He helped organize a trip this year to Los Angeles but was unable to participate.
His faith offers balance and perspective.
Ready for anything
Roh understands keeping a sound mind, means a sound body, as well. He has been following the genotype diet — his latest concoction is a shake of 12 eggs, Naked Juice and six tablespoons of olive oil — and the 6-foot-5 Roh is now at 275 pounds. He has eliminated wheat, dairy and sugar from his diet.
"I feel the fastest I've ever felt," he said. "I think I could be 285, 290 pound and maybe even faster."
After the bowl game, Roh plans to return to his native Arizona to train for the NFL.
He said he doesn't know in which scouting bowls he will participate, but he's ready for the next level.
"Wherever they want me to play," he said. "I think my versatility shows I can pick up stuff pretty fast whatever system you want me to be in, I can be in. This year, I played nose some games, three-tech some games and some games at rush — I'd be at the nose one play and dropping into coverage the next play. I think I provide a wide variety of skill set.
"Obviously, I would rather have one position that I played all four years. "Who wouldn't? But it's really transformed into a blessing in disguise where I've shown my versatility and started every game through it and shown I can play at a high level. That's something that can be very appealing to an NFL team."
While Roh prepares for his final college game, he said he's ready for the next step because he has learned to adapt to setbacks, which have become smaller and smaller, and also has learned to keep the highs in check.
"There's still a lot more to learn," Roh said. "I think this senior year is one I've learned a lot. I think I'm able to recover faster from failure and put victory into perspective better. Ultimately, that's what puts you on more of a level plane."
Spoken like a true perfectionist.


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Study: Family-style mealtimes boost spirits, health of residents
Social mealtimes help to enhance the well being of nursing home residents, according to a new study published by "Online First," the Web-based organ for unabridged, peer-reviewed British Medical Journal articles before they appear on paper.Dutch researchers studied residents in five nursing homes, dividing them into two dining groups. One group ate meals in a setting with pre-plated service, while the intervention group ate in a social family style setting. The meals were similar in nutrient content. None of the residents had dementia.
Over six months, researchers found that family style mealtimes improved the mood of nursing home residents. While the intervention was simple, researchers noted, it had a large impact on quality of life, physical performance and body weight of nursing home residents. Various studies have repeatedly shown that dining considerations are at or near the top of most residents' priority lists.


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Friday, June 08, 2007
Where Does The Time Go?
Now the little dude is two, and I can't believe how inventive he is. A quick rummage through his toy bin produces guitars and drums for everyone nearby, and he gives orders for his accompaniment. Next, we're all to stand up and join him for a round of martial arts, complete with stern facial expressions. It's bedtime before we know it.
On a day-to-day basis, I spend too much effort focusing on just getting through the list of tasks – change him out of PJs into daytime clothes, serve milk, read a morning story, get shoes, hat, sunglasses, and diaper bag together for an outing – so that we can spend time together, having fun.
It's good to remember that we're spending time together during those tasks too. The getting-ready minutes are just as important, and can be as memorable as the officially-having-fun minutes. A tickle-fest here, peekaboo there, and we're out the door, more or less on time, and already happy.
(Not that we don't have the occasional monumental melt-down, but hey, who's perfect around here?)
If you're looking for other ways to improve your time spent, Parent Bloggers Network is promoting Light Iris, a new website aimed at helping moms find what they need on the internet. Write about where your time goes, and enter in their contest to go to BlogHer!
Q says, There's always time to see a fire truck!
5 comments:
- dana said...
He's so adorable! Great photos of you two!
- Damsel said...
What a fabulous post. Thank you so much for that reminder.
I, too, am a task-oriented person, mentally checking things off the list as we progress through the day. I have a project mentality. "OK, breakfast is done. Two hours until snack time. What are we going to have for that? Grapes and animal crackers, ok, check..." and on and on.
- YF said...
excellent post. i totally agree. but i am almost afraid to play during task time, for fear that when i am in a hurry she will want to play. i might try to ease up a bit... and enjoy more everyday too.
- Lady M said...
Dana - thanks for stopping by!
Damsel - I'm a total list-checker too.
YF - Yeah, there are certainly enough times where I'm chasing a small person around, holding his clothes, while he yelps, "No pants! No pants!"
- mayberry said...
I am the worst offender of rushing through bedtime!
I love that martial arts must come with the proper facial expressions. Q is so awesome.


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YOU ARE THE BLOOD By GRADY COLE
Billy peers out from behind spread fingers, eyes watering at the fierce light of day. Even cut by tinted glass, and filtered through the black lace of the curtains, the sun is blinding. And warm. So warm.
"What are they doing now?" Drago grumbles from his dark corner near the bed. "Are they not ready yet?"
"I don't know what all they gotta do. Whyn't ya come and look for yourself. The light ain't gonna hurt you. It feels good."
"I am not afraid of the light, Billy."
"I never said you was. Just come and see it." The boy turns back to his vantage point, peeking through spaces to gather an idea of the action in the street.
"There's Rado!" Billy shouts, jabbing a finger into the glass, "He's lookin' tough. Don't worry. He's gonna win, for sure."
"I am not worried, damn you!"
The man in the street, tall and lithe, a cascade of auburn hair like fire all that is visible under a wide-brimmed hat. Thin fingers, usually bone-white, now covered in leather gloves, taper like gnarled branches, reaching from the cuffs of his long black duster. Three smaller figures, draped in black cloth from head to toe, faces and hands swaddled in cloth, not an inch of skin open to the sunlight. They fuss at Rado's periphery, administering prayers and shouting to the wind.
"He's gonna get him, alright. That stranger ain't got no chance."
"Has no chance, Billy. You sound foolish when you say it wrong."
Billy scowls into his own face, reflected in the glass.
"You're just sore, on account of being too chicken to come over here and see for yourself."
Drago moves fast, a blur in the watery edges of Billy's vision. Billy leaves the ground—flying—now folding into the mattress, air leaving his lungs in a burst of hot air as Drago comes down on top of him.
Billy winces, pulls his head back against the pillow, trying to minnow away, trapped beneath the iron-bar strength of Drago's arms. Hot tears sting his face as he damns his own name, silently praying, terrified of Drago's red eyes and his anger.
"No, Drago. Please."
Drago hops up to sit, keeping a vice-grip on one arm, tugging to bring it to level, Billy with no choice but to follow, helpless to remove himself from Drago's punishment.
Drago looks down at the arm, softens his grip, caresses it with a long, terrible finger. Bone white and thin like a birch sapling, the nails like talons curling from their terminus. Drago runs those fingers across Billy's arm to trace the scars, themselves long, thin, white. Some are faded into the peach of his skin, barely visible. Fresher wounds still pink, wider and deeper.
Billy whimpers.
"Shhhhhh. You should not say such things to me, Billy. Are we not friends? Compatriots? Have I not spared you? Every day you live is a day given you by me."
"Yes, Drago," Billy whispers, desperate to please.
"Yes?" Drago taunts, "Yes, what?"
"Yes. Master."
Billy pulls gingerly at his captured limb, hoping to avoid what comes next. Drago tightens his grip.
"Not this time, Billy." Drago snarls, "Arm!"
Billy squeezes his eyes shut, focuses on blocking out the pain. The terror.
It begins with a tickle, feeling Drago dragging his teeth across the length of the inside of his forearm, as he has done so many times before, teasing, playing.
Billy pleads again.
Drago pulls harder on the arm, more pressure this time, letting his cold breath play on the hairs of the arm, feeling the pulse beneath his lips, the tiniest capillary flush and full, brought to life by terror; his to own, to devour, to torture.
Deeper still, dragging his teeth through the layers of skin, feeling them peel away beneath him, the canals of sweet and salty red nectar coming slowly, ready to be licked or suckled, Billy trembling in his hands, heart beating faster and faster, muscles twitching of their own accord.
Billy pulls away again. Feeling the muscles cramp as his shoulder tenses against the flicker of Drago's tongue against his now-raw skin. A movement outside catches his eye, a voice calling in the street.
"Drago!" he shouts. "Drago! It's time!"
Drago runs his pointed tongue from Billy's elbow to his wrist, moaning softly as he laps the red oozing from the boy, before relenting and releasing his hold.
Billy falls to the floor with the momentum as he tears his arm free of its captor. He clamps his free hand to the wound.
Drago is dabbing his mouth now, smiling at the boy cowering. Now turning away in disgust.
"Here, fool. you're going to rot your arm, putting that dirty hand on it like that. Why must you be so foul?"
Drago's kerchief lands a foot away from Billy. The boy lurches forward to grab it, before hunkering back into his corner, even as Drago steps tentatively towards the shrouded window.
"There he is." Drago's voice is a specter, hushed and thick with shadows of fear.
Billy is up, the white rag turning pink where it is now tied around his arm.
Billy creeps forward, hesitating as he comes closer to his companion, his master.
"He don't look so bad." Billy grumbles.
"They say he has killed other Princes." Drago's voice cold.
"He ain't shit." Billy, moving closer, regaining his confidence, feeling the danger subside, Drago distracted by this stranger in the street.
Billy ducks under the curtain to get a closer look, no longer afraid of the light, face pressed to the glass of the window, cool against the warped tint, a haze of sepia between him and the street.
The man on the opposite side of the street turns to stare directly at him. Eyes lock. Billy sees it. Ignores it. Questions it in the back of his mind.
Drago is behind Billy, whispering "They say he is an Old One. One of The First, from across the Seas."
Billy, huffing, says it again. "He ain't shit. Rado'll take him out easy. Rado is gonna be King."
The Stranger is large, more squarely built than any of Drago's people. The Stranger is bulky beneath his large coat, which covers him from ears to feet. The brim of his hat droops as if it has recently been wet, pulling down to shade what isn't already covered. He has no acolytes to service him or call his name out to the daylight. He stands alone and stares across at Prince Rado, champion of the Nights Breed, the someday King.
"He ain't gonna win," Billy says once more. "'Course, if he did… you'd be the Prince."
Drago answers with cold breath, pressing his sharp teeth into the soft skin of Billy's exposed neck. "Shut your mouth," Drago snarls.
Billy is trembling, eyes closed against the shadow of his own death behind him, when the call rings out.
The acolytes point to the sky, to the fiery glow of the sun, directly overhead. The one furthest from Billy sounds the bells with a wave towards the church tower. The peals of brass crash through the empty streets like strange thunder.
Drago, caught off guard in the midst of his bullying, nipping Billy's neck, tasting the copper warmth of red again. He shudders at the thought of Billy filling his mouth. He is licking his lips when…
Billy squeals and drops away, back to the window, hand to his neck, feeling the sticky heat of his precious life.
Drago lunging, shoving Billy to one side. "Move, stupid!"
Billy is up on his knees next to his master, heeling at his side, peering out the window, waiting. Waiting for…
The black shrouded acolytes raise arms together. The bells stop. The silence is electric.
They call out into the street, across the red dirt to the Stranger where he stands like a statue. Their benediction echoes in the open air.
"You are the blood," they call, "That which flows from the Earth."
The Stranger simply nods his head. Rado keeps his head bowed in mute prayer. These are the words. The same words. Every night upon waking, every night when they broke the fast.
"From the Night. To feed. To Fulfil. To bathe us in the blessed light of Darkness," they continue.
"You are the blood, and the blood must flow."
The acolytes fall to their knees at Rado's side as his jacket and hat whirl free of his body. Rado is a blur of bone and muscle, a white ghost spinning through the air, his weapons flying in majestic synchronicity.
The boys watch, enrapt, aware of every mote of dust swimming between them and their hero. The hush of a hundred voices behind tinted windows on both sides of the street as the Night's Breed wait out the seconds with lightning rising in their chests, nails curled in clenched fists, red eyes wide despite the sun.
The Stranger rolls to one side as the Prince Rado's hand-spears splinter into the wall behind him. The Stranger's coat stays on, but flies open as he comes to his knees, revealing some devil contraption firing missiles that sing through the air and catch Rado with deadly force.
One. Two. Three.
One takes his shoulder, one in the leg, dropping him to his knees, the last through the throat with the sound of a steak hitting the plate. The bacon sizzle follows as he folds forward into the dirt, the dreaded sun taking him layer by layer as his flesh burns away into embers on the wind.
The acolytes scream and turn to run, each of them taken by a single shot from the Stranger.
Drago screams and covers his eyes.
Billy is so close to the window. He can see it. He is sure now.
The eyes. The Stranger's eyes. They're blue.
"He's… he's…"
The word rises up in a choir, being screeched all around him, fiendish wails from all the halls of the Night's Breed. Feet pounding on floorboards as they scramble away from the windows, away from the sun.
The Stranger looks towards the window, towards Billy. He has something in his hand, a stick? A tube? A scroll of some kind? It rolls to the wall and strikes with a thud. It seems to flicker at one end. Is it a candle? Billy is wondering at it still when Drago grips his arm and tears him away, throwing him across the room towards the door.
"Get me to my chambers, you fool!" he commands, screaming, face contorting as he unleashes the full madness of his terrible maw, jaw stretching, row upon row of knives inside.
Billy is thrown against the wall as the blast tears open the building where he had stood mere moment before. Drago flying through the air like a toy, like a doll. Glancing off of the bed post and leaving one arm behind him on the floor.
Billy coughs and waves the smoke away from his face, watching dumbfounded as the light, the sunlight, streaks in through the smoke, followed by a boot, and then another. Billy's eyes rising up from the floor to gaze in disbelief as the Stranger waves his weapon through the room.
The Stranger steps slowly into the room, kicking Drago's lost arm to one side, and aims the weapon at Billy before leaning in close and whispering into Billy's wide blue eyes.
"Run, kid."
Billy stares after, still wide-eyed, as the Stranger steps past him, strange metal jangling at the back of his heavy boots. The Stranger steps over Drago, and into the hall, and each time his weapon whistles it echoes, and ends with a cry and the sound of another body crumbling to the floor in embers.
Drago moans beside him, and Billy stands, wincing at the pain at the side of his neck, where Drago had bitten down on him.
"Billy, please," Drago whimpers. "Please."
Billy looks at the boy. Hardly a boy. One hundred years old but no different than Billy to the eye. A hundred years of death. It comes like a secret voice echoing in Billy's head.
Billy crouches closer, tempted to poke at the ragged stump where Drago's arm had been separated. It would grow back, he knew. There were precious few dangers to being a Prince of Night's Breed, but he would need blood. Billy's blood. Who else was left to serve him?
"Billy. Arm." Drago croaked weakly.
Billy scowls, stands and begins to back way, still listening for the whistling of the Stranger's weapon. He can hear the screams from all around him. There are more Strangers out there. More humans. Not cattle like Billy's people had been. His mother, his father, his siblings… All devoured by the Breed, or turned into pets. Playthings. Snacks.
Billy feels the warmth of the sun at his back.
"Arm!" Drago shouts, coughing. Pierced in at least five places, but not thoroughly enough to burn. Billy feels the heat rise up in him, a fury he has never known before. Humans. Real humans. Here.
Drago kicks, snaps, bites at Billy, taking small chunks from his forearm, dragging talons through the skin on the backs of his hands, but Billy drags him the length of the room.
"Billy! No! No Billy!"
Billy hears the cries of misery, the whistles, the jangling of the boots. The clomp, clomp, clomp of destruction.
Billy stares down at the face of his tormentor, his friend, his companion. His Master. Drago is the only kindness he has ever known, the only tenderness. Drago has given him his life. Every day he breathes is a day gifted him by his Master. These are the words he has heard upon every waking for as long as he can recall. Billy stares down at the face of the boy. Hardly a boy.
A hundred years old. A hundred years of death. It echoes again.
Drago spits and bares his fangs.
"I will tear your heart, beating from your chest! You will watch me swallow it whole! You filthy son of a…"
Drago screams as the light hits him, an unearthly shriek as his body begins to burn. His skin sizzles, crackles, and flakes away—consumed. Flames burst from his chest and his thin, white fingers smolder like kindling as they reach for Billy.
Billy squats next to him, and wonders at the lack of heat from the cinders that rise up and dance off in the breeze. Carrying away ten years of terror. A hundred years of death.
Billy stands, eyes watering in the blinding light of noon, turning at the sound of jangling metal at his back. More footsteps.
"He ain't one. He's not burning. Leave him be."
"Better get out of here, kid."
Billy squints into the dazzling light of a sun he has never known, makes out a shimmering figure ahead of him, long black coat, wide hat. The figure becomes two, two men stomping off to opposite sides of the dusty street. Billy rubs at his eyes with a bloody sleeve, then puts a hand to his brow to block the sun. He sees Rado's hat lying next to scattered piles of dust. He picks it up, dusts it off, sets it on his head. It is far too big, but cuts the sun enough that he can see.
Billy wanders away from the street, past more men in black coats, past more screams and whistles and jangling boots. Past the cattle, stumbling and confused, clambering over one another to nervously search their surroundings. These are not his people. Not since birth. He is different now. Alone. They are mere animals, waiting for slaughter. He comes to the gates at the edge of town. He doesn't look back. By sundown, Billy is high in the hills, looking down at the flames where his life had once been, watching the men as they mount their horses and ride away in the blessed light of darkness.
Billy sits next to a fire of his own making, a fire for himself alone. He is wrapped in the long black coat of the Prince of Night's Breed, clutching the strange spear that has set him free. The words are still playing in his ears. An echo that refuses to fade.
"You are the blood. That which flows from the Earth."
Billy looks out across the plains, beyond the smoldering ashes of his home.
"From the Night. To feed. To Fulfill. To bathe us in the blessed light of Darkness,"
Billy slides his arm free of the bulky canvas coat, eyes gleaming with tears as the flickering of the firelight plays against the white lines that run across his forearm.
"You are the blood, and the blood must flow."
Billy looks at his hands. The hands that have killed the Prince of Nights Breed. The Nights Breed that was now ashes and fire.
Billy feels the difference in his mind. He feels the freedom of his thoughts. He looks out across the vast ocean expanse of the black night sky.
He screams out. Again and again.
But there is nothing left for him there.
Billy holds the jagged shard of glass against his flesh, balancing it between the lines, the traces of Rado, the remnants of his existence.
"You are the blood," the words echo in his memory.
And the blood must flow.
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New bourbon, Prohibition-inspired exhibit opens at Frazier museum
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
Halloween is a couple of days away, but there was a different type of spirit at the Frazier History Museum.
On Thursday, the Frazier celebrated the opening of its new exhibit, Spirits of the Bluegrass: Prohibition and Kentucky.
But instead of cutting the traditional ribbon, a bourbon barrel was broken open and some of the whiskey was poured onto the sidewalk.
The exhibit traces the national ban on alcohol during the 1920s through the repeal of the 18th Amendment in 1933.
Spirits of the Bluegrass will be on display through next year.
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Pasadena High School's Joseph Henson and Darius Johnson had 14 and 13 points, respectively, and the Star-News boys team won for the fifth time in six years, 101-85, at the annual Tribune/Star-News High School All-Star Basketball Classic at Azusa Pacific University Felix Event Center on Saturday night.
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POLICE investigating a sexual assault on a woman in her home have provided a more detailed description of a man who was spotted with a mattress stolen from the scene.
The woman, 23, was woken by the intruder who threatened her before sexually assaulting her at around midnight on Monday, October 15.
Detectives said someone entered the property in the Bridgend area of Perth the next day, before the attack was reported to police, and stole a king size mattress.
Tayside Police are now appealing for help from the public to identify the man seen with the mattress on the Tuesday morning.
He is white, slim, aged in his 40s, with short cropped hair at the back and sides and a short spike on top which was dark but greying. He was wearing dark-green waterproof trousers and jacket which could have appeared black from a distance. The trousers had thigh pockets.
The man was seen crossing a busy main road towards the River Tay with the mattress at around 9.25am. He was then seen in the area 10 minutes later without it. The same man was spotted a short time later with a green and blue golf umbrella.
Acting Detective Inspector Marc Lorente said: "I would appeal to members of the public who have seen this man or anyone carrying a large mattress during this time to contact us.
"Likewise I would also appeal for any members of the public who have disposed of any king size mattress within the Perthshire area between Monday October 15 and Wednesday October 17 to contact us."
After the sexual assault, a description of the man was released by police. He was said to be wearing a navy scarf, a dark beanie hat, a black jacket, a grey jumper, khaki green waterproof trousers and a black belt. He also wore khaki green boots and spoke with an English accent.
The attack came after a robbery at a nearby house the previous night where a 68-year-old woman was assaulted in her home.
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After visiting the museum I inevitably touched, shed tears of sorrow for the fate of those who have shed blood for us today. Eternal gratitude to the national hero. Try to live so that good people!
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First time to visit the War Remnants Museum. Actually I can not imagine the brutal, cruel American soldiers have done for the people of Vietnam during the war. Although war was over our country but its influence remains. Agent Orange has terrible destructive to the next generation, the children with the burning dream, yearn to be without a limb, do I have to think a lot. Your smile makes the we have throbbing heart.
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Local officials say the state of New York should collect gas and tobacco taxes on the Oneida Nation. Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) pledged to enforce a law that requires tribes to collect taxes on the sale of goods to non-Indians....
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Pascua Yaqui Tribe suspends chairwoman over ethics (August 3, 2007)
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BIA admits liability for troubled mobile home park (August 3, 2007)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is liable for poor living conditions at a mobile home park on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Reservation in California, the local superintendent says. The BIA is urging Henry Duro, a former chairman of the...
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Opinion: Women and children can't wait for justice (August 3, 2007)
"Indian women are victimized at astonishingly high rates -- 2 1/2 times the national average, according to Justice Department data. More than one-third of all Indian women will be raped at least once during their lifetimes, and nearly two-thirds will...
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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe can thank ex-Rep. Pombo (August 3, 2007)
"The recently recognized Mashpee Wampanoag tribe soon might be operating Massachusetts' first Indian casino. It wouldn't be as close as they are without the involvement of former Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy: There's no concrete evidence Mashpee tribal leaders had gambling...
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Bridge used by Washington tribe closed for upgrades (August 3, 2007)
A bridge used by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe of Washington was closed ahead of schedule on Thursday in the wake of the bridge collapse in Minnesota. The 94-year-old Elwha River Road bridge was going to be closed in...
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Harjo: Ward Churchill is not the Indian man's burden (August 3, 2007)
" Why is it important for Native peoples to continue to tell the world that [fired Colorado University professor Ward] Churchill is not a Native person? Churchill is now a cause celebre and there are a lot of people who...
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Column: Bringing hope to Northern Cheyenne Tribe (August 3, 2007)
"Located in the south central corner of Montana, Lame Deer is situated on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (30 miles west, on the edge of the reservation, is the site of the Little Big Horn battlefield, where Gen. Custer made...
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Opinion: Misconceptions about American Indians (August 3, 2007)
"Last week, I read nearly 100 posts to the Asheville Citizen Times Web site in response to a story about housing in Cherokee. I was shockingly amused by some posts and dismayed by others. There were the usual stereotypical...
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Cherokee Nation given a month on Freedmen (August 3, 2007)
An agreement that Rep. Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma) said would protect the Cherokee Nation's federal funding doesn't appear to have as much weight as he claimed. Boren said members of the House Financial Services Committee agreed to delay legislation that would...
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Rhode Island governor fights subpoena over raid (August 3, 2007)
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Winnebago woman killed in bridge collapse (August 3, 2007)
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oi I forgot about that era, OK drop me off and I don;t mind fighting the crusades for a day or two .
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states war would be good
pirate days though I;d have to be the pirate sailing place to place as long as I get back out in time before I;m hung.
Vikings robbing and looting the country.
Though I would also in the 50's buy a ton of land knowing what I know now.
I;d love to have thousands of acres of my own land and then the outside world can take a flying jump with their liberal socialist cess pit views
Let me know when the time machine is up and running
Lots of good times to go to. Knighthood just sounds like a purposeful life. Women were decent and ladylike. Men were brave and lived by a code. (This may all be lies, but I'm sticking by it)
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., August 1, 2017 – The Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, a WTA Premier event taking place August 18-26, will feature expansive weeklong coverage on ESPN2 and ESPN3, it was announced today by Tournament Director Anne Worcester.
More than 50 hours of action at the Connecticut Open, featuring all singles matches played on Stadium Court, will be shown live across ESPN's networks. The early rounds and quarterfinals will be available on ESPN3 and streaming live on the ESPN app, while the semifinals and finals will air on ESPN2.
The ESPN broadcast team covering the tournament will comprise Rennae Stubbs and Jason Goodall, with Pam Shriver joining for the weekend action. Stubbs, who won six Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four Olympic Games, will team up with Goodall, a one-time leading British junior who later coached his ESPN colleagues Mary Joe Fernandez and Shriver, plus the British Fed Cup team. Shriver began working for ESPN back in 1990 and adds 22 Grand Slam doubles titles and an Olympic gold medal to the collection of silverware behind the microphone.
"ESPN's coverage of the Connecticut Open continues to expand through our partnership with ESPN and we are thrilled to be airing more than 50 hours of action as we celebrate 20 years of women's tennis in New Haven this summer," said Worcester. "ESPN's coverage of tennis in the US is unsurpassed, with ESPN2 and ESPN3 both available in 87 Million US Households, so we're excited to have three of ESPN's best commentators here to bring the Connecticut Open to life."
Don't miss a single shot: live coverage begins with the strike of the very first ball at 1pm EST on Sunday, August 20, on ESPN3 and streaming live on the ESPN app, and ends on ESPN 2 with the women's singles final starting at 3pm EST on Saturday, August 26.
The tournament, part of the US Open Series and held at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale, will be streamed live on WTA TV, the new subscription service of the Women's Tennis Association launched on July 31. An annual subscription to WTA TV provides access to nearly 2,000 live and on-demand matches from all WTA Premier tournaments and the majority of WTA International tournaments. The high-quality content and consumer-centric platform is highlighted by HD streaming and multi-match viewing.
"It's fantastic news for the Connecticut Open that the WTA has launched their new streaming service in time for the US Open Series," added Worcester. "Tennis fans around the globe will be able to tune in from whichever device is closest to them and will have the luxury of watching more than one match at a time."
For more information about the 2017 Connecticut Open, to volunteer to be part of our team and to purchase tickets visit www.ctopen.org or call 203-776-7331. For the full television schedule, please go to www.ctopen.org/schedules/tvschedule


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The world is not only hungry,but also thirsty for water.This may seem strange to you,since about 71% of the earth's surface is covered with water. But about 97% of that is sea water,or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3%------ the fresh water from rivers,lakes,underground,and other sources. And we can't even use all of that.But our need for water is becoming larger and larger almost day by day. We should take steps to deal with this problem now.
How to stop wasting our valuable water? One of the first step is to develop ways of reusing it. today in most large cities, water is uede only once and then sent out into a sewage plant.From there it return to sea.
But even if every large city reused its water,we still would not have enough. We have to make use of sea water in the world by removing the salt.
If we take these steps,we'll be in no danger of drying up.
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MadWhips Protected in Key West
Took a weekend vacation south to Key West to escape Miami during Ultra Music Festival! Thanks to Ceramic Pro protection on my McLaren, it survived the salty humid air, multple rain storms and for the FIRST time ever my McLaren sat outside in the wilderness under trees who leaked sap and bird droppings on her overnight which then got baked on the car during the morning dew and hot southern sun!
Take a look at the photos below which I took up close to show you the overnight abuse my McLaren received by sitting out under the stars, trees and birds. It looked like there was small pieces of bark from the trees, Sasquatch hair and even some ash from who knows where! It literally looked like I parked it under an Albatross nest! hahaha it was pretty amusing to watch people's reaction when they saw me cleaning every day. I LOVE CLEANING MY CAR! Ceramic Pro makes it thats much easier for me to personally maintain and keep looking brand new!
HERE are close up shots of the car at night the day I didn't get to clean her after 1 of 3 evening outside, she was a MESS!
Even the security guard at the Parrot Key resort where I was staying thought I was nuts for bringing this car down to Key West, not to mention leaving it outside overnight. I assured him as much as I care for my baby, she was properly protected with Ceramic Pro and that I am a daily driver, not a poser who buys exotic cars simply to show off in. I have over 7500 miles (12,000km) on my McLaren since it was delivered from the factory July 2016.
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All I brought with me was some clean microfiber towels and some quick detail spray and only had to spend less than 30 minutes each afternoon in the shade to wipe her down head to toe before she was back to BRAND NEW! Plant/Tree sap, bird droppings and whatever else was floating in the air that landed on my car overnight was no match for my GOLD PACKAGE protected McLaren (4 layers of 9H on the body, RAIN on the windows and LIGHT on the clear bra, no to mention the WHEEL & CALIPER protection).
My McLaren was a huge hit in Key West, I had a chance to meet with so many local car enthusiasts, many of whom are part of the US army stationed in Key West (thanks for your time and coming up to chat with me dudes!)
Waiting patiently for my next big adventure!
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Practical and economic aspects of the ex-situ process: implications for CO2 sequestratios
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Zendehboudi, S, Bahadori, A, Lohi, A, Elkamel, A & Chatzis, I 2013, 'Practical and economic aspects of the ex-situ process: implications for CO2 sequestratios', Energy Fuels, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 401-413.
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The risk of CO2 leakage and the very slow rate of CO2 dissolution in brine present major technical challenges for secure implementation of CO2 sequestration at large scale in saline aquifers. To tackle these issues, a new technology based on Ex-Situ Dissolution Approach (ESDA) was developed recently aiming at dissolving CO2 in brine phase prior to injection into the aquifer to eliminate or minimize the risk of leakage and accelerate CO2 dissolution rate in brine. The ESDA is based on the mass transfer from CO2 droplets into brine in co-current pipeline flow. This paper presents mass transfer modeling associated with the ESDA process concerning the evolution of the droplet size and the pressure change along the pipeline. In addition, a technical and economic feasibility of the ESDA in comparison with the standard Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies is presented. Various aspects such as CO2 displacement, geochemical reactions, CO2 leakage, pressure build-up, well spacing and dissolution efficiency for the ESDA are also discussed. This study enables the evaluation of the ESDA process for CO2 sequestration through a systematic way.


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The future belongs to the young, if the cliché is true. But perhaps it's time to put a 21st Century spin on that. The future belongs to those who show up.
And, at least in the Democratic party, it's the old and not the young who are doing so.
That starts at the top. Joel Pollak wrote recently in these pages:
As RealClearPolitics noted in a recent infographic, Hillary Clinton is older than the entire Republican field. Furthermore, with one exception (Martin O'Malley), every potential Democratic presidential candidate is older than every single GOP contender. The oldest Republican (potentially) in the race is former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is only in his mid-60s. If Democrats are hoping to bring millennials back to the polls, they have to find some way to inject youth into the race.
But Democrats put the "demo" in "demographic problems" all the way down the ticket.
At National Journal, Jon Kraushaar notes that: "Wisconsin's Russ Feingold, Pennsylvania's Joe Sestak, Indiana's Baron Hill, and Ohio's Ted Strickland all ran underwhelming campaigns in losing office in 2010—and are looking to return to politics six years later." Dems are also hoping Kay Hagen, defeated in 2014, can mount a return to the Senate next year.
"Senate Democrats are relying on these repeat candidates for the exact same reason that Democrats are comfortable with anointing Hillary Clinton for their presidential nomination: There aren't any better alternatives," Kraushaar writes.
There aren't many answers on the horizon.
"The way we rebuild is really by having a deep investment in our local city council races and state races, by really starting to recruit and pipeline strong local candidates," Arizona Rep.-elect Ruben Gallego told Politico after his party was wiped out last fall. "That's where your good congressional candidates in the future are going to come from."
But as party leaders in purple states such as Wisconsin and Ohio are learning, there aren't many young Democrats stepping up to run.
The GOP now controls more than two-thirds of state legislatures. There are 31 Republican governors and just 18 Democrats. There's a Republican governor in deep blue Maryland (he did a nice job responding to the Baltimore violence) and another trying to clean up the pension mess made by Democrats in Illinois.
If younger people seem uninspired by the Democratic party, maybe that's because the party is itself uninspiring.
Decades ago, a (seemingly) vibrant John F. Kennedy won election promising the country would go to the moon.
Today's Democratic president and vice president warn about the supposed danger of global warming. Even if that really was "a thing," as the kids say, it's a far-distant threat to a generation that's struggling to find a job or pay off a student loan. Small wonder they're uninspired.
Political analyst Daniel McGraw recently warned that the Republican party is at risk, because its older voters are dying off. But that gets things backward. The party is inspiring the younger demographic to seek office.
GOP senators now include Tom Cotton (37), Cory Gardner (40) and Joni Ernst (44). They join a body that already includes Ted Cruz (44), Mike Lee (43) and Marco Rubio (43). The conservative future is bright. As for the political left: it's fallen, has no ideas, and no visible future.


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Pippa, a marine biologist came to the school to talk to the class about Sustainable fishing.
"I liked it when Pippa came in to talk to us about sustainable fishing and we then made posters. I learnt lots of things." Rosie
"Pippa, the Marine Biologist came in to talk to us about sustainable fsihing. I liked it because it was very interesting. I learnt that people around the world use dynamite fish." Moya
" I liked it because she gave us a lot of information about sea life. I learnt that there were one hundred and ninety five dolphins in the Moray Firth." Caitlin
"I learnt about overfishing and I liked how she put together some videos." Sam
"I liked when Pippa came in talk about sustainable fishing. I enjoyed it because I learnt lots. I learned that if a hole in the net is too small it is unsustainable." Rhea