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She got herself there by fucking the dildo in and out in a hard and fast frenzy - SexStories - 01-07-2015
It's a fairly short scene -- just shy of 11k words -- that sees Vince giving his mother's best friend (Wendy) a pendant as a Christmas gift. Wendy had never looked at Vince in a carnal way before, but the gift makes her reconsider.
As usual, I hope you enjoy the piece. Feedback is good, especially on whether to continue it or not. If it dies on its arse then I won't bother thinking about it. Please forgive any errors that remain in the text. I self-edit and often miss howlers. If there are any typos or obvious fuck-ups herein, please drop me a note to tell me where, etc.
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GA -- Benissa, Spain -- 6th December 2013.
It was Christmas Day, and Wendy had been fighting her own feelings for most of it, ever since the scene in the kitchen with Vince. Finally, in bed, lying in there in the dark she succumbed to the desires she'd struggled against for hours.
Wendy's fingers found her vulva. She hadn't meant to do it, no conscious decision had been made, but the yearning had been overwhelming. She gasped and squirmed in the bed as the fingers of one hand worked between her legs, the fingertips of her free hand tracing the outline of the pendant at her throat, its newness still unfamiliar.
"Oh God," she mumbled as lust fought for supremacy over morality, the burning emotion claiming victory when her finger split labia tacky with desire.
She teased herself, fanning the flames of ardour, gently rubbing her clitoris, her mind filled with what-ifs as she indulged the fantasy.
What if he hadn't passed her that small gift-wrapped box?
Then Wendy would never have known how he felt.
What if his mother wasn't her oldest, dearest friend?
Then she would be riding him at that very moment, feeling him beneath her, his solidness inside her, their flesh sliding.
What if she encouraged him now that she knew how he felt?
And then, when her ardour flared brighter, hotter, Wendy's imaginings grew wilder.
What if she threw back the quilt and crept to his bedroom?
He would welcome her, Wendy was sure of that.
What if she dared? Where would it end?
"Fuck," Wendy mumbled into the dark. "Just once," she gasped.
And she let herself go, succumbed to the yearning, her fingers stirring her sex, the liquid squelching coming up from between her legs.
The pendant had been the catalyst -- silver, delicate, a gift-wrapped surprise from Marian's son that had altered Wendy's perception completely. She'd taken the little box from him, seen the anxiety in his expression during the clandestine act, the realisation coming on a rush of understanding: he was young, only nineteen, and he had a young man's desire for an older woman.
How long had he agonised over the giving of the gift? Vince must have been weak with worry about giving such a memento to his mother's best friend; he must have been building himself up to the moment, no doubt prevaricating endlessly before steeling his resolve. Wendy imagined his feelings in the seconds before he made the approach. His guts like water, throat dry, heart pounding, totally without a clue about how Wendy would react.
"Please, Wendy," Vince had muttered, his cheeks flaming while his eyes moved everywhere, settling anywhere she wasn't. "Don't tell anyone. It's just a present from me to you. A personal gift."
He'd left her speechless and staring after him as he'd retreated, Vince rushing from the kitchen after making his covert move.
For the rest of that Christmas Day, while everyone else laughed and joked and over-indulged, Wendy, a guest in her best friend's home, kept looking at Vince. The images popped into her head, unbidden, unwanted while Wendy struggled to keep her mind pure from carnal thoughts.
It was odd, Vince was just the same, physically unaltered, but Wendy was seeing him through a woman's eyes for the first time, appreciating Vince for his male attributes, assessing him as a potential sexual partner. In the past, all those years, he had simply been Vince, Marian's son, and it came as a shock to Wendy when she realised Vince had grown into quite a good-looking young man, that he was tall, broad across the shoulder and athletically graceful. She wondered when it had all happened and why hadn't she noticed earlier, and Wendy distanced herself in her mind, appraised Vince objectively, and was shocked at the ripple of interest tingling in those parts of her body sensitive to such nuance.
In the blink of an eye, in the time it took to pass a small gift wrapped package from one hand to another Wendy became obsessed by Vince. He was on her mind constantly, her body reacting. Outwardly, to everyone else in the house she remained her usual self, while inside her emotions and feelings seethed.
But Wendy fought against her body's rebellion. She knew she could never allow herself to act on the attraction to Vince. The risk was too great; she valued Marian too much. The betrayal of trust was too much to contemplate. The price of time spent loving with Vince was too high. So all through the afternoon Wendy waited for a chance to confront Vince. She rehearsed the words she would use, envisioned the scene, replaying it over and over in her head until she had succeeded in convincing herself that she had the strength to politely thank Vince for his gift yet resist the physical lure.
The day passed into evening before Wendy's opportunity arrived. Marian's husband was snoring in front of the television, Wendy's own son had left the house for a kick-about on the Rec with Dean, Vince's younger brother, and Marian was speaking to her mother on the phone.
"Vince," Wendy said. "I need to talk to you."
She saw Vince's throat work as he pretended not to hear, his eyes on the muted TV.
"Vince," Wendy repeated. His face swivelled towards her and she glanced at his father, indicating the kitchen with a nod of her head. "Talk," she added. "Now."
Vince threw a look towards his father and took the hint. He wasn't sure of Wendy's mood and didn't want to risk any raised voices and subsequent scenes of embarrassment.
"Okay," he mumbled, rising reluctantly.
They were both in the kitchen, Vince with his backside up against the counter, knuckles white as his fingers gripped the edge, Wendy between him and the door.
"Why?" Wendy whispered? "What's it all about, Vince?" She fingered the pendant and questioned Vince with her eyes.
Vince shrugged, refusing to meet her stare.
"I ... Uh ... I like you, Wendy." He was mumbling, evasive, cheeks flaming. Vince shrugged again, feet shuffling. "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Wendy sighed, her head moving slowly from side-to-side, her attention focussed on Vince's face.
"It's a heart-shaped, pendant, Vince," she murmured.
The blush on Vince's cheeks deepened and he shrugged a third time.
"It doesn't mean anything." His voice came out as a gurgle, his eyes going everywhere as he still refused to look at her. "I thought you might like it."
"So why the secrecy, Vince? Why didn't you put it under the tree for me to unwrap this morning?"
He looked at her then, a quick glance before his eyelids flicked up and down like Bardic lamps. His throat worked as he blinked, and Vince swallowed heavily.
Wendy pressed on, determined to make him reveal how he felt.
"It's lovely, Vince," she murmured. "I love it. It's a thoughtful gift. Thank you."
"Duh-do you really like it?" Vince stuttered.
Wendy nodded with enthusiasm. "I do, Vince. I love it. But..."
Vince winced, perhaps knowing what would next come from Wendy's mouth.
Wendy paused, conflicting emotions swelling -- Should she really ask?
"It means something, doesn't it?" Wendy scooped the pendant from her breastbone. "The heart, that's significant, Vince, isn't it?"
Vince stared at the pendant dangling on the end of its chain.
He gulped and nodded, croaking, "Yeah ... It does."
Wendy sighed at the admission. "You know nothing can happen." It was her turn to shrug. "Not that I'm not flattered, Vince. Truly, believe me, I am." She let the pendant drop and heaved another sigh, sweeping an arm away from her body in an expansive, all-inclusive gesture. "But your mum's my friend," she said. Wendy paused again, her stare fixed on Vince's eyes as he gazed back at her. "My friend, Vince," she emphasised. "There could never be anything between you and me."
"But..." Vince began. "If she wasn't..." He swallowed heavily once more, cheeks ballooning as air hissed out of him. "Would you...? I mean ... Me? Would you be interested?"
What disturbed Wendy after an afternoon of thought on exactly that subject was just how interested she was. She looked at Vince and saw him staring right back at her, and the intensity of that look in his eyes, the feral hunger, sent a flood of heat towards that indefinable place somewhere south of the pit of her stomach. Wendy felt her nipples tighten while a low, barely perceptible lub-lub pulsed in her clitoris.
"That isn't the point," she replied, evasive as her stare broke away from Vince's face. "And as much as I love the pendant and appreciate the sentiment, nothing can happen. Never."
Vince closed his eyes, squeezed them tight, and Wendy saw the tension in him as the muscles in Vince's jaw worked. His hands came off the counter and bunched into fists.
She knew it was stupid even as she moved. Then she was in front of him, close enough to touch.
"Give me a hug, Vince," Wendy murmured. "Come on, give me a hug and then forget about me. It just can't happen."
Wendy swallowed as the lie came out of her. It was as though her mind was cleaved in two, a sensible, moral part of her screaming no while somewhere else entirely, in that place inside where lunacy lives -- because what she was doing was crazy, recklessly courting danger -- Wendy wanted Vince to touch her.
Vince hesitated, eyes huge and round, his jaw hanging.
"Wendy," he mumbled.
"A hug, Vince." Wendy's arms opened in invitation.
She took a single step and then he was there, his arms around her with his face pressed into the scoop between Wendy's shoulder and her throat.
Vince squeezed, pulling Wendy into a bear hug.
Then he was babbling, muttering into her ear. "You smell gorgeous. You're so sexy, Wendy. I ... I can't help it. I look at you and I feel ... I feel..."
"I know, Vince," Wendy replied. Her heart thumped, suddenly too small for her chest as desire ballooned inside her. "I know exactly how it feels. I feel it too."
Vince pushed her away from his body, his fingers around Wendy's upper arms. He gaped at her, chest heaving as he sucked in deep draughts of air.
"You do?" he boggled, incredulous. There was a pause while Vince absorbed the revelation. "I look at you, Wendy," he said, "and I want to touch you." Vince sighed, eyes rolling, his fingers squeezing the flesh of Wendy's arms. "I want to touch you and kiss you and ... and ... and I want to look at you naked, Wendy. I want to look at your ... at ... at your boobs. I want to do things to you. I want ... I want..."
"You want to fuck me, Vince."
There was a fire between Wendy's legs. She could feel the desire oiling her pussy; her clitoris throbbed, the pulse moving up a gear, the yearning cranking to the next reckless level as her body's demands increased.
She hadn't meant to use such a crude expression; Wendy hadn't intended for that sentence to come out at all, let alone deliver it with such glutinous intent apparent in her tone.
Wendy pressed against Vince, moving into him with a smoky, feline full-frontal caress, her body moving against his.
His hands went to her buttocks, and the words came out of Wendy, her voice thick and curdled with lust.
"Isn't that it, Vince? That's what you want to do. You just want to fuck."
"Shit, Wendy," Vince gurgled. She heard him gulp, his fingers squeezing the cheeks of her backside as she writhed and wriggled, desperate to rub her vulva with either her fingers or Vince's thigh. "You don't know how much I want to do it with you. I think about it all the time, Wendy heard him mutter."
Then Wendy swallowed, her breath rasping, lust surging.
"Do you play with yourself and think of me?" she asked.
Vince didn't reply with words, he was too busy nuzzling Wendy's neck, his hands between their bodies, fingers tight over Wendy's breasts. He nodded and mumbled something indecipherable.
The image that came into Wendy's head burst the dam. She pictured Vince naked, his cock in his fist as he stroked its length, eyes fixed on her.
"You wank and think about fucking me, don't you, Vince," Wendy gasped. She pushed the young man away, eyes locked on his face.
Vince nodded. "All the time, Wendy," he grunted, his stare hot-eyed and feral. He pawed at the bulge in his jeans, the movement drawing Wendy's attention. "I think about all the stuff I want to do to you, Wendy," he groaned. "About fucking you and what it would be like if you sucked me."
"Oh God," sobbed Wendy. "Vince..."
And then Marian's voice smashed into Wendy's consciousness.
Wendy rubbed herself and thought about what might have happened if Marian hadn't called. She imagined Vince's mouth locked with hers, their tongues sliding and slipping over and over. Wendy pictured herself squatting, skirt bunched around her waist, fingers inside her own knickers, tickling her clitoris as she held Vince's length in her free hand, her lips wrapped around the cock-head.
Things had been so heated between them that Wendy could easily see herself braced against the kitchen counter, her buttocks thrust back as she offered herself to the young man, while the reality was she was in her bed, groaning, pussy sluicing around her fingers, three digits wedged into her opening.
"Fuck me," she grunted to her fantasy lover. "Fuck that pussy, Vince. Drive your cock into me and make me scream."
It had been a close call, Marian's voice preceding her arrival by mere seconds. Despite her manipulation of her own sex, vulva greasy, clitoris tingling, insides beginning to clench, Wendy winced at what might have been if she and Vince hadn't broken away from one another. The scare had cooled Wendy's ardour, given her such a fright that she vowed to leave it alone, to never take a risk like it again. For the rest of that evening she'd avoided the hungry looks Vince threw at her, made sure there was no opportunity for him to make any further advances. Wendy had made an excuse, muttered about it having been a long day and fled to her bedroom.
She had kissed her son goodnight, wished everyone a merry Christmas and then taken refuge, claiming the onset of a headache.
Vince had paused at her door and knocked.
"Go away," Wendy had hissed. "Leave me alone, Vince." And then, in a desperate effort to get rid of him she had said, "Tomorrow. Talk to me tomorrow, Vince. We can't do anything now. They're just downstairs. It's too dangerous."
With great reluctance Vince had left, expression downcast as the light from the hall backlit his face and he closed the door.
At first Wendy had been relieved Vince had gone. She was surprised that he hadn't pressed the issue, the ardour of a young man at nineteen being what it was. Wendy had thought Vince might protest and make some clumsy attempt, but it seemed residual authority as his mother's friend had persuaded Vince to leave her alone, a psychological throw-back to when he was younger and easily influenced.
Then, in the dark, the memory of what occurred stirred. Wendy's libido, which had been on simmer all evening, boiled over and she began to imagine different scenarios.
Soon enough she was writhing and panting and fingering her pussy, desperate to orgasm.
Her climax hit, finally rolling over Wendy in a hot rush that had her gasping and muttering obscenities into the dark.
But the problem was that orgasm did nothing to dilute her desire. She lay on her side, hand wedged between her thighs, knees drawn up as the fantasy continued.
Wendy started again, gasping at how over-sensitive her clitoris had become, wincing and moaning yet unable to resist the demands her body placed on her for relief.
She threw back the quilt after flicking the switch on the bedside lamp, cursing as she unzipped her holdall and rummaged for the rubber dildo she had stashed inside a folded tee-shirt.
Wendy clambered back into bed and splayed her labia with her fingertips, sighing as her opening accepted the first inches of malleable latex.
She got herself there by fucking the dildo in and out in a hard and fast frenzy, punishing herself for her lewd imaginings about her best friend's son.
"Fuck," Wendy hissed, with her fist tight around the girth of the dildo as she jammed it home. "Fuck that big cock into me, Vince. Oh, baby, yes, it feels so fucking good."
She came again, grunting and biting back on the bellow she wanted to let rip, the pleasure forcing great gasps from her chest.
But even that climax couldn't take the edge off Wendy's craving.
She lay on her bed, naked, chest heaving as she looked down past her breasts to where the dildo hung out of her body, half its length still inside her. Wendy knew what was going to happen next. Even as she denied it to herself, as though caught in some out of body experience she watched herself ease the dildo out of her body and roll upright so she was sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Don't," Wendy muttered to herself.
But she stood up and walked to her bedroom door, lifting the dressing gown from the hook.
The door opened and Wendy padded along the corridor, bare feet against the carpet, the house quiet around her, night sounds of cooling radiators, Marian's home breathing softly in the aftermath of Christmas.
She arrived at Vince's door and hesitated, casting a glance down the hall towards Marian's room. Wendy turned, swivelling hallway around as though she'd changed her mind, but her desire was too strong, morality defeated by lust.
She reached for the doorknob, sighed once, and the twisted it, pushing the door open.
Vince was tugging his cock when the door opened. He had revisited the incredible scene in the kitchen, the time when Wendy had invited him to hug her. At that moment he thought a hug was all that would be forthcoming, but she'd surprised him by her response to his admission over how he felt. She had smelled so good during that embrace, with the scent and the heat coming off her, Vince had been aroused by the assault on his senses and Wendy's proximity. He'd blurted how he felt about her on a rush of need for her to understand, and she had replied by saying she knew how it felt.
Then his hands were full of her. Through her clothes admittedly, but he was touching Wendy where modesty and propriety had forbidden before. She was there, her buttocks taut under his fingers, his cock stiff because of it.
The things Wendy had said! Her use of profanity had shocked and thrilled Vince. He had never heard Wendy swear before, and her use of the words fuck and wank, hearing them come from her and the timbre in her voice as she uttered the obscenities filled him with that desperate urge, the deep drag in his vitals that could only be assuaged by his climax.
Vince moaned and worked at his cock, his head filled with imaginings of Wendy's ripe, voluptuous body revealed to his hungry stare. He was hard, rigid in his fist as he pumped away, wishing Wendy would ride his cock, her big tits swinging before he mauled at them and sucked her nipples between his lips.


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Artur Schnabel, a great pianist of the 20th century, defined great music as music that is composed better than it can be played. I think the same can be said of Christianity. Only One has ever played the score perfectly, and He was the Composer. Some people have done magnificently. Others seem to forget the score halfway through, while still others never get past the practice stage. Most players are just average. But the score, as God wrote it, and as our Lord Himself lived it, is the most beautiful the world has ever heard.- from Decision Magazine July 2005; by Ruth Bell Graham (wife of Billy Graham)
There was once a musician in a country where "God's music" wasn't allowed to be played. Daily he took out his score of Handel's Messiah and placed it on the dining room table. Then, on the table, he moved his fingers silently and diligently through the entire score. "He was making music," commented a friend, "that only God could hear."
Anything worth doing well takes practice. I listen to great pianists, watch the Olympic athletes, hear about incredible surgeons. Then I think of the hours of daily practice over the years that brought them to where they are now.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
pop quiz
They are going to throw you to the wolves and kill you, everyone hating you because you carry My name.... it will be dog-eat-dog.
For many, the overwhelming spread of evil will do them in - nothing left of their love but a mound of ashes." (from Matthew 24)
Question 1:
How do you know you won't be one of the many?
11 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 9:42 AM
I will make sure that I am ready...always, my children and I. When Jesus says "come"....I hope I can go running into his arms....ReplyDelete
My children come home with these thoughts "people say this and that" my youngest has been affected the most he is almost 10....I just tell him we have to ready for Jesus, when he wants us he will take us...our hearts and soul have to be ready while we are waiting.
Look forward to your blog Boothe....God Bless.
I have the assurance of my Father that I can withstand any storm. HE is my rock and my deliverer. In HIM will I trust. I can weather any storm with HIM by my side. His promises are true.ReplyDelete
Did I pass the pop quiz?:)
For me this question brings the ever raging battle in my mind and heart between how much of my faith is dependent on my will and how much of it is only because of God's grace. I don't think there are easy answers when it comes to questions like yours, but what comes to mind for me is the directive to the Church at Ephesus in Revelation 2: don't forget your (my, our) first love. Repent and do the things you (I,we) did at first.ReplyDelete
I won't be one of the "many" because I know without a shadow of a doubt that my heart belongs 100% to my Savior. Nothing can come between me and my salvation that I have because of Him. Nothing.ReplyDelete
I know the enemy is a master liar, I know he will try to devour and destroy me, I know I will be tempted, I know he targets the champions. But I also know this, I have a Lord and Savior who is mighty to save. I purpose to stay constant in prayer, to eat the Word, live by faith, and to trust God and His Holy Spirit to lead and guide me into all truth. If I stay in the secret place, abiding under the shadow of His wing, He will keep me from being deceived.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2009 at 3:26 PM
I read your post on Monday.ReplyDelete
On Monday night I received an email full of venom, half truths, lies and distortions from someone that I love. The reason was that DH and I have taken a stand on the authority of the Word of God. Standing for truth has cost us a lot, but denying that truth would cost far more.
Being 'hated' by a member of your own family = costly
Being counted as a follower of Christ = priceless
Jesus overcame, and I am in Him.ReplyDelete
Molly W
I don't know that you can know, but you can keep striving to be like Jesus, act like Jesus. Be in prayer and in your Bible, daily, hourly, minute by minute. Know the Word and hide it in your hearts. Stay strong and bold and rely on Christ alone, for there is nothing within any of us that gives us the power to overcome our own unbelief and selfishness.ReplyDelete
I once read that federal law officials who track down counterfeit money study nothing but real bills, currency, etc., to the extent they know the real bills so well that they can spot a fake one in an instant. Don't know if that's true, but I like the concept. God made us to know him and gave us the word, truth, light...ReplyDelete
Keep my feet firmly planted in the word of God.ReplyDelete
Oh dear, I Need to go read my Bible! :)
I love what Jenny said.
.I hope I can go running into his arms....ReplyDelete
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Zaki's Review: The Last Airbender
Now, I say "ostensible" when referring to Aang as the protagonist because Shyamalan made the baffling decision to frame his story through the perspective and narration of Katara (Nicola Peltz), a teenager from the Water Nation. Every plot point is thus filtered through her, keeping the actual main character just at arm's reach and in turn violating the most basic tenet of filmic storytelling by telling instead of showing. When Katara and her brother Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) find Aang encased in an ice floe where he's been frozen Steve Rogers-style for over a hundred years, the three set out on a quest to free the planet from the domination of the Fire Lord Ozai (Cliff Curtis) and his right hand man Zao (Aasif Mandvi).
There's also some business in there about Ozai's son, the disgraced Prince Zuko (Dev Patel) wandering the globe in search of the Avatar to reclaim his lost honor, and there's also a love story between Sokka and an Ice Princess (Seychelle Gabriel), but to be honest, they lost me fairly early on, and it was a pretty rough time a) keeping up with the various threads of the plot, and b) mustering the interest to keep up with the various threads of the plots. As a result, the intervening two hours were some of the most agonizing I've had at the movies in a great long while. Say what you will about Jonah Hex (as I did), but at the very least that one was over and done with inside of ninety minutes.
As I mentioned earlier, I went into my Airbender screening a complete novice to the concept, having heard of but never seen the Avatar animated series that which it adapts (Hmm, wonder why they didn't keep that name? Oh, right.) This was a strategic decision on my part so I might enjoy the movie on its own merits without going through another G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra experience like last year. This ended up backfiring for me though, as I left the theater caring even less about the characters then I did going in, amazingly enough.
Not helping matters is Shyamalan's listless direction and stilted dialogue, both of which are doubly confounding to me given how much I championed (and continue to champion) his early (post-Wide Awake) output. I was one of the people lucky enough to catch The Sixth Sense on opening night back in '99, knowing nothing about it, and after being utterly gobsmacked by that ending, I told everyone I knew to check it out. That was the movie that made his name, but the success he achieved there proved a double-edged sword for the director, forever saddling Shyamalan in the eyes of the public as "Twist Ending Guy."
Of course, that didn't hurt him with his next project, 2000's Unbreakable (which I think is arguably his strongest work to date), nor really with 2002's Signs (that I also enjoyed, warts-and-all), but by the time we got around to The Village in 2004, Lady in the Water in 2006, and his (again, arguable) nadir with The Happening two years ago, the bloom was clearly off the rose for "Twist Ending Guy." It's for this reason that I'd long been a proponent of Shyamalan taking on a big franchise that would allow him to leave his comfort zone while still being comfortably commercial,
Well, if The Last Airbender is the end result of that wish, I think I want my dime back.
There are numerous things we can point to as being "off" about Airbender, starting with the preponderance of green screen work, where Shyamalan's trademark static camerawork proves even more of a debit than usual, with the frame just sitting there and allowing us to fully take in all the mediocre effects that surround the actors. And speaking of actors, while Ringer is serviceable enough as Aang (mostly -- mostly -- avoiding the "annoying kid actor" stigma that afflicted the aforementioned Phantom Menace), he's rendered such an inscrutable cypher that a major "turn" for the character in the third act just doesn't register the way it was no doubt intended.
As to the rest of the cast, they mostly occupy that nebulous terrain between forgettable and bad. All are left underserved by their director, but none more egregiously than Patel and Mandvi. Patel makes an earnest attempt to distance the morally-ambiguous Prince Zuko from his career-making turn in Slumdog Millionaire, but he spends most of the time glowering and growling like Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker -- and I'm talking Attack of the Clones Anakin, not even Revenge of the Sith Anakin (and there we go with another Star Wars comparison...). Then there's Mandvi, who I love on The Daily Show and who I legitimately feel bad for here. His Admiral Zao issues dire proclamations to the Fire Lord with all the gravity of the actor's nightly banter with Jon Stewart. I know he's capable of better, and the blame must again go to Shyamalan for not doing a better job modulating the performance(s).
In fact, modulation, or lack thereof, is as good a term as any to sum up the film's many problems various and sundry. Shyamalan is so steeped in his own rhythms and style, so unwilling to adapt his creative impulses to the project at hand, that he sabotages himself at every step. The action sequences are lifeless when they should be breathtaking. The emotional beats are leaden when they should be transcendent. By the time The Last Airbender trudges to its merciful conclusion, the explicit threat of a sequel hangs like a Sword of Damocles over our collective heads. Given the critical and audience reaction thus far, that sequel tease seems like the biggest twist ending of all. D-
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Outch! 'Nuff said.
- Mehjabeen said...
I saw it on Fri night...I felt like I was watching an old Batman episode...."northern Water Tribe Village...meanwhile at the Fire Nation...back at Ba Sing Se..." It was choppy, I just wished it flowed better and developed the stories (all eight million of them) further instead of leaving us to fill in the blanks, even if I had watched the entire series (which I did). And I hated that they changed the pronunciations on Aang and Sokka's names. And why the heck was Sokka so serious? He's a friggin goofball in the series, even during the utmost serious times.
On another note, Mr. Rathbone... What a genius business man that young fellow is...Main characters of Airbender and Twilight? That boy is BANKING for many continuous weeks to follow...


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Abacus has signed the contract for Integrated Intranet Portal at Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) with the International Resource Group (IRG) of USAID.
The collaboration has taken place in the Power Distribution Program (PDP) in an effort to improve the supply of electricity and the operational and financial health and self sufficiency of the entire power sector. This will be done through overseeing major improvements in the performance of Government owned Power Distribution Companies (DISCOs).


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On the Passing of Ronald Reagan, America's 40th President
A grateful nation mourns the loss of one of its finest, but the legacy of Ronald Reagan means Americans can look to the future with the hope and optimism that he gave us reason once again to embrace. Though he is gone, he leaves so much behind that is good and memorable that he will be fondly and forever remembered. Those who maligned him during his career are among those who are already nearly forgotten.
In so many ways, many of us feel we've lost more than an exemplary chief executive. We've lost a friend, a brother and a father too, because Ronald Reagan exuded the qualities of a caring character that made you feel he was a part of your family. A man of faith, humility, humor, loyalty, grace, conviction, honor and eloquence, he will always rank as one of America's greatest presidents and the quintessential patriot. By his very example, he shames every politician who puts politics or personal aggrandizement ahead of the principles upon which our free, constitutional republic was built.
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He was a lifeguard not only as a youngster on a river in Illinois, but as a man who put liberty at the top of his public priorities in his later life. He fulfilled that task so well that it is not an exaggeration to say that millions the world over are free today in great measure because of his courage and leadership. On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, the Almighty welcomed into his arms his good and faithful servant. Thank you, God, for giving us the singular life and remarkable achievements of Ronald Wilson Reagan.
As a further tribute to America's 40th president, we offer below a few of his many memorable remarks followed by links to past Mackinac Center documents in which President Reagan was mentioned.
— Lawrence W. Reed
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
June 6, 2004
"I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation's highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it."
"You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course."
"The ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets, but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, and the ideals to which we are dedicated."
"There isn't a problem we can't solve if government will give us the facts. Tell us what needs to be done, then get out of the way and let us have at it."
"We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run our lives."
"We've come to a moment in our history when party labels are unimportant. Philosophy is all-important. Little men with loud voices cry doom, saying little is good in America. They create fear and uncertainty among us. Millions of Americans, especially our own sons and daughters, are seeking a cause they can believe in. There is a hunger in this country today. People yearn once again to be proud of their country and proud of themselves, and to have confidence in themselves. And there's every reason why they should be proud. Some may have failed America, but America has never failed us, and there is so much to be proud of in this land."
"Standing inside this symbol of democracy (the Capital), we see and hear again the echoes of our past: A general falls to his knees in the hard snow of Valley Forge; a lonely president paces the darkened halls and ponders his struggle to preserve the Union; the men of the Alamo call out encouragement to each other; a settler pushes west and sings a song, and the song echoes out forever and fills the unknowing air. It is the American song. It is hopeful, bighearted, idealistic, daring, decent, and fair. That's our heritage; that's our song. We sing it still. For all our problems, our differences, we are together as of old. We raise our voices to the God who is the Author of this most tender music. And may He continue to hold us close as we fill the world with our sound—in unity, affection, and love—one people under God, dedicated to the dream of freedom that He has placed in the human heart, called upon now to pass that dream on to a waiting and hopeful world."
"We're blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness—and these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. And we have good reason to be hopeful and optimistic. We've made much progress already. So, let us go forth with good cheer and stout hearts, happy warriors out to seize back a country and a world to freedom."
"I've spoken of 'the Shining City' all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still."
"Freedom is the essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere."
"The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people—and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, 'We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith.' And to our children and our children's children we can say, 'We did all that could be done in the brief time that was given to us here on earth.'"
"My fellow citizens, I want you to know that I have always had the highest respect for you, for your common sense and intelligence and for your decency. I have always believed in you and in what you could accomplish for yourselves and for others. And whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps, and opportunity's arm steadying your way."
"The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take 60 percent or more of his extra pay?
"I believe we really can say that God did give mankind virtually unlimited gifts to invent, produce, and create. And for that reason alone, it would be wrong for governments to devise a tax structure or economic system that suppresses and denies those gifts."
"When government talks tax reform on the eve of an election year, you can bet whatever they do will be based on the time-honored principle of robbing Peter to pay Paul. And the idea is to see that there are more Pauls than there are citizens named Peter. But what government can't seem to realize is that we're all named Paul. Peter went bankrupt quite a while ago."
"Too often entrepreneurs are forgotten heroes. We rarely hear about them. But look into the heart of America, and you will see them. They are the owners of that store down the street, the faithful who support our churches, schools, and communities, the brave people everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our homes and families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America."
"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."
"For families of the seven, we cannot bear the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy.' They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us."
"Government can be likened to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
"They try to keep track of them, but federal grants are like rabbits—they multiply like crazy, and when they're out you can't catch them."
"I've always thought that the common sense and wisdom of the federal government were summed up in a sign they used to have hanging on the Hoover Dam. It said, 'Government property. Do not remove.'"
"Communism works only in heaven where they don't need it, and in hell where they already have it."
At a Cuban Independence Day celebration in Miami: "The Soviet Union with all its military might, with its massive subsidy of the Cuban economy, can't make the system produce anything but repression and terror. It reminds me of the story of a Soviet commissar who visited one of their collective farms, and he stopped the first farmer that he met and asked about life on the farm. And the man said, 'It's wonderful. I've never heard anyone complain about anything since I've been here.' And the commissar then said, 'Well, what about the crops?' 'Oh,' he said, 'the crops are wonderful.' 'What about the potatoes?' 'Oh, sir,' the man said, 'the potatoes, there are so many that if we put them in one pile they would touch the feet of God.' And the commissar said, 'Just a minute. In the Soviet Union, there is no God.' And the farmer said, 'Well, there are no potatoes either.'"
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again."
"It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, 'We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.' This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man."
"Freedom is not created by government nor is it a gift from those in political power. It is, in fact, secured more than anything else by limitations placed on those in government."
"It is up to us, however we may disagree on policy, to work together for progress and humanity so that our grandchildren, when they look back on us, can truly say that we not only preserved the flame of freedom, but we cast its warmth and light farther than those who came before us."
"I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man."
"There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
"You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase, 'Peace through strength.'"
"If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin? Just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives did not die in vain."
"In James Michener's book, The Bridges of Toko-Ri, he writes of an officer waiting through the night for the return of planes to a carrier as dawn is coming on, and he asks, 'Where do we find such men?' Well, we find them where we've always found them. They are the product of the freest society man has ever known. They make a commitment to the military, and they make it freely, because the birthright we share as Americans is worth defending."
"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was a deep knowledge—and we pray to God we have not lost it—that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
"As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it, now or ever."
Links to Mackinac Center documents:
Remembering Grenada—20 Years Later: www.mackinac.org/5903
Myths of the 1980s Distort Debate Over Tax Cuts: www.mackinac.org/3535
Cutting Taxes to Raise Revenue: www.mackinac.org/48
Statesmanship: A Most Worthy Cause: www.mackinac.org/4394
Berlin, 1961: An Anniversary We Should Never Forget: www.mackinac.org/4537


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Upon purchasing the SUMB lorry for the FARG - it has been going through an extensive rebuild.
This is the later diesel version and was supplied as a flat bed verson with low mileage engine (about 20 thou KM)
Work to date;
Strip down and cleaning of chassis. Respray of chassis - replacing of clutch servo - rear anti roll bar bushes - electrics rewiring.
Body wise the cab is undergoing a preparation, addressing of some very slight rust issues and respraying in Nato satin green.
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While there are many great sights to see in Paris, it turns out that some of the most beautiful attractions are right under your feet, at least that's according to Sebastian Erras. The German-based photographer is capturing the beautiful tile floor designs in "The City Of Lights" and sharing them on his Instagram account.
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FKA Twigs' Ultimatum To Robert Pattinson: Marry Me This Year Or Let's 'Move On'
We've been waiting, but still Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs are no closer to setting the date for their big day. And HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned that Twigs has given Rob an ultimatum to get married this year or kiss her goodbye!
What are you waiting for? Robert Pattinson, 29, and FKA Twigs, 28, have been engaged for a year, but still there's no sign of a wedding. Now, HollywoodLife.com can EXCLUSIVELY reveal that Twigs has told the Twilight hunk she wants to get married this year, even if it's a low-key wedding in a registry office in the UK.
The lovebirds seemed incredibly happy enjoying the "Two Weeks" singer's birthday on Jan. 16, with Twigs blowing out candles on a cake as an all-smiling Rob looked on in an Instagram pic shared by a fan. It was noted she wasn't wearing her engagement ring, but because the two looked so happy it didn't seem like anything was up. However, Twigs has delivered the handsome actor an ultimatum, according a source close to the couple.
"Twigs has told Rob this year they have to get married," a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "She's fed up of waiting, and she wants something small, quiet and private, so it doesn't need any elaborate plans."
Twigs doesn't want a fuss made on her wedding day, according to the source, and would happily have a tiny registry wedding with a few close pals and their families in tow.
"It may even be a registry wedding, in front of a handful of friends and family in the UK," the source continued. "She's told him she would like to do something in the summer, but has warned him she doesn't want this dragging on."
Worryingly for Rob, if he doesn't get his act together Twigs may move on. "Either they get married, or they move on, it's that simple," the source added.
One thing they may have held up their wedding plans could've been Rob's closeness to his ex Kristen Stewart, a recent report said. She was said to have gone absolutely ballistic when Rob suggest supporting Kristen at a NYC event for her critically acclaimed movie Clouds of Sils Maria, screaming "no f***ing way," claimed In Touch. Worse still, Twigs has been described as "jealous" and "insecure."
We don't think Twigs has got anything to worry about. It's clear Rob worships her, and we're sure they will be married before the end of the year, if that's what she wants.
Why do you think Rob and Twigs are taking so long to get married, HollywoodLifers? Please share your opinion in the comments below!


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12 August 2018: Commemorative plaque to George Jacob Holyoake to be unveiled on Friday 17th August at 2pm, outside 4 Woburn Walk, London WC1H OJL . Holyoake was the inspiration for the formation of Secular Societies including Leicester. He was one of the speakers at the opening of the Hall in 1881
24 May 2018: Summer edition of Leicester Secularist (No.78) - Call for closure of the failing Leicester Community Islamic School on Overton Road, Government duplicity on new faith schools, Lying for Jesus: Death Bed Conversions, Christianity and Conduct: WOMEN (an article from 1919 that is still pertinent) - these and many other articles in 16 pages of news, comment and reviews from LSS.
10 April 2018: The Society's Secular Hall Summer Events Programme (April - July 2018) can now be downloaded here. Includes talks by by Greg Scorzo on "Men, Women, and Sexual Etiquette After #Metoo" and "Why have a Mayor" by Leicester's Mayor, Peter Soulsby.
24 December 2017: Mo Abbas as President of the Society has issued a response to the Archbishop of Canterbury's claim the CofE Schools provide a better education that can be read here.
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It was standing room only last night.
And that's just the way her memorial service should have been.
Sue Garland was worth coming out to celebrate.
The only way someone touches that many people that deeply is when Jesus is the source. And He most certainly, clearly, deliberately was her source.
Jesus was worth coming out to celebrate.
Dozens of people were saved, hundreds recommitted their hands to service, and we all left hoping that out lives could be lived as significantly as Sue's.
The beautiful irony of significance is not knowing we are until we're gone. It's a life that daily honors the indwelling habitation of Christ, and puts others before one's self.
I honestly think that Sue thought she was just an ordinary person. But a butterfly never does see the back of its own wings.
To everyone else, she was extraordinary. ch:
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Hundreds Gather to Honor Sue Garland
Monday, September 19th 2011 – Written by Christopher Hopper
WATERTOWN, NY – There was standing room only last night as people gathered at New Life Christian Church to pay their respects to one of Watertown's own. The late Sue Garland (01.14.1957 – 09.14.2011) died of heart failure in her home Wednesday morning at 423 South Massey St.
"We had over 500 people show up to honor her life," said Kirk Gilchrist, senior pastor. "She was a remarkable woman who touched a lot of people through her Christ-like care."
Those same sentiments were echoed throughout the night as friends and family members paid tribute to her from the podium.
"Her first thought was only to serve others," said Debbie Allen, Clayton, NY. "We saw Jesus when we were around her."
Steve Menard of Athens, GA, flew in with his wife and children to honor his late sister. "We were always trying to one-up each other," he said. "Constantly happy, it was impossible to keep Sue down about anything."
In his stately tribute to her, husband Ralph Garland charged couples in the audience to a lifestyle of selfless love. "Cherish one another. Don't wait long to say 'I'm sorry.' Tell one another you love each other, and surrender your whole life to Jesus."
Attendees were lead in a rousing chorus of "I Can Only Imagine," hands lifted high, the sanctuary ringing with praises to God. A slideshow spanning five decades of Garland's life played out over the big screens, and Eliza Gilhuly of Depauville sang "Amazing Grace."
In his closing remarks, Pastor Gilchrist challenged the congregation to model Garland's lifestyle. "Honor her life by living yours the way she did: serving Jesus."
Funeral arrangements were made by Colarco Funeral Home. Additionally, Garland is succeeded by her sons Shane and Jeremy Marolf. ch:


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Georgetown library is set to reopen after three years
Monday, October 18, 2010
The fire that destroyed the Georgetown library three years ago burned through most of the books in its circulating collection. They could be replaced. The unique Georgetown artifacts in the library's Peabody Collection could not.
Thankfully, all those items survived, though some will require repairs. And so, with the ribbon-cutting at a new $18 million structure at 9:30 a.m. Monday at 3260 R St. NW, the Georgetown library once again becomes whole.
"I have to keep reminding myself that everything could have gone up in flames, and we could have absolutely nothing," said Jerry McCoy, the special-collections librarian who oversees the Peabody Collection. Among his rescued treasures: A July 1776 edition of the Maryland Gazette, with the full text of the Declaration of Independence printed on the second page.
The 1935 Georgian revival structure that housed the library burned on April 30, 2007. It was one of two Washington landmarks lost to fire that day, the other being the city's 1873 red-brick Eastern Market. The market reopened last year.
What caused the library fire remains "a matter for litigation," said Ginnie Cooper, chief D.C. librarian. She notes, however, that at the time, workers were using heat-generating tools to remove tar in the building's attic and in the vicinity where the fire began.
Architects have carefully re-created the look, feel and furnishings of the original structure. Some restored mahogany tables and chairs sit in the newly finished attic, where McCoy and his Peabody Collection will occupy twice their former space. Other furniture and woodwork have been redone in a different wood - maple - but with a texture and hue to match the original.
"I've already had the experience of two different people walking in the building and saying, 'Oh, you were able to save the woodwork.' And of course we couldn't. But we duplicated it," Cooper said.
The library will open with a collection of 45,000 items. Everything in the regular circulating collection was lost, either to fire itself or to attendant smoke and water damage, and all has been replaced. The full cost of the library project, $23 million, makes it the most expensive public library branch in the city.
Much of the Peabody Collection will be back for public viewing. But many paintings, books, photographs and maps await restoration. Three of 44 paintings in the collection have been "adopted" by donors and fully restored. They include the library's most famous piece, an 1820 portrait of a slave named Yarrow Mamout by the painter James Alexander Simpson.
"A little bit of everything suffered water damage," McCoy said. "And it's going to take a lot of funding to restore it."
The fire broke out at lunchtime on a Monday and prompted an unusual sort of rescue mission: Workers pitched hundreds of irreplaceable items into boxes and loaded them in a freezer truck, to be hauled to a restoration company in Texas and freeze-dried. The items suffered water damage but avoided worse harm from mold.
Residents have missed the Georgetown branch, known for drawing scores of children to fairy teas and story times.
Cooper said the library's first official customer will be Lucy Kerr - the kindergarten-age daughter of library patrons Anna Fuhrman and Joe Kerr - who has missed three years of story times.
The library will be open 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. _blankA grand-opening party is set for Saturday.


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Unlike most of the other highly visible, big-name Art Nouveau artists, Chéret designed very few decorative panels, dedicating his art almost entirely to advertising. In fact he only designed two decorative series, comprising a total of six images: The Arts, in 1891, and La Fileuese and La Denteliere for the Paris World's Fair in 1900. Maindron considered these panels to be "perfect" and suggested that the concept of "placards decoratifs" (neither prints nor posters, but a combination of both) were in fact invented by Chéret. The Arts was a series of four images representing the muses. In celebrating the muses, Chéret is also celebrating his triumph in mastering color lithography. By 1891 he is at the peak of his talent, playing freely with the composition and fully enjoying the pleasure of drawing. Adding to the unique quality of these panels is the fact that Chéret was able to completely play with the backgrounds, as no lettering had to be added to clutter the image in any way.
Series: One of four panels comprising the series Les Arts.
Signature: Signed on the stone lower left Chéret.
Publisher: Printed at Imprimerie Chaix (Ateliers Chéret), Paris
The father of modern poster art and a critical figure in the development of the French Belle Époque style, Jules Chéret was the first artist to work with color lithography. Finding little success in France due in part to inadequate printing technology, Chéret moved to London and began designing perfume packaging for Rimmel during the 1860s. Rimmel became Chéret's patron and financed his commercial lithography studio in Paris. The artist's free-spirited, Rococo-style female figures, dubbed "Chérettes," came to not only define Belle Époque advertising but also represent the liberated Parisian woman. Later artists such as Charles Gesmar and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec mimicked his style. Although Chéret had a talent for working with oil paint and pastels, he remains best known for his lithographs, which served as the exemplar of poster design and color theory during the late 19th century.
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Tomorrow, October 25, is the feast of Saints Crispin and Crispinian.
It is not otherwise notable or observed in the liturgical calendar anymore, but is remembered because it marks the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt.
"All things are ready if our minds be so."
William Shakespeare, Henry V
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After the Battle - "A Royal Fellowship of Death"
Shakespeare does not include it in his historical drama, which after all was written for his English audiences and the Crown, but as I recall during the Battle of Agincourt King Henry V ordered the execution of a hundred or so French prisoners, because he feared their numbers would turn and in a rearguard action overwhelm his much smaller and highly vulnerable force.
This occurred after a successful raid by the French on the English supply vans, which were guarded by 'old men and boys.' Shakespeare portrays this as a dishonourable deed against the rules of war, but makes no mention of the expediency of killing prisoners in his play. Such is the chronicle of war.
If anything the Battle of Agincourt was fortuitous for the English, having everything to do with the choice of terrain and defensive position, the vagaries of the heavy rains and mud which seriously hurt the French cavalry, even to causing heavily armoured knights to be unhorsed and drown, and the superior range and power of the English longbow.
In a very real sense in their overconfident eagerness for victory, the French chose the wrong tactics for the wrong place at the worst time to try and halt the English army from retreating from France. They ill-advisedly went 'in for the kill' to settle the score decisively, and in turn were slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War.
The Henry IV-Henry V plays of Shakespeare were among my favorites both in high school and University. The comedic character of Falstaff in Henry IV is among Shakespeare's most memorable creations from the non tragic plays. Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V is exceptionally well done, and among the most enjoyable.


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Everthing is different now
Why are you so distant now?
Everthing has changed yet, nothing is the same
Since the day you went away
Nothing feels at all okay with me.
Don't you ever miss the the midwest sunrise,
The veiw of the stars and the full moon at night?
'Cause ever since you left there's been an open hole in my chest
Yeah, you left this boy such a mess
But, I'm hoping that my heart will find some rest tonight
I'll try to explaain exactly why I've been cryin all the time
Since you walked out of my life.
Everything is different now
Why are you so distant now?
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TV on DVD: Community, The Blacklist, Last Man Standing, The Killing & More!Jim Halterman at . Comments
Let's take a look at the latest shows hitting DVD this week, shall we?
The Blacklist Season 1: Anyone else fall in love with this show from the first episode last year? While it's easy to say star James Spader makes the show, the ensemble - featuring Megan Boone, Parminder Negra, Ryan Eggold, Harry Lennix and Diego Klattenhoff - doesn't disappoint. Dive into this one The Blacklist Season 2 premieres on September 22.
Community Season 5: The sitcom that has never had a huge audience but the one it has is loyal to the core. That and the fact that it's frickin' hilarious is keeping the show alive as it heads over to Yahoo for a final season. The fifth season just came out so while we wait for that sixth season, you can relive all the comedic adventures.
Last Man Standing: Seasons 1 & 2: Who knew TV missed Tim Allen so much. While this sitcom isn't the monster hit that the 1990s sitcom Home Improvement was, this fun series features Tim in a house full of women and how he deals with that without losing his mind. Nancy Travis always shines but brings grace to her role of the Mom who goes back to work and the sitcom kids may have their wise-ass moments but they somehow are still loveable. The first two seasons of the ABC sitcom are both out now so check them out before the new season starts October 3rd.
The Killing: Season 3: One of the more solid dramas on television but also one of the more frustrating. Despite gripes that the show is too slow, too dark and too sluggish overall, it continues to thrive in its own unique world. Maybe it's stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman or a great turn by guest Peter Sarsgaard in the third season but, like Community, the show will not die! Netflix just started airing the fourth and final season but if you missed out on Season 3, you can grab the DVD now.
Classic TV Pick Of the Week: Westerns like Hell On Wheels may be a dime a dozen these days but Westerns once ruled the TV dial and Gunsmoke lead the pack. The 10th Season (both volumes 1 and 2) was just released on DVD. Besides the surprisingly solid, dramatic stories told, it's also a hoot to see stars before they were stars in guest roles like Katharine Ross, Kurt Russell and Dennis Hopper. Gold, baby! Gold!
Next Week's releases:
The Millers: Who knew pairing Emmy- winners Margo Martindale and Beau Bridges as the parents of Will Arnett would bring more sitcom success to CBS. In the series, Arnett plays Nathan Miller, who is newly divorced and looking forward to single life when his parents decide to follow suit. Mom moves in with Nathan and Dad moves in with sister Debbie (Jayma Mays). The kids become the parents...and there's more than a little bit of toilet humor so if that's your thing, The Millers is for you. Season 1 is available starting August 19th.
Revolution: Second and Final Season: While some fans weren't happy that NBC didn't pick up the Eric Kripke post-apocalyptic drama for a third season, The second season follows Charlie (Tracy Spiradakos) and a band of rogues including her secretive mother (Elizabeth Mitchell) and uncle Miles (Billy Burke) as they continue to try to bring power back to the people and rebuild the USA. Besides all 22 episodes, the DVD/Blu-ray release includes a 'Heading West' featurette, the 2013 Comic Con panel, deleted scenes and a gag reel. You can pick up your copy on August 19th.
With all the new shows coming this fall, watch for a flurry of releases of last season's shows in the coming weeks. We won't steer you wrong in the titles you should grab and the ones you should pass on by. Stay tuned!
Jim Halterman is the West Coast Editor of TV Fanatic and the owner of JimHalterman.com. Follow him on Twitter.


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ISLAMABAD -UNS – Accountability court will indict sacked premier Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar on October 13 as the family members were summoned by the judge for the respective day.
While these three will be indicted, Sharif brothers Hassan and Hussain will be summoned once again and their warrants have been affixed on the walls of NAB court.
Previously, the judge had allowed one-day immunity to Sharif family and summoned them on October 13. It was announced that the indictment will be heard on the day. The judge had expressed his fury over absence of the members of Sharif family. The court had decided to separate cases of each member in order to differentiate between present and absent suspects.
On the other hand, Hassan Nawaz confirmed today that his father will not return to Pakistan at the moment in the light of her mother's chemotherapy and medical treatment.
Nawaz Sharif, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz are nominated suspects in references regarding Park Lane apartments, Al Azizia Steel Mills and offshore companies, while Maryam Nawaz and her husband Capt (retd) Safdar are nominated in reference regarding Park Lane apartments alone.
According to the affixed warrants of Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz outside court, they will be declared fugitives if they don't appear before accountability court within the duration of one month.


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Tess Koppelman is a general assignment reporter for FOX 4. Her first TV job was a high school internship in her hometown of La Crosse, Wisconsin, at WXOW in 1994. She also worked behind the scenes at KMSP and KSTP in Minneapolis. She took her first on-air reporting job at KOLN in Lincoln, NE.
Tess thinks of herself as a storyteller. Journalism is telling true stories about the good and bad things that happen in people's lives. She's been telling stories for a long time, writing her first novel in elementary school and in high school she wrote a play performed at the community theatre.
Before she chose broadcast news, she was a competitive Scottish Highland dancer. She must have enjoyed being on stage because she also acted in many plays in community theatre, as well as high school and college plays. She's still involved in theatrics today-she sled down a hill for a winter live shot and almost ran right into the camera guy.
Tess volunteers at various United Way organizations including the Ronald McDonald House, Harvesters, and the Alphapointe Association for the Blind. Tess is also a "Big Sister" through the Greater Kansas City Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and she enjoys spending time with her "little" Dominique.
Tess graduated from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She worked on the college newspaper "The Aquin" and was news director for the college television program "Campus Scope." Since then she has been recognized for her work in journalism, including awards from Heart of America, National Press Photographers Association, Missouri Broadcasters Association, and she was nominated for a regional Emmy award.
In October 2010, Tess married a Kansas City native, so it looks like she'll be calling Kansas City "home" for many more years to come!


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Ever since my sister was 12-years-old, she was destined to be a doctor. Well, that's what she told herself, after countless hours spent watching E.R. on sick days and after school. Fast forward a decade, and she's many steps closer to making that dream a reality.
She just finished her first year of med school at Wayne State University in Detroit, and is now completing a summer research program at the National Institutes of Health. Every time a cousin or aunt hears about her aspirations to heal the wounded and sick, we make jokes about cutting us "family discounts" on treatment, no matter what the ailment. Yet my sister wants to work specifically in the field of pediatric physical therapy. She's learning the basics in school right now, but the specialty is in her sights. So I wondered, what if an adult on the plane she's riding goes into anaphylactic shock or has a heart attack? Is she required to step in and do something?
The Health section of The New York Times addressed situations like these in an article about doctors tending to in-flight emergencies. There are many decisions to make in the moment — as a doctor, do you "do what seems right" and address the situation or speak up at all if someone needs help? While FAA guidelines say flight attendants must be CPR certified, and each plane must carry emergency medical kits, doctors have found that preparations aren't standard on each flight. What's even more surprising is that the reporting of the incidents isn't uniform from airline to airline, according to an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Needless to say, I imagine this puts doctors at a crossroads. I've yet to ask my sister what she'd do if she encountered an in-flight emergency. Something tells me she'd weigh her options, then do as much as she could to be a good Samaritan.